They essentially contain healing properties, anti-inflammatory properties, and can control hyperpigmentation for a more even skin tone creating a natural glow. Some people are complaining about the pineapple smell but it is quite mild and I do not put it on till bedtime. Your one-way ticket to gorgeously glowing skin, Glow Recipe's utterly adorable Pineapple-C Bright Serum is a must-add to your collection if you already swear by the brand's glow-giving formulas. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average (but it can have as much as 200 components! I'm a makeup lover but this week it felt a shame to cover up my glowing skin with foundation; I just didn't need it.

When I woke up the next morning, I could already sense that this face serum was going to be drying for my skin. Vitamin C is an antioxidant so it protects skin against dulling environmental factors like pollution. As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. If you have spotted ethylhexylglycerin on the ingredient list, most probably you will see there also the current IT-preservative, phenoxyethanol. This is actually more of a quick fix for when you want a good skin day, whereas the Dark Spot formula is a long-term strategy for evening out the skin's overall tone.It’s soft, feels like it moisturizes my skin, smells like pineapple, not too strong but enough to where you know it’s pineapple and it makes my skin glow.

A: 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid is a stabilized vitamin C derivative that has a higher percentage of Ascorbic Acid than other derivatives, making it more powerful and competitive vitamin C. This little pineapple-shaped vial from Glow Recipe is meant to harness all the key components of a K-beauty routine: brightening, exfoliation, and hydration.Vitamin C gives you a lot of different results: it’s known to help brighten dark spots, and can even help with cell turnover which evens out skin tone over time. and the skin-lightening was indeed visible and significant (though the pigmentation spots did not completely disappear, just so you have realistic expectations). The only thing I'd really add to this is niacinamide but I guess that's in a lot of products already. This means that overtime ascorbic acid slowly transforms into the chemical dehydroascorbic acid or DHAA.

In Aldi's pineapple serum, ethyl ascorbic acid (a version of vitamin C) comes 12th in the list of ingredients whereas it's sixth in Glow Recipe's version, suggesting that the former is weaker in potency. A: Vitamin C can make your skin more reactive to the sun, which is why it’s important to wear sunscreen on top if you choose to apply your serum in the morning. And as I mentioned before, the lack of residue made it very easy to incorporate into both my daytime and nighttime skincare routines. The product line includes cleansers, moisturizers, serums, treatment masks, toners, body cream and lip balm. We have good news regarding the absorption: on top of manufacturer claims, there is some data (animal study) demonstrating in can get into the skin, and it seems to be better at it than Ascorbyl Glucoside, another vitamin C derivative.It further helps to brighten and even skin tone while acting as a powerful antioxidant giving you your glowiest skin ever. For me it was the combination of not seeing any noticeable results after using for a while, but also I found it pilled like crazy no matter the products I used, and it was worse if I used it when prepping my skin for makeup, as it would coagulate with my base products even when I had let it absorb into my skin.

Voted 'Best Serum' by the InStyle Readers' Choice Beauty Awards 2019, the Glow Recipe Pineapple-C Bright Serum is a product well worth the hype.Formulated without: Alcohol, colourants, mineral oil, parabens, phthalates, sles, sls, sulphates and contains no animal derived ingredients.