Ingredients Glossary
OUR INGREDIENT PHILOSOPHY
Formulated with a combination of natural and science-backed synthetic ingredients, each of our products are designed to make you look good, feel good and see results.
INGREDIENT SPOTLIGHT
Hyaluronic Acid
Known as the moisture molecule for its ability to lock in hydration, hyaluronic acid visibly “plumps” skin from the inside out, so wrinkles look less noticeable.
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Light-activated enzymes shield skin from wrinkle-accelerating environmental stressors, promoting the look of smoother, firmer skin.
Found in: Concentrated Youth Serum
These "beauty sleep" enzymes support a youthful appearance while you rest, helping skin look firmer, smoother, and more radiant.
Found in: Concentrated Youth Serum
Derived from a small purple berry, this fruit extract contains potent antioxidants that help restore youthful-looking skin.
Derived from a small purple berry, this fruit extract contains potent antioxidants that help restore youthful-looking skin.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
This plant extract helps reduce the look of visible signs of aging and support a firmer, younger look.
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
Fills in the appearance of thinning brows and lashes for a thicker, fuller look.
Found in: Advanced Action Sculpting Cream, Ageless Eyes Duo, Brightening Eye Cream
Rich in Vitamin C, this natural antioxidant helps visibly brighten and smooth by defending the skin from damaging free radicals and supporting collagen levels.
Found in: Dermal Reset Exfoliating Concentrate
An extract derived from the comfrey plant with potent healing and soothing properties. It also moisturizes the skin for a smoother look and feel.
Found in: InvisiCrepe® Body Balm, InvisiCrepe® Body Balm, Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector, Restoring Hand Treatment
A rich source of antioxidants, which help fight free radicals, and polysaccharides, both of which hydrate and soothe your skin.
Reduces the look of dark spots and liver spots with gentle ingredients, for a significantly brighter, smoother look.
Found in: Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector
Minimizes the intensity of hyperpigmentation to provide a more radiant, flawless-looking complexion. This vectorized amino acid reduces pigmentation by interrupting the pigment creation process. Users report a more radiant complexion and brightened age spots.
Found in: Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector
Inspired by the skin calming power of oats, this ingredient soothes occasional redness. It also provides antioxidant protection to help skin better shield itself from environmental aggressors. The result is a brighter looking eye area
Found in: Eye Revive Firming Serum
Helps give skin a smooth feel by delivering deep hydration.
Found in: Concentrated Youth Serum
Helps your skin shield against environmental stressors and helps to reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
Found in: Advanced Action Sculpting Cream, Advanced Action Sculpting Cream
Helps remove impurities and oil to unclog pores and brighten skin.
Found in: UpLift Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum
This gel-like material hugs the contours of the face, infusing the skin with two times more serum than a traditional sheet mask.
Found in: Line-Smoothing HydroMask
An amino acid sequence derived from natural growth factors that provides the necessary fuel for natural collagen production, leading to a firmer, tighter skin appearance.
Found in: Under Eye Recovery
A powerful tripeptide that helps increase skin firmness and reduce the look of wrinkles.
Found in: Line-Smoothing HydroMask
Creates a brighter, more youthful look to the skin by inhibiting harmful bacteria growth. It also nourishes the skin’s surface to create a long-lasting smoothing effect.
Found in: MicroBiome Night Mask
Supports healthy, voluminous lashes by delivering essential nutrients to each strand. It also conditions eyelashes, so eyelashes appear denser over time.
Found in: Beyond Mascara, City Lash®
Promotes the look of full brows and lashes by supporting and conditioning from root to tip.
Found in: City Lash®
A natural moisturizer that balances sebum production and improves the look of dry, flaky skin.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
Diffuses light to provide a wrinkle-correcting “soft focus” effect. a high performing spherical silicone powder. It provides an optimized soft focus, light diffusing effect with wrinkle correction.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
Helps support the skin's moisture barrier for a more hydrated and plumper look.
Found in: Concentrated Youth Serum
This blend of extracts from European Larchwood & green tea promotes a rejuvenated, filled-in appearance.
