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You don’t spend much time in a Sephora to realize that many skin care products aren’t affordable. La Mer’s shiny pots charge $180 and an $85 Peter Thomas Roth mask with 24-carat natural gold inside.
But, if you know where to look, you can find skin care products that are on par with luxury options. Companies such as Maelove, a startup founded through MIT graduates (skin obsessives, brain and cancer researchers and chemical engineers), use many of the same element and cosmetic labs as high-end brands, but sell products for a fraction of the cost, such as an italicized skin care edition.
Formulas are based more firmly on comprehensive studies than the movement of the farm to the face, and the product in diversity is indexed to less than $30, with the exception of Love 31 facial oil ($74.95).
What is better is the quality for the price. I check out many skin care products, whether luxury and pharmacy, for my paintings in Insider Reviews, and if I could only present a skin care logo to my friends and family, it would probably be this one. The products look good, they are reasonable and the start-up rarely disappoints. Like the loophole in buying Differin gel instead of Differin cream to save $200, Maelove is a way to save a lot of dollars on the essentials without making concessions related to what is included in the products themselves.
Maelove CEO and co-founder Jackie Kim sought to reduce the costs of healthcare products, and co-founders Brad Yim and Rishi Khaitan sought tactics to apply synthetic intelligence techniques to unforeseen industries. Skin care, with its glamour, subterfuge and markings, seemed to be an herbal solution.
As people outside the industry, Kim and the company had to identify the criteria that needed to be challenged. “The first peculiarity of the skin care industry we’ve detected is that it works like the fashion industry,” Kim explained. “Marketing specialists create finishes and types of unfinished products to maximize sales. The end result is a ton of overrediffered undifferentiated products through overly enthusiastic marketing specialists, leading to confusion among shoppers.”
To illustrate his point, Kim shows me the 428 effects that look like for a facial moisturizer on Sephora’s website, with costs ranging from $385 to $10. With this variety, how does the average user intend to reduce it to the maximum? Not to mention the fact that the mastery of care turns out to have its own infinite subsets: there is eye cream, face cream, left elbow cream and right elbow cream.
But if trends intrinsically replace, the framework does not replace from year to year. “How can there be a revolutionary ingredient for skin care” every year? “Ask Kim.” What worked well for our skin 10 years ago still works well today.”
The team recruited friends from all disciplines (brain and cancer scholars, chemical engineers, lawyers and doctors) to conduct studies without the luggage of preconceived ideas. In essence, Maelove is a massive and very successful clinical experiment. And it reads like a.
First, the team is based on decades of clinical research. “There are many widely accepted published books that show paintings with compounds that maintain skin health. These are the ingredients shown and advised through each dermatologist and [which] should be obtained without a prescription and prescription (classic ingredients such as retinol, AHA, safe nutrients and peptides, etc.). In short, those are the ingredients they paint.
Maelove then uses synthetic intelligence to analyze millions of criticisms of self-informed products, what Kim calls real-world empirical knowledge, whose ingredients correlate with good luck and which to avoid. These are the ingredients that, depending on users (or the effects of self-reported tests, as Kim calls them), work.
Finally, the company digs up human volunteers to verify the formula and determine its effectiveness.
Then, by creating a business around variety for the sake of variety (remember: creams for the left elbow), Maelove focuses on creating a diversity of stellar skin care that can work for all skin types.
The Glow Maker ($28) is a vitamin C serum that brightens your complexion, unifies the complexion and lightens brown spots. It is soft and sinks temporarily and absolutely without leaving any sticky residue. And while vitamin C serums can dry out, Maelove’s iteration is a botanical and hyaluronic acid addition (which can hold up to 1000 times its weight in water) to save it.
Consumers temporarily saw that the Glow Maker had an ingredient list very similar to that of the award-winning C E Ferulic serum ($166), which is more than $130 cheaper.
Find my full review of The Glow Maker here, a side-by-side breakdown of item lists.
