Beauty Swellness: Amazon.ca adds beauty and health stores

Good news for you beauty addicts: Amazon.ca has added beauty and health stores to their site. Now, you can peruse more than 80,000 beauty and health products while you’re putting in your order for books or DVDs.

With a $100 Amazon gift card in my wallet (a gift from Amazon.ca — thanks!) I checked out the new shops…and while I planned on sticking to practical staples such as vitamin D and calcium supplements, I’m mighty tempted by all of the fantastic beauty brands in the store: Bobbi Brown, YSL, Dermalogica, Burt’s Bees, Aveda, Clarisonic, Shu Uemura, and too many more to name. These four items here are on my not-so-short list:

• Diorshow mascara. Hello, luscious lashes!
• Laura Mercier Secret Concealer, to help hide signs of the all-nighters I’ve been pulling.
• Coola Plant UV Sunscreen Body SPF 30. I’ve never tried this, but love their Citrus Mimosa sunscreen spray.
• Aesop Ginger Flight Therapy. I don’t get anxious when I fly but I do get antsy and impatient; I’m hoping this’ll help me chill.

What’s on the top of your beauty and health shopping list?

22 Comments May 17, 2013

Give me a D!

So you can get too much of a good thing, it seems.

New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that vitamin D, which has been shown to help with mood and getting calcium to our bones and more, in too-high levels is linked to higher mortality.

While more needs to be examined in terms of the causes of the higher risk, best to play it safe and use a Goldilocks strategy (get it? “this level of D is juuuust right!”) when it comes to this vitamin. This is Osteoporosis Canada’s recommendation — talk to your doctor about what they recommend for you (I got tested two years ago and my D levels were low, remember?).

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Leave a Comment May 29, 2012

Gettin’ egg-y with it

Vitamin D wins the popularity vote in 2010–it was the single most-used vitamin last year in the U.S. according to a study conducted by the USDA, so it seems many of us are answering our bodies call to “gimme some D”–I know I’m still getting my daily dose.

The same study also discovered that large eggs contain 64 percent more vitamin D than previously though, each offering up 41IU of the sunshine vitamin.

(Good news if you love eggs. Which I do. But that might be because they’re usually accompanied by bacon…)

Leave a Comment February 9, 2011