Matrixyl 3000, Copper and Zinc, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Acetyl Platinum Peptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3. What do these exotic sounding ingredients have in common?
They are all peptides. Along with antioxidants, peptides are showing up in high concentrations in the best active skincare products. Why? Because they produce the results we all long for. Peptides have multiple properties and each are designed to provide a specific function in the skin. They are often referred to as the building blocks of life.
How do they work?
It’s all about collagen. When we are young our skin is plump, smooth and taut, as it is full of youthful collagen. As we age collagen and elasticity is lost but not easily replaced. Peptides help replace some of this lost collagen by signaling the skin to produce more. Applying peptides to your skin tricks your skin into thinking it has lost collagen and needs to kick into production. Peptides such as Matrixyl 3000 and Copper Peptide with Zinc are a few that are found to help your skin produce more collagen. Copper Peptide found in Derma MD’s Hydra Calm Mineral Moisturizer is utilized by almost every cell in your body. It is also a potent antioxidant and also assists in tissue repair.
Matrixyl 3000 found in many of Derma MD’s products is a dual action peptide that helps prevent collagen loss and reduce the appearance of wrinkles. Acetyl Hexapeptide -8 is a neuropeptide that reduces wrinkles by decreasing strength of facial muscles by disrupting nerve signals. These two peptides are great to use around the eyes as this is the area that expression lines are likely to form.
Ingredients for Dark Circles & Puffiness
Dark circles around the eyes can be lightened and puffiness reduced with ingredients such as Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5, Eyeliss and Haloxyl (found in Derma MD’s Peptide 3 Eye Cream and new Peptide Rich Eye treament). These ingredients help improve lymphatic drainage and reduces capillary fragility to reduce puffiness, and reduce and eliminate colored blood pigments (hemoglobin) in the skin making dark circles less noticeable. The combination of the peptides reinforce firmness and tone to the eye area, keeping eyes younger looking.
Peptides can be found in many skincare products from drugstore lines to high end lines but the key is to look for is a high percentage of active ingredients. Derma MD strives to create products with the highest levels of active ingredients available. Peptides combined with powerful antioxidants such as Asta-Xanthin and Apple Stem Cells can greatly improve the appearance of your skin, smoothing lines and wrinkles and creating younger, firmer looking skin.
Please feel free to email me directly regarding any questions you may have about your own skincare regime, ingredients, and or any concerns regarding your skin. I’m here to be your personal skincare specialist.
sheila@dermamdskincare.com – Founder of Derma MD
Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3 is product obtained by the acetylation of Tetrapeptide-3.
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