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Prai Skincare Review

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Prai is a skincare brand that was founded by beauty industry veteran and animal philanthropist, Cathy Kangas. Cathy was inspired to create Prai because she realized that the beauty industry mostly targets younger women with their products and marketing campaigns, and she wanted to create a brand that speaks to women of all ages.

As a board member for the Humane Society of the United States, Cathy has always been passionate about helping animals and built Prai on this foundation. That’s why PRAI skincare products are never tested on animals and each sale helps fund valuable animal rescue efforts across the globe. In this review, we’ll discuss the brand’s best selling products, key ingredients, Prai skincare review from real customers, and more.

The Top 5 Prai Skincare Products

Prai Skincare products include cleansers, moisturizers, serums, concentrates, eye care, and neck care products that are all intended to reduce signs of aging. Below we’ll give you the details on the top 5 Prai Skincare products.

Ageless Throat & Decolletage Creme
The Prai neck cream is the brand’s best selling product. It is a rich cream that is said to help promote a firmer, smoother, young-looking neck and decolletage, with visible results in just 7 days. Most of this formula is composed of water, glycerin, shea butter, silicones, and synthetic emollients. One of the key anti-aging ingredients in this Prai neck cream is called Sepilift technology, also known as dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline, which consists of two palmitic acids attached to hydroxyproline, an amino acid. It is absorbed through the skin where it promotes collagen synthesis and plays a role in the three-dimensional folding of collagen fibers. This may result in stronger, firmer skin that is less susceptible to wrinkle formation.

24K Gold Caviar Wrinkle Repair Serum
Prai 24 K Gold Caviar Wrinkle Repair Serum is claimed to fight signs of aging and fatigue, ease inflammation, and “supercharge” luminosity. However, this serum has the potential to actually cause skin dryness and signs of aging due to its very high concentration of denatured alcohol. The majority of this formula is composed of propylene glycol, water, denatured alcohol, silicones, and glycerin. Denatured alcohol is well known to cause skin dryness, irritation, and even disruption of the skin barrier, especially when used in high concentrations. The combination of denatured alcohol with glycerin and silicones in this serum will temporarily reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles. This is because alcohol tightens the skin, glycerin hydrates the skin and thereby plumps skin, and silicones form a thin, invisible film that can help disguise signs of aging. However, these effects are temporary and will disappear once you wash off the product.

Platinum Firm & Lift Night Creme
This Prai night cream is said to “recharge” your skin’s moisture levels and promote tighter, firmer skin. The formula is very rich due to a high concentration of shea butter and other emollients, which should help to keep the skin soft and moisturized. Platinum is also a key ingredient in this formula, which has natural antioxidant activity. Antioxidants limit oxidative stress caused by free radicals, the unstable molecules that contribute to the formation of premature wrinkles and fine lines on the skin. Besides platinum, there really aren’t any anti-aging ingredients in this Prai night cream, which is why we don’t believe this product is going to provide much (if any) anti-aging benefits.

24K Gold Concentrate Retinol
Prai 24K Gold Concentrate Retinol features a blend of emollients, humectants, silicones, and encapsulated retinol. Retinol can provide numerous benefits to the skin, such as helping to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, fade dark spots, improve uneven skin tone, restore skin firmness, and shrink the appearance of enlarged pores. The formula also contains a very, very small amount of gold (it’s almost last on the ingredient list, which is in order of descending concentrations).

24K Gold Precious Oil Drops
This Prai facial oil is said to be “the secret to your inner glow”. But we think if you notice a rosy glow from this oil, it will be due to irritation from the extremely high amount of synthetic fragrance in this oil. In fact, fragrance (parfum) is the second highest concentration ingredient in this Prai oil! As you’ll learn in the next section, fragrance is not doing your skin any good, especially when it is used in such a high concentration.

What Are The Key Prai Skincare Ingredients?

One of the Prai skincare key ingredients is Zingiber cassumunar root oil, which is found in almost every Prai skincare product. The brand calls this “prai oil”, which is strange since this oil is actually known as “plai” in Thai. Regardless, let’s take a closer look at what plai oil can (and cannot) do for your skin.

According to a systematic review published in the peer-reviewed journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine, plai oil has been used for treating bruises, sprains, and musculoskeletal pain. The main active constituents in plai oil are sabinene, gamma-terpinene, terpinen-4-ol, and DMPBD. Gamma-terpinene and terpinen-4-ol are both also found in tea tree oil, which is well known to reduce inflammation and provide antimicrobial effects.

