Snowberry Gentle Remineralising Toner Highly Recommended by The Beautiful People of Whom You Know
I love Snowberry's toner! It's a perfect combination of special ingredients that result in beautiful skin. The algae extracts in it help to tighten the skin and reduce inflammation. The special oils soften the skin and rejuvinate. This toner makes me feel like I get a facial every time I use it. It leaves my skin clean, fresh and beautiful.
Don't expect a runny, alchohol-laden liquid for a toner. Snowberry has made a toner that is a gel! A gel, that refines your pores, smoothes the skin, cleanses with marine algae. It works on lightening, brightening, and tightening, all at the same time, with exotic plants whose names conjure spells in your imagination. The toner is for all skin types, and with my combination skin, it was a delight. No more dry patches, and no after-effects of that dry feeling that so many toners leave. Any age, any skin, and combine this toner with the Instant Deep Cleanser if you want to, or just use it alone. Brilliant!
Snowberry Gentle Remineralising Toner helps you maintain a healthy and natural glow. This is a wonderful product that helps keep the natural tone of your face. It will repair and balance the skin. I can tell with only a few uses my skin looks and feels amazing. I just love this toner. Other ones in the past have left my skin feeling hard and dry. Not this one!
So your skin might be a little over-cooked from the sun this summer. You really want to get it back on track. The Gentle Remineralising Toner from Snowberry is a great start. This is a really lush product that is seriously gentle on my skin. Its foamy texture is perfect for cleaning each day or night. I used it continuously for a week and my skin could not have been softer. To the touch my skin was like butter without the oil. Total transformation.
I admit it -- I never used toner. I would always see and hear about it, but never take the jump to buy it. Recently a friend introduced me to a new product line by a company named Snowberry. She suggested their toner and I am now hooked! After using their Instant Deep Cleanser I use the Gentle Remineralising Toner and have LOVED the results. I wish I had started using toner years earlier. It really gets all the remnants of the day off your face so you can be sure your skin is ready for nourishment.
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Snowberry’s Gentle Remineralising Toner
Skin is extraordinarily tough. Every day it withstands the sun’s UV rays, wind and windborne pollutants, and from within, the assault of toxins derived from what we eat and drink. To add insult to injury, we regularly pay to anoint long-suffering skin with chemical potions that are supposedly doing it good.
But what harm can we possibly do by keeping our skin clean and toned? Actually, by using badly designed products, a great deal of harm, says Snowberry founder Soraya Hendesi. We want our skin to feel fresh and toned, but many toners contain volatile alcohols and astringents that over time, strip the skin of natural oils and destroy the beneficial micro flora on the skin that are part of its defensive system. And anionic surfactants, common in skin cleansers, may be ideal for degreasing automobile engines, but surely, she says, should not be applied to skin. 
When we clean and tone our skin, says Soraya, we should be doing so in the gentlest fashion we can. If cleansers or toners cause reddening for example, the skin has been irritated, and regular irritation may lead to weakening of the skin’s immune system, or impairment of essential collagen production. When skin reddens it is most likely because the skin is reacting against an irritant.
Snowberry’s Gentle Remineralising Toner, is actually two products-in-one. It both tones and cleanses, and it does so without any volatile alcohol, laurel sulphate or anionic surfactant. Instead, it uses natural plant saponins from the nut of the Soap Tree for example, used for thousands of years by native peoples for washing. Plant saponins, says Snowberry’s Dr Andy Lavrent, do not have the same foaming action of industrial anionic surfactants, but they clean equally well and completely avoid that harsh and undesirable impact. In Snowberry’s Toner, Dr Lavrent combined surfactants from the Soap Tree and the bark of the Juazeiro bark, and instead of volatile alcohol, Snowberry’s Toner employs a protein extract from the common garden green pea, with a yeast extract that together have superb skin firming and smoothing properties. What makes this special, says Dr Lavrent, is that the skin is cleaned and toned without interfering with the skin’s natural defensive system.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but a really beneficial cleanser and toner, can also moisturise and hydrate. Snowberry’s Toner does this by combining Indian Neem seed oil, Rhizobian gum, and oil extracted from the nut of the Andiroba tree. Healthy skin is naturally oily, but people often expect their skin to feel ‘stripped’ of oil after cleansing, he says. When this occurs regularly, it causes irritation and damage and actually stimulates the skin to over-produce oil to compensate.
Finally, a really good toner and cleanser will help the skin to be rid of undesirable bacteria while boosting anti-oxidant activity. Extracts from apples, marine algae, kiwifruit seeds, and the New Zealand rainforest tree Totara all contribute to a powerful cascade of ingredients in Snowberry’s Toner to do just that.
The Snowberry Toner is a very unusual product. It cleans and it tones, in a way that is safe and beneficial. But like all Snowberry products, it is scientifically formulated to do much more. By helping to restore and maintain skin balance, moisturise and hydrate, counter noxious bacteria and free-radical activity, and to soothe and smooth the skin, it is a highly valuable addition to a really effective anti-ageing skin care regime.
As with all Snowberry products, the Gentle Remineralising Toner has not been tested on animals and other than cultured coral, contains no animal products. Nor does it contain parabens or any petrochemical ingredients.
Snowberry is currently only available in Europe, however, it will soon be in the US, where the Toner will retail for USD60 in a 100ml tube (or USD35 for the convenient travel-size). In keeping with Snowberry ‘step lightly’ ethos, all Snowberry products are certified carbon neutral from the source of their ingredients to the final package on the shelf anywhere in Europe.
Snowberry is colourfully characterised by the whimsical paper-cut art commissioned from London artist, Rob Ryan. The Toner art shows a small bird offering the wonderful message, ‘Other planets cannot be as beautiful as this one.’ Says Soraya, we must hold fast to this belief, lest we come to see our Earth as in some way, dispensable.
