Review : Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 Day Programme and Limited Edition Sweet Violet and Grapefruit Mist

I got this product in late October and I thought it was the right time to try since I just came back from my holiday and I think my skin feel dehydrated & look dull due to the constant exposure under the sun & dirt exposure. I embarked on the Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 Day Programme a new two-step treatment works with the skin’s natural renewal cycle to deeply replenish and restore radiance.  This range is specially formulated with botanical concentrates that are designed to help to revitalise your skin and leaving it looking luminous. 

It's the perfect 28 days program that you can incorporate into your daily skincare routine anytime to rejuvenate tired or dull skin, preparing your skin for a special event, or whenever your skin needs an intensive radiance boost.

Inside this Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 Day Programme has two tubes which are known as Step 1 and Step 2.

Why 28 days if you asked? It's because our skin renews itself every 28 days, sloughing off old dead skin cells and replacing them with fresh new ones—but only if we practice good skin care. This great skin care routine locks in moisture, keeps chemicals out and gives skin the proper nourishment to help you to look better in 28 days or less. However there are some factors which will slow down the natural renewal process - the sun, hormones, pollution and other external aggressors and they leave the skin feeling dry and looking dull and tired. Hence the Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 days Programme works with skin’s natural renewal cycle to restore radiance over two steps.

The instruction is to use Step 1 for the first 2 weeks (i.e 14 days) and Step 2 for the remaining 14 days of  the programme.

Step 1 of Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 Day Programme

This cream is really lightweight and antioxidant-rich lotion gently exfoliates to help even skin tone and texture, and assist with the renewal of your skin. This lotion is to be applied after serum and before moisturiser and all you need to use a small pearl-sized amount which I warmed between my fingers and then gently pressed onto my skin, down my neck and onto my decolletage. There are three key ingredients in this product

Spilanthes: Grown, harvested and extracted at our Jurlique Farm in the pure Adelaide Hills, this helps tone and purify the skin. 

Kakadu Plum: As the world’s richest natural source of Vitamin C, this powerful Australian super-fruit extract helps improve skin tone and radiance, and helps reduce the appearance of discolouration. 

Willow Bark: The natural exfoliating properties of this concentrated botanical extract help improve the skin’s tone, texture and appearance. 

Step 2 of Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 Day Programme

This cream is more creamy compared to the previous one. This cream is designed to smooth, protects and deeply replenishes for optimum vitality for the final 14 days of the programme. There are also three key ingredients in this product

Echinacea: This pure botanical extract from our Jurlique Farm in the Adelaide Hills helps soothe and restore your skin, and protect it from environmental aggressors. 

Kakadu Plum: Just like in Step 1, this Vitamin C-rich extract of the powerful Australian super-fruit helps renew skin luminosity and restore radiance. 

Peach Leaf: This concentrated botanical extract helps revitalise and soften skin, reduce the appearance of wrinkles and discolouration, and restore radiance.

 

And to boost penetration of the product I'm using my Philips Visa Boost to massage my face after each application. 

After using Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 Day Programme for 4 weeks I feel my skin was softer, hydrated and overall complexion has evened & brighten. I used to have some white heads due to stubborn congestion around my nose and chin and after I have gone through this programme I think it's pretty much gone. Honestly this programme is so easy & simple to use because I could just incorporate into my daily skincare routine. As this is a booster program you can't use it daily but you can use it whenever your skin needs an intensive radiance boost. Jurlique Radiance Renewal 28 Day Programme is currently at RM450 for 2 x 20ml at all Jurlique stores.

And in conjunction with the Christmas seasons, Jurlique has launched a NEW Limited Edition Sweet Violet & Grapefruit Hydration Mist. Love how this bottle comes in beautiful violet glass bottle, very sturdy. This new mist is infused with all-new blend of Sweet Violet, Grapefruit and concentrated natural antioxidants. Together they help improve skin’s moisture levels as its uplifting scent refreshes the senses leaving you feeling calm, refreshed and ready to spread the joy over the coming Christmas season.

I read that Sweet Violet has been used since Ancient Greek times to calm tempers, promote relaxation, and awaken feelings of love. While the scent of Grapefruit helps energize and invigorate the senses. It’s the perfect blend for bringing the joy back to this very special time of year.

Steps to use : Lightly mist onto face, or mist into hands and gently press onto the skin. Use twice a day following cleansing or any time skin feels dehydrated.

