A night cream meant mainly to moisturize, Shu Uemura B-G Recharging Night Cream focuses on ingredients such as “advanced night lipids and Depsea Water.” They claim that overnight, your first night, your skin will become soft, smooth, and supple. And with continued use, you will see benefits in the anti aging department.

Shu Uemura B-G Recharging Night Cream ingredients include aqua / water, sea water, butylene glycol, dimethicone, hydrogenated coco-glycerides, glyceryl stearate, glycerin, stearyl alcohol, cera alba / beeswax, hydrogenated lecithin, polyglyceryl-10 stearate, trehalose, petrolatum, cholesterol, dimethicone/vinyl dimethicone crosspolymer, diisostearyl malate, glycosphingolipids, chlorphenesin, methylparaben, oleic acid, sodium carboxymethyl dextran, arginine, butylparaben, pvm/ma decadiene crosspolymer, potassium hydroxide, carbomer, tocopheryl acetate, propylparaben, citric acid, yeast beta-glucan, isostearyl acetyl glutaminate, disodium edta, limonene, linalool, alcohol, pyrus cydonia seed extract, hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde, eugenol, parfum / fragrance

Though they try to focus on naming two ingredients and describing two basic ingredients that don’t actually exist anywhere outside Shu Uemura or for that matter promote wrinkle reduction or anti aging benefits, the truth is their formula is made up largely of fillers, not moisturizers, not wrinkle reducing ingredients, not anti aging ingredients of any kind, not even antioxidants. They also have alcohol and other ingredients that may actually do damage to the skin rather than good.

The Shiseido Benefiance Nutriperfect Night Cream claims to be a “high performance nighttime recover cream created especially for mature skin.” They use carnosine to fight wrinkles and regenerate muscle tissue while also using vitamins B, C, E, and P. None of these are actually wrinkle fighting ingredients, and we’d never even heard of vitamin P. So we decided to look it up for future reference. From sources we found, vitamin P is used as a euphemism for Proaz or Paxil, both antidepressants which are not generally absorbed through the skin, nor do they have anything to do with wrinkle care.

There is no full or official ingredients list for Shiseido Benefiance Nutriperfect Night Cream, as there are no official ingredients lists for any Shiseido products. We assume they don’t actually use Prozac or Paxil. Most likely, they just added another random vitamin letter not found anywhere else, assuming that it would sound good, but not actually searching it just incase. We were vastly entertained, but we see this and other things as various signs of a weak and lacking formula.

While one piece is good, a whole kit of the right kinds of products is better. The Renuvie Collection provides you with a day cream, a night cream, and a serum to maximize the potential of both elements. When combined, they provide that much more power, the right blend of ingredients such as peptides, antioxidants, and moisturizers, and your results are multiplied with regular use. The Renuvie Collection has all the right ingredients even including a 30% concentration of pure peptides, the right antioxidants, the right moisturizers, and nanotechnology to help ingredients quickly absorb deep into pores to get to work immediately and produce results unlike any you’ve ever seen before.

Renuvie Age Defying Compound ingredients include DEIONIZED WATER, ARGIRELINE (ACETYL HEXAPEPTIDE-8), PEPTION-5 (PENTAPEPTIDE-19), (PALMITOYL PENTAPEPTIDE-4), (OLIGOPEPTIDE-29), (OCTAPEPTIDE-4), (DECAPEPTIDE-7), DMAE, ALA, DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL, CETANOL, GLYCERIN, LIMNANTHES ALBA (MEADOWFOAM) SEED OIL, WATER * PROPYLENE GLYCOL * ARCTIUM LAPPA ROOT EXTRACT * CITRUS MEDICA LIMONUM (LEMON) FRUIT EXTRACT * HUMULUS LUPULUS (HOPS) EXTRACT * HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT * SALVIA OFFICINALIS (SAGE) LEAF EXTRACT * CALENDULA OFFICINALIS FLOWER EXTRACT * SAPONARIA OFFICINALIS LEAF, BEESWAX, JOJOBA OIL, APRICOT KERNEL OIL, MACADAMIA NUT OIL, CARTHANUS TINCTORIUS (SAFFLOWER) SEED OIL, ADENOSINE, SODIUM HYALURONATE (1%), GLYCERYL STEARATE * PEG100 STEARATE, CAVIAR EXTRACT, HYDROLYZED EXTENSIN, POLYACRYLAMIDE * C13 ~ C14 ISOPARAFFIN * LAURETH-7, DIMETHICONE, CARBOMER, TRIETHANOLAMINE, GOLD, METHYLPARABEN, PROPYLPARABEN, DISODIUM EDTA, PERFUME

