Product Review: L’Oréal Skin Genesis and Lancome Absôlue Premium Bx
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Pictured: L’Oréal Skin Genesis ($21.25, Amazon.com) and Lancôme Absôlue Night Cream ($135.00, Macy’s) The new patented ingredient from L’Oréal, the company that owns Lancôme and L’Oréal, is Pro-XylaneTM, which aims to reduce lines and wrinkles by boosting the production of glycoaminoglycans (GAGs) within the skin. According to the October 2007 issue of Allure magazine, L’Oréal scientists found that when Pro-XylaneTM (the company’s name for xylose, a sugar molecule derived from the beech wood plant)... read more





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