The first time I used this Sweet Violet & Grapefruit Hydration Mist I do think it was a little bit too sweet for me and after a while I kind like the sweet fruity scent as it was really refreshing and uplifting. I rotate this between my Rosewater Balancing Mist depending on my mood. I usually keep a bottle of Jurlique mist on my bedside table and working table so that I can quickly give a hydration & refresh booster anytime I need it. Try it out today :) Jurlique Sweet Violet & Grapefruit Hydration Mist is currently at RM147 for 100 ml at all Jurlique stores.

For more information about Jurlique, please visit

www.jurlique.com

https://www.facebook.com/jurlique.my

Melvita Nectar De Miels rescue dry & sensitive skin with Thyme honey!

Melvita launched Nectar de Miels bodycare a while ago. Sorry I have been really busy and I wish I could share with you guys sooner on this.

Being a fan of Melvita, I can't help to contains my excitement when they launched this new range that is enriched with organic Thyme Honey because they said this will rescue even the driest and most sensitive skin!

Thyme flowers are rich in nectar and loved by bees of the Mediterranean Basin. The Romans would use it to purify the air in their houses while during Middle Ages, a few spring of thyme would be slipped under the pillows to chase away nightmares and soothe troubled sleep. 

Melvita's organic thyme comes from the La Sierra de Cebollera nature reserve in Spain. It's harvested by a family of beekeepers who have looked after almost 4,000 hives there for the past three generations. This natural enclave, surrounded by mountains, guarantees an organic honey of the highest quality.

Following the research done by Melvita, they found that Thyme flowers honey was able to acts like a natural "dressing" with an instant soothing effect to our skin. It has also reveal an amazing synergic effect when it's combined with acacia and orange blossom honeys in the NEW Nectar de Miels range to HEAL and RESCUE very dry & sensitive skin.

Melvita Nectar De Miels range comes with 3 products ; Hand  cream, Body Balm and Body Milk Lotion.

This exceptional nourishing and repairing range has 3 main ingredients mainly ;

Patents Complex of Three Organic Honeys - thyme, orange blossom and acacia honey which protects, repairs and revitalizes the skin

Soline - an active ingredients derived from sunflower oil, which softens the skin, helps prevent moisture loss and strengthened the skin's barrier function

Alpha Bisabolol - derived from candeia, which immediately soothes the skin

With me I have the comforting balm & milk lotion for review ; 

Melvita Comforting Balm  - RM138 / 175ml

Melvita Creamy Milk - RM115 / 200ml

Both this body lotion has floral sweet honey scent because it is enriched with organic thyme honey.

 that is a little empowering at the first sniff for me but it soon goes away after a while. Soon after that I got used to the scent. I have very dry skin to start off and some times my leg skin is flaky... so I have to constantly have to apply body moisturiser. 

The Comforting Creamy Milk is lighter in texture compared to Comforting Balm which is more rich, smooth and creamy. Both leaves my skin incredibly soft after massaging it into my skin and most importantly it does not leave greasy/sticky feeling behind. Personally I prefer to apply Creamy Body Milk in the morning and Comforting Balm at nigh because it is super moisturizing and it leave my skin feeling soft & supple till next morning although I sleep in my in air-conditioning room. For rough skin areas like elbow, knee and heel, I would suggest to apply comforting balm and after that cover with long sleeve/pants or put on socks for better result. Highly recommending it to people with dry & sensitive skin! 

It think it also heals my skin scratches (I got from playing with my dog) faster by soothing, moisturizing and healing my skin. Highly recommended for people with dry skin as it is a concentrate of nutrition for skin! 

And if you are someone who is really into organic & natural skincare and body care, this is definitely a brand you have to try because Melvita has Ecocert which means at least 95% of their total ingredients are from natural origins, and at least 95% if the total plant-based ingredients are organic while at least 10% of the total ingredients are from organic farming.

Melvita Nectar De Miels range is already available for sale at Melvita Boutiques (1 Mont Kiara, 1 Utama and Mid Valley) or online at www.melvita.com.my

Review : Melvita Bio-Excellence Naturalift Organic Youthful Serum & Youthful Skin Extraordinary Water

Over the past few years, cosmetic research has begun to uncover a previously unknown factor in the mechanism of cellular ageing: inflamm-ageing. There is no redness, no itching. The skin doesn't feel particularly tight. And yet "silent" inflammation is lurking in the heart of cells, and this inflammation will lead to skin ageing… The skin is weakened and finds it hard to regenerate. It becomes tired, gradually loses its firmness, and wrinkles start to appear.

