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While many skincare ingredients may seem high-end and worthy of the accompanying high-end price tags, that glamorous facade often procures disappointing results. It’s easy to be misled in the competitive world of skincare, making it important to understand exactly what you’re splashing out on for your skin.
If you’ve been trying to add a touch of luxury to your routine, keep reading as VouPre shares X skincare ingredients that not only have an exquisite appeal, but have also been scientifically proven to bring about big changes in the complexion.
1) Caviar Extract
Let’s start with caviar – the epitome of luxury! While this isn’t an ingredient that you’d expect to see in skincare, it’s one that sometimes makes its way into high-end formulas because of the many benefits it brings to the skin.
Caviar is chock-full of amino acids, peptides, omega fatty acids, and more. These compounds are crucial for skin health. When applied topically, they counter the feeling of inflammation while targeting the appearance of UV damage and wrinkles. Caviar extract also has a brightening effect on the complexion. It leaves the skin tone looking more even while also giving the skin a luminescent glow.
If you’d like to try pampering your skin with this gourmet delicacy, turn your attention to the Glacial Overnight Mask from the VouPre BioCool Collection. In this leave-on mask, caviar extract is joined by sodium hyaluronate and extracts from marshmallow, lemon, aloe vera, and algae. Apply it before bed, and you’ll wake up to a smoother and more luminescent complexion.
2) Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
Chances are that you’ve heard of hyaluronic acid – it’s one of the most famous skincare ingredients around! Its stellar reputation can be attributed to its hydrating properties. As a humectant, it binds moisture to the skin. It does this more effectively than many of the other humectants out there, hence why it’s a much-loved ingredient.
Sodium hyaluronate takes things even further. It’s the salt form of hyaluronic acid, and it has a much smaller molecular size, which aids absorption. This means that even those deeper layers of your skin – those that hyaluronic acid can’t reach – feel quenched.
What about hydrolyzed sodium hyaluronate? This is basically sodium hyaluronate that has been chopped up into even smaller pieces. This makes absorption even easier, giving your skin cells access to even more moisture.
As you can see, this is an ingredient that deserves a spot in your skincare routine. You’ll find it in VouPre’s String Lift Sculpting System, which also happens to contain five other forms of hyaluronic acid. It’s an exceptionally hydrating two-part system that will make a huge difference to your skin.
3) Swiftlet Nest Extract
If you’re familiar with Chinese cuisine, you may have heard of swiftlet nest, aka bird’s nest. It’s a very expensive delicacy, but one that’s revered for both its wide range of health benefits along with its unique flavor.
Swiftlet nest is rich in proteins, amino acids, and other bioactive compounds. The unique composition of the extract derived from the swiftlet nest enables it to significantly improve the appearance of wrinkles, while promoting hydration and giving the skin a firmer feel.
Although swiftlet nest extract isn’t an ingredient commonly seen in skincare products, it has been used in each of the four products from the VouPre Bird Nest Collection. This set makes it easy to add the ingredient to a few stages of your skincare routine, meaning that you should see the results of your efforts even sooner.
4) Organic Honey
Honey has long since been a popular skincare ingredient. You’ll find it at the center of many DIY skincare recipes, with this sticky substance easy to find yet capable of doing so much for the skin.
With honey being a natural humectant, it can quickly draw in and lock in moisture. It has an anti-microbial effect on the complexion too, targeting the appearance of acne and keeping the skin looking fresh and clear. Honey contains a few exfoliating enzymes too, and is loaded with skin-loving antioxidants.
However, you need to be careful about the type of honey you slather onto your skin. Non-organic honey often contains pesticide residues, meaning that you could end up applying harmful synthetic chemicals to your skin without realizing it. Organic honey, on the other hand, is much purer. Not only is it better for your skin, but it’s more environmentally-friendly as well.
If you’d like to add organic honey to your skincare routine, the VouPre Cannabis Caviar Transforming Mask gives you an easy and non-sticky way to do just that! This mask is packed with a bounty of natural ingredients. From licorice root and grape stem cells (more on this ingredient soon!) to cucumber and coconut, this luxurious blend of skincare ingredients will leave your skin feeling strengthened and restored.
5) Resveratrol Ferment Extract
Resveratrol is another ingredient that skincare enthusiasts will likely be aware of. It’s a powerful antioxidant that can be found in the skin of red grapes and a few other natural sources. Resveratrol does what other antioxidants do in terms of fighting the appearance of oxidative damage, but its potency means that the results it produces are even more impressive.
