Protect and Perfect Intense secret ingredient

Boots No7 best selling Protect and Perfect Serum is now available in an Intense version – but how does it differ from the original Protect and Perfect and should you buy it?

The answer is that it all depends on the condition of your skin.

Protect and Perfect Intense is aimed at women with deeper lines and wrinkles and sun damaged skin who want the anti aging benefits that the original beauty serum from Boots No7 delivers but in a more powerful formulation.

Apart from one key ingredient – the formulation is not radically different from the original Protect and Perfect Serum which was sold in the US as Restore and Renew.

Protect and Perfect Intense is based on the same anti aging compound as the original – a powerful combination of retinyl palmitate, antioxidants and peptides.  The added ingredient is alfalfa extract which intensifies the anti aging effects of the other active ingredients.

Boots have tested the product to a very high level and results show that improvements to the skin came from the active ingredients in the formulation rather than the simple use of good quality basic moisturization.  An important point it seems to me.  Any good moisturizer will deliver some  skin benefits – but how do you know the active ingredients you’re paying for actually deliver younger looking skin?

The extract of alfalfa in the Intense version of Protect and Perfect produces a more intensive wrinkle reducing action, making it suitable for deeper lines and wrinkles. Protect and Perfect Intense also has a richer more luxurious feel than the basic version which is lighter.

So the question is – should you upgrade if you’re already a user of Protect and Perfect and if you’re not – which one should you go for?

the original Protect and Perfect is a great beauty serum for dealing with fine lines and wrinkles – the first signs of aging as they appear on your skin.  If you have deeper wrinkles. sun damage and more mature skin then Protect and Perfect Intense would be a good move.

The reality is you can afford to try Protect and Perfect Intense since Boots have set a very reasonable recommended retail price  – especially considering all the testing and research they’ve splashed out on.

The new version is available online at Amazon and at Target.  I have linked to the Amazon store because they keep a watch on price and usually ship through Target anyway.  It also means if Target are out of stock Amazon can usually offer an alternative shipper.

I’m already a committed user of Protect and Perfect Intense – I get mine from my local Boots store here in the UK.  Funny thing is I pay an awful lot more than the Amazon online price!

Protect and Perfect Intense test results

Boots No7  has had amazing success worldwide with Protect and Perfect or Restore and Renew as it was originally called in the US – after test results showed the anti aging serum actually worked.

The latest version – Protect and Perfect Intense Beauty Serum – is a more powerful form of the original retinol based product and Boots No7 has gone even further to show customers what it can do.

Protect and Perfect Intense has been tested in an independent trial carried out over 12 months – an unheard of time for a skin care product.

Most trials for anti aging skin care are much, much shorter and many don’t use real human volunteers – results are based on laboratory testing of skin cell cultures.

The test was a ‘randomized double-blind controlled trial’ – the first ever for an over the counter anti aging product. 

Boots used 60 volunteers – half were given the Protect and Perfect Intense and half a placebo (Protect and Perfect Intense without the anti aging ingredients). 

After six months all the volunteers used Protect and Perfect Intense for a further six months and results were assessed by an independent dermatologist.

Impressive – definitely.  Seventy percent of the volunteers using the product showed a marked improvement in the appearance of photo aged skin.

“With this research, we have shown a commercially available anti-aging product can actually improve the appearance of facial wrinkles when used in the long-term”

Stewart Long: Chief Scientific Advisor Boots Skin Care

The women using Protect and Perfect Intense said results were immediate -  more radiant, softer and smoother skin.  After two weeks skin was reported to be firmer, and after three weeks deep lines and wrinkles were less visible.  By four weeks skin appeared younger looking.

This study and the revolutionary research behind it is part of a Boots plan  to provide compelling proof that the No7 anti aging skin care works.  In the depth and length of the clinical testing done – Boots have set a new standard for other beauty companies to test their anti aging skin care to the same level.

There’s no doubt about it – when we buy anti aging skin care there’s a huge choice out there – and much of it has little or no published data on whether it does what the makers claim.

Boots aim to change all that – and within a price the average skin care buyer can afford.  Protect and Perfect Intense Beauty Serum – to give it it’s full name has been clinically proven to improve the appearance of deep wrinkles and to have a long term impact on sun damaged skin.

Competitors to Boots in the anti aging skin care market have criticized the results – well they would wouldn’t they?

But the way I see it – by ploughing money into clinical testing for a  very reasonably priced product – Boots are being smart.

After all – they proved that Protect and Perfect Intense works and they’re selling it at a price that we can all afford.  Aren’t most of us going to be tempted to give it a try.