Annique’s new and improved Lucid range of daily skin care products for dry and mature skin will ensure that your skin becomes beaming, radiant and bright. Dry, dehydrated and mature skin requires extra care to restore and retain the skin’s moisture content.

Signs to look out for to determine if you have a dry/ dehydrated skin include:

• Almost invisible pores
• Dull, rough complexion
• Red patches
• Your skin is less elastic or bouncy than it used to be
• More visible lines
• A general dry or tight feeling
• Uneven skin complexion
• Lack of plumpness

With the new Lucid skin care range for dry skin, we have combined three new active ingredients, namely Green Rooibos, probiotics and AquaVital+. This combination of active ingredients is gentle on skin, yet effectively helps moisturize and condition dry, dehydrated and mature skin.

Innovative New Active Ingredients:

1. Green Rooibos

 The previous Lucid range contained fermented Rooibos. In the new range, we have included Green Rooibos. It contains much more antioxidants than fermented Rooibos and is a powerful anti-ageing ingredient for skin care formulas. It has free-radical-quenching abilities that help to protect skin and preserve a more youthful look. Rooibos is also known to have anti-viral, anti-fungal, and antibacterial properties, making it perfect for those with acne, eczema, psoriasis, and other difficult skin conditions. Rooibos protects the skin against damaging UV rays and is known to be hypoallergenic, helping to calm skin and soothe redness, itching and rashes.

2. Pre-and probiotics

What are Probiotics?

 Probiotics are an ever-changing group of microorganisms that live within and on the surface of our bodies. There are trillions of them. Every person has their own distinctive combination of organisms, which is known as the microbiome. We are very familiar with how probiotics in our digestive system can be beneficial for overall health and the incredible benefits they can provide. But did you know you also have your own unique Family‘ of probiotics that live in and on your skin?

Why are Probiotics Important for Healthy Skin?

Probiotics in skin care are set to become the next wave of innovations emerging in the beauty industry. The surface of the skin is a multifaceted environment and probiotics play a crucial role in its balance. Over the past decade or so, scientists have uncovered a myriad of benefits that probiotics can have on your skin, including strengthening the skin’s barrier in invading bacteria and balancing the skin’s Ph.

Probiotics help calm and comfort skin to instantly relieve the dry, tight, bothered sensations that come with irritation. They soothe and balance your skin just like probiotics can do for your stomach.

How Probiotics Benefit Skin?

Only recently have researched started to understand the effect that probiotics have for acne and other skin conditions.

The goal of probiotics in skin care is to restore the delicate balance that allows good bacteria to flourish, so the skin can keep itself in top shape.

Stabilizing the skin’s microbiome helps:

• Strengthen the surface of the skin against environmental invaders
• Enhance the skin’s ability to become hydrated and stay that way
• Reduce factors that trigger sensitive, red skin
• Improve dryness, including a tight and uncomfortable skin
• Restore a healthy pH to the skin

Probiotics used in Lucid

We have incorporated two Lactobacillus strains of probiotics into the new Lucid range. It helps calm and comfort skin to relieve the tight, dry, bothered sensations that come with irritation. Yes, lactobacillus soothes and balances your skin just like probiotics can do for your stomach.

Important: Probiotics work best when combined with prebiotics – to fuel the growth of probiotics. The new Lucid range also includes a prebiotic (oligosaccharide). Prebiotics serves as food for probiotics, helping them multiply.

Did You Know?

As probiotics break down on the skin’s surface, they create postbiotics. These include hyaluronic acid, peptides and vitamins, which reduce signs of ageing, boost hydration, and improve skin tone. It’s the synergy between these ‘biotics’ that makes all the difference when it comes to probiotic skin care.

The NEW Lucid range encompasses all of the above.

3. AquaVital+

The previous Lucid range contained an active called AquaVital, derived from a plant-derived carbohydrate complex. Its function was to create a “moisture reservoir” in the skin thus keeping the skin hydrated for longer.

Through extensive research and technology, we have found an incredible new moisturizing active ingredient, replacing the previous AquaVital.  It is called AquaVital+.

AquaVital+ has the same function as its predecessor, AquaVital, which is to create a “moisture reservoir” in the skin, however, it does it in a significantly improved way and is derived from a different natural source.

What is AquaVital+?

AquaVital+ is a sophisticated, yet gentle plant moisturizing complex extracted from the seeds of a Peruvian plant called Tara (Caesalpinia Spinosa). It grows in a very dry mountain climate, in the Andes, in which had to adapt to the surrounding conditions of rapid drying to survive, by developing an internal system to prevent rapid water loss.

It contains valuable molecules called galactomannans (up to 80%), that moisturize the skin by creating a protective film that prevents the rapid evaporation of water.

This advanced moisturizing ingredient captures and retains water and absorbs it into the skin in both an immediate and long-lasting way to enhance your skin’s appearance and texture.

AqueVital+ is not just great for providing moisture to the skin, but also a way to strengthen the skin’s overall health at all levels.

How does AquaVital+ work?

• Immediately and lastingly improves the level of hydration of the stratum corneum (the outermost layer of the skin)
• Prevents transdermal water loss
• The skin gains a healthy glow, elasticity and softness
• In vivo tests prove: + 30.8% immediate hydration after 30 minutes, + 21.1% long-term hydration after 4 hours, + 12.5% long-term hydration after 3 weeks
• In a sensory evaluation, 83% said they had softer skin, 67% said they have more moisturized skin