My Skin Actives Experience

From left to right; 1.Collagen Serum, 2.My own concoction, 3.Vitamin A cream, 4.DMAE Serum

*Disclaimer, I have purchased all these products entirely with my own money & these are my opinions (& no one else's) about this brand. Also all photos are the exclusive property of Beccah's Meccah

  Since last December I've been using Skin Actives almost exclusively for my skincare needs. When I was using the line as recommended, people were guessing me a lot younger than my actual age. Now, this summer I kind of went through a stress meltdown & resorted to alcohol to resolve these stress issues. Here's where my Skin Actives collection has achieved superstardom in my skincare routine. Even though I've been taking terrible care of myself these last 4 months, people are still guessing me at my age or younger. This is amazing because I've gotten into the habit of falling asleep in my makeup & drinking beer or wine nightly. Either factor is well known to be disastrous for nice looking skin of their own accord, but the combo is especially hard on over 30 skin. Anyway, I'm remedying that, last night I made it to bed, having managed to properly remove my makeup & adhere to a nighttime routine including the Vit. A cream, & collagen serum (pictured above). Also including Skin Actives' Bright-I serum & eye cream (not pictured). As my reward, I woke up to glowing skin this morning, yay.

  On to the DIY products. Pictured on the right is Sea Kelp Coral. From http://www.skinactives.com/home.php: "Our amazing Sea Kelp Bioferment can be used as a great nutritive active or as a base for our other products. As a base it is perfect for users with oily skin types as it moisturizes without supplying extra oil. It is also incredibly effective for normal and dry skin, as it is a powerful nutritive moisturizer. This active is the major building block for most of our 'Ready to Use' product line - from creams to serums to washes, it is the perfect active for almost any purpose." My purpose is to add this to my DIY face spray. I use the spray for toning, refreshing my skin, as a leave-in hair conditioner, & etc.. It's a nice little multi-purpose gel that I keep in the fridge so that I can also use it on burns & minor cuts in conjunction with my aloe plant. If you're interested in my Face Spritz recipe, let me know in the comments.

This is the unlabeled jar's contents. It's my own concoction of various additives & the Beginner's Formulation Kit. I let my best friend have a small sample & she told me that I should sell it! I have the various actives that I used listed on the Skin Actives forum, but the ones that gave my cream that strong color are the green tea & coffee berry extracts. It is easy to overdo it with creating your own creams, because a cream can only take so much being added to it & still maintain it's integrity as a cream formulation, but I'm happy with how it turned out. The only thing I would change is that I didn't fully let the ceramides dissolve before I added them to my cream. So it has a bit of a gritty texture, but it's still not too shabby, even for having suffered from my rookie mistake. Just for fun, I've
uploaded a picture of the active GABA I have leftover from making my concoction (it's in the tube). Isn't science fun? Since I added a ton of antioxidants  to it, this is my daytime cream. I use it along with the Bright-I cream, Collagen Serum, & occasionally the DMAE serum, for my morning routine. I do switch it up with the occasional sample I get from Sephora, but I don't find myself spending money with other skincare brands since I began using Skin Actives. I am really impressed with everything I have so far & look forward to trying the new items in their lineup & also the TCA Spot Peel Kit. My pores are smaller, my face is firmer, & my skin is more even for having tried this skincare company. I've been promised all these things from other skincare companies, but Skin Actives is the only company that has done what they said they're going to do. The expensive companies usually deliver on one of those promises, & rarely, the drugstore brands also do, but the this is the only company that has truly kept it's promises. They've also gotten even better for new people to try, because they offer samples sizes of their popular products now, in addition to their money back guarantee & excellent customer service. The samples are great for newcomers  to familiarize themselves with Skin Actives or for current converts to use as travel sizes.