Naturally, all our skin has a balance of pro-inflammatory elements (to remove waste) and anti-inflammatory elements (to limit their activity in accordance with the skin’s needs). And as we age, this balance is disrupted. The stratum corneum (i.e outermost layer of the our epidermis) becomes thinner. The epidermis takes longer to renew itself and becomes more penetratable, making the skin more susceptible to environmental stresses and infections. At a deeper level, in the dermis, the skin begins to produce more pro-inflammatory mediators: it is in a state of inflammation.

Hence this triggers an imbalance in the skin; the balance of inflammatory messengers is altered. This is called the “inflammatory cascade”, which:

• slows cellular metabolism, which is responsible for good skin vitality; the skin is more vulnerable to the effects of oxidative stress 

• slows down the synthesis of lipids, which ensure the integrity of the intercellular cement and the hydrolipidic film; the skin’s barrier function is damaged, 

• disrupts the balance of cell membranes; the skin is weakened 

• degrades the dermal extracellular matrix; the skin loses its density and firmness.

With that, Melvita has called on the vital forces of nature and explored the very heart of the native cells of buds, pulsating with life. Just one of these cells contains all the information required to reproduce the entire plant. By selecting and combining organic buds bursting with vitality, Melvita has developed a patented* complex that replenishes the skin and strengthens its natural defence mechanisms. *Patent pending in France.

Beech, pine, blackcurrant and raspberry plant extracts work together to strengthen the skin's natural defences and help it to resist oxidation

Melvita Bio-Excellence Naturalift has recently added two new skincare products to fight silent inflamm-ageing even better which are ; Bio-Excellence Naturalift Organic Youthful Serum and Bio-Excellence Naturalift Organic Jeunesse Youthful Skin Extraordinary Water to their existing range which was introduced back in Aug 2014.

Now Melvita Bio-Excellence Naturalift is Youthful Day Cream, Youthful Night Cream and Youthful Eye Contour to smooth wrinkles, fine lines and redefine facial contours with exceptional ingredients derived from the precious 4 organic plant buds.

I decided to try out Melvita Bio-Excellence Naturalift range together with my Oranger Floral Water to make sure I was 100% on organic skincare :D Below are my review of the 2  new products.

Melvita Bio-Excellence Naturalift Organic Jeunesse Youthful Skin Extraordinary Water - RM98/100ml 

Enriched with Melvita's patented bud complex and naturally derived hyaluronic acid, this pre-care gel water visibly smoothes and firms. It prepares skin perfectly for the products that follow and leaves it soft, hydrated and plumped. 

Patented innovation, Non-comedogenic 

99% of the total ingredients are from natural origin. 

20% of the total ingredients are from Organic Farming. 

Texture : Gel waterish
Scent : Floral

Use this product on clean a dry skin. I usually pour like 20 cent amount on my hand and pat on my face gently until it's fully absorb. Alternatively you can choose to use with cotton pad. I can feel my face is soft, moist and plump after using this.

And to compare Jeunesse Extraordinary Water with my other range I think in term of texture Jeunesse has the thickest texture (waterish gelish) and Narcisse has the lightest (which the watery) texture. And of all of them, Rose Extraordinary Water has the best scent like rose syrup and this is my fav product of all time. 

Melvita Bio-Excellence Naturalift Organic Youthful Serum - RM240/30ml

With its light and fluid gel texture, the Youthful Serum can be applied before your day or night cream for an instant feeling of softness and freshness. Enriched with natural hyaluronic acid and rye extract, this serum both hydrates and helps restore elasticity. The bud complex replenishes the skin, which seems to look even younger, thanks to the smoothing effect of hibiscus extract and tightening effect of oat extract.

Patented innovation, Non-comedogenic 

99% of the total ingredients are from natural origin. 

21% of the total ingredients are from Organic Farming.

Texture :  Lotion based

Scent : Floral

I usually take 1-2 pump depends whether I'm using them to massage my face or not. The texture is milky lotion and it absorb into my skin right after I massage them ( note that my skin is very dry so using 2 months are fine). Immediately I can feel skin feel more hydrated and soft. The scent are very pleasant too! 

