Happy Wednesday Readers,
Jessica here. I hope you are managing to get through this week. At our office we are still without phones or the Internet and it is driving me crazy! How did we live before this technology existed?! HA.
Anyway, I am not here to complain about my disconnection from the world, I am here to talk to you about skin brighteners.
Lately I have been researching (not surprising because that’s what I LOVE to do…especially
before I purchase ANYTHING) how to brighten my skin and even out tone and texture. I’m pretty rough on my skin and I have suffered the consequences and now have obvious hyper pigmentation that seems impossible to get rid of. (Hyper Pigmentation definition: unusual darkening of the skin from exposure to light, chemicals or other substances). I am very self conscious about it and have always looked for ways to perfect my skin tone. A lot of products that come up when I research the topic are skin whiteners, which only bleach out the skin and perhaps seem more harmful than helpful. I won’t lie, I have tried them and it honestly didn’t help that much. I might have not been patient enough or gave it enough time, but even so, I was not too keen on the idea of using them at all anyway.
Back to the drawing board and my endless researching and web browsing. Without resorting to the ever popular search results of chemical peels, (I really was considering it) I went to amazon.com and searched a bunch of words relating to my issues. When a product page came up I immediately narrow it down by customer ratings, 4 stars (out of 5) or higher. Products with a common ingredient kept popping up with huge ratings...Glycolic Acid. This is also something I have seen used in chemical peels and I was instantly interested in finding at home peels that I could do for less money and in my own home!
At the mention of this to Sara (I run all of my ingredient/chemistry questions through her since she is our office expert and it’s our business to know this stuff) she harshly told me to stay away. Mostly because of the products I wanted to buy involved 40%-70% Glycolic Acid and the main purpose (as described) was to burn the layers of my skin off through, what one customer commented was “quite a traumatic process”. Despite Sara’s warnings...the customer ratings were high and everyone said it helped with their hyper pigmentation…after the scary, gross peeling skin went away. After much debate I finally convinced myself to at least try a product with Glycolic Acid, but only 10%.
The product that now has me hooked and wanting more…c.booth, derma 36, Glycolic Acid Skin Resurfacing Solution. They claim it will “exfoliate deeper than scrubs and cleansers, sloughing off dead skin cells more thoroughly. This resurfacer instantly smooths away the appearance of fine
lines, blemishes, and age spots, visibly improving skin texture, tone and clarity”. Let me tell you...they have lived up to the claims! Although it hasn’t evened out my skin tone 100% it still has shown dramatic improvement and it will probably continue showing improvement as I keep using it!
Jessica here. I hope you are managing to get through this week. At our office we are still without phones or the Internet and it is driving me crazy! How did we live before this technology existed?! HA.
Anyway, I am not here to complain about my disconnection from the world, I am here to talk to you about skin brighteners.
Lately I have been researching (not surprising because that’s what I LOVE to do…especially
before I purchase ANYTHING) how to brighten my skin and even out tone and texture. I’m pretty rough on my skin and I have suffered the consequences and now have obvious hyper pigmentation that seems impossible to get rid of. (Hyper Pigmentation definition: unusual darkening of the skin from exposure to light, chemicals or other substances). I am very self conscious about it and have always looked for ways to perfect my skin tone. A lot of products that come up when I research the topic are skin whiteners, which only bleach out the skin and perhaps seem more harmful than helpful. I won’t lie, I have tried them and it honestly didn’t help that much. I might have not been patient enough or gave it enough time, but even so, I was not too keen on the idea of using them at all anyway.Back to the drawing board and my endless researching and web browsing. Without resorting to the ever popular search results of chemical peels, (I really was considering it) I went to amazon.com and searched a bunch of words relating to my issues. When a product page came up I immediately narrow it down by customer ratings, 4 stars (out of 5) or higher. Products with a common ingredient kept popping up with huge ratings...Glycolic Acid. This is also something I have seen used in chemical peels and I was instantly interested in finding at home peels that I could do for less money and in my own home!
At the mention of this to Sara (I run all of my ingredient/chemistry questions through her since she is our office expert and it’s our business to know this stuff) she harshly told me to stay away. Mostly because of the products I wanted to buy involved 40%-70% Glycolic Acid and the main purpose (as described) was to burn the layers of my skin off through, what one customer commented was “quite a traumatic process”. Despite Sara’s warnings...the customer ratings were high and everyone said it helped with their hyper pigmentation…after the scary, gross peeling skin went away. After much debate I finally convinced myself to at least try a product with Glycolic Acid, but only 10%.The product that now has me hooked and wanting more…c.booth, derma 36, Glycolic Acid Skin Resurfacing Solution. They claim it will “exfoliate deeper than scrubs and cleansers, sloughing off dead skin cells more thoroughly. This resurfacer instantly smooths away the appearance of fine
lines, blemishes, and age spots, visibly improving skin texture, tone and clarity”. Let me tell you...they have lived up to the claims! Although it hasn’t evened out my skin tone 100% it still has shown dramatic improvement and it will probably continue showing improvement as I keep using it! I am very impressed by this solution and it is SO easy to use. Just wash your face as usual and then apply the solution with a cotton ball, leaving it on like a serum. I put this on every night before bed as my overnight repair treatment. There is no dramatic peeling of my skin and it has never been drying, just amazing results when I wake up in the morning. I have been using it for about a month now and I have no complaints, I would love it if they made a stronger one though…with maybe 20% glycolic acid. I might try and find a product that is a step up from 10% glycolic acid and see how much more my skin improves, but for now I am happy with my c.booth solution!
If anyone wants to share their chemical peel stori
es or has an amazing peel-alternative product they use and love please comment and let me know!Until next week…Keep on being beautiful you!
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