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Spotlight: Studio 35 Beauty Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream
by Jennifer A. Freeman | June 27, 2013
Studio 35 Beauty Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream provides concentrated anti-aging ingredients for a low drugstore price.
Product: Studio 35 Beauty Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream
Viewpoints Score: 99/100
Price: $8.78 for a 4 oz. jar
Best for: Anti-aging, acne and exfoliation
It’s not often that we see a product rated 99 or 100 by Viewpoints Reviewers. When we see this high score, we know it’s really something special. In this case, Studio 35 Beauty Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream is not only the highest rated anti-aging skin cream, it’s also one of the cheapest—what a steal!
Studio 35 is the house brand of Walgreens, so you should be able to find the cream at your local Walgreens or online. The product used to be sold under the Walgreens name.
According to WebMD, alpha hydroxy acids work by removing the top layers of dead skin cells. The anti-aging power comes into play by revealing new, fresh skin. They can also increase the thickness of deeper layers of skin, promoting firmness.
You can get stronger alpha hydroxy creams from your dermatologist, but over the counter lotions and creams are limited to a lower percentage of alpha hydroxyl acids. The Studio 35 Beauty Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream has one of the highest percentages of AHA you can find at the drugstore— 8 percent of glycolic acid.
For comparison, designer brand Peter Thomas Roth Clinical Skin Care has 10 percent glycolic acid, and sells for $45 for a container HALF the size of the Studio 35 cream.
We know the Studio 35 Beauty Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream is a high potency moisturizer at a great price, but what did Viewpoints reviewers have to say?
“Wow! That’s my first response to the results of using Walgreens Alpha Hydroxy face cream every night, for less than a week. This stuff is silky, thin yet creamy, and lightweight. A tiny dab on your hand, then rubbed and massaged onto your facial skin, and poof!-you’re done. I noticed several wonderful side effects from using this alpha hydroxy cream nightly. The first is that my skin has an overall glow, that i was completely lacking before. The second is the more even skin tone. I suffer from bouts of redness, acne scars, uneven skin tone, and overall blahness, but this is really fixing everything right up. There is a very visible difference in the eveness of my skin tone. Third my skin has a “fresh” quality, which may be why I have this glow. The alpha hydroxy gently exfoliates the skin, and creates much younger looking skin on the surface.” —fridaythe13th
“Simply put: I. LOVE. THIS. CREAM. I was a little skeptical at first because the packaging is nothing fancy and it was so unbelievably affordable for what it contained (for those of you who don’t know, alpha hydroxy acid is the main ingredient in most effective anti-aging creams because it exfoliates your face while encouraging new skin cell growth). Other similar products on the market run about $40 or more in department stores by name brands. Though I’m only 21 and don’t particularly feel the need for anti-aging products yet, I figured it couldn’t hurt to get started early. I also had read somewhere that it helped with acne, especially little colorless bumps trapped under your skin, and I figured my skin could definitely use the help, what with its turbulent random breakouts and etc. Within a few days I started to see my skin clear up, as well as old acne scars start to fade. Six months later my skin has never looked better, and I’m encouraging my mother to use it as well! What a steal of a product!” —kachang620, Reviewer since 2010
All of the reviews for Studio 35 Beauty Alpha Hydroxy Face Cream rave just as much as these reviewers, totaling up to a 99/100 score. For such a popular product at such a low price, it’s definitely worth picking it up the next time you’re at the drugstore and giving it a try.
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