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Now You Can Sleep Off the Signs of Ageing with Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum

Now You Can Sleep Off the Signs of Ageing with Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum

Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum is Finally Released in Australia

Overnight Repair Serum

Dermalogica's Overnight Repair Serum

It’s about time Dermalogica brought out a specific night-time treatment for the skin – and they have! It’s called Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum, but before I get into that, have you ever wondered why we need day and night products for our skin? Is it just another ploy to get us to buy more products and do we really want to put the extra effort in?

Well the truth is our skin not only changes with the seasons but also shows fluctuations during the 24 hour cycle and this is known as circadian rhythms. Whilst studies are still being carried out on circadian rhythms two of the most known rhythms are sebum excretion (oil output) and trans epidermal water loss (water lost through the skin).

It is a fact that our skin excretes the most oil at midday but our trans epidermal water loss is at its lowest. The temperature for our skin and the ph also fluctuates from day to night with the temperature peaking in the evening when the ph is the lowest.

So to summarise this, the studies indicate that skin excretes less sebum, loses more water, is hotter and more acidic during the night-time than during the day. Taking these factors into account it indicates that the skin is likely to be drier and perhaps more vulnerable to irritation at night and may explain why some people are more prone to night-time itch or flare-ups of inflammatory skin conditions.

The Skin Works Hard While We Sleep

It is also believed that the skin repairs itself more at night and that cell renewal is enhanced in the evening. Another important factor is that there is no UV light from the sun (although there is UV present in fluorescent light) and no extreme daytime temperatures or environmental pollutants.

Ideally all out makeup is removed at night and whilst we are sleeping we are not smoking, drinking alcohol or acutely stressed therefore it is a wonderful environment for our skin to catch up with the damage caused throughout the day.

Ta Dah! Dermalogica’s New Night Time Treatment Overnight Repair Serum is Born

All these conditions have been analysed and through this a brand new product from the Dermalogica range has been born – Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum. One of my main concerns would be the prevention of wrinkles and fine lines along with dehydration and I know from my experience in any skin clinic that this is the biggest concern for most people.

Around the age of fifty Hyaluronic acid that is found in the dermis of the skin really starts to decline and as Hyaluronic acid can hold a thousand time its weight in water it is easy to see how the skin will become more dehydrated resulting in fine lines and wrinkles.

Also around the age of fifty the skin elasticity starts to deteriorate along with collagen (the plumping in your skin) – it’s not good news!

When our skin becomes dehydrated it is more prone to sensitivity so it is definitely in our best interest to keep those moisture levels high. Overnight Repair Serum is a true treasure and anyone concerned with sagging skin, fine lines and wrinkles would benefit from superb active ingredients including palmitoyl tripeptide-38 which stimulates two forms of collagen and hylauronic acid and alaria esculenta a brown seaweed that contains powerful antioxidants and vitamins A, B, C and E to nourish skin tissues.

You can check out the Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum Video Below

Dry, dehydrated skin benefits from the Argan Oil which is rich in antioxidants and essential fatty acids that restores the skins barrier and traps in moisture. Dull, lacklustre skin and hyper pigmentation is also addressed with rosehip seed oil rich in retinoic acid and vitamin C.

The results from overnight repair serum are nothing less than superb and my skin already is starting to see new life and is more plumped due to the newly increased hydration and people are already asking me what I am doing differently, which is always a good sign J.

I use the overnight serum on freshly cleansed clean skin, spritz with Dermalogica’s Antioxidant Hydramist and then apply four to five drops over my face and neck and then apply my moisturiser. If you prefer you can mix the Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum into your moisturiser and then apply but I honestly feel you are better to apply the serum directly onto the skin.

An excellent night time skin care routine would be:-

The Dermalogica Age Smart Range:- Dermalogica Skin Resurfacing Cleanser, Spritz with Antioxidant Hydramist, MAP-15 Regenerator (applied to where signs of ageing are prominent), Age Reversal Eye Complex, Overnight Repair Serum – four to five drops let it sink into the skin for one minute before applying Power Rich. Now apply Dermalogica Power Rich.

There are also acupressure points on the face, that can be stimulated when applying overnight repair serum to improve results even further which are easy to perform on yourself, plus I forgot to tell you that Overnight Repair Serum smells beautiful! Thanks to the rosehip oil.

I am sure you will enjoy using this latest high performance product and be as excited as I am by the results I am getting, it really is beauty whilst you sleep, Enjoy!

P.S Have You Tried Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum Yet? Let me Know what you think about it by commenting below – Don’t be Shy – Leave Your Honest Opinion!!!

