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No7 have just added three new Future Renew products – our beauty expert gives her honest verdict
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There’s no doubt that beauty brand No7 has been heavily invested in peptide science for almost 20 years, from the launch of Protect & Perfect in 2007 to their latest fly-off-the-shelf Future Renew range almost two years ago.
The latter launched with four core products – day and night creams, eye cream and a damage reversal serum – which all contained a brand new blend of peptides (or proteins) that had been shown to reverse visible signs of skin damage.
And, like its predecessor, it caused much chatter – a product was bought every two seconds on launch day and became Boots’ best-selling beauty launch to date.
I wrote about it at the time and the serum especially was one of those products that people just loved. I lost count of the number of people who told me, ‘I bought it because I read your piece, but I’m buying it again because it really works.’
Perhaps it’s not surprising then, given the massive trend we’re seeing for high-performance body care, that today, No7 are rolling out three new Future Renew body products containing the same high performing blend of peptides — at the same concentration that you’ll find them in the original damage-reversal serum.
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‘Part of the decision to launch body products was driven by consumers and our in-store advisors. As soon as they saw what the original serum could do for their face, they wanted to do the same for their body,’ explains Dr Eleanor Bradley, Science Credentialing Manager at No7. ‘But, on the science side, if we think about reversing the visible signs of ageing, we know that those signs are present on the body as well.’
And two of the areas where these signs frequently show up are on the hands — often neglected when it comes to daily sun protection, and constantly being washed and dried — and on the neck and décolleté — similarly often forgotten about when applying skincare to the face but frequently subject to the same sort of damage — and the skin here tends to be thinner than on the face exacerbating the problem.
What’s new
As a result, the brand have created an SPF 15 Hand Cream (£17.95 for 75ml), a Neck & Décolletage Serum (£44.95 for 50ml) and a Body Serum (£34.95 for 200ml) — for reference, the original Future Renew serum is £47.95 for 50ml — so what’s the difference?
‘The skin on the neck and décolleté isn’t just thinner, it also has less collagen, less fibrillin [proteins that make skin look and feel plump] and fewer oil glands than the face,’ Dr Bradley tells Metro. ‘So we’ve added ingredients to make it more nourishing — more niacinamide, argan oil — and a botanical which can help with brightening, as we know that pigmentation is a key concern in this area.’
Similarly the hand cream is thicker and more nourishing (although it does contain slightly less of the peptide blend, but this is probably balanced out by the fact that you’re going to reapply it more frequently than you would apply the other products) while the body serum is more of a gel-cream.
All three of the products have very user-friendly textures. The hand cream feels nourishing and creamy but doesn’t leave hands feeling greasy, and both the neck serum and the body serum melt into the skin — although I prefer the dryer finish of the body serum, as the neck one felt tackier for longer.
It’s No7 so, as you might expect, they’ve conducted a range of studies including consumer studies and clinical studies. (meaning the results are based on objective measurements and observations, not just on women saying they thought their skin felt better).
One of the most interesting was on the body serum. 35 women aged 47 to 70 with visible signs of ageing were asked to apply the product twice a day to just one arm and one leg, meaning their other arm and leg were the control. After two months of use, the treated side showed significant improvements in texture, dryness and fine lines.
My verdict
So would I – a beauty expert for more than 20 years, who has tried over 3000 products in my career – use them?
I think the hand cream is a good option if you don’t already use one with broad spectrum sun protection — although as the peptides are at a lower concentration and I’ve not seen any data on the results I don’t know if it’s worth what is a fairly hefty price for a hand cream.
As for the neck serum, I know Metro’s Deputy Editor Claie has been crying out for this product, but personally, I’ve never been convinced by the need for a separate product.
In the words of skincare queen, Caroline Hirons, just ‘take it to the t*ts’ – i.e. apply your facial products down your neck and onto the décolleté.
But while I’m usually pretty lazy about body products, the results of the body serum might just convince me to up my game. And I know No7 will hate me for saying this, but I’d be tempted to use the body serum (which is significantly cheaper than the face serum — it works out at 17.5p/ml compared to 96p/ml — but contains many of the same active ingredients) from toe to t*ts to the top of my head.
Obviously buyer beware here — if you have very oily or sensitive facial skin, putting a body product on it might not be wise, but for me, admittedly a bit of a beauty renegade, I’d gamble for the sake of getting clinically proven anti-ageing technology onto my face at a fraction of the price of the original.
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