SkinPharmaceuticals - Your SkinCeuticals Source

Maintaining optimal, beautiful skin is something that really takes a multifaceted approach. With so many newer and far more effective products available on todays market, selecting and creating a proper treatment regimen can be a bit overwhelming. One thing that you can be sue of however, is that at the end of the day when all is said and done, a good quality hydrator such as Skinceuticals Emollience is a great choice to incorporate in to an effective regimen that will deliver cumulative and sustained results.

SkinCeuticals Emollience

Natural Essential Oils and Extracts

The reason for this, is that this scientifically formulated hydrating skin emollient incorporates an exclusive selection of naturally derived oils and extracts that specifically target dry skin. The extensive list of proven effective natural ingredients in Skinceuticals Emolleince includes extracts of Lavender, Golden Seal, Kelp, Henna, Burdock, Wild Cherry bark, Apricot Kernel and Mango Butter just to name a few of them.

A Surface Dermal Treatment

Unlike other Skinceuticals skin care and treatment products that are formulated to go beyond the skins surface, to the lower substrate where the living tissue is located. Skinceuticals Emollience is meant to function entirely on the skins surface dermal layer. It is meant to be applied once daily to the neck, face, hands and chest after an antioxidant treatment has been applied.

A Softer Surface Dermal Skin Layer

The fine essential oils and skin nutrients in this product function to soften the dermal layer by saturating it, making for softer, far more flexible skin. A second function of Skinceuticals Emolleince, is to actually work to seal in existing skin moisture and to protect the skin from the harsh effects of the environment.

The skin that is located in the area surrounding your eyes is different from the rest of the skin on your face. It is thinner and much more elastic, which results in two things. Because it is thin, it is much more susceptible to stress from aging and sun exposure. Also, due to its thinness and innate elasticity, it will tend to respond faster and better to an effective therapy treatment.

Reduced Puffiness and Fuller Sunken Areas

Skinceuticals Eye Cream is a skin therapy product that was designed specifically for the skin that surrounds the perimeter of the eyes. It is a multifaceted course of treatment that functions by decreasing overall puffiness due to excess fluid retention. Also, it contains active ingredients that effectively enhance the natural production of lipids in sunken areas surrounding the eyes.

SkinCeuticals Eye Cream

Deminishes Dark Circles and Crow's Feet

Two other major issues that this proven effective eye cream addresses is stubborn dark circles and fine crow's feet wrinkles. Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3, tocopheryl Acetate, Disodium EDTA, Cholesterol, lauroyl Lactylate, Cyclopentasiloxane and Ethylparaben are just a few of the potent active ingredients in this skin therapy product that function well below thew skins surface or “dermal” layer.

Better Living Through Modern Chemistry

There are skin treatment products on the market that rely on natural substances as their main active ingredients and one look at the label on this eye cream will tell you that it is not one of them. Rather, this eye cream from Skinceuticals is meant for the person that truly wants results and doesn't want to wait a long time to see them. This is because, just about every substance and chemical that has been found to be effective against skin wrinkles, dryness and color inconsistencies is contained in it.

A persons lips are second only to their eyes for effectivly giving their age away. Smoking, excess sunlight and aging all take their toll and combine to leave their collective calling card on the skin surrounding the lips, as well as the soft delicate skin of the lips themselves.

Fortunately for people who aren't ready to surrender to the aging process without a fight, new products have been developed containing newly discovered and developed active ingredients that can help to hold back, as well as push back the hands of time on their lips.

Proven Effective By Clinical Tests

Skinceuticals Antioxidant lip Repair With Silimarin & Vitamin E is just one of the those new products. Along with these two proven powerful antioxidants that function by attacking and negating free radicals this skin therapy product contains a host of other powerful active ingredients. This is why recent clinical and blind test comparison studies have only verified what millions of users already know.

SkinCeuticals Antioxidant Lip Repair

Multifaceted Approach to Skin Therapy

The secret to Skinceuticals Antioxidant Lip Repairs high level of effectives is its multifaceted approach to addressing the skin issues that are most commonly found around the lips. Powerful antioxidants attack free radicals and ward off impending damage, while active ingredients such as octyl Palmitate, palmitoyl-Oligopeptide, ceteareth-20 and Tocopheryl Acetate function reparativly below the skins surface.

Non Ebrasive Skin Exfoliation

While all of this active skin therapy is going on below the surface dermal skin layer the skins surface is being ex foliated by an AHA-free ex foliating complex, which works to leave the skin silky smooth and liberated from fine lines and wrinkles.