 

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Dermalogica Age Smart – Why You Need to Use this Skin Care Range if you’re Concerned with Ageing

Dermalogica Age Smart – Why You Need to Use this Skin Care Range if you’re Concerned with Ageing

The Power of Dermalogica Age Smart

If like me you want to continue to look as young as possible for as long as possible, then you are just going to love the Dermalogica age smart range of products and what they can do for your skin. Perhaps you feel you need a step up in your current product

Dermalogica Age Smart - Your Ageing Defense!

Dermalogica Age Smart - Your Ageing Defense!

range – as we all get bored, our skin does too. Then there are those of us who want to prevent the first signs of ageing and keep that dewy fresh young looking skin for as long as possible! Well isn’t it great to know that the Dermalogica Age Smart range will cover all these concerns.
It would have been great to have the fantastic ingredients that the Age Smart Range offers to me, when I was in my twenties so I could have started on it then but for me I use Dermalogica Age Smart Range to help slow down the ageing process and to give me a weapon against further damage.

Dermalogica Age Smart and Glycation

One of the processes of ageing in skin is glycation which is an internal chemical reaction within the body that eventually causes cross-linked collagen (resulting in wrinkles and loss of elasticity), inflammation and the slowdown of cell growth.
Glycation is a result of when sugar comes into contact with a protein (such as collagen) it reacts immediately and generates damaging free radicals that do damage to the cells and cause inflammation. There are many diseases that are associated with glycation such as people who are diabetic (as they have high levels of sugar in their blood and suffer from various health issues).

Glycation is also associated with many diseases of the brain, muscle weakness and heart disease as well as speeding up the ageing process. Reducing glycation is what scientists now believe will help slow down the ageing process and disease formation.

Dermalogica’s Peptide Technology

One of the active ingredients that help control glycation is a polypeptide molecule known as arginine/lysine. This polypeptide acts as a sugar trap and binds to the sugar in the body making it unable to react with proteins and cause glycation, therefore slowing down the ageing process.
This amazing polypeptide ingredient (arginine / lysine) can be found in the following Dermalogica Age Smart products – Dermalogica Antioxidant Hydramist, Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30, Dermalogica Super Rich Repair and Dermalogica Renewal Lip Complex.


I personally love the Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30, it feels so silky smooth and the hydration on the skin lasts for ages and even better a SPF30 which gives my skin fantastic protection without that oily, gluggy feel.
As I have already mentioned inflammation in the skin is another ageing process and anyway we can lessen the impact of this, will definitely be to our advantage. Colloidal Oatmeal, Evening Primrose Oil and Chrysantheumum Parthenium Extract reinforce the skin’s lipid barrier, helps to retain moisture levels and calms irritated skin – Dynamic Skin Recovery is a Winner :)

Free Radical Damage and Why I Love to Use Dermalogica’s Antioxidant Hydramist!

Free Radical Damage is also a big no no as far as ageing is concerned. The body has some great defence against these usually in the forms of vitamins, enzymes and some foods that we digest. We are always producing free radical damage and as we get older it gets worse. UV light, oxygen, pollutants, smoking, etc and although some of us, eat a vitamin rich diet the skin is often the last to get its supply of antioxidants so we need to make sure our skin get adequate supplies of topically applied antioxidants so we can help to repair the damage to collagen, elastin, DNA and tissue degradation.

One of the easiest and quickest ways to do this is by using Dermalogica’s Age Smart Antioxidant Hydramist on clean skin under your dermalogica moisturiser or other dermalogica skin care products. By using this twice a day I find it gives me an instant firming action to lift and tighten my skin and bathes my skin in refreshing hydration – you should try this!

Dermalogica Age Smart and the Effects of UV Damage

UV Damage is another ageing menace to the skin it strikes with no mercy and presents itself either early as sun burnt skin or later in the form of pigmentation and age spots (you can actually see the damage what will eventually show up on your face, with a special tool called a skin scanner), loss of elasticity, formation of wrinkles due to breakdown of collagen, skin cancer, leathery dried out skin – the list goes on – not a pretty picture and even though we may protect ourselves now, the damage has probably been done already.
If you get the chance, check out the skin scanners that are available in the professional skin care centres. Not only will the therapist be able to see your skin damage so will you too! That picture will ensure you will always use sun protection and if you are too lazy to apply a moisturiser and a sunscreen, do what I do and get the Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30 which has both. You can even get mineral make ups with sunscreen protection in, so there is not really an excuse anymore for not wearing sunscreen protection every day.

Inika Cosmetics have sunscreen in there organic mineral makeup range and the amazing Priori Coffeeberry Perfecting Minerals is fabulous, as it always improves your skin’s condition and can be applied as a dry sunscreen for children to wear.
Getting back to UV Damage one of the best things to do for your skin would be to use the Age Smart Dermalogica Map 15 Regenerator. It has a cocktail of high performing revolutionary ingredients to dramatically improve UV damage.

