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3-in-1 for All

The one-stop cleanser we love

By Lauren McCutcheon

The name on the sleek turquoise-and-red tube doesn't make much sense. Freeze 24-7's "Ice Shield" sounds like, well, defroster for your face. It's not. It's a rich cleanser infused with coconut, white tea and white willow extracts to clarify and hydrate — all merged with UVA/UVB blocking Avobenzone (SPF 15) to protect your pretty mug from the sun's wrinkling rays. Usually we're suspicious of multitasking products: Conditioning shampoo? Never. But this time, three-in-one's a charm. We tested out Ice Shield during one solid, cloudless week. And, despite our half-hour morning walks to work (on the sunny side of the street, even), daily lunchtime errands (to H&M) and occasional hour (or two) lazing about Rittenhouse Square, we can honestly attest that our burn-prone noses are nary a shade pinker.

Of course, Ice Shield works way better when you layer an SPF 30 over it, something we vow to do just as soon as we find a cream that makes our thighs resemble Julianne Hough's (or even Apolo Ohno's) from Dancing with the Stars. Anyone know of a product that can do that?

$48. Available at Plain Jane, 128 East Gay Street, West Chester, 610-918-0230; Douglas Cosmetics, Shops at Liberty Place, 1625 Chestnut Street, 215-569-0770; any Bath & Body Works or Victoria's Secret Beauty; and freeze247.com.
Originally published in Philadelphia magazine, May 2007
 

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