Consider Prevage vs. Obagi
Radiance Medspa called me today and asked me if I wanted any more Prevage, because they had it on special for $99. I think they put it on special once very six months.
There are two versions of Prevage, which is made by Elizabeth Arden: the ordinary garden variety that you can buy in the Red Door Salons and department stores, and the “medical grade,” which is sold in physicians’ offices and medspas. I haven’t tried the garden variety, but the medspa version didn’t seem to do anything for me either, so I refused the offer.
Prevage, however, has a very big following. And I’m told by the medspa people that it has the same ingredients as the Obagi series -- a skin lightener, an exfoliant, anti-oxidants (Vitamin C serum), and a retinoid. But it combines them all into one product, a single application.
While I like the single application thing, I also want my product to work. I temporarily gave up Obagi for the simplicity of Prevage, and then left that to return to a simplified Obagi-C routine.
And then I abandoned that for Strivectin-SD, the anti-cellulite stretch mark remover that turns out to be a great anti-aging cream as well.
Now, thanks to Athena Bioscience, I’m trying Elastinol. While I’m not knocked out by it yet, I will give it a chance for three or four weeks before my almost-inevitable (by now) retreat to Obagi.
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