Skin Care Brands Review
Biotherm
Strengths: Almost all of their sunscreens now have the right UVA-protecting component; some superb cleansers and a few amazing moisturizers; affordable for a store line; some nice foundations and an outstanding liquid concealer; mostly good mascaras; great powder eyeshadow.
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Clarins
Strengths: Large selection of effective sunscreens; great range of self-tanning cosmetics; some nice cleansers and gentle topical scrubs.
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Cle de Peau Beaute
Strengths: None of note among skin-care items; even the best products are not worth the money when compared with superior versions from other lines that cost slightly to considerably less; foundations that provide excellent coverage without looking heavy; a magnificent concealer; good highlighting powder and eyeshadows; one good mascara.
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Clinique
Strengths: Little less expensive than most store lines; the best selections of state-of-art moisturizers and serums loaded with compounds that science has shown are of great benefit to skin; excellent sunscreens; good selection of self-tanning items; some very good cleansers and eye makeup removers; some unique mattifying products; a large but wholly impressive selection of foundations, many with reliable sun protection (and shades for darker skin tones); nice concealers.
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Dermalogica
Strengths: Great eye-makeup removers; a combination BHA/AHA product; several of commendable moisturizers.
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Dior
Strengths: All sunscreens offers great UVA protection; a handful of superb cleansers and makeup removers; some great foundations, some of which include sunscreen; the liquid concealer.
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Dr. Brandt
Strengths: Provides complete ingredient lists on the company Web site; an great makeup remover; sunscreens with built-in bronzing function; a novel skin-lightening product.
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Elizabeth Arden
Strengths: Moderately priced; some great serums (including the ceramide capsules) and moisturizers; quite nice cleansers for normal to dry skin; makeup remover; excellent concealers, pressed powder, eyeshadow, lipsticks, and mascara; well-organized tester units.
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Estee Lauder
Strengths: Plenty of Paula’s Picks; some of the most state-of-art moisturizers and serums around; great sunscreens and self-tanning items; some excellent cleansers, toners, and makeup removers; excellent retinol products; several above standard self tanning lotions; several categories of makeup excel, including some extraordinary foundations.
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Garnier Nutritioniste
Strengths: Inexpensive; well formulated moisturizers (those in non jar packaging); an intriguing serum.
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Giorgio Armani
Strengths: For skincare items there are none. The makeup is a very a story: excellent foundations, outstanding powder textures, a great shimmer fluid, and a neutral palette make this line a must-see, and several products have a gorgeous finish.
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L’Oreal Paris
Strengths: Inexpensive, quality makeup (the entire range is the best at the stores); some good to brilliant water soluble cleansers; great assortment of self tanning options; effective AHA option (in the form of an at-home peel kit); one of the best, most comprehensive makeup collections at the moment.
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Lumene
Strengths: Almost inexpensive; some nice serums and eye creams; all sunscreen contains sufficient UVA-protecting compounds, though some have lower SPF ratings; nice selection of cleansers and eye-makeup removers.
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MD Skincare by Dr. Dennis Gross
Strengths: Almost every product is fragrance free; couple of serums and moisturizers contain a excellent assortment of beneficial skincare ingredients; all of the sunscreens have sufficient UVA protection; almost all of the antioxidant rich items are packaged to ensure good stability.
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MD Formulations
Strengths: All the line is fragrance free; some well formulated AHA products featuring glycolic acid and ammonium glycolate; a selection of quite nice cleansers; some brilliant moisturizers and serums; very good toner; an oil rich lip balm with broad-spectrum sunscreen; a skin-lightening itemswith retinol and arbutin.
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Murad
Strengths: Great water-soluble cleansers; a selection of well-formulated AHA products based on glycolic acid; most of Murad’s top-rated items are fragrance free; the sunscreens go beyond the basics and include couple of antioxidants for enhanced protection line.
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Neutrogena
Strengths: Not expensive; several superior water soluble cleansers; excellent topical scrubs; effective AHA and BHA products; couple of retinol options, all in good packaging; vast selection of sunscreens, most of them offer brilliant UVA protection; good variety of self tanning items; come fragrance free options; all Healthy Skin products are state-of-art; all of the foundations with sunscreen have sufficient UVA protection; pressed powder with SPF 30.
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Peter Thomas Roth
Strengths: most of the products are fragrance free; brilliant AHA products; wide range of water soluble cleansers and scrubs; good makeup remover; some excellent sunscreens, skin lightening products, and benzoyl peroxide products; planty of antioxidant rich options; Roth avoids the use of extraneous ingredients, including plant extracts..
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ReVive
Strengths: Excellent cleansers!, that’s about it!
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Shiseido
Strengths: All of the sunscreens have great UVA protection, and present a variety of options, if you’re looking for titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, or avobenzone; a handful of great moisturizers; an excellent sunscreen for lips; worthwhile oil-blotting papers; all the foundation with sun-screen have sufficient UVA protection; pressed powder with sunscreen for oily skin; the unique Hydro Powder Eye Shadow; Perfecting Lipstick is one of the best creamy lipsticks at the department store; mostly good mascaras; all of the Veil products are worth considering.
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SK-II
Strengths: Couple of great-formulated moisturizers and serums; all of the sun-screens have sufficient UVA protection.
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Vichy
Strengths: A couple of fragrance free options; almost all the sunscreens but one contain either avobenzone or titanium dioxide for sufficient UVA protection; one commendable moisturizer; some nice, not expensive cleansers; a great moisturizing mask, scrub for dry skin.
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Yves Saint Laurent
Strengths: All the sun-screens include avobenzone for sufficient UVA protection; the moisturizers have elegant textures; great makeup removers and toners; one brilliant pressed powder and eyeshadow option;
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