Found in: Redensifying Brow Serum
This plant extract is a natural antioxidant, moisturizer, and barrier supporter that helps the skin look supple and youthful.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
This ingredient forms an elastic matrix over the skin’s surface to help create a lifting and smoothing effect — diminishing the look of wrinkles and lines.
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
This botanical extract blend supports the moisture barrier to help soothe and protect skin against dryness from environmental stressors. It also supports skin to help relieve potential aggravation caused by Retinol.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
Green freshwater algae that “lifts” and smooths the appearance of aging skin to restore a dramatically younger look.
Found in: Complete Skin Restore
Helps skin look younger by combating environmental stressors and firming the look of thin skin so it appears thicker, firmer, and plumper.
Found in: Concentrated Youth Serum
Helps support collagen production in the skin, reducing the appearance of wrinkles and promoting a firmer, more elastic look.
Found in: Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen, Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen
Made of light-reflecting particles, this luxurious ingredient instantly diminishes the look of fine lines and wrinkles by giving the skin a diffused, “soft-focus” effect.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler, Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
Made of light-reflecting particles, this luxurious ingredient instantly diminishes the look of fine lines and wrinkles by giving the skin a diffused, “soft-focus” effect.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
Containing a high level of the powerful antioxidant vitamin A, this extract helps reduce the look of dark spots and wrinkles.
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
This time-released form of Retinol effectively delivers a high concentration of Vitamin A deep into the skin — for skin that looks smooth, bright, supple, and young.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
Uses ancient Miocene plant extracts to help protect skin from environmental contaminants.
Found in: Advanced Action Sculpting Cream, Advanced Action Sculpting Cream
This blend helps replenish skin with essential lipids to lock in moisture and soothe skin for a healthy, youthful appearance.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
This concentrated extract from Southeast Asia combats the appearance of dullness, discoloration, and wrinkles — creating radiant and rosy-looking skin.
Found in: Dermal Reset Exfoliating Concentrate
Supports the look of more supple, taut skin and provides a contouring effect, especially on areas where sagging skin is the most noticeable.
Found in: Advanced Action Sculpting Cream, Advanced Action Sculpting Cream
This nourishing fruit extract contains moisturizing fatty acids, and vitamins A & E for skin that looks supple, smooth, and hydrated.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
A humectant that pulls water from the air for your skin to absorb. It also helps skin retain moisture while calming any irritation.
Found in: Line-Smoothing HydroMask
This plant-derived peptide forms a mesh-like structure on the skin to help smooth the look of wrinkles and sagging for a tighter, more lifted appearance.
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
This naturally-derived peptide forms a mesh-like structure on the skin to help smooth the look of wrinkles and support sagging for a tighter, more lifted appearance.
Found in: Eye Revive Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum
Helps defend against visible signs of aging.
Found in: Advanced Action Sculpting Cream, Advanced Action Sculpting Cream
This microalgae helps restore a firmer, thicker look & feel to crepey skin. It supports natural “youth proteins” like collagen and elastin, while helping the moisture barrier lock-in hydration.
Found in: Restoring Hand Treatment
Known as “the moisture molecule” for its ability to hold 1000x its weight in water, hyaluronic acid “plumps” from the inside out.
Found in: Beyond Mascara, City Lash®, Line-Smoothing HydroMask, UpLift Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum, Complete Skin Restore
This blend of 4 molecular weights of Hyaluronic Acid builds a 3D, hydrating network on the skin for a plumper, more elastic look.
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
This “moisture magnet” attracts 1,000x its weight in hydration, plumping your skin from the inside for a fuller look within minutes.
Found in: UpLift Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum
This nourishing ingredient is a super hydrator. Upon application, its spheres help to deliver deep hydration and a visible plumping look.
Found in: City Lips®, City Lips® Night Oil, City Lips® Night Oil
Visibly increases hydration and leaves skin feeling smoother. A natural moisturizing ingredient made from apple fruit extract. This ingredient gives skin a smooth skin feel and reduces tackiness. During testing, it increased skin hydration by as much as 88% in only thirty minutes.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler, Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
A combination of natural fruit extracts that provides long-lasting hydration while reducing the visibility of fine lines.