VitaSkin Vitamin A Resurfacing Mask

Holland&Barrett launched a new vegan skincare line, enriched with vitamins to leave your skin looking  all glowing and healthy. 

 

Vitaskin Vitamin A Resurfacing Mask is 100% natural and vegan. This is a rejuvenating face mask packed with Retinoids and Carrot seed oil containing high levels of vitamin A and vitamin E to help promote softer, smoother and radiant skin.

This product comes in a dark glass jar (60 ml) and it has a beautiful balm texture. Very easy to apply, on clean skin for about 10 min. Not only easy to apply but also easy to remove with a wet cloth. I just love a face mask that i can easily and gently remove without pulling and rubbing my skin too much. Skin is left hydrated, smooth and soft. 

Ingredients:

Glycerine, Aqua, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Oilvate, Retinyl Palmitate, Caprylic/capric Triglyceride, Tocopherol, Daucus Carota Sativa Seed Oil, Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil, Lavandula Angustifolia Flower Oil, Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol, Limonene, Citral.

Pixi Beauty Retinol Collection And Everything You Need To Know About Retinol

At the beginning of the year 2020 Pixi gifted me their entire Retinol skin care line and I have been using these products for almost 8 months now. 

With Retinol products I really need to take time to see how they work, because Retinol is not something I wanna rush with. I am going to explain why you should always take your time when using any form of Retinoids.

Before I start talking about all these Pixi Retinol products, I have been gifted, I want to say a few important things about Retinol in general as an anti-age ingredient, because I know how confusing skin care and active ingredients can be sometimes.

What exactly is Retinol

Well, a lot of people are confused about Retinol- some think Retinol is an acid, some think Retinol is a type of oil and some already know that Retinol is actually a synthetic vitamin A derivative.

Retinol is one of the many different types of Retinoids (the umbrella term for all vitamin A derivatives).

Usually a drugstore formula would have retinyl palmitate (the weakest form of retinoids ), retinol (the next strongest form of retinoids), retinaldehyde (stronger than retinol ) or adapalene ( the strongest over the counter option and used for acne formulations). 

When Retinol is applied topically, it converts to retinoic acid by two specialized enzymes that can be found in our skin, and retinoic acid plays an important roll in cell growth, differentiation and organogenesis.