hey guys and welcome to today's a video i am so excited for today's video because it has been so long since i got to film with my best friend dr stephanie cappell is here with us today so fun we get to talk skincare with you guys today because honestly in our daily lives we do all the time with each other we text each other at like midnight talking skincare so i am so excited because we are here to talk soon care with you guys today and even more exciting is her new skincare line and the air which i am so excited to bring on to skin truth which is now going to be available and she's here to talk all about it because she's the formulator of the skincare like this is not skincare she's just white labeled and did all that like she formulated this so it's super exciting and thank you for having me and so yeah it's really exciting because um just from the time i was still in dermatology residency i always knew that i wanted to formulate a skin line because i feel like you know you know exactly what the skin needs how to get it there how to stabilize it and just keeping up with technology in the rapidly advancing field is something that has always been a passion of mine so to be able to formulate this has been my passion project for a long time and we finally have it perfected and you know i go through all the analytics and the testing and the assays and this trichome stains and just everything so i wanted it to be perfect so it's just so exciting to share it with you so have it for us i know you guys and and i think that's what's so cool too is i mean you and me we both like we get to try so many different skincare products and we love certain things from each brand or this and that and then you come to like you're like i want to put like them all together like all your favorites and that's kind of like what you did especially yeah especially because like you and i both i think you know if you follow us you see we have a pretty elaborate morning and night routine and you know with these four products you can use a morning and night and they're engineered in such a way that you can do that whereas back in the day without the engineering you couldn't maybe use one during the day or or night yeah you know it's just um with limiting and then also to be integrated with other products i think is important too so um that's why i wanted to formulate this a easy routine where all four products would have everything covered and you can use it morning and night and i love that you can use them like all together you can mix and match them with other things or brands and they all just they work really well together and as you guys know i only bring on products and brands to skin truth that are amazing like i don't just carry any old brand like i have to try it out myself it has to be the best science the best technology and give the best results so just because steph is my best friend that's not why i brought the brand on like her brand is truly next level like the technology and the science behind it is like above right right so and that's why and i wanted brianna to try them and i didn't let many people try them and i wanted brandon yeah i tried them like a while ago and i yeah she was one of the first and i said i really wanted and i knew that she would give me you know her honest opinion and like i wouldn't want her to carry it or you know have it available or market something like me you know we don't want to we can't without the passion behind it you can't really recommend it if you don't use it yourself and love it yeah it was important for me too to make sure that she loved it and she you know she was using it and yeah excited about it yeah i am so and i am excited about you will guys definitely be really passionate about what we do yes we are we really are what it is so let's talk about the four products and we'll go through each one let's start with the vitamins the vitamin c so i think breanna and are both obsessed with vitamin c vitamin c is just such an amazing active ingredient not only for its antioxidant capability but just for everything that it does for skin health for cellular renewal for collagen stimulation for brightening without you know the risks of other brightness like hydroquinone for evening out texture and tone for acne for anti-aging all the things so the most difficult and you probably understand this too the most difficult problem with um vitamin c is the formulation it's really important to have it stabilized and to have it have a vehicle delivery system that keeps it intact and bioavailable and active so the problem i think with most vitamin c formulations is that either sits on the surface of the skin or can get oxidized in the dispenser or it gets to the place where it needs to go but by the time it gets there it's inactive so it's really important to create a formulation where it can stay active until it needs to get to where it has to have the effect and then remains effective without having you know irritation and sensitization and things like that so i always say it's like putting an astronaut into outer space in the in you know in the space capsule but then the space capsule can't open like what is it going to do if you can't get there so i put a lot of you know thought and time and just testing and retesting and analytics to try to get a vehicle delivery system that enables it to pass through the epidermis into the dermis and remain stable and bioavailable and if you used it which you've used it you know it it gets rapidly absorbed which you can tell just from you know seconds of use that it really gets absorbed it's not just sitting on the skin because unfortunately you know some you know vitamin c formulations are pretty expensive and they're just basically sitting on the surface of the skin and they're not doing anything and sometimes that's why they can be irritating because they're just sitting on the surface of the skin yeah exactly yeah so what are what's the