Beauty Solutions

Truly No BS from Cosmedicine

Cosmedicine has been running a really interesting ad campaign about them serving up no beauty BS in an industry that’s often full of it. Ever buy an expensive beauty product full of claims to solve your beauty woes only to be utterly disappointed? Personally, I love the ads and Cosmedicine’s unique approach to beauty. I’ve found the products really live up to the claims.

How Cosmedicine is Different

Cosmedicine stands out from the crowd. The company reports that they scientifically measure results in clinical trials – not what people thought they saw. They consult with a major medical institution on how to design studies and how to analyze the data.

If you look at most study results for products, the results are subjective. They refer to what people saw or noticed. But if people expect to see improvement, they often see improvement even though it didn’t really happen. It’s unlikely that anyone actually took any measurements to see if there was real change.

Cosmedicine put together a list of 23 beauty truths, which is highlighted in their ads. They share medically accepted facts and dispel myths about things like how you can’t actually “turn back the clock” on your skin. Having reported on health and medical news and having spoke with many doctors over the years, I’m glad to see less hype and more facts. I’ve tested several of the products and found that they really work.

The Latest and Greatest

Here are some of the latest, great products…

Matte & Bronze Bronzing Powder with Shine Control is a great innovation. It’s a universally flattering bronzer with skin care benefits. It absorbs excess oil without sucking out the moisture. It provides a long-lasting matte look and subtly warms up the complexion. It’s also made with a botanical complex to nourish skin and improve its health while providing antioxidant protection. It’s a great no-mess powder, because it comes in a brush with a dial to adjust how much powder comes out. $28.

Triple P Serum Daily Advanced Care Antioxidant and Multi-Nutrient Treatment (wow, that’s a mouthful) is a powerful treatment for daytime that shields skin from free radicals in the environment that can destroy collagen. It brightens skin tone, reduces the appearance of dark spots,  hyperpigmentation, fine lines, and wrinkles. In clinical trials, they found a 60 percent increase in protection against free radical activity induced by UV radiation. It has a comfy, lightweight gel formula made with good stuff like pomegranate, pea, and bamboo extracts, reserveratrol, and vitamin C. $65.

Mega Moisture Mask Intensive Treatment with Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer provides a lot of hydration, soothes and calms irritated skin, and plumps up skin to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. The key ingredient, sodium hyaluronate crosspolymer, is the key ingredient found in prescription wrinkle fillers, because it holds up to 4,000 to 5,000 times its own weight in water. It also includes cucumber fruit extract to cool, refresh, reduce inflammation, and tighten pores, and green tea leaf extract, which is a natural super antioxidant that reduces inflammation. Hyaluronic acid hydrates and plumps. It’s an ingredient in the skin that’s depleted as we age so skin becomes less elastic. I love the way my skin looks and feels after using this. It was also great to help calm a sunburn and hydrate my poor, parched skin. $38.

Some Classics

Along with the new products, I’ve also tried some of the classics…

Medi-Matte Oil Control Lotion SPF 20 does an amazing job of instantly mattifying the skin and keeping it matte for hours at a time without drying out the skin or making it feel dry. My skin looks so much more even and smooth with this. It’s super potent so you only need a little. It reduces excess oil that can clog pores, reduces shine for up to eight hours, hydrates, and protects from the sun. I use this in the morning and if I want to touch up before I go out at night. It’s a great alternative to powder, which usually feels heavy and gets cakey on the skin. This also comes in a tinted variety. $42.

Medi-morphosis Self-Adjusting Exfoliator is one of the best scrubs I’ve ever tried. It’s designed to prevent over-exfoliation with “stop-action” crystals that are only strong enough to exfoliate dead skin cells and dissolve once they hit healthy skin cells. It smoothes rough skin, tightens pores, reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, tones skin, fights fungi and bacteria, and helps fade hyperpigmentation and age spots. In clinical trials, they found a 12 percent immediate reduction in pore size and there was zero irritation or sensitivity among all of the 217 study subjects. $38.

Cosmedicine products are available at Sephora, Nordstrom, Ulta, the Home Shopping Network, beauty.com, and cosmedicine.com. Everything has a money-back guarantee. You don’t like it, you’re not stuck with it.

A Fun Contest

You can win $5,000 by putting together a video spoof of beauty ads. The contest runs through September 21st. Visit Cosmedicine’s site to get more details on how to enter.

Do Tell

Ever try any Cosmedicine products? How did they work for you? What do you think of the ads? Ever been disappointed by a beauty product once you get it home and try it for yourself?

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