PRODUCT REVIEW: BEAUTY STAT UNIVERSAL PRO-BIO MOISTURE BOOST CREAM – ONE OF THE BEST ANTI-AGING MOISTURIZERS
BEAUTY STAT | UNIVERSAL PRO-BIO MOISTURE BOOST CREAM
This review was originally part of my blog article titled, Summer Moisturizers Part II – Some of the Best Lightweight Face Creams for Oily Skin and All Skin Types in Hot Weather. You can catch the full piece here.
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I came across this precious pot of cream several months ago when I first reviewed BeautyStat on my blog. Of course, the focus was on the brand’s Vitamin C products — and one of the best Vitamin C face serums I’ve come across. In fact, the BeautyStat Universal C Skin Refiner was one of my top picks for a Vitamin C serum for face in 2019. If you didn’t catch it, I invite you to check out my full review of BeautyStat here.
So, about the brand’s lesser appreciated Universal Pro-Bio Moisture Boost Cream. The texture and composition are so light, it’s just perfect for summer weather.
As always, I am no fan of products that come in jars. The moment you open the lid and expose the formula to light, air and bacteria, it begins to degrade. Just like driving a new car off the car lot! If a product is going to be housed in a jar, it had better damn well make sense — and you better be sure to use it up quickly — something you’ll certainly do if you make Pro-Bio Moisture Boost Cream your summer moisturizer. As counterintuitive as it sounds, when a product comes in a jar, less is more.
And BeautyStat’s Universal Pro-Bio Moisture Boost Cream comes in a relatively stingy one-ounce jar — exactly how I like it.
But the smaller, leaner size isn’t the only thing that’s noteworthy about the Pro-Bio Moisture Boost Cream.
The first time you remove the lid, you know something’s different. To put it rather inelegantly, it looks like a thick blend of yogurt and bacon fat.
I know, I know, skin care is supposed to be sexy. And there’s nothing sexy about that, is there? The thing is, the formula is so thick that it’s highly unlikely to dispense well through the tiny hole in a more protective, air-tight tube. So I get it.
Okay, so Pro-Bio Moisture Boost Cream has a unique texture and appearance. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that one of the reasons it looks like a gelatinous goop is due to its blend of inherently goopy ingredients.
First, a bit of trivia: in its natural form, Hyaluronic Acid is a gelatinous goop! But Pro-Bio Moisture Boost also contains a high level of humectant Glycerin, Dimethicone, ceramides and Cetearyl Olivate — an oily, waxy ester that combines Cetearyl Alcohol and fatty acids found in olive oil. All good goopy stuff for skin, right?!
But perhaps the formula headliner is its bio-fermented active, Bifida Ferment Lysate. Fermentation in skin care is hot right now — and for good reason.
Ferments are not only super nourishing for the skin in any weather, but they actually break down other actives in the formula into smaller molecules that can better penetrate skin’s protective outer barrier — rather than sitting on the skin surface giving you that uncomfortable, veiled feeling.
Rated by the Paula’s Choice team as one of the “best” ingredients for the skin, Bifida Ferment Lysate is “a probiotic ingredient derived from a specific type of yeast obtained by the fermentation of Bifida bacteria. Research on human skin explants (cross-sections of intact human skin) has shown this ingredient can help reactive skin become less sensitive to environmental aggressors via strengthening its microbiome. Doing so encourages skin to visibly repair itself and begin looking healthier.”
BeautyStat’s Universal Pro-Bio Moisture Boost Cream is packed with nutritive goodness for the skin that keeps it plump, hydrated and nourished. Just be sure to use it up before summer is out!
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The Ingredient List of the BeautyStat Universal Pro-Bio Moisture Boost Cream:
Water, Dimethicone, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Cetearyl Olivate, Polyacrylamide, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Sorbitan Olivate, Polysilicone-11, Ceramide 2, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Sterols, Ganoderma Lucidum Extract (Asian Mushroom Extract), Linoleic Acid, Lactose, Milk Protein, Sodium Hyaluronate, Bifida Ferment Lysate, Betula Alba Bark (White Birch) Extract, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Laureth-7, Sodium Citrate, Tocopheryl Acetate(Vitamin E), Sorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Propanediol, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Hydroxide, Xanthan Gum, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Benzoate.
