Does anybody here ever have those tiny blood vessels on your cheeks? I have a lot of freckles (that I have no problem with), but also some of the miniscule visible blood vessels, what can you do about it? We call it couperose... 
You can get them lasered, I guess. I haven't had it done, but I've heard of it.
Yes it is, partly because it got lots of vitamin E. That's the only oil I use for cooking but it is best if you use the extra virgin.
There was a piece in the New Yorker recently about how a lot of the olive oil that gets sold as extra-virgin is actually not even olive oil, it's other kinds of oil mixed with a little olive. It's illegal to sell this, but apparently it happens a lot. I've always been kind of suspicious of those cheaper EVOOs ...
Back to cosmetics brands, my most trusted one is Paula's Choice,
http://www.cosmeticscop.com/. It's made by Paula Begoun, the author of
Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me and other books that investigate cosmetics ingredients and reveal, as Cameron said, that there often is little if any difference between the ingredients in expensive department store brands and cheap drugstore brands. The main difference is in how they're packaged and marketed.
Anyway, Paula's Choice stuff is fragrance-free (which I love), reasonably priced, simply packaged, and as effective as those products ever are. I really trust them because I trust her. You'll almost never see her interviewed in a magazine, because she reveals how much of cosmetic companies' claims are just marketing schemes (and magazines depend on cosmetics industry advertising).
