We live in an era of unprecedented access to the materials we need to maintain our health and beauty in a manner that would boggle our ancestors. Here a comprehensive, but far from exhaustive, list:

• Health and wellness education
• Healthy food
• Fitness programs
• Supplements
• Skin care products for your health
• Skin care products for beauty
• As well as a whole host of influencers to help you try and make heads or tails of the myriad of options that you have before you.

 It’s literally an embarrassment of riches.

But you kind of need to be rich to avail yourself of it all, don’t you? By which we mean, have you looked at the price of some of this stuff? It adds up quick.

Health journal subscription(s), whole foods, gym membership, fitness apps, vitamins, skin care products and cosmetics. Who has the money for it all? When a typical walk down the aisle at a cute beauty shop yields sticker shock with price tags like 60 dollars, 80 dollars, 120 dollars (!), for a 1 fl oz cream, you can’t be blamed for feeling like your skin health goals are out of reach.

But why is this? Are the active ingredients in your favorite skincare products really just so expensive that they price you out of the market? Is there a fountain of youth, you’re just not spendy enough to be in line? Sometimes it just feels that way.

But not at Skin Actives.

For the last 15 years at Skin Actives Scientific we have been dispelling myths and opening up avenues to keep the cutting edge science of skincare open for you.

The Skin Actives Approach to SkinCare

Skincare, we believe, is for everyone, and everyone should be able to benefit from it, regardless of your annual take-home.

That’s a fine goal, but how do we accomplish it?

Maximum Benefits - Those of you who have been members of the Skin Actives Family for a while now probably know, we formulate a little bit differently here at SAS. 

For one, our products are formulated in such a way that your skin is getting the most that it can from your skincare routine. This means that, on one hand, we formulate the density of active ingredients that are shown to actually work. This makes sense to us, but you might be surprised how many other skin care companies just want to inflate the “label value” of a product with lots of active ingredient names that aren’t formulated at concentrations high enough to work. You won’t have to worry about that with Skin Actives Scientific, if we put a product on the label, it’s in there in sufficient quantity that a peer-reviewed science journal has endorsed its efficacy.

On the other hand there are hard limits to how much of any given active that your body can effectively absorb, use, or tolerate. We respect these limits as well. We’re not going to sell you a lot of an active with a fancy name just so you can smear it around on the surface of your skin. Additionally, we’re informed by maintaining the quality of your health. This means that more does not always equal better! Some active ingredients can be harmful to you at high quantities or applied with too much frequency. Just as we want to learn how much of an active your body can use, we stay on top of the leading science to make sure you are not getting actives in quantities that could hurt you.

Minimum Aesthetics - What can this possibly mean? Isn’t skin care about beauty? Isn’t aesthetics the pursuit of beauty? Well, first of all, Skin Actives is about skin health, not necessarily skin beauty. Our understanding is that healthy is beautiful, but that there are many things in the world that can make you “beautiful” at the cost of your health.

But this isn’t what we’re getting at right now.

Whether you are a new or experienced member of the Skin Actives Family, you have probably noticed that our products don’t look like other people’s. Some find our packaging to be very plain. Others don’t necessarily love the colors and textures of some of our creams. And we’ve heard a thing or two about the particular scent on a couple of our products.

And what we say to all these critiques after years and years of selling our products remains the same, and that is: we make products that are meant to work, not to look nice.

And it’s not that we’re immune to the call of aesthetics. We think that our brand new line of classic glass packaged serums is a huge step forward not just for the end-user experience, but for our sustainability goals as well.

So while our products might not be as pretty as some of the other ones you have on the shelf, you’ll know that where your money is going is into a product designed to work hard and deliver results, not into spectacular boxes, crystal jars, or 5th Avenue advertising campaigns! Because those things cost money, real deal, serious, money. And at the end of the day, it’s not the company that makes some of your best-looking products that foots the bill, it’s you. When you see that $120 price tag, that’s part of what you’re paying for.

Top 5 Skin Facial Serums Under $25

With all that being said, we know that it’s still hard sometimes to make ends meet! Below we’re focusing on 5 Skin Actives products that give you the most bang for your skincare buck. Whether you are new to skin-health routines, in school, working your first job while making rent in a new city, or living off a fixed income in the new century, Skin Actives Scientific has the products you need to take great care of your skin, without breaking the bank.

Every one of these products is a veritable classic, going back years and having served thousands of your fellow Skin Actives devotees all over the world. These are some of our best products, the products that built the brand so to speak. They are priced accessibly so that anyone can try them. It’s our belief that anyone can become their own skin health expert, and we’re here to provide the tools to do it.

Read on!

Collagen Serum - One of the greatest all time products in the Skin Actives catalogue, Collagen Serum has sold thousands of units with its under 25 dollar price point. Collagen renewal is a critical issue as we age, and that aging process starts earlier than you might think! In a recent blog post we reported that protein production in your skin peaks at 20 years of age. So, even if you are feeling fresh faced and spritely, it’s hard to start working on collagen too soon!

Every Lipid Serum (ELS) - A recurring theme here is going to no doubt be that, as we age, our body’s ability to produce certain chemicals naturally declines. This is the case for lipids, the naturally occurring oils that your skin needs, too. Lipids keep your skin hydrated, flexible and, to a greater or lesser extent, safe. When you don’t have enough lipids, your skin can become thin and cracked, compromising its role as a barrier. This is where Every Lipid Serum comes in. While no oil can contain every single lipid, you’ll find that this serum has so many of them you’ll have no difficulty keeping even troublesome dry patches of skin full, thick, and soft to the touch.

Antioxidant Serum - What’s our greatest enemy in the war against physical aging? Let me hear you say it! That’s right: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)*. They’re out to get us, so we’re out to get them. Our Antioxidant Serum is a potent cocktail of rich, antioxidizing actives meant to scour those free radicals from the surface of your skin. This isn’t just a reduction in pollutants. This can lead to the reduction of fine lines, wrinkles and other signs of aging. 

Triple Correction Eye Cream - The skin around your eyes is different. It’s thinner, it’s more sensitive. It sits in close proximity to one of the most delicate regions of your entire body, and when people look at you, they are looking at this area. You have to take care of the area around your eyes well, and they have to be approached with the kindness and uniqueness they deserve. Triple Correction Eye Cream is filled not only with wrinkle fighting antioxidants, it also contains epidermal growth factor (EGF) to stimulate your natural protein production responses. Life hack: if you’re on a budget and looking for a great anti-aging cream for any area of your skin while staying under $25, Triple Correction Eye Cream ticks all the boxes.

Vitamin C Serum 15% - Vitamin C is so hot right now! And our Vitamin C Serums are flying off the shelves. This is the serum that does a little bit of everything: exfoliation, antioxidant support, tone evening, smoothing, and increased elasticity. Many people overlook Vitamin C 15% in favor of its more concentrated sibling, Vitamin C Serum 20%. But as we’re always saying here at Skin Actives Scientific, more does not always mean better! If you are working to get the most out of your skincare dollar or working on a budget, try a Vitamin C 15% today!