Review (5/5): Fantastic but be careful
Edit: After just a few weeks I’ve had to discontinue this one not entirely but using it now maybe 1-2 times per week. Anymore than that and I get severe irritation. The only thing I can attribute this to is the l-ascorbic acid and the fact that I Use Retin-A now on a nightly basis where before I was only using a couple times a week. Definitely use on alternating times if you’re using a retinoid. I haven’t ever had any issues with pure vitamin c before until I increased my frequency of use with Retin-A and now I can’t use vitamin c more than every other day and at a max concentration of 10%. Occasionally 15% is fine but that’s maybe 2x a week
I am doing a quick review as I don’t have a lot of time. The ingredient deck on this eye serum is fantastic. Keep in mind a little under midway through the list of ingredients, l-ascorbic acid is in this (vitamin c in its purest and arguably best most effective form). But, having said that this isn’t classified as a vitamin c because I’m assuming it’s going to be around 2-5%.
Anyway, I entered everything into the inci decoder and they’re all fantastic peptides, matrixyl, tons of skin loving and anti aging benefits in this. I use ONE DROP in the middle of my hand tap it and smudge my two ring fingers to get the product, tap it under and slightly above both eyes and it just sinks in beautifully. I’ll typically follow with a more occlusive eye cream as not to get too much water loss through the night.
I do use this during the day along with my regular vitamin c and the combo is perfect add a layer of sunscreen after about 5 min and good to go.
At night I use this before tretinoin or any retinoid I’m trying out. There’s no conflict with ingredients. The only thing I wouldn’t use this with is the Niod copper amino isolate as l-ascorbic acid breaks down the copper and can do some funky things to your skin. If I’m using the same time as CAIS I’ll very sparingly put this on my eyes first, make sure I remember where I’ve applied then carefully apply NIODS CAIS all around it making sure not to touch the two products together.
I’m not sure why Niod doesn’t say not to use this with copper peptides,? But I’m sure if you asked customer service they’d definitely warn against it.