Every line on your face got there on purpose, in a way. They’re visible memories of your emotions—proof of every smile, frown, and nose-crinkle you’ve ever given the world. But here’s the catch: as you age, your skin starts losing two key ingredients—collagen and elastin—and those once-temporary lines start becoming a bit more permanent.
Collagen is skincare’s it girl. We drink it in our coffee, blend it into our protein shakes, slather it on our skin, and book microneedling appointments just to make more of it ourselves. But what are you doing for elastin? And honestly, do you even know what elastin does?
Elastin is the reason your skin can stretch into a smile and bounce right back. Age and UV exposure break it down even faster than they break down collagen, and over time, that loss is what leaves skin looking loose and crepey. It’s also why as you age you are left with more pillow creases on your face and even your neck and chest!
So what’s a girl to do?
Here’s the truth: topical elastin is mostly marketing fluff. Elastin molecules are too big to actually get through your skin barrier. What actually works is coaxing your skin into making more of its own—through retinoids, the right peptides, or controlled micro-injury like microneedling.
Enter FarmHouse Fresh’s Good Gravity™ Lifting Milky Spray Serum.
Why we love it
This milky mist smells like a warm, sweet oat-milk dream. The application is weightless almost as light as air—just a few superfine spritzes and you can feel the hydration sink in instantly with almost no residue on your skin. Living in Colorado’s high, arid climate, this spray has become a staple I look forward to, an instant refresher to my tired, dry face.
According to their studies, the elastin boost comes from a proprietary peptide that signals your fibroblasts (the cells living deep in your dermis that are responsible for keeping skin firm and elastic) to repair. So, again, it isn’t delivering elastin but instead encouraging your body to retain the elastin that it has.
And although these aren’t the star players, edelweiss extract and hydrolyzed sodium hyaluronate team up with the magical peptide to leave your skin feeling super quenched, noticeably plumper, and over time, a smile with just a bit more bounce behind it.
Other Farmhouse Fresh lovelies that we received as submissions for our upcoming 18th Annual Earth Day Beauty Awards.
DreamWell™ Magnesium Organic Shea Butter,
Exosome Booster X5™ Advanced Renewal
With her love of health and writing, Melissa has written for such publications as Shape, Natural Solutions, Yoga Journal, Self and Pilates Style, and has created recipes and food-oriented stories for such publications as Delicious Living and Cooking Light.
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