While resveratrol in any form will do your skin a favor, resveratrol ferment extract is what we’d recommend splashing out on. This ingredient sees resveratrol undergoing a fermentation process. It’s converted into a more bioavailable form, meaning that the skin absorbs it more readily. It also enhances stability, prolonging the shelf life of the ingredient and ensuring that it produces consistent results.
Although resveratrol produces some serious improvements in the complexion, it’s still a gentle ingredient in that it’s not going to cause any harm to even sensitive skin. This makes it a good ingredient to use on the more fragile areas of your skin, like the skin around your eyes. Add VouPre’s Dark Circle Eye Cream to your skincare routine and, with a blend of resveratrol ferment extract, vitamin C, collagen, and caffeine, your eye area will look more youthful in a matter of weeks.
6) Grape Stem Cells
Some skincare ingredients are more challenging to produce than others. That’s often what gives them a more luxurious appeal, and it’s also why grape stem cells have become a highly sought-after ingredient in the high-end skincare market.
Grape stem cells don’t just come from any old red grapes. Instead, specialized, rare varieties are grown to produce this ingredient. They’re chosen because they have a higher antioxidant content and are more resistant to environmental stress – two properties that transfer over to your complexion when grape stem cells are applied topically.
The popularity of grape stem cells has recently grown due to the emergence of new studies that support the ingredient’s efficacy. While there was always plenty of science behind the power of grape stem cells, there’s now even more, and that can’t be ignored.
With an antioxidant profile that most other ingredients would struggle to compete with, grape stem cells can be found in a few VouPre products. We’d recommend trying the Advanced Gold Eye Serum. It brings grape stem cells together with several other powerhouse skincare ingredients, including ginkgo biloba extract, vitamin C, and a cocktail of peptides.
7) Algae Oligosaccharides
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Let’s move on to an ingredient that most people haven’t heard of: algae oligosaccharides. While this one may be a mouthful to pronounce, it’s an ingredient worth getting familiar with…
Oligosaccharides are a type of carbohydrate. They’re naturally found in certain foods, such as onions and legumes. The body can’t actually digest oligosaccharides, but they ferment once consumed, acting as prebiotics that produce fuel for the natural probiotics in the gut to thrive.
Algae oligosaccharides are oligosaccharides that have come from algae. They function as prebiotics when applied topically, too, which gives the skin microbiome a significant boost. Thanks to their low molecular weight, algae oligosaccharides penetrate the skin easily, improving hydration and providing an array of antioxidants. Research shows that this ingredient is also effective at relieving the feeling of skin inflammation.
Intrigued? Give this revolutionary ingredient a try with our 24K Cleopatra Nano Regimen. This skincare system consists of three products, with the algae oligosaccharides found in the 24K Cleopatra Nano Silk Cream. However, use the three together in the intended way, and you’ll also be reaping the rewards of several other superstar skincare ingredients.
8) Collagen Amino Acids
Last but not least, let’s talk about collagen amino acids. You’ve probably heard of collagen – the structural protein that gives your skin its firmness and smoothness. The body naturally produces collagen, but the rate at which it does so declines with age, hence the onset of wrinkles and sagging skin.
While applying collagen topically won’t compensate for this, collagen is still a popular ingredient because of its hydrating capabilities. Like hyaluronic acid, it binds moisture to the skin to provide a long-lasting water source.
So, where does the amino acid part come into things? They’re essentially the building blocks of collagen. When collagen is hydrolyzed, it breaks down into smaller pieces, aka amino acid molecules. The purpose of doing this is to enhance absorption. The smaller the molecular size, the more readily an ingredient will sink into your skin. Collagen amino acids act as hydrating humectants, too. They also leave the skin barrier feeling supported.
These properties make collagen amino acids a great ingredient to have in a moisturizer. This is why we’ve included it in the VouPre Derma Revive Neck Cream. The neck is an area of skin that’s highly susceptible to the wrinkling that comes with age. This moisturizer, however, will leave your skin looking much firmer and more supple.
Luxuriate in the Best Skincare Ingredients With VouPre
At VouPre, we’re all about bringing together luxury and functionality. Skincare products shouldn’t just look good – they also need to actually work. This is why we’re big champions of all of the above ingredients – not only will they add a touch of decadence to your skincare routine, but they’ll also bring about the improvements that you’re hoping to see in your complexion.
