True with the savings, Surratt will profit instead, their blushes are supposedly ace too (the whole Surratt range is described as a cross between Nars and Suqqu) just have to figure out a colour from online swatches or book a trip to London or New York.
Is that Everyday Shea only available through iherb, Aurora? Currently looking at Eucerin Atopicontrol Bath & Shower Oil 20% Omega but I'm not sure about soy oil and that ES looks nice and gentle whilst still moisturising.
Pupsie, I've never had it personally but you can have some purging with acids but it shouldn't persist for longer than a two week period.
They'll make you jump through hoops for P50 everywhere, Storm, but if they carry the BR line they will most definitely have P50. Case in point about following manufacturer's suggested use and not a blogger's personal take, the nourishing oil cleanser is definitely one for dry skins.
It's tough with CH as no matter what she does having two overlapping businesses (her blog and the consultancy/brand repping) there are bound to be so many conflicts of interest. I'm not mistrusting that most of those relationships grow from informal to formal organically on the back of the blog, or not, but you can't ignore certain tendencies that don't feel altogether accidental. eg. Seeking out those hard to find Californian boutique brands only for them to come into the UK market shortly thereafter. I remember she wrote a scathing review on Bioeffect EGF (one of the most impressive products I've ever used btw) when it first came out, it couldn't possibly work, it could give you cancer, scaremongering about EGF as related to the human extracted version, etc. etc. only to happily go on a press trip to Iceland to visit their facilities (I believe last year) and post an updated review that was altogether favourable. I've said it before, she has her place and certain parts of the blog are very useful like the cheat sheets but she's not one I turn to for product recs that quickly and I find her active encouragement to disregard manufacturer's suggested use and cautions troubling sometimes.
Sali Hughes wrote quite an interesting piece about makeup brands' skincare lines. Was interesting to read that those are doing good business whilst the traditional skincare lines are losing sales (and have been for quite some time). It really feeds into the instant results, sensorial factors and smells nonsense, resembling little of 'performing' skincare and is funnily enough very much like makeup in that sense (temporarily uplifting until it's taken off at the end of the day). It's a bit of a nuisance trend from my perspective but I can definitely understand the popularity. It'll be curious to see how traditional skincare will develop in response as I'm sure they'll be looking to recover their market shares, let's hope it doesn't include a lot of silicone idle hope.