I have been using since early April 2015. Overall I can see my skin is more hydrated and no more flakey skin. I can feel my skin more firm and smoother than before. My makeup stays longer without cracking! 

Honestly Melvita is one of my favourite skincare brand, their product and prices are pretty reasonable considering they are organic with Ecocert. And usually their products smell quite good and that's a extra brownie point! 

Products is available to purchase at any Melvita boutiques in Mid Valley Megamall, 1 Utama Shopping Centre and 1 Mont' Kiara. Or alternaively you can purchase the product via their website http://www.melvita.com.my/

  

Melvita's 30th anniversary celebration : Baking Pavlova & Introducing Melvita's TOP 10 Best Seller

I celebrated Melvita’s 30th Anniversary last month in Nathalie’s Gourmet Studio, Publika. I remembered back in Dec 2011, I shared about the history about Melvita which was found in 1983 and in 2002 Melvita is the first brand to be awarded with the ecological and organic certification "Ecocert" in France. Read more about my this here.

There are a few Melvita products that I really like especially their Rose Nectar Hydrating Moisturizer, Floral Water and Brightening Cleansing Foam  and few others. My sister loves their products ever since I introduced it to her because she is really sensitive and her skin has been reacting positively to Melvita's products which is really happy.

In case you did not know, all Melvita products does not contains the following :-
NO Paraffin or Silicone
NO PEG (polyethykebe gkycol) or PPG (polypropylene gylcol)
NO ethoylated ingredients
NO parabens or pheneoyethanol
NO formaldehyde or chlorine
NO Synthetic fragrance or colors
NO diethyl phtalate or nitromusk

To make the 30 anniversary celebration a more interesting one with media & beauty bloggers, Melvita Malaysia took the effort to organise a french cooking class for us in Natalie's Gourmet, a french restaurant located in Publika! I love cooking but seriously I only know how to cook Chinese food, so I'm pretty excited to attend and pick up some new skills!

Chef Nathalie Arbefeuille the owner of Natalie's Gourmet is a self-thought chef. She handpicked all the ingredients and choose only the best. She separated us into 2 teams and I picked the dessert team (cos I'm a dessert person!) And we are going to do Rose, Lychee and Raspberry Pavlova for about 30pax. 

Here are the ingredients and recipe of Rose, Lychee and Raspberry Pavlova which I'm going to share (typing out the recipe word by word) in my blog because I knew a lot of you are so crazy about Pavlova. 

Recipe of  Pavlova 

(prepared for 15 pax)

200g egg whites 

400g sugar

1 tablespoon white vinegar

2 tablespoon boiling water

1 tablespoon maizena (corn starch)

10 drops of Rose Essence

The Coulis

150g raspberries

60g sugar

100g water

The Pavlova Filling

600g Whipping Cream (must chill it in fridge)

100g Icing sugar

5 drops of Rose Essence

300g of Raspberries

1 tin of Lychee

Rose petals

The key of making really nice Pavlova is that we have to make sure during separation of egg white and yolk, we must make sure that not even a drop of egg yolk fall into the mixture.

According to Nathalie the best way to separate egg yolk and white egg are using our hands. We must work it really work, left a bit of gap on our fingers to let the white egg fall into the bowl. This may look easy but seriously you  really because one to have really fast and careful at the same time.

Preparing the Pavlovas :

1. Pre heat the oven at 150 celcius (therm 5)

2. Pour the room temperature white eggs in a large bowl. Add the sugar, vinegar and maizena and helping with an electrical hand beat beater, start whisking slowly first for one minute then faster. Once you get very firm whites (after 5-7 minutes) add the boiling water and rose essence drops. Then stop whisking.
3. Prepare an oven tray covered with a buttered baking paper and pour your mixture in a thick rounds shape. You can use a large and high round shape to make it easier. Do not forget to remove this right before baking the Pavlova.
4. Once ready to bake, reduce the temperature to 130 celcius (therm 4)
5. Let it cook for 55 minutes. After this cooking time. Switch off the oven and leave it inside the oven for another 55 minutes. Then let it cool down on a wire cooling rack on the baking sheet but not on the tray.

