In today’s article, I’m sharing my detailed and honest Alpyn Beauty review after testing 9 of their bestsellers. I tested nearly the entire Alpyn skincare line including their Pore Perfecting Liquid Exfoliator, Melt Moisturizer, Bounce Cream, Ghostberry Moisturizer, Cream Cleanser, Lip Plumping Mask, Vitamin C Serum and Niacinamide Firming Serum. If you’d like to try Alpyn Beauty use OBL for 20% off.
Alpyn Beauty is a sustainably sourced skin care line formulated with a proprietary blend of wildcrafted alpine botanicals and actives grown in the mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The feminine brand has a clean, minimalistic look and seems to continuously strive to create innovative and interesting formulas. My personal favorites are the Pore Perfecting Liquid Exfoliator, Wild Huckleberry 8 Acid Polishing Peel, Bearberry Vitamin C Serum, Alpyn Beauty Triple C Bounce Cream.
I tried Instant Bright Eye
This is a super creamy eye cream that leans slightly rich and feels very moisturizing! It’s especially great for dark circles with niacinamide to help brighten undereyes and a light pinkish hue to camouflage the skin. It’s also got a Super Peptide Complex, which basically means multiple peptides to firm and tighten loose or sagging skin, ceramides, collagen amino acids, Reneseed to fight fine lines and wrinkles and chamomile to soothe. I loooove how heavy duty this natural eye cream feels and find it to be impactful enough for mature skin.
Price: $52 for 0.5 fl oz
I tried Super Peptide & Ghostberry Moisturizer
I’ve been testing the Alpyn Beauty Super Peptide & Ghostberry Moisturizer this winter. This is specifically formulated for wrinkle repair and has a very rich yet silky custard like consistency and no scent. I find the ingredients are impressive with 8 peptides to help relax lines, 5 ceramides, Ghostberry & Tasmanian Pepper. Peptides and ceramides have been all the rage lately, and I normally see these in serums not moisturizers. I do prefer these types of actives in my serums, since moisturizers aren’t designed to penetrate the skin as effectively. But if you’re looking for a moisturiser with plenty of anti-aging actives, I have to say the Alpyn Beauty one is thoughtfully formulated. It’s just not something I would personally go for.
I tried Pore Perfecting Liquid Liquid Exfoliator
This is a standout in the Alpyn Beauty line – it’s very effective and feels like a treatment on its own. This would be great for you if you deal with breakouts or have oily skin. There’s a bit of a sulfur like scent to it, but I can feel it working immediately. It’s packed with actives, including 2% salicylic acid, borage seed, tremella mushroom, vitamin c, sodium hyaluronate, peptides and more. There’s a bit of sulfur like scent to it that may be off-putting to those with sensitive noses. But it’s so subtle, I don’t notice it too much unless I’m really trying.
I tried Juneberry & Collagen Hydrating Cream Cleanser
I have to say the Alpyn Beauty Cream Cleanser is an interesting and fun cleanser to use. It’s a true cold cream like the ones our parents used, but with a modern twist. This feels incredibly creamy and hydrating and the little jojoba beads provide a bit of manual exfoliation. I still find an oil cleanser to be more effective than this at removing makeup, but if you’re in the market for a natural cream cleanser, I’m pretty sure Alpyn Beauty is the only clean beauty brand that makes one.
Here’s what OBL reader San says about the Juneberry Collagen Cream Cleanser,
I love this “no suds” cleanser, and it cleans my face quickly and beautifully. It was first given to me as a gift. I had not heard of the product line before, but quickly made note of it when I first tried it.
I tried Triple C Brightening Bounce Cream
The new Alpyn Beauty Triple C Brightening Bounce Cream was a pleasant surprise with its unique fluffy texture, indulgent formulation and super citrus scent. This cream’s bouncy! If you’re a Vitamin C lover, this is a great brightening addition to layer on top of Vitamin C serum. It begins with a base of 50% organic Aloe juice and contains a plethora of ingredients, most notably three forms of clinically proven Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Ascorbyl Glucoside).
While moisturizers can often be boring to me, this cream is a fun hot pink shade, actually has a “bouncy” consistency, and smells like a glass of orange juice. I would describe it as a jelly like cream consistency. It’s also pretty thick, so not ideal if you’re looking for something very thin and lightweight.
