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Anti-Ageing ability?
  • Marula
    Hi
    Optiphi (www.optiphi.com) is winning a lot of awards here in SA in the media. I am a sceptic when it comes to anti-ageing claims, but there seems to be a lot of hype around this product range and I would really appreciate it if you could give me an informed opinion. In short, my question is two-fold:
    1: do anti-ageing products really do anything?
    2: in your professional opinion, does this product do anything? Their Protecting Revitalizer contains the following ingredients: Aqua, Trimethylopropane Tricaprylate/ Tricparate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Thermus Thermophillus Ferment, Ethoxydiglycol, Imperata Cylindrica (Root) Extract, Siegesbeckia Orientalis Extract, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Cyclopentasiloxane, Isotearyl Hydroxystearate, Laureth-7, Polyacrylamide, Ceteareth-20, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteth-24, Choleth-24,Dimethicone, Disodium EDTA, Glyceral Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate,Phospholipids, Propylene Glycol, Steareth-2, Phenoxyethanol, Retinaol, Sodium Ascorbate, Tocopherol, Alcohol, PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, PEG-8, Centaurium Erythraea Extract, Ethylhexyglycerin, Hydrogenated Phosphatidycholine, Terenone, Carbomer, Cholestrol, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate.
    Thanks in anticipation
  • sarahf
    I'm not a professional, but in my personal opinion (and I've heard this echoed by the experts), when it comes to anti-aging, 90-95% of the battle is a really good broad spectrum sunscreen that you use every single day without fail, on all exposed skin, before leaving the house. I have also heard that in over-the-counter products, retinol (in a stabilized formulation or airless pump dispenser), or maybe niacinamide, are the ingredients that may help. It does look like you've got retinol in your product, but I'm not sure how much of it there is, and whether the concentration is high enough to help. Is your product in an airless pump dispenser? There are other ingredients in the vitamin A derivative family that you can look for in prescription products you get from a dermatologist (e.g., tretinoin).
  • lindygirl1960
    Sarah is right about the retinol. And packaging is key when it comes to retinol. Airless pump dispensers or metal tubes work best to preserve the potency of the product.
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