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20% off Paula's Choice 1% Retinol Booster plus free shipping. This is a great product for reducing uneven skin tone and fine lines, and for firming the skin. You can add a few drops of this product to your current moisturiser or serum.

Retinol is another name for Vitamin A, and works by increasing turnover of surface skin cells and slowing breakdown of collagen.

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  twister292 on 30/09/2016 - 06:56

  +4

  I find Paula's choice over-hyped.

  She writes a lot of useless, factually incorrect fud and passes it as knowledge, and quite often her own products contain some of the ingredients she writes ignorant spiel about.

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    undercut on 30/09/2016 - 07:22

    -1

    All of her skin care products contain ingredients that have been peer-reviewed, and advice given is always backed up by medical journal citations.

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      twister292 on 30/09/2016 - 07:31

      +1

      No it isn't. She cherry picks evidence to make her statements look true.

      Her stance always along the lines of "alcohol = bad"…never mind the fact that alcohol is needed in many products because oils won't dissolve in water. And there's gazillions of different "alcohols".

      She also claims her products are beneficial because antioxidants are beneficial in red wine for example, and her products contain antioxidants…and there's practically zero evidence topically applied anti oxidants are of any help.

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        undercut on 30/09/2016 - 07:48

        Untrue. She does not blanket condemn alcohols, but acknowledges that some alcohols (e.g. Cetearyl & benzyl alcohols) are more beneficial for the skin than others.

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    AlexF on 30/09/2016 - 07:32

    +1

    People find all sorts of ways to waste money - is cosmetics any worse than audiophilia, gambling, expensive grog, jewellery, luxury cars, etc, etc? Anyone buy this stuff would admit it's a farce.

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      twister292 on 30/09/2016 - 07:35

      +1

      She's outright misleading at times. A bit like the Beats Audio of cosmetics/skincare.

      She has no background in dermatology or science, just a lot of guesses and claims.

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        AlexF on 30/09/2016 - 07:37

        +1

        Beats isn't about audio, and this stuff isn't about dermatology. It's about gratification.

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        twister292 on 30/09/2016 - 07:38

        +3

        @AlexF:

        Skincare products can actually work. Retinol is beneficial for skin, just not to the same extent Paula claims.

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        AlexF on 30/09/2016 - 07:44

        +1

        Skincare products can actually work.

        Skincare that needs to work is prescribed (in my case, Advantan and Novasone). Cosmetics is not that.

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        miq on 30/09/2016 - 10:20

        "She's outright misleading at times. A bit like the Beats Audio of cosmetics/skincare."

        hahaha spot on!

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    Diji1 on 30/09/2016 - 10:47

    External collagen treatments have no science backing them up at all if you don't count the barrage of scientific articles put out by marketing departments. Most of them are peer reviewed which only costs about $1500 USD for anyone these days.

    The beauty industry is largely a scam: the only treatments that have been shown to have any anti-aging effect are sunscreens and gentle surfactants (that's soap although the myriads of "beauty" products that do this simple chemical reaction on water you then apply to skin also clean well. Not better.)

    That's it other than Botox: there aren't any other effective anti-aging mechanisms.

    Smearing cream onto your face will give it a smooth look and sheen but this is a purely cosmetic effect.

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      miffy on 30/09/2016 - 13:08

      This is true.

      Also Botox and Dysport are cheaper, less obvious and less painful than most people think.

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  Jenny Jingle on 30/09/2016 - 08:37

  +1

  Who is this Paula chick anyway.

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    altomic on 30/09/2016 - 09:16

    +1

    I always thought she was a pro-choice advocate.

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      Diji1 on 30/09/2016 - 10:48

      I think she's more pro buy-Paula-a-new-Ferrari.

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  [Deactivated] on 30/09/2016 - 09:50

  is this retinol product similar to rectinol

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  miq on 30/09/2016 - 10:22

  As others have mentioned, this brand is just built on hype and referrer codes. Avoid. It's very overrated.

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  miffy on 30/09/2016 - 10:55

  +1

  Just find a GP who will give you a script for tretinoin. It works!

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  evp on 30/09/2016 - 11:07

  +1

  used to buy BHA exfoliants all the time when they were around $20 a few years back, but when I returned to the website, found they were $36 =_= it's only been what, 3 years and they jacked up their prices SO high