Glacier ice at the Furka Pass, Switzerland. Photo: Bohdan Urbanowicz, CC BY-SA 3.0.

IceAwake™

Succinic acid and maltodextrin

Helps the skin look fresher and less tired.

INCISuccinic Acid (and) Maltodextrin (and) Aqua
What it isextract from a glacier bacterium
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Why it is in there

Chosen for the morning. The active ingredient comes from a bacterium living in the cold of a Swiss glacier, and was studied by its manufacturer for a fresher, less tired appearance.

Where it comes from

Discovered on a Swiss glacier: a micro-organism that survives in extreme cold.

What is known

On the label this active ingredient appears as succinic acid, maltodextrin and water.

What the manufacturer measured is below, with who took part and for how long. It is about the active ingredient itself and not about our day cream.

What the maker measured

The manufacturer had 21 men and women aged 44 to 66 use the ingredient for fourteen days: afterwards 71% of them looked less tired than at the start. That is compared against their own baseline, without a placebo group. In a second study, in 23 women aged 41 to 57 with 2% on one half of the face against placebo on the other, wrinkle depth decreased by 11.4% in fourteen days.

This is research into the active, not into the Valvor Man product. What a single active does in a study is not a promise about the cream it sits in.

Bron: COSSMA, trade journal for cosmetic development

About the research

Supplier study in middle-aged men and women, compared against their own baseline, without a placebo group. A second supplier study in Asian women was placebo-controlled. Not with the Valvor Man product; the concentration in the formula is not yet known.