RE9 end of month review.

I had some serious homework this past month, as my term is coming to an end and I haven't committed to the weekly review as mentioned.  However, I have been religiously using Arbonne's RE9 every morning and night for the last month, and have noticed very obvious overall skin improvement.  My skin has a more even texture, it feels smooth to the touch, freckles are going away and my pores are not as noticeable. The down-side however is that I have consistently been breaking out, and it never stopped. So I switched up Arbonne products for a more custom formula and my skin is clear and good-to-go.  If you read below you will see a complete skin care system that involves face wash, toner, skin serum for day, a day moisturizer with SPF, a night moisturizer, a neck cream, eye cream, and a skin brightening serum used at night.  My skin is oily and prone to break-out.  The day moisturizer I had to stop using right-away as my skin was very oily with use of this product. I wouldn't consider it an oily moisturizer for most skin types, it actually absorbs nicely, it's just too oily for me.  The night cream is a great product, but I can't use it every night either.  I use it as needed.  Sometimes your skin just gets a little dry and needs some moisturizer and so I use it then.  The day serum is a very pore tightening product and so I can use that anytime I want.  The neck cream was one of my favorite products. I enjoyed the citrus smell and the rich texture the thin, delicate skin the chest, and neck, needs.  I had no real issue with the face wash one way or the other, but I knew from experience that I needed a face wash that has clay based ingredients in it, to help with oily skin. I also have a thicker top layer of skin that's less delicate as many oily faced people do, and so I need a manual scrub ( or a scrub with texture.) I also need an oil drying mask to help with break-outs.  So my new and improved skin care routine is more involved than I just mentioned but here I go...

Step 1. FACE WASH

Arbonne's FC5 Purifying and toning face wash.  This face wash is for normal to oily skin and is great for giving a deep down clean.

Step 2.  TONER

Arbonne's Clear Advantage Toner.  This a toner designed for skin with acne, I also think it works good for oily skin too. It has the extra salicylic Acid to really clean out the skin. I only like to get specific Acne medication through the toner and that it, or it's to drying for me.

Step #3.  SERUM: 

Arnonne's Intensive Renewal Serum.  It's great for reducing pores, fine lines and helping with texture. It has an alpha hydroxy acid, and should be used in conjunction with a SPF.

Step #4  MOISTURIZER:

Arbonne's FC5 Oil-absorbing day moisturizer. 


Step #5 EYE CREAM

Arbonne's RE9 Corrective Eye Cream.

Now it's bed time so my routine is the same as above except instead of the Intensive Renewal Serum I use Arbonne's Revelage Serum:

After toner listed above I use this serum to help with sun spots and freckles.

Then I move to a night time moisturizer that's a little richer, but it's not oily:

After the Night Repair I use RE9's neck cream:

This is so great at getting rid of fine lines and freckling on the chest and neck.

I use the above mentioned RE9 Eye cream.

Lastly as needed I use Arbonne's New Cell scrub, a chemical face mask to help with skin cell renewal turn-over, and a oil absorbing face mask for keeping my skin clear.

So that is it. Although It seems like a lot of work, it's short I promise.  If you have oily skin I hope this helps. 

RE9

Before I do a post on how using white in your house can make housework easier, I wanted to talk about the skin care product by Arbonne called RE9. I personally have no experience with it. I'm going to use it though for 4 weeks and do an update on my skin at the end of each week. I will also do an initial post now on how is made my skin feel on day 1. But besides that I will update you on the product for the next four weeks.  I think that may be about enough time to start to see changes (or not.)  This is what I know right now:

• Arbonne is a direct sells company that has products formulated in Switzerland, and made and distributed in the U.S. 
• The company has been in existence for around thirty years. 
• Arbonne uses botanically based ingredients
• They do not test on animals
• They are 100% vegan certified
• They do not use animal by-products, Mineral Oils, Artificial Ingredients, Artificial Fragrances, petroleum-based oil ingredients
• They use plant based ingredients, essential oils, plant's vitamin's minerals, and anti-oxidants, in strong doses.

That's all I know. Now it sounds good, but my skin is very sensitive and there are limited products that I can use especially anti-aging ones that don't make me brake out. Typically if I want to anti-age my skin I have to use peels, but not moisturizer.

According to Arbonne's website RE9 Advanced contains:
ingredients proven to nourish skin and combat free radical damage. Key plant nutrients are available to soften and condition, protect and adjust to the skin's specific needs. Vitamin C is also available for the production of elastin and collagen.

Here are some of the key ingredients found in RE9 Advanced:
Kojic Acid - which is a highly effective, natural skin lightening agent that reduces the appearance of long-term sun and environmental damage.
BHA - with antioxidant properties helps to visibly tighten and smooth skin, and reduce the appearance of brown spots and fine lines.
Peptides - which increase skin thickness, produces significant quantities of collagen to restore the dermal matrix.

Alpha and Beta Hydroxy Acids - Alpha breaks down protein bonds, increasing cell proliferation.
Alpha Lipoic Acid - which is an antioxidant that penetrates skin quickly and absorbs into the skin's cells to increase cell metabolism."

~Photo courtesy of google images  RE9 Advanced after two weeks~


Now for my personal testimony. I've only used the RE9 Advanced Full product line one time. The very first thing that blew me away was that all the products, serums, lotions, and creams didn't leave my skin feeling greasy or oily. This is very big for me, because it's almost impossible to use a heavy night cream for anti-aging without looking greasy and getting breakouts. Every single product absorbed into my skin and made it feel supple.  The smell was very light but noticeable. It was a clean cinnamon smell. It was nice!  Lastly the Renewing Serum had an instant tingling feeling. It wasn't irritating but noticeable.  I can not speak of results that's why I'll write about it once a week for four weeks.  I'll know if I'm going to break out by the end of week one! So we'll see.  I barely have any noticeable fine line (yet) so there will not be much anti-aging in the wrinkle department, however there will be in the texture of my skin which isn't so great right now, also in the appearance of my skin which has freckles and some sun-spots ( I live in the tropics.)  Okay that's it for for RE9. I'll post in about seven days. 

~Love...Monique