 

 

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Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Cream – A Saviour For Anyone Concerned About Wrinkles Around their Eyes and Why You Need to Use it@

Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Cream – A Saviour For Anyone Concerned About Wrinkles Around their Eyes and Why You Need to Use it@

Dermalogica Eye Cream

Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Cream

Dermalogica Age Smart Age Reversal Eye Complex

Why you Should be using this amazing Dermalogica Eye Cream! – The skin around the eye area is the most delicate and thinest of the whole body that is the one of the reasons this area of the skin is the first to show signs of ageing. Just about everyone is concerned sometime during their lifetime about the skin around their eye area and no wonder! The skin around the eyes is not only extremely thin but is sensitive too and the first signs of ageing occur by the formation of fine lines and wrinkles.

At around 30-35 years of age the skin around the eyes become looser and it starts to develop fine lines and possibly wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness may also appear. It isn’t great that we have a product created in the dermalogica range called age reversal complex. It is often thought that dark circles under the eyes are associated only with more mature skin but the fact is lots of young people are affected also. The eye area is prone to sun damage and hormonal changes this is why pigmentation often presents itself.

Milia which appears as small white lumps on the skin are also a frequent visitor to the skin around the eye area. Because the skin around the eyes does not have sufficient oil glands to keep the area moisturised the skin dries out and becomes dehydrated quickly and this cannot only lead to fine lines and wrinkles but also sensitivity. The eye area is also affected by other conditions such as lack of sleep, continual late nights, illness, incorrect nutrition, incorrect use of cosmetics and excessive bathing or swimming.

Dermalogia Age Reversal Eye Complex contains an ingredient known as Palmitoyl Oligopeptide which enhances the production of collagen and elastin and glucosaminoglycans enabling the skin to be smooth, soft and moisturised. Research has shown that palmitoyl oligopeptide in general aids in skin repair and renewal and is the new best thing to retinol without possible side effects.

Learn More About This Fantastic Dermalogica Eye Cream

Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex also has an exclusive ingredient known as the Ugh Complex which is a cocktail of ingredients that exfoliates, smooths, firms tissue and keeps the skin hydrated and retexturised. Oat proteins, fraxinus excelsior bark extract firm, licquorice, soy and rice bran extract help to reduce pigmentation and brighten dark circles, while niacinamide, bisabolol and caffeine reduce puffiness and as always with dermalogica skin care products they do not contain artificial fragrance or colour and are not tested on animals. There is also 0.1% of retinol in the Dermalogica age reversal eye complex which will help to smooth, reduce fine lines, reverse photo ageing and chronological ageing of the skin tissues.

There is no getting away from the fact that wrinkles indicate age and more so for women – wrinkles are definitely worth eliminating. One of the most important preventatives to limit wrinkling is to avoid the sun’s rays particularly ultraviolet light because they penetrate the skin’s surface and physically destroys the tissues of the skin.

How to Choose an Eye Cream

When choosing an eye cream it is important to consider all factors of ageing. Is the product going to smooth my skin? Is it going to penetrate the skin, address the dark circles, puffiness, dehydration, hyper pigmentation and not cause any nasty side effects? Fortunately Dermalogica Age Reversal Complex addresses all of these problems. Remember to apply an eye cream like Dermalogica Total Eye Care with an SPF 15 during the day time to give your delicate eye area some protection. It is essential that you use an eye cream that is designed to be used around the eye area and not just any old moisturiser. The eye cream needs to be able to penetrate the skin and not overly congest the skin’s delicate tissues by being too oily or rich.

How to Use Dermalogica Age Smart Age Reversal Eye Complex

Start by using this dermalogica eye cream on alternate nights for the first two weeks. As you skin get’s used to this powerful formulation increase to using nightly. After using dermalogica soothing eye makeup remover with silk amino proteins (which conditions your lashes, generally apply Dermalogica Age Reversal Complex by smoothing and patting the eye area from the outside corner towards the inside corner. Remember also to take care of the nutrition of the skin by ensuring you have adequate amounts of vitamins A,C,D and E which are claimed to have beneficial effects for skin health as antioxidants.

What Do You Think to Dermalogica’s Age Reversal Eye Complex? From the Dermalogica Age Smart Range – have You Tried it Yet? I would love to know what you think, Please Leave a Comment Below Good or Bad about this New Dermalogica Eye Cream.

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Why Every Woman Who is Concerned About Ageing Should Be Using Dermalogica’s Antioxidant Hydramist!

Why Every Woman Who is Concerned About Ageing Should Be Using Dermalogica’s Antioxidant Hydramist!

