Serum Reviews
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Algenist Elevate Advanced Retinol Serum Review
The Algenist Elevate Advanced Retinol Serum is the new retinol addition to the increasingly popular Algenist range and although I’ve already tried and reviewed their old retinol firming lifting serum, I thought it only fair to try out their new formula. It could, after all, have been a negative replacement rather than an improvement so there really was only one way to find out. Their original retinol serum was a popular product and after trying it, I could fully understand why but after the arrival of the new elevate serum, the old firming lifting serum has slowly been discontinued and has now pretty much vanished off the shelves. Obviously, as…
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InstaNatural Retinol Serum Review – Why It’s Not For Me
Before I even begin, this InstaNatural Retinol Serum review is the first negative review that I’ve had to write so I wanted to point a few things out before I get started. Firstly I’m not necessarily saying that this is a bad product (it’s highly rated reviews across the net would certainly contradict that) it’s just that it’s not a product that worked well for me personally. We all have different skin types and what works great on one person’s skin may wreak havoc on someone else’s so I just wanted to add my own not so great experience to the mix. There were also a few other things that…
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Manuka Doctor Apinourish Age-Defying Serum Review
The Manuka Doctor Apinourish Age-Defying Serum is a product from the increasingly popular Manuka Doctor company and this particular product is part of their Apinourish range. Just in case you’re new to the brand, Manuka Doctor is the skincare company that combines both manuka honey and bee venom into their skincare products and it’s making them more and more popular in the process. It’s no secret that I’m having quite the love affair with Manuka Doctor products at the moment to the point where I’ve just bought another four new products to test out and review. This particular serum though is not new to me. I actually tried this serum…
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The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 Review
I’ve been coming across The Ordinary brand quite a lot recently so I decided that I wanted to try and review a few of their products starting with this one, The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 review. This particular product was the first one to spark my interest because so many people were raving about it, not just because it was said to be really effective but also because it was so effective at a ridiculously cheap price much like most products in The Ordinary range. By cheap price, I’m talking less than the average Amazon cheapy serum but what enticed me even more was the fact that it was…
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U Skin Vitamin C Serum – A Cheap Serum That Actually Works
The U Skin vitamin C serum is a serum that I really wanted to review for a couple of reasons. The first being its extremely reasonable price and the second being its popularity (more so in Europe) and its high review ratings. There are actually a whole bunch of these reasonably priced serums and this one came up amongst some of the favourites. This is the first one of many that I wanted to try to see how they compared to the higher priced branded vitamin C serums and really to see if any of them were good enough to even replace them. I should mention before I continue that…
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Best Hyaluronic Acid Products For Skin
If you’re looking for the best hyaluronic acid products to give your skin that extra boost in moisture then take a look at some of the following popular choices. Hyaluronic acid is an excellent ingredient when it comes to anti-aging especially with its ability to retain high levels of moisture so it’s no wonder that it’s become a popular serum choice all on its own. Finding a good one, however, is not necessarily as easy as you may think as I mentioned before in this post about the benefits of hyaluronic acid and with so many out there to choose from the task becomes even more of a challenge. But…
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Best Inexpensive Vitamin C Serum
You don’t always have to pay a fortune for good skin care products and I thought it would be a good idea to look into the whole inexpensive range starting with the best inexpensive vitamin C serum. I’ve already written about the top running vitamin c serums but the top brands seem to steal all of the spotlight and I wondered if there were any cheaper versions that could compete or at the very least come close to them. I spent a lot of time looking into them and believe me, there’s a never-ending list of them to get through but there were really only two that stood out against…
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Algenist Retinol Firming Lifting Serum – Review
The Algenist retinol firming and lifting serum is becoming quite a popular choice when it comes to retinol products and with so many people singing its praises, I decided that I had to check it out in more detail. It’s not exactly the cheapest retinol product out there, in fact, it’s quite the opposite and at around $100.00 per 1 oz/30ml bottle, you’d certainly want to know that you were getting something that would actually work and make a substantial difference to your skin. Why Use Retinol Most of us are already familiar with retinol but just in case you not, retinol is one of the most popular anti-aging ingredients…
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Best Vitamin C Serum for the Face
There are a lot of things to consider when looking for the best vitamin C serum for the face and these include not only the amount and type of vitamin C that is present but also what other ingredients have been included in the formula. There are also several other important factors to consider like how well the product has been formulated right down to the pH level. The marketplace is flooded with different vitamin C serums but not all are as good as they may seem so finding the best from the rest is not always an easy task. Most people are aware of the popularity of Vitamin C which has…
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The Top Retinol Creams – Who Are the Top Runners?
Retinol has become one of the best ingredients for anti-aging skin care so finding the top retinol creams has become quite the obsession of mine. If it wasn’t already difficult enough with so many products to choose from, another major problem is that many skin care brands do not state the percentage of retinol in their products. This can make it even harder to determine which products will be more or less effective. This is especially problematic if you are a complete retinol virgin who is searching for the lowest strength product to ease yourself onto retinol gentle. On the other side of the coin, if you’re already using a…
