Skincare
Three products designed to work together – with declared concentrations on the front and an honest answer to what each active ingredient can and cannot do.
A skincare range quickly grows until nobody knows what belongs to what. We took the opposite approach: three products, three clearly defined tasks, one routine that's easy to remember. Using all three covers the three starting points for which there is robust data in skincare – cell signaling, renewal, barrier.
The three roles
CU-1 · Copper Peptide Serum
1% GHK-Cu, plus 2% hyaluronic acid distributed across three molecular weights. For evenings when the skin needs to rebuild instead of renew.
LIFT Serum · Retinol
Retinol in two strengths – 0.15% for beginners, 0.3% for later. The active ingredient with the longest study history, dosed up to the EU maximum limit.
COL-3 · Collagen Peptide Cream
Signal peptides for efficacy, biomimetic collagen III for the surface, ceramides for tolerability. The foundation, morning and evening.
The routine – and why it looks this way
Copper peptides and retinoids are both effective, but they should not be used in the same application. This is not a trick to sell two products: both require different formulation conditions, and when applied together, they primarily increase irritation without any proven additional benefits. The solution is to alternate them in a rhythm.
- MorningsCleanse, apply COL-3, sunscreen. Sunscreen is not a recommendation but a prerequisite for a retinoid routine.
- Evening AApply CU-1 to cleansed skin, let it absorb for two minutes, then apply COL-3.
- Evening BApply LIFT Serum to dry, cleansed skin, then apply COL-3.
- Getting StartedBegin with LIFT two evenings per week, using CU-1 on all other evenings. Then increase LIFT to every other evening over approximately four weeks.
If you only want one product: COL-3. It is the only one of the three that works without an adjustment period, without interactions, and without a sunscreen requirement.
What you won't find in these formulas
No fragrances or essential oils – they are the most common cause of contact reactions and do nothing for the skin. No alcohol denat. as a carrier. No lists of twenty active ingredients, fifteen of which are present in trace amounts. And deliberately no EDTA, no vitamin C, and no zinc in CU-1, because these substances would remove the copper ion from the copper peptide.
Why we state concentrations
An active ingredient statement without a concentration is an ingredient, not a promise. The question is always where a substance appears on the list and in what quantity. That's why we put the number upfront, even where it's unspectacular: 1% GHK-Cu, even though 2 or 3% might look like more on the packaging – the dose-response curve of this peptide peaks and then declines.
Cosmetic products, for external use only. Avoid contact with eyes. For retinol products, please refer to the application instructions on the product page.