Calmer, clearer, brighter looking skin from one vitamin C serum.
Your skin reacts easily and marks from old breakouts linger, but you still want the brightness a vitamin C serum brings.
Pro-Heal Serum Advance+ helps skin look calmer, clearer and more even while it defends against daily environmental stress. It pairs L-ascorbic acid, the form of vitamin C your skin uses directly, with olive leaf extract, vitamin E and a touch of retinol. The result is a vitamin C built to comfort skin as it brightens, not just to brighten.
Who It Is For
Skin that turns red easily, skin showing sun damage or marks left by breakouts, skin recovering post procedure, and skin that gets congested or easily flushed and needs a vitamin C it can tolerate.
Acne Safe
What You Will See, and When
Skin tends to feel more comfortable within the first couple of weeks. No timeline is published, so give it eight to twelve weeks of daily use before you judge brightness and tone.
How to Use
Every morning on clean, dry skin. Dab three to five drops into your palm, then smooth evenly over face and neck with your fingertips. Let it absorb, then follow with moisturizer, and finish with sunscreen as your last step.
The Science
Healthy skin holds high levels of vitamin C, where it acts as an antioxidant. L-ascorbic acid is the form the skin uses without needing to convert it first.
Vitamin C and vitamin E work as a pair: vitamin E protects the skin's lipids, and vitamin C helps restore vitamin E after it neutralizes free radicals. Olive leaf is rich in polyphenols such as oleuropein, which add a second layer of antioxidant support.
Questions
Where does it go in my routine?Mornings, on clean, dry skin and before moisturizer. Sunscreen goes on last.
What does it feel like?A light, fluid serum that absorbs quickly.
How should I store it?Keep the cap closed and the bottle away from heat and sunlight. Vitamin C is sensitive to air and light.
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:
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Your skin: its history, how it reacts, and what it is doing today
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Your health: hormones, medications, pregnancy and any condition that changes how skin behaves
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Your lifestyle: sleep, stress, diet, sun, exercise and climate
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Your routine: what you use now, and what has and has not worked before
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Your goals: what you most want to change
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Your expectations and timeline: how soon you want to see change, and what is realistic for your skin
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Your consistency: how much time and how many steps you will keep up with, because the best routine is the one you actually do
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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
L-ascorbic acid (vitamin C)Brightens and helps defend against environmental stress
Olive leaf extractAntioxidant that helps skin look calm and clear
Vitamin E (tocopherol)Nourishing antioxidant that works alongside vitamin C
Retinol (vitamin A)Helps smooth the look of fine lines
Full Ingredient List
Water/Aqua/Eau, Ascorbic Acid, Laureth-4, Alcohol Denat., Pentylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Aminomethyl Propanol, Tocopherol, Glycerin, Bioflavonoids, Retinol, Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract, Zinc Sulfate, Polyporus Umbellatus (Mushroom) Extract, Arbutin, Polysorbate 20, Phenoxyethanol.
References
1. Pullar JM, Carr AC, Vissers MCM. The roles of vitamin C in skin health. Nutrients. 2017;9(8):866. doi:10.3390/nu9080866