After evaluating the research, it appears that plai oil may help to reduce inflammation and possibly help with acne when applied to the skin. However, Prai Skincare claims that this oil will “impart smoothness and suppleness to the skin”. But this is simply not true. Yes, plai oil has components that may help to reduce inflammation, but these components do not help with skin smoothness whatsoever. In order for an oil to help with skin smoothness, it would need to function as an emollient and help strengthen the skin barrier. Plai oil simply cannot do that.

Besides plai oil, Prai skincare products contain pretty standard emollients, humectants, silicones, and some antioxidant plant extracts. Instead of discussing those ingredients, however, we believe it’s important for you to know that Prai Skincare products are laden with artificial fragrance ingredients. For example, the Prai 24K Gold Concentrate Retinol contains 8 different artificial fragrance ingredients, such as amyl cinnamal, citronellol, hexyl cinnamal, butylphenyl methylpropional, and more. And we already mentioned above that the Prai 24K Gold Precious Oil Drops contain more fragrance than almost every other ingredient. Plus, the brand’s key ingredient, plai oil, contains volatile terpenoids that impart an aroma.

So why is fragrance a problem in skincare? Well, we understand that consumers typically want their products to smell pleasant. However, fragrance isn’t doing the skin any good. All fragrance ingredients (whether natural or synthetic) impart scent through a volatile reaction, and this natural reaction almost always causes a sensitizing reaction on skin. In fact, according to a 2016 publication in the scholarly journal Dermatitis, nearly 80 essential oils have caused contact allergy. Even if you don’t have a full blown reaction to the ingredient, the damage may still be occurring every day. Ultimately, this can cause mild problems for your skin in the short term and worse problems in the long term.

Where are Prai Skincare Products Sold?

Prai Skincare products are sold on the brand’s website, as well as several third party online retailers such as SkinStore, HSN, Amazon, and more.

What is The Prai Return Policy?

The Prai return policy states, “We stand behind our products. If you are not completely satisfied, please complete the form on the bottom of your invoice and return it with your products to the following address within 30 days for a full refund (excluding shipping.)”

Is Prai Cruelty Free?

Prai is cruelty free and the products are officially Leaping Bunny Certified. Leaping Bunny Certification means Prai skincare products are free of animal testing at every stage of product development.

Prai Skincare Reviews

Prai Skincare reviews on The Derm Review below are a mix of positive and negative.

For example, one review says, “I got my praise from hsn and some of the products I love but some have made my skin feel like its on fire. I have rosacia and there tightening face serum was so bad. I tryed to return it and they won’t take it back. They wouldn’t give me my money back. The toner was another bad experience my face was on fire again. I will keep what works but I will not order any of there products again. Korres may not have everything for the face but there argon oil for body, face, hair is wonderful I will try to find another brand for my face..
I give it 2- stars for the stuff that I can use.”

 

References:
1. Complement Ther Med 2017 Dec;35:70-77.
2. de Groot AC, Schmidt E. Essential Oils, Part IV: Contact Allergy. Dermatitis. 2016;27(4):170-175. doi:10.1097/DER.0000000000000197

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  • nancy mousseau Original review: Aug 15, 2020. Reply

    I have been using Ageless no-tax targeted face tightener for the last 20 yrs and then u guys stopped producing it. Since then I have written to Kathy with all the ingredients which was no easy task. However, I do understand how busy she is and was hoping someone else would follow up. I am so physically damaged and have so much therapy to complete that I was hoping this would b the easy part. If someone could send me maybe some samples so I can continue purchasing my yearly prescription, that would make my day.and also check one thing out of many off my list. I am over 50 but due to your products I look around 30 and really that is the one thing that has kept me going. Please help me PRAI PLEASE N THANK YOU

  • Anna Original review: Mar 24, 2020. Reply

    I have been using prai for two weeks the 24k serum and have seen absolutely no improvement whatsoever

  • ANGEL Negrin Original review: Mar 08, 2020. Reply

    Kathy, sorry to bother you,but my mom aunt grandma and girlfriend have me going crazy,they have seen HSN1&2waiting to see you bring up the Silver 7.1bottle of restoration of Sereum and said to me,to get to you you before they have to go back to an Avon representative,they and other don’t want to do that,I feel like a representative of Pria products.Please get the special price silver bottles back on the fabulous HSN,
    soon, because they already got me in the hospital,where I woke up with a Heart Manitor that i had to wear for three days in late January, Thank You for your time,Angel Negrin

  • Chrissy Original review: Jun 16, 2019. Reply

    I got my praise from hsn and some of the products I love but some have made my skin feel like its on fire. I have rosacia and there tightening face serum was so bad. I tryed to return it and they won’t take it back. They wouldn’t give me my money back. The toner was another bad experience my face was on fire again. I will keep what works but I will not order any of there products again. Korres may not have everything for the face but there argon oil for body, face, hair is wonderful I will try to find another brand for my face..
    I give it 2- stars for the stuff that I can use.

