The quest for beautiful skin leads to luxury ingredients like diamonds, silver and gold.
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Silver in soap, gold and platinum in serums, diamond dust in face creams: The current beauty consumer is faced with a number of alluring product ingredients that were once found only at Tiffany’s. The question is, What are they really doing in our skin-care creams and lotions beyond making us feel deliciously self-indulgent?
The first thing to realize is that at least some of the benefits of these super-sexy jewel-box ingredients are determined by the cocktail of ingredients they’re combined with. Dazzled by diamonds or gaga over gold, beauty consumers focus on these elements individually. And that’s understandable because when you’re reading an ingredient list, diamond dust and gold flakes are a lot easier to visualize than peptides and enzymes. But it’s often the other active ingredients — or the formula as a whole — that ultimately deliver the promised beauty benefits.
That said, the use of diamond dust as an exfoliant — albeit an especially elegant and costly one — and its potential as a reflective agent to boost skin’s radiance are pretty much self-explanatory. Pearl powders have been used for centuries for their beautifying effects on the skin, and silver’s antibacterial properties are well established. (That’s why it has long been a staple in the much less glamorous world of dentistry.) It makes sense, then, that these elements in soaps or creams help justify their $100-plus price tags.
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