Dermalogica Age Smart Antioxidant HydraMist

Dermalogica Age Smart Antioxidant HydraMist

Stimulate Collagen, Instantly Firm Your Skin and Boost it With Antioxidants

You know are skin is with us all our lives, it lasts longer than clothes, a pair of sunglasses and that flashy looking hand bag and if you are like me and want beautiful, healthy skin, looking after your skin with the best anti-aging ingredients is a wonderful way to ensure that your skin lasts a life time.

Now I have been updating my knowledge over the last few days

 

 on the ageing process and I am glad that I use dermalogica antioxidant hydramist on a daily basis! I cannot believe how powerful and full of goodness it is and if you’re like me and want to do everything you can to slow down the ageing process let me tell you why you need to use this dermalogica age smart product as your first step in the protection of your very best asset – your skin!

Dermalogica’s Age Smart Line  uses the latest in peptide technology and looks at how the triggers of collagen breakdown can be slowed down or halted.

What’s so Good About Dermalogica Antioxidant Hydramist?

It really is another instant effect dermalogica product that not only you feel the difference straight away but it hydrates your skin, has brilliant antioxidant protection, stimulates new collagen formation with the use of peptides and vitamin c (a.k.a MAP) and gives you an instant flash-firming effect.

I really like it because it has ingredients in it that help to combat advanced glycation (sugars that attach themselves to proteins – such as your collagen and break it down) this product has the polypeptide argentine/lyseine that stops sugars binding to your skin’s collagen stopping it from breaking down – a BIG REASON WHY YOU NEED TO USE THIS DAILY!!!!! It contains Glucosamine that controls this processes and stops your collagen from cross-linking which gives you those deep wrinkle lines.

It also protects your skin with my favourite ingredient at the moment which is White Tea Extract (I do drink White Tea daily now, however it’s a sad fact that none of this goodness goes straight to my skin on my face, but gets used in the body – that is why I suggest you use antioxidant hydramist because applying them topically to your skin does give you protection). White Tea Extract stops the enzymes called Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) in particular the enzyme Collagenese that breaks down collagen in your skin when activated either from inflammation or UV.

As we age our natural MMP protectors or inhibitors decline so we need to combat this with topically applied ingredients and White Tea is excellent at controlling these, along with Vitamin C, so you know that any collagen-regeneration products you apply are not going to be wasted, as you know you have White Tea which is inhibiting the MMP’s from breaking down your newly formed collagen!

Packed with Antioxidants such as vitamin C, White Tea is a great antioxidant, liquorice and glycosmine you know that these antioxidants are trapping free-radicals.

What’s so bad about free-radicals? They are responsible (another factor) that may cause damage to your dna, collagen and elastin cross-linking which shows up in your skin as lines, wrinkles, hyper pigmentation and inflammation – you see it’s important!

This amazing topically dermalogica age smart mist also contains Pea Extract which acts like egg white and as the mist dries on your skin it gives your skin that tautness and it’s great to use if you get hot as the cooling mist really helps calm your skin and the beautiful rose, clove and lemon aroma is wonderfully refreshing .

This super-mist also helps to stimulate hylauronic acid with the ingredients glucosamine and Bamboo and sorry to go on about this product but it does have so many great ingredients in it that do so many wonderful things!

The great palmitoyl tripeptide-5 is also in it that helps to stimulate collagen formation and stop the MMP’s from being activated and breaking down the newly formed collagen.

There are great soothing ingredients such as vitamin E, beta-glucan and liquorice and also vitamin a in the form of retinyl palmitate.

If you are concerned about your skin aging and want to keep your skin looking as good as possible, use this product under your moisturiser, it really is every woman’s best friend.

How to Use Dermalogica Antioxidant Hydramist

Prepare your skin by cleansing it with dermalogica precleanse and then your specific dermalogica cleanser, if your concerned with ageing and don’t have sensitive skin then you could try dermalogica’s skin resurfacing cleanser. After you have cleansed your skin, close your eyes and lightly mist your face with the antioxidant hydramist, (don’t let it drip over your face, just a light misting as if you are going to apply hair spray). Next gently press the antioxidant hydramist into your skin and before it’s absorbed into your skin (it should be slightly damp) apply your chosen moisturiser. I really like dermalogica’s dynamic skin recovery for day time use as it does go really well with the dermalogica antioxidant hydramist and it has an SPF30 in with it.

LOVE IT?? HATE IT?? Tell me what you think of dermalogica age smart antioxidant hydramist and comment below, I love to know what you think!

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Dermalogica’s Smart Moisturiser For Premature Aging

Dermalogica’s Smart Moisturiser For Premature Aging

Dermalogica Age Smart Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30

Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery

Dermalogica Age Smart Potent Moisturiser

If you’re concerned about ageing and want more than just a moisturiser that only hydrates your skin then dermalogica dynamic skin recovery is just for you. If you are aware of the dermalogica age smart range you will know how good it is and dynamic skin recovery is no different.