Renuvie Advanced Night Repair ingredients include DEIONIZED WATER, ARGIRELINE (ACETYL HEXAPEPTIDE-8), PEPTION-5 (PENTAPEPTIDE-19), (PALMITOYL PENTAPEPTIDE-4), (OLIGOPEPTIDE- 29), (OCTAPEPTIDE-4), (DECAPEPTIDE-7), DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL, CETYL ETHYLHEXANOATE, SODIUM HYALURONATE(1%), GLYCERIN, GLYCERIN * GLYCERYL ACRYLATE * ACRYLIC ACID COPOLYMER * CYCLOPENTASILOXANE * CYCLOTETRASILOXANE * DIMETHICONOL * PROPYLENE GLYCOL * POLYSORBATE 20, CETANOL, JOJOBA OIL, APRICOT KERNEL OIL, PHYTO SQUALANE, CAMELLIA SINENSIS LEAF WATER, BEESWAX, CETEARYL ALCOHOL * CETEARYL GLUCOSIDE, GLYCERYL STEARATE * PEG100 STEARATE, HYDROLYZED EXTENSIN, VINYL DIMETHICONE * LAURYL DIMETHICONE CROSSPOLYMER * WATER * ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE * LAURETH-23, DIMETHICONE, PIPER METHYSTICUM LEAF * ROOT * STEM EXTRACT, CARBOMER, TRIETHANOLAMINE, METHYLPARABEN, ALLANTOIN, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, GOLD, PROPYLPARABEN, DIPOTASSIUM GLYCYRRHIZATE, DISODIUM EDTA, PERFUME

Renuvie Anti-Wrinkle Concentrate ingredients include DEIONIZED WATER, ARGIRELINE (ACETYL HEXAPEPTIDE-8), PEPTION-5 (PENTAPEPTIDE-19), (PALMITOYL PENTAPEPTIDE-4), (OLIGOPEPTIDE-29), OCTAPEPTIDE-4), (DECAPEPTIDE-7), DMAE, ALA, DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL, GLYCOSYL TREHALOSE, GLYCERIN * WATER * DISODIUM ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE * ALGIN / CARICA PAPAYA (PAPAYA) FRUIT EXTRACT, GLYCERIN * GLYCERYL ACRYLATE * ACRYLIC ACID COPOLYMER * PROPYLENE GLYCOL, DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL, CYCLOMETHICONE, SODIUM HYALURONATE (1%), POLYACRYLAMIDE * C13 ~ C14 ISOPARAFFIN * LAURETH-7, UBIQUINONE, KELP EXTRACT, JOJOBA OIL, OLEA EUROPAEA (OLIVE) FRUIT OIL, BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA BUTTER), ALOE BARBADENSIS LEAF JUICE, GLYCERIN, ALLANTOIN, DIPOTASSIUM GLYCYRRHIZATE, CARBOMER, TRIETHANOLAMINE, GOLD, PEG-60 HYDROGENATED CASTOR OIL, METHYLPARABEN, PERFUME.

With all of these ingredients, you are essentially guaranteed amazing results that you have never seen before, and you will not regret their use. In fact, many ensure that you will rave about the amazing results with the first use in your skin texture and feel and with the long term affects to the appearance over time.

Providing the most advanced and regenerating technology available in night creams, Renuvie allows your skin to truly replenish and repair itself during the night. It is natural for your pores to open themselves up, for skin cells to restore themselves, etc, because it does not have to fight the same battles as it would during the day(ex: the sun, wind, pollution, etc). Renuvie provides not only the deepest moisturizers that better serve your skin at night, but also the maximum potency peptides and other powerful anti aging components.

Renuvie Advanced Night Repair ingredients include INGREDIENTS: DEIONIZED WATER, ARGIRELINE (ACETYL HEXAPEPTIDE-8), PEPTION-5 (PENTAPEPTIDE-19), (PALMITOYL PENTAPEPTIDE-4), (OLIGOPEPTIDE-29), (OCTAPEPTIDE-4), (DECAPEPTIDE-7), DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL, CETYL ETHYLHEXANOATE, SODIUM HYALURONATE(1%), GLYCERIN, GLYCERIN * GLYCERYL ACRYLATE * ACRYLIC ACID COPOLYMER * CYCLOPENTASILOXANE * CYCLOTETRASILOXANE * DIMETHICONOL * PROPYLENE GLYCOL * POLYSORBATE 20, CETANOL, JOJOBA OIL, APRICOT KERNEL OIL, PHYTO SQUALANE, CAMELLIA SINENSIS LEAF WATER, BEESWAX, CETEARYL ALCOHOL * CETEARYL GLUCOSIDE, GLYCERYL STEARATE * PEG100 STEARATE, HYDROLYZED EXTENSIN, VINYL DIMETHICONE * LAURYL DIMETHICONE CROSSPOLYMER * WATER * ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE * LAURETH-23, DIMETHICONE, PIPER METHYSTICUM LEAF * ROOT * STEM EXTRACT, CARBOMER, TRIETHANOLAMINE, METHYLPARABEN, ALLANTOIN, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, GOLD, PROPYLPARABEN, DIPOTASSIUM GLYCYRRHIZATE, DISODIUM EDTA, PERFUME

