Beauty on a Budget? Find Out How to Save Big Bucks!

Online, September 25, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Tired of wasting money on overpriced and ineffective makeup and skin-care products? You're not the only one. Promises of a fountain of youth in a jar are hard to resist, even though we know it sounds too good to be true. Certainly there are a lot of great products out there, but how do you know which products are really worth it and which are a waste of money? The free website Beautypedia can help you answer those questions and save money!

"We've all bought expensive products that sucked," says Paula Begoun, known worldwide as The Cosmetics Cop and best-selling author of Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me. Paula suffered for years with horrible skin, including acne and eczema, and finally resorted to personally reviewing the research on skin-care ingredients. What she found was that many of the ingredients in the products she was using were actually making her skin worse.

Today she has beautiful skin and a strong desire to spare others the misery she went through. Her lifelong mission is to help consumers find the best products in all price ranges, whether they're looking for a long-wear lipstick, self-tanner, anti-acne cleanser, or wrinkle cream. With over 30 years of cosmetics and consumer research under her belt, she developed Beautypedia, a comprehensive beauty database with over 45,000 candid, research-supported reviews. Best of all: It's completely free!

Unlike other skin-care and makeup review websites that feature only consumer opinions, Beautypedia's reviews are based on published research about the effectiveness of the ingredients in each product. So, while other sites give opinions, the team behind Beautypedia does the hard work of researching each ingredient in every product.

Paula and her team research and update Beautypedia daily to keep up with the best and worst skin-care and makeup products available. Within a few minutes on Beautypedia, you can look up your entire makeup and skin-care regimen to find out if you're getting the biggest bang for your buck. For example: Is that eye cream you're using worth the extra $$$? Are there less expensive and better formulated options available from another line? Is that moisturizer claiming to be for "sensitive" skin actually making matters worse? Which brand offers the best mascara?

Astonishingly, the answers are all there, from major name brands to smaller boutique, home-shopping, infomercial, and spa lines. There's even a mobile version for your smart phone so you can look up products while you're in the store. Beautypedia allows you to sift through the good, the bad, and the ugly, and find the best of the best skin-care and makeup products. It doesn't get any better than that!