Slow Cosmetics: Biography of skin Antigonexxi

I examined the skin of Madame Antigonexxi, yes yes ;-)

For a long time I have not offered you good advice based on a particular type of skin. Do you remember the beauty requirements for Vanessa Paradis, Rihanna tattooed  or  Myriam Leroy?

This time it is the beautiful Ophelia blog Antigonexxi.com who gets stuck! Combination skin and in shape but with a mini sake of dark circles and pigmentation ...

Yes yes, it's the famous Ophelia that pervades the recently popular web by making no-poo, stopping to wash hair ;-).

I lived a beautiful virtual meeting under the sign of Slow Cosmetics ... And it is here ...

I suggest you start right away with the express Ophelia we will interview ... She says she identifies with the principles of the Slow Cosmetics. It's good because it will be my advice 100% natural course ...

JK: What were your first shots cosmetics heart? (a teen perfume, massage you practice, a recently discovered care ...)

At 20, a plump skin and tough cookie even if not careful ... Capital stunning beauty!

Op: Ado, I have absolutely no préoccupais natural cosmetics: I sometimes maquillais as a stolen car, a little gothic, a little hippie, often nothing, and I changed perfume depending on my mood.

I have long used Hugo Woman by Hugo Boss, to go to Victor & Rolf Flowerbomb then. For three years, I will not put any perfume. I prefer my natural scent!

I must admit that I am extremely moderate in cosmetics: vegetable oils, aloe vera, natural soaps, organic mascara and pencil, lip balm house ... well, here we toured!

JK: Your report seems to cosmetic frugal and reasoned. What do you think of Slow Cosmeticsprompting to consume less products but select carefully opting for natural and less slogans?

Op: I swear by the Slow Cosmetics!

We should all join the slow movement ;-)

I think the 'fast' cosmetic abuse of consumers by offering them ever more useless and potentially toxic products, which are good neither for the skin nor for the body or the environment. While conventional cosmetics industry is for us as passive consumers, the Slow Cosmetics makes us consum'actors: it teaches us to know our skin, its needs and the products that suit him.

Many conventional products generate imbalances in our body, for example, when using products that dry out the excess skin and then cause an overproduction of sebum, to which you must respond with a new cream, a new post shampoo, a new miraculous oil, etc. Conversely, the Slow Cosmetics assumes that skin care should meet the needs of just one, and not create new ones. So this is a healthy alternative, ethical, respectful of humans, animals and the environment. It can not be loving Slow Cosmetics!

 JK: You have greatly contributed to the popularity of No-Poo in France. The practices and what you still have you back now on this buzz?

At 25, the skin stabilizes.

Op: Yes, always! In truth, I even passed completely water only (I wash my hair as water) for over a year and my hair has never been so beautiful! Sometimes I spend some Aleppo soap over, time to time hydrate with a little aloe vera or vegetable oil, brush well and massages my scalp under water. And they're fine! I wrote a FAQ on the no-poo for those who are interested.

I must admit I did not expect at all to such a buzz ... I am pleased, of course, but I'm always surprised to find multiple recoveries from concept (product sales 'no-poo' luxury marketing ...) or attend a thousand and one tests 'no-poo' with ingredients more wacky, multi-poses, oils by adding here and there, hair brushing that last for hours ... To me it is not at all the spirit of no-poo: people simply replace their armada of shampoo and conditioner with more or less natural alternatives, but always doing more and still not dropping their mop. The idea is precisely to do as little as possible. As for the skin, our hair let live! 

Ophelia thank you! A closer look now!

Combination skin and shape, but laziness microcirculation giving sometimes dark circles or redness.

It is now time to move to the biography of the skin of Ophelia ... During the interview, I gathered some useful information:

- Ophelia approach their thirties. Ado, she lived in France in a semi-urban environment with lots of escapades in Normandy and Mountain, and a move to Paris too. She now lives in a very clean air that makes him good.

