Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Why Use Night Serum?

Restoring Night Serum

Restoring Night Serum works while consumers sleep and does not require application during the day. Restoring Night Serum’s research shows that skin naturally recovers during sleep, so Restoring Night Serum strives to accelerate this process.
Restoring Night Serum claims to use a patented cross-linking elastin technology to hydrate the skin while strengthening the skin. Results are said to appear in two weeks or fewer. Wrinkles are said to be reduced when skin is strengthened as well as to reduce aging factors. Restoring Night Serum is proud to say that it does not include oil or parabens in its product and uses a hypo-allergenic blend of non-comedogenic ingredients. With a price of ninety-five dollars Restoring Night Serum has potential, but does it work?


Restoring Night Serum uses natural ingredients to benefit the skin. Such ingredients include turmeric root extract, dill extract, and vitamin E. Vitamin E works as an antioxidant to fight free radicals but does not have the properties to reverse the signs of aging. Both turmeric root extract and dill extract do not have the capability of reducing wrinkles either.
Peptides have been proven to stimulate collagen and elastin production in the skin but only when provided in large amounts and large numbers. Restoring Night Serum includes one peptide—palmitoyl pentapeptide-4—for this reasons; however without the addition of other peptides, this one peptide is not effective in reducing the look of wrinkles.
Other ingredients in Restoring Night Serum include water, glycerin, ethyl decadienoate, niacinamide, xanthan gum, caffeine, benzyl alcohol, and polymethylsilsequioxae.
Restoring Night Serum lacks the needed ingredients to reduce wrinkles, though one peptide is included. Wrinkles cannot truly be reduced in two weeks, despite the dozens of other ingredients included. Antioxidants and moisturizers give the skin added benefits but cannot do as Restoring Night Serum advertises.



CATHERINE ROBERTO-KARAS is not sure if the cream she dabs onto her face every evening — Clarins Gentle Night Cream for sensitive skin — erases wrinkles or leaves her skin looking any younger. She just knows that she doesn’t want to go to sleep without it.
Jamel Toppin for The New York Times
“It’s totally psychological,” said Ms. Roberto-Karas, 39, who works in information technology in Manhattan. “I don’t see any direct effect the next day, but I still feel that maybe it does something. I use it because I was told by my older sister, who is a fanatic about trying to keep as youthful as possible, that I should.”
Ms. Roberto-Karas is among the many women who choose to invert their wallets, and pay from a few up to hundreds of dollars to slather on night creams, rather than sleep naked-faced. Their enthusiasm for smoothing and softening skin, bleaching sun spots and minimizing wrinkles has helped drive the sales of some $437 million in facial anti-aging skin care products last year — a 45.7 percent jump from 2003 — and an additional $268 million on facial moisturizers, two categories that include night creams, according to the market research firm Mintel International Group.
Among the deluge of new night creams are Nivea Visage Q10 Advanced Wrinkle Reducer Night Creme ($10.99) and Vichy LiftActiv Night Intensive Detoxifying Firming Care ($30), which are sold in drugstores; Avon Ageless Results Overnight Renewing Cream ($14.50), which can be ordered online; Kinerase Pro PlusTherapy Ultra Rich Night Repair ($149), sold by doctors; and Chanel Sublimage Essential Regenerating Cream ($350) and Lancôme Absolue Night Premium Bx Absolute Night Recovery Cream ($132), available in department stores. TESS, a new skin care line made specifically for teens that is sold at Sephora, even produces two vanilla-scented nighttime moisturizers ($20).



Considering the benefits that many night creams claim to offer, it’s easy to see their appeal. They promise not only to moisturize skin during sleep, but to neutralize damaging free radicals, improve skin tone and texture, firm up sagginess, minimize wrinkles and lines, or wipe out mottling and sun spots.
But dermatologists say that many night creams do not offer much value, especially given the substantial investment required for so many of them. Is glopping something onto your face really any better than allowing your skin to breathe while you rest?
And how do you sift through the many products, when so little sound and unbiased information is available?
Some women feel so overwhelmed by the myriad choices of ingredients and formulations that they abandon night creams altogether, choosing instead to sleep bare-faced.
“I think it’s all a little bit too confusing,” said Kelly Ginsberg, 35, of Rye, N.Y., who doesn’t bother with a night cream. “I mean, there’s a million of them. I don’t have enough time to pay attention to what they all do, what they clear up.”
Nighttime treatments may represent more of a marketing triumph than a skin care essential, though some products may be helpful, “You have a lot of very high-priced night creams that really don’t have any bang for a buck,” said Dr. Patricia K. Farris, a New Orleans dermatologist. “They’re basically just expensive, nicely packaged moisturizer.”
For the most part, there’s no magic in the night that warrants using a special cream, according to Dr. Leslie Baumann, professor of dermatology at the University of Miamiand author of “The Skin Type Solution” (Bantam, 2006). “You’ll hear companies say that your skin rejuvenates itself at night, or it does these special processes that it doesn’t do in the day, and there’s no proof of that at all,” she said.
Yet some anti-aging ingredients, like retinol, are inactivated by the sun, so it makes good sense to wear them while you sleep, said Dr. Baumann, who has served on the advisory boards or been a paid consultant to many companies, including Avon, Aveeno and Neutrogena. Conversely, there’s little point in applying a sunscreen-laden product in the evening, when a visit from Mr. Sandman is the closest you’ll get to a beach.
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