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Murad, Inc. recently received beauty awards from both Self and Star magazines, respectively, for excellence in the development of skincare products. Selected from among thousands of beauty products, Murad’s Age Reform Intensive Wrinkle Reducer for Eyes and Age Reform Intensive Resurfacing Peel were chosen to receive the magazines’ annual beauty awards.
“It’s rewarding to be recognized for the efficacy of our products,” said Howard Murad, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA and founder of Murad Inc. “We take particular pride in the fact that our research-supported formulas are designed to help people look and feel healthy and youthful. Skin looks its best when it is healthy, so every Murad product works to improve skin by enhancing health both internally and externally.”
Readers of Self voted Murad’s Intensive Wrinkle Reducer for Eyes as the Best Anti-aging Eye Cream for their 2009 Healthy Beauty Awards. Self noted the product’s combination of repairing peptides and plumping hyaluronic acid as what sets it apart from competitors.
Star’s beauty editors awarded Murad’s Age Reform Intensive Resurfacing Peel as its recipient of the 2009 Beauty Award in the category of Best Face Peel. Star reported that the product “combines the benefits of a peel with gentle microdermabrasion,” adding that “each dose instantly revitalizes the complexion.”
These awards follow on the heels of Dr. Murad himself being honored with an ELLE 2009 Genius Award in the category of skincare, as well as Murad’s Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Gel being selected by InStyle Magazine for the second year in a row as its 2009 Best Beauty Buy Award recipient in its Anti-aging: Spot Treatment category.
Murad, Inc. was founded in 1989 by Howard Murad. M.D., one of the world’s foremost authorities on skin health and a pioneer of the clinical skincare movement. All Murad products are based in The Science of Cellular Water, Dr. Murad’s unified theory of health and aging.
The Murad brand includes 88 consumer products and 45 professional products sold in 45 countries. Murad is the #1 selling clinical skincare brand at many locations including Sephora and Ulta. Known globally for high performance topical and internal skincare, Murad has grown by producing innovative products that meet the needs of its customers.
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At the forefront of solutions for hormonally aging skin, Striking Skin Care with SmartPeptides has launched a new e-commerce boutique, www.strikingskincare.com, blending the best of beauty, cosmeceuticals and social community.
The new website is designed so every woman can access the dermo-basics: science made simple, concise information on the advanced ingredients, and easy access to an ongoing skin care dialogue.
“We want the Striking website and social community to be an informative and entertaining resource for the latest in skin health and beauty trends,” said Robin Carmichael, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development. “The web boutique offers the high performance and elegant Striking Skin Care line formulated with SmartPeptide technology that specifically targets the needs of skin ravaged by transitioning hormones. Striking picks up where a woman’s previous basic skin care starts to wear down in performance and reinvents new vitality and radiance.”
About The Website
The vibrant and spa-like website provides an easy to navigate online environment where visitors can learn more about the products, ingredients, and brand at the click of a button.
The site includes enhanced features such as an ongoing video series as well as an engaging social community supported by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the Striking Blog and the Simply Striking monthly newsletter.
About The Products
With over 45 million menopausal and post-menopausal women in the US, Helix BioMedix recognized the need for skin care formulated for the needs of hormonally aging skin. The dermatologist tested Striking anti-aging cosmeceutical line was developed with an emphasis on skin health and proven efficacy.
Helix BioMedix SmartPeptide technology is the core of Striking Skin Care’s moisturizer, eye and serum products that help with common aging concerns such as loss of firmness, fine lines and wrinkles and dry, damaged skin. The Striking Skin Care line works synergistically to restore a radiant appearance. Every drop of Striking Skin Care products deliver the latest dermatologist tested formulations to help support and refine the skin.
Affordably priced, the skin care collection includes:
Striking Multi-Peptide Serum 1.13oz SRP $65
Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme 0.5oz SRP $35
Striking Restorative Moisture Creme 1oz SRP $42
Striking Multi-Vitamin Creme Cleanser 8oz SRP $28
About The Technology
Only Helix BioMedix holds the patents to SmartPeptide technology. The next generation in scientifically advanced ingredients, SmartPeptide molecules are targeted to address changes in the appearance of skin associated with the aging process by mimicking specific amino acid chains that support the body’s own defend and protect systems. In a recent clinical study, 84% of Striking Multi-peptide Serum users said they saw a reduction in fine lines and wrinkles after just 14 days of use. Additionally, unlike many other products on the market, Striking Skin Care products are free of parabens, fragrance, artificial colors, pore-clogging ingredients and formaldehyde-releasing ingredients.
About Helix BioMedix, Inc.
