How to use retinol for skin blemishes

Retinol is the perfect active ingredient to treat facial blemishes. Want to find out why? Biotherm has the answers. Read on!

Why retinol and not another ingredient?

This active ingredient accelerates cell renewal and helps eliminate buildups of melanin, a common sign of aging.

With age, skin processes slow down, including the normal elimination of melanin, which is no longer evenly stimulated. This leads to blemishes, both hyperpigmented (dark spots) and hypopigmented, or irregular in tone.

Using retinol for blemishes, even very dark spots, is always a good idea, since the appearance of such blemishes often goes hand in hand with other classic aging processes.

Retinol also perfectly complements other specific treatments to eliminate blemishes and accelerate results. However, it’s important to speak with our beauty consultant or dermatologist to identify the best combination.

When incorporating retinol for blemishes, it’s important to pay attention to when you start. While retinol can be used in summer, we recommend that you stop sunbathing when you first begin including it in your skincare routine.

Applied every night, the Blue Retinol Night Serum targets the evenness and quality of the skin to reveal healthier, younger-looking skin every day. 94%* of women who have tried it have noticed an improvement in the evenness of their skin tone.

*Self-assessment study, 49 women, after 4 months.

Of course, Blue Retinol Night Serum can also be used for blemishes on the neck and décolleté. We always recommend that you use sun protection with a high factor, above SPF30, on all areas treated with our Blue Retinol.

Why do sun spots appear on the face?

While sun spots appear on the face due to a buildup of melanin in the skin, it’s actually a visible sign that the skin's regeneration processes are impaired. This can be due to age but also to a dehydrated dermis, with excessive water loss, a buildup of dead cells, recent or old pigmented acne scars and of course, sun exposure without adequate protection.

Therefore, RETINOL plays a key role, renewing the layers of the skin, stimulating the dermis, making it denser and more resilient and, of course, accelerating the skin regeneration processes.

Clinical studies broadly demonstrate that retinol is an effective treatment but BIOTHERM has a very special product: BLUE RETINOL, featuring 1% Life Plankton combined with 0.25% pure retinol, which magnifies the results of retinol by x2. This also makes our retinol more effective on dark spots.

Benefits of retinol for the face

Our Blue Retinol Night Serum is an all-rounder when it comes to skin benefits. It’s no coincidence that this is the most searched-for active ingredient on the Internet.

But, at BIOTHERM, combining our know-how with bioscience has led to a unique ingredient: BLUE RETINOL.

Clinical and self-assessment studies support the results of Blue Retinol

Clinically proven: Wrinkles are reduced in 100% of women.

• Glabellar wrinkles: - 26.2%(1) | Crows feet: - 18.1%(1)
• Wrinkles under the eyes: - 21.8%(1) | Forehead wrinkles: - 21.9%(1) | Nasolabial fold: -18%(1)

Visible perception: improvement of skin quality parameters.

• Smoothness: 94%%(2) | Evenness: 94% (2) | Brightness: 88%(2)
• Improved skin texture: 76%(2) | Tighter pores: 78%(2)

(1) Clinical study, 49 women, after 4 months (2) Self-assessment, 49 women, after 4 months.

Retinol works to even skin tone by visibly lightening even the darkest blemishes.

Retinol’s anti-blemish power

As we’ve seen, retinol’s power is not limited to treating blemishes. It’s an all-rounder with a skin strengthening and renewing effect, making it a key blemish prevention product.

We know that the best way to treat blemishes is to prevent them from appearing. Using our sunscreen, Waterlover Hydrating Sun Milk SPF 50, prevents and treats blemishes with another key ingredient, which is also found in our Blue Retinol Night Serum: niacinamide or vitamin B3.

Retinol’s power to treat dark spots makes it the perfect ally in your night-time routine, regenerating the skin overnight. It’s fully compatible with your Blue Therapy cream recommended by your expert, and can also be combined with our global anti-aging serum Life Plankton Regenerating Serum, enhancing the skin's adaptation to pure retinol.

Optimally functioning healthy skin is capable of eliminating uneven buildups of melanin. Retinol's power to repair and accelerate the skin's processes, bringing them back to their optimal speed, is retinol’s big advantage as a key anti-blemish ingredient.

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