Author Archives: Elaine Levins

How to Get Glowing Skin Naturally

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Everyone wants to have glowing and healthy-looking skin. However, with the many skin care products available in the market, it can be difficult to determine which one is right for you. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend a lot of money on expensive products to achieve glowing skin. In fact, there are natural ways to […]

Unlock the Skin Care Benefits of Vitamin E

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Vitamin E, or tocopherol, is an essential nutrient that plays an important role in overall skin health. Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant, a humectant, and an emollient, so it helps protect the skin from free radical damage, reduces inflammation, and keeps skin hydrated and soft. It is known for its ability to protect and […]

How Do I Use Reviva’s Antioxidant Day Crème?

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Skin care can be as simple or as complex as you’d like it to be. There are day creams, night creams, toners, cleansers, serums. Masks, exfoliants; you name it, there’s a skin care category for it. But as someone who works in the industry – and who also happens to be a skin care afficionado […]

How Do I Use Reviva’s Sea Salt Cleansing Gel?

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This is the first post in our “How Do I Use…” Series – and was the inspiration for the series overall. While I’d tried/used our Sea Salt Cleansing Gel during its development and testing phase – and I liked it a lot – there was a fair amount of time between the development phase and […]

How Do I Use…?

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We’re starting a new “thing” here at Reviva Labs with our “How Do I Use?” series. We get so many questions from our current customers and potential customers asking how certain products can be used, when they should be used, etc – so we decided to give a little more insight into each product, including […]

My Reviva Labs Skin Care Journey

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I was first introduced to Reviva Labs in 2004. At the time, my company was providing marketing and graphic design services, and we dealt directly with Reviva’s founder, Stephen Strassler. Every time someone from our office would meet with Stephen, he’d send products back for me to try. And once I started using Reviva Labs […]

The skin benefits of Azelaic Acid

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Azelaic acid occurs naturally in various grains (e.g., barley, wheat, rye, etc.) but it also occurs naturally on the skin, produced by yeast living on your epidermis. It’s known for having both anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. This makes it the perfect addition to skin care intended to treat rosacea, eczema, and acne too. Azelaic acid […]

What is tranexamic acid?

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Tranexamic acid (a synthesized lysine) was originally used to treat or stop excessive blood loss during surgeries or trauma situations. It can also be taken orally to help with heavy menstrual bleeding. In the most simplistic explanation, it helps slow the breakdown of clots, in turn slowing excessive bleeding. But in the 1970s a medical […]

Elaine’s Favorite Reviva Labs Skin Care

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I first learned of Reviva when I began working with them as an outside vendor in 2004. At the time, I really didn’t have a skincare “routine.” I moisturized – and wore sunscreen when I went to the beach or the pool – but that was about it. Since my company was working with Reviva […]