  • Susan Gillespie Original review: May 30, 2019. Reply

    I absutely love you lip line minimizer. My lips were very damaged from smoking, sun exposure when l was younger, stress causing fits and medication. Then with all the treatments I’ve tried before it’s just made it worse or stung. But this is soothing and really works.minimizeing the vertical lip lines.
    Thankyou for helping me to not be self conscious
    of them. Cheers Susan Gillesipe

  • Linda Original review: Apr 18, 2018. Reply

    Prai products have given me my confidence back after a horrible illness which has affected my face an eye .I use the platinum range ,serum .firm and lift day cream , decrease under eyes and eye tight above. I have there neck an décolletage cream Which i use day and night ,I put a mask of it at bed time on my age spots on my hands can’t hardly see them amazing products I love it.I firmly feel ,from past exsperience, that it is possible to spend a great deal more An not achieve such great results.

  • Ruth Original review: Mar 09, 2018. Reply

    I have been trying various skincare products to find the best product for a specific issue. I have tried various Prai products and honestly, I have seen no results as the company promises. It seems clear to me that you get what you pay for and if you want a product that really works you are going to have to pay the price for it.

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    Prai Neck Cream Review

    Prai Ageless Throat & Décolletage Cream is specifically designed to treat crepiness, double chins, droopy jowls, and turkey neck, and is said to produce visible results in seven days. One of the key ingredients in this cream is SEPILIFT DPHP™ (dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline). After topical application, dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline is absorbed through the skin where it plays specific and essential roles in the synthesis of collagen sub-units and in the three-dimensional folding of collagen fibers. Increasing collagen synthesis helps to promote a more youthful complexion. Dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline also helps to reduce signs of aging by preserving elastin fibers through anti-elastase activity. While collagen makes skin look firm and plump, elastin allows the skin to be elastic and pliable. Dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline also functions as an antioxidant. Due to all of these actions, SEPILIFT DPHP™ in the Prai Ageless Throat & Décolletage Cream should promote stronger, more elastic skin that is less susceptible to wrinkle formation.

    In addition to SEPILIFT DPHP™, the Prai Ageless Throat & Décolletage Cream contains several ingredients that can help to diminish discoloration and age spots, such as mulberry, saxifrage, and grape extracts. This cream also contains shea butter, a very effective occlusive emollient that forms a barrier on the skin’s surface to lock in moisture. Lastly, Prai Ageless Throat & Décolletage Cream contains several types of silicones, such as cyclopentasiloxane, dimethicone, and cyclomethicone, to give your skin a silky, smooth feel. Of note, Prai Ageless Throat & Décolletage Cream contains several fragrance ingredients, such as benzyl salicylate, hexyl cinnamal, butylphenyl methylpropional, and limonene, that are known to cause sensitization reactions and skin irritation.

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    Praimordial Eye Creme Review

    If you’re on the hunt for an eye cream that combats some of the main concerns related to premature aging, you may want to check out the Praimordial Eye Creme from PRAI Skin Care. This product has been specifically formulated and developed to target loss of elasticity and firmness, thanks to the unique ingredients and complexes within this product. Some of the key technologies in this eye cream include IdeaLift, Hema’Tite, and Nulastic. Starting with IdeaLift, this technology includes a unique dipeptide complex, which works to fight sagging. Peptides are a common ingredient in anti-aging skincare products because of their ability to encourage the skin to produce additional collagen. Hema’Tite on the other hand is made up of Iron Rose Crystal which optimizes collage and has been shown to diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Finally, NuLastic Silk is PRAI Skin Care’s proprietary ingredient which helps to fill and smooth wrinkles, even out skin texture and plump the skin to create a more even skin’s surface. Additionally, this product features a cushiony, souffle-like texture which blends into the skin effortlessly without weighing it down.
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    PRAI 24K Gold Caviar Wrinkle Serum Review

    Is there anything more luxurious that gold? If you’re on the hunt to try the golden skincare trend, you may want to look out for products like the PRAI 24K Gold Caviar Wrinkle Serum. This product was designed to utilize two of the most luxurious ingredients available, along with a blend of skin loving actives and botanicals, to reduce the appearance of fine lines, creases and wrinkles. According to the brand, the 24K Gold in this product helps to maintain healthy collagen production in the skin by combating the damaging effects of free radicals and other environmental stressors such as pollution and blue light. This product also contains the brand’s unique LineFactor complex. Derived from hibiscus seed, this complex helps to reactive the skin’s rejuvenating processes in order to reveal younger, smoother looking skin. Finally, pea and bamboo extracts help to encourage natural exfoliation which improves uneven skin tone, discoloration and fine lines. In a consumer perception study that included 345 participants, 97% of users reported that they noticed a visible reduction in the appearance of lines and wrinkles in as little as 4 days.
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    Prai Radiant Precious Oil Drops Review

