Winter weather makes skin feel dry and lackluster. Even aged or damaged skin looks better when adequately hydrated. Sensitive skin types may shy away from a toner for fear of irritation and dryness. Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner contains amazing ingredients for intense skin hydration. But don’t toners sting sensitive skin? Nope, Orchid Serum Toner soothes, softens, and plumps the skin.
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner contains hydrating extracts to calm sensitive skin
what We Love About It
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner brightens skin without the irritation associated with many brightening topicals. This multi-tasking serum toner is suitable for even post-treatment sensitive skin.
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner won’t irritate sensitive skin.
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Orchid extracts have a high water binding capacity, working as a moisturizer and emollient. [1] |
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner contains peony extract, orchid, and daffodil extracts to help skin hold hydration and plump skin
Ways to Use It
Sensitive skin types often have difficulty treating skin conditions such as aging and acne. Some ways to use Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner include:
- Applying post skin exfoliation, such as with Gelmersea Ceuticals Enzyme Peeling Gel
- To provide gentle acne treatment without drying the skin
- Applying alone as a light moisturizer
- Love your night cream? Dilute it with Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner to make it do double duty as a day cream.
- Apply a heavy layer as a leave-on mask to hydrate and plump skin
- Makeup primer to balance oil production
- Use after sun exposure to calm skin
- As a hydrating toner for the 7 skin method
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner contains hydrating Orchid and Peony root extracts
Why It Works
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner is lightweight like a toner but soothing and plumping like a serum.
What exactly makes this product so versatile? Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner contains amazing ingredients for skin balancing and intense skin hydration.
Let’s take a closer look:
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner
Key Ingredient Profile
Orchid extracts are exceptionally skin hydrating
Orchid
Orchid Extract
Orchid Extracts provide skin hydration.
Orchid root cells provide the orchid bloom longevity. This functionality is extracted to provide long-lasting skin hydration and plumping action.
Orchids contain mucilage to maintain hydration. When applied to the skin, Orchid mucilage has a high water binding capacity, working as a moisturizer and emollient.[1]
Orchids are also an anti-oxidant to fight free radicals [2] increase skin immunity and plump fine lines.
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Flowering Camellia Sinensis
Camellia Sinesis Leaf Extract is better known as Green Tea. Green Tea feeds and moisturizes the skin, calms irritation, and is an excellent antioxidant.
Topical Green Tea application can calm the irritation that aggressive topicals such as Retinol cause. It can reduce sun damage, decrease collagen breakdown and increase cell regeneration.
Green tea contains polyphenols that soothe the skin while providing antioxidants. Polyphenols may improve sun-damaged skin. [3]/
High in Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), green tea is a major player in skin health and appearance. EGCG is the potent antioxidant from green tea. It protects against environmental damage and neutralizes free radicals that prematurely age skin. Research shows EGCG reactivates dying skin cells. This shows promise for repairing sun damage and scar healing. [4]
The hydrating components of green tea create more volume in the skin to plump wrinkles.
Daffodil Extract
Daffodil Root Extract
Daffodil Root Extract contains lycorine which is an anti-oxidant. [5]
Antioxidants help fight free radicals. Free radicals accelerate the skins of aging.
Wild Yam Extract
Wild Yam Extract is an anti-inflammatory that reduces dark spots.
Rich in saponins, it promotes collagen production and skin radiance. Saponins are believed to enhance skin restoration on a DNA level within the skin cells. [6]
Diosgenin is a depigmenting agent in the skin, it reduces the spots that can arise from sun damage.[7]
Arginine
Arginine is an essential amino acid, the building blocks of skin peptides and proteins as well as hydration transportation within the skin. It helps restore skin damage. Vital to healthy, beautiful skin.
Lysine
Also an essential amino acid, Lysine strengthens the skin’s surface, helps to hydrate skin, clears acne, and supplies collagen-making components to the skin. Vital to healthy, beautiful skin.
Glutarmine
Glutarmine is an amino acid needed to grow fibroblast cells. Fibroblast cells significantly increase collagen production. Also an anti-oxidant. Glutarmine is abundant in the skin but is valuable in a formulation because it makes skin feel and look healthy and vibrant. [8]
Peony Root Extract
Peony Root Extract
Paeonia Albiflora is Peony Root Extract. Peony Root Extract is helpful with regenerating skin experiencing sun damage-related issues.
Peony Root Extract offers anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits to fight free radicals. Peony Root Extract promotes skin clarity and brightens the complexion. It contains paeonol, which is antibacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory.
While Peony fights free radicals, it is still gentle and safe to layer with actives such as Retinol or Vitamin C.
THE EXPERIENCE
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner doesn’t burn or sting. It behaves more like a serum as it soothes and hydrates. But it is lightweight and non-sticky like a toner.
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner
The scent is a light fresh floral when pumped out of the bottle, but dissipates during application.
Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner has a light floral scent and gives skin deep hydration
Use it in the morning or evening to prepare the skin.
Exceptionally hydrating! It is also an excellent face mask. One of my favorite pre or post NuFace treatment tricks is to put orchid serum toner on soaked cotton pads or face mask sheets and leave it on for ten-fifteen minutes. It is like a spa treat!
I am impressed that it simultaneously improves the look of fine wrinkles, dehydration, and adult acne. Hooray for Orchid Serum Toner!
We also love to use it after Nuface or peel: the combination leaves skin lifted and hydrated
Try Gelmersea Orchid Serum Toner after your Nuface treatment
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Moira Gibson says
Love moisturizing toners! They were so drying when I was a teen