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I've been knocked flat on my back with the most dreadful of maladies: the summer cold. Although really, I think "cold" doesn't adequately explain what I had. I could only stumble from bed to sofa and back again, unable to concentrate on the television and I found myself reading full pages out of the insipid but gloriously vacuous Gossip Girl novels (yes, they are from the Teen section at Barnes & Noble and I do not CARE), not understanding what I had just read. I would've thought that I caught that zombie disease, except that my flesh wasn't rotten; in fact, it was downright glowing. It was probably the 103-degree fever, but it just might have been my recent obsession with Dermalogica's Multivitamin Power Concentrate. Each little pod contains one day's serving of all the vities that keep you pretty: C, E, A and a bunch of grapefruit, orange and lime peel oils that seem to soothe my rosacea's savage beast. If it weren't for the tell-tale red nose and persistent sniffles, I'd swear that I was ready for my close up, even without make up. And that? Just doesn't happen.

However, the little pods are somewhat bittersweet: while the perfect servings stay fresh and bacteria-free until the second you open them, they don't seem to be bio-degradable, which makes me all nervous about dolphins choking on my discarded beauty supplies. However, Dermalogica tends to be pretty savvy on the safe products, so maybe I'm just misunderstanding the very plastic-y little capsules. Regardless, you'd better believe I'm saving the cool little aluminum tin (and travel tin) that houses the capsules, and reusing them to stow earrings and whatnot. Despite the vague sense of eco-guilt, I'm hooked and will just focus on the pretty instead.