If You’re Scared Of Flaking And Peeling From Retinol, Here’s An Amazing Plant-based, Derm-approved Substitute
If You’re Scared Of Flaking And Peeling From Retinol, Here’s An Amazing Plant-based, Derm-approved Substitute
WHAT: True Botanicals Phyto-Retinol Sleep Serum
WHY: Ok, so first, why is retinol important?
It’s one of the 3 key ingredients we should be using on our skin post-40, that actually has any real benefits. Truly. This is dermatologist-backed and we wrote about it HERE.
But.
And this is a big one.
Retinol can be truly hideous to get through. We use a product that makes our skin worse? That makes our face flake and peel and sting and turn red? We’ve always been scared (skeptical?) that we just have to white knuckle our way through that hideous, dark phase and glowing, plump skin will be waiting for us on the other side.
But we’ve never been brave enough to stick with it. We usually abandon real retinol products at the peak of raw flakedom so we never know what powers they hold.
And so, when one of our favorite brands on this earth came out with a PLANT-based retinol, we bought it in what can only be described as a breathless, desperate, frenzy. We wanted to be able to use it for at least a month before sharing it with you to see if we had sensitivity, to see if there were any adverse side effects, and mostly to see if it…did a damn thing for our skin.
It is the Phyto-Retinol Sleep Serum by True Botanicals and friends, comrades, people of earth? WE LOVE IT.
Ok so what IS it? Excellent question and it’s one we wondered ourselves.
The key active ingredient is something called “peptillium” which is basically comprised of purified biopeptides from….the cranberry. And apparently it has the same wrinkle-reducing powers as traditional retinol with ZERO sensitizing side effects.
The earth is wild, no?
We love that this product has been given the stamp of approval by a board certified dermatologist and we can tell you from personal experience that in just one month of using this product nightly, we are seeing reduction in wrinkles, better overall tone, and diminished texture.
We LOVE that we could just start using the product every, single night (as opposed to starting once a week as it often the recommendation for retinol) which means the results are visible much more quickly which is always what encourages us to keep using a product and not give up on it.
We layer a thick moisturizer on over it, and, still can still use THIS vitamin C in the morning (which is another one of the KEY 3 products us over-40 gals need to use daily, along with COPIOUS amounts of spf) and not only do we have zero irritation, we wake up with skin that looks glowy and plump every day. With LESS redness in fact, which is almost impossible to believe with a retinol-adjacent product.
As we’re gettin’ older, we’re reducing the number of products we use every day, because we realize so many of them just do nothing but smell good and make us think we’re taking care of our skin. We only want to use products that have high efficacy, are proven anti-aging fighters, while being gentle.
This product is it. It’s going into the permanent line up for us. No question.
Use THECANDIDLY18 to get 18% off on your order.
Price: $90
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