Preparing the Coulis 
Melt the sugar with the water and let it reduce by three quarters. Pour the hot syrup over the frozen raspberry puree and blend everything together. Keep it aside till ready to serve.

Making Chantilly

Whisk the very cold cream with the icing sugar and rose essence until you get a nice and firm Chantilly. So it with an electrical hand beater or food processor. Once the cream is firm, stop immediately to whisk and keep the Chantilly aside in the fridge.

Just before serving

Garnish the pavlova with Chantilly cream, raspberries, lychee and rose petals Add a little bit of raspberry coulis and serve immediately.

Our delicious Rose, Lychee and Raspberry Pavlova, love this very much (usually I'm not a fan of pavlova but this is really really good) not too sweet and melts in my mouth.. and the coulis is just so mouthwatering!

Now that I have type out the recipe just for all of you.... do and try and make it at home! Tell me your success stories okay ?

The other team prepared us the main course for our lunch which is the Slowly cooked Honey Glazed Chestnut Chicken with Carrot Potato Puree, spring vegetables and short jus. 

From the name itself you will know how complicated and tedious is preparing French food. Well those details in cooking makes a lot of difference in term of texture and taste! The mash carrot & potato puree is the bomb! Miss this very much!!! Should try making this one day using the recipe provided!

Finally our group picture - blowing candles to celebrate Melvita's 30th anniversary! And thank you for organising such an awesome cooking experience with Natalie, we have lovely bonding time with Melvita's team too :)

And there will be many many more 30 years to come for Melvita!

And before I forgot, these are the Melvita's TOP 10 Best Seller which are worth looking at and should be considered trying especially if you have not tried anything from Melvita before.

1. Beauty Oil (RM70 - RM137) - Avocado Oil (repairing), Argan Oil (regenerating) and  Melvita Rosehip Oil (nourishing)

2. Nectar Bright Essence & Cream (RM215 - RM230) - For even toned & luminous complexion

3. Bio-Excellence Moisturizing Serum (RM188) - Fight Skin Ageing and Radiance Enchancer

4. Rose Nectar Hydrating Facial Gel (RM163) - For 24 hour radiance

5. Extraordinary Water (RM88) - as skin prep. Anti-ageing & moisturizing, soothing & softening and brightening

6. Floral water (RM122) - For toning & face mist . Anti-ageing & moisturizing, soothing & softening, eye care treatment (check out the review here)

7. Rose Nectar Milky Cleansing Oil (RM108) -  To remove impurities and stubborn makeup

8. Prosun SPF30 & SPF50 (RM140-RM150) -  For Broad spectrum sunscreen

9. Face cleanser (RM95 - RM107) - For Gentle Cleansing

10. Lips Rescuer (RM43 - RM62) - For Soft, Supple & Comfortable Lips

From the list above, there is a few things which I wished to try Prosun SPF50, Rose Nectar Milky Cleansing Oil & Lips Rescuer! So would go and check out these products soon!

In conjunction with Melvita's 30th anniversary celebration, Melvita is proud to introduce their best selling Extraordinary Waters in its eco-friendly packaging (previously in glass bottle) which is made entirely from recycled plastic materials (Polyethylene Terephthalate, PET) and is also 100% recyclable. Personally I prefer glass bottle because I felt that it is better in protecting the ingredients of natural skincare products however the downside it's not convenience to bring around especially for travelling.

The texture of the Extraordinary Water is watery/gel extreme. It contains soy based hyaluronic acid and organic glycerin to lock in moisture.There are 3 types of  Melvita's Extraordinary Water namely 

Rose Extraordinary Water (100ml) RM88 - For anti-ageing & moisturizing

Orange Blossom Extraordinary Water (100ml) RM88 - Soothing and Softening

Narcissus Extraordinary Water (100ml) RM88 - Brightening Care 

Have you try anything from Melvita ? 

What is your favourite Melvita's products?

Currently Melvita has more 50 stores worldwide and just in Malaysia alone we have 3 boutiques located in:-

• Mid Valley Megamall - Lot G-001A Ground Floor (Tel : 03-2282 2166)
• Suria KLCC C15B Concourse Floor (Tel : 03-2181 2161
• One Utama F141 First Floor (Tel : 03-7710 1877)

Last but not least, if you interested to know more about Melvita , visit http://www.melvita.com.my or follow them on their facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MelvitaMY