comparable skincare brands

I am looking to use a new skincare brand professionally and I have worked only with Aveda, Bioelements, and Murad. I love that Aveda is natural. Does anyone have any suggestions as to a which brand they would recommend. It would also be great if the minimum start up cost was affordable, but any suggestions would be helpful. I have also looked at Paula's Choice and Skin By Ann Webb as options.

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Permalink Reply by April Walden on June 1, 2016 at 12:22pm

I realized another route you can take to lessen back bar opening order. Instead of the Skin Couture Peel which is a two step purchase, meaning Birthday Cake and Skin Couture which comes to about $300, you could do Double Trouble which is a 20% lactic peel with pomegranate and Acai. Great for just about everyone. I think its about $150.

In terms of definition of chirality: Chiral means "handedness" as in an equal yet opposite reflection of one's self, the way our hands are if we hold them up to each other. When you make an organic ingredient chiral to our skin's receptor sites, by discarding the unfriendly or toxic half of the molecule, you make the molecule more readily fit our receptor sites like a glove. In a lot of molecules in nature there is a dichotomy to their nature, so they have a kind of good and evil contrasting within themselves. Half the molecule can very successfully relieve nausea while the other half can cause birth defects for example. That's more extreme of an example of an ingredient that would be used internally but you get the point. To chirally correct means you discard the meddlesome toxic half. This alleviates by big percentage, the likelihood of reaction to skin care. You'll notice in ingredient listing that some ingredients will have an L- before them or a D- before them. If it's the L half of the molecule that is desired and used it'll say L- as in L-Ascorbic acid or D-Alpha Tocopherol. These are two of the most commonly chirally corrected ingredients that companies everywhere chirally correct but there are so many more that they don't. SO many more. Sircuit does ALL of them. If an ingredient is chirally corrected it will say L- or D- before it. That's how you know. The process of chirally correcting is an expensive one which is mainly what you're paying for, in addition to their very strict harvesting practices. BUT...... this has given me SO much confidence in knowing my clients are safe. Science is always evolving but as far as I can find this is the best we have evolved to. I believe that with my whole heart.

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Permalink Reply by Stephany on June 3, 2016 at 4:54pm

I was introduced to an all natural private label line that I love. Have you tried Botanical Science? My total backbar order was around $360. The downside is that they don't yet offer peels so I'm still looking for a company for those...but as far as everything else goes, I have everything I need for face and body treatments with the exception of peels from this company. Good luck to you!

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Permalink Reply by Loana Cristina Curatolo on June 4, 2016 at 8:43pm

I like and use Control Corrective. You may buy products from their website (comes from California), but you have to pay an opening order, or you may try some of the products buying from Universal Companies to try first, There are some introductive kits or just by product, no minimum order. For both sites you need to register with your license to buy at wholesale price. The homecare products you can buy without a license from Control Corrective website at retail price and with no minimum order. I would try Universal Companies first, because they carry other brands too that have natural organic products and there is the no minimum, so you may try several different things to choose. Alchemy has great reviews to.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Benjamin on June 24, 2016 at 12:24pm

Stephany, I carry a line of peel off masks. If you would be interested in hearing about them, please email me: richard@benjaminimports.com

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Permalink Reply by Kristy Floyd on June 27, 2016 at 10:20am

I really am having a lot of success with Michele Corley Skincare. Check her out! Great support!