Skin Care Ingredients to Use and Avoid for Normal Skin

When it comes to getting the best results from your skin care products, it’s so important to use and avoid certain skin care ingredients.

NORMAL SKIN

Use:

- Dimethicone. This ingredient protects, smoothes and softens without oil. (Found in Renée Rouleau Vitamin C&E Complex)

- Algae Extract. This is a humectant derived from sea plants that improves the skin’s ability to hold onto moisture. (Found in Renée Rouleau Hawaiian Nourishing Cream)

- Panthenol. This is a provitamin B5 that offers excellent hydration. (Found in Renée Rouleau Skin Drink)

- Sodium Hyaluronate (also known as Hyaluronic Acid). This is a bioactive hydrating ingredient that can bind 1000 times its weight in moisture to the skin. It has been used for years and continues to be one of the most commonly used skin-hydrating ingredients for oily skin. (Found in Blue Azulene Cream)

- Glycolic Acid. This is an AHA that is favored because is has the smallest molecular structure and can absorb deeper within the skin. This helps to dissolve surface dry skin cells to encourage brighter, more even-toned, and smoother skin. (See our collection of alcohol-free glycolic acid serums.).. Read more

Skin Care Ingredients to Use and Avoid for Problem, Acne-Prone Skin

When it comes to getting the best results from your skin care products, it’s so important to use and avoid certain skin care ingredients.

PROBLEM, ACNE-PRONE SKIN

Use:

- Salicylic Acid. This is an antiseptic exfoliator that offers anti-inflammatory benefits for soothing acne conditions. (Found in Renée Rouleau AHA/BHA Cleansing Gel)

- Beta Glucans. This yeast extract helps to make skin less sensitive over time and encourage less breakout activity. (Found in Skin Correcting Serum)

- Tea Tree Oil. This offers disinfectant properties to destroy acne-causing bacteria and keep pores clean. (Found in Tea Tree Anti-Blemish Lotion)… Read more

Skin Care Ingredients to Use and Avoid for Oily Skin

When it comes to getting the best results from your skin care products, it’s so important to use and avoid certain skin care ingredients.

OILY SKIN

Use:

- Oil-free ingredients. These attract and retain water in the skin, which is crucial for keeping oil production at bay. (Renée Rouleau Matte Moisture is great for reducing shine.)

- Sodium Hyaluronate (also known as Hyaluronic Acid). This is a bioactive hydrating ingredient that can bind 1000 times its weight in moisture to the skin. It has been used for years and continues to be one of the most commonly used skin-hydrating ingredients for oily skin. (Found in Renée Rouleau Skin Drink, Skin Correcting Serum and Detoxifying Mask which are all excellent products for oily skin.)

- Sodium PCA (Sodium Pyrollidone Carboxylic Acid). This is a water-binding agent that helps attract water in the skin. (Found in Matte Moisture).

- Glycolic Acid. This is an AHA that dissolves and digests surface skin cells to encourage fresher, clearer, and smoother skin, reducing the appearance of large pores. (See our collection of alcohol-free glycolic acid serums.)

Read: How Do I Care for My Oily T-Zone?… Read more

Ten Amazing Skin Care Ingredients to Keep You Looking Young

At Renée Rouleau Skin Care, we are constantly researching what’s new and what really works for your skin. So, here’s my list of my favorite anti-aging ingredients that both myself and researchers find are the most efficacious to keep your skin more youthful-looking.

Yeast Extracts

We have special skin repair cells just below the skin’s surface called Langerhans cells. They are our first line of immune defense in the body. These cells are very active when we are young to protect us from environmental skin damage and reactions. As we age, these cells become less active and the signs of aging begin to show. Yeast extracts are like nothing else on the market in stimulating these sluggish skin repair cells. They work well for both tired and sensitive skins alike. You’ll find Yeast Extracts in our Intensive Firming Serum, and Moisture Infusion Toner. Beta-glucan yeast extracts (as found in Skin Correcting Serum and Phytolipid Comfort Cream), have been shown to make skin less sensitive over time, as well as provide excellent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits.

 Read: Inexpensive Products vs. Expensive Products. Which Are Better?

Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHAs)

AHAs (including glycolic, lactic, and fruit acids) are helpful in reducing wrinkles, fine lines, irregular pigmentation, age spots, and decreasing the size of enlarged pores by exfoliating away dead surface cells that age the skin. Exfoliation triggers repair, producing newer, fresher, younger-looking skin. The favored AHA is Glycolic Acid because it has the smallest molecular structure, and can penetrate deeper. Lactic cannot penetrate as deeply, but is gentler and more hydrating. AHAs are more effective in higher concentrations, such as those found in serums, which also retain the desired pH levels. It is important to note using acid products too often can lead to irritation, which then triggers an aging and inflammation response. See our collection of Glycolic Acid serums… Read more

Skin Ingredient Spotlight: Hyaluronic Acid

Hyaluronic Acid – It’s a component of your skin’s own natural tissue that is frequently used in skin care products as a good skin-identical ingredient, since the skin responds and accepts it easily into the skin. It’s a bioactive hydrating ingredient to bind 1000 times its weight in moisture to the skin and commonly found in toners (alcohol-free), specialty serums, moisturizers and eye creams. It’s also known as Sodium Hyaluronate and has been used for years and continues to be one of the most commonly used skin-hydrating ingredients. With continued use, skin’s water content improves daily and fine lines and wrinkles become plumper and therefore less visible.

It is also used as an injectable by dermatologists for filling in lines and wrinkles since the body doesn’t really see it as a foreign substance since it’s found in our own bodies.

Read my views on Plastic Surgery, Injectables and the Art of Altering the Face

Here are the Renée Rouleau products containing Hyaluronic Acid:

Skin Drink… Read more

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