Triple Lipid Restore
Smoother, more radiant skin that holds on to its moisture.
Your skin feels dry and less bouncy than it used to, and it looks less smooth and radiant than you want.
Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2 replenishes the lipids that hold your skin barrier together, so skin looks smoother, fuller and more radiant. It is built on a patented ratio of 2% pure ceramides, 4% natural cholesterol and 2% fatty acids, the three lipids your barrier is made of. SkinCeuticals made cholesterol the lead because it supports barrier recovery in mature skin, and that balance is what sets this cream apart.
Who It Is For
Dry, mature or dehydrated skin, and any skin that feels depleted and wants more comfort and radiance.
Not Acne Safe
What You Will See, and When
Barrier resilience improved 30% within one week in SkinCeuticals testing. In its eight week study, smoothness improved 66% and the look of pores 44%.
How to Use
Use it morning and night as your moisturizer. After your serums, warm a small amount between your fingertips and press it into face and neck. In the morning, sunscreen goes on last.
The Science
The outer layer of skin is held together by three lipids: ceramides, cholesterol and fatty acids. When any of them runs low, skin loses water faster and looks rougher and less luminous.
Published barrier research found that applying just one or two of these lipids can actually slow barrier recovery, while complete mixtures allow normal repair, and raising the proportion of one lipid within a complete mix speeds repair further. Triple Lipid Restore applies that principle with a cholesterol led 2:4:2 ratio.
In SkinCeuticals' eight week study, the cream improved smoothness by 66%, the look of laxity by 35%, radiance by 26% and the look of pores by 44%.
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, Dimethicone, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Glycerin, Cholesterol, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Ceramide Np, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil Unsaponifiables / Sunflower Seed Oil Unsaponifiables, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Bis-Peg-18 Methyl Ether Dimethyl Silane, Sodium Polyacrylate, Peg-10 Dimethicone, Nylon-12, Lauryl Peg-9 Polydimethylsiloxyethyl Dimethicone, Dimethicone/Peg-10/15 Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Distearadimonium Hectorite, Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate, Hydroxyethylpiperazine Ethane Sulfonic Acid, Chlorphenesin, Caprylyl Glycol, Peg/Ppg-18/18 Dimethicone, Propylene Carbonate, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Cellulose, Adenosine, Dipropylene Glycol, Lavandula Angustifolia Oil / Lavender Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil / Rosemary Leaf Oil, Sodium Citrate, Mentha Piperita Oil / Peppermint Oil, Linalool, Ceramide Eop, Tocopherol, Limonene
References
1. Man MQ, Feingold KR, Thornfeldt CR, Elias PM. Optimization of physiological lipid mixtures for barrier repair. J Invest Dermatol. 1996;106(5):1096-1101. doi:10.1111/1523-1747.ep12340135
2. SkinCeuticals brand clinical data (skinceuticals.com): 8 week study; smoothness +66%, laxity +35%, evenness +20%, radiance +26%, pores +44%; barrier resilience +30% within 1 week.
