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Mystro Active Balance Serum

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Calmer, more even, glowing skin.

Your skin changes with stress and weather. Some weeks it flushes, some weeks it looks uneven or rough, and your pores seem to show more.

Mystro visibly calms redness and improves texture, pore size, uneven pigmentation and glow, all in one serum. Its P.A.T.H. Technology is a proprietary blend of plant adaptogens chosen to help skin look calm and balanced. It contains no retinoid and has earned the National Rosacea Society Seal of Acceptance.

Who It Is For

Skin that flushes easily, looks uneven, feels rough or shows sun damage, and wants a calm, healthy glow.

Acne Safe

What You Will See, and When

Skin quality starts to show up within two weeks. In the brand's twelve week study, overall skin quality kept improving, reaching a 39 percent improvement by week twelve.

How to Use

Night only. After cleansing (and after Plated, if you use it), dot one to two pumps on your forehead, cheeks and chin and massage in, blending to the hairline and brows. Let it dry completely before moisturizer. Start a few nights a week, build up to every night, and keep it to different nights from any retinoid.

The Science

Plant adaptogens help skin look calm and balanced.

In a twelve week study of 53 adults with sun damaged skin, visible redness improved by 50 percent, texture by 52 percent, dullness by 44 percent, pore size by 23 percent and uneven pigmentation by 21 percent. Surface oil fell by 38 percent.

Questions

Is Mystro a retinol?No. It contains no retinoid. If you also use a retinoid, keep the two on separate nights rather than layering them.
Why is it that color?Astaxanthin, a natural antioxidant from algae, gives Mystro its color.
How long does one bottle last?One to two pumps a night is all you need, so a bottle goes a long way.

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.

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Key Ingredients

P.A.T.H. TechnologyPlant adaptogens that help skin look calm and balanced
Alpha lipoic acid and astaxanthinAntioxidants that help skin look healthy and even
ErgothioneineAntioxidant that helps skin look energized
Niacinamide, squalane and hydrolyzed hyaluronic acidKeep moisture balanced and skin supple
Full Ingredient List

Aqua/Water, Copaifera Officinalis (Balsam Copaiba) Resin, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Propanediol, Polyglyceryl-3 Distearate, Isosorbide Dicaprylate, Cetearyl Glucoside, Ethoxydiglycol, Diheptyl Succinate, Squalane, Niacinamide, Panax Notoginseng Root Extract, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Leaf Cell Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Magnolia Officinalis Bark Extract, Echinacea Purpurea Extract, Sophora Japonica Bud Extract, Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract, Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Haematococcus Pluvialis Extract, Astaxanthin, Ergothioneine, Thioctic Acid, Sorbitan Olivate, Tocopherol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Capryloyl Glycerin/Sebacic Acid Copolymer, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Tribehenin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Acacia Senegal Gum, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Xanthan Gum, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenethyl Alcohol, Phenoxyethanol, Citric Acid, Phytic Acid, Sodium Hydroxide.

References

1. Draelos ZD, Grimes PE, Watchmaker J, Nelson DB. A multi-center trial evaluating a serum comprised of plant-based adaptogens targeting skin quality. J Clin Aesthet Dermatol. 2024;17(2):15-19.
2. Brand clinical data: SkinBetter Science, 12 week dermatologist led trial in 53 patients; mean Global Skin Quality improvement 13% at 2 weeks, 22% at 4 weeks, 30% at 8 weeks, 39% at 12 weeks (skinbetter.com product page).

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