Drops of Jupiter

I'm not really sure what that means, but I was thinking about my Ascorderm dropper and that Train song popped into my head.  I figured that if it was a good enough title for their song and album, it was a good enough title for my blog.

Hello blog!

I missed you, but what I really miss is how you used to sync with Facebook within a day or so.  Now you hold my blogs indefinitely and then post several of them all at once.

So, let's talk Ascorderm. 

For starters I still haven't properly used the product I'm sorry to say.  I was trying to conserve inventory and take one of the old bottles with the pump cap.  For those of you who do not know, the pump cap leaks, which is why we are now packaging the serums with a dropper cap.  Antioxidant fun fact - the reason the pump leaks is that the antioxidants used in the serum give off a gas which builds pressure in the bottle, eventually breaking the seals of the pump and causing it to leak.  Now that we have the dropper, users will open the cap every day, releasing those gases and preventing leakage.

Woo hoo!

The other fun fact that I learned is that because those other antioxidants are changing, it protects the vitamin c from changing, so the l-ascorbic acid stays stable and ready to use even after sitting on the shelf (or in the medicine cabinet in my case) for an extended time.

Enough of me changing the subject though and back to my excuses about not using Ascorderm.  As I was saying at first I was using the old pump cap, which broke and leaked serum everywhere.  I threw it out, got another one and then bugged our operations manager to give me a dropper (this way I still didn't interrupt our inventory).  All of that took a few days, during which time I was still using my Radical Results (which I had saved even though I broke the pump on that one too (just to repeat from my previous blog that pump broke because of either me power pumping it or it just being a faulty seal and not for the same reasons as the Ascorderm)).  So in all honesty for the next two days I used my Radical Results out of habit (and cursed each day after I realized I had used the wrong serum) so I finally tossed the Radical Results and now am on to the Ascorderm Serum.

Here's what I like about it - it feels very light when you apply it, it's not as thick of a serum as the Radical Results is.  I also like the smell, it reminds me of coffee, which is always a good thing to smell early in the morning.  I don't mind the smell of Radical Results but during one of our trainings, someone said that it smells like a sushi restaurant and I can't lie...they were right!  Not that it smells like fish, but there is a very distinct smell in a sushi place, some kind of mixture of seaweed and soy sauce...I can't describe it.  But you get used to it pretty quickly.

Here's what I don't like about the Ascorderm - the absorption.  Now as I said earlier I have not been properly using the product.  You are supposed to follow the serum with a moisturizer and I haven't been doing that.  So I brought one of those home and will try it out tomorrow.  I went with the Ascorderm moisturizing lotion, I think it's lighter than the cream and hopefully won't take too long to dry.

I can' t really even describe what it is about the absorption, I think I just had gotten so used to how the Radical Results felt, that I just need to adjust.  I've heard people describe Ascorderm as tacky, but I don't think that's really the word I would use.  I just felt like it was not mixing well with my make-up application.

I'll let you know how it goes!

In other skin news, all is well!  I think that I have been breakout free (knock on wood) for a month now.  And that's totally breakout free, not just saying that even though I still had a few tiny zits appear.  Totally zit free!

Go Biopelle!

In marketing news, a friend just told me that our brand fan pages are starting to pop up in his "suggested" section on Facebook.  Do you see them too?  Please become a fan and encourage other product users to do so as well!  I have big plans for our Facebook presence, but I really need more friends and fans in order for me to justify the spending!  So any help that you can provide would be so wonderful.

Oh and if anyone reading this is friends with Oprah and wants to put me in touch with her too, that would be great!

That reminds me though that I was contacted by my favorite make-up artist who asked me if I could provide some OC Eight for one of her musical clients to take with him on tour.  I don't have permission to name drop, but I just wanted to tell you how excited I was!!  This isn't the first time that I've been told that someone famous is using our products, but every time I hear it I just can't help but think that this might be THE person to give us a good recommendation and send the masses in search of our products.  Unfortunately you usually have to pay for that type of endorsement, but a girl can dream.

So if you are famous and reading this, please tell the world that you love our products, free of charge.