The Night Renewer ($28) is one of my favorite products on the market. It uses 10% medical grade AHA, an aggregate of soothing ingredients and hyaluronic acid to gently resurface the skin for a greater texture and a more even tone, either too hard or too dry. It took the company years of studies to master anything comfortable and effective, and they nailed it here. After a night of use, I notice an improvement in the texture and tone of my skin and noticed that the dark spots fade over time. My pores also look a little smaller.
Read my full version of The Night Renewer here.
The One Cream ($28) is a moisturizer that will moisturize without clogging pores. It is suitable for all skin types, remains soft and is temporarily and completely absorbed. When I’m not trying another cream, I prefer the economic cream: there is never inflammation in my sensitive skin and it is handled well in dry spaces.
You can get my full review of The One Cream here.
Eye Enhancer ($28) moisturizes, tightens and brightens sensitive skin around the eyes. It goes a little and penetrates the skin for a shine all day and a renewed breath. Cold-pressed Robusta coffee seed extract, in antioxidants and polyphenols, reduces water retention and bags, and a botanical complex soothes fine, sensitive skin around the eyes. But if you’re used to a thicker eye cream, it may not be for you, it’s very light.
The Day Eraser ($19) is a thicker, oilier cousin of proper micellar water. Maelove traveled more than 90 iterations of products before landing on it. It is a two-in-one make-up remover and facial cleanser that respects the skin’s herbal hydration barrier and does not leave it without makeup or dryness. You can remove water-resistant makeup while leaving skin smooth and hydrated. I like to use it as a make-up remover and first cleaner, as it is soft and silky, but I grab the water-resistant mask from my lashes without rubbing them. But I apply too much. And since I don’t use makeup often, I have a tendency to prefer Bioderma Micellary Water for its slightly less difficult application.
The Deep Exfoliator ($24) is a gentle and smart exfoliator. Its ingredients come with BHA (salicylic acid) and powdered clay to remove impurities and absorb excess sebum, and niacinamide (vitamin B3), glycerin, aleroin and vitamin E to repair hydration. Used several times a week, it is helping to redo the surface of the skin for greater tone and texture. It works more productively when combined with other AHA/BHA like Night Renewer, but is excellent in itself, and especially for sensitive skin. If you are looking for a more powerful exfoliator and do not need to buy both, I suggest you buy the Night Renewer.
NIA 10 ($27.95) soothing serum is designed for dry, inflamed, sensitive and acne-prone skin. Niacinamide (vitamin B3), zinc and white tea extract paints to soothe skin and redness and tone over time. I saw that it helped calm my imperfections and that my pores looked visibly smaller. In terms of redness, this helped slightly with normal use, but the effects were not drastic. If redness is your biggest fear and your skin is too sensitive for vitamin C serums, it’s worth looking for an alternative. Otherwise, the Glow Maker would possibly be better for general pitch correction.
Read my complete NIA 10 soothing serum here.
The Refresher ($18.95) is a gentle cleanser that helps cleanse the skin without altering its herbal hydration barrier, but can dry out if you’re used to other gentle, simple cleansers like Cetaphil. The Refresher uses an aggregate of AHA (lactic, malic and tartar) to remove dead or unblustered skin cells and, without moisturizing afterwards, can dry out. Personally, I like the help of AHA to calm rashes and remove dull skin; However, if you are prone to dryness, you may need to continue with Cetaphil. The inner straw also does not succeed in the back of the bottle, you may have to dig for the last face wash.
This radically affordable line of luxury remedies is the real deal. Maelove manufactures some of the most productive and inexpensive skin care products I’ve ever found. And even though I don’t follow my own skin care regimen as a product reviewer, I surprised myself to know who would prefer to use less expensive Maelove products than luxury remedies I check for paints because they are simple, comfortable and effective.
I present Maelove to anyone who asks me to offer you a new product, as it adapts to all skin types and is economical, but skin care is also a notoriously subjective experience. What paints for me would possibly not be paints for you, even a skin care line designed to satisfy all skin types. Fortunately, Maelove has a 100-day and one-hundred percent money-back guarantee, so don’t threaten much if you need to check it out for yourself.