It was the early Egyptians that first discovered the benefits of a general face cream. Ever since then, what began as a concoction of fine oils such as lanolin has evolved to the what is now a modern therapeudic face cream product. Skinceuticals offers a face cream that is formulated to address the needs of a wide variety of skin types and common skin issues. It is important to bear in mind that the face is composed of several different skin types and can also have a number of varying skin problems.
SkinCeuticals Face Cream

Functions on All Three Skin Layers

This primary, lush yet light all-in-one face cream from skinceuticals has been proven to work wonders on dry skin that is showing the effects of aging and or sun exposure. It contains a combined formulation of antioxidants, moisturizers and emollients that work together on all levels of the skin, from the dermal to the sub dermal layers.

A Great Companion Treatment Product

This uniquely formulated face cream from Skinceuticals is a great product to use in combination with other skinceuticals skin therapy products that were created for more specific skin issues. Apply it in the evening after you have treated the fine crows feet lines around the eyes with Skinceuticals Intense Line Defense to help insure maximum results.

Skinceuticals Triple Defence System

Also, apply it in the morning before you put on your makeup to insure that you skin is properly protected as you go about your busy day. Skinceuticals Face Cream employs their revolutionary synergistic triple defense system that was developed to give maximum benefit at all layers of the skin.

For a busy person that is on the go due to work or school, dealing with acne and its subsequent blemishes can be a real problem. Sure there are excellent treatments, such a Skinceuticals Clarifying Cleanser that do a good job of cleaning, ex foliating as well as treating the skin on the face neck and chest. However; it is impossible to stop during the day, clear off your makeup and completely treat your face. That is precisely why Skinceuticals now has available their Blemish Control Gel in a small 30 ml., purse or pocket sized container.

SkinCeuticals Blemish Control Gel

Mild Yet Effective

Skinceuticals Blemish Control Gel contains 1% salicylic acid as its main active ingredient. Salisylic acid differers from other acne fighting medicines, in that it is much milder on the skin and won't dry it out. Also, this convenient pocket sized blemish treatment contains other ingredients, such as 10-hydroxydecanoic and sebasic acids. These mild acids function by working to dissolve organic matter deep inside pores.

Pocket Sized Back-Up Treatment

Skinceuticals Blemish Control Gel is not meant to be a main course of treatment for fighting acne. Instead it is meant as a back up product they you can carry with your during the day and quickly apply from time to time. This is because, even the best topical acne treatment medicines on the market today won't cover you throughout the day. Having Skinceuticals Blemish Control Gel to use will help to keep acne fighting bacteria from getting a foot hold in between acne treatments at home.

For someone that has more than a few years on their belt, the signs of aging around the eyes can present its own unique and special problems. Plastic surgery is always an option but if it isn't done perfectly or there is even the slightest infection, a person can be left with “odd” looking or disfigured eyes. On the “plus” side though, the skin surrounding the eyes is very thin and new research into the effects of aging on this thin skin ahas led to some surprising breakthrough developments.

Proven in Clinical Tests

Signs of aging around the eyes are generally manifested by a few combined skin issues. Puffiness above and below the eyes, crows feet wrinkles and dark circles are a few of them. This means that for a eye care product to be truly effective it must address these three issues. Skinceuticals Eye Balm was specifically formulated to meet the challenges of these three issues and clinical tests have demonstrated that is exactly what it does.

SkinCeuticals Eye Balm

Functions at All Skin Layers

Skinceuticals Eye Balm incorporates a synergistic complex combination of powerful phytochemicals that are engineered to efficiently bypass the skins dermal layer. These active ingredients quickly migrate to this thin skins lower substrate layers where they then function primarily in the dermal epidermal junction on a cellular level. The result is increased production of collagen and elastin and a marked reduction in puffiness.

Will Not Irritate

Because it is specially formulated to be used specifically around the eyes, this corrective eye balm from Skinceuticals will not irritate the eyes when it is used. Also, its effects are cumulative which means that they build over time. This product is also a great companion product to be used with Skinceuticals Anti-Oxidant Mist.

It wasn't all that long ago that most people thought that laying out in the sun to tan was in fact a healthy thing to do. It was just something that people did to pass their time and a sunburn was seen as an acceptable occupational hazard for many sun worshipers. Then the reports started to come out about the real hazards of the sun. Also, people started to get a good look at what was happening to the skin of sun worshipers over the long term and it wasn't pretty.

SkinCeuticals San Soleil Self Tanner

New Options for Tan Worshipers

In spite of all the bad press that the sun has been getting over the course of the past two decades, one fact still remains and that is that a nice tan sure does look good on a person. This has led to more and more people turning to artificial means to give themselves that healthy golden glow that a great suntan will give. However; what far too many people found, was that too many “bottled suntans” left them looking “orange and streaked”.

A Natural Looking Streakless Artificial Tan

Skinceutical research developers went to work and the fruits of their labor is the final answer to all the problems that came with a sunless suntan. Its called Skinceuticals San Soleil Self Tanner and it is the one product that finally delivers a truly natural looking artificial suntan.

