My Pearl of the Day -- NutrBiotic Anti-aging Peptide Creme

 NutriBiotics Anti-aging Peptide Creme is a light, thin white creamy moisturizer with some of the most amazingly effective ingredients I've seen in moisturizer. As the name suggests, the Peptie Creme contains peptides, which help stimulate and revitalize tissues.

Below you can see the creamy contents inside the Anti-Aging Peptide Creme container. Some of my favorite things about NutriBiotic's Peptide Creme (aside from the fabulous benefits for my skin) is that it hydrates, leaves my skin texture very smooth and not only works well under makeup, but it helps improve application. My makeup goes on better, not so cakey and a little more even after I've used the Peptide Creme before applying the makeup. Then there's the non-sticky, non-greasy residue thing. That alone is enough for me to scream with joy! If you already have somewhat oily skin and despise the feeling of left-over residue from a skincare product, like me, you know where I'm coming from when I say this alone is enough to make me jump for joy.

More good news: the Peptide Face Creme is paraben free! As you may not know, parabens have been linked to all sorts of awful health problems. If I can avoid them, I do.

Close-up of Peptide Creme

 

The Peptide Face Cream is antioxidant rich, contains skin-beneficial ingredients such as aloe vera leaf juice, peptides, sunflower seed oil, ginseng extract, grapefruit seed extract, tocopherol acetate (Vitamin E), rosa canina seed extract, green tea leaf extract, sweet almond oil, olive fruit oil and retinyl palmitate, for examples. Most of the ingredients all work to prevent signs of aging, and are antioxidants. Many are also natural antibacterials.

P.S. I've said this before, but feel the need to do so again: usually, ingredient lists are listed in order. For instance, if ingredients closer to the beginning of the list will be the ingredients that are contained in the product the most. Example: NutriBiotics lists  palmitoyl pentapeptide-4 second on the ingredient list (next to water), so this signifies that this is the second most ingredient in the product. So, if you happen to see the ingredient at or near the bottom, it means it's not likely to contain very much of said ingredient. If this makes sense... 

What I'm getting at is that this Peptide Creme is a good, efficient creme because the peptides are listed in the beginning of the list. A lot of companies like to pull what I call "scams" and claim on the label "contains peptides," but you look at their list of ingredients and see peptides are last on the list. It's safe to then assume that the product doesn't contain enough of the ingredient to even benefit your skin.

 Now that that's out of the way, let's go deeper into the ingredients in the Peptide Creme!

If you're as interested in what ingredients will do for you as I am, you may appreciate the brief information I've included for just some of the beneficial ingredients below. If not, you can skip to the rest of this review. And good news, the Peptide Creme contains more than 2 of the ingredients that I always, always, always look for in a skincare product -- aloe, ginseng, and at least one type of oil (either olive or others. Peptide Creme has Sweet Almond as well as Sunflower Seed Extract!)

 Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4: Rejuvenates skin. Helps reduce wrinkles. It's said to be as effective against wrinkles as retinol, but this peptide isn't as irritating to skin. It stimulates skin synthesis, can repair skin damage from sun, anti-aging. If you're interested, here's a link to a study that showed this ingredient to improve "photo-aged human skin."

Aloe Vera Leaf Juice: Aloe is a natural anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal, so it's surely good for skin! It helps soothe, reduce redness and irritation (and so much more.) It'll help with breakouts, dryness, softens skin and is a fabulous remedy for anti-aging and even helping with wrinkles that are already there.


Sunflower Seed Oil: When applied topically, sunflower seed oil has been proven to improve hydration. It's easily absorbed and nourishes skin.

Ginseng Extract: Another anti-ager! Can reduce puffy eyes and dark circles. Keeps skin looking freshy, glowy. Ginseng is an antioxidant and stimulant, and those properties also work when applied to skin.

Grapefruit Seed Extract: Also an anti-fungal, anti-bacterial. It's rich in Vitamin C and E, is an antioxidant, acts as a natural preservative, prevents or can help treat many skin issues, promotes skin elasticity, etc.

Tocopherol Acetate: Tocopherol Acetate is Vitamin E, and Vitamin E has many benefits for the skin including: conditions and nourishes skin, anti-aging, also an antioxidant! It also has anti-inflammatory properties. It's bioavailable, so it's easily absorbed by skin.

Rosa Canina Seed Extract: helps diminish scars and marks, is anti-aging, hydrates skin. It also contains Vitamin C and can help with pigmentation problems, is an anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, etc.

Green Tea Leaf Extract: Another antioxidant rich source. Stimulates microcirculation, protects skin from damage caused by free radicals, decreases wrinkles, may help prevent collagen break-down.

Sweet Almond Oil: Another ingredient rich in Vitamin C! Relieves dry skin, lightens darck circles, soothes skin and irritation, etc.

Olive Fruit Oil: Another antioxidant! Helps skin maintain elasticity, relieves dryness, inflammation and acne. Contains Vitamin E & K,  helps repair skin cells. Has about 100 other benefits.

Retinyl Palmitate:  Has very big benefits for skin, especially since it has the ability to penetrate skin (and work!). Works as a genlte exfoliator. Some of the benefits include: producing new skin cells that replace those previously damaged by acne, is a serious anti-ager, repairs the lower layers of skin where collagen and elastin are found, creates cell regeneration, speeds up collagen production.

Here is the list of ingredients for the Peptide Face Creme:

Water (aqua), palmitoyl pentapeptide-4, aloe barbadensis leaf juice, vegetable glycerin, acetyl hexapeptide-8, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, glyceryl stearate, octyl palmitate, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, polysilicone-11, gamma-aminobutyric acid, ginseng extract, portulaca oleracea extract, centella asiatica (brahmi) extract, cetearyl alcohol, phenoxyethanol, dimethicone, natural fragrance, panthenol, citrus grandis (grapefruit) seed extract, tocopheryl acetate, mixed tocopherols, linum usitatissimum (linseed) seed oil, borage officinalis seed oil, rosa canina seed extract, camellia sinensis (green tea) leaf extract, prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, allantoin, ethylhexylglycerin, olea eruopaea (olive) fruit oil, lecithin (soy), and retinyl palmitate.

An even closer close-up