Review on 🌟 Revitalize Your Skin with St Ives Moisturizer Collagen Elastin: Discover the Fountain of Youth! by Casey Estrada

I've been using St Ives collagen and elastin - on and off - for more years than I can remember. They may have rephrased it over the years, but I never noticed. This time they changed the formula (in a purple container called Timeless Skin to a lower quality product in a blue container called Renewing). The original Timeless Skin was a comfortable product with a smooth, non-greasy texture at a very affordable price. Unilever changed the product in a very significant and low quality way, they bought up a lot of good "natural" or "organic" companies and did the same. The preservative phenoxyethanol, a formaldehyde-releasing preservative, is permitted in Japan at a concentration of 1%. It used to be the last ingredient before the fragrance, but now it's closer to the top. Being the sixth ingredient is very concerning and potentially dangerous, which means there is far more phenoxyethanol than any healthy ingredient. In fact, collagen and elastin are now the final ingredients, the new and unimproved product has even more flavor than collagen and elastin, the final ingredients. The ingredient count has stayed the same, but all of the healthy ingredients (sunflower oil, collagen, and elastin) have become insignificant compared to cheap and potentially harmful preservatives and fillers that take up too much space on the list. The texture is similar but doesn't have more volume than the previous formula as collagen and elastin add volume to the cream and are almost non-existent in this cream. It also has a much stronger smell because again it has more flavor than active ingredients. Timeless Skin (Collagen and Elastin) Ingredients: Water, Mineral Oil, Propylene Glycol, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Stearic Acid, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower Seed Oil, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Hydrolyzed Elastin, Triethanolamine, Carbomer, Cetyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Disodium Salt EDTA, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol , Aroma, Cathamus Tinctorious New & Unimproved Update (Collagen & Elastin)!(Shady) Ingredients per Container: Water (Aqua), Mineral Oil, Propylene Glycol, Glycerol Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Stearic Acid, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower Oil), Triethanolamine , Carbomer, Cetyl Alcohol, Dimethicone EDTA Disodium, Parfum (Fragrance), Ethylhexylglycerin, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Hydrolyzed Elastin Allegedly Modern (False) Ingredients from St.Ives Official Website: Water (Aqua, Eau), Mineral Oil (Paraffinum Liquidum, Huile Minerale). ), Propylene Glycol, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, St Ear Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Triethanolamine, Carbomer, Cetyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Disodium EDTA, Fragrance (Fragrance), Ethylhexylglycerin, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Hydrolyzed Elastin. , linalool, hexyl cinnamon, coumarin, geraniol. Interestingly, while searching for the ingredients for Timeless C&E, I found several versions that were much better than the latest ones. The first ingredients instead of the dead last as it is now. Aqua (Aqua/Aqua), Geraniol, Coumarin, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Hydrolyzed Elastin, Hexyl Cinnamon, Linalool, Glycerin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Parfum (Fragrance), Disodium EDTA, Cetyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Stearic Acid, Glyceryl Stearate, Propylene Glycol, PEG-100 Stearate, Mineral Oil. This is a composition I liked many years ago. St Ives (as well as many other "natural" or "organic" skin/hair care companies - Nature's Gate springs to mind that used to make fantastic products - were sold to Unilever and their previously mostly natural and safe products became trash cheap and potentially dangerous. Many of those companies that didn't test on animals now do so under Unilever.