VITAMIN E can be an
excellent skin repairer,
especially for the pre-
vention of scarring.

According to Dr. Tahira
Jiwani, a West Van naturo-
pathic physician, vitamin E is
most cffective in the preven-
tion of scarring when applied
after seabbing has occurred.

Vitamin E is also combats
wrinkles and moisturizes dry
skin.

Vitamin E should, howev-
er, be used sparingly. Jiwani
recommends targeting sensi-
tive areas around the cyes
where a lot of skin damage
like wrinkles can occur.

The Body Shop has a
number of Vitamin E prod-
ucts for the skin. The fine has
recently been expanded to
include an eye cream ($15 for
15mL), hand and nail treat-
ment ($9.95 for 75 mL) and
face mist ($12 for 100 ml).

The eye cream has no
added fragrance or colour
making it ideal for sensitive
skin around the eyes, It also
contains a pigment to reduce
the appearance of fine fines.

The vitamin E hand and
nail treatment contains shea
butter to soften cuticles and
rose hips oil to reduce mois-
ture loss,

The face mist allows you
to apply vitamin E to the skin
without overdoing it with a
cream you have to smear on.
The mist acts as an emollient
thar smoothes and softens.

Applying vitamin E to the
skin directly is all well and
good, however, don’t neglect
the importance of including
the nutrient in vour diet.
Foods like sunflower seeds,
almonds and olive oil are
execllent sources of Vitamin E

— Danica Riley

TONI Cavelti, the
noted Vancouver jew-
eller who sold his busi-
ness to Birks’ earlier
this month, recalled his
earliest encounter with
the national retailer.

Birks’ was his tirst stop in
Vancouver upon: arriving
trom Switzerland in 1954.

“Leame off the train and
walked up Granville Street
and went in to ask for
work,” remembered Cavelti,
a resident of West Vancouver
since his arrival. “They said
they didn’t have a workshop
here and they couldn't use
someone of my tesining.”

“What a shame,” said
Birks’ vice-president of retail
sales and store operations
Deena McNeill of her coni-
pany’s missed opportunity.

Instead, Cas elti joined
Kar! Stittgen at European
Watchmakers and Jewellers
in Ambleside, and, two years
later, left to open what was
to become a highly successful
design firm.

MeNeill is no doubt
pleased to be selling Cavelri’s
designs in Birks” flagship
store on Hastings Street. The
jeweller’s designs will be
available for sale through the
Park Royal Birks store start-
ing in the late spring.

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Brides-to-be with visions
of walking down the aisle in
a Vera Wang or Badgley
Mischka original can realize
their dream with help from
Elle Fabrics and Vogue pat-
terns.

Manuel Mendoza, the
North Van resident whose
couture bridal fashions have
graced many a stylish wed-
ding, is the new owner of
Elle Fabrics. Mendoza pur-
chased the shop, at 644
Seymour St., from mayor
Phitip Owen Feb, 1

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Toni Onley paintings and, like the gold and dia-
mond brooch (above), Arthur Erickson archi-
tecture. Handmade soaps from in the Mood
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