What are fine lines & wrinkles?  Why do they form?

Fine lines are the earliest and most delicate signs of aging.  They appear around the eyes, mouth and forehead showing up as creases as your skin starts to lose the collagen and elastin that support your skin.  

Wrinkles are deeper folds that develop over time as our skin’s loss of elasticity and collagen accelerates.

You may feel that the onset of fine lines and wrinkles is sudden, but that’s simply our perception.  It happens continuously, a little bit every single day, and as we get older, especially starting at peri-menopause, it accelerates.

So now we know that the primary cause of fine lines and wrinkles is the accelerated loss of elastin and collagen within our skin.  

There are two obvious questions that we want to explore

1) What can we do to slow the aging process down?
2) Are there factors that speed the aging process up?

Let’s first address the factors that speed up skin aging.

Introducing: Saranghae NiaRetin Complex Duo + Orora Bioactive Collagen Serum

To help fight oxidative stress, reduce hyperpigmentation, and stimulate new collagen & elastin production, Saranghae has developed the NiaRetin Complex Duo, which combines 4 KEY ingredients for maximum effect.

Retinal at 0.1% Concentration

Retinal (short for retinaldehyde) is a safer and more powerful form of retinol and is one of the most studied skincare ingredients in history (since 1945).

Retinal accelerates the shedding of old kertinocytes and stimulates the growth of new epidermal cells.  This cellular turnover triggers our dermis (the deepest layer of our skin) to produce new collagen and elastin fibers to replace old skin.

In addition, retinal binds to receptors in skin cells that control genes that produce type 1 and type 3 collagen and switches them “ON”.

Lastly, retinal reduces the activity of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which break down collagen and elastin.  By lowering MMP activity, retinol helps preserve the structural proteins already present.

Niacinamide at 10% Concentration

Niacinamide or Vitamin B3 at active concentration of 10% is a multifunctional skincare ingredient that accelerates the collagen-stimulating function of retinal.  If retinal is the rocket, then niacinamide is the rocket fuel.

But that’s not all.

Niacinamide is one of the most versatile ingredients in modern skincare.  It boosts the production of ceramides and fatty acids that keeps skin hydrated and healthy.  It calms inflammation and helps reduce rosacea.

It is considered one of the best antioxidants kin skin care, which helps neutralize and minimize skin damage due to oxidative stress.

Squalane at 2% Concentration

Squalane is a extremely versatile oil derived from squalene - a natural lipid that our skin produces on it’s own).  It mimics our skin’s natural sebum prevenint dryness and reducing water loss.  It leaves ours kin soft and supple without feeling heavy or greasy.  It also improves skin texture by smoothing rough patches and softening lines over time.

Glutathione at 1% Concentration

Glutathione is another powerful antioxidant made from combining 3 amino acids: glycine, cysteine and glutamic acid.  It supports skin brightening by suppressing the activation of melanin production. Additionally, it has skin-detoxifying properties, which helps improve overall skin tone and resilience.

SH-polypeptide-121 at 1% Concentration

SH-polypeptide-121, also known as HumaColl21, is the world’s first first plant based, collagen peptide that mimics the structure and function of human collagen type 21.  A peptide basically a collection of amino acids that do specific things in our body.  SH-polypeptide-121 is a signalling peptide that signals to our skin cells to produce more collagen and elastin.

This peptide is the primary ingredient in our Orora Bioactive Collagen Serum - which is added as a FREE GIFT with purchase of the Saranghae NiaRetin Complex Duo.

100% GUARANTEE: If you're not happy with your results, we'll fully refund your purchase within 45 days even if the products are used. 

Why did we create the Saranghae NiaRetin Duo?

Until about 2015, retinoids were commercially available in only two forms:  Retinol and Tretinoin (retinoic acid).  Tretinoin is available only through prescription and presents a whole range of potentially dangerous side effects, and about 1 in 3 people will develop an irritation to retinol.  But the anti-aging efficacy of retinoids were and are still irrefutable.  It is single most studied anti-aging compound in the world.

It was around this time that we realized that the reason retinol caused much of it’s irritation is because it has to evolve twice when applied to our skin to be useful.

When applied to our skin, retinol reacts with molecules on our skin and evolves into a compound called retinaldehyde. But because retinaldehyde is a highly unstable form of vitamin A, it must immediately evolve a second time to a compound called retinoic acid (retinoic acid is what our skin needs).

We realized that if we could minimize the number of evolution steps by stabilizing retinaldehyde, we could offer efficacy close to pure retinoic acid but without dangerous side effects.

Around 2018, we started working with a Korean University research team, co-founded by the government of Korea to come up with a commercially stable and viable form of retinaldehyde.  It took us 6 years to perfect the formula, but the result was a massive success. 

The Saranghae Advanced Renewal Retinal Serum with 0.1% Retail + 2% Squalane is about 20 times more potent than retinol but about 100 times less irritating.

By accident, we discovered that if we combined our 10% niacinamide serum with 1% glutathione in a specific combination, this duo showed even greater anti-aging effect.  They key is the unique balance of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory ingredients that help accelerate skin cell renewal without increasing greater oxidative stress.

With additional collagen-stimulating effects of SH-polypeptide-121 provided by our Orora Bioactive Collagen Serum and the rest as they say, is history.