Have you heard? St. Ives has tweaked their recipes to include more natural, renewable ingredients and exclude parabens and phthalates. Body lotions contain aloe vera, vitamin E, oatmeal, shea butter and chamomile; face care, such as the Fresh Skin Gentle Apricot Scrub and Fresh Skin Moisturizing Olive Scrub, contain apricot and olives. [geek on]
This overflowing giveaway basket of Herbacin hand and body care (worth about $80) is making the blogosphere rounds. If you’re clever you’ve entered to win wherever you’ve seen it — can’t have too much protection against winter’s bitchslap, I say. [geek on]

“I love, love, love them,” gushed Gemini-nominated actress Kristin Booth (Flashpoint) when I met her recently at a Cover FX/Actor’s Fund event. “I’m doing a series of them to get ready for TIFF.”
Booth was referring to Intraceuticals Oxygen treatments, skin-rejuvenating facials that more and more A-listers depend on to get their game faces on. Unlike other facials, Intraceuticals aren’t about exfoliation, extractions or goopy layers of cream. And although they makes use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy — using oxygen at a higher level of pressure than normal — they’re not exactly about oxygen, either. [geek on]

If you’re thinking, “heck, I can eat all the good-skin stuff I need in my day-to-day diet,” frankly I’m jealous. Clearly you lead an organized life. [geek on]