Sunday Riley CEO Review

What is Sunday Riley CEO?

Sunday Riley CEO is a line of vitamin C skin care products by clean beauty brand Sunday Riley. Founded less than a decade ago by its namesake founder and formulator, Sunday Riley, this brand is focused on results and formulates their products with natural botanicals and active ingredients that promise to transform the quality of your skin.

The Sunday Riley CEO collection consists of three products: CEO Glow Vitamin C and Turmeric Face Oil, CEO Vitamin C Rich Hydration Cream, and CEO 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum. Below we’ll give a brief description of these products, and in the next section we’ll cover the key ingredients. 

Sunday Riley CEO Glow Vitamin C and Turmeric Face Oil
This facial oil delivers cold-pressed, nutrient-rich extracts into your skin and is said to promote instant vibrance, leaving your complexion looking brighter and nurtured. Sunday Riley CEO Glow Face Oil can be used on the face, neck, and décolletage, morning and/or evening.

Sunday Riley CEO Vitamin C Rich Hydration Cream
The Sunday Riley CEO Vitamin C Rich Hydration Cream is said to deeply hydrate, visibly brighten dull skin, prevent and repair the visible signs of premature skin aging, fight the signs of dehydration and damage, and provide advanced antioxidant support. That’s a lot of claims for one product, so we’ll have to evaluate the key ingredients in this cream in order to see if it can live up to these claims. The Sunday Riley CEO Vitamin C cream can be used once or twice a day. 

Sunday Riley CEO 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum
The Sunday Riley CEO serum is a targeted solution that is said to quickly fight the look of dullness, dark spots, and discolorations at the source, while diminishing the signs of aging. This serum can be used once or twice a day. 

What are the key Sunday Riley CEO ingredients?

You can probably guess the star ingredient in the Sunday Riley CEO products: vitamin C. Rather than using pure vitamin C (ascorbic acid), which is very unstable and prone to oxidation, the brand formulates the Sunday Riley CEO products with a stable, fat-soluble vitamin C derivative called tetrahexyldecyl (THD) ascorbate. In addition to having better stability than ascorbic acid, it is believed that THD ascorbate can penetrate the skin better than other water-soluble forms because its fatty acid component helps aid penetration. 

Once absorbed into the skin, THD ascorbate is converted to ascorbic acid, the active form of vitamin C. Ascorbic acid provides numerous benefits to the skin. First, it’s a potent antioxidant that helps the skin to combat the damaging effects of free radicals, the unstable molecules that contribute to the formation of premature wrinkles and fine lines on the skin. Ascorbic acid also has the ability to stimulate collagen production, decrease the appearance of dark spots, and improve uneven skin tone. 

Next let’s take a look at a few of the additional key ingredients found in Sunday Riley CEO products. As the name implies, turmeric extract is another key ingredient found in Sunday Riley CEO Glow Vitamin C and Turmeric Face Oil. The main bioactive component of turmeric extract is called curcumin, a bright yellow polyphenol. Curcumin has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and also has the ability to fade dark spots by inhibiting melanogenesis (the process by which melanin is produced by melanocytes). 

In addition to vitamin C, Sunday Riley CEO Vitamin C Rich Hydration Cream features bisabolol as a key ingredient. Bisabolol is a natural monocyclic sesquiterpene alcohol that is a major component of the essential oil derived from chamomile. Bisabolol has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and is therefore very soothing when applied to the skin. It has also been shown in studies to inhibit melanin synthesis, which should help reduce the appearance of undesirable dark spots on the skin, leading to a brighter complexion and more even skin tone. 

Sunday Riley CEO 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum includes a high concentration of squalane. Squalane helps to replenish the skin’s lipid barrier, which is important to keep moisture in and environmental aggressors out. When the barrier is weakened, these aggressors 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. Thus, the inclusion of squalane in the Sunday Riley CEO Serum should help to replenish the skin’s lipid barrier and prevent these problems. 

One disadvantage of Sunday Riley CEO products is that they all contain fragrance, and some formulations contain pretty high concentrations of fragrance ingredients. For example, the fragrance ingredient limonene is the sixth highest concentration ingredient in the Sunday Riley CEO serum. We understand that consumers appreciate when products smell pleasant, but we’d like to point out that fragrance is not skin care. Fragrance ingredients (both natural and synthetic) have the potential to cause sensitization, irritation, and even skin damage. Even if you don’t have a full blown reaction to the fragrance ingredients, 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 is Sunday Riley CEO sold?

Sunday Riley CEO and other Sunday Riley skincare products are sold on the brand’s website, as well as numerous third party online retailers, such as Sephora, Ulta, Dermstore, Amazon, and more. The brand also has a store locator on their website so that you can find a physical location that sells Sunday Riley skincare products near you. 

Is Sunday Riley cruelty free?

Sunday Riley is cruelty free. None of Sunday Riley skincare products or ingredients are tested on animals, and the brand does not sell their products in mainland China (where animal testing is required by law). In fact, Sunday Riley is double certified as a cruelty-free brand, by PETA and Leaping Bunny. 

Sunday Riley CEO reviews

Sunday Riley CEO reviews on The Derm Review are positive overall. Positive reviews mention that these products help the skin to look brighter, healthier, and really have a glow.

For example, one Sunday Riley CEO review says, “I had a jar of Sunday Riley CEO hydration cream that I had received a long time ago from an Ipsy order. My favorite has always been Skin & Co, but I will always try ANYTHING to get rid of these dark spots! My Skin & Co ran dry before I ordered another so I decided to try the Sunday Riley and I could not be happier! I have been so busy I wasn’t paying attention and suddenly I was getting tons of compliments on my skin-without MAKEUP! My dark spots have faded and my skin is so even toned people think I am wearing foundation even when I am not! I sent it to my best friend too!”