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Welcome to my beauty blog, and you will find a lot of beauty sharings here. As a shopaholic and a skincare maniac, I always like to try new things in market. And the most important thing is I just share what I had tried for at least a month to get most trustworthy testimonial. Besides, as a cosmetic analyst, I'll share with you more interesting facts behind these bottles and jars. Feel free to drop by here and I am looking forward to approaching you soon.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Beautiful Velvety Soft Skin: Simplest ever DIY Bath Oil


What do you use to wash away body dirt?

                  Soap or shower gel. What else?

What do you use to remove dead skin cell?

                  Scrub?? Or loofah.

What do you use to nourish your body after bath?

                  Body lotion.



Have you ever imagined that there is something could have these functions, and you could make it by your own?

The answer is definitely yes, and the ingredients are easy to be bought from any convenient stores or supermarket.

All you need is olive oil (preferably organic extra virgin) and sea salt (preferably fine). You can use rock salt too, but sea salt contains more minerals, which helps to promote skin suppleness and blood circulation.

You can premix olive oil and sea salt in ratio 2:1 into a wine glass or vinegar bottle and seal it with cork. The salt will melt very slowly.

Whenever you need to use them, just shake the oil-and-salt bottle, pour out 4-5 tablespoonful of the mixture (depends on your body size) in a bowl.

Scoop the mixture and start rubbing it all over your body, part by part, in circular motion. Massage and rub it all over your body parts especially thigh, hips, waist and arm. Massage will help to reduce excessive water retention and of course exfoliate dead skin cell.

Finally, rinse whole body with water and you will find your body turn extremely velvety smooth now. You can pat dry body with towel. If you prefer lighter version, continue your bath time with shower gel, it will lightly remove some grease from the oil. Personally I prefer with mild shower gel which does not foam much.

After all, you could experience your body with smooth and refining touch. For best result, keep practice it once a week.

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Berrylicious Yogurt: my beauty way


Consuming berry have numerious of health benefits, here i list down some of the well-known functions.

  • good for vision, protect your eyes
  • powerful source of antioxidants, support fair flawless skin, anti-aging process for body and brain
  • balance hormone naturally
  •  a happy food, similar with banana which contains trytophan and tyrosine to synthesize serotonin and dopamine
The rest you can google, i don't want to mention about health-related dieases as i believe that just berry couldn't prevent such diseases.

Blending it in soy milk or other fruit juices is a good and delicious way to consume these berries, here i show you is blending with yogurt and creme fraiche. If you want, drop some beauty and wisdom oil in yogurt before you serve this with berry, it optimize the effective of these healthy foods.

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Effective Tips to Wash Your Face


I guess some of you may know what it is, it's facial cleansing net. Why do we have to lather foaming cleanser such as cleansing foam/cleansing gel before we use it on face? As these surfactants are commonly high in pH, as you lather them, it is not only activating cleanser but also lower pH, so when you apply bubble on skin, the cleanser is in gentle stage and won't harm your skin. In fact, you could find out that to use the same cleanser in 2 different ways, the result could be different. Activating cleanser before you wash on your face would leave your skin matte smooth and non-tight. It is always a good practise no matter what brand you use.

However, we all understand that lathering cleanser is a bit time consuming, especially for lazy people, they may just lather a bit or even worse they do not lather, straight away can apply the cleanser on face. Always bear in mind that your skin is not cement or marble floor, you shouldn't treat your skin better.It represents your hygience status.

Therefore, to make it time saving, people start using cleansing net. You can get a cheap cleansin net in Daiso, i think just RM5 for a pair. Every time squeeze/pump a bit of cleanser and you can add water and start rubbing the cleansing net to foam rich bubble.

  • Volume of bubble should be a small lemon size, which enough to cover your face, no matter big or small
  • The bubble should be solid and won't fall when you turn your palm upside down.
Then, start using bubble to wash you face gently. Use bubble to wash away your face dirt but not using your palm or finger. Finally rinse with running pipe water (please don't recycle water in this case), for 6-7 rounds.

Pat dry your skin with dry, clean towel. But not RUBBING your face till turning red, else it will sensatize your skin.

i think that's all i share with you, this tip is really useful for me.

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What if you don't use cleanser once a while?



How frequent do you wash your face daily? Do you wash as frequent as your 3 meals about 3 times a week?


Here I point out that “over-wash” would cause your protective sebum layer will be washed off and your skin turn to dryness, and yet although you have suppleness from both toner and moisturizer, your skin is expose to certain level of harshness. AS your skin is lack of protection, you may expose yourself to different risks, such as sensitivity, redness or excessive oil due to dryness.

This is not a healthy practice. In fact, leave your skin rest from cleanser once a while could be beneficial (and I am trying my best to help your pocket save more). As your skin leave clean, it will generate auto-recovery mode to protect itself.

