Revealed: This is why your hyaluronic cream doesn't reduce your wrinkles!

Dr. Nicole Binding - 02.10.2024

I was tired of spending money on ineffective creams. Then I finally discovered a solution that visibly reduced my wrinkles - without any risks

It was frustrating. I tried countless products - creams, serums, masks - all in the hope of smoothing out my wrinkles. Each time I felt like I'd finally found the right thing. But after a few weeks? Nothing. The wrinkles were still there. I was annoyed at having spent money again for zero effect!

Studies show that the breakdown of collagen and hyaluron in the skin increases dramatically from the age of 30!

Hyaluron is responsible for ensuring that your skin is continuously supplied with moisture. Hyaluron sits in your skin like little balloons filled with water and plumps it up.

Collagen in turn ensures that your skin is nice and firm. You can think of it like a net that smoothes and tightens your skin. Over time, the fibers of the mesh tear and the body regenerates new fibers more and more slowly over the years, causing the skin to sag.

In order to stimulate the process of regenerating new hyaluronic acid deposits and new collagen fibers, active ingredients need to be infiltrated deep into the skin. However, creams do not penetrate deep enough into the skin to take effect where they are really needed. 

They get stuck in the uppermost layer of the skin - a blockage, the so-called horny layer - and only have a superficial effect. No cream can work in this way if it doesn't get to where it is really supposed to fight wrinkles.

So to get rid of your wrinkles, you need to stimulate collagen production again and increase moisture with new hyaluronic acid. However, this requires active ingredients to penetrate past the horny layer.

I kept buying more expensive creams in the hope that maybe they would finally make the difference and penetrate deep enough into the skin. But after weeks of use? No change. My skin may have felt softer, but the wrinkles were still just as visible.

Then I thought maybe the solution for me would be Botox after all? But my dermatologist had told me about the risks and that scared me! I didn't want to stress my skin unnecessarily or risk having to walk around with a disfigured face. 

It was frustrating to see how much time and effort I was putting in without softening my wrinkles even a little.

However, my dermatologist then gave me an interesting solution! A researcher from the University of Göttingen has made a breakthrough in making the blockage of the horny layer of the skin permeable to active ingredients. 

Thanks to the discovery of the so-called "Dulex acid complex", the researcher was able to create a real alternative to Botox in combination with hyaluronic acid and vitamin C.