As a college student, I am all-too-aware of the cost of skin care products. At the same time, however, a product comes along every once in a while that makes me open my wallet. That’s the case with the new RéVive Filtre de Soleil SPF 45 ($130.00, RéViveSkincare.com).
The highlight of this sunscreen is not its superior protection – although it contains physical sunscreen (zinc oxide) and chemical sunscreen, Neutrogena’s Helioplex has been documented to provide the most photostable UVA protection of any sunscreen on the market. No, the beauty of the new RéVive Filtre de Soleil SPF 45 is that it drinks into the skin without leaving any white residue. According to the May 2008 issue of W magazine, RéVive company founder Dr. Gregory Bays Brown says this sunscreen was the company’s “trickiest product to perfect.” For daily sunscreen fanatics like me, this is one product I’ll be breaking out on days I have important places to go and don’t feel like worrying about telltale sunscreen streaks staring back at me from the mirror.
Who is RéVive Skincare?
According to BeautyProductsCompared.com, RéVive Skincare was started by plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Bays Brown, who originally studied epidermal growth factors (EGFs) as a means to treat burn victims. When he found that the EGFs accelerated the healing of the skin in his patients, Dr. Brown went on to develop the technology as in skin care creams to treat aging.
Although I am not very familiar with the line, RéVive Skincare products appear to contain a lot of growth factors, such as epidermal growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, and keratinocyte growth factor. Because there is less research into growth factors than ingredients like antioxidants, retinoids, and niacinamide, I personally am waiting a few years to try products with human growth factors, when there are more studies done from a greater number of sources. However, research done thus far has been promising: In a 2007 study in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, subjects used Neocutis’ Bio-Restorative Skin Cream (with human growth factors originally derived from fetal fibroblasts) on half of their face for sixty days. After the 60-day period, 83% of the subjects showed an improved average wrinkle score in the eye area, while 50% showed an improved average wrinkle score in the mouth area. However, it must be noted that the study was not double-blind or placebo-controlled.
Overall Opinion
I’m pretty excited about RéVive Filtre de Soleil SPF 45 ($130.00, RéViveSkincare.com), and can’t wait to finally be able to get superior sun protection without the telltale white streaks! 🙂
Photo source: W Magazine