Les 5 Secrets Sérum et Crème
[Five Secrets facial Serum and Cream kit
for a 3-week cure]
This restorative kit works to plump and smooth lines from the inside out with
cumulative noticeable effects building over 3 weeks of application.
Product containers are calibrated to provide the proper amount of product for a period of 3 weeks applying Serum daily once at night and Cream twice daily morning and night.
Serum and Cream work synergistically to produce all 5 ‘cures’ that mitigate aging of skin:
1) hydration 2) mineralization 3) filling lines from within
4) providing antioxidants 5) lifting, firming, toning
How to Use
Serum: Use once daily at night.
Apply and massage into face, neck and décolleté well before Ageless Clay Mask or as a finishing product followed by the 5 Secrets Cream. Be sure to allow the serum to penetrate skin for several minutes before applying Cream.
Cream: Use twice daily morning and night.
Apply a dime size amount of Cream after applying the 5 Secrets Serum. Gently massage Cream into face, neck and décolleté.
Key Benefits
Effective facial toning, lifting and smoothing of fine lines
Hero Ingredients
Serum: Commiphora mukul extract, flower waters of damask rose and witch hazel, acacia senegal gum, caprylic triglyceride, apricot kernel oil, manganese gluconate and terpenes geraniol, limonene, larninalool, and eugenol.
Cream: Nutrient rich Amazonian cupuaçu butter, high tech natural compounds Easyliance and Aquaxyl, witch hazel and damask rose waters, acacia senegal gum, Emullium Kappa 2 (candelilla) and rice bran wax, squalane from olive, West African shea nut butter, xylitol, soybean oil, high grade sunflower seed oil, and terpenes geraniol, limonene, linalool, and eugenol.
Facial Serum Hero Ingredients
Commiphora mukul (myrrh) extract helps fill in lines and wrinkles by increasing the synthesis of lipids. It acts as a wrinkle-filling and plumping agent while it tones and offers a profound lifting action.
Damask rose essential oil soothes irritation and redness, and tones and regenerates the skin.
Witch hazel flower water is astringent and soothing, anti-inflammatory and naturally antioxidant-rich. It opposes the constriction of blood vessels. Its numerous flavonoids help to protect capillaries and increase resistance to skin eruptions. It is exceptional for the fragile area around the eyes (dark circles and bags) and for sensitive skin that is especially vulnerable to rashes, eczema, couperose and rosacea. Witch hazel works to refine the skin, close pores, tone the skin and prevents lines and wrinkles.
Acacia (tara) gum is a food grade natural gelling agent with good film-forming properties. It provides a natural gels a very velvety and non-greasy texture and visibly smooths skin’s surface.
Caprylic triglyceride from coconut oil and glycerin is a skin smoothing emollient and antioxidant.
Apricot kernel oil contains approximately 90% polyunsaturated fatty acids (omegas 6 and 9). Very rich in vitamins A and E, it is nourishing, hydrating and has anti-wrinkle properties. It naturally softens and revitalizes the skin and is particularly recommended for mature, dry or sensitive skin and skin lacking tone.
Manganese gluconate is a trace mineral involved in the synthesis of vitamin B1. It acts against free radicals as it soothes, calms and protects the skin. It restructures lipids and regenerates filaggrin which consolidates the protective mantle of the epidermis.
Geraniol is a terpene and potent antioxidant protecting skin from environmental insults. An anti-irritant geraniol is soothing to skin.
Limonene is a terpene and solvent naturally derived from the rinds of citrus fruit. It’s a potent antioxidant helping protect skin from damage and premature aging. It calms sensitive skin and facilitates other important molecules to penetrate the skin.
Linalool is a terpene derived from many potential plant sources: lavender, rose, basil, neroli, citrus fruits, mint, herbs and birch trees. It’s anti-inflammatory and a good defense against acne.
Eugenol is a terpene derived from the clove plant. It’s antiseptic and anti-inflammatory.
Facial Cream Hero Ingredients
Cupuaçu butter from the Amazon rain forest belongs to the cocoa family. It has a high water absorption capacity of 440%. This property gives it exceptional hydrating potential and a very potent ability to replenish the skin. It soothes the lips and heals and gives skin elasticity. Cupuaçu butter is very rich in vitamin C, calcium, magnesium and iron. Its composition with unsaturated fatty acids (Omegas 6 and 9) makes it an ideal butter for skincare. It melts immediately in contact with the skin with a melting point of around 30°C (86°F).
Easyliance is a high tech natural compound made from a mixture of a sunflower-based biopolymer and its more active ingredient, acacia gum (pictured above), an elastic-like extract pressed from the acacia tree. The ingredients work in synergy to naturally tighten skin on contact and reduce wrinkles from the inside out.
Aquaxyl
Aquaxyl in the 5 Secrets Cream is a high tech natural compound and a combination of molecules extracted from wheat, this ingredient promotes skin’s own hydrous flow. Aquaxyl is composed of Xylitylglucoside, Anhydroxylitol, and Xylitol, all three of which are natural sugars found in fruits, vegetables and plant-life. It is gluten-free.
