Keep Skin Care Simple: Clean, Hydrate, Protect

Reviva Labs has always advocated for keeping your skin care routine simple and clean. Yes, we believe in layering, but not in the 10-12 step skin care routines that have grown in popularity with the rise of K-Beauty. Instead, we are firm believers in achieving the most with the fewest products.

When consumers call us and ask for guidance in creating a skin care routine – they’re often surprised when we suggest only two to four products. They’re used to others trying to up-sell them on half a dozen or more products in complicated day and night routines. We believe, if a skin care routine is too complex, you simply won’t do it. So we generally follow the approach of clean, hydrate, and protect – which can generally be achieved with two to four products, depending on a customer’s needs and skin care focus.

Clean, Hydrate, Protect.

This is a simple philosophy that addresses the majority of skin concerns and treats issues with as few products as possible. Clean means just that – cleanse your skin. Cleansing your skin is an important step to remove dirt, makeup, environmental pollution, etc. Reviva Labs offers several cleansers across our product categories that are gentle and effective. Each is meant to start the process by removing the daily daytime or nighttime buildup of grime that generally accumulates on your skin.

Masks also clean but differently

We also maintain a robust selection of masks to help cleanse, purge, and purify your complexion. While masks are generally not a daily part of your routine, many of our masks can be used regularly. Masks are wonderful in deep cleaning, because they help to detoxify your skin by drawing out the impurities that can build up and clog pores. So they’re a wonderful adjunct to your daily cleanser and can be used alternatively day or night. But they are an optional but delightful component of a simple skin care regimen.

Hydration is the single best thing you can do to maintain your skin health

Dry skin is commonplace for most people to some extent. Whether it’s dry hands in the winter or problem skin on your face, dry skin causes many issues. Dehydrated skin shows wrinkles more than properly hydrated skin. So the simple act of keeping your skin properly moisturized can help you look more youthful. Moisture-rich skin is also plumper and firmer and provides the healthy, dewy complexion everyone seeks.

But it goes deeper than that; well-hydrated skin is also healthier and better able to protect you from the onslaught of daily external environmental damage. Dry skin can flake, crack, peel, and allow contaminants to penetrate your skin’s barrier. Quite simply, well hydrated skin functions better.

Reviva offers a wide assortment of hydrating products and we’ve been strong advocates of hyaluronic acid for decades. Our hyaluronic acid serum has been a staple in skin care routines for over twenty years. And our Intercell™ Hyaluronic Acid Day Creme and Intercell™ Hyaluronic Acid Night Gel take sodium hyaluronate (hyaluronic acid’s official name) to the next level. And the recent return of our Cream Hydratante adds in a super natural skin barrier to trap in the soothing sunflower oils, hyaluronic acid, and all the subsequent skin hydrating moisture.

Protecting skin is what Reviva has done for over 40 years.

Each Reviva product has been designed to be functional and effective at treating and protecting your skin and its underlying skin conditions. From anti-aging peptides to antioxidant rich formulas and even soothing brightening or firming treatments – you’ll always find a combination of ingredients that soothe and protect.

A hallmark of Reviva products is our multi-pronged and complementary ingredient decks within our products. For example, our Alpha Lipoic Acid, Vitamin C Ester, DMAE cream features multiple potent antioxidants and a firming ingredient to improve sagging skin while also correcting underlying free radical damage. But it also contains the peptide Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 that has been shown to boost collagen synthesis, which also helps to firm up skin by rejuvenating the basic building blocks of the skin’s structural matrix.

Or examine our Antioxidant Skin Smoothing Creme that features Alpha Lipoic Acid, CoQ10, Vitamins C & E, Green Tea Extract, Niacinamide, Resveratrol, and Skin-Smoothing Oils. One product helps to alleviate free radical damage, brighten your complexion, and provides for a more youthful appearance with anti-aging benefts.

Our simple, results driven approach eschews novelty in favor of proven effectiveness

For over four decades our products have remained simple and effective. Our formulas are clean and simple. Our chemists evaluate each ingredient carefully and only add to a formula if there’s truly a benefit. We also make sure that any ingredient added is added in sufficient amounts to actually be beneficial. We avoid shoving small amounts of novelty ingredients into our formulas just so we can tout them. If it’s in our formula it’s in there in the necessary amount to truly be effective. And we avoid adding anything unnecessary too. We’re constantly surprised when we look at competitors that have twenty or thirty ingredients in a product when our similar product might have eight or ten at the most. We’re left asking “what’s the purpose of all that other stuff and how much can really be in the product?”

Keep your skin care clean and simple

Always select a good quality cleanser and perhaps supplement it a few times a week with a mask product. Then select a product to help hydrate your skin. This can be a serum or cream but it should be a focus of any routine. Then apply a product intended to protect against (and/or correct) your major skin care issue. This could be additional hydration if your skin is very dry or it could be anti-aging or firming or even brightening. But look for formulas, like Reviva’s, that offer a multi-pronged approach to treating your underlying condition or primary concern. Generally this means a mix of antioxidants and peptides and other key ingredients that offer multiple benefits in one product. This way, you can keep your skin care routine quick and simple and you can do it morning and evening – in only a few minutes.

Sample, Quick Skin Care Routines

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