Product Claims:
“Both effective and natural, this anti-dark spot serum boosts radiance and helps even the skin tone. It corrects dark spots and prevents them from appearing, evens out skin tone and enhances the complexion’s radiance.” – Caudalie Website.
HILARY SAYS REVIEW:
The VinoPerfect Complexion Correct Radiance Serum is one of Caudalie’s staple products. It claims to correct dark spots and prevent them from reappearing, even out skin tone and enhance the complexion’s radiance. I’m looking at the ingredients list and looking at all these claims right now and I’m very confused as to how these ingredients will make these claims happen. Let’s go through the ingredients one by one.
Water – Solvent
Butylene Glycol & Glycerin – Humectant (attracts water molecules for hydration)
Squalane – Great moisturizer (mimics your natural sebum)
Tocopheryl Acetate (a form of vitamin E) – Antioxidant and Skin conditioning agent
Ceteareth-20 – Emulsifier (helps oil and water mix)
Palmitoyl Grapevine Shoot Extract (The Star Ingredient)
Glyceryl Stearate SE – Emulsifier
Bisabolol – Skin Soothing Agent (anti-inflammatory properties)
Fragrance
Caprylyl Glycol – Skin Conditioning Agent
Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer – Emulsifier
Potassium Sorbate – Preservative
Xanthan Gum – Thickener
Carbomer – Thickner
Sodium Hydroxide – pH adjuster (to neutralize carbomer)
Sodium Phytate – Chelating agent (pretty much preserves the product)
This formula is so basic; it’s all bleh….for the price tag! The “star ingredient” according to them – Palmitoyl Grapevine Shoot Extract (Vitis Vinifera Grape Seed Extract) has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It contains high levels of Resveratrol, which will help reduce oxidative stress (skin damage) caused by free radicals but it won’t correct dark spots or even out skin tone at that level, even if it could. It’s only the Caudalie website that claims to have research that proves it can correct dark spots, but we know any company can come up with all sorts of claims and “research” to back the claims. The star ingredient is 7th on the ingredients list, which shows it’s there at a very low percentage so the overall percentage of resveratrol in the formulation will be quite low. I checked the comments of grape seed extract, nothing else stands out that can clear dark spots.
This product is definitely not worth it.
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