Any opinions on reactions to my night serum?

[Dfontaine]

I'll try to make this short. I'm on the second test of my intense night serum.
After 4 days I've noticed some remarkable or at least interesting results.

It's a heavy oil based (hazelnut and emu) product with about 20 other ingredients including colostrum, DMAE, L-Carnosine, Grape seed extract, alpha liopic acid and many more. It does NOT contain any hydroxy acids or salicylic acid or any other peeling agents or whitening/bleaching agents.

Facts: I have very tough skin. Thin but tough and have never had an alergic reaction to anything. I've used 70% AHA on my legs for 15 minutes 4 times a week and not even the slightest peel. That kind of tough. I 've had freckles all over my body arms, legs, face, chest since I was 3 years old. Irish/German decent.

I've been using this serum all over my body. What I've noticed is on my face, the brown spots around my temples (the worse part) have peeled off and the skin looks like I just had a peel. One brown spot or large freckle/mole was starting to raise a couple months ago and it has faded and is flat to the skin now. One brown spot scabbed up and looks like it's going to be clear skin when it heals. But most important I'm not getting any peeling on any other part of my face except around the bad areas of my face.

onto my upper chest. In the winter I go to steam baths about once every 2 months for my sinuses. After one session, the next day my upper chest is broken out into what look like zits or an allergic reaction. What comes out are hard light brown things as opposed to whiteheads or blackheads.

Using this serum on my upper chest produces the same effect. It's very quick. The bumps raise, excrete, and close quickly and heal quickly. In terms of the zit things, if the oils or whatever are blocking the pores, it some how is reacting the same way steam does when opening the pores.
Exact same place. Shoulder to shoulder and upper chest. No break outs on any other part of my body - face, legs, or lower torso.

The skin on my face looks MUCH younger than it did 5 days ago. Not that I look younger, just that my skin looks younger. On my arms and legs too.

This is my delema. My deduction is that this serum is totally healing my skin. Either that or my tough skin who rarely got a zit when I was a kid _OR_all the sudden developed an allergic reaction and the fact that the serum effects my upper chest the same way a steam bath does is coincendental and the fact that my skin looks younger is probably because I'm burning the heck out of it with too high concentrations of ingredients and the wrong PH.

[guapagirl]

Hi there,

I would think you would need to post all the ingredients for anyone to be sure, but I would guess that if you have 20 ingredients in the oil, then you are either having active overload, some actives are counteracting each other or the concentrations of the actives are too small to be effective (DMAE needs to be at 3% for effectiveness for example) and the benefits you are experiencing are just the result of the emu oil whilst the side-effects are the result of a minor allergy.

Is this a DIY serum/oil?

[Dfontaine]

[guapagirl]

You have 5% pure DMAE or bitartrate? (asking just out of curiosity really, I think it's a product overload).

I agree that when skin is healing it can go through an 'ugly' phase - copper peptide users are VERY familiar with this!

Seriously, I'd reduce the amount of actives or at least introduce them one at a time. I really doubt that the skin can take so much all in one go!

[Dfontaine]

[guapagirl]

If it's a skin bio CP then it'll be water based. I manage to emulsify emu ultra, HA and super CP serum ok, but with a ton of other stuff in the mix who knows?

For DMAE to be effective it needs to be at 3% but in the pure amine form. Don't know how much the bitartrate has in it.

By introducing one active at a time, I meant start with just one in your carrier oil, then after a week add another active and check for any reaction and so on.

Clarins really sell macademia nut oil for $50 for half and oz? :shock: :shock:

[Dfontaine]