Beautéderm is a brand I always write about but I’ve never really reviewed their products thoroughly. I mostly talk about their new ambassadors and what’s going on with the brand but this time, I will review my favorite Beautéderm products.
One of the things I love about Beautéderm is that it provides livelihood for Filipinos. It employs people and is not a direct selling or multi-level company. While Beautéderm has its company-owned stores, it also has resellers and distributors who earn depending on the sales they make and not “downlines” or the people they recruit. Even stars like Pauline Mendoza and Sylvia Sanchez are Beautéderm resellers. I get my products from the Ayala Malls Cloverleaf branch or the one in SM City Fairview.
Beautéderm is a Pampanga-based brand. It is known for its soaps and skin-care sets but I will talk about the other products which I love.
- Detangler Hair Brush. This hair brush looks like another one that I have from a brand that’s has more expensive products but let me tell you that I love the Beautéderm brush more. I even have a back-up of it just in case it breaks. It works on any type of hair, whether it is straight or curly, thick or fine. According to Beautéderm CEO Rhea Anicoche-Tan, the Detangler Hair Brush is also a favorite of two actresses who happen to be her brand’s ambassadors and both of them have really beautiful hair.
- Koreisu Family Toothpaste. This made-in-Japan toothpaste is free from flouride and triclosan, with sodium bicarbonate as its main ingredient. At first, I did miss the minty aftertaste of commercial toothpastes but Koreisu’s cleaning properties, which make breath stay fresh longer, made up for it. This toothpaste doesn’t lather as much as commercial ones, by the way, and it does taste like baking soda. The ingredients are sodium bicarbonate, aqua, glycerin, sorbitol, sodium lauryl sulfate, cellulose gum, titanium dioxide, phenoxyethanol, sodium saccharin, and flavor.
- Cristaux Supreme. The effect of this serum reminds me of the viral Peter Thomas Roth Firmx Eye Temporary Eye Tightener, which provides instant temporary results with long-term benefits. You’re supposed to use this after washing and toning at night and proceed with the rest of your skin care after. I use this on my hands and elbows and it has really worked wonders. My friend Nickie Wang also swears by Cristaux Supreme. The ingredients list includes aqua, caesalpinia, spinosa gum, fragrance oil, propylene glycol, phenoxyethanol, triehanolamine, and carbomer.
- Beaute L’ Tous Whiteguarde Lotion. I don’t really use whitening products but I like this lotion (my favorite is the cucumber melon variant) because of its fresh scent and moisturizing properties. It also comes in a small size that’s perfect for traveling. The size also makes it ideal for people like me who like to open more than one product of each kind every time. The list of ingredients includes sunflower seed oil, juniper berry essential oil, and dragonfruit extracts.
- Beautéderm Home Pour Tout Faire. I strongly dislike scented sprays for the home but Pour Tout Faire, which is endorsed and actually used by Marian Rivera, is a deodorizer which smells good. It doesn’t make me sneeze and it gets rid of cooking odors. We’re a household that cooks food from scratch almost every day so we really need more than scented candles to get rid of the smells.
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HAVING access to good home massage is truly a luxury. MassageMNL, the first and leading premium home service massage in the Philippines, has just turned four and it is promising more premium services for its loyal customers.
MassageMNL was founded by Janine Khazaie in 2018. She recalls being the “dispatcher and customer service person” while her husband was the driver of the therapists. The couple would also distribute flyers.
The company started out with lactation massages and eventually branched out to other specialized massages such as sports and lymphatic. They now also have services for kids. Doug and Cheska Kramer love MassageMNL.
“We have spa parties with our kids,” said Cheska.
Doug appreciates how the therapists of MassageMNL can handle different body weights.
“It’s a form of self care. For us, having a massage is more like maintenance than rescue. It’s important to spend time for your own fitness and making yourself glow. If you’re just intentional to everything, everything else follows,” said Doug.
One of the things that MassageMNL customers can look forward to is an app. “It’s in the works,” said Khazaie.
Early this year, the company introduced Beauty by MassageMNL, with beauty services such as the Intimate Whitening Technology, Oxygeneo Facial, the new Jelly Facial, Emsculpt, and the non-surgical skin contouring and sculpting treatment Thermage FLX 5G.
MassageMNL also introduced the MassageBar, which lets you hold spa parties, and the Khozy Package, which brings the spa experience to your home.
MassageMNL also offers MNL at Work, a workplace massage service that helps to improve employees’ wellness and productivity, and aims to help lower stress levels, increase concentration, and reduce muscle strain injuries while people are at work.
More information about their packages, cam be found via @massageMNL on Instagram.
Image credits: JULIANA MAXINE VASQUEZ