Renuvie Night Repair is the single best night cream on the market. It has the most powerful of wrinkle fighting ingredients for both day and night as well as deep moisturizers and other elements that you will only find in a true night cream. Renuvie covers all the bases, and its effects alone can be astounding. However, we have seen greater benefits and more amazing results when combined with the other two pieces of the Renuvie kit.

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The question surrounding Prevera is why pay more. There is really no reason to pay $200-$400 for a wrinkle cream when you can get a product that is the same or better for about $30. Prevera is the only wrinkle cream that you can find at this affordable a price, still using several of the most powerful wrinkle fighting ingredients found anywhere. They claim that Prevera can help you to reverse the aging process by 10-15 years, and they can actually back this claim to the last detail.

Prevera ingredients include argireline, peption-5, oligopeptdie, octapeptide, glycerin, sodium hyaluronate, Dimethicone, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Decapeptide-7, Dipropylene Glycol, Cetahol, Beeswax, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Limnanthes Alba, Glycosyl Trehalose, Sodiam Hyaluronate, Adenosine, Water, Propylene Glycol, Arctium Lappa Root Extract, Citrus Medica Limonum Fruit Extract, Humulus Lupulus Extract, Hypericum Perforatum Extract, Salvia Officinalis Leaf Extract, Clendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Saponaria Officinalis Leaf, Caviar Extract, Dimethicone, Polyacrylamide, C13 ~ C14 Isaparaffin, Laureth-7, Methylparaben, Triethanolamine, Propylparaben, Carbomer, Disodium EDTA, and Perfume.

Prevera is simply the most powerful wrinkle cream to hit the market for this low a price. It is almost ridiculous that you can find any wrinkle cream worth its salt for less than $50 if not $100. But Prevera is obviously the exception to any previous rule and it breaks all previous molds. You will not find a better value on any product out there.

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Using a “unique intensive nighttime formula”, Prevage Anti Aging Night Cream uses time released idebenone and mega complex A to brighten, strengthen, re-texturize skin. The big problem with this, is even though it comes from a huge skincare conglomerate, none of the ingredients are actually active wrinkle fighters. The closest thing they have to it is idebenone, which is a potentially powerful antioxidant. Antioxidants kill off free radicals and potentially protect the skin from further sun damage. But it does not actually fight or reverse wrinkles.

Prevage Anti Aging Night Cream ingredients include Water/Aqua/Eau, Cyclopentasiloxane, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Glycerin, Peg-8 Dimethicone, Butylene Glycol, Cetearyl Glucoside, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Dimethicone, Phytosteryl Macadamiate, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Extract, Ppg-2 Isoceteth-20 Acetate, Dipentaerythrityl Hexacaprylate/Hexacaprate, Tridecyl Trimellitate, Hydroxydecyl Ubiquinone, Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate, Lactobacillus/Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Ferment Extract, Solanum Lycopersicum (Tomato) Fruit Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Lactic Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate, Caprylyl Methicone, Cetyl Palmitate, Squalane, Stearoxymethicone/Dimethicone Copolymer, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Glyceryl Stearate, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Neopentyl Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate, Tridecyl Stearate, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Pca, Trehalose, Urea, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Phospholipids, Polyphosphorylcholine Glycol Acrylate, Sucrose, Cetearyl Alcohol, Peg-100 Stearate, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Polysorbate 60, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Dimethyl Isosorbide, Polyquaternium-51, Peg-8, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium Edta, Tetrasodium Edta, Mica, Dimethiconol, Phenyl Trimethicone, Parfum/Fragrance, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Linalool, Benzoic Acid, Butylparaben, Ethylparaben, Isobutylparaben, Methylparaben, Phenoxyethanol, Propylparaben, Chlorphenesin, Iron Oxides (Ci 77492), Red 4 (Ci 14700), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Yellow 5 (Ci 19140).

Most of the ingredients in Prevage are fillers, plain and simple. A night cream should have more moisturizers, which are common and extremely cheap, which is why most day creams and other moisturizing use them in place of actual wrinkle fighters. But Prevage doesn’t even give customers this benefit, substituting fillers and preservatives for even moisturizers, and at $125, Prevage is far more expensive than it is worth.