It’s a moisturiser but it also helps your skin fight skin aging free radicals (not that much different from the other dermalogica moisturisers) however the key thing about this dermalogica product is it actually helps your skin fight against the damaging effects of glycation.

Glycation is a new term what is floating around in the skin care industry; it’s the reaction between sugars (glucose) and amino groups in proteins. Collagen is a protein and as a result the sugar reacts with it (known as glycation) causing glycation and free radical damage. The result from this process is inflammation (which accelerates the aging process), the loss of collagen and elastin and also can stop skin cell growth.

The scary thing is our body cannot reverse the glycation process or remove it. Dermalogica however when developing the Age Smart line has discovered a peptide molecule that can act as a ‘sugar trap’ allowing the sugar in the body to bind to it. The peptide is known as Arginine/Lysine polypeptide and thankfully this is included in this moisturiser, providing to your skin an anti-glycation effect!

Yes is new technology, but it’s amazing that we now have a moisturiser that can help protect our skin from this. Dermalogica are starting to use more and more peptides in there formulas and in this dermalogica moisturiser again they have added another peptide known as Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5.

This peptide is amazing, I mean it really is clever it actually activates tissue growth in your skin, it’s a skin-firming peptide and also stops the process of the enzymes that are responsible for breaking down collagen.

Dynamic Skin Recovery Moisturiser

Ok, this moisturiser really feels creamy on the skin, but not on the thick and heavy scale, it’s rich but not thick and it’s jam-packed with moisture usch as hylauronic acid to provide maximum skin hydration. It’s got glycosamine in there which not only fights the glycation process but it stimulates the production of collagen and hylauronic acid in your skin.

Evening Primrose Oil is in this moisturiser and you can tell and feel how it repairs your skin and helps keep it hydrated and it last’s throughout the day. As aging and inflammation go and in hand, it’s no wonder that dermalogica have included ingredients such as Colloidal Oatmeal – which is an absolutely brilliant calmer of skins (I use this a lot in my treatments for anyone with extremely sensitized skin conditions) and Feverfew Extract which helps to calm irritated skin types.

Free radical damage from pollution, smoke and everything else bad around us and White Tea Extract helps to protect our skin against this but it’s also incredibly good at helping with preventing glycation in the skin a really potent and good antioxidant is White Tea.

When you use this creamy moisturiser you will notice how incredibly calming and hydrating it is and will now be happy in the fact that it’s doing all of those amazing things I mentioned above! It’s a daytime moisturiser and it does contain an SPF30. I find it does not leave my skin with any white residue that a lot of sunscreens can, it blends really well and the hydration lasts all day and make up goes on over the top great. Don’t forget that UV is the major cause of skin aging so make sure that if you are going out in the sun all day that you reapply for that extra protection. Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery is more suitable for anyone with premature aging. I have seen client’s skin’s fine lines vanish from using this daily, it’s really good for anyone with a dry, dehydrated skin type.

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Hydrate and Brighten Your Skin at the Same Time!

Hydrate and Brighten Your Skin at the Same Time!

 

Dermalogica Chroma White – Pure Night Moisturiser

Dermalogica Chroma White Pure Night

Dermalogica's Pure Night Moisturiser

Dermalogica Chroma White system is a professional skin care system for helping to reduce hyper-pigmentation. It’s a whole system designed to prep the skin, treat the existing hyper-pigmentation and preventing future pigmentation all while providing skin results. In fact dermalogica found that by preparing the skin (by exfoliating the pigmentation – brown patches areas) and protecting the skin from further sun damage are two of the most critical things when trying to treat hyper-pigmentation on your skin. That is why they have six key products that target your skin health and hyper-pigmentation at the same time.

I am going to tell you about dermalogica’s Pure Night which is one of the products from the Chroma White Range and why you should use it, what it will do for your skin and how it works.

Dermalogica Pure Night

Pure Night is a pigmentation brightening moisturiser (that treats hyper-pigmentation and protects)  that like the name suggests for ‘night-time use’. The key brightening ingredients in the dermalogica Chroma White range is the exclusive oligopeptide-34, this peptide which helps to prevent pigmentation in the cells of your skin for superior skin brightening results. When your skin is under stress which could be from UV radiation, irritation, stress or exposure to chemicals your skin responds by making melanin (melanin is your pigment in the skin that controls the colour).

Oligopeptide-34 works by stopping the trigger from reaching the melanin, therefore stopping it to produce pigment. This peptide also stops the skin from transferring the melanin to other cells in the skin. This peptide was developed by dermalogica and an Asian company and so far dermalogica is the only skin care company that is using this peptide. The results from this peptide have been amazing (what I have been told), it is also said to be far superior to Vitamin C and works on lightening your skin.

