Kelly Driscoll on What Actually Works in Skincare for Mature Skin

"The CurrentBody LED mask uses red light to help stimulate collagen, improve tone and texture on the skin, and promote healing. For me personally, I found the design of the CurrentBody mask to be very very comfortable. It does deliver some really nice results. I've noticed some great benefits as far as skin texture and tone. It helps with dark marks and it particularly helps with healing, especially if you do suffer with breakouts. It really actually promotes healing. I think it's also a great preventative type of product to add into your routine if you have the funds and you know you're going to commit to it, preventative for that collagen stimulation and just overall the good preventative well-aging measures that we can take in skincare."

"I really wish more people knew about this product. It is really, when I think about niacinamide serums, this is like the top product that I think about because it really gives you a wow benefit on your skin. We have five percent of niacinamide in here, and [...] it's important to know the percentage because different percentages bring up different benefits. At five percent we've got really effective brightening, hyperpigmentation, dull skin, uneven skin. You want your skin to glow? Five percent definitely gonna do that. It's going to help strengthen your skin barrier and it's also going to help stimulate collagen, and that is the name of the game for well aging. Collagen stimulation helps to prevent and target the look of fine lines and wrinkles on the skin. It is amazing for skin elasticity. It is so so good. Five percent is the percentage that is studied in clinical studies. [...] They're using five percent of niacinamide. [...] I know it sounds low but it's actually a very effective amount, it's a very safe amount too. As you go up in percentages there's a bigger potential for irritation. Five percent is a very gentle amount but as I said, effective."

"I love their Peach and Lily Copper Peptide Pro Firming Serum because this is a really good example of a well-formulated peptide serum. They are using 2% of copper peptide which helps to stimulate collagen. It's a really great peptide for addressing the signs of aging on the skin. But it doesn't just stop at the copper peptide. They have also used 12 other different peptides that support collagen stimulation, skin elasticity, firmness, as well as tone and texture, and really just multiple signs of aging on the skin. This is one of those few peptide serums that I say actually works because peptides sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're tricky to formulate, sometimes the formulation is off in certain products. But this one, I think, is really well-rounded. They're coming at it from multiple different angles. It's not just about blasting your skin with a lot of copper peptide, but also these other supportive peptides that address other signs of aging on the skin. When you're using this one consistently, and I've emptied like three or four bottles of this now at this point, it really does improve the overall quality of your skin. It will definitely help as a preventative peptide serum. I think it will show some firming benefits for folks who need a little bit more help in that department. Skin elasticity, definitely."

"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum is in the $30 range. It does feature 1% of copper peptide but it doesn't have the 1% of tripeptide in it. It does have another peptide mix that helps to support well-aging skin rejuvenating journey. Just because it costs less doesn't necessarily mean you're not going to get similar benefits."

"The key benefit here is aging, this helps with wrinkle prevention as well as improvement. This contains 2% of coenzyme Q10 and this is a great antioxidant to add into an anti-aging routine so we get the protection from the sun from free radicals from environmental stressors. This is actually an antioxidant that's naturally found in human cells and it is thought to have a major role in energy production in the skin and so that actually in turn kind of helps lead to the skin building back lost collagen and elastin. It doesn't directly stimulate collagen but it stimulates the processes that stimulate the collagen and elastin and all the beneficial proteins that keep our skin firm and smooth and that's what helps to either prevent the fine lines and wrinkles or as we're building back that collagen elastin and all those proteins to help improve the look of fine lines and wrinkles. That's really one of the standout benefits of adding coenzyme Q10 into your routines is that it helps to visibly improve the depth and the look of fine lines and wrinkles."

"There's a collagen stimulating peptide, it signals to our body to create collagen, but it also is a carrier peptide for copper and it helps deliver the copper deeper into the skin where it can create more meaningful results, so I really like the combination here, there's some other peptides in the mix. This is a very expensive serum, it's up in the like the $90 range, it's very expensive, it works, it works. This is one of the very few expensive products where I would say if it fits your budget, go for it. I don't think that you will regret it, it will show you results. It made my skin feel so firm so fast, amazing."