    The Prai Radiant Precious Oil Drops is a blend of beneficial plant oils that aims to soothe and nourish the skin. This formula contains a blend of oils including avocado oil and hazelnut seed oil as well as several plant extracts including chamomile and rose. In addition to these ingredients, this formula also features colloidal gold which helps to combat against environmental aggressors and wards off against free radical damage. Using oil blends as a skincare product is an excellent option if you’re looking for a multi-functional skincare product. Oil blends like the Precious Oil Drops can be incorporated into your moisturizer, or used on its own as a serum. A drop or two of an oil blend can also been used in foundation in order to deliver a dewy finish. With all that said, finding the right oil blend can be a bit tricky. Different plant oils can be more or less likely to clog pores. Because of this, we recommend looking at the ingredients list of each product to see how an oil blend like the Radiant Precious Oil Drops will affect your skin.
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    Prai 24k Gold Wrinkle Repair Cream Review

    Another one of the more well known products from the Prai 24K Gold range is the Prai 24K Gold Wrinkle Repair Cream. This product acts as an anti-aging, regenerative moisturizer that contains a variety of beneficial properties. A few of the key ingredients in this formula include 24K gold, Nulastic Silk and the precious Prai Oil blend. 24K Gold helps to prevent damage that can be caused by environmental aggressors and free radicals. Nulastic Silk is a unique ingredient that helps to build and support skin structure by releasing key nutrients as needed. This ingredient is also especially smoothing and helps to target uneven skin tone or texture. Finally, the Prai Oil is a unique blend of plant oils that help to smooth and soften the skin, leaving behind a healthy glow.
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    Prai 24k Gold Wrinkle Eye Serum Review

    The Prai 24K Gold Wrinkle Eye Serum is an anti-aging eye cream that aims to treat some of the most common concerns that affect the eye area including fine lines and wrinkles, crows feet and dark circles under the eye. According to the brand, this product has been designed to make your skin look 10 years younger by eliminating wrinkles and creases around the eye area. But how exactly does the formula hold up with the claims? The key ingredients in this formula include 24K gold and their LineFactor formula in order to deliver a youthful, radiant glow to your undereye area. In order to get the best results, the brand recommends applying the product in a gentle patting motion using your ring finger until the product is completely blended into the skin.
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    PRAI Radiant Creme & Radiant Gemstone Caviar Triple Matrixyl Serum Review

    The PRAI Radiant Cream & Radiant Gemstone Caviar Triple Matrixyl Serum is a popular set from PRAI skincare that offers two of their best selling products. The Triple Matrixyl Serum and Radiant Creme work together to boost hydration and radiance, while simultaneously warding off the signs of aging. The hero ingredients in both of these formulas are the various matrixyl based complexes. The Radiant Creme and the Caviar Triple Matrixyl Serum feature three different matrixyl-based complexes including Matrixyl, Matrixyl 3000 and Matrixyl synthe’6. But what does Matrixyl actually do? Matrixyl is the industry name for palmitoyl pentapeptide-4. This peptide helps to stimulate collagen production in the skin, making it an excellent option for those who are looking for a gentle active for anti-aging concerns.
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    PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème

    Can PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème Help Sagging Skin? If you’ve been looking for ways to address dull, sagging skin on the neck and chest, then you may have seen positive PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème reviews where some consumers claim this moisturizer has a skin tightening effect. This cream, formulated by the PRAI skin care company, is designed especially for the thicker skin on the neck and chest, and is claimed to produce strong skin tightening effects. To achieve these effects, PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème is formulated with a number of skin tightening effects, like hyaluronic acid, for example. However, it’s important to keep in mind that sagging skin on the neck can be caused by many factors, and only a dermatologist or a plastic surgeon can help you accurately identifying the exact cause of the problem. Therefore, take the time to understand your own skin problems in detail and read applicable PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème reviews to accurately assess whether this cream can help you.

    Effectiveness of PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème

    Before assessing whether PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème can help you minimize sagging skin on the neck and chest, it’s important to understand the factors behind the appearance of aging skin in the area. Many individuals mistakenly believe that loose skin on the neck is simply due to lost skin elasticity, however factors like loosened muscles and aging weight loss can also play a big role. Why is this important? Because PRAI Ageless Throat and Décolletage Crème is a topical treatment that focuses strictly on treating the surface area of the skin, through hydration.
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