Elizabeth Arden Advanced Ceramide Capsules – Daily Youth Restoring Serum 90 Capsules

In 1990 Elizabeth Arden started a skincare revolution with the development of Ceramide Capsules – a bio-engineered, skin-identical ceramide formula available in a first-of–its-kind single-dose capsule format. As a market leader in ceramide technology, Elizabeth Arden is now introducing the next generation of capsules: Advanced Ceramide Capsules Daily Youth Restoring Serum. This clinically and dermatologically tested formula delivers triple the anti-aging power to enhance skin’s barrier repair, increase moisturization within the surface of the skin, and minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while still providing the Ceramide experience.

A combination of new ingredients and higher levels of existing ingredients work to not only replenish essential, naturally-occurring lipids, but also support skin’s natural renewal process. The result is a serum that is clinically proven to take up to 10 years off the look of skin,[1] with 95% of women demonstrating a significant improvement in firmness in just two weeks.[2]

Key Benefits:

• Supports skin’s natural collagen for a firmer look.
• Minimizes the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
• Visibly improves skin tone and clarity.
• Retexturizes and revitalizes skin for a noticeably smoother, softer, healthy appearance.
• Helps strengthen skin’s natural protective moisture barrier and maintain moisture levels in the skin.

The Importance of Skin’s Lipid Barrier:

The most prevalent, naturally occurring lipids in the stratum corneum are ceramides, cholesterol and fatty acids. Ceramides represent about 50% of the essential lipids found in the skin’s barrier, while Cholesterol makes up 25% and Fatty Acids another 10-15%. While all of these lipids work together to help fortify the integrity of skin’s moisture barrier for healthy, youthful-looking skin, ceramides have been found to be the most crucial component for maintaining barrier function.

Skin’s ceramide levels decrease rapidly with age – by the time you reach your 30s you will have lost about 40% of your skin’s ceramides, and by your 40s you will have lost more than 60% of your skin’s ceramides. This decrease in essential lipids causes skin to appear dry, dull and can result in wrinkles, unevenness and loss of firmness.

“We’ve learned from recent research that it’s not only the ingredients that we put back into the skin that are important, but also the combination of ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol,” says Dr. Dendy Engelman, Elizabeth Arden Consulting Dermatologist. “Think of it like a recipe. You can’t just use random or incomplete amounts of the ingredients and expect the recipe to work.  Each ingredient plays a role and the combination of ingredients impacts the quality and effectiveness of the final result.”

Triple the Anti-Aging Power:

Advanced Ceramide Capsules Daily Youth Restoring Serum takes an innovative approach to anti-aging—helping to moisturize, preserve and strengthen skin’s integrity for a firmer look. Each capsule is biodegradable, fragrance and preservative free, designed to deliver a concentrated dose packed with even more advanced ceramide technology.

This lightweight, silky-smooth serum helps to maintain healthy, youthful-looking skin and correct the visible signs of aging by delivering a new and improved blend of ingredients your skin needs to target visible skin barrier repair, moisturization, and anti-aging.

• SKIN BARRIER REPAIR:
  • An Enhanced Ceramide Lipid Complex (ECLX) combines Ceramides 1, 3 & 6 to help support skin’s own natural protective barrier against moisture loss, and help to retexturize, exfoliate, and smooth skin.
    • Ceramide 1: Higher levels of Ceramide 1 help to strengthen and firm the look of skin.
    • Ceramide 3: New to the formula, Ceramide 3 forms an effective barrier against moisture loss.
    • Ceramide 6: With its AHA-like structure, Ceramide 6 supports skin barrier renewal for a smoother, softer complexion.
  • Fatty Acids: Increased amounts of Linoleic Acid, Linolenic Acid and Vitamin E help maintain the integrity of the skin’s lipid barrier for healthy-looking skin.
  • Cholesterol: Cholesterol has been added to help retain moisture levels to support the stratum corneum and help protect skin from dehydration.
  • Phytosphingosine: Elevated amounts of Phytosphingosine, a lipid naturally found in the skin, allowing the skin itself to produce the ceramides it needs.
  • Sea Fennel Extract: New to the formula, Sea Fennel Extract helps to enhance skin cell renewal as well as increase luminosity and skin smoothness.

• MOISTURIZATION:
  • Botanical Complex Technology: New to the formula, this blend features Alfalfa Extract, lipids from olives and hydrocarbons from coconut oil and helps to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, increase hydration levels, and soothe skin.

• ANTI-AGING:
  • Tsubaki Oil: Rich in Oleic Acid, Vitamins A, B, D & E, and nourishing Omegas 3, 6 & 9, Tsubaki Oil has been added to help improve elasticity, minimizing the look of fine lines and wrinkles while enhancing moisture for smooth, supple skin.
  • Retinyl Palmitate: This Vitamin A derivative works to smooth lines and wrinkles and help support skin’s own natural collagen for a firmer look. Retinyls also improve skin’s clarity for a more even-toned appearance.

10 Years Younger?

Elizabeth Arden’s Research & Development team sought to create a novel clinical methodology to demonstrate how Advanced Ceramide Capsules are clinically proven to take up to 10 years off the look of skin.^*

Working closely with a clinical research laboratory, Elizabeth Arden accessed an existing database of 743 women and utilized existing image analyses of the women to identify baselines for the total amount of lines and wrinkles in two age groups: 30-39 and 40-49. Then, in our own separate clinical study we counted the total amount of lines and wrinkles of the participants aged 40-49 at baseline and evaluated them against the database.

Prior to using Advanced Ceramide Capsules, there were no statistically significant differences between our participants aged 40-49 at base line and the database of women in their 40s at base line. After 12 weeks of using Advanced Ceramide Capsules, these same clinical study participants, aged 40-49, saw a significant improvement in the appearance of lines and wrinkles and were no longer statistically the same as the baseline of women in their 40s in the database. Instead, they were now statistically similar to the baseline of women in their 30s in the database.

In our clinical tests scientists reported:

• Clinically proven to take up to 10 years off the look of skin^*
• 100% of women showed an improvement in the overall appearance of their skin.[3]
• 95% of women demonstrated a significant improvement in firmness after just two weeks.^†
• Clinically proven to increase skin’s firmness by 58%.^‡
• 97% of women showed a significant improvement in the appearance of wrinkles.[4]
• 100% of women showed an improvement in skin radiance and luminosity.[5]
• 88% of women showed improved skin texture.^**
• 86% of women showed more even skin tone.^**

In a consumer perception test:

• 95% of women reported that skin felt intensely hydrated.[6]
• 93% of women reported that skin immediately looked healthy and felt smoother.[7]

To Use: Twist tab twice to open capsule. Smooth serum over cleansed face, neck and décolletage after applying SUPERSTART Skin Renewal Booster and before moisturizing, morning and night.

[1]Based on a US clinical test of 25 women aged 40-49 at 12 weeks.

[2]Based on a US clinical study of 43 women aged 36-64 after 2 weeks of use.

[3]Based on a US clinical study of 43 women aged 36-64 after 8 weeks of use.

[4]Based on an image analysis clinical study of 44 women aged 36-64 after 12 weeks of use.

[5] Based on a clinical study of 44 women aged 36-64 after 12 weeks of use.

[6] Based on self-assessments of 44 women in a US clinical study after 12 weeks of use.

[7]Based on self-assessments of 43 women in a US clinical study after one use.