ingredients and the types of vitamin c that you use sorry me too i know so put your seatbelts on all right so it has all four forms of vitamin c and so it has the l-ascorbic acid 15 and yes which is the probably much the maximum that you can have without having diminishing returns and so fifteen percent l-ascorbic acid which is the most important that's the most powerful vitamin c you know available for skin and skin health um it has a thd also and it has a three glycerol or a three glycerol ascorbate and it has a magnesium glycerol ascorbic right okay yeah so it has the map the three ga and it has the um tetradesyl hexyl specific and the l-ascorbic acid 15 yeah so it's all you know micro encapsulated in a formula and it also has you know kojic acid and ferulic acid because they've done a lot of studies and they've shown that augmentation of the effects of vitamin c are propagated and augmented when they're mixed with vitamin c and folic acid too and then it also has nano liposomal respiratory which is a really great you know grinder as well yes exactly so that's what's so great so it has many forms of the vitamin c which not many like products out there right for vitamin c they don't have like more than like one form of vitamin c you know so it's so cool that you kind of combined a couple of the different ones and put them together most effective ones yeah i love that and that they remain active that's so important because yeah it's just you know it's just a waste of time well let's talk about talk about the the vehicle and the delivery system behind it so the vehicle delivery system and the reason why i'm it's just myself and a scientist who i'm working with and the scientists that i'm i'm engineering this with i basically hand selected after interviewing many many people who worked for pharma in biotech so he actually was working for pharmaceutical companies for um musculoskeletal um topicals and um topical chemotherapy where drug delivery and stabilization is everything he's actually never worked in the skin care industry but that skill set and that you know that scientific you know skill set is so important in our industry and he uses never been used before a vehicle delivery system where i mean we can't talk about it too much but you know i mean it's it's it's micro encapsulated in such a way i mean he's like spinning electrons and uses like electrophysics and also these vehicle delivery systems which in assays you can see them just like passing through and staying stable so it's actually the first time that this technology has been used in the skin care industry which i'm all about which is amazing and that's what you know protects the integrity of it is it liposome like liposomal right which is i always tell everybody like that is like the best form of a delivery system definitely yeah because it keeps it there it passes through the cells and then it's just almost like when it gets to the delivery it's like an envelope it opens up to where it needs to be active right exactly it's really important and then you know it's in an airtight um chamber which it maintains the integrity of the products they stable pepper it's yeah oxidized so you don't have to worry about that i love that the vitamin c is bomb your skin looks low it doesn't leave like a sticky feel like some vitamin c as you can you know it just feels really really nice on the skin it's easy to layer with other products it doesn't like pill under makeup no other products and a lot of my patients who couldn't tolerate other vitamin c like if they break out or other you know formulations they actually were able to tolerate them yeah and and you know safe during pregnancy and breastfeeding where you know melasma and acne can kind of you know rev up a little bit and it's safe for pregnancy and breastfeeding which makes very nice too right it's a great honestly like amazing form of vitamin c i love the technology and the formulation that you made with that so so good so i know everyone will love that one yeah and then let's talk about this one this one is so good i know yeah the nmf hydrator okay so nmf stands for natural they all have very scientific even air md is a scientific name because it's the name of a signal transduction pathway in the skin but i'm going to try not to get too scientific we like speak a foreign language but um but the nmf hydrator nmf just stands for the natural moisturization factors in our skin so glycosaminoglycan ceramides all the things that allow our keratinocytes to hold on to water and it's also packed with anti-aging polypeptides and a lot of them have never been used before a lot of them are ones that we have used before that have stood the test of time and have been engineered to just be more effective and um it's really fun to formulate it and blend it in the proprietary blend where it's going to not only hydrate the skin and like soothe skin with you know with irritation from you know if you're using some type of vitamin a derivative or if you like go skiing in the mountains or you have like dry irritated skin it's a good rescue it's like taking a drink of water for your skin it helps the skin it hydrates and it restores that barrier and minimizes trans epidermal water loss so at the same time where it's restoring the barrier it also helps texture and smooth the skin helps with fine lines and wrinkles too because of the peptides right it's not irritating yeah it's really really nice yeah it's a good yeah juventud like a vitamin c and a vitamin a the peptides and the humectants and the barrier restorative active ingredients are really important i love it and it feels amazing like it's actually like silky and like so softening to the skin but it's not heavy it's not thick it's like so nice yeah and it makes your skin feel hydrated but not greasy and like you know like midday when you're like oh my skin feels a little dry if you use it morning and night like that's all you need you know your skin