Clear Skin and Acne Scar Serum Formula (For Beginners)

For beginners with a mixer, creating a serum for clear skin and reducing acne scars is achievable. The main recommended ingredients are:

Recommended Ingredients and Functions

• Phenylethyl Resorcinol (e.q. SymWhite 377): Helps brighten the skin, reduce dark spots, acne marks, and uneven skin tone. It also has antioxidant properties.
• Tranexamic Acid (Trans-White™): Helps reduce melanin pigment formation, suitable for reducing melasma, freckles, dark spots, and post-acne marks, leading to a more even skin tone.
• PreB5™ (Pantolactone, Pantoyl Lactone): A precursor to Vitamin B5, it helps enhance skin moisture, reduce inflammation and redness from acne, and soothe the skin.
• Natural Moisturizing Amino Acids (e.q. Prodew 400): A group of amino acids mimicking the skin's Natural Moisturizing Factors (NMF). They help replenish moisture, make skin soft and smooth, and accelerate wound healing (suitable for non-deep acne marks).
• MOIST72™: A highly effective humectant providing long-lasting moisture, keeping the skin hydrated and reducing dryness and irritation.

In addition to the active ingredients, a serum requires a base (usually primarily water), an agent to thicken the serum texture (like a gelling agent), and a preservative to ensure formula stability and safety.

Adapting the Formula for Anti-Wrinkle and Increased Moisturizing

You can adapt the clear skin and acne scar serum formula for anti-wrinkle and increased moisturizing benefits by keeping the basic components like the serum base, thickener, and preservative, and changing or adding active ingredients as follows:

• For an Anti-Wrinkle Formula: Reduce or remove the clear skin/acne scar active ingredients and add anti-wrinkle active ingredients instead, such as:
  • Pep®-Coll (Palmitoyl tripeptide-5): A peptide that stimulates collagen production in the skin, effectively reducing wrinkles.
  • Pep®-PP4 (Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, C-Peptide 500ppm): Another peptide that helps reduce wrinkles, increase elasticity, and strengthen the skin barrier.
• For Increased Moisturizing: You can increase the concentration of moisturizing ingredients in the original formula or add other moisturizing agents, such as increasing the amount of MOIST72™ or Natural Moisturizing Amino Acids.

Important Notes for Beginners:

• Carefully study the steps and usage rates for each ingredient before mixing.
• It's recommended to start with small batch sizes.
• Using a mixer will help the ingredients combine better, especially gelling agents.