Sometimes, we want our skin care to go deep. The only problem is that our skin is pretty good at protecting us from potential external aggressors. Getting good ingredients past the hall monitor can be difficult, but the potential benefits for skin care are extraordinary. The proof is in the results. Thanks to the patent-pending Micro Growth Factor Technology, PCA SKIN’s powerful innovation is capable of penetrating ten times deeper than conventional growth factors*
We sat down with PCA SKIN’s senior education manager for research and communications and licensed esthetician, Alison Adams-Woodford to learn how Pro-Max Age Renewal reaches new depths.
Getting Skin Care Past the Front Door
“Each layer of the skin plays important roles in skin health through water retention, protection from external aggressors, sensory responses to our environment and providing strength, structure and elasticity,” explains Adams-Woodford.
You can think of the outermost layer of our skin, the epidermis, as a security detail for the rest of the skin. Water has backstage passes and pathogens are stopped at the front door. Despite being the thinnest layer of our skin, it’s meant to keep the bad stuff out and the good stuff in.
That makes it tough for active ingredients to get past the front door, aka the stratum corneum, the very outermost layer of the epidermis.
“Some ingredients do not penetrate well on their own,” Adams-Woodford says. “These are facilitated through the use of delivery technologies that guide them through the lipid layers at the surface of the skin.”
When conventional growth factors are too big to get through the front door (an average of 155 amino acids, 17 KD molecular weight), their potential benefit to the skin is limited to the surface. That’s fine for sunscreen, which we want to stay on the outside to protect our skin from UV rays, but for aging concerns that go deeper, there needed to be a way into the deeper parts of skin.
Pro Max Age Renewal Goes 10 Times Deeper*
“Our teams of scientists looked at the traditional skin growth factor benefits we wanted to provide in our formulation and then worked to identify key fragments of those large growth factor proteins,” Adams-Woodford says. “A fraction of the size of conventional growth factors, Micro Growth Factor Technology penetrates the skin to help support collagen production and reduce the appearance of sagging, loss of volume, lack of firmness and wrinkles.”
By breaking down those growth factor proteins to just essential fragments, Pro-Max Age Renewal can get past that outermost layer, the stratum corneum, down into the deeper layers of the epidermis.
And the impact of getting that deep is clear, with clinical results showing more lifting and firming of skin while visible lines and wrinkles diminish.
The Results Are In
With clinical results beginning in just one week of use, Pro-Max Age Renewal supports collagen production to lift and firm the appearance of skin by 60 percent within 24 weeks.** Smooth lines and wrinkles by restoring volume for visibly fuller, more plump looking skin.
The intensely hydrating formula provides instant skin firming thanks to innovative biopolymers, while wrinkles and sagging skin get rapid treatment from kangaroo paw flower extract. This results in visibly plumper looking skin, with a 58 percent improvement after 24 weeks of use.**
*Defined as conventional growth factors with an average of 155 amino acids (17 KD molecular weight).
**24-week data on file at PCASKIN, N=47.
