This is a guide to the ingredients found in skincare items. It is directly related to my guides, but many other skincare products use these ingredients!
- 3-D Sculpting Complex - olive leaf extract (protects collagen), Shiitake mushrooms (prevets collagen breakdown), soy protein (repairs collagen)
- Aloe - soothing to the skin, repairs damage.
- Alpha Hydroxy Acid - Reduces the appearance of fine lines/wrinkles by removing dry, flaky, dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- Algae - reduces the itchy part of dry inflammed skin
- Apple Extract - naturally exfoliates & conditions skin (w/ mango extract).
- Beta Hydroxy Acid - acid extracts that chemically exfoliate the top layer of skin. They have the same effect as AHAs, but they're less irritating and come from different sources
- Botanical Soothing Complex - Soothes, detoxifies, and provides antioxidant/anti-inflammatory properties to the undereye area.
- Derma 3X Technology - enhances the skin's ability to produce and maintain its own collagen, elastin, and hydroproteins. Recreates collagen, rebuids elastin, regenerates hydroproteins.
- Fennel extract - an antioxidant, protects against environmental damage
- Ginsing Extract - tones skin
- Glycerin - softens and binds moisture to the skin
- Glycolic Acid - exfoliator
- Gold Mesh Technology - patent-pending, delivers lifting, firming, and contouring results for the facial skin.
- Grape Seed Extract - Powerful antioxidant.
- Grape Seed Oil - Quickly absorbs into the skin, forms a moisture protection barrier (w/ Sunflower Seed Oil)
- Green apple extract - protect the skin's supporting structure from signs of aging (with grape and honeysuckle extracts)
- Green Tea - antioxidant
- Hydrolized Milk Protein - improves skin's ability to retain moisture.
- Hyaluronic acid - holds up to 1000 times its weight in water, holds moisture
- Hydroquinone - lightening agent that gently fades skin discoloration
- Illuminex - Vitamin rich lightening complex.
- Intelligent Power Repair - Encapsulated algae serum and cat's claw bark. Plankton extract aids in cellular DNA repair.
- Lumin8 - Patent pending. 8 essential natural ingredients that respond to the body's changes that are caused by skin stressors. Pomegranate, soybean, grape, cucumber & sunflower seed extracts, Pro-Vitamin B-5, hyaluronic acid, & phytol.
- Mallow extract - anti-inflammatory, soothes skin
- Mangostin Extract - patent-pending fruit extract from South Asia to help reduce the appearance of spider veins, broken capillaries, and redness.
- Moisture Retention Compound - helps dry skin stay supple.
- Oat Extract - soothes & repairs the skin, promotes rejuvination.
- Orange Blossom - controls oil flow & production. Tightens pores & deep cleans.
- Olive leaf extract - inhibits free radical damage and helps stimulate collagen and elastin production
- Oxa-Acid - exfoliates, retexturizes skin.
- Panthenol - moisturizes skin
- Phytosan - stimulates cell repair and helps reverse signs of aging
- Pineapple Extract - natural enzyme that cleanses, reduces irritation, & accelerates tissue repair (with papaya extract)
- Plankton extract - repairs damaged skin, marine derived enzyme activated by visible light, helps fight DNA damage
- Pomogranate Extract - anti-inflamatory
- Portulaca - Patent pending extract that helps erase the appearance of stubborn lines while maintaining your natural expressiveness
- Pro-balancer - Triple protective and balancing antioxidant mix to make cells stronger and prevent cellular mutations.
- Pro-retinol - penetrates the skin to help increase skin elasticity & to normalize dry, parched skin. Also a critical antioxidant, used in anti-aging creams.
- Pure Soothe Complex - helps control oil & balances/soothes the skin
- Recovery Surge - Cranberry and fresh algae extracts give skin a cellular recoup-surge that reduces breakdown and creates quicker rebound.
- Renewal Complex. Contains wrinkle-fighting agents - retinol, ritinyl palmitate, and beta carotene that are time-released. Also contains Oxa-Acid (retexturizes) and Oligo-Peptide Technology (protects and enhances elasticity and firmness.
- Retinyl Palmitate - Vitamin A derivitive that acts as one of the most effective smoothing agents.
- Revitalizing Complex - Light reflectant and age-delay technology. Contains tocopherol acetate (Vitamin E), plankton extract, hydrolized milk protein brighteners and clarifiers, and oxa-diacid (gentle exfoliator).
- Rosemary Extract - antioxidant that reduces the appearance of fine lines/wrinkles (with tomato extract)
- Rejuvi-Cell Technology - enhances cellular communication
- Shiitake mushrooms - prevents collagen breakdown
- Silica Beads - oil absorbing that can scatter light to make skin appear airbrushed
- Sunflower Seed extract - enhances skin's elasticity and reduces the appearance of sagging skin and wrinkles.
- Vitamin A - penetrates the skin to help increase skin elasticity & to normalize dry, parched skin. Also a critical vitamin & antioxidant.
- Vitamin B-6 - maintains soft/supple skin
- Vitamin C - Helps to reverse the visible signs of aging by stimulating collagen synthesis in skin (firms). It is also a vital antioxidant.
- Vitamin E - Tocopherol, an antioxidant vitamin that helps fight free radicals
Guide created: 10/28/05 (updated 07/20/07)


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