(image from www.olay.co.uk)
Olay’s Complete Care Night Enriched Cream has been my evening moisturizer for a couple of years, and I have recently switched from Olay’s Multi-Radiance Daily Illuminating UV Fluid SPF 15 to Complete Care Daily Sensitive UV Fluid SPF15, also from Olay. (I will be featuring this product later on.) Today I am reviewing the Regenerist Daily Regenerating Serum.
This serum has more of a gel texture than a watery consistency. (It is one of the thicker serum-type products that I have come across.) It doesn’t have a lot of slip, but it does create a silky finish, which is largely down to the various silicone ingredients and the fact that cyclopentasiloxane (silicone) is the first ingredient on the list (before water and glycerine).
It has a very good mix of beneficial ingredients, such as carnosine (with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties), tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E, antioxidant), tocopherol (vitamin E, antioxidant), allantoin (anti-irritant), and camellia sinensis (green tea, potential antioxidant for the skin).
Also included in this product is niacinamide (vitamin B3). Paula Begoun mentions that the serum contains approximately 2% to 3% niacinamide and that, in this amount, “it can increase the skin’s ceramide and fatty acid content as well as have anti-inflammatory action”
(Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, April 2004, pages 88-93). (The three Olay products that I mentioned above also contain niacinamide.) For more information on all the potential benefits of niacinamide, please refer to the entry in Paula Begoun’s Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary.Overall, this can be a good product to be used under the moisturizer for those with normal or dry skin or as a light-weight moisturizer for those with oily skin. For daytime, it can also work as a primer to help create a smooth texture for the skin in order to facilitate makeup application.
(You can also see Paula’s review of this serum here.)Related posts:
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Thanks for the review! I also used quite a few of the Olay products and find them to be very good.
The serum, however, I thought was ok. :) I will not purchase it again.
Sunny
Hi Sunny,
I personally prefer the three moisturizers that I have used to the serum. I would have liked to see a slightly lighter consistency, but, ingredient-wise, it is still a very well-formulated product.
Thank you for posting your comment! :)
Nice Review. I wish I could use Olay but any Olay products made me breakout like crazy.
Hi,
Thank you very much!
I am sorry to hear that Olay products are not working well for you. I do think there are a few things that can be tweaked in terms of the general formulation of Olay's products, and I will touch upon a couple of them in another post on Olay later on.
Thank you for your comment! :)
This is the first time I have read your blog and am really impressed with your extremely thorough review.
It is so rare to find bloggers who really get to the nitty gritty of a product, extremely helpful thank you.
Alexia
Hi Alexia,
You are very welcome. Thank you very much for reading this review, and I am glad you enjoyed it. With reviews of skincare products, I try to be relatively concise but I also want to touch upon all the essential information. I am glad you find the reviews helpful. :)
Many thanks again! :)