will absorb it and it'll seal that barrier and just strengthen that yeah exactly and you guys i mean all my followers know i'm big on like skin barrier health and like always constantly like something that we should be doing every day is like putting those ingredients on that restores the you know a healthy skin barrier and i love that you have all of that in there it's so funny we were able to do like i wanted to do like immunohistochemical stains and like see these assays with immunofluorescence to make sure i mean like we're talking at the dermal epidermal junction looking at the aching fibrils like the collagen type seven like all this stuff you know i was all over it yeah it was more fun to look at the testing than in yeah just actually like use the product but i can't say enough about it but i think it's great for people who just need like a little bit of like more hydration and barrier repair too yeah and honestly i have more oily skin and like i said it doesn't make me oily so i think it's good for dry skin through oily skin yeah yeah because everyone needs those same ingredients definitely yeah and you can use it on like the neck and decollete area yeah so for a little added you know tightening effect too it's just fun amazing yeah okay what is next oh my gosh i know you love this one this is like stuff you guys know i'm like obsessed you are two of the under eye area okay so the under eye area is the first to show our age that area is so thin and delicate like the epidermis and dermis and the under eye skin is so delicate and so thin and it doesn't have sebaceous glands and you actually did a great video on this about you know the under eye area it doesn't need retinol it doesn't need vitamin c it can actually be like harmful to the skin right the under eye area needs different active ingredients than the skin on the face does it doesn't have sebaceous glands it can't tolerate a lot of active ingredients and it actually needs other active ingredients too like polypodium leukotomus topical melatonin green tea polyphenols and other um other active ingredients that help increase collagen and elastin synthesis without irritation because sometimes i actually saw a patient last week in my office who was using retinol under her eyes and she had really bad hyperpigmentation from the irritation from the from the serum so this does not have a retinol and vitamin c in it but it has all the active ingredients that your under eye area needs and that's all that it needs and basically using it morning and night your skin feels hydrated your under eye area you know it doesn't feel too tight and it feels like nice and hydrated and it helps with under eye wrinkles and fine lines puffiness and the under eye dark circles because of the niacinamide in it and the green tea polyphenols which are really important in eye serum as well it helps kind of like decrease that underlying vasculature that can give that blue type of dark darkness dark you can use it on eyelids right yeah and you can use it on your eyelids i basically put it on like a pump on the back of my hand and i actually do it with a cotton tipped applicator yeah i have lash extensions so i can't get too close to the yeah but i do it with my q-tip and i apply it around my whole eye area yeah it's nice it's super like again light and hydrating so it kind of like absorbs really nice it's really good under like concealer makeup whatever it doesn't like you know cake up or anything i love that and i use the color science three and one yeah you use that too i'll put this on and then i just put that on over it just for uh you know yeah it's like that's like that's what i do every single day yeah yeah so it stays hydrated and it's just basically stimulating that delicate skin to synthesize collagen and elastin because it's the first to lose collagen in the last and even in our 20s so that's why you start to see that on dry wrinkles yeah as early in our 20s and some people do think that they're going to put like retin-a or retinol around their eyes and it can like make your skin make it worse and i see it every day in my office people coming in for me to laser their hyperpigmentation from under the eyes from those products so on that note too you don't want to take these products too up close to the eye all you need is this one for them yeah exactly right which is perfect so i know you will love that one i love it and steph is like you know your eye cream's gonna be good because definitely obsessed with like perfect under eyes yes i know what's so funny is you can't botox under the eye you have to like really use good products under your eyes right because that's like yours are everything and like we always talk about how important it is to do you know your skincare routine and use good products at home because you know going to the office isn't like a quick fix it's an augmentation of the products that you're using at home which are so important so using an eye serum every day is probably one of the most important yeah like long term yeah that's what i would say like what you do daily is gonna make the the most result you know and then you go in and you do your in office treatments and it just goes hand in hand but yeah you can't just fix like overnight by going in and getting like an office and even doing like a surgery like i have people that come in and they'll come in from oculoplastics referrals after having a blepharoplasty and like a year later they're right back where they started from because if their skin texture if your skin texture and tone isn't good it's like we always say surgeons it's like suturing wet toilet paper versus to drink cardboard like it's going to maintain and hold those results when you have a lot of collagen and elastin in your extracellular matrix but if you're don't it's like it's like suturing like a deflated balloon it's going to sag again you know you got to keep it it's really important to upkeep with products and