The holidays can be both relaxing and stressful: relaxing with all the extra days off from work and school, and stressful when it comes to holiday shopping and finding the perfect gift for friends and families. In an effort to help ease the anxiety of gift giving, we’ve narrowed down the top beauty products for [...]
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Scrumptious Fall Skin Care
Here in sunny NorCal, the weather is just beginning to feel autumnal. To welcome the wind, rain, and chill, I’ve become a baking fiend, filling my house the aromas of pumpkin, cinnamon, and all the other delicious scents associated with fall. Yesterday, as I pulled warm pumpkin bread from my oven, I realized I should be giving my skin a scrumptious treat as well! Thanks to companies like Eminence and Peter Thomas Roth, fall skin care products are readily available to pamper your skin while offering a seasonal aromatic experience.
The Difference Between Natural and Organic Skin Care
One of the best ways to “go green” is to ensure that your skin care products are formulated with natural or organic ingredients. Many beauty brands work hard to use sustainably grown ingredients that improve the health of your skin while maintaining the health of the earth. However, the line between natural and organic skin care can be a bit fuzzy, leaving consumers wondering what type of product they’ve purchased.
This Month’s Featured Brand: Jane Iredale
By Guest Blogger Liz Franz Mineral makeup that wears beautifully anddoes great things for the skin? We love it! Since 1994, Jane Iredale’s namesake cosmetics line has utilized pure micronized minerals and pigments—and avoided harmful ingredients like alcohol, talc and perfume—to create fabulous products for your face, eyes, cheeks and lips. Several of the brand’s offerings, including Amazing Base, PurePressed [...]
Looking Beautiful on Earth Day
by Liz W With Earth Day quickly approaching, people, charitable organizations, and even big corporations are using the opportunity to see what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Even if you are completely new to the whole green movement, chances are, you have been contributing to Mother Earth’s well being in some way [...]
Alterna Beauty Hair Products for Damaged Hair
I think a lot of DermStore visitors are unaware that we don’t only sell professional skin care and cosmetics, we also carry a wide variety of beauty hair products. One of our staff favorites is Alterna. Alterna is a professional hair care line used in the finest salons. The brand is famous for incorporating hard-to-find [...]
Healthy Beauty Tips in Honor of Earth Day
I like to think of Earth Day as a New Year’s holiday for the earth. It reminds me to make goals and try a little harder this year. I’m already improving on recycling—taking a cue from my earth-wise sister and using a smaller can for trash and a larger one for recycling (it definitely makes [...]

























