PRODUCT REVIEW: REPLENIX CAFFEINE FORTIFIED CALMING SERUM – BEST ANTIOXIDANT SERUM, BEST SOOTHING SERUM FOR SENSITIVE SKIN
REPLENIX | CAFFEINE FORTIFIED CALMING SERUM
I first shared about the Replenix Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum on my Instagram page on #skincarmasaturday when I offer a sneak peak of my new product discoveries of the week.
Some products make it into the rotation here on the blog, some don’t. I try not to judge a skincare product until I’ve had legit time to try it out, monitor results and how my skin reacts, if at all.
I’m happy to say that the Replenix Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum has certainly made the cut. I’m rarely disappointed in anything I experience from Replenix. I’ve made no secret of the fact that the Replenix Vitamin C Pro Collagen Serum is one of my all-time favorite Vitamin C serums. It has this amazing, light dry oil texture that’s so comforting in the cold (today it’s 30 degrees here in NYC!).
In fact, the Replenix Vitamin C Pro Collagen Serum was one of my picks of the best Vitamin C serums for face in my latest deep dives into my Vitamin C discoveries in an article titled, My Top Vitamin C Picks FW21: New Vitamin C Serums I’m Crushing on from Algenist, Naturium, Goop Glow and More. You can catch it on the blog here.
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Over the last several weeks, I’ve been incorporating the antioxidant-powered Replenix Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum into my morning routine. I love antioxidants and consider them vital to skin health.
Antioxidants are fascinating to me and I think entirely misunderstood and underestimated when it comes to skin health. I’m convinced that incorporating numerous antioxidants and antioxidant serums into my daily AM and PM skincare routines has made a significant difference on the youthful, healthy quality of my skin.
If you aren’t using a dedicated antioxidant serum yet, the Replenix Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum is the perfect place to start upping your skin health game.
What Are Antioxidants and What Do Antioxidants Do for Skin?
Antioxidants possess numerous benefits for the skin, including preventing skin damage and multiple signs of aging. There’s an excellent article from the experts on the Paula’s Choice Research Team titled, How Antioxidants Fight the Signs of Aging that you can catch here. This is what I found most insightful:
Antioxidants for Skin Benefits
Antioxidants play a unique role when it comes to diminishing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Years of environmental damage (including unprotected sun exposure—one more reason to apply that broad-spectrum sunscreen!) slowly chip away at skin’s natural ability to look and feel healthy. As this damage builds up, skin gradually loses its ability to recover and bounce back as it once did. It’s not an exaggeration to say that after years of damage, skin becomes overwhelmed, and its “look young systems” begin to slow down.
Antioxidants in skin care step in to help shield skin’s surface from further deterioration by calming stressed skin and defending against the visible effects of pollution —something all of us encounter on a daily basis.
What happens as a result of applying antioxidants to your face is truly impressive: Skin’s appearance begins to turn around! It regains a firmer feel and more even skin tone—and those wrinkles you’re probably not fond of will visibly soften.
Replenix’s Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum has a light, gel-like texture that’s easily layered as it melts instantly into the skin. It’s powered by what Replenix refers to as “medical grade” Caffeine USP — which the brand claims is enhanced to boost the antioxidant activity of the caffeine molecule.
It also contains Replenix’s proprietary Green Tea Polyphenol Technology which the brand says is “proven to be the most powerful and effective antioxidant…purified to its highest form.” Antioxidant Green Tea Extract has potent skin-soothing benefits that help calm irritation, something I can’t get enough of in the harsh, dry air. If you manage sensitivity, irritation and redness, this is a great option for you.
The Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum formula also contains Fractionated Hyaluronic Acid — a complex which includes both short and long-chain HA molecules for a more effective humectant effect throughout the skin’s upper layers. You know you can’t get enough humectants into your skin in the fall and winter as the low-humidity air around us literally sucks the water out of our faces!
With its soothing qualities, Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum couldn’t have come at a better time for me.
What I like about it: The Replenix Vitamin C Pro Collagen Serum is one of my all-time favorite Vitamin C serums and while the Replenix Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum isn’t as earth-shattering for me, it’s a superb antioxidant serum and one of the best soothing serums for sensitive skin. I love the antioxidant potency and see it as an ideal layering serum for those wishing to incorporate more defensive antioxidants into their routine.
What I don’t like about it: As with nearly all antioxidant serums, it’s impossible to assess the effects of antioxidants on the skin. As they say in New York, it is what it is. You just have to believe antioxidants have an exceptional benefit for the longterm health of your skin.
Who it’s for: All skin types.
SHOP THE BLOG: Purchase the Replenix Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum for $75.20 here.
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The Ingredient List of the Replenix Caffeine Fortified Calming Serum:
Purified Water, Caffeine USP, 90% PolyphenolIsolate of Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) LeafExtract, Hyaluronic Acid, Bisabolol, Cucumis Sativus(Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Chamomilla Recutita(Matricaria) Flower Extract, Triethanolamine,Polysorbate-20, Carbomer, Methylparaben,Diazolidinyl Urea, Tetrasodium EDTA
The Ingredient List of the Replenix Vitamin C Pro Collagen Serum:
aox|sb, Cyclopentasiloxane emo|solv, Trimethylsiloxysilicate emo, Ascorbyl Glucoside aox|sb, Ascorbic Acid 
aox|sb|buff, Alpha-Arbutin aox|sb, Phyllanthus Emblica Fruit Extract h, Ascorbic Acid/Orange/Citrus Limon/Citrus Aurantifolia Polypeptides, Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi (Bearberry) Leaf Extract aox|sb, Ascorbyl Palmitate 
aox 0 2, Purified Water solv, Orange Terpenes, Phospholipids sii|emo, Tocopheryl Acetate aox 0 0, Retinyl Palmitate cci 1-3 1-3, Superoxide Dismutase aox, Ubiquinone (Coq-10) aox, Phenoxyethanol pres
