In recent years men have increasingly become major consumers of skin care products that provide the same anti-aging and personal care features as mainstream women’s skin care and cosmeceuticals. Men know that shaving, aging, and environmental stressed can have a significant effect on their skin, and many are choosing to actively seek skin care solutions.

Made popular in upscale spa’s and salons, Yonka has a full range of men’s skin care from cleansers to self-tanners and everything in-between.

Starting with the basic regimen, cleansing with the Yonka for Men Foam Gel both in the morning and in the evening will leave the skin hydrated and purified. This non-drying botanical based gel cleanser is great for men because most prefer a gel consistency than lathers up and rinses clean for their daily cleansing needs versus a cream based cleanser that can feel heavy on the skin even after rinsing.

After cleansing with the foam gel, shaving with the Yonka for Men Barber Shave is made easy even for the toughest beard on the most sensitive skin. This product is a multi-tasker that provides not only a close and clean shave with reduced irritation, cuts, and nicks but it also acts as a skin care product leaving your skin soft and smooth.

After shaving with the Barber Shave, the Yonka for Men Lotion YK is an alcohol-free skin energizer that prepares your skin for additional product if desired and also improves the effectiveness of the products already used during cleansing and shaving.

For optimal skin care, we suggest an exfoliating product to be used 1-3 times weekly. The Yonka for Men Foam Scrub is a fantastic product that removes dead skin cells which helps improve cell turnover, it tightens pores, rids ingrown hairs and black heads and leaves your skin deeply cleansed. This product is to be used after shaving and before a skin cream and is highly effective in prepping your skin for the Yonka for Men Masque which will further detoxify your skin and brighten your complexion while balancing the epidermis.

For added treatment benefits, the Yonka for Men Nutri Moist provides you with vitamin rich anti-oxidants to help protect your skin from environmental stress while the Age Defense will help combat the signs of aging. You can use one or both as need to give you softer, smoother, healthier skin. Top off your regimen with the Under Eye Gel both morning and evening to complete your skin care routine.

Check out the full Yonka Skin Care for Men product line at SkinStore.com!

Blotting linens are a perfect way to absorb excess facial oil throughout the day without adding weight, product, or disturbing your makeup. Boscia has a variety of blotting linens available at SkinStore.com and the price is perfectly fit for any budget! Choose from seven 100% natural linens or natural botanical fibers that are mildly scented with essence of vanilla, lavender, rose, orange, peppermint, green tea and unscented.

This is the year you vow to eat right, exercise, take care of your skin, and try something now. Well we don’t have all of the answers for you but we can certainly help with some key products that will get you on your way to your new resolutions.

So you want to eat right? At SkinStore.com we have a large assortment of supplements to help you with everything from aging skin to weight management from all of your favorite brands like Perricone MD, GliSODin, Pure Inventions, Thalgo and many more!

How about more exercise? You’ve been working out and feel that you need to kick it up a notch because you are just not seeing the result you want, sound familiar? Never fear SkinStore is here with some fine tools to get your bum in shape. The Wellbox Lipomassage Machine is one of our more popular cellulite and anti-aging tools available. In the privacy of your home, you can use the Wellbox improve the appearance of cellulite, re-contour your skin, and when the Lift Treatment Head is used on the face you will visibly see a brightening and glowing effect on your skin giving you a rested and healthful appearance.  We also carry a wonderful new body buffer by BelleCore called the HoneyBelle BodyBuffer kit and the babyBelle BodyBuffer.

Ah, skin care! It’s easy to find great products at SkinStore to help you take good care of your skin. We offer a wide range of product from light treatment, to micro currents, microdermabrasion and everything in between. Some great new year’s resolutions tools to help you both take care of your skin AND to accomplish trying something new are the Baby Quasar MD, the NuFace Device and the Personal Microderm Tool Kit. These easy to use tools all offer different benefits from anti-aging to gentle resurfacing of your skin. Check them out to get all of the details and benefits, then, try something new!

What’s your New Year’s resolution for 2012? Share with us on our facebook page or right here on our blog by leaving a comment.

Once again we are at the dawn of another new year. With the holidays behind us and friends and family still on our minds, New Year’s Eve provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon years past and to ponder with excitement the New Year ahead.

