The L’Oréal Age Perfect skin care line is designed for mature skin and includes a wide range of products, such as cleansers, oils, serums, creams, and lotions. Each product includes anti-aging ingredients so that you can combat signs of aging in every step of your skin care routine. Read on to learn the key ingredients and products included in the Age Perfect line, and how they can benefit your skin.
Brand background
L’Oréal’s story begins in 1909 when Eugène Schueller, a young chemist, developed the first synthetic hair dye, which he called Oréale. Schueller decided to sell to the hair dye to Parisian hairdressers, and he formed his company in 1919. The guiding principles of his company, which eventually became L’Oréal, were research and innovation in the field of beauty. Over the years, the brand expanded from hair care products to perfumes, cosmetics, and skin care products. Today, L’Oréal is the world’s largest manufacturer of high-quality cosmetics and perfumes.
Key ingredients
Since L’Oréal Age Perfect skin care line features a wide array of products, from cleansers to oils to lotions and more, there is definitely a variety of different ingredients used in these formulations. We’ve picked out a few of the key ingredients that really stand out to us due to their exceptional skin care benefits.
Manuka honey
Manuka honey can be found in several products in the Age Perfect line, such as Hydra Nutrition Manuka Honey Eye Gel and the Hydra Nutrition Honey Day Cream. Manuka honey is produced by bees that feed on the manuka shrub of New Zealand’s remote North Island. It is raw honey that has not been processed, which means it is full of live enzymes and vitamins. Manuka honey provides anti-inflammatory effects and helps to reduce redness. It also promotes skin regeneration, repairs cellular damage, and inhibits MMP (a group of enzymes that destroy collagen).
Squalane
Squalane is a key ingredient in the Cell Renewal Rosy Tone Moisturizer, a best selling product from the L’Oréal Age Perfect line. Your skin contains its own version of squalane known as squalene (note the e). It is produced by the oil glands in the skin, and plays an important role in skin lubrication and protection. However, the amount made and retained in the skin decreases over time. It peaks in our teens and then starts to decline in our 20’s, leaving skin rough, dry and vulnerable. Since squalene is very unstable, squalane is used in skin care products because it is a saturated and stable hydrocarbon that mimics squalene. Squalane helps to replenish the skin’s lipid barrier in order to lock moisture in and keep things like allergens, bacteria, and irritants out. When the barrier is weakened, these intruders can pass through the top layer of skin, causing damage that ultimately leads to common skin conditions such as acne, rashes, sensitive skin, and even signs of aging. The squalane in L’Oréal Age Perfect Cell Renewal Rosy Tone Moisturizer can help to prevent these problems by replenishing the skin’s lipid barrier.
Procysteine
L’Oréal uses procysteine in Age Perfect Eye Renewal Eye Cream for its powerful antioxidant activity. Procysteine is a modified, more stable version of the amino acid cysteine that serves as the building block for the antioxidant glutathione. It helps the skin combat free radicals, the unstable molecules that contribute to the formation of premature wrinkles and fine lines on the skin. By effectively reducing oxidative stress caused by free radicals, topical application of procysteine can help maintain skin quality and appearance
Key products
The L’Oréal Age Perfect skin care line contains 19 different products in total, including cleansers, oils, creams, serums, lotions, masks, and more. With so many products to choose from, you’re probably wondering which are the best from this anti-aging skin care line. To help you out, below we’re discussing the key products from the L’Oréal Age Perfect line.
Age Perfect Cell Renewal Rosy Tone Moisturizer
Age Perfect Cell Renewal Rosy Tone Moisturizer is a universally-flattering daily moisturizing cream enhanced with rosy pigments in order to revive skin’s rosy tone. It is a tinted moisturizer for mature skin that features key ingredients like imperial peony extract and LHA. LHA stands for lipohydroxy acid (listed in the ingredients as capryloyl salicylic acid), which works to gently exfoliate dull, sallow skin and stimulate surface cell renewal every day to revive skin’s natural rosy tone. Overall this moisturizer should help to smooth and renew skin with a healthy and rosy complexion.
Age Perfect Hydra Nutrition Manuka Honey Eye Gel
Featuring manuka honey extract, the Age Perfect Hydra Nutrition Manuka Honey Eye Gel helps to reduce redness and calm inflammation in the eye area. It is applied with a rollerball wand that provides a cooling and de-puffing effects. According to L’Oréal, this product reduces puffy bags, brightens dark circles, and promotes more youthful eyes in just one week.
Age Perfect Eye Renewal Eye Cream
Age Perfect Eye Renewal Eye Cream features the powerful antioxidant procysteine and targets 5 signs of aging at once, including dark circles, puffiness, under-eye bags, crow’s feet, and crepiness.
Age Perfect Night Cream
Designed for those with mature skin, the Age Perfect Night Cream deeply moisturizes and helps improve skin elasticity with soy seed proteins. These proteins work with skin’s nightly recovering process to smooth and reduce the appearance of surface wrinkles and fine lines.
Age Perfect Day Cream SPF 15
Ideal for women in their 50s, Age Perfect Day Cream SPF 15 brightens and smoothes mature skin while reducing the appearance of age spots, fine lines, and wrinkles. This cream will deeply moisturize thanks to mineral oil and rosehip seed oil, while titanium dioxide provides broad-spectrum UVA/UVB SPF 15 sun protection.
Age Perfect Cell Renewal Golden Serum
Age Perfect Cell Renewal Golden Serum is a lightweight serum that features LHA to stimulate surface skin cell renewal to reveal more youthful looking skin. This serum also includes sodium hyaluronate to increase hydration and give the skin a more plump appearance. According to L’Oréal, in 1 month, the skin feels firmer and appears visibly replumped.
