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Beauty In Color: Botanical Beauty
By Beauty in Color Guest Columnist Diane Lym-tai Da Costa
Hair and skin care products made from botanical ingredients are part of winter’s hottest trend. Environmentally friendly brands like, Carol’s Daughter, made with all natural ingredients, and Pur-Lisse, a new line of skin care that blends centuries of old Asian beauty secrets with modern day science, are now available to the multicultural consumer.
 Lisa Price, an African Americanbeauty mogul is the founder of Carol’s Daughter’s beauty empire, which includes, body, bath, skin, hair –care, cosmetics and fragrances. The Black Vanilla Leave-In Conditioner, made with natural ingredients like nettles has caught the ‘Mane’ attention of Grammy Award winner, Jennifer Hudson ($11.50 at carolsdaughter.com). She loves to protect her tendrils against thermal heat and provide hydration and moisture for all her curly and smooth styles with beauty by nature.
 Pūr~Lisse boasts ingredients like Blue Lotus and White Tea to preserve youth, protect beauty and prevent aging. Founded by Jennifer Yen, whose grandmother passed down her own secret recipe for youthful and beautiful looking skin, it’s no wonder Yen named her skin care line Pūr~Lisse, which means – “pure” and “smooth” in French. The three items that stand out with an easy and simple regimen are -- pur-delicate, a gentle soymilk cleanser and makeup remover ($38), pur-youth preserve, an age delaying skin serum ($135) and pur-protect, an essential daily moisturizer with SPF 30 ($55 at purlisse.com). The Blue Lotus-Organic White Tea is an added bonus to the collection, which creates healthy skin from the inside out ($15 at purlisse.com). Blended exclusively with organic blueberries and pomegranate, sip 2-3 cups a day for health and beauty. Pūr~Lisse is available at purlisse.com.
 ORGANIC RELAXATION CELEBRITIES LOVE
Celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Ugly Betty’s, Vanessa Williams and Broadway performer, Amber Efe’ of Legally Blonde, The Musical are raving about PhytoSpecific’s PhytoRelaxer ($60 at Sephora.com). This revolutionary, organic, lye-free relaxing system is made with soy, active egg extracts and mushroom crystals. Your tresses will love the healthy, voluminous, soft and smooth results of the odorless and irritant-free PhytoRelaxer!
 NEW CURLY ENHANCER ON THE BLOCK
Curly girls have major challenges when it comes to manipulating and managing their tresses and Anthony Dickey, author of HAIR RULES: The Ultimate Hair Care Guide for Women with Kinky, Curly and Wavy Hair (Villard), has a hair care line with every curl type in mind. HAIR RULES!, a line of products specifically geared to the needs of people with multi-textures is great for naturally curly hair, relaxed, texturized and human hair weaves too! This hair-care collection includes cleansers, conditioners, styling and finishing products that help transform curly hair into bouncy, silky spirals. All curly textured girls can count on Kinky Curling Cream, infused with olive oil and honey to enhance and redefine their coarse and kinky hair without frizz or shrinkage ($18.50 at hairrules.com). Apply a generous amount of Kinky Curling Cream to soaking wet hair - smooth and stretch the hair with fingers or a wide-tooth comb, then watch your curls take on a brand new shape.
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