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It's still Retinol

You’d think that after fifty years, dermatologists would be espousing a newer wonder anti-ageing product but no- according to Dr Claude Saliou, Retinol – in its newest form – is still the business. We learned all about it over tea at Mollies…

You’d think that after fifty years, dermatologists would be espousing a newer wonder anti-ageing product but no- according to Dr Claude Saliou, Retinol – in its newest form – is still the business.

We learned all about it at afternoon tea at Mollies Hotel in Auckland on Thursday 24th June as Dr Saliou, an international expert in anti-ageing technologies with the most fabulous French accent, presented research findings on Retinol.

Since Retinol’s discovery in the 1930s won the Nobel prize, it is been a hot topic for turning back the clock in skincare products. "Even though the scientists running the study are blinded, it’s very easy to see which subjects have been using Retinol!" Dr Saliou says, as he showed before and after slides. Katie Newton from Sunday Magazine enquired if the study’s concentrations of Retinol were similar to those in the RoC and Neutrogena new product ranges and yes, they are comparable, so you get a similar strength at home, not just in the lab.

I was interested to learn the ‘build-up’ properties of Retinol; if you use it for say twelve weeks and then stopped, the results don’t stop or go backwards – like they do with skin-plumping moisturisers – they keep getting better. Your skin keeps improving even after you’ve discontinued Retinol use. Amazing.

Alexei Archipow, Neutrogena Brand Manager with Dr Claude Saliou.

Below: Dr Claude Saliou presenting, with the new ranges of RoC and Neutrogena in the foreground.

The new RoC Retin-Ox Wrinkle Correxion range has five products: a day cream $65, another for dry skin $65, night cream $72, eye cream $59 and a serum $72. It uses a combination of Intelligent Biopeptide, Pure Retinol and Hyaluronic Acid.

The new Neutrogena range Ageless Intensives Tone Correcting uses Retinol, Vitamin C (often used for skin whitening) and Essential Soy (for hyperpigmentation.)

Elise Wilson, New Idea, and Angelique Fris of Fresh PR.

Melinda Jones and Nicole Blake both of BDM Grange

Katie Newton of Sunday and Tamsin Marshall of Beauty Goss.

Monique Little, BDM Group Brand Manager with Monica Newfang, Senior Director PR at Johnson & Johnson Beauty Care.

Megan of Thread.co.nz and Francesca Marsic of Beautiful You.

By Megan Robinson, 24 June 2010.


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