Look What We Found The Lip Balm We Swear By - Right now we're sitting ten feet away from a closetful of shampoos, conditioners, eye creams, night creams, lipsticks glosses, soaks, and more scents than most women will smell in their lifetimes. It's our job to try each of them-hey it's a living-without getting hooked on any one thing, which could potentially ruin us for all others. But sometimes a product is simply addictive: We love it. We can't survive without it. Such is the case with SCO Lip Balm ($21). Its creamy base-not waxy or sticky-is laced with conditioning flower extracts that soften dry, chapped lips. Smooth some on before kissing the man who's ruined you for all others.
	Get this Skin Care Options is a New Age-y New York shop offering customized herbal elixir. The staff sorts through scads of infusions (almond oil, juniper berry, ginkgo biloba) to help you create your own special cream or cleanser; the results are labeled with your name and the expiration date.
	In the mix: Who among us doesn't appreciate a little personal attention? At SCO, a new skin-cares shop on New York's Mulberry Street, you'll get it in spades. There, every item in the range can be customized to your needs via more than 20 natural infusions. Need to smooth, for example? Then add a bit of papaya to your refining face scrub. Or add some caffeine to depuff.
	I'm all over SCO, a new skin-care line sold in its flagship store in Manhattan's ever-so-trendy NoLita district. Basing their choices on the client's skin type, technicians infuse the products with specific "essences", picking from twenty-two ingredients (everything from soy to vitamin C). All this in under five minutes. And they printed my name on the label, which made me happy.
	Ingredient Caffeine The Fix SCO's caffeine-infused products:...cleanser, $59; facial tonic, $55; conditioning face lotion, $140. Prices include up to three caffeine infusions. The Use The company claims that topical caffeine reduces unsightly facial puffiness. There are more than twenty healthy-sounding infusions in the SCO products, from green tea to papaya to parsley, that will keep your skin buzzed night and day.
	Getting personal SCO, the latest in customized skin care, is a sound refuge for those dissatisfied by beauty product that don't live up to their rap. …the concept behind SCO is to offer a range of core skin products which hold their own with high performance and texture, enhanced by natural ingredients designed to treat individual needs. Offering a choice of 22 all-natural ingredients from algae and caffeine to ginkgo, soy and parsley, clients select three personalized "infusions" with the help of SCO's trained consultants, and walk away with signature blends. ZB
	I couldn't help but appreciate the sophistied minimalism of SCO (skincare Options), a serene NYC store. Owner Theresa Ma, above, explained things. After a consultation with each client about skin concerns, Theresa formulates a recipe from infusions displayed in vials. tried to hide my excitement, but I knew that SCO was going to make me more skin-care-obsessed than ever! I told Theresa about my under-eye circles and combo skin, and she used what looked like a turkey baster to add juniper berry and papaya (for exfoliation) and soy and willow bark (for hydration) to an eye cream, body wash and right, a mask. I don't know what I like better, the products or their jars (bearing my name and the expiration date), which look so chic in my bathroom.
	The Beauty Report Couture Skin Care From SCO New York - Don't walk down Mulberry Street too quickly or you'll breeze right past the newest name in customized skin care: SCO. The company officially launches today with the opening of an intimate, 385-square-foot boutique in NoLita. SCO, which stands for Skin Care Options, was founded two years ago by Theresa Ma, a woman with a passion for perfect skin. "I'm obsessed with skin care," said Ma…"I always want to try every new skin care ingredient, but I always go back to the same two products." SCO was born because Ma - who has not one, but three dermatologists - thought it would be terrific to customize her favorite products based on what her skin needed at a particular time or season. The result is 18 items, from cleansers, toners and eye creams to face masks and body products. Everything except Oil Free Face Shield SPF 30 can be customized with up to three infusions chosen from a menu of 22 ingredients. The list includes algae, almond oil, aloe vera, avocado oil, bergamot, caffeine, calendula, chamomile, cucumber, gingko biloba, green tea, juniper berry, lavender, lemon, papaya, parsley, peppermint, rosemary, soy and vitamins A,C & E. Ma is using pharmaceutical grade infusions. "They are expensive, but they are the highest grade of ingredients that you can use," she explained. "I went that route because with the pharmaceutical grade, there is more control when they are being manufactured and there is a lot of testing behind each batch." Ma will help customers choose the infusions that are right for them based on their skin care concerns and needs. The products will be custom-blended on the spot. The amount of infusions I'm putting in each product is quite high, "I don't want anything that is just a trace amount." All the products come in amber-colored plastic containers with a label featuring the customer's name, the date the product was created and its expiration date. Samples of each product will be available at the store.
	The perfect at-home facial Use some scour power "Exfoliation makes everything from masks to moisturizers work better," says Theresa Ma, owner of SCO skin care in New York City. " Products are better able to penetrate the skin when they're not impeded by dead cells." A super-duper moisture booster; SCO Ultra Soothing Face Mask.
	Skin care Options (SCO) in New York offers a selection of products with a botanical base. SCO's line of 18 products includes rejuvenating face creams, hydrating eye creams and purifying cleansers. At the counter, specialists quiz you on what kinds of products you're looking for. After examining the condition of your skin, they work with you to design a regimen including products from 22 plant-based ingredients. You can add up to three infusions from choices such as cucumber (reduces puffiness) and lavender (soothes skin). Prices range from $40 to $150.
	The name stands for Skin Care Options, and custom-blended is the one these people prefer. The store - think a chocolate shop crossed with a chemistry lab-has shelves piled high with mysterious goops that the technicians will blend to suit you alone.
	Custom Beauty Like a one off-ruffled shirtdress from Tuleh, the newest trend in makeup and skincare is made to order, with special formulas designed just for you. Platinum SCO Conditioning Face Lotion can be spiked with a dizzying array of infusions, each for a different skin condition; willow bark fights acne, caffeine firms skin, papaya exfoliates, etc. $140.00 (up to three infusions)
	And now SCO (Skin Care Options) in downtown Manhattan will mix popular treatment ingredients - anything from almond oil to antioxidant vitamins to more exotic botanicals like gingko biloba and soy - into a variety of complexion-care products. Cutting-edge as this may seem, the approach dates from the days when women had their beauty potions whipped up at apothecaries. In fact, the entire customization trend reflects an old-fashioned need in all of us: the desire for a little personal attention.