Smoother, more refined skin with lines that look softer.
Fine lines are settling in, texture looks uneven up close, and you want your nightly routine to do more.
Wrinkle + Texture is a high potency 0.5% retinol that helps skin look smoother, more even and better hydrated, with lines that look visibly softer. A microemulsion delivery system carries the retinol in tiny droplets. It works alongside ZPRO, which helps skin look better hydrated, and ZCORE, a peptide and sweet yellow clover complex that helps skin look firmer.
Who It Is For
Adults who want visible results on lines and texture from a retinol they can build up to steadily.
Not Acne Safe
What You Will See, and When
In ZO's 12 week clinical study of 43 adults aged 42 to 67, 95% said their skin looked smoother by week 8. Retinol keeps building results for months, so give it at least twelve weeks.
How to Use
At night, after cleansing, on dry skin. Start with a rice size amount mixed into your moisturizer two nights a week, then three nights, then every other night, then every night. Once nightly use feels comfortable, work up to a pea size amount and then a thin layer over your whole face. Wear sunscreen every morning.
The Science
Retinol is vitamin A. Retinol helps skin look smoother and lines look softer.
In a randomized, double blind study, a 0.4% retinol lotion used for 24 weeks significantly improved the look of fine wrinkles compared with the plain lotion.
Questions
Where does it go in my routine?At night, after cleansing. While you are building up, mix it into your moisturizer. Once you use it nightly on its own, it goes on before moisturizer.
Can I use it with vitamin C?Yes. Use vitamin C in the morning and this at night.
Why start slowly?Skin needs time to get used to retinol. Building up step by step lets you reach nightly use comfortably.
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
0.5% retinolHelps skin look smoother and lines look softer
ZPROHelps skin look better hydrated
ZCORE complexHelps improve the look of sagging skin
Bisabolol and plant stem cell cultureHelp skin look calm
Full Ingredient List
Aqua/Water/Eau, Cetearyl Isononanoate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Glycerin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cyclohexasiloxane, Steareth-20, Pentylene Glycol, Cetyl Alcohol, Propylheptyl Caprylate, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil, Melilotus Officinalis Extract, Buddleja Davidii Meristem Cell Culture, Retinol, Cetearyl Glucoside, Polysorbate 20, Acrylamide/Ammonium Acrylate Copolymer, 1,2-Hexanediol, Lecithin, Bisabolol, Carbomer, Silica, Polyisobutene, Butylene Glycol, Hydrolyzed Sericin, Phospholipids, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA, BHT, Sodium Metabisulfite, Sodium Sulfite, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Beta-Glucan, Sorbitan Isostearate, Hexylene Glycol, Xanthan Gum, Ethylhexylglycerin, Ethyl Nicotinate, Caprooyl Tetrapeptide-3, Dextran, Caprylyl Glycol, Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol, Ext. Violet 2 (CI 60730), Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol, Citral, Limonene
References
1. Kafi R, Kwak HS, Schumacher WE, et al. Improvement of naturally aged skin with vitamin A (retinol). Arch Dermatol. 2007;143(5):606-612. doi:10.1001/archderm.143.5.606
2. ZO Skin Health clinical data: 12 week clinical study, 43 subjects aged 42 to 67 (brand published).