- His skin has experienced a lot of stress while studying. She just pulled the struggling lifestyle issue at the time and did not use any cosmetics. Today, it is not especially nervous or anxious temperament and she played sports and live healthily.  

- Makeup ? She uses few (1 mascara and pencil 1 bio) but abused when she was 15 years old.

- Ophelia is very prone to freckles, and his photos are believed observe that they tend to be more pronounced than before. The pictures also tell us that it has a vascular network (micro blood vessels in the skin) or lazy a bit fragile. Hence redness and very slight bluish dark circles sometimes.

- Ophelia protects its skin when it makes sun activities because younger, she caught each year a sunburn, and often responds to early summer sun and heat by an allergy or plates hives at the upper back and chest. Fortunately, this happens in a few days.

My beauty prescription for Ophelia Antigonexxi.com (and for all skins that resemble it ;-)):

THE MORNING, I imagine Ophelia did not want an overly complicated routine. An aromatic débarbouillage may suffice:

1) débarbouillage with a mixture of carrot hydrolat and hydrosol cistus mixed 50/50. I advise Essenciagua for carrot because it feels less. Bioflore in a good cistus hydrosol. The smell of the mixture will be very special (trip to Corsica) but the carrot promotes equal complexion and cistus tightens pores and fight against redness.

The slow cosmetic facial routine is like a simplified layering

2) massage long and soft with 3 large drops of a custom mix:

> Jojoba oil
10ml> 10ml rice bran oil (Senz cosmetics is 
one).> Of argan oil 10ml apricot kernel or

+ 10 drops of essential oil of Cistus ladanifère 
+ 10 drops of essential oil of wild carrot 
+ 3 drops of essential oil of rose geranium

Or a bottle of about 30 ml. 
Why is this?

Jojoba oil and rice bran (concealer) protect from the sun (not enough, but SPF 4 anyway). Oil hydrate well apricot kernels and vitamins. Read my book on Vegetable Oils to know them better.

The essential oil of Cistus fight against redness and vascular fatigue (dark circles, redness). Carrot essential oil is the enemy spots (Ophelia has no real spots but we would not want those pretty little points become pigment clumps in 10 years). The essential oil of geranium scent with floral notes and tightens pores while lifting slightly.

3) We finish with a moisturizer organic or slow that is protective but not greasy. If it's summer and we're going in the sun, you have a solar Organic SPF 25, but if it's a normal day, I thought about Malila cream IMWE bearing the Slow Cosmetics Mention.Its formula combines protective and soothing vegetable oils at a time (jojoba, avocado, calendula, hemp ...). Otherwise there are also lighter moisturizer texture chamomile (but with a little geranium, and especially floral water and shea butter) Saint Hilaire (Slow Cosmetics also mention). To test…

AND EVENING:

1) Cleansing careful with the oil and floral water or as Ophelia preferred but not alcohol or soap.

2) A little soap surgras Cold (The single Gaiia or Le Docker Soapery of Bourbonnais)

3) Re hydrosol cistus carrot-cotton

4) Re massage regulator serum quoted above

5) At the dodo! 

1 WEEKLY: a soft but deep exfoliation with 1 teaspoon of baking soda in 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil argan or jojoba + 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. We long without mass support. The "petting" scrubbing are also somewhat leveling the complexion. Is left to stand 15 minutes (it tingles). Rinsed well with water, and then we pass the famous cistus hydrosol carrot-cotton and do not rinse.

Note: freckles Ophelia are not hiding at all costs, nor to accentuate my opinion. With this protocol, it should stay in something nice, with ever plumper skin and especially less and less fragile rings (rash or allergic reactions).

Tip: If a shot due to the sun (it just happen), massaged right away a good amount of the mixture handmade arnica oil + Organic aloe veragel. Is left to stand overnight and presto, the fire disappeared.

Your turn to play ! Do you practice the NO-POO? Have you discovered through Antigone XXI? And your skin? She looks like Ophelia?

Anyway, it's good to know that you are growing, you women not take that for pigeons and that move the world in the right direction ... One of the Slow Cosmetics? Who knows…