Aquaxyl deeply hydrates to increase water reserves in the skin. It has been proven by corneometry analysis that Aquaxyl improves epidermal water content and stimulates the synthesis of GlycosAminoGlycans (GAGs) that are responsible for trapping water within the skin. This action delivers an immediate and long-term moisturizing effect.
Aquaxyl also forms a protective film on the skin which prevents water from evaporating. In vivo clinical studies have shown that Aquaxyl increases the synthesis of ceramides, the major constituent of the skin’s protective barrier. It has also been demonstrated that Aquaxyl decreases trans-epidermal water loss. It makes the skin stronger and more resistant to harm from external influences.
The result of Aquaxyl is that desquamation is normalized and the micro-relief of the skin is smoothed. This potent ingredient exhibits proven efficacy in hydrating and restructuring skin cells. The skin is better equipped to fight external aggressions when it is well and powerfully restructured and moisturized. Aquaxyl offers a three-dimensional hydration concept:
1) the optimization of water circulation through all layers of the skin
2) the establishment of a water-retaining barrier in the skin within 24 hours
3) the smoothing away of fines lines for softer, properly desquamated skin in 28 days.
By establishing a greater reserve of moisture in the skin while also impeding loss of moisture, the cutaneous barrier is reinforced and the skin smoothed, hydrated and restructured.
Witch hazel is astringent and soothing, anti-inflammatory, and naturally antioxidant-rich. It opposes the constriction of blood vessels. Its numerous flavonoids help to protect capillaries and increase resistance to skin eruptions. It is exceptional for the fragile area around the eyes (dark circles and bags) and for sensitive skin that is especially vulnerable to rashes, eczema, couperose and rosacea. Witch hazel works to refine the skin, close pores, tone the skin and works to lessen lines and wrinkles.
Organic damask rose water is astringent and refreshing. Damask rose flower water is known for its ability to tone skin, reduce redness, and calm sensitivities and allergic reactions.
Acacia (tara) gum is a food grade natural gelling agent with good film-forming properties. It provides a natural gels a very velvety and non-greasy texture and visibly smooths skin’s surface.
Emulium® Kappa 2 (candelilla wax) is a PEG-free naturally-based emulsifier that brings moisture to the skin. Composed primarily of candelilla (a species of flowering plant native to Texas, Mexico and New Mexico, known for its wax-like fluid), jojoba and rice bran. Emulium Kappa 2 makes the product feel soft, rich and luxurious.
Rice bran in the wax combination with Emullium Kappa 2 (candelilla) (above) offers lovely sensorial qualities—softness and powdery touch. It helps brighten and detoxify skin. A natural enzyme exfoliant, rice bran actively removes impurities from the skin while providing skin nourishing oils. Rice bran has a very important anti-age polyphenol antioxidant, alpha lipoic acid (ALA). Deeply hydrating, rice bran oil is very light and readily absorbed into the skin. Vitamins B and E combined with a high percentage of fatty acids which deeply penetrate the skin, beautifully and gently moisturize, firm, tighten and lessen the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Rice bran is exceptionally good for treating dehydrated, flaky, delicate and mature, fragile skin. The ferulic acid content in rice bran oil, an organic phytochemical compound found in plant cell walls, also has potent anti-aging properties.
Squalane (not to be confused with Squalene) is an extremely stable, natural, organic compound derived from olive and one of the most effective oils to combat aging of the skin. Very light and non-greasy, it moisturizes, revitalizes and protects. It is recommended for all skin types. It is antibacterial and rich in antioxidants.
Shea butter from West Africa is very moisturizing and has healing and anti-inflammatory properties. It softens and smoothes skin and hair and stimulates the synthesis of collagen. Shea butter is recommended for the prevention of wrinkles and aging of the skin while protecting it from harsh weather conditions.
Xylitol is a plant-derived sugar alcohol used in skincare products as a humectant to condition and moisturize and retain moisture in skin. It can inhibit the growth of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that can cause skin issues. It also increases the production of filaggrin, a protein that strengthens skin's barrier reducing moisture loss. Xylitol is known to enhance the production of collagen and hyaluronic acid.
Soybean oil is a potent anti-age ingredient because it increases the formation of collagen and elastin. It revitalizes, mineralizes and moisturizes the skin and has stimulating properties. Soy oil is rich in omega 3, vitamins (A1, B1, B2, PP, E and C) and essential minerals.
High grade organic sunflower oil is very rich in essential unsaturated fatty acids (more than 85%) and vitamins (E and F). Sunflower oil is well-known for its nourishing, soothing and revitalizing properties. It penetrates easily because its composition is very similar to the skin’s natural sebum.
Geraniol is a terpene and potent antioxidant protecting skin from environmental insults. An anti-irritant geraniol is soothing to skin.
Limonene is a terpene and solvent naturally derived from the rinds of citrus fruit. It’s a potent antioxidant helping protect skin from damage and premature aging. It calms sensitive skin and facilitates other important molecules to penetrate the skin.
Linalool is a terpene derived from many potential plant sources: lavender, rose, basil, neroli, citrus fruits, mint, herbs and birch trees. It’s anti-inflammatory and a good defense against acne.
Eugenol is a terpene derived from the clove plant. It’s antiseptic and anti-inflammatory.