eye serums especially is really fun that's what's so funny too and we'll talk about it quick because i'll get a comment like the random comment that says like oh like you do botox like that's like the most important thing for your skin and i'm like botox doesn't create healthy skin you know like it's products that are going to give you all these things you can get botox and i'm sure you've seen people who get botox but their skin is like yes they're not exaggerated or they have brown spots and they have even people who come in like i just i'm not going to take care of my skin i'm just going to get a facelift well they have a facelift and they don't have one wrinkle but their skin just like looks aged and wet and then like you know it doesn't and you can't the only way to get healthy skin honestly is by using skin care products religiously photo protection sunscreen and then lasers help too yeah but they all go together yeah exactly important and i love that we agree and i know it's talking about this in circles we can literally make like hours worth of videos okay and then her last product is her aura yes so let's talk about this but first i want to like preface everyone because everyone knows that i'm a big renowned hype fan like everyone knows that i mean and i respect that yeah yeah i mean there's different there's different ways to get that vitamin a into your skin i mean retin a is the most potent but a lot of people can't tolerate renee i hate retin-a it like destroyed my skin um so in all reality like retinaldehyde and retinol have been proven right just as effective as retin-a but it's all about like the delivery and the delivery system of the product there's so many i mean retinols you can get at the drugstore yeah retinols you can get in sephora and there's like they're not gonna do anything you know and even like looking like under the microscope just for decades you're looking at skin under the microscope i could see the people who were using your cvs brand versus like you know strength versus yeah like you know cosmeceutical medical grade skin care yeah and though you see it under them i've actually posted it on my story i don't know if people are interested but you'd be interested but you can literally see like the collagen is like thick and chunky and pink and like it's just as healthy versus patients who use non you know medical grade or without the delivery mechanism that's when you get the thinning of the skin and just the deleterious like side effects when you use like medical grade retinol retinol to hide and you know when they're formulated and engineered in a very elegant way it definitely makes a difference yeah yeah for sure so let's talk about yours because like i said i told actually all my followers i said there's two retinal brands that honestly truly have like the technology and the delivery system behind it and yours is one of them because i mean you the formulation and the delivery is different with yours yeah and also like and you mentioned this too um retinol retin aldehyde retinol and retinoic acid they're all going in conversions back and forth in each other when they're in the skin there's enzymes that are converting it back and forth so the vehicle delivery system and the way it's formulated is everything and we've talked about that too you want to convert it in one and you need to bind to sticky receptors and with a high affinity so it like it's basically like a lock and key and you can keep the enzyme profile going one way or another to ensure that you're getting all the retinol or all the retinoic acid or all the right now the head whatever it's engineered to do yeah it's just delivery mechanism and the stabilization has everything to do with the with the efficacy of the vitamin a derivative so that's really important so i know we won't believe for that point anyway i could talk about it for like an hour exactly but the other the the engineering in this and the reason why it's called the rxr retinol is the rxr so do you should i get into yeah definitely no nerdy no we love the nerdy glasses yeah i'm not going to hold it back i've always my whole life trying to like curb my nerdy in this video right now okay so yes so when retinoic acid or any retinoic acid derivative binds the receptor it's a heterodimer meaning the receptor has two parts and it's the rar and the rxr receptor and it binds and then it takes the product into the nucleus of the cell and the nucleus is where all the dna is that's how you literally get you're literally getting transcription and translation and encoding of genes that have downstream effects with like really potent anti-aging effects increasing cellular renewal actually increasing hydration of the skin increasing collagen synthesis increasing the last instance increasing hyaluronic acid synthesis so all like all of these downstream effects happen when the retinoic acid derivative vitamin a derivative retinaldehyde or the you know the retinol when it's formulated the right way to have all these downstream effects and what happens is you want to keep it in the nucleus of the cell that's where inside the cell it's going to have most effect when it gets outside of the cell that's when you get a recruitment of inflam inflammatory cells you get irritation you get sensitization you get disruption of the barrier so the key is to keep it micro encapsulated in a formulation that allows it to get into the nucleus of the cell where it's going to do its work and stay inside the cell where it's going to have the most potent anti-aging effect with least side effects of irritation and that's where the delivery mechanism comes out that's what the formulation does and that's what's so key because a lot of retinols can be irritating to the skin too definitely yeah but yours is not so i have tested hers out trust me and it's not irritating my skin and i'm very big on a healthy skin barrier not flaky irritated all that yours did not do that yeah