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Tata Harper: The Green-Beauty Goddess Ups Her Game for Her Namesake Skincare Line

Scouting the world, Tata Harper is always striving to improve her eponymous skincare line and beautify her loyalists to the max, naturally, with nontoxic, hyper-potent, and uncompromising ingredients.

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First came the “essence,” which launched early in the new year. “Essences are supposed to be penetrating enhancers to moisturize your skin, and this formulation has 5 to 250 kilodaltons of molecular weight! That is really small, so that it can get to the deepest layers of your skin,” Tata Harper shares with much pride. “And it helps to reduce redness and even reduces darkening spots. This composition is 100 percent.” She is speaking of her beloved Hydrating Floral Essence, a true hydrating booster with dual-weight hyaluronic acid that provides intense hydration but is super-lightweight with natural scents that calm your mind and spirit within seconds. Combined with nature’s goodies like rose, lavender, and neroli, hydrosols provide a smoothing effect, while the anti-oxidant floral blend helps to fight free radicals, preparing your skin for the next step in care.

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That brings us to the Hydrating Floral Mask, a multi-hyaluronic treatment that has proven to improve hydration by 46 percent, even after 24 hours of application, and provide a 100 percent decrease in redness for the flushed, rosacea-prone skin type. This formulation was one-and-a-half years in the making, and it houses 2,000 kilodaltons, drenching every layer of your skin, from sub-dermis to fascial layer, to plump up the skin. “It’s like a creamy gel and has amazing redness reduction. Do a thin layer, but if you’d like to go to sleep with it at night, do a thicker layer. Moreover, to remove, don’t wash it off. Use the essence, which turns the mask into a milky texture, which you can tissue off to keep all the goodness on your skin,” Harper explains.

Comprising ingredients from 25 countries, this is indeed global technology. “Ingredients from 25 countries and 43 high-performing actives, that’s intense!” So why this mask now? “We didn’t have a mask for moisture. I think that masks, the way I see it, are medicine-cabinet items. One day you’re dull, you need a glow. Another day you’re congested and you need purification. Another day you’re blemish-full and breaking out, you need purifying. I have all that in the line, but I didn’t have one for moisture.” But the real reason Harper hadn’t made one way sooner is that she was never satisfied with the technology in existing moisturizers. But now, she says, “hydration technology in the last three years in the natural spaces has exploded. The sizes of hyaluronic acids and the options on barriers, as in how to keep things inside of your skin, have advanced so much!” 

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Utilizing advanced applied science from England, Germany, and Israel, and with hyaluronic acid extracted via fermentation technology from tremella mushrooms from the Czech Republic, this reformulated magic mask, launched only a couple of months ago, has ten molecular grades of hyaluronic acid, and drenches the deepest layer of the skin. With a floral blend derived from the Australian Coastline, which addresses skin’s redness, and rich vitamins and minerals like eskolaite, squalene, and vitamin F, it has already become a classic. Topping off the lineup launching at the end of May is the Hyaluronic Gel Moisturizer. Harper calls it a “weightless daily hydrator,” and that is an undeniable fact. It’s made with all of the advanced hyaluronic-acid technology mentioned earlier and has the appropriate gel-water technology powered by chia-seed water from the U.S.A. and marsh samphire from France. What’s more, it incorporates tremella-mushroom technology (which expands two times in weight in water) and even banana flower from Thailand. This powerful combination provides clinically proven redness reduction, plumping and smoothing, and protective antioxidants. Can you say, “Uncompromised power of non-toxic weightless hydration?” Naturally.

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At Home and Professional CBD Facials Will Have You Glowing

CBD beauty products are the hottest thing on the market, and two brands are ready to help you glow with CBD facials. Heyday, the perfect place for an accessible facial, is adding a limited edition CBD facial to it’s roster of treatments in New York, and Mantra Mask is ready to keep your skin in great shape at home with its CBD-infused sheet masks.

Starting April 24th and available for a limited time only, Heyday is celebrating the benefits of CBD by incorporating a CBD oil massage and a CBD honey mask into their signature bespoke facial experience to deliver rich antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals to your skin, creating the perfect facial to reset + relax the skin as well as provide an overall sense of well-being. The treatment was designed in collaboration with Mowellens, a California-based CBD wellness brand and will leave you glowing with no post-treatment redness.

Mantra Mask sheet masks are all-natural, vegan, non-GMO, non-toxic, and cruelty-free and contain no parabens, dyes, glycols, sulfates, phthalates, artificial colors, or animal byproducts. They source their clinically proven ingredients from all over the world for their scientist formulated, spa-quality products. They are also made in the US, unlike most drugstore sheet masks. The CBD helps enhance all of the other ingredients in these soothing sheet masks, and you leave them on for 20–30 minutes for a truly spa-like experience.

 

CDB has become a daily topic and growing more each day. We have complied a few extra brands to check out. 

All-natural CDB, by OrganicCBDNugs.com.Their mission, is simply to bring high-quality hemp flower and pure cannabidiol (CBD) based products to the marketplace by offering the industry’s highest quality, most trusted products.

At Standard Dose, we believe plants have the transformative power to heal, energize, and nourish, and that living well means making a conscious shift in our thinking, habits, and daily rituals.

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Winter Skin Care that Will Keep You Glowing through Spring

Between the Arctic temps (literally!) and wind swells that feel like a slap in the face, winter skin care can be a challenge. Though spring is in sight, your skin takes quite a beating in the winter, and sometimes it feels like no amount of moisture or oil will restore skin back to its proper glory. But here’s what will: incorporating a heavy-duty face mask into a regular skincare routine, one that provides the kind of long-lasting hydration that typically only comes from a spa. Here are our favorite winter cures, rife with all the key hydration boosters.

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This rich but not greasy overnight mask makes winter skin care easy. It’s packed with squalane, hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and betain to plump the skin and lock in moisture – all while you sleep. Superberries maqui, goji, acai, and prickly pear provide a kick of antioxidants to leave skin looking brighter, firmer, and glowier. The clincher? It’s 100% vegan. Youth to the People Superberry Hydrate and Glow Dream Mask, $48, sephora.com

Winter skin care mask

Your skin will instantly notice the soothing and restorative effects of this herbal gel mask. Between the 13 ingredients for plumping hydration, 12 ingredients for calming redness, and 18 vitamins and minerals, your skin will will be the most radiant it has ever been. Tata Harper Hydrating Floral Mask, $95, sephora.com

Winter Skin Care

This 2-in-1 mask gently exfoliates dull or congested skin with rose flower powder within a bed of moisturizing and antioxidant-packed oils, including argan, safflower, sesame, avocado, and grape seed. This 10-minute mask is truly a game-changer. Summer Fridays R+R Mask, $52, summerfridays.com

Winter Skin care

There’s a reason it’s called a classic. This creamy, refreshing mask from La Mer heals dryness and gives skin that extra oomph. Their patented Miracle Broth supports our skin’s natural renewal process and protects against environmental hazards like free radicals and pollution. La Mer The Intensive Revitalizing Mask, $170, sephora.com