Description
Daily application of a topical antioxidant and a nightly retinoid are essential to any effective skincare regimen. If you’re ready for a professional skincare regimen, this award-winning duo of Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum and AlphaRet Overnight Cream is the best first step in your journey to your best skin.
Why You’ll Love It: With the Where to Start Regimen, aged-looking skin across a spectrum of skin tones can experience visible improvement in the overall appearance of the skin, including an improved glow and texture.
All skinbetter science products are dermatologist tested, paraben free, fragrance free, dye free, and cruelty free.
Benefits
FOUNDATIONAL FAVORITES | Where to Start Regimen
Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum
Super-potent antioxidant serum that helps shield the skin against the effects of intrinsic and environmental stressors. Vitamins C and E, plus 17 additional free-radical fighters combined with a new, patented antioxidant bring a new level of comprehensive defense.
AlphaRet Overnight Cream
AlphaRet is the latest innovation in retinoid renewal delivering remarkable results, with little-to-no irritation often experienced with retinols and other retinoid-based products.
How to Use
WHERE TO START REGIMEN The regimen is built around the clinically tested product pairing of Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum and AlphaRet Overnight Cream. Study participants also used supporting skinbetter products to cleanse, moisturize and protect the skin.
AM:
- Cleansing Gel
- Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum
- sunbetter SHEER SPF 56 Sunscreen Stick
PM:
- Cleansing Gel
- Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum
- AlphaRet Overnight Cream
Sunburn Alert: AlphaRet Overnight Cream contains an alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that may increase your skin’s sensitivity to the sun and particularly the possibility of sunburn. Use a sunscreen, wear protective clothing, and limit sun exposure while using this product and for a week afterwards. Caution: AlphaRet Overnight Cream contains retinoid in a topical form. If you are pregnant, lactating or planning to become pregnant, consult a physician before use. If using more than one exfoliating product, irritation may occur.
Ingredients
KEY INGREDIENTS
Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum
- Pyrroloquinoline Quinone Allyl Ester (Allyl PQQ): Patented, super-potent antioxidant technology that effectively neutralizes free radicals produced by the body’s natural, intrinsic processes, and supports more efficient energy creation, critical to the skin’s renewal and repair process.
- Plankton Extract: Contains an enzyme that supports and helps rejuvenate the appearance of photodamage.
- Micrococcus Lysate: Contains an enzyme that supports the skin’s natural recovery system following damage as a result of sun exposure.
- Proprietary Botanical Antioxidant Blend: Synergistic antioxidant defense.
- Vitamin C (Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate) & Vitamin E (Tocopheryl Acetate): Neutralize UVB-Induced free radicals.
- Blend of Coffee, Saffron, Superoxide Dismutase and Ergothioneine: Enhances vitality and radiance.
- Anti-Pollution Complex: Defends against particulate matter, counteracting the appearance of wrinkles and uneven skin tone.
- Bisabolol (and) Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract: Synergistic soothing complex. Helps visibly reduce redness and provides comfort to the skin.
- Niacinamide: Form of Vitamin B3 helps improve moisture and the appearance of skin clarity.
- Licorice Extract: Brightens skin’s appearance.
- Trifluoroacetyl Tripeptide-2: Helps to improve the appearance of skin firmness and resiliency.
AlphaRet Overnight Cream
- AlphaRet: a unique combination of a retinoid and an AHA (lactic acid).
- Glycolic Acid: helps retexturize and enhances performance of AlphaRet.
- Targeted Peptide Blend: helps smooth the appearance of wrinkles, skin firmness and resiliency.
- Ultra Hydrating Blend of Ceramides, Squalane, Niacinamide and Hyaluronic Acid: helps to counteract dryness, providing hydration and moisture.
- Allantoin Glycyrrhetinic Acid, Bisabolol, and Green Tea Extract: ingredients with calming properties that also help reduce the appearance of redness.
- Vitamins C & E and CoEnzyme Q10: provide antioxidant protection.
