I see a lot of people here talking about Tretinoin (Retin-A) and Vitamin C for stimulating collagen growth and improving overall skin elasticity... but have all you people been ignoring the recent scientific evidence regarding Copper Peptides?
I'll give you the run down of my own personal experience:
I damaged my face quite significantly about 2 years ago. It was a combination of over-exfoliation (to remove acne) and sun damage. At the time I thought this combination was good for my skin, as for once in my life I had a nice glowing tan all year round without any Acne. This didn't last for long... eventually my face couldn't play catch up anymore and started to look worse. Still, being the obsessive compulsive person I am, I persisted and my face eventually lost a good percentage of its volume. I had sunken ridges underneath both cheek bones and people constantly commented on how tired I looked. It was really bad, in fact I had trouble trying to spot people whose skin looked as bad as mine (and I'm only young!).
Eventually I went to the dermatologist and told him what had happened and he told me that the damage I had done was permanent and that I had damaged fibrolasts with scarring underneath the top layer of skin. As a result, this made me fall into depression.
I then began to try everything out there on the market and came up with two compounds that made a substantial difference:
* Retin-A
* Copper Peptides (high strength ones that have a dark bluey-green colour)
I started with Copper Peptides and within 2 weeks my skin was doing all sorts of crazy stuff. It constantly felt as though it was moving, stretching, swelling etc.. After a couple of days my skin would start to look really bad, worse than before. Then the next day all this skin would slough off and underneath it was a new, healthier layer. Eventually Retin-A was added to the routine and this only sped up the process. However, sun-sensitivity is always an issue with Retin-A and IMHO, Copper Peptides are far more potent at stimulating skin growth.
1 year later and my skin is looking the best it has ever looked. I am simply gob smacked as to why Copper Peptides aren’t widely used in the mainstream. To me, they really are the holy grail of skin care.
Anyone else care to share their experiences with potent Copper Peptides (such as SuperCop from skinbio)?