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Want the best results from your skincare products? Be a skintellectual and get savvy about ingredients

So many creams, so many trends – it’s hard to know which will work best. No wonder the spotlight these days is on ingredients with clinically proven results. If you’ve found a cream you love, you might also have discovered one of skincare’s best-kept secrets: Argireline. Created after more than 10 years of research by skin scientists at worldleading Lipotec Active Ingredients in Barcelona, it was the first cosmetic super-peptide proven to act on expression lines – no needles needed. It’s been the star ingredient in hundreds of best-loved creams and serums for almost 20 years. Join the skintelligentsia and check it’s in yours. You’ll find it listed as acetyl hexapeptide-8 on the INCI (package) list.

ACTION ON WRINKLES

How can a cosmetic peptide work on expression lines without being injected? Whereas botulinum toxin (Botox) injections paralyse the muscles so that expression lines and creases can’t occur, in lab tests*, Argireline mimics a key protein called SNAP-25 and competes with a natural protein for position in the SNARE complex of neurotransmitters – which means that muscle contractions are less powerful.

It’s renowned in the beauty industry for its rapid results, and tests have shown it leads to an average reduction in wrinkle depth of 20.6% and wrinkle length of 15.9% in as little as one week*. In time, skin looks significantly smoother – all without a needle in sight.

‘Argireline was the first super-peptide to act on expression lines – no needles needed’