DETAILS
A Melanie Grant cult favourite, this overnight serum prioritises barrier function and skin hydration first, allowing the skin to receive and make use of a 0.5% medical grade retinol without the usual associated reactivity, redness or chapping. This unique formula targets uneven skin tone, coarse skin texture, minimises the appearance of fine lines and dilated pores and builds skin density and elasticity with nightly use.
At its core is an encapsulated retinol, a stabilised, gentle, slow release form of vitamin A that works from the inside out to speed cellular turnover, visibly brighten pigmentation, and support healthy collagen to soften fine lines and wrinkles. This is combined with AHA’s and bakuchiol to stimulate cellular renewal and unify uneven skin tone with nourishing kahai oil, protective squalane, and moisture enhancing ceramides to reinforce barrier function and leave the skin firm, supple and comforted.
A note from MG:
If you're taking a preventative approach, incorporating a good quality retinol from around age 30 will help keep your collagen stores in check, as they start to naturally decline from this age onward. I love Auteur’s Definitive Retinol Serum because it’s a slow release formula. It priorises barrier function first and foremost, making your skin more receptive to the array of concentrated actives it contains like AHAs, ceramides, squalene and a .5% retinol to really refine, densify and tone the complexion.
HOW TO USE
Retinol Serum is an overnight treatment product. Work into your evening routine every other night, or 3 times weekly (alternating with a hydration-focused routine). Work up to more frequent use as the skin adjusts to this concentrated formula.
INGREDIENTS
Aqua/Water, Glycerin, Caryodendron Orinocense Seed Oil, Dimethicone, Glyceryl Stearate, Candelilla/Jojoba/Rice Bran Polyglyceryl-3 Esters, Panthenol, Glycolic Acid, Bakuchiol, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Squalane, Propylheptyl Caprylate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Lactic Acid, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Hydroxyacetophenone, Magnolia Officinalis Bark Extract, Allantoin, Bis-Glyceryl Ascorbate, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Butylene Glycol, Dimethiconol, Xanthan Gum, Sclerotium Gum, Lecithin, Pullulan, Retinol, Pentylene Glycol, Asiaticoside, Madecassic Acid, Asiatic Acid, Pantolactone, Silica, Plankton Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Arginine Ferulate, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Paeonia Lactiflora Root Extract, Ceramide NP, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Dipropylene Glycol, Sucrose Distearate, Cholesterol, Ceramide AP, Ceramide AS, Ceramide NS, Ceramide EOP, Tocopherol, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Epigallocatechin Gallate.
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