It’s with this excitement and anticipation that we begin to think about our New Year’s Eve makeup and attire. There are so many makeup options to choose from! Smoky eye, natural eye, red lips, natural lips, whatever your makeup of choice SkinStore has you covered. Here are some of our favorite makeup kits that provide endless beauty options for you.

For longer lasting and true color wear, we always suggest that you begin with shadow primer and a foundation primer. Primers will give you a beautiful smooth canvas that will ultimately give you flawless looking skin once your makeup application is complete.

Starting with the eyes, one of the most popular looks that remains a staple for an evening party look is the smoky eye, The Too Faced Smokey Eye Collection gives you a color palette  for three smoky eye looks, Day, Classic and Fashion. The kit includes 9 colors and three “how to” application cards so that anyone can achieve the look they desire.

Moving on to all over beauty, the Laura Geller Baked and Beautiful Kit gives you all the basic’s from a primer, to bronzer, blush, eye makeup and the fantastic Dream Creams Lip Palette. The color options in the kit provide you with everything you need to go from the office to the afterhours New Year’s Eve party with ease.

If you need a cute but practical travel ready kit, the Too Faced Fierce and Flawless Value Set is perfect! It comes with a leopard print wristlet, blush, eye shadow, mascara, and primer, that is pretty much everything you need for an evening out or an overnight New Year’s Eve destination.

For a more natural look that can easily go from day to night the Philosophy Supernatural Play Time to Party Time set comes with everything you need for flawless radiant looking skin. The colors in this palette are highly pigmented for true color that stays put.

Do you have a favorite makeup look? Share with us on our facebook page or leave us a comment.

Rice has been used for centuries as part of traditional beauty and skin care regimens in many places around the world. Recently during our Juara training, co-founder Metta was training us on the Juara Rice Facial Cleanser and she gave us a beauty tip that has been part of her culture for as long as she can remember. Briefly, she said when you rinse rice at home, take the water from the rinsed rice and use it to rinse your face and you will find that your skin is softer and smoother.  Then of course we asked if we could just use the Rice Facial Cleanser instead and of course she said “yes!”.

When researching this ancient beauty tradition I found that for centuries rice has been used to ease many skin conditions like psoriasis, eczema, and dryness. Rice has also been used as a skin care mask when ground up finely with milk or water added to create a paste that is then applied to the skin for 15-20 minutes then rinsed. Since rice contains allantoin, it also acts as an anti-inflamatory and is used for skin irritation and redness which makes perfect sense when considering the many uses in skin care products.

Learn more about rice in our key ingredient feature, and find out which products we carry by visiting our Rice section!

Winter weather brings out the dry, chapped, rough hands. It can be embarrassing and uncomfortable at the very least.

For softer smoother hands SkinStore.com has a lot of wonderfully soothing products. Just a few honorable mentions listed below.

The L’Occitance Shea Butter Hand Cream offers the soothing power of 20% shea butter that is soothing and healing to the skin. Balanced with honey, almond and coconut oil this product is rich and creamy, perfect for soothing winter hands. This product is also an InStyle Editors Pick – 2011 Best Beauty Buy Best Hand Cream.

The Borghese Splendide Mani Smoothing Hand Cream is perfect for the environmental aggressors that we experience during the winter season like windburn and concentrated sun exposure. This cream has a heavier consistency and is great for use at night.

For sensitive skin AHAVA Mineral Hand Cream provides a paraben free, hypoallergenic solution that absorbs easily and doesn’t leave you feeling greasy. This product also smells wonderful so it is great to use in the morning or through the day.

For extended results, get a tube of your favorite hand cream, warm it in a glass of warm water, apply to your skin then place cotton gloves over your hands and leave on overnight.

For a natural at home solution you can mix ½ cup warm milk, two tablespoons of coarse sugar and two tablespoons of yogurt then soak your hands for 5-10 minutes while massaging them using the sugar to help exfoliate your skin.

Have you ever wondered what Dr. Brandt would talk about in a candid interview that featured questions like “who inspires you”, “what beauty product do you use other than your own?” or what sort of beauty tips he would offer?

Now is your chance to find out!  Our Behind the Bottle features Dr. Brandt, Dr. Nicolas Perricone, Dr. Dennis Gross, and many other leaders in the skin care industry. In this series you will learn more about many of the founders and leadership of the worlds most advanced skin care product lines. If you like to be “in the know”, here is a great place to start!

