- The Essential
- The Ingredients
- The Basics
- The Good
- The Not-So-Good
- The Others
What an anti-aging superstar! It moisturizes, smoothes, and prevents future aging with an endless list of potent ingredients. I am especially impressed with their multi-angle fighting strategies on wrinkles. There are ingredients filling the lines, relaxing muscles to smooth out the lines, reparing the skin barrier, promoting cell regeneration to get rid of the lines…Again, I am impressed.
On the downside it does have a handful of irritants. May not be suitable for oily skin due to its richly moisturizing texture. Also it would be even better if they didn’t put fragrance in there.
Safety alert: Cautious
review based on scientific information of the product ingredients.
1st ingredient |
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is water. |
2nd ingredient |
cyclopentasiloxane is silicone that imparts smooth and velvety feeling to skin. |
3rd ingredient |
PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate is plastificer that provides a smooth feeling similar to silicone. |
4th ingredient |
glycerin transports water from the environment and from the lower layers of skin (dermis) to surface skin (epidermis). It softens the skin. Glycerin is a substance naturally present in skin which helps maintain the epidermis and prevent dryness or scaling. |
| Alcohol |
Fragrance |
Preservative |
Allergy |
Price |
Color Additive |
Sun Protection |
Suitable Skin Type |
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Mid |
$79 |
No |
No |
Normal to Dry, Mature |
Smoothing |
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Cyclopentasiloxane, Polysilicone, Silica (all silicone) |
Moisturizing |
Glycerin, Squalane (shark liver or olive oil), Saccharide isomerate, Shea butter, Olive oil, Carrot oil, Soybean extract, Algae, Sodium hyaluronate (Hyaluronic acid), Vegetable oil, Sugar cane extract, Sodium PCA, Urea |
Wrinkle reducing |
Aminobutyric acid (similar to Botox), Saccharomyces (yeast), Ceramide, Oligopeptides, Collagen, Sugar Cane Extract, Sugar maple extract |
Anti-oxidant |
Tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), Tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate (vitamin C), Algae, Retinyl palmitate (vitamin A), Panax ginseng root extract, Grape seed extract, Vaccinium myrtillus fruit/Leaf extract (bilberry), Orange extract |
Anti-inflammatory |
Centella asiatica extract, Portulaca oleracea extract, Salicylic acid |
Oil absorption |
Allyl methacrylate crosspolymer |
Fragrance |
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Should be avoided by people who are allergic to fragrance. |
Skin irritation |
- contains sodium hydroxide, a strong chemical that is severely irritating to skin.
- contains benzethonium chloride. As an antimicrobial preservative, it should be only used in rinse-off products due to its highly irritating properties.
- contains orange and lemon extract that may be a skin irritants.
- contains limonene which may cause contact dermatitis and is best avoided.
- contains linalool, fragrant component of lavender and coriander that can be a potent skin irritant, allergen, or sensitizer once it is exposed to air.
- contains hydrogen peroxide, which is used in medicine as a topical disinfectant but it greatly destroys healthy skin cells and impairs skin healing. Hydrogen peroxide is a strong oxidizing agent, meaning that it generates free-radical damage. But it is at the bottom of the ingredient list so the concentration is probably not high enough to be of concerns.
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Humectants |
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Pentylene glycol, Butylene glycol |
Emollients |
Cetearyl alcohol, Trehalose |
Film forming agents |
Hydroxyethyl acrylate/sodium acryloyldimethyl taurate copolymer, Acrylates C10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer, Polyquaternium-51 |
Whitening agents |
Barium sulfate |
Emulsifiers |
(oil/water mixers) Polysorbate 60, Dicetyl phosphate, Polysorbate 20 |
Solvents |
Ceteth-10 phosphate, Ethylhexyl palmitate |
Thickening agents |
Carbomer, Hydroxyethylcellulose |
Preservatives |
Phenoxyethanol, Benzoic acid, Dehydroacetic acid, Benzethonium chloride |
Chelating agents |
(metal-binding agents) Tetrasodium EDTA |
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