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

Sensitive Skin? Tips to Keep Skin Calm

Sensitive skin has special needs. Skin care expert, Renée Rouleau offers helpful tips and advice for keeping skin calm.

-Wash with a gentle cleanser. Washing your face in the morning and at night is essential to having healthy skin but what you also need to be conscious of is the cleanser that you use. Use a cleanser that will not dry your skin out because this will inevitably cause unwanted damage.

Many foaming and gel cleansers, made today, are formulated with ingredients like Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate or Ammonium Laureth Sulfate. These are surfactants; a cleansing agent that cuts oil from the skin. These ingredients are simply too harsh and will strip the water out of the skin after every washing, leaving the skin feeling tight and creating more irritation and potential redness. Keep in mind– More lather, more drying. Less lather, less drying. See the collection of Renée Rouleau cleansers that are sulfate-free… Read more

Five Skin Care Ingredient Myths You Need to Know

After spending nearly 25 years studying skin care ingredients and working as a cosmetic formulator, I’ve acquired a great understanding of the use of skin care ingredients and how each ingredient affects the skin—positively or negatively.

As a consumer, I know that you do your best to stay well-informed on skin care ingredients so that you can make educated choices about what you put on your skin. Especially for those prone to acne and breakouts, then chances are you’re even more cautious about choosing products that will come in contact with your skin—in fear of increasing your chances of more blemishes.

When a consumer intends on purchasing a product these three actions usually take place:… Read more

Must-Have Skin Care Ingredients for Those Who Exfoliate Regularly

When exfoliating the skin with acids, peels, retinol, scrubs and laser treatments—both at-home or professional—it’s really important to incorporate products with soothing, anti-inflammatory ingredients into your skin care routine. Exfoliants work to inflame and injure the skin, and while this will offer beneficial skin-smoothing, anti-aging results, in the process they trigger inflammation and a cascade of free radicals.

Inflammation (even if your skin never shows redness) is known to be the underlying cause of aging and can work against your attempt for more youthful-looking skin, especially if you’re using many exfoliating products in your routine. Read: Science Lesson: The Free Radical Theory of Aging

To deactivate potential damage, use calming, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant ingredients in your skin care routine such as:

White Tea-the most potent antioxidant blend of all teas (Found in White Tea Soothing Complex)

Green Tea-anti-inflammatory antioxidant (Read: Does Drinking Green Tea Offer Skin Benefit?)

Astaxanthin-most powerful of the carotenoid antioxidant family (Found in Synergy Eye Cream) Read: Are You Using an Eye Cream? If Not, You Should Be… Read more

New and Improved! Firming Eye Therapy

We are excited to launch a new and improved formula of our Firming Eye Therapy!

The Eye Cream: Firming Eye Therapy works to lift and tighten the eye area using the latest collagen-protecting peptide technology, while delivering moisture to replenish the delicate eye area.

Who it’s for: Those concerned with under eye bags, loss of tone and general aging of the eye area.

What’s in it:

Chlorella Vulgaris Extract – anti-enzyme microalgae peptide to protect firmness

Matrixyl 3000 – firming, wrinkle-smoothing protection

Sea Whip – anti-inflammatory, calming agent

Sea Water – retains skin’s natural moisture to smooth away fine lines… Read more

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