La Prairie Skin Caviar Nighttime Oil Is Part Of the Ultimate Bedtime Skincare Experience – NYLON

It seems like many of us, perhaps maybe all of us, have recently become obsessed with skin-care routines. The trend has been on the rise for a while, but more acutely, it’s due to a year and a half spent inside, staring at our faces in our laptop cameras, and having little to occupy our time other than internet research and online shopping. That combination has created a hoard of internet skincare sleuths seeking the fountain of youth in a bottle. And just like that, the bar has been raised for skincare, especially our nighttime routines. There’s a lot of hope in feeling like you can wake up glowing and better than before. Skincare novices have become skincare pros. Skincare enthusiasts have become skincare masters (and have become even more particular). As a beauty editor, I happen to have fallen into that latter category.

The position has offered incredible opportunities to seek out skincare holy grails in ways few others can. In the most recent instance, this involved going to Zurich, Switzerland, the homeland of renowned skincare brand La Prairie, not only to enjoy their incredible facial experience at The Dolder Grand Spa, but to be fully immersed in the story and science that the brand has to offer. I spoke with La Prairie’s Director of Strategic Innovation and Science, Dr. Jacqueline Hill, who helped create the brand’s most exciting launch to date, La Prairie Skin Caviar Nighttime Oil, the luxury skincare brand’s first formulation containing retinol. We all know retinol as the potent ingredient for improving skin tone and texture and softening fine lines, so a retinol combined with La Prairie’s famously skin-firming caviar based formulas, had to be next level.

“We knew that caviar contained retinol, but we hadn’t leveraged that in the past,” says Hill. “So we decided to try and extract, stabilize it, and bring it into a formula the would really maximize its benefits.” That’s how the brand created Caviar Retinol, a combination of caviar lipids and caviar-derived retinol. It’s the star ingredient of the Skin Caviar Nighttime Oil that makes the formula particularly effective as a nighttime treatment.

“We designed the formula to boost the skin rejuvenating processes that are peaking at night during your natural circadian rhythm,” says Hill. Our skin needs help speeding up those processes as we age with the assistance of skincare, she explains, “that’s why the Nighttime Oil boosts epidermal renewal and collagen formation”. The additional benefit of the oil is preventing transepidermal water loss, “it’s like a shield,” says Hill “it seals in moisture and the benefits of the skincare,” helping prevent the evaporation that occurs at night. The result is powerful line softening with gentle delivery that also firms and strengthens the skin barrier. On …….

Source: https://www.nylon.com/beauty/la-prairie-skin-caviar-nighttime-oil-retinol-skincare-review