How does it do it? Most artificial self tanning products use DHA or dihydroxy acetone as their main active ingredient. This chemical produces a long lasting artificial tan but it does have evenness and coloring problems, that can leave the user looking streaked and orangish. San Soleil Self Tanner from Skinceuticals uses this same chemical but it also contains a chemical additive called erythrulose. This new chemical additive effectively eliminates the problem, resulting in a perfectly natural looking artificial tan.

Acne can be a stubborn adversary. For those who are afflicted with it, life can become one long ongoing battle with shifting front lines as progress comes and then goes again. What new research has shown, is that there really is no magic bullet for curing acne. This is because, what has been shown to be most effective is a combined treatment or regimen that incorporates several different increments of a total strategy.

Clarifying Cleanser in the Evenings

Skinceuticals Acne Care System is a kit that includes four separate acne treatment products that all combine to fight acne and the bacteria that cause it from several different directions. Skinceuticals Clarifying Cleanser uses Salicylic, Glycolic and Mandelic acids to dissolve problem organic matter where it matters most, down inside of the skin pores.

SkinCeuticals Acne Care System

A Back-Up Treatment for During the Day

Skinceuticals Blemish Control Gel is a 30ml. Pocket or purse sized backup system that is used during the day. It keeps acne causing bacteria from gaining a foothold during the day when you can't stop to wash your face. The Retinol 0.5 works below the skins surface, on a cellular level, to minimize blotchines, shrink wrinkles as well as large pores.

Once a Week Relaxing and Therapeudic Deep Cleaning Masque

Scinceuticals Clarifying Masque is used as a once a week treatment. It combines Bentonite and Kaolin, which work to deep clean your skins pores of any impurities. It is a non drying mask that can be left on as long as you like, that is a soothing and refreshing treatment that will leave your skin uplifted and invigorated.

A Great Way to Save While You Treat Your Skin

Not only is buying all of these Skinceuticals in this kit a great way to save money on all four of them but at the same time, it is a great way to try all of these Skinceuticals skin care products. Remember, that if you are only relying on one or two products to treat your acne, then at some point you are being left open to new attacks by acne causing bacteria.

You can find more information on acne at the
Acne Institute homepage.

For years, people just assumed that any type of skin cleanser that had defoliant properties had to have some type of abrasive grit in it to work properly. Numerous brands and types of these cleansers that were actually “liquid sandpaper” lined store shelves and people used them without a thought.

As it turns out however; repeatedly treating your skin like a piece of old furniture is not the best thing that you can do for it. Also, o the dead skin cells that realy needed to be ex foliated most, were lodged inside of the skins pores out of reach of the “sandblasting” that was going on, on the skins surface.

SkinCeuticals Clarifying Cleanser

Mild Acids and Gentle Microbeads

Skinceuticals Clarifying Cleanser now takes a unique approach to ex foliating the skin on your face. Rather than abrasive grit it uses a blend of mild acids that actually dissolve dead skin cells, oils and grime. Glycolic and mandelic acids work to disolve impurities that may be clogging skin pores while gentle micro beads function in the place of jagged abrasives that are contained in other brands of ex foliating cleansers.

Smart Acne Treatment

Skinceuticals Clarifying Cleanser is specially formulated for problem skin. This is why it is able to ex foliate and bring up a fresh new surface on the skin of the face without causing any irritation. Also, it is a two step process that that delivers a one-two punch to stubborn acne and blackheads. Skinceuticals Clarifying Cleanser can be purchased on its own or it can be had by purchasing the Skinceuticals Acne Care System which is a collection of skincare products that are all designed to work in conjunction with each other to fight the good fight against troublesome acne.

For years, skin treatment products were basically limited to oily perfumed products that were designed to “smooth over” surface skin issues while they delivered “aroma therapy” to their users with the perfumes that they contained. However; in recent decades a new and far more broader understanding was gained on just how the skin actually functiones biologically below the surface. This in turn led to the discovery and development of chemicals and substances that actually function on a cellular level in the skins lower substrate layers.

SkinCeuticals Retinol 1.0

Highest Concentration of Retinol Available

Skinceuticals Retinol 1.0 is one products that came about as direct result of some of the latest research. With 1% pure retionol it contains the highest concentration of this powerful active ingredient than any other skin care product currently on the market. This product from Skinceuticals was designed to be used on advanced cases of skin distress including wrinkles and pigmentation issues brought on by sun exposure and or the aging process.

Not a “Feel Good” Tingly Treatment Product

This is no “feel good” treatment that will leave your skin tingling from mint oil like other products that are on the market. In fact, Retinol even in a 1% solution can be painful for some people to use. While it does stimulate the production of collagen and elastin in the skins lower layers it can cause a level of irritation on the skins surface in the beginning of the treatment process. So, it is recommended that initial use be limited to only once or twice a week.