NEW 100mL Travel Size Body Lotion!

The same unique blend of ingredients that you love, only now in a convenient Travel Size! Ideal for your purse, gym bag, baby bag…even for your carry-on luggage! The portable 100mL format makes it convenient to take with you anytime you’re away from home!

Glysomed Body Lotion softens, moisturizes and hydrates the skin, with a combination of aloe, vitamin E and panthenol, that helps protect skin, leaving it feeling silky soft.

Look for the new Travel Size at your favourite store!

This year, we are making it official.  We have established an alliance with the CDA as proud supporters.

The generous support of caring corporations, such as Blistex, enables the CDA to continue to make a significant impact in the lives of people with diabetes through education, advocacy, research and translating research into practical applications.  We are helping the CDA lead the fight against diabetes by helping to one day find a cure.

Have you ever wondered what your face will look like in the future? Weather elements, stress, genetics, and even pollution all play important roles in how our skin ages. But these days, we can do more than ever to prevent damage. Regardless of your age, the practice of protecting and maintaining the health of your skin is essential to keeping you looking young and radiant for as long as possible.

Fortunately, there are ingredients which, when skillfully integrated within the right types of skin products, will help fight the visible signs of aging. Toward that purpose, the skin care formulation specialists for the Glysomed brand have developed new Glysomed Face Moisturizer.

Over time, skin loses moisture, dulls in colouration, and begins to slacken, which in turn results in noticeable increases in the length, depth, number and visibility of lines and wrinkles. To help offset these effects, one of the key ingredients incorporated in Glysomed Face Moisturizer is Coenzyme Q10 (also known as CoQ10). This substance is a natural antioxidant found in our bodies that fights the buildup of free radicals (which can damage skin’s ability to revitalize), and also ensures adequate natural skin moisturization. But according to Dr. Charles Zugerman, Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, the levels of CoQ10 in our bodies start to drop as we age, leading to increased damage from accumulating free radicals. “CoQ10 is an essential ingredient in the fight against aging,” says Zugerman, “because it can lead to improved tone, texture and firmness of your skin.”

Skin can also look prematurely damaged from the sun. Sun damage alone is thought to be responsible for as much as 80% of skin aging. Without sun damage, some of us could probably stay mostly wrinkle-free with balanced skin tone into our 80s. To help defend our faces from the effects of photoaging, a combination of several broad-spectrum sunscreens is especially important. Long-wavelength UVA rays, which penetrate deeper into the skin than the UVB rays that make us burn, can cause excessive dryness, fine lines, irregular skin pigmentation, a weakening of the skin’s immune system, or even skin cancer. Octocrylene and avobenzone, both included in Glysomed Face Moisturizer, protect skin against both UVA and UVB rays. And because our faces are rarely shielded by clothing like the rest of our bodies, this protection is especially important.

To help even further in your daily fight to keep skin looking its youthful best, Glysomed Face Moisturizer also includes collagen enhancers, aloe vera, chamomile, and panthenol. This combination helps nourish, hydrate, and rejuvenate facial skin, as well as reduce puffiness and enhance skin radiance. Glysomed Face Moisturizer is also dermatologist-recommended, won’t clog pores, and is not tested on animals.

As a reflection of the sophistication of the new formula, the packaging features soft graphics and a calming white/green motif to denote therapeutic benefits and simplicity. These packaging elements are also intended to communicate gentleness for the face and a lighter, more delicate formula than traditional Glysomed items for other body parts.

“We developed Glysomed Face Moisturizer to appeal to women of all ages who want to not only treat signs of aging, but are actively working to prevent them,” said Mike Donnantuono, President of Blistex Inc., the maker of the Glysomed line of products. “Its light, fast-absorbing formula, combined with top-shelf anti-aging ingredients, make it one of the most effective, pleasant, and affordable tools in any woman’s skin care regimen.” It is also notable that more than 60% of women under age 45 and half of all women use anti-aging facial care products.*

Glysomed offers a full line of products that includes Hand Cream, Body Lotion and Foot Balm, all well-known to keep skin feeling moisturized, revitalized, and healthy from head to toe. To Discover What Your Skin is Missing or for additional information about Glysomed products and important skin care, visit www.glysomed.com

* Mintel Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatments, 2007

Glysomed® is owned by Blistex® Inc. Blistex is a privately held corporation with products sold in more than 70 countries worldwide. Blistex offers a full product line that addresses the entire spectrum of lip needs – maintaining healthy lips, treating cracked or sore lips, rehydrating dry lips, protecting lips from the weather and other environmental conditions and improving the appearance of lips.

Blistex® and Glysomed® are registered trademarks of Blistex Inc. Discover What Your Skin Is Missing™ and For the Love of Your Skin™ are trademarks of Blistex Inc.

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For information contact:
Valerie Ryan
905-678-2521 ext. 2225
vryan@blistex.com

The bold and to-the-point horizontal billboards showcase the Glysomed family of products and are in high traffic areas en route to Grocery, Drug and other stores. Billboards of Glysomed Comforting Face Moisturizer will begin in the early Spring.

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these billboards in English and French are generating terrific feedback and awareness of Glysomed.

The winners were chosen from a National beauty survey taken by thousands of Canadian women this past spring and from the editors of GLOW magazine who chose this years’ must-have’s in innovation!

GLOW magazine is the publication of the largest drug store chain in Canada, Shopper’s Drug Mart, and features articles on the newest products, health solutions and beauty trends.

Congratulations Glysomed!!

Visit: http://www.glow.ca/ for more information.

Comforting Face Moisturizer brings the best of nature and science together in a light, quick-absorbing moisturizer, suitable for all skin types.  It contains ingredients found in prestigious skin care products and is much more affordable.  From nature, we have aloe vera, chamomile, vitamins C and E and panthenol to nourish and hydrate the skin.  From science, we’ve added 2 collagen-enhancing complexes…one to strengthen collagen fibres, improve skin elasticity and help fight skin-damaging free radicals.  The other improves the production of collagen and elastin in the skin, helping to provide a smoother, more rejuvenated appearance.

Glysomed Comforting Face Moisturizer is now available in Canada, but if you cannot find it at your favourite store, just ask them to order it.

Glysomed – take the time to love…your face!

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is one of Canada’s largest teaching, research and patient care institutions.  Each year, 10,000 staff, physicians, volunteers and students work to improve the lives of patients that come to the hospital.

The Mother’s Day Celebration takes place May 7-13, 2007.  Activities include Mother’s Day Tea, a Children’s Book Reading, and expert discussions on Sexual Health, Planning a Healthy Pregnancy, and Newborns.  “We love being an active part of the community, and when the opportunity to contribute to a meaningful cause arises, we are proud to participate” said Valerie Ryan, Marketing Manager for Glysomed products.

Blistex Corporation gladly donated over 1,000 samples of Glysomed Hand Creams to staff, volunteers, and patients.  Glysomed Gift Baskets filled with Hand Creams, Body Lotion and Foot Balm were also donated for the event.

For more information on Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, please visit  http://www.sunnybrook.ca.

“We wanted to update the information on our site and we felt that a new look would complement the change,” said Valerie Ryan, Glysomed Marketing Manager.  “We feel that the new appearance better reflects our brand.”

The new website features more useful information about Glysomed products including alternative uses and ingredients.  It is also a resource center for helpful skin-care tips.

What better product is there to release your feet from hibernation?  Glysomed Foot Balm is enriched with shea butter, olive oil and has the added benefits of peppermint oil.

Look for Glysomed Foot Balm wherever you buy your favourite Glysomed item.  Satisfaction is guaranteed!