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Potent potions for the skin Frequently used as part of in-salon treatments, as well as in home care skincare regimes, serums are specially designed to deliver high concentrations of specific active ingredients deep into the skin. Here we focus on serums that boost and invigorate the complexion
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rom Danish medical grade skincare brand, Beauté Pacifique, the SuperFruit Moisture Enforcement Serum is a unique, water-based serum. Containing extracts of and juice from the Nordic superfruits – sea buckthorn, cloudberry, lingonberry, sugar beet and birch – the serum prevents impurities and redness in young skin, while making the skin more even. Betula alba juice from Nordic birch trees was already known in the Viking Age as a health product. Modern science has shown positive and active ingredients in the juice from birch trees, which can bind extra moisture to the skin and seems to have a firming effect. SuperFruit Serum includes a
new ingredient – vaccinium vitisidaea fruit extract (lingostem), which comes from the stem cells of the superfruit, lingonberry. It has strong antioxidant properties, combats UV sunlight damage and protects against blue light. This ingredient enhances the skin’s collagen network with the same effect as vitamin A esters. Hippophae rhamnoides fruit extract/ buckthorn is a Nordic berry with countless active ingredients. It can even out the skin’s pigmentation and make the skin more resistant and robust, while cloudberry seed extract is a Nordic berry that scientific studies have shown is able to delay loss of skin elasticity caused by age degeneration. This extract impedes the enzyme elastase, which decomposes the skin’s elastic fibres over time. Lastly, papain (from papaya fruit) is part of Beauté Pacifique’s new advanced exfoliation system.
Trio of peptides Environ’s Tri-Peptide Complex+ Avance Elixir, from the Focus Care Youth+ Range, contains meiritage – a unique blend of extracts from Chinese roots used in traditional medicine, which have been shown to be effective in reducing the effects of oxidative stress (UV radiation and pollution) and
brightening the appearance of uneven skin tone. This product also contains a combination of three powerful peptide complexes that may assist in improving the overall structure of the skin. The powerful combination of ingredients in this multifunctional serum may leave the skin looking radiantly luminous and resiliently younger for longer.
Historical oils One of the serums in the CSpa range that is referred to as an ‘elixir’, Age-Reversal Serum provides a rejuvenating and regenerating effect. Frankincense and myrrh, both essential oils made famous for their noble history, are also highly effective in stimulating the
