Got Stressed Skin? Turn to Skyn ICELAND for Help!

If the stresses of your daily life are showing up on your skin, what do you do? Do you buy an expensive moisturizer for the dry parts, an acne cream with salicylic acid for break-outs, special eye gel that's supposed to help with under-eye puffiness, and a concealer for the under-eye circles you're getting from lack of sleep? And then find that none of them really does what you bought it for?

Stress no more. Take a look at Skyn Iceland^TM. All their products include natural ingredients, including pure glacial water from Iceland, and contain no parabens, mineral oil, sulfates, phthalates, fragrances, or dyes (things you will find in many more expensive products). Best of all, these products are specifically formulated to counteract the effects of stress on your skin. And if you're anything like me, the fact that they use no animal testing will make you happy about their products, too.

If you can't find Skyn Iceland^TM at your favorite department store, you can find the full line here ; I'm not going to describe them all, because I haven't used all the products. I'll tell you about the products I do use, and you can find what your skin needs for yourself. Skyn Iceland products aren't cheap, but unlike products both less and more expensive, I've found that they work, and for me that's worth the price.

I bought Pure Cloud Cleanser^TM for my dry winter skin. I live in North Dakota, and winters here are probably about as hard on skin as they are in Iceland - maybe more so, since most of Iceland's homes are heated by geothermal fluids, adding to their humidity. My skin is dry in summer, but in winter it's downright arid. (Note: this isn't the cleanser for all skins; you might want to try the foaming Glacial Face Wash with Biospheric Complex^TM if your skin is normal to oily.)

Pure Cloud^TM is a cream cleanser that you apply to dry skin and gently massage in (use upward movements when you massage anything into your skin; it helps a bit in the fight against gravity!); then remove it with a wet muslin cloth ( included with the cleanser). Your skin will be clean, but feel soft and moisturized, not stripped. Wash the cloth at least weekly with an antibacterial cleanser. Some of the natural ingredients in Pure Cloud Cleanser, besides the glacier water, are soybean oil, cocoa seed butter, olive fruit oil, meadowfoam seed oil, shea butter, grapefruit seed oil, and cloudberry seed oil. You can see all the ingredients at the hyperlink above, or at the Skyn Iceland website.

Despite my skin's dryness, I sometimes break out in the winter. Like many products for acne, Skyn Iceland's Anti-Blemish Gel^TM does include salicylic acid (aspirin), but way before that on the list is willow bark, nature's source of salicylic acid. Native peoples have long used willow bark tea for fevers, and a willow bark extract for cleansing, going back into prehistory both in North America and northern Europe. I've always wondered if it might be better to use willow bark instead of one isolated lab-created component, and this gel has answered that question. The Anti-Blemish Gel TM clears up outbreaks quickly, and without drying the area of the break-out like most anti-acne products do.

Give Skyn Iceland a try for your stressed skin; you'll be glad you did!

(Sources: www.skynICELAND.com; http://www.sephora.com/browse/brand_hierarchy.jhtml?brandId=Skyn+Iceland )