What to Look for in a Body-Firming Lotion

Everyone wants to maintain smooth skin with age. While there are plenty of cosmetic treatments out there that help improve the signs of aging in skin, sometimes those treatments simply aren’t feasible for your lifestyle.

A smoothing lotion can be a wonderful alternative to more involved procedures to help improve tightness and hydration in your skin. Here’s what to look for in the best smoothing lotions and more information about what we offer at Spa in the City in Dallas, TX.

All-Trans-Retinol

All-trans-retinol is one of the best retinol formulations available. Retinol is a skin care product derived from vitamin A and is used for both anti-aging and anti-acne treatments.

This product is the over-the-counter counterpart of prescription retinoids, which are considerably more powerful, though they tend to be more drying.

Retinoids are biological molecules that are critical for the health of your skin. They help with cell growth and your skin’s immunology.

“All-trans” means that a percent of the retinol converts to retinoic acid on your skin.

What Is Retinoic Acid?

Retinoic acid is derived from retinol via enzymatic reactions. The first enzymatic reaction is the oxidation of retinol to retinal. The second is the oxidation to retinoic acid.

This oxidation results in a light-sensitive compound, just like other retinoids. It’s also highly fat-soluble. This means retinoic acid easily diffuses across your cell membranes.

Retinoic acid is an important part of the cell growth process and is also one of the most vital components in organ development in embryos.

Another name for all-trans retinoic acid is tretinoin, which has been found to be an active preventative agent against a wide range of cancers.

Retinoic acid is used to prevent and treat both aged skin and psoriasis.

Why Should You Apply Retinol to Your Skin?

Since retinol accelerates the rate of your skin cell division and new cell growth, it can change how your skin cells function.

As you age, certain elements in your skin, such as collagen and elastin, start to break down and deplete. This is why your skin becomes looser, saggier, and thinner.

Retinol works deep into your skin’s mid-layer (known as the dermis) to stimulate your skin’s production of collagen and elastin. By stimulating the growth of these proteins, retinol helps offer anti-aging support while fighting sun damage and reducing the appearance of pores.

That’s not all retinol is capable of, however. Retinol can also help unclog pores and reduce inflammation in your skin, which leads to healthier skin overall.

In a body-firming lotion, such as Spa in the City’s body-firming lotion, retinol should be one of the primary active ingredients. Otherwise, the smoothing lotion may not be effective.

Hyaluronic Acid

Another ingredient you want in any body-firming lotion is hyaluronic acid.

Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance found in your body. It’s present in your eyes and joints to help cushion and lubricate them for overall health and wellness. It also helps your body repair injuries and decrease swelling.

Scientists have harnessed the power of hyaluronic acid for skin care. Since hyaluronic acid in the skin helps retain and maintain moisture, products with hyaluronic acid can have anti-aging effects.

When your skin is more moisturized, it’s healthier, more radiant, and more youthful-looking.

In skin care lotions and products, hyaluronic acid is used as a humectant. A humectant is any substance that helps your skin hold onto water.

By hydrating the outer layers of your skin, hyaluronic acid improves your skin’s appearance.

Can Hyaluronic Acid Help to Tighten Skin?

Hyaluronic acid can help tighten your skin! If your skin’s moisture barrier is strong, your skin can produce more collagen.

One study found that hyaluronic acid can increase skin elasticity by reducing skin roughness. Increased skin elasticity leads to tighter skin overall.

How Do Body-Firming Lotions Work?

Body-firming lotions help replenish nutrients that help firm up the appearance of your skin. The main way body-firming lotions accomplish this is by enhancing the production of collagen and elastin in your skin.

Around age 25, your body’s collagen levels start to deplete at a rate of about 1% per year. By the time you’re 50, there’s practically no new collagen being made in your skin. This is why skin starts to break down.

While body-firming lotions can’t aid in weight loss and may not deliver results similar to other treatments like injectables or radiofrequency devices, they can go a long way for a simple, non-invasive treatment.

Spa in the City Private-Label Skin Care

Our private-label body-firming lotion contains both hyaluronic acid and all-trans-retinol in order to deliver the highest quality results.

How to Use Spa in the City’s Body-Firming Lotion

Every product bottle will have directives printed on it, but as with most body lotions, you can apply once per day.

How Long Before You See Results?

It takes around two weeks to start to see improvements in the texture and quality of your skin.

Body-firming lotions don’t offer immediate results because it takes your body time to start producing more collagen and elastin. You may notice some immediate improvements in the moisture and dewiness of your skin. But the skin-tightening effects will take a couple of weeks to become visible.

Do You Have to Reapply Body-Firming Lotion?

In order to maintain your results, adopt body-firming lotion into your daily routine. Your body’s production of collagen will continue to lessen. So you will have to regularly apply your lotion to keep your results.