As party season approaches, everyone’s looking for fresh, glowing skin that makes makeup sit beautifully and confidence shine through. The secret? Hydration. That’s exactly what water-based serums and the SkinBase Hydro treatment deliver. Read on to find out how water based serums work to give you a festive glow.
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How Water-Based Serums Work To Give You A Festive Glow
Unlike heavier, oil-based formulas, water-based serums are lightweight, fast-absorbing, and packed with active ingredients that target skin concerns without clogging pores. Because they’re formulated with a water base, they penetrate deeply, delivering hydration and nutrients directly into the skin. This helps plump and revitalise your complexion, essential for achieving that lit-from-within festive glow.
Benefits of Water-Based Serums:
- Lightweight texture (ideal for oily and acne prone skin!)
- Non-comedogenic
- Fast absorption
- Deliver actives & intense hydration deep into the skin
- No greasy residue
SkinBase Hydro
The SkinBase Hydro treatment takes this one step further, with a multi-step process of an exfoliating peel and a personalised serum, each applied to the skin using vacuum action. The perfect treatment for achieving a festive glow, regardless of your skin concerns!
The Hydro Peel
Every SkinBase Hydro treatment begins with the gentle yet powerful peel. An exfoliating step designed to remove dull, dead skin cells and prepare your skin for deeper hydration, so you can glow through the festive season. The peel combines natural AHAs and BHAs, expertly blended in a water-based formula and applied with the vacuum action to reveal smoother, more radiant skin.
Key Ingredients
- Salicylic Acid: A versatile beta hydroxy acid (BHA) that penetrates deep into the pores to unclog and exfoliate away dead skin cells.
- Mandelic Acid: A gentle alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that activates cell turnover to reveal brighter, clearer skin.
- Lactic Acid: An exfoliating AHA that promotes the shedding of dead skin cells to soften and smooth the skin.
- Glycolic Acid: An AHA that exfoliates the skin while maintaining a natural pH balance.
- Arginine: A fabulous ingredient that speeds up cell regeneration and boosts collagen production for visibly brighter skin.
This peel step doesn’t just exfoliate. It also stimulates blood flow and primes your skin to absorb your personalised serum that follows.
SkinBase Hydro Clarifying Treatment
The clarifying treatment is the perfect choice if you wish to tackle acne and congestion this festive season. Packed full of effective, calming ingredients in a water-based serum, perfect for fighting breakouts, reducing inflammation and minimising excess oil production.
Key Ingredients
- Niacinamide: With anti-inflammatory properties, it renews and restores your acne-prone skin by repairing past damage, minimising sebum production and improving your skin barrier.
- Arnica Montana Flower Extract: With anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties, it naturally accelerates tissue healing to quickly clear any breakout symptoms you may have.
- Citric Acid – Promotes exfoliation and cell turnover, while restoring moisture to your skin to treat breakouts.
When applied using a vacuum action, these ingredients penetrate deeper into the skin to address various concerns associated with acne-prone skin, including inflammation, excess oil production, pore congestion, and breakouts. They help to soothe, clarify, and improve the overall health and appearance of the skin, promoting a clearer, more balanced complexion.
SkinBase Hydro Renewing Treatment
The renewing treatment is the perfect choice if you wish to minimise signs of ageing this festive season. Packed full of powerful ingredients in a water-based serum, perfect for keeping mature skin healthy and glowing.
Key Ingredients
- Hyaluronic Acid: A skincare superstar that occurs naturally within your skin and acts like a sponge – holding up to 1000x its own weight in water.
- Lactic Acid: A fantastic ingredient that promotes hydration, minimises wrinkles, improves texture and increases the firmness of your skin.
- Hydrolysed Soybean Extract: positively influences moisture balance, filling your wrinkles from within while smoothing and regenerating your complexion.
When applied using the vacuum action, these ingredients are delivered more effectively into the skin, as the vacuum enhances absorption and penetration. Blood flow and lymphatic drainage is also stimulated, promoting detoxification and improving circulation. Therefore, the treatment results in a hydrated and radiant complexion, with visible improvements in the signs of ageing such as fine lines, wrinkles, and an uneven skin tone.
SkinBase Hydro Brightening Treatment
The brightening treatment is the perfect choice if you are suffering with discolouration, pigmentation and texture and want to achieve your festive glow. Packed full of powerful ingredients in a water-based serum, perfect for restoring a brighter, more even complexion.
Key Ingredients
- Niacinamide: A versatile skincare hero which will renew and restore your skin by tightening pores and diminishing dullness for a more even skin tone.
- Vitamin C: Fades hyperpigmentation, provides protection from free radicals and brightens your skin for a more even appearance.
- Kojic Acid – Naturally derived with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-viral properties to prevent the formation of melanin within your skin and treat pigmentation, melasma and dark spots.
The vacuum allows these ingredients to be delivered more effectively into the skin, while stimulating blood flow and lymphatic drainage. The greater penetration and absorption of the ingredients helps to improve pigmentation irregularities, promote skin renewal, and restore a healthy glow.
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