yeah i know i made it so it doesn't i've been working on this for a while and it's amazing it's amazing like it will help your pores yeah shrink down pore size it helps cellular renewal fine lines and wrinkles and we always talk about this too like the pores you know are the outside of the filthy osteo or the pore when it cinches down it cinches down the pore size by you know it's almost like a purse straight cinching down those pores and that's what uh the retinol you know retinol does and so yeah i put my heart and soul into this delivery mechanism and formulating in a way because it's just it's you know it's annoying to not be able to use the vitamin a derivative without irritation and you don't want to at the expense of not having it work as well and not cause irritation yeah exactly which i think is why some people like go to the drugstore or something and get a retinol but those do not have a delivery system those are not doing anything what they're doing is they're staying outside in the extracellular space and recruiting all your inflammatory cells your immune cells to come be irritated and that's what causes all the blood flow to come the redness the dryness the peeliness that's why you get that that means it's outside in the extractor space it's not inside that's how you know if it's actually working is if get back to work and stop causing all this information and get the gene transcription to increase your cellular renewal in your collagen synthetic but that's actually really really interesting and really good to know because a lot of people think that like you want to see flaking and you want to see peeling but you actually don't right yeah like the more you it's not like at the gym the more sore you get the more you know like the more feeling yeah no no no and that's and i and patients you know i struggle with that with patients too because they always want to be on the most highest percent or they want to be like or there's no yeah there's no need you don't get um more of a benefit when you get more irritation yeah the key the key balance is to have an elegant formulation that's going to give you the the results you want with you know diminished fine lines and wrinkles and tightening of the skin tightening of the pores and all the great benefits without the earrings out the irritation but yeah a lot of elegant formulas yeah and that's what's so interesting to me though because retin-a i mean it's been around forever but i feel like the like the formulation could be updated definitely you know and that's the thing and that's the reason why it was actually this formulation that really wanted i heard the scientific lecture like at our academy meetings they have like you know thousands of people and dermatologists at these meetings and there's always different forms and different rooms and there's like the botox room in the laser room and i'm like i got that i don't have to go to this i always go to the super nerdy scientific lecture hall and i heard the scientists speak about the vehicle delivery systems on this and i'm like why are why don't i have that in my eyes how long do i have to wait for the skincare lines to come out with this and he's like oh it's about four or five years before the industry will catch on and they'll become mainstream i'm like i can't wait that long it's in my eyes here and tomorrow i'm like let me have your email address and like you know i just really wanted to formulate because knowing the technology and having your finger on the pulse and like having to wait for it i'm like i wanted to take it directly from the science labs to my patients yeah and to my skin yes and for myself and for brianna for everybody like we're not gonna wait here anymore i'm going to be the middle man cut out all this yeah totally that's what i love so me and stuff like we like yeah we used products that were like no this is what we want like what i want this with it but it's like yeah and that's why i call it translational skin care because translational by medical definition is going from like bench work which is in the research labs to like products for consumers yeah yeah i love it so that is airmd kind of in like a nutshell i mean honestly the products are truly like next level the formulations are amazing technology is amazing you guys know i'm always i am literally probably like a broker record i'm like from relation no delivery system like that is what's key you know we have the same priorities we do definitely but that's like that's what's so important and her products like i said i'm not just talking about them because she's my best friend like i am like literally like i was like i was telling you like feedback even when you were making it myself i was like oh my god yeah really nice and i wouldn't and i wouldn't want you to if you your heart wasn't yeah i think that that's why you know it's it's you always you were always like try this like give me like your honest feedback and stuff like play back and forth and stuff like yeah and these are like bomb you guys so it's like layers ahead of everyone so just everybody will catch on something yeah i know seriously though yeah no i've even like talked to other you know like other um product lines and stuff they're like oh wow you know with this and it's it's important to share information and just you know always staying ahead of technology it's good because then it you know they say a rising tide raises all ships and maybe other people catch on and hop on the vehicle deliveries and they'll have even better products and the brand will continue to evolve i'm still going to my scientific meetings yeah i'm still continuing medical education and as these discoveries are made i'm gonna incorporate this into this brand i know i love that yeah exactly yeah so awesome yes i love it i love it so these are all available on skintruth.com so we will link them down below 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2022-04-07