Photo Compliments of Al Chaudri Studios
Threw my hands up in frustration after trying to mastermind the ingredient labels on skin care packaging. I mean the freakin’ Chemist Hieroglyphics, like, Dude. Really?
O.k. But your not a purist, so why do you care?
Because I do…….
I purchase skin care. I slather it on myself, I want to know what’s in it. That’s it.
So I find the only thing that’ll calm me down: Le’Sale.
Yes, a freakin’ sale. You know what mean. I was being cute. It was a skin care sale!
Except……, there’s a catch. The sale is located at the one place I’ve vowed to never purchase skin care, ever. The one place where, in my opinion, skin care doesn’t belong. The one place built for other addictions, indulgences, and vice: the grocery store.” That’s right I said it, “the. grocery. store. Skin care don’t belong in the aisle next to my Udi’s Gluten Free Double Chocolate Chip Muffins and Amy’s Organic Mac n’ Cheese.” It belongs in a place humming with heavenly music, decked in gardenias, with sales people in lab coats and perhaps an escalator. Skin care belongs in a place where I can harbor my addiction separately, under pretense whilst maintaining anonymity.
So I slide on my shades and tondu a long pointed leg into the aisle, peering left/ right, up/ down & all around. All’s clear….. It’s there that I spot it: Andalou Skin Care. It’s a line of all natural ingredients blended into formulas for each skin type. I carefully handle a box, between thumb and middle finger, rotating…rotating…. And what do I see: ENGLISH. The ingredients list is in plain English and not in the usual Sanskrit for Hammurabi’s, nuclear, physics lab that I’m accustomed to see.
So I lift a box of the Probiotic + Vitamin C moisturizer and the Vitamin C eye serum, expecting the dryness that can often accompany a Vitamin C product.
Instead, within a month’s time, my skin was the exact depiction of lush. The formula is ultra hydrating, standing up to air conditioning and the spray-on, sport sunscreen formulas I prefer to use on my face and décolleté, at times, despite the alcohol content. While I wasn’t wild about the jar packaging, which allows the active anti-aging ingredients to oxidize quicker, their affordable price made to worth the purchase. Just remembered to use the entire jar in 30-days or less.
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