Review of Peter Thomas Roth Dragon’s Blood Intensive Night Serum

[This Review of Peter Thomas Roth Dragon’s Blood Intensive Night Serum started Tuesday.]

As is usual with Peter Thomas Roth products, there is a lot of science behind Dragon’s Blood Intensive Night Serum – both emerging science and widely accepted skin care research. Roth has a strong track record for spotting the best emerging research.

As well, there is a good bit of folk medicine behind the formulation of Dragon’s Blood Intensive Night Serum.

According to the Roth website, “Dragon’s Blood Damaged Skin CPR repairs, restores, brightens, protects and moisturizes to restore the appearance of the most severely damaged skin. Dragon’s Blood Complex comprises 33.5% of this bottle, featuring Dragon’s Blood extract, a dark red resin that ‘bleeds’ from the Croton Lechleri Tree found in the Amazon Rain Forest. Used for centuries, this native secret helps accelerate repair of severely damaged skin.”

It’s a big leap of faith for me to be interested in an anti-aging product based on folklore. So I went looking for some stepping stones to help me bridge the gap.

On PubMeb, I found a review of research on Sangre de Drago – which is Spanish for Dragon’s Blood – by the NIH (National Institute of Health).

It concluded, “The results of in vitro and in vivo studies largely support the majority of ethnomedical uses of sangre de drago including the treatment of diarrhea, wounds, tumors, stomach ulcers, herpes infection, the itching, pain and swelling of insect bites, and other conditions.”

I found one reference stating that Tremella Fuciformis (Snow Fungus) Mushroom Extract, another fairly exotic ingredient, is a water-binding agent that holds more water than Hyaluronic Acid which binds 1000 times its weight in water. However I found no research to back up that claim.

Rabdosia Rubescens (Dong Ling Cao) Extract is used to treat breast cancer in China and is being studied against advanced prostate cancer in Europe. Applied topically, it has anti-inflammatory properties.

I like that Dragon’s Blood Serum contains high concentrations of the cell-communicating ingredients Niacinamide and Decarboxy Carnosine HCl. Cell-communicating ingredients are recognized anti-agers which help cells behave in a more youthful fashion.

One caution: both Dong Quai and St. John’s Wort can cause skin to become extra-sensitive to the sun. Therefore, Dragon’s Blood Intensive Night Serum should only be used at night as intended.

My conclusion is that the combination of

• Youth-promoting cell-communicating ingredients,
• Potentially super-moisturizing power of Snow Fungus Extract,
• Healing power of Croton Lechleri Resin Extract, and
• Excellent antioxidant cocktail

Found in Peter Thomas Roth Dragon’s Blood Intensive Night Serum, make this a product I am very interested to try.

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