Environ Focus Care Youth+® Seriénce™ Night Serum

When it comes to serious skincare there are a few things that you should look for if you want results.

1. 1. Evidence-backed ingredients such as peptides and retinols and scientific testing. NB: There are other gold standard ingredients but these are stars for age-related changes.
  2. Targeted actions are excellent-to-haves too.

This is why we love Environ skincare as it does these so well.

Now let’s talk about stress.

The Stress Hormone: Cortisol

I work with hormones and their effects on the body, weight and skin and spend hours immersed in scientific papers and neuroscience. I’m also frequently writing about cortisol. In fact, I do so almost every day

Cortisol is our stress hormone and when it spikes it affects hormonal balance, weight (particularly belly fat) and skin health. Especially as we grow older. As women, our estrogen begins to decline and when that happens cortisol rises, one reason why self-care becomes so much more important post-40.

If you keep your cortisol happy you’ll look better and feel better.

A First-Of-Its-Kind

So when Environ Focus Care Youth+® Seriénce™ Night Serum, hit the desk I was excited as it ticks many boxes i.e. scientifically backed ingredients and results. What’s more, it targets a specific skincare need and the company have recognised the impact of both cortisol and self-care.

Indeed, this serum is a first of its kind. An advanced overnight booster developed to target the negative long-term effects of stress.

As Environ say:

“Modern day life is fast-paced and overwhelming. Mental, emotional and physical stress is pervasive and inevitable. Advances in neuroscience and cosmetic research continue to reveal infinitely more about the complex and fascinating connection between the brain and skin.”

How Does Environ Focus Care Youth+® Seriénce™ Night Serum Work?

As I mentioned earlier, cortisol is our stress hormone. We need it but not as much as we tend to receive in our modern-day lives.

Even if we’re stressed because we’re over-worked or have had a fight with our partner our body perceives this as a life-threatening risk.

One of cortisol’s roles is to help us survive so the body releases more of it at these times. It’s all hands on deck to save us from the ‘tiger’ because it can’t tell the difference between the stress of a traffic jam and being chased by a wild beast.

So then life’s ‘overload’ triggers both the brain and skin to release cortisol and a few other defences. It’s complicated biochemistry involving something called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA-axis) which controls how we react to stress.

Are you still with me?

If you’ve got constant stressors going on i.e. emotional, physical and mental (internally) and pollution, smoke, sleep deprivation and UV exposure (externally), your skin cells won’t stop producing cortisol.

This has been scientifically shown to compromise a healthy skin barrier which can lead to a lack of radiance and magnify things like lines, wrinkles and loss of elasticity.

Environ’s Seriénce™ Night Serum uses something called Malachite-Neuropeptide Complex to negate this. It’s been proven in the science labs to protect, reset, relax and reconnect the skin cell by cell.

What Is Malachite-Neuropeptide Complex?

This ingredient combination contains some pretty amazing stuff which, for all you science nerds, I’ll list below (all are scientifically proven). And if you’re into crystals, malachite is a green stone that’s known as the stone of transformation.