How to do this step? It is simple and easy way. Upon morning, just wash off your skin with clean, running pipe water (preferably filtered water, depends on your residential area, if too polluted I would suggest you to install filter system), pat dry with clean towel. Next, apply toner and moisturizer as usual, before you proceed to next steps such as sunblock and foundation.

Oh, you feel very yucky and dirty that your dirt oil still have not yet be removed? In fact, this practice I recommend only 2-3 times a week, and advice to do it in morning. Unless you are bare skin for whole day, else you could practice this method at night.

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Beauty Info: Something between Scar & Snail



Snail? Ever imagine they are one of the ingredients in your skincare? Huh, you feel yucky?


Don't worry, i know escargot is a delicious French cuisine and best serve with grilled garlic butter. However, please do not confuse it as skin food as they use sticky, transparent snail secretion instead of snail meat or snail shell!


Snail secretion contain mucin, a sticky substance (mucus) that helps in skin renewal and promote scar recovery open acne scar or open wound. It acts as a sealing glue to patch up and repair affected areas. Meanwhile, due to its mucosity, it keeps moisture.


Snail cream is gaining popular in korean skincare after BB cream, almost all medium to low range of korean brands such as Missha, Bavipha, It's skin, Nature Republic, lauch snail cream respectively. For massive cosmetic groups such as LG and Amore Pacific, they are still peeping on how these small brands work with snail cream, and yet until now they still haven't lauched any snail cream.


However, the potential of snail secretion is utilized by Kose group to include it as selling point in prestige line, Cosme Decorte AQMW anti-aging range. However, Cosme Decorte did not use any snail or snail secretion as marketing point but use mucinsome. Mucinsome is a mucin secretion encapsulated by liposome to carry into skin easily.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Product Comment: Cosme Decorte Moisture Liposome

A pump of crystal clear light fluid absorb fast upon application on my face after cleansing, Cosme Decorte moisture liposome deliver what they promises: radiance, translucency, commitment to hydrate skin. Other than that, it contains high-tech liposome to encapsulate active ingredients penetrate to skin quickly without destroying them and release. Owing to this characteristic, liposome can guarantee for the effectiveness delivery to skin and benefit to skin. Any skincare product with liposome could never be a cheap product, the raw material is very high cost.


With abundant list of hydrating substances such as butylene glycol, glycerin, sodium hyaluronate, sodium PCA, it keep skin moisture but leave a little bit of sticky sensation (due to high amount of glycerin) especially oily skin. If you sleep at air condition space, you will feel a smoother touch.

To apply this, i recommend moisture liposome before toner as moisture liposome is small molecular water droplets, it tends to penetrate to skin better without barrier before big molecular droplets (toner).


Recommended to dehydrated skin and dry skin


Ingredient list:
Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Hydrogenated lecithin, Acetyl Glutamine, Betula alba, Lemon extract, Equisetum arvense, Humulus Lupulus, Orchid, Pinus Sylvestris Cone, Rosmarinus officinalis, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium PCA, Tocopherol, Alcohol, Benzophenone-5, Carbomer, Cholesterol, Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, Sodium Hydroxide, Xanthan Gum, Methylparaben, Fragrance

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Granmula: An Exquisite Aura works Lively

Fragrance could be synthetically made, or even more expensive, extracted from flowers. Among many extraction methods, HEADSPACE EXTRACTION METHOD is one of the most extraordinary high technology methods as the plant is still ALIVE during capturing the odor of an aromatic substance using a bell-jar. Hence, the essence of flowers are remaining lively active and have promosing therapeutic effects.



Scents of Granmula named as Bouquet de Granmula, it is an impressive scent of the finest beauty created from more than 20 kinds of flowers such as saffron, magnolia, grapfruit, mint, kemin, rose, iris, jasmine, muguet, ylang-ylang and trees such as musk, cedarwood and moss. Especially saffron is as expensive as gold, has a short lifetime when it starts to bloom in the morning and reaches full bloom within 1 hour. Aroma release during its prime flowering time, and aromatic substances gradually decline. Within 3 days, saffron scent is almost completedly vanished.

Bouquet de Granmula is a fresh, glamorous and sensual scent to give you total comfort and relaxation. Thus, it will create an exquisite aura to enhance skin penetration of active ingredients in Granmula: Carnitine, Bisamin, Magnolinate and Rhododenol.
Carnitine: accelerate the generation of energy necessary for keratinization, it helps skin elasticity and firmness

Bisamin: adjust cell adhesion balance, it helps skin firmness


Magnolinate: inhibit tyrosinase maturity, it helps skin fairness without flaw

Rhododenol: inhibit tyrosinase activation, it helps skin pigmentation and whitening


Granmula, a simple and yet multifunctional skincare works wonder for the skin, especially if you feel too troublesome to use essence, mask, or other treatments. Of course, if you want to corperate Granmula with your daily or weekly skincare routine, it just like you add-on some spices and sugar to make the dishes taste more delicious. So, Granmula is your beauty soul for your skin to keep your beautiful promises.

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