Retinol (retinol cream)
- It is a vitamin A derivative, which it has other vitamin A derivatives that commonly used in cosmetics such as retinal, retinyl palmitate.
- It has a mild less than acid vitamin, but is the results similar. (It may be less effective than vitamin A acid, but safer)
- Both Retinol and retinyl palmitate, they had been changed with some specific enzymes into an active that has the effect, which it is vitamin A acid. It is active.
- Theoretical, Retinol is applied on the skin. It will have to be converted into retinoic acid (vitamin A acid) before. It is active, but do not know that the rate changes in this acid fast or slow and different on each person's skin. This makes the performance of retinol cream to reduce wrinkles, lower than the direct vitamin A acid.
- The retinol cream can helps restructure the skin's top layer of keratin (keratinization) near the pore.
- The retinol cream can helps to reduce obstruction of keratin in hair follicles. It can reduce the occurrence Comedone and reduce acne.
- This cream can makes the skin smooth, tighten pores, because there isn't comedone filling inside, the pores clean and smaller.
