Greer's OC

We just discovered an OC based eco-luxe skin care line that’s exactly what we’ve been looking for: a natural and therapeutic line that makes our skin look and feel great.

Bioadara Luxury Skincare was launched last year by longtime successful jewelry designer, Mimi Kim who also shares a lifetime passion for natural skin care products.

While living with an autoimmune disease she’s been searching for the perfect skin care line for relief and healing benefits, so she developed one herself. She blended organic therapeutic oils and botanicals and found they helped. Her friends and family convinced her to market her products to share the benefits with others.

Biodara consists of Cell Refresh Face Serum, a Crème de Clay Purifying Mask, an Immortal Mist, and Luminous Cleansing Oil. All of the products are made of the finest natural, organic and non-GMO ingredients such as Moroccan Argan Oil, Neroli oil, Sea Buckthorn oil, Jojoba oil, rosehip seed oil, avocado oil, camellia seed oil, elderberry fruit extract, rose geranium  and are free of parabens and toxins.

Biodara products are made in small batches and hand-poured and bottled in violet glass jars to protect the active ingredients. Biodara has already garnered a lot of favorable press here.

You can find Biodara online and also at Seed People's Market at the Camp in Costa Mesa, The Shangri-La Boutique at the Union Market in Tustin and the Green Line Boutique in Los Angeles.

Hearts of Montage

You can help save three lives by donating blood at the Hearts of Montage Red Cross Blood Drive on Monday, May 18 from 7 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. in Grand Ballroom III at Montage Laguna Beach.

Donors just bring a photo ID and you can sample fresh fruit and delicious cookies prepared by the pastry chefs at Montage Laguna Beach. Valet parking will be complimentary for all donors.

There are three ways to sign up for the blood drive: sign up online at RedCrossBlood.org, sponsor code MontageLB; email Laura Rudd at laura.rudd@redcross.org or call Hearts of Montage at 949.715.6208.

Montage Laguna Beach is at 30801 S. Coast Highway in Laguna Beach.