I know we talk about Clarisonic and the Baby Quasar all the time but did you know that SkinStore also carries beauty basics like makeup brushes? Yes, that’s right, we can actually be your one stop beauty and skin care shopping place because we literally have everything beauty at SkinStore. Let’s check out a few beauty tool must haves we carry…ahem, besides the fabulous mega tools like the beloved Clarisonic!

Everyone who wears makeup has their “go to” set of applicators that you cannot live without. Among these I always find a combination of a Kabuki, spooly, foundation tool, liner, smudger, blender, fan, multiple shadow applicators, and some form of contour brush or brushes AND guess what, we have them all and many more!

Foundation applicators are abundant at SkinStore. From pressed powder, loose power, to liquid we have applicators to suit you. To list just a few (psst, if you want to check them out yourself, type “brushes” in our search tool bar on the home page at SkinStore) :

Kabuki Brushes: The Kabuki is typically a full or oversized dome shaped brush that has many uses but is generally used for applying loose powder, bronzers, or in some cases blending. We have a few of these that we offer like the bareMinerals Full Coverage Kabuki Brush, Laura Geller Retractable Kabuki Brush, and Amazing Kabuki Brush.

Foundation Brushes: The foundation brush is typically a longer handled slightly larger brush with an application area about the size of the tip of your thumb for liquid foundation application and much larger and fuller for powder mineral application. We carry both types like the Jane Iredale Foundation Brush and the Illuminare Foundation Brush for liquid foundations. For powder we have the bareMinerals Flawless Application Face Brush and the Too Faced Powder Pouf Brush among others.

The applicators that we carry are endless! The Jane Iredale Blending Brush is excellent for both powder and cream makeup application of all sorts as is the bareMinerals Blending Brush which says its for use on the eye but I use it when I need wider detail like when I’m creating a cheek bone. Speaking of cheek bones, no makeup kit is complete without the fan brush and Jane Iredale has a fantastic one that we carry!

For a concealer brush, check out Amazing Cosmetics or Jane Iredale. For a super fine line for eyes or brows the Angle Brush by JI is amazing as is the Stila #4 Precision Eyeliner! Need a smudger? I like the Eyeliner Brow Brush by Jane Iredale because you get two tools in one; there is a liner and a smudger. We’ve got you covered on shadow brushes too! We even have setting sprays and makeup removers!

As you can see, SkinStore.com offers everything you need for your beauty and skin care regimen, we are not just a skin store, we are much more!

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Did you know that SkinStore.com has qualified skin care professionals like Estheticians and Cosmetologists available to help you with your skin care needs? We offer live chat, email, and phone support during our regular office hours and we are happy to answer any of your beauty and skin care questions. With literally thousands of products to choose from, let us help you make the right choice for you! Call, email or chat with us anytime, or request a complimentary consultation. We are happy to help!

For as long as I can recall oil treatments for healthy shiny hair have been popular. As a teen the old VO5 hot oil treatment was a favorite with my older sisters. Today we have many more options available to us, and I have a new appreciation for the benefits of topical oil treatments. With years of heat abuse from the blow dryer, to the flat iron, to color treatments hair can become brittle to a point where it is literally breaking off and preventing length.

There are many oil solutions available at SkinStore in our hair department. Leading the pack with 9 customer reviews and an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 possible stars is the Alterna Bamboo Smooth Kendi Oil Dry Mist. This oil infuses hair with anti-oxidants and is nutrient rich to help eliminate frizz and protect hair from that damage done through heat styling, plus its color safe. Alterna also offers the Bamboo Smooth Pure Kendi Oil Pure Treatment which is in dropper form and it too banishes frizz, is humidity resistant and safe for color treated hair.

Rene Furterer Complexe 5 Regenerating Plant Extract is another solution that offers over 50% concentration of orange and lavender essential oils to stimulate microcirculation on the scalp, strengthens the hair, and cleans your scalp of unwanted debris.

The final featured product is the Phyto Huile D Ales Intense Hydrating Oil that is a 100% natural botanical solution that provides nourishment and hydration to dry and chemically treated hair.

We offer many more oil treatments for your hair though we have just featured a few. So come on by and check out our hair department if you are looking for any hair care item, chances are, we have it!

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