No7 Protect & Perfect Advanced Nourishing Hand & Nail Treatment 75ml

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As you’ll soon learn, this brand is most well known for its anti-aging serums, particularly the No 7 Retinol Serum. Based on the name, you’d think this serum contains 1.5% retinol, right? Well, that’s actually not the case. Pure Retinol Hand Cream is dermatologically tested & formulated to harness the power of pure retinol and minimise irritation. This rich, hydrating and fast absorbing No7 hand cream helps protect against dryness, delivering 8 hours of hydration. Key specs – Volume, 100ml: How to use: Rub a small amount into hands and nails and massage into the skin until absorbed Including 1.5% in the name of this product is slightly misleading, in our opinion. But the good news is that even 0.3% pure retinol is enough to produce noticeable results. What kind of results can you expect? Data from an FDA study indicate that retinyl palmitate, when applied to the skin in the presence of sunlight, may increase your sensitivity to the sun, so make sure you use this at night and apply your sunscreen during the day.

Bottom Line: The No 7 Retinol serum combines 0.3% pure retinol with the peptide complex Matrixyl 3000, which both works to reduce the appearance of lines, wrinkles, uneven skin tone, and more. Similar products: We recommend this retinoid based oil serum, it contains Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate, a new generation retinoid.

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All Boots No. 7 products are hypo-allergenic, meaning that any ingredients known to cause an allergic reaction have been removed.

Key specs – Volume, 30ml: How to use: Massage into your hands a few times a day. Especially recommended for daily care of tired, dry skin with loss of firmness. We’ve tested a selection of hand creams for a few days at a time, and each product was used according to the instructions for a week. Along with price, we took into consideration the consistency of the product, how easy it was to apply, any residue left on the skin, and any noticeable improvements, including hydration, reduced fine lines, and texture.With continued use our lightening complex helps to fade appearance of dark spots and help prevent new ones forming, while our skin firming pro-retinol complex works to help restore and maintain supple feeling skin. Formulated with Pro-Vitamin B5 for healthy nails and cuticles. D’Alchemy as a brand uses natural products and nothing is tested on animals. This particular hand cream was vegan, too. It contains sandalwood, mandarin, grapefruit, cedar and vanilla. The cream itself was quite thin, so a fair amount was needed. It’s a pale yellow colour, and smelled very zesty and sweet – like a lemon drizzle cake. It’s a rather greasy cream and took a while to absorb into skin, but the delicious smell did last. It left a light film on our hands, but they definitely felt softer and more hydrated. We also felt it needed to be applied more often than some of other creams we tested. There are low concentrations (less than 1%) of beneficial ingredients like vitamin C, hibiscus extract, sodium hyaluronate, ceramides, and Matrixyl 3000. But in such low amounts, we doubt these ingredients will provide much, if any, benefit.

As if that wasn’t enough, research suggests that when vitamin C is applied to the skin, it significantly reverses aging-related structural changes by influencing collagen and elastin synthesis. Although, as our in-house biochemist, Elle MacLeman points out, most of the research on vitamin C’s benefits comes from the ingredient L-ascorbic acid.Bottom Line: A No 7 serum that feels nice and promotes soft skin, but probably won’t do much in terms of anti-aging effects. Hydration Hand & Nail Cream is supercharged with technology from our clinically proven serum, which works to reduce the visible signs of skin ageing to reveal younger looking hands in just 2 weeks. Have been happily using No7 lift & Luminate day cream and restore & renew night cream as I need something richer overnight. Was thrilled with the results over a few months so decided to try the restore & renew serum. Gluconolactone provides anti-aging, antioxidant, and gentle exfoliating benefits without sun sensitivity. In addition, gluconolactone strengthens the skin’s moisture barrier, thereby leaving it more resilient. According to a publication in the journal Clinical Interventions in Aging , retinol is clinically proven to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, improve uneven skin tone, restore skin firmness, and unclog pores.