RETINOL is the new must-have ingredient for Personal Care Brands according to many well-known influencers.  Nevertheless, 7% of RETINOL consumers think that it can have some negative effects on the skin, mainly in women with sensitive one.

To ensure safe and beneficial use, our partner DSM has worked on a dream combination by developing a super synergy between BEAUACTIVE® + RETINOL. Why a dream? This synergy now boosts anti-aging efficacy while reducing the amount of RETINOL needed.

What are the benefits of including this combination in your formulations? On the one hand, RETINOL reduces the appearance of lines and wrinkles while improving firmness and elasticity of the skin, on the other hand, BEAUACTIVE® is a high purity and sustainable patented ingredient that activates the master cell regulators, boosting collagen production.

For a long time now we have known that RETINOL is highly efficient and a must have in your anti-aging skin routine, unfortunately a 7% of European consumers believe that RETINOL can trigger irritation in sensitive skins and some of them even think that it can lead to skin dryness or redness. Even more, the main worry for these consumers is RETINOL being photosensitive.

The solution comes with The super synergy between two ingredients: BEAUACTIVE® and RETINOL: DSM Study EX-VIVO shows that the combination of RETINOL with BEAUACTIVE® is a Real success for anti-aging as it boosts collagen III by 238%, 5x more than RETINOL alone.

Additionally, LOW retinols responders and collagen performance is greatly boosted with the support of BEAUACTIVE®, leading to a need of 2x less RETINOL in the formulation according to DSM’s EX-VIVO study, as an example, combination of RETINOL at 0.05% with  0.1% BEAUACTIVE® provides the same performance than RETINOL at 0.1%.

To sum up, if you were looking to include RETINOL in your formulations but couldn’t decide because of its side effects in sensitive skin, here you have our solution.