Pure Night not only boosts the most newest peptide on the market for pigmentation(Oligopeptide-34 – a big dose of it) but it also contains Lactobacillus Pumpkin Fruit Ferment Filtrate which exfoliates your skin to smooth it’s appearance and help to eliminate those dreaded age spots (pigmentation) and boost the brightening process on your skin by treating and fighting pigmentation at the same time.

Pure Night is a moisturiser so it also works by protecting the barrier function of your skin over night with the help from Jojoba Seed, Cranberry and Raspberry Seed Oils that protect your skin from moisture loss. I find that the consistency of Pure Night is kind of  like Skin Smoothing Cream (a medium-weight moisturiser) it’s not too heavy, just right, Pure Night feels beautiful on the skin, very calming and hydrating and conditions your skin at the same time but if your skin is more on the drier side you can actually apply dermalogica’s Super Rich Repair over the top for extra hydration if you need it.

More than just a moisturiser Pure Night has time (over the night) to work on your skin delivering active and stabilised Vitamin C to prevent more pigmentation and deliver brightening and also helps to smooth fine dryness lines! Ninacinamide is used to topically control any inflammation in your skin (dermalogica always use calming ingredients in there products which I like) but it also helps to decrease pigmentation along with White Tea to enhance the brightening process once again.

Pure Night is a really nice moisturiser, very calming, great consistency and feels wonderful on the skin along with it’s brightening properties, however please remember that if you are seriously considering at reducing your pigmentation you need to use the whole Chroma White Range to get results and expect to wait at least sixty days before you can see a difference.

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Get Serious Firming and Tightening With Dermalogica’s Extra Firming Booster

Get Serious Firming and Tightening With Dermalogica’s Extra Firming Booster

Dermalogica Extra Firming Booster

If you have been worried about the signs of aging lately and noticed that your skin is started to feel not as taught as it once did, you may be interested in dermalogica’s key firming product called extra firming booster, that gives immediate firming and relief to anyone worried about the signs of aging.

Dermalogica invented boosters that are highly active serums that you can use whenever your skin feels the need, you can apply them to certain areas (targeted) of your face under your moisturiser, some of the boosters you can mix in the moisturiser and one of them (the skin hydrating booster) can be used around the eye area to increase hydration.

Dermalogica’s extra firming booster is a fond-favourite for anyone who can see and feel the tell-tale signs of aging and imparticular I find works particularly well for on the neck area (works better than any neck cream, because it’s an active serum that can penetrate better). Watch my video below, to learn all about extra firming booster.

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Extra Firming Booster For Flash Firming

This dermalogica booster contains some amazing ingredients such as vitamin C, palmitoyl pentapeptide-3, wheat proteins, red seaweed extract, horsetail extract, yeast extract and brown seaweed.

This booster is all about firming and regenerating collagen, energising and revitalising the skin!

Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3 – Stimulates deep collagen formation and also increases internal hydration, it works similar to Vitamin A and C.

Hydrolyzed Wheat Proteins – Wheat proteins give you an immediate firming effect when you apply them to the skin, increases the tightening feeling on the skin, but is also responsible for smoothing the skin’s surface.

Brown Seaweed – Rich in amino acids and sugars forms a microscopic firming net over the surface of the skin. It provides a surface tightening action.

Red Seaweed Extract (Corallina Officinalis) – Is responsible for firming the protein links called desmosomes in the skin, dermalogica’s multivitamin power firm also use this ingredient.

Vitamin C – Stimulates structural collagen and elastin production in your skin and increases the firmness in the dermis.

Yeast Extract – Incourages “internal firming” by stimulating cell renewal in your skin.

Horsetail Extract – Reinforces the firming effect

This booster is one of these products that you have to understand how it works, to appreaciate what it is going to do to your skin, I have found it great for on the neck area, as when you get older your neck starts to wither!!!!

Have You Tried Dermalogica Extra Firming Booster – Comment Below and Let Me Know What You Think About this Dermalogica Booster Whether You Like it Or Not!!!!!

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Have You Tried Dermalogica’s Age Smart Potent Lip Complex?

Have You Tried Dermalogica’s Age Smart Potent Lip Complex?
Dermalogica's Age Smart Lip Complex

Peptide-Packed Lip Product - Not Your Average Lip Balm

 

Dermalogica Age Smart Renewal Lip Complex

Dermalogica Age Smart Renewal Lip Complex to get moist juicy lips you need to do more than just use an everyday lip balm. Lips are fragile things, one day they can be nice, plump and juicy and the next dry, cracked and sore. 

In-fact not caring for your lips is a sure way to start getting those tell-tale feathering lip aging lines. Dehydration of the lips can cause them to shrivel up, dry out and crack (have you noticed the older you get the thinner you lips get?) 

