09.20.02
Nearly 2,500 new beauty products appear in stores every year, and for seven straight years, the editors and readers of Allure wade through all those skin creams, lipsticks and fragrances to find the ones that truly deliver. This year, Allure editors and more than 5000 readers awarded 129 products the Best of Beauty seal in 2002. The list includes Pantene Pro-V Conditioner, the only contender to win seven years straight. Here are 10 other winning products:
1. Lancme Magnificils mascara
2. L'Oreal Plentitude Eye-Makeup Remover
3. Olay Total Effects hand lotion
4. Neutrogena On-the-Spot Acne Treatment
5. Estee Lauder DayWear Creme SPF 15
6. Clarins Gentle Exfoliating Refiner
7. Revlon Skinlights Illusion Wand
8. Cover Girl Outlast Lip Color in Timeless Ruby
9. Matrix Amplify Volumizing shampoo
10. Chanel Chance fragrance
Allure also identifies some of the biggest breakthroughs in beauty. For example, a researcher in Israel was studying head wounds when she discovered a cocktail of vitamins, minerals, glucose, and amino acids that could halt hair loss. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Osmotics Follicle Nutrient System also encourages regrowth and prevents graying. The serum is sold at department stores without a prescription.
Another breakthrough, according to Allure, is Skin Medica TNS Recovery Complex. The skin care product is said to be a precise combination of growth factors, antioxidants, soluble collagens, and proteins-all engineered from one baby's foreskin-is the key ingredient in TNS skin gel. Preliminary studies show it repairs the skin's collagen and reduces wrinkles by 80%.
1. Lancme Magnificils mascara
2. L'Oreal Plentitude Eye-Makeup Remover
3. Olay Total Effects hand lotion
4. Neutrogena On-the-Spot Acne Treatment
5. Estee Lauder DayWear Creme SPF 15
6. Clarins Gentle Exfoliating Refiner
7. Revlon Skinlights Illusion Wand
8. Cover Girl Outlast Lip Color in Timeless Ruby
9. Matrix Amplify Volumizing shampoo
10. Chanel Chance fragrance
Allure also identifies some of the biggest breakthroughs in beauty. For example, a researcher in Israel was studying head wounds when she discovered a cocktail of vitamins, minerals, glucose, and amino acids that could halt hair loss. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Osmotics Follicle Nutrient System also encourages regrowth and prevents graying. The serum is sold at department stores without a prescription.
Another breakthrough, according to Allure, is Skin Medica TNS Recovery Complex. The skin care product is said to be a precise combination of growth factors, antioxidants, soluble collagens, and proteins-all engineered from one baby's foreskin-is the key ingredient in TNS skin gel. Preliminary studies show it repairs the skin's collagen and reduces wrinkles by 80%.