Complexion Renewal Pads
Clearer, smoother, more balanced skin in one swipe.
By midday your skin looks shiny, your pores look crowded, and the surface feels uneven however well you cleanse.
Each pad sweeps away excess oil and the dead cells that crowd pores, so skin looks clearer, smoother and brighter, and your next steps absorb better. Glycolic acid loosens the surface cells that make skin feel rough, salicylic acid works inside the pore where oil and debris collect, and urea helps skin hold water so it stays comfortable. The pads themselves are 100% plant based.
Who It Is For
Oily, combination or congested skin that wants a clearer, more refined look from a quick step with no rinsing.
Acne Safe
What You Will See, and When
Skin looks less shiny and feels fresher from the first swipe. A clearer, smoother look builds over the first few weeks of nightly use.
How to Use
At night, after cleansing, sweep one pad over your face and neck. Use it up to once a day, as often as your skin stays comfortable. Do not rinse. Let it dry, then follow with your serums and moisturizer.
The Science
Glycolic acid is water soluble and works on the surface, loosening the bonds between the oldest skin cells so they shed evenly. Salicylic acid is oil soluble, so it can move into the pore lining, where it loosens the cell junctions that trap oil and debris.
Used together, the two work on the surface and inside the pore at once. Urea is a natural part of the skin's own moisturizing factor, which is why it helps offset the fresh, clean feel of an exfoliating step with lasting hydration.
Questions
Why a Routine Made for You Works Better
General advice is written for everyone, so it has to assume nothing about you. It can tell you what is safe. It cannot tell you what will work for your skin.
Skin changes when it is challenged just enough, then given time to recover and adapt. That amount is different for every person, and it moves as your skin gets stronger. Ask too much and your skin spends its energy recovering instead of improving. Ask too little and nothing changes. Finding that point for you, and moving it at the right time, is where results come from.
Where that point sits depends on:
- Your skin: its history, how it reacts, and what it is doing today
- Your health: hormones, medications, pregnancy and any condition that changes how skin behaves
- Your lifestyle: sleep, stress, diet, sun, exercise and climate
- Your routine: what you use now, and what has and has not worked before
- Your goals: what you most want to change
- Your expectations and timeline: how soon you want to see change, and what is realistic for your skin
- Your consistency: how much time and how many steps you will keep up with, because the best routine is the one you actually do
- Your treatments: what you have had and what you have planned
A skin therapist weighs all of this, builds a routine you can keep, and adjusts it as your skin responds. That is why we guarantee our products when they are part of a routine designed by one of our skin therapists. If you have been reading general advice, bring your questions. We will help you sort out what applies to you and what does not.
Key Ingredients
Full Ingredient List
Aqua/Water/Eau, Alcohol, Propylene Glycol, Salicylic Acid, Urea, Pterocarpus Soyauxii Wood Extract, Phellodendron Amurense Bark Extract, Hordeum Distichon/Barley Extract/Extrait d'orge à deux rangs, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Artemisia Vulgaris Extract, Plantago Lanceolata Leaf Extract, Crithmum Maritimum Extract, Spiraea Ulmaria Extract, Sodium Hydroxide, Glycolic Acid, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Chloride, Disodium EDTA, t-Butyl Alcohol, Denatonium Benzoate, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance/Parfum, Citronellol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool.
References
1. Kornhauser A, Coelho SG, Hearing VJ. Applications of hydroxy acids: classification, mechanisms, and photoactivity. Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol. 2010;3:135-142. doi:10.2147/CCID.S9042
2. Arif T. Salicylic acid as a peeling agent: a comprehensive review. Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol. 2015;8:455-461. doi:10.2147/CCID.S84765
3. Rawlings AV, Harding CR. Moisturization and skin barrier function. Dermatol Ther. 2004;17 Suppl 1:43-48. doi:10.1111/j.1396-0296.2004.04s1005.x
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