Meant to smooth lines and wrinkles while resurfacing the skin, PerriconeMD Concentrated Restorative Treatment comes from the infamous Dr Nicholas Perricone associated with the top 10 superfoods and Oprah Winfrey. Therefore, many people don’t mind paying $100 per bottle, because they assume that if it comes from Dr Perricone, it must be quality stuff. But like other big name products, we have found that customers are really paying only for the namesake.

PerriconeMD Concentrated Restorative Treatment ingredients include Aqua (Water), Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate (Vitamin C Ester), Isopropyl Palmitate, L-Tyrosine, Glycolic Acid, Cetearyl Alcohol, Urea, Cyclomethicone, Triethanolamine, Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan, Butylene Glycol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Camellia Oleifera (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Dimethicone, Ceteareth-20, Phenoxyethanol, Ethoxydiglycol, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Dimethyl MEA (DMAE), Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Allantoin, Bisabolol, Citric Acid, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Oil, Tocotrienols, Ascorbyl Palmitate (Vitamin C Ester), Zinc Sulfate, Pyridoxine HCl, Pantethine, Sorbic Acid, Disodium EDTA, BHT, Tocopherol, Parfum (Fragrance), Benzyl Benzoate.

Most of the ingredients in PerriconeMD Concentrated Restorative Treatment are cheap and potentially harmful preservatives to the skin. They have one proven wrinkle fighting ingredient, DMAE. But it does not actually rebuild collagen and elastin stores which would ensure long term effects. Its results are not as significant as peptides or other more expensive wrinkle fighters either. It would be inadvisable to waste your time or money on this product.

Murad is a huge company in the anti wrinkle market, and their products can be found through multiple retailers including many high end retailers. They claim to use an ultra rich, hydrating cream that restores the skin and minimizes the common signs of aging. Many have come to expect a lot from Murad, because at times in the past, they have created impressive products. However, they have also created some products that weren’t worth more than the bottle they came in, and essentially you pay for the bottle and moreover, the name, but not the actual formula.

Murad Resurgence Age Balancing Night Cream ingredients include Water (Aqua), Butylene Glycol, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Diglycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Isononyl Isononanoate, Oleyl Alcohol, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Stearic Acid, Glycerin, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols, Trifolium Pratense (Clover) Flower Extract, Larrea Divaricata Extract, Dioscorea Villosa (Wild Yam) Root Extract, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Lecithin, Menhaden Oil (Brevoortia), Retinol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil Unsaponifiables, Serenoa Serrulata Fruit Extract, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil, Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium PCA, Panthenol, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Cetyl Phosphate, Carbomer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Disodium EDTA, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Limonene, Linalool, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Oil, Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Oil, Citrus Tangerina (Tangerine) Peel Oil, Aniba Rosaeodora (Rosewood) Wood Oil, Prunus Amygdalus Amara (Bitter Almond) Kernel Oil, Barosma Betulina Leaf Oil, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil.

Unfortunately, this particular Murad product does not impress us. The only “active ingredients” found in this product are moisturizers, which are essential to a night cream. But they are not the only necessary part. They completely forget about all the proven wrinkle fighters in favor of these moisturizers, and then they charge prices that would only be justified by a myriad of proven ingredients in high amounts. At $82, you can definitely find a better product.

Lancome claims that with their Renergie night treatment anti wrinkle restoring formula, you can take advantage of the fact that the skin works to renew itself to deal with the daily challenges at night. So in short, you could slow down the process of aging. It is enriched with mulberry and scutellaria extracts, and it is meant to accelerate surface cellular renewal to give the skin a beautiful and re-energized appearance.

Though Lancome Renergie Night Treatment Anti Wrinkle Restoring does sell through multiple high end retailers such as Dillards, Macey’s, Nordstroms, and Sephora, you will not find a full ingredients list for it anywhere. They don’t really provide it anywhere that the average consumer can access, because then you would obviously know their secret, that they don’t have any wrinkle fighters. But judging by the fact that they emphasize ingredients that have nothing to do with wrinkle care, we really already knew that.

A nighttime formula for your battle against the somewhat inevitable battle of aging, Givenchy No Surgetics Wrinkle Defy Night Recovery Care helps you to “do more than just sleep at night!” It is meant to repair past damage and prevent future damage at the same time, smotohign out fine lines, filling wrinkles, and relaxing expression lines. It sounds like they use a common peptide known as argireline, which can also cause facial sag if used in concentrations greater than 10%.

However, we cannot say for sure what they do or do not use or for that matter how much they may or may not use. They do not provide any kind of ingredients list, nor do they even provide “main” or “active” ingredients. We’ve seen other companies try to push random ingredients as their main and wrinkle fighting ingredients. But Givenchy doesn’t even bother doing this for a somewhat fair evaluation or any real evaluation for that matter. We would not suggest buying this product, especially at the prices you would have to pay.