Most people reach for their balm when this happens but some ingredients in certain products can cause more damage to your lips and make them even more drier and you end up in a never ending cycle of applying more balm to compensate (not realising that the balm causes them to dry out). 

Dermalogica suggest to avoid using lip products that contain artificial colours like Red D and C dyes, artificial fragrances, lanolin wax, Isopropyl Esters and Myristyl Lactate on the lip area to name a few. Any inflammation is a known precursor to the aging cycle so make sure you use a good quality lip product and check the ingredients. 

If this was not enough assault to our lips as we age and our lips dry out naturally (thanks to UV damage, pollution, cold weather and inflammation). Dermalogica have made the Age Smart Renewal Lip Complex to help smooth and condition the delicate lips fast. The active balm contain many moisturising natural plant oils that smooth your lips and help prevent and repair any damaging cracks. 

The balm itself is a very thick consistency and feels different to a gloss, the balm will actually condition your lips for around three to four hours and with regular use will make your lips really silky soft and smooth. 

 

You can use the renewal lip complex as a primer before applying your lipstick and it helps to reduce those dreaded contour lines, I find it best to use as a night time treatment for my lips and it’s recommended that you use the Age Smart Balm morning and night to get maximum results, apply it after applying your eye cream. 

Besides the conditioning oils dermalogica have added there polypeptide that acts as a sugar trap and binds sugar to the peptide stopping the breakdown of collagen and elastin in the lips (also known as glycation) and reducing fine lines, preventing the signs of aging. 

The Renewal Lip Complex also contains Palmitoyl Oligopeptide an ingredient that helps to restore the collagen in the lips and keeping them fuller for longer. Along with added vitamin E for it’s healing and hydrating properties and it’s help at fighting free radical damage, this dermalogica lip balm is amazing, you will really notice the difference with your lips, it’s the best lip product I have ever tried contains nothing harmful and smoothes uneven texture, another great addition to dermalogica’s Age Smart Line.

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Dermalogica’s Extra Rich Face Block – Do You Know How Good This is?

Dermalogica’s Extra Rich Face Block – Do You Know How Good This is?

Extra Rich Face Block

Dermalogica's Sunscreen Extra Rich Face Block

Extra Rich Face Block SPF30

Before I tell you about dermalogica’s extra rich face block, I wanted to learn about sunscreens. It may come to no surprise to you that the sun’s rays causes aging. The UV radiation from the sun in forms of UVA and UVB rays are responsible for making us look old and can lead to cancer. The UVA rays or “aging rays” I like to call them penetrate the skin much deeper than UVB rays and 99% of photo aging is caused from UVA rays. The impact of these rays coming into contact with our skin causes the breakdown of our collagen and elastin, resulting in wrinkles and loss of elasticity, pigmentation can develop (the little brown marks) and the DNA of our skin’s cells can also be altered and mutated.

There were only two ways to protect our skin from UVA and UVB rays, from either a chemical sunscreenwhich filters out the harmful spectrum of rays or physical sunscreen which reflects the UV rays. The problem with the physical sunscreens such as zinc oxide is they can make you look really white.

Dermalogica has developed a new technology into there new sunscreen range which takes the physical sunscreens and micronises the formula so you do not get that white appearance on your skin but not altering the sunscreens particles, allowing you to still get maximum protection from the sun.

When looking at sunscreens an SPF30 still only filters out around 96% of the sun’s UV rays, this means that 4% of the rays still can access our skin and cause damage in the form of free radicals. Dermalogica have now added a new defence to there sunscreens by combing the sunscreen with vitamins E and C to give you enhanced photo protection. This is in a form of a intelligent DNA capsule that contains the active vitamins C and E. This capsule that contains the vitamins sits on the surface of your skin keeping the vitamins nice and active and when the skin is exposed to UV radiation the capsules bursts open and the vitamins are released onto the skin! This is just a start of what is in Extra Rich Face Block.

Let’s Have a Look at Dermalogica’s Sunscreen For Really Dry or Premature Aging Skins

Besides the new updated vitamin capsule technology in this combined chemical and physical sunscreen it is packed with hydrating ingredients for skin’s that are staved of moisture. The actual cream is a really rich texture perfect for dry skin conditions and nourishes the skin with borage seed oil, evening primrose oil and vitamin E, helping to retain moisture levels. This really is a moisturiser with added sunscreen protection, if you use Intensive Moisture Balance this is ideal daytime moisturiser/sunscreen for you to use.

To keep your skin looking smooth and help maintain the natural moisture levels in your skin this dermalogica sunscreen has added hyaluronic Acid, Urea and Algae Extracts to give your skin a boost. What really excites me most about this sunscreenis dermalogica have added peptides into the formulation giving you a really active moisturiser with superior sunscreen protection. Palmitoyl Tetra-Peptide and Palmitoyl Oligopeptide both work at triggering your collagen to produce and firm the skin’s tissues and restore elasticity. If you find that your skin takes it’s time reforming back into position if you lift it slightly – You need this!