Alpyn Beauty Bearberry & Vitamin C Glow Serum
I enjoyed Alpyn Beauty’s Vitamin C serum but my friend didn’t! The consistency is unusual I must admit – like a mousse cream serum. I like that it’s jam-packed with actives including Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Azelaic Acid, Glycolic Acid, Lactic Acid, Tripeptide-29, Hydrolyzed Lupine Protein and even Bakuchiol.
This serum has an interesting texture that’s different from the majority of Vitamin C serums in the market. This serum isn’t a transparent serum but more of a creamy milky color and has an airy mousse-like consistency. It fees weightless on skin, absorbs very quickly and provides the slightest tingling from the actives. However, not everyone will enjoy this type of texture and some might find it off putting.
Bearberry Leaf, Licorice Root and Vitamin C help with hyperpigmentation and dark spots. The airy, weightless formula has no pilling issues and works well under makeup and sunscreen.
While most luxury clean beauty serums are 1 oz, I appreciate that this is a whole 2 oz. You get twice the usual amount of product, which makes their a very affordable luxury product in reality.
Alpyn Beauty Willow Sweet Agave Lip Plumping Mask
The new Alpyn Beauty Lip Mask is a super thick, dense moisturizing lip balm and mask in one powered by sweet blue agave leaf and hyaluronic acid. Willow bark softens lips and chokeberries and Vitamin E nourish lips. Sweet blue agave lead provides hydration. I find this to be an effective SOS lip treatment for when my lips need a major makeover. It stays on your lips for a long time and works for a longer period than most lip balms.
I tried Wild Huckleberry 8-Acid Polishing Peel
This is a smooth and creamy product that smoothes texture and brightens the complexion using a double exfoliation method. It combines both a blend of acids and physical exfoliation from bamboo powder to provide the best of both exfoliating worlds.
I find it to be effective and neither overly gentle nor irritating. It contains a whopping eight naturally-derived acids to refine the look of skin by dissolving dead surface cells:
- Salicylic acid
- Citric acid
- Malic Acid
- Tartaric Acid
- Glycolic Acid
- Azelaic Acid
- Ferulic Acid
- Lactic Acids
How I use it: I apply for five minutes until it almost or completely dries and rinse off with warm water. I feel a pleasant tingling of the skin that lets me know it’s working, and my skin feels and looks instantly smoother and polished. This product impressed me the most out of all the Alpyn Beauty products I’ve tried and I highly recommend it as a weekly treatment to ensure you’re clearing out your pores and sloughing off dead skin cells.
I tried PlantGenius Melt Moisturizer
This might be an unpopular opinion but I was underwhelmed by the PlantGenius Melt Moisturizer. The Alpyn Beauty PlantGenius Melt Moisturizer is a medium consistency cream, so neither lightweight nor dense. It has more of a whipped texture and sinks into my skin very well. While I enjoyed this moisturizer, I wasn’t head over heels in love even though I know a lot of people are fans. I just didn’t find myself reaching for this as often as their Triple C Brightening Cream. I do appreciate that it has an impressive list of ingredients that works on a variety of skin issues simultaneously to hydrate, brighten, nourish and provide anti-aging benefits:
- Hyaluronic acid
- Ceramides
- Squalane and other hydrating oils
- Vitamin C and centella asiatica
- Bakuchiol (a natural alternative to retinol) and Tripeptide-29
- Glycolic acid to exfoliate
I tried Wild Nettle & Niacinamide Firming Serum
The Wild Nettle & Niacinamide Firming Serum is a pleasantly goopy serum that works to tighten skin. The cloudy serum features a relatively new star ingredient to the skincare world – rambutan – a Southeast Asian fruit that’s said to visibly firm and plump the skin. It’s high in vitamin C, vitamin Bs including niacin, riboflavin, and thiamine, good fatty acids and amino acids. I feel like this is a feel good serum that does have good ingredients, but it was also kinda underwhelming.
Andrea is a clean beauty expert from Los Angeles, California with 10 years of experience in natural skincare and organic living. She writes for Organic Beauty Lover using her expertise to guide readers in choosing the best clean products. Andrea graduated from the University of Southern California in 2012 and has worked at multiple skincare companies, big and small. Connect with her @organicbeautylover.
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