Skin Care

Rare Natural Care, Inc. recently announced that its new vegan, organic skin care series was esteemed with the Best of Show Award at the recently concluded Natural Products Expo West, which was held on March 14-16, 2008 in Anaheim, Calif. A group of editors for the vegetarian lifestyle magazine VegNews purged products at Expo West, the industry’s biggest natural products trade exhibition with 3,400 exhibitors, and separated just 12 winners for the Best of Show award. The RARE2B Travel Kit ($50) got the award and contains 1-oz. tubes of four items from the RARE2B line: Restorative Night Cream, Hydrating Day Cream, Body Lotion and Detox Facial Mask.

“Rare Natural Care is a pioneer in the organic skin care business and continues to develop high-quality vegetarian items. We are happy to honor their achievements with a VegNews Best of Show prize,” stated VegNews Publisher Joseph Conelly. Suitable for all skin kinds, RARE2B’s 100 percent natural, vegan items contain no injurious chemicals and produce a firming impact on the skin. RARE2B’s Hydrating Day Cream is a non-sebaceous moisturizer with all-important botanical and marine elements. It aids nourish the skin and defends against environmental waste materials.

Acne isn’t a difficulty that magically disappears when you reach 20. Even though it’s considered of as a teen skin problem, many grownups — in fact, most adults — endure at least casual outbreaks of acne. The dermatology and beauty manufactures have taken notice of those defaces over the past few years and are changing the number of adult-acne items they offer. The ingredients aren’t much dissimilar from those in treatments directed at teens, but makers say adults are ready to expend more money even if they have less pimples.

Clinique last fall set up its Acne Solutions line, a three-step scheme similar to its classic skin-care sets, but bearing anti-acne ingredients. “In talking to our own experts at the (retail) counter, mature clients complain of acne … and that led us to one of our main endeavors of the last five years,” according Tom Mammone, executive director of inquiry and development at Clinique, who says many studies backed the concept that more grownups say they have acne. Peter Scocimara, CEO with Therative, the company that manufactures the ThermaClear heat-based, anti-acne system, says he initially thought the system would be marketed principally to teenage boys, but that adult ladies have turned out to be the main user.