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The Power of Peptides

The Power of Peptides

Dermalogica and The Power of Peptides in Skin Care

Dermalogica Peptides
Dermalogica’s Powerful Peptides

Dermalogica has always looked at the use of ingredients in their skin care range with integrity, in fact there are many of the dermalogica skin care products which have peptides in them. Before I get into the dermalogica products that contain peptides and there uses, I want to go over what actually are peptides and how they benefit the skin.

 

What Are Peptides?

Peptides are a chains of protein fragments. Scientists can control the amount of amino acids in the peptide, how they are linked together and what response they want in the skin, depending on how the amino acids are ordered. Peptides are made in the laboratory (synthetically made) and they are the big discovery in the skin care world, with this new state of the art technology.
 
To give you an example of a peptide which you are familiar with is collagen. Collagen is a big amino acid chain of one thousand amino acids. Peptides made today are not very big compared to collagen, grouping amino acids into bundles of two, three, four and up to thirty four, not sure if they go higher than this? They are small so they can penetrate into the skin.

Peptides Used in Dermalogica Skin Care

Dermalogica have started implementing peptides into there formulations. The Age Smart range is full of them! Below I am going to list the peptides used, and what they are going to do in the skin, and the dermalogica products.
 

Dermalogica Age Smart Peptides

Dermalogica use these peptides in there Age Smart Line:-
 
Polypeptide (two amino acids) – Consisting of Argenine and Lysine – This peptide is wonderful it is used to trap suger to preven glycation taking place in the skin – basically helping to prevent your collagen and elastin breaking down. This peptide is found in Dermalogica’s Anti-oxidant Hydramist (if you are using multi-active toner and you are concerned about aging, give this a try!), dynamic skin recovery SPF 30, super rich repair, and even dermalogica’s renewal lip complex!
 
Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 (three amino acids) – Palmitoyl is a carrier, which allows the peptides to enter the epidermis and begin to work. The tripeptide works at stimulating collgen, firming the skin and control the effects of enzymes that are responsible for breaking down different types of collagen and elastin within the skin. This peptide is used in Dermalogica’s Super Rich Repair, Anti-Oxidant Hydramist and Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30.

Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3 (five amino acids)  – Again Palmitoyl is a carrier, which allows the peptides to enter the epidermis and begin to work. The pentapeptide is responsible for alerting our cells to produce more collagen and hylauronic acid (which is the hydration in our skin). This peptide is used in dermalogica’s Power Rich Super Cream, when we reach thirty we lose 1% of collagen every year, so peptides are great way to stimulate different types of collagen in the skin, giving you plumper less wrinkled skin! I also have found that dermalogica’s extra firming booster uses this peptide for it’s firming effect. Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3 functions similar to vitamin C and Retinol (Vitamin A)!

Palmitoyl Oligopeptide (five amino acids) – Palmitoyl is a carrier, which allows the peptides to enter the epidermis and begin to work. Oligopeptide is a new peptide that conditions the skin and stimulates collagen formation and researchers are saying it is one of the next best ingredients next to retinol, with the added advantage of not having any side effects. This amazing peptide can be found in dermalogica’s renewal lip complex (Yes a lip balm with peptides, have a look at the link, you will see how amazing this lip product truly is), and even dermalogica’s sunscreen/moisturiser for mature skin extra rich face block SPF30!

Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7  – This is the peptide that dermalogica so far only uses in it’s extra rich face block sunscreen, this peptide like the oligopeptide also is responsible for stimulating collagen and hylauronic acid therefore helping to increase elasticity and firmness within the skin.

Palmitoyl Oligopeptide-34 (thirteen amino acids) – This peptide addresses pigmentation (brown marks on the skin). Dermalogica developed this peptide with a biopharmaceutical company, and when they tested this peptide they were blown away with the results. They even have studies showing that this peptide is superior to vitamin C, and getting pigment reduction up to 47% improvement compared to vitamin C’s 27% reduction. With any skin care product for pigmentation you need to use the product regularly and always wear sunscreen and reapply. You need to have patience when using any pigmentation product, as it normally takes about four weeks for you start to see results. This peptide can be found in dermalogica’s chroma white range of products, the C-12 Concentrate, Pure Light SPF30 and Pure Night.

As you can see in dermalogica’s skin care range there are many dermalogica peptides being used, it is exciting to see what we will see next in the future of skin care products.

Agree? Disagree? Tell me your experiences of Using Any of The Dermalogica Anti-Aging Products or any tips that you have or anything to do with peptides I would love to hear your views, please comment below.

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