These three signaling peptides are encased in a biocompatible polymer shell with carrier peptides that bypasses your skin’s extracellular matrix. Its signaling peptides work to improve the skin’s texture and appearance by stimulating collagen and keratin production. In turn, Interface helps your skin reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Even out skin tone So basically, because these bioactives peptides naturally break through to the necessary receptors, your body can actually use these peptides to hydrate firm and repair your skin. Carrier Peptides Signaling peptides work by telling your body to make more essential proteins to protect your skin barrier. Interface includes 3 different targeted peptides to help with this:

Smell = Bergamot Oil + rosehip oil (just not a fan of the natural scent of these ingredients) BUT I will say it’s not as potent as the Huda Wishful oil (review HERE) Liquid Gold is another modern daily moisturizer with a unique formula to help hydrate firm and repair your skin. Should you try Stratia Interface? According to Reed, she’s rejected “every major beauty retailer” for a reason. “We had to make the difficult decision to say no but Stratia is positioned to counter a lot of fads in the beauty market. This clean, chemical-free beauty movement has a marketing style that isn’t authentic to science and the radical transparency of ingredients.” Because of this, she fears a brand like Stratia—which leverages science and chemical ingredients—will get lost in a mass market retailer. Those who live in hot, humid weather, I do think should still go for more water-based products (as I think this’ll feel too oily / greasy). I’ve been using Liquid Gold now for a good month and even if the smell is a bit strange, I’m enjoying it more and more!

Interface is vegan and cruelty-free. All Stratia products are free of common irritants like fragrance, alcohol, and essential oils.

Most days, my skin is average — except, for the sake of my credentials as a beauty editor, I will admit my average is above average — and I owe this consistency to embracing barrier serums and ditching stinging acids as status quo. Before we get into the details, here’s the TL;DR if you just want to know whether or not Stratia Liquid Gold is right for you. Interface is one of the coolest affordable moisturizers with active peptides I’ve come across lately. It contains categories of two targeted peptides to help hydrate firm and repair your skin: Interface combines many skin loving ingredients with targeted peptides to help improve your skin from the inside out.The consistency of the cream is very light and watery, which does not provide enough moisturization to ultra-dry skin. Its texture is rich but my skin absorbs it without trouble and it leaves it super soothed. I still use a night cream on top of it or even a sleeping mask but if my skin was still combo, the Liquid Gold treatment could very well be used as my night moisturizer!

And, like the overly confident doofus I was (because skin care = self-care, right?), I powered through the stinging. Six months later, I got bangs to cover the worst of it. Until the worst of it wouldn’t heal.Conclusion: If your skin gets sensitized or very sensitive, try this one! But for those who has acne prone skin (including me), I don’t think this would do much for acne because based from my experience it’s just a nice barrier repair for dry-patchy, dehydrated and sensitized skin. I would still prefer BHA to treat my acne though. But it is still my fav ‘SOS’ product. I’m almost 6 months into the treatment and I’m in the ” tough ” part of the treatment ( I think, but there might still be a long way to go! The next Ceramide-enriched moisturizer that needs your attention is from the South Korean brand: The Face Shop. It is a mild nourishing face cream that improves my patchy and rough skin. Peptides work as messengers to tell the body to produce more of something. When your skin is injured, your body will naturally break down proteins from the extracellular matrix to create its own signaling peptides, telling your skin to produce more of certain types of proteins to heal or strengthen the skin.