Sea Kelp Ultramarine

 

  This jar of lovely bubbly blue gel has to be one of my favorite Skin Actives products so far! Just looking at it is almost soothing. 

As with most of Skin Active's products, the Sea Kelp Ultramarine can also be used by male or female and anyone from children to the elderly can reap the benefits lying in the jar!

I first have to say, this is not, I repeat not your average face mask. It won't burn or irritate your skin and will not leave it as dry as the desert when it's rinsed away. 

What it will do however, is leave you with glowy, smooth, pore-reduced, firm and even skin. Not only that, but unlike your drugstore masks, the Sea Kelp Ultramarine's lovely benefits will not diminish after a few hours. Is it only me or have y'all had those results with most masks? It's like right when you rinse a mask off your face looks nice or at least better and by the time you've slept for a couple of hours your skin's right back to normal! Enlarged pores, redness, etc. I hate that!

Thankfully, you won't need to use the Sea Kelp Ultramarine daily although you certainly could. Once a week has kept my skin looking great, but I will probably use it a couple extra days this week since I've had some sort of freak breakouts suddenly. Why does it seem like I've written that sentence a lot? Maybe I have these freak breakouts more often than I though. Crap.

Anyways, what I love about the Sea Kelp Ultramarine is the cool soothing and redness, inflammation reducing properties. It's what I'll run to when my skin acts up!

You only need a small amount to totally cover your face/neck and it does not burn! I feel a little cooling, but nothing irritating. I've actually had some "mud masks" as well as others burn the skin off of my face. Really! The Sea Kelp Ultramarine cleans so deep into the pores that I could swear they feel cleaner! It tightens and closes everything up and leaves you with the nicest clean, dewy glow! A major plus, you aren't left with dried out skin.

If you've had inflammation, acne or irritation, the Sea Kelp mask works wonders. Once it has dried and you are ready for it to come off simply rinse or wipe away with a warm wash cloth! That's another thing that really impressed me. Being able to rinse it away quickly without having bits stuck all over my face was so convenient.

According to Skin Actives this works as a moisturizer too. It does in fact leave you with moisturized skin, but since it dries like a mask, I wouldn't use it as a lotion. It will peel off easily too.

The other night I was so exhausted and I had washed my face and applied the Sea Kelp Ultramarine and planned to get in the shower when it dried. I was reading and ended up passing out for several hours with the mask on. I'm not sure if leaving it on for so long helped, but I appreciated how nice my skin looked the next AM due to my crashing!

WHO, WHAT AND HOW?
The Sea Kelp Ultramarine is good for normal, oily and dry skin and combination skin. You can use it all over the body, hair, eyebrows, lashes, eyes, hands, lips, etc. I'm a little worried about using this on my eyes as It'd be a pain if it got inside and I've had terrible eye irritation lately and I'm finally getting over that. 

Another awesome thing about the Sea Kelp mask is that it can be used as a shave gel and it is paraben free so y'all paraben-haters, rejoice!

This product is supposed to be great for rosacea! You can even add water to it and turn it into a serum! In fact, I think I'll take a small amount of it and do just that. It will soften your hair and if used as a shave gel will prevent nicks and if used after shaving it'll help with irritation and redness, red bumpies! Like I said, a very soothing Skin Active product. 


INGREDIENTS:

Lactobacillus/kelp ferment filtrate, Porphyridium extract,  Laminaria japonica extract, Arthrospira extract.

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Lip Collagen Serum

The Lip Collagen Serum is also a Skin Actives product. Don't let the color fool you, this stuff isn't actually brown on the lips, but goes on clear and smooth. 

If you're looking to smooth things out, have a healthier set of kissers and need to prevent or heal dry, chapped lips, the Lip Collagen Serum just may be your miracle. 

I actually have never heard of or seen a lip product that does what Skin Active's lip collagen product does. It's very unique and has some amazing benefits. 

You know those lines you get in your lips and around them? The Lip Collagen Serum reduces those and creates smoother, softer and healthier lips. I didn't know what to expect from it at first. I wondered if it would feel thick and glossy or stick (hate that!) or like chap stick. I had no idea! So I was too excited to slick it on my lips. 

It feels very liquidy and runny. That was a surprise for me and the color goes on clear and dries instantly. Since there's no residue or glossy finish left on the lips, both men and women can use the Lip Collagen Serum.

At first it simply feels like wet lips. It really doesn't have a scent and hardly a taste. Most people would never notice the taste, but since I was curious, I licked my lips right after applying the Lip Collagen Serum and it had a subtle hint of something. The only thing I could think of that it resembled was the light taste you get after licking an envelope. Nothing that will get your attention unless you are deliberately trying to taste it. This diminishes seconds after applying and your lips are left feeling like lips! No gloss, thick residue or shine. It felt as if it just disappeared until I touched them with my fingers and could notice a sort of squishyness to them. That made it clear that the lip serum was absorbed and working only without leaving you sticky.

I have the habit of picking at my lips and it leaves them dry and scabby so I have to use a chapstick or gloss of some sort to help heal them and moisturize them. I hate chapped lips and if I feel any skin there, I pick! My lovie is always getting on me about it. Many times I don't even notice that I'm doing it and he tells me that my lips are "too pretty to pick and destroy." How nice! 

I used the Lip Collagen Serum for the first time right before leaving the house and later in the car went to picking and there wasn't anything to pick! The skin wasn't scabby and dry! I'm really liking that and am hoping that with further use of the serum, I'll be able to kick the lip-pickin'-habit! Needless to say, my lovie is all for making sure I keep this stuff around. He's hoping it'll keep the skin healed and I'll be less likely to pick as well. 

The Lip Collagen Serum can be used by anybody 20 years of age and up and I believe most of us could benefit from it. It's great for healing and soothing as well as smoothing out those lines. 

It is antioxidant rich properties as well as anti-aging (yippee!) and increases collagen synthesis. It also contains protective lipids and is supposed to help growth. That last part I'm positive it does! Remember. The lip-pickin' story? Yes, this stuff works great and it works fast!

INGREDIENTS:

Distilled water, cherry juice, sea kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) bioferment, pomegranate (Punica granatum) juice, sodium PCA, coconut (Cocos nucifera) endosperm, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, sodium chondroitin sulfate, natural active peptides, fucoidan, L-carnosine, niacinamide, N-acetyl glucosamine, hyaluronic acid, liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) extract, resveratrol, lycopene, epidermal growth factor, keratinocyte growth factor, stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) extract, propylene glycol, diazolidinyl urea, methylparaben (and) propylparaben

 You can find the Lip Collagen Serum as well as any skin care active or ready made product to fit your needs at Skin Actives.com!

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