With the launch of Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly, the Skin Herbalists is a line to watch.  Created by one of the foremost skincare formulators in the world, The Skin Herbalists’ founder and formulator Jacine Greenwood combines the unique wisdom of both an expert aesthetician and a certified cosmetic chemist.  Jacine is the force of nature behind the hugely successful, highly effective, and much-loved line Roccoco Botanicals.  A true creative visionary at heart, Jacine is not one to rest on her laurels and was inspired to create The Skin Herbalists to make her special blend of natural plant-based miracles available for home use. The Skin Herbalists line is 100% natural skincare that proves how effective gentle plant-based skin care can be.

The Skin Herbalists Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly

The Skin Herbalists’ first launch is a gorgeous cleanser, Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly.  Starting out with a cleanser was doubtless the explicit intention.  A true expert in all things skin, founder Jacine views cleanser as the foundational, most vital step in any skincare regimen. Why is having the right cleanser so crucial?  Cleansers contain surfactants, and if not chosen very carefully, surfactants can have deleterious effects on the skin, such that a poorly-formulated cleanser can deplete vital lipids, impair the barrier, and generate inflammation.  Moreover, when an overly-stripping cleanser damages the barrier, it can remain in the skin, further exacerbating dryness and inflammation. Without an optimal cleanser, skin is compromised from the very first step, and all the other products that follow are working at a disadvantage and likely to yield mixed results. Choosing the right cleanser is the crucial first step toward setting the skin up for success, which explains why The Skin Herbalists’ first launch falls into this category.  The Skin Herbalists have created a cleanser that avoids all the common cleanser pitfalls.  With Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly, The Skin Herbalists deliver a beautiful, balanced, and gentle formulation that does not strip skin lipids, nor remain in the skin.  Instead of causing inflammation, Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly actually reduces inflammation  and alleviates redness.  This gem leaves skin clean yet soft and hydrated.

The Skin Herbalists Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly is that special cleanser that fully and effortlessly cleanses makeup and debris in one gentle step all without stripping or irritating even the fussiest of skin.  With a rich, buttery texture and gorgeous pink glow, Rhubarb Jelly Cleanser offers a gorgeous and delightful sensory experience that serves as a perfect first step and will elevate the entire skincare ritual.  Even more impressive than the joy of using it, though, is the beautiful effects it has on the skin. Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly leaves skin gently hydrated without any greasy residue, so you get a satisfying cleanse without that parched feeling that some cleansers can cause. Infused with nutrient-dense Raspberry Seed Oil, Kiwi Seed Oil, and Passionfruit Seed Oil, the cleanser provides skin with a generous dose of Omega 3.    The star ingredient, Rhubarb Extract, increases the amount of ceramides and hyaluronic acid in the skin, softening and plumping lines and wrinkles. With its skin-plumping ingredients, Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly also reinforces the skin barrier and prevents moisture loss.   A specially-chosen concentrated, plant-derived essential fatty acid, Ethyl Linoleate, effectively targets pigmentation while delivering antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection, leaving skin bright and calm.  Meanwhile, Kakadu Plum Extract delivers antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that make it ideal for calming signs of acne or other inflammatory skin issues.  The result is a truly balanced, gentle cleanser that is effective and beneficial for any skin type.

When asked what would constitute the perfect cleanser, Jacine replied, “The perfect cleanser is gentle and doesn’t dry your skin out, yet effortlessly removes makeup, deep cleans pores and doesn’t contain comedogenic ingredients.”   With this brilliant definition in mind, The Skin Herbalists Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly is about as close to perfection as a formulation can possibly get.  Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly is versatile in the way it effectively serves many skin types and concerns, gentle in the way it reinforces the barrier and boosts hydration rather than depleting them, and effortlessly effective in the way it removes makeup and cleans the pores.  Using The Skin Herbalists Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly regularly for just over a week, I am already seeing skin that is calmer, brighter, and better hydrated with noticeably less inflammation.   If you ask me, Rhubarb Cleansing Jelly truly is the perfect versatile cleanser, and I cannot wait to see what other marvels The Skin Herbalists have in store. I highly recommend giving this beauty from the Skin Herbalists a try to see just how high-performance a cleanser can be. Prepare to be impressed!

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• Stable: the ingredients must be in a form that ensures they are not prone to oxidation and will not break down when exposed (e.g. pure vitamin C is very unstable and becomes less effective as soon as it’s mixed with water, so Synergie Skin offers two solutions to this: it is available as dry L-ascorbic acid crystals available for mixing into certain serums just before use, or as a water-free serum in which the L-ascorbic acid molecules are enveloped in protective liposomes. Either formulation prevents the vitamin C from degrading before a consumer is able to use it)
• Effective: there must be clinical data to prove an active ingredient’s efficacy
• Elegant: the products must be lovely to use (feel, smell, etc.)
• Deliverable: the active ingredients must be able to be delivered to their target sites to deliver desired biological effects (e.g., if a molecule is too large and not going to penetrate where it would exert the desired action, it should not be included)

Skin Elegance  (exclusive US distributor of Synergie Skin, Synergie Practitioner, and Synergie Minerals) owner Dr. Lambert is a highly-regarded

cosmetic physician who relocated to the United States from New Zealand.  Dr. Lambert’s passion for Synergie was first sparked when she met Synergie Skin’s founder, Terri Vinson, at a conference and heard the principles the company upholds.  As Dr. Lambert explains it, “What impressed me about Terri [founder and formulator of Synergie] was her passion for the principle of ‘clean science’ and her SEED philosophy. These two tenets just struck a chord with me; it was refreshing to find someone who had the same belief in keeping bad ingredients out as I did, but didn’t want to exclude the amazing benefits of tested cosmeceutical science.”  As a cosmetic physician, Dr. Lambert had experience with countless cosmeceutical lines and found Synergie’s formulations and results consistently among the best. After relocating to the US, Dr. Lambert did not see an equivalent to Synergie and wanted to share the line, sparking her decision to start Skin Elegance specifically to make Synergie available to all of us in the US.

Ultimate A Serum–Vitamin A is particularly beneficial to skin, as it helps balance and regulate skin processes, increasing collagen production, regulating oil production, minimizing skin pigmentation, and even regulating blood vessel formation, according to Ms. Vinson. Those of us with sensitive skin, however, know that Vitamin A, as widely-lauded as it may be, can also cause major skin irritation and dryness. Synergie Skin Ultimate A overcomes this problem in Ultimate A Serum by using Rovisome, a special form of highly stable vitamin A that is highly penetrating yet non-irritating.  As I have very reactive skin and do not generally tolerate Vitamin A well, my trial put Ultimate A to a difficult test, and yet it passed with flying colors. I experienced no irritation, dryness, or increased redness while using Ultimate A.

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