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Why Cosmeceutical Skin Serums Should Be Your BF for 2023
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Why Cosmeceutical Skin Serums Should Be Your BF for 2023
If you're looking for a powerful and effective way to enhance your skin's health and beauty, you might want to consider adding a cosmeceutical skin serum to your daily routine. But what exactly is a cosmeceutical skin serum, and what makes it so special? Let's find out!
What Are Cosmeceutical Skin Serums?
Cosmeceutical skin serums are skincare products that contain a high concentration of active ingredients designed to deliver specific benefits to the skin. These ingredients are carefully selected to provide a range of benefits, such as hydration, anti-aging, brightening, and firming. Unlike traditional skincare products, cosmeceutical skin serums are formulated with high-quality, medically-inspired ingredients that are designed to penetrate deep into the skin for maximum efficacy.
What Are the Benefits of Cosmeceutical Skin Serums?
One of the key benefits of cosmeceutical skin serums is their ability to penetrate deep into the skin, delivering active ingredients to the cells that need them the most. This allows for maximum efficacy, ensuring that your skin is getting the nutrients and hydration it needs to look and feel its best. For example, vitamin C serums can brighten the skin and reduce the appearance of dark spots, while hyaluronic acid serums can provide intense hydration and plump fine lines and wrinkles.
Another benefit of cosmeceutical skin serums is their versatility. They can be used in conjunction with other skincare products, such as moisturisers and sunscreens, to enhance their effectiveness.
What Are the Active Ingredients in Cosmeceutical Skin Serums?
The active ingredients in cosmeceutical skin serums vary depending on the specific product, but some of the most common include hyaluronic acid, retinol, vitamin C, niacinamide, and glycolic acid.
- Hyaluronic acid is a powerful ingredient that helps to hydrate the skin, keeping it plump and youthful.
- Retinol is a type of vitamin A that has been shown to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, improve skin texture, and increase skin firmness.
- Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that helps to brighten the skin and protect it from free radical damage.
- Vitamin B3 has been shown to help improve skin hydration, reduce redness, and improve the overall appearance of the skin.
- Glycolic acid is an alpha-hydroxy acid that helps to gently exfoliate the skin, removing dead skin cells and revealing brighter, more radiant skin.
Which one should you use?
It's important to only use cosmeceutical serums that have been prescribed by a therapist. Why? A skin therapist is a professional who has been trained to understand the different skin types and concerns. They can provide you with a personalised assessment of your skin, taking into account factors such as your skin type, skin condition, age, and lifestyle. Based on this assessment, they can then recommend the best cosmeceutical serum to meet your specific needs. This ensures that you are using a product that is tailored to your skin and is more likely to provide the results you are looking for.
Want to find out more about your skin? Call your closest Vivo Skin Clinic to book a free, no-obligation skin consultation!
Now on to our best-selling active serums!
1. Medik8 Hydr8 B5
Suitable for: All skin types in need of hydration
A hydration booster that helps the skin retain moisture, leaving it plumper and more radiant. The formula contains vitamin B5 (panthenol) and hyaluronic acid that helps to attract and hold onto water in the skin.
2. Medik8 C-Tetra
Suitable for: Signs of premature aging, dull skin
Restore radiance and fight visible signs of aging with C-Tetra, a super-light daily vitamin C serum. Antioxidant power is provided through vitamins C and E. The formula stimulates the production of collagen and elastin to help reduce fine lines and wrinkles, as well as visibly brightening the complexion and balancing skin tone.
3. Aspect Extreme B 17
Suitable for: All skin types - particularly beneficial for congested, oily, problematic, and dull skin
A powerhouse vitamin B serum that helps to hydrate, purify, improve uneven skin tone, diminish dullness, and help plump the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
4. Aspect Extreme C 20
Suitable for: All skin types, particularly beneficial for sensitive and sun-damaged skin
A powerful antioxidant serum containing Vitamin C and peptides to help promote skin elasticity and illuminate appearance while providing additional protection from external free radicals.
5. Aspect Retinol Brulee
Suitable for: Congestion, pigmentation, acne, and signs of premature aging.
A refining night serum containing Retinol that helps smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, revealing more youthful-looking skin.
6. Medik8 Super C Ferulic
Suitable for: Signs of premature aging, pigmentation, and uneven skin tone
This ultra-brightening serum is Medik8’s most powerful vitamin C. This high-strength, high-performance vitamin C serum is ideal for those looking to blast pigmentation problems and deliver a hit of anti-aging power. Skin is noticeably supple with fine lines and wrinkles visibly diminished and skin texture refined.
7. Cosmedix Simply Brilliant
Suitable for: Pigmentation, sun damage
Packed with ten plant-based brightening ingredients, Cosmedix Simply Brilliant targets existing pigmentation while preventing new problem areas from appearing. Simply Brilliant helps skin appear brighter and more radiant without looking blotchy.
8. PCA Hyaluronic Acid Boosting Serum
Suitable for: All skin types in need of hydration
This smoothing blend of ingredients provides deep, long-lasting hydration on three levels: on the surface, deeper in the skin and by increasing the skin’s own hyaluronic acid production.
9. Cosmedix Clarity
Suitable for: Problem skin, oily skin and enlarged pores
Cosmedix Clarity is a Skin-Clarifying Serum that works to remove pore-clogging impurities and exfoliate the skin for a smoother, clearer-looking complexion that lasts.A necessity for oily and problem prone skins with effectives actives like Tea Tree, Willow Herb and Witch Hazel.
10. Cosmedix Opti Crystal Liquid Crystal Eye Serum
Suitable for: Premature aging.
This Eye Serum that is specially formulated with powerhouse ingredients to radically reduce the look of dark circles and improve the look of fine lines, wrinkles and sagging around the eyes. Enriched with powerful antioxidants such as Spin Trap and Alpha Lipoic Acid, Opti Crystal also helps protect eyes from harmful free radicals, which can accelerate signs of aging.
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