Skincare company review—Mary Kay Inc. products

In my last post, we looked at Mary’s Kay’s patent filings, which include a lot of natural product/botanical based formulation.  This post will take a look at Mary Kay’s products to see if the product strength matches up with their patent filings.

Mary Kay organizes their skincare products into 9 lines: Mary Kay Botanical Effects^TM Skin Care, Age-fighting, cleaners, miniaturization, classic basic skin care, MKMEN® skin care, VELOCITY® skin care, lip and eye care, and specific needs.

The Botanical Effects^TM Skin Care line seems to be their newest product line. The product line is further divided to products for dry skin, normal skin, and oily skin.  Each includes Cleanse, Freshen, Mask, and Hydrate.  Each product claims “a special antioxidant rich botanical complex.” The website does not say more than that.  By looking at the patent filings that I listed in my last post, my bet is that the Botanical Effects^TM Skin Care line is based upon U.S Patent Application No. 20070166275, titled “Compositions comprising kakadu plum extract or acai berry extract.”  If someone has bought the products, the bottle should list the ingredients.  Please feel free to let me know if “kakadu plum extract” or “acai berry extract” are listed.

Kakadu Plum (Latin: Terminalia ferdinandiana) is a flowering plant native to Australia.  Its Vitamin C concentration may be as high as 1000-5300 mg/100g, possibly the highest known of any fruit.  Mary Kay’s formulation claims antioxidants, one of which should be Vitamin C from the Kakadu Plum berry extract.

Acai Berry cames from the acai palm tree (Latin: Euterpe oleracea), which is native to Central and South America.  Acai berry contains anthocyanins and flavonoids, which are both antioxidants.  Mary Kay’s formulation claims antioxidants, which should include anthocyanins and flavonoids from the Kakadu Plum berry extract.

So, what can you learn from Mary Kay’s formulation?  Take a lot of antioxidants.  Antioxidants soak up free radicals, which are the main cause for aging and many diseases.  Antioxidants benefits to your body are more than skin-deep: they are not only anti-aging and anti-wrinkle but also anti-cancer and  boot immune system.

Thanks for reading.

Connie

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