Helix BioMedix, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with an extensive library of diverse bioactive peptides and patents covering six distinct classes and hundreds of thousands of peptide sequences. Core competencies include peptide design, synthesis and characterization together with assay development, screening, tissue culture and microbiology, leveraged through relationships with contract research organizations and peptide manufacturers. The company takes product development programs from theoretical concept to a validated and qualified skin care active ingredient fully validated as to efficacy and safety. Applications for Helix BioMedix peptides include anti-aging cosmeceutical skin care and acne treatment as well as other topical anti-infective pharmaceuticals and wound healing applications. Striking and SmartPeptide are trademarks of Helix BioMedix, Inc. More information about the company and its proprietary peptides may be found on the company’s website at www.helixbiomedix.com.
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Yes, fluoride is important for teeth. It promotes remineralization, while also preventing tooth decay and minimizing the harmful effects of oral bacteria. However, it is recommended that you get your fluoride from a balanced diet high in fruits and vegetables, rather than toothpastes or mouthwashes. In fact, products containing added fluoride can cause Enamel Fluorosis (white streaks on teeth, in severe cases will cause black and brown stains) and Perioral Dermatitis (Acne like spots around the nose, eyes and mouth). Organic toothpaste cleans teeth with pure ingredients such as essential oils, medicinal herbs and natural cleansing agents. Numerous studies have proven that these ingredients have qualities that cleanse, whiten, protect and promote fresh breath.
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Websites that promote apples do not disparage oranges or peaches or cherries. If you look at websites that sell whole grains, they do not disparage other healthy whole food products.
What I find interesting is that Junk Food “A” may talk very highly about their product, but have something terrible to say about Junk Food “B”. The sugar people will go off about alternative sweeteners, and the alternative sweetener folks will go off about both HFCS and sugar. All the while, each company’s product is touted to be quite superior. If each of the junk food companies has something legitimate to say about the other junk food company’s products, isn’t this a sure sign that it’s all….JUNK?!
Here are some examples:
What the Sugar Association has to say: “HFCS does not exist in nature. It is a highly processed product that requires the ingenuity and efforts of man for its creation, and was unknown to the world until the 1970s. Sugar is all-natural and has been the primary sweetening ingredient worldwide for thousands of years and still is the predominate sweetener in every country, except the United States. Sugar exists naturally in almost every fruit and vegetable but most abundantly in sugar cane and sugar beets.”
The Sugar Association has gone so far as to create a website called The Truth About Splenda which further disparages another competitor.
Here is what SPLENDA has to say: “SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener may be used as part of a healthy diet that includes a variety of nutritious foods in moderate portions. Because SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener tastes like sugar and can be used for cooking and baking, it helps meet consumer demand for good-tasting foods and beverages without all the empty calories of sugar.”
and…
“Although sucralose (generic term for SPLENDA) is made from a process that begins with sugar, the body does not recognize it as sugar or a carbohydrate. It is not metabolized by the body for energy, so it is calorie-free…..it passes through the body without being broken down for energy, so it has no calories, and the body does not recognize it as a carbohydrate. ” This is saying that SPLENDA is not recognized by the body as a food, which in my opinion means we have no business putting it in our bodies!!
The NutraSweet Company is proud of their product because of its lack of calories: “Aspartame has many benefits. Aspartame can reduce or replace the sugar and calories in foods and beverages while maintaining great taste. Thus, aspartame offers one simple step in helping people move closer to achieving a more healthful diet.” That’s funny.
Saccharin comes right out and says, “Although the totality of the available research indicates saccharin is safe for human consumption, there has been controversy over its safety. The basis for the controversy rests primarily on findings of bladder tumors in some male rats fed high doses of sodium saccharin.” Oh, woops. Just bladder tumors. No worries. Again, healthy whole foods will never be controversial. We don’t even need science to tell us what our common sense leads us to believe about healthy foods….that an apple is great, for example. If there is any controversy about a food you are eating, I would suggest you consider eating something that has never been controversial.
You can’t go wrong by eating whole foods, keeping in mind portion sizes. You might go wrong by eating JUNK. To me, it’s not worth risking what I don’t know.
Lastly, I include with the Corn Refiner’s Association take on their product HFCS, because it is so funny to me: “Mention corn syrups and consumers think of the sweetness and energy they offer–outstanding characteristics–” More like mention corn syrup and watch people roll their eyes. The press, the commercials and the lobbying is just ridiculous. I can’t imagine anyone going to such great lengths to lobby for steel cut oats or lima beans.
My point is that no matter how ignorant we might want to feign to be, it’s obvious what is healthy whole food and what is not. I don’t believe that the “foods” created in the laboratories were made to improve our health, although many of the artificial sweetener producers would argue and say that they are providing a low-calorie sweetener alternative. What good does it do to put a low-calorie sweetener in a product that is loaded with junk and many other types of calories?
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It is not true that we do not need sunscreens if it is cloudy day or it is cold outside. It is because sun’s ultraviolet rays can reach the earth’s surface of almost 40 percent during cloudy days! Most of us, do not use sunscreens during cloudy days knowing that there is no heat outside,and that is a big no!no! Observe your skin it might experience sunburns.
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