Category Archives: Ingredients

Best Skin Care for Your 30s 

Pretty lady resting chin on hand and looking in the mirror

Let’s be honest, once you hit your thirties, your skin just doesn’t look the same anymore.  This is the decade when the first signs of aging start to appear, seemingly overnight.  Whether its fine lines around the eyes or dull and uneven skin tone, skin in your thirties has definitely changed.  Some of these changes […]

How does firming skin care work?

multi-pronged firming skin care

There are many factors that help skin appear firmer or reduce skin slackening. But before we examine what can alleviate sagging skin, we must understand what provides structure to the skin. The two most relevant skin elements are collagen and elastin. Elastin provides skin’s springiness – its elasticity. While collagen forms the scaffolding for your […]

The skin benefits of Azelaic Acid

Uneven skin tone due to melasma

Azelaic acid occurs naturally in various grains (e.g., barley, wheat, rye, etc.) but it also occurs naturally on the skin, produced by yeast living on your epidermis. It’s known for having both anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. This makes it the perfect addition to skin care intended to treat rosacea, eczema, and acne too. Azelaic acid […]

The 3 Holy-Grail Ingredients You Should Be Using

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Keeping up on the latest skincare trends can be daunting.  Its seems as though every six months a slew of new ingredients are heralded on social media as the latest and greatest for maintaining your skin’s health. It can be hard to know which of these trending ingredients is the real deal and which will […]

What is tranexamic acid?

Apply Multi-Factor Brightening Creme to cheek

Tranexamic acid (a synthesized lysine) was originally used to treat or stop excessive blood loss during surgeries or trauma situations. It can also be taken orally to help with heavy menstrual bleeding. In the most simplistic explanation, it helps slow the breakdown of clots, in turn slowing excessive bleeding. But in the 1970s a medical […]

Reviva Labs’ updated skin care philosophy

Various Reviva Skin Care Products

Reviva has always been known as a functional treatment brand. From our inception, Stephen Strassler and Judith Strassler sought out and developed products that addressed specific skin care concerns and problems. This sometimes led to very specific products designed to treat specific issues. But as Reviva grew and evolved, newer products began to broaden in […]

How does environmental pollution affect your skin?

Factory smokestacks at night

Our skin is our body’s largest organ. Its sole purpose is to keep bad things out and good things inside. It’s a barrier between our inner selves and the outside world. And while our skin has evolved over the millennia to be very good, today’s world is rife with new types of pollution that the […]

What is Bakuchiol?

bakuchiol flower and chemical formula

Bakuchiol is a potent natural ingredient sourced from the seeds of a popular herb, commonly known as babchi.  Used in traditional Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for centuries thanks to its anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, bakuchiol has recently been ‘discovered’ again as an effective ingredient in facial care products. Bakuchiol’s superpower is its ability to do […]

Unlocking the Secrets of Adipofill’in in Skincare

female forehead with wrinkles

In the dynamic realm of skincare, innovation drives the quest for the perfect complexion. Amidst a plethora of ingredients promising rejuvenation and transformation, one compound has emerged as particularly noteworthy: Adipofill’in. This ingredient encapsulates the cutting-edge of cosmetic science, offering a unique approach to skin health and beauty. This blog post aims to shed light […]

A guide to slugging naturally without using petrolatum or Vaseline

funny woman in a towel on the head happy cleanses the skin with vaseline cream

Keeping your skin hydrated is one of the simplest and most important basics of skin care. This is especially true for those of us who live and work in the Northeast during winter (Reviva Labs is in southern New Jersey). But dehydrated skin can appear anywhere and anytime for a myriad of reasons. Enter the […]

Skin care gift ideas and suggestions for each zodiac sign!

Zodiac signs revolve around the moon in space, astrology and horoscope

The 12 zodiac signs are all characterized by humanities’ strengths and weakness as influenced by the heavens. The zodiac is organized into four elemental signs: Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. Astrology describes a person’s general character traits and personality based on the influence of the planets, the sun, and the moon at the time of […]

Skin barrier repair

Woman looking at her dry skin with cracks and with first wrinkles. Circles increase the skin like a magnifying magnifier

Our skin’s uppermost layer, the stratum corneum, is our skin’s external barrier. It goes by many names: skin barrier, moisture barrier, acid mantle, lipid barrier, etc.  Regardless of its descriptor, its function is consistent – to keep good things in and bad things out. When your skin’s barrier is damaged, or its normal functioning is […]

Starting preventative skin care earlier means less to do when you’re older

mom with daughter using skin care masks

We receive a lot of questions regarding Reviva’s skin care products and from those seeking skin care guidance in general. But we’ve noticed an increase in a particular question: “at what age should I start a skin care routine?” As soon as possible is our answer. That is, when you start a simple skin care […]

Skintellectuals demand results not novelty

blonde female shopper examining skin care in store

We’re lucky to be living during the ascendence of the golden age of skin care. Research is delivering new, potent ingredients seemingly every day. And consumers have a wealth of educational and informational apps and websites at their fingertips. This has given rise to the so called “skintellectuals” which we’ve always identified as savvy consumers. […]

Why the recent hype about hyper-pigmentation?

Hyperpigmentation

Hyper-pigmentation isn’t a new concern, but it does seem to appear at the top of “must read” lists and it’s featured in skin care articles more frequently today. Maybe the increased concern has been caused by the growing focus on skin radiance in social media; or maybe it’s due to an increase in post-inflammation hyper-pigmentation […]

Fabulously beneficial facial oils for your skin care routine

Doctorly, Dr. Shah and Dr. Maxfield, Favorite Face Oils

Recently, while watching one of our favorite YouTube channels, Doctorly, Dr. Shah and Dr. Maxfield listed their favorite oils in the video “Overpriced Skincare – Don’t Waste Your Money on These“. Of course we were very happy to see their list of oils almost match identically with ours. We might also add Sunflower Oil to […]

Scientific evidence joins the empirical wisdom that Cannabis Sativa (Hemp) Seed Oil is beneficial for your skin

cannabis sativa seeds hemp oil source

Formulators have known for ages that hemp oil is beneficial to your skin. It’s a rich emollient and delivers a potent dose of essential fatty acids (EFAs). However, it wasn’t until CBD products exploded onto the market that deep clinical research began. Yes, much of this research focused on attempting to authenticate some outlandish “health […]

Vitamin K helps bruised skin heal and improves skin’s appearance overall

Funny glad man with shiner and broken nose

Vitamin K’s popularity is exploding lately as both a key supplement and as an ingredient in topical skin care. It’s nice that phytonadione (known as vitamin K because the German word for coagulation is koagulation) is gaining more notoriety. Reviva has been a long-time supporter of this ingredient for healthy skin care, especially when it […]

What is clean beauty to Reviva Labs?

Scientist working with chemicals in laboratory, female researcher analyzing liquid reagent in lab glassware

From our very early years until today, Reviva Labs has been at the forefront of many clean beauty and safety movements. We’re constantly reviewing our product formulas and tinkering to make them better and cleaner. It’s a never-ending process but one we’re committed to. Times change and so does the science. Parabens were once used […]

Why we love ubiquinone (aka CoQ10 or coenzyme Q10)

Coenzyme Q10

Most skin care fans know that CoQ10 is a potent antioxidant. And many likely know that CoQ10 is vital for energy production (on a cellular, mitochondrial level). But more importantly, in our area of focus, it is essential for helping the skin’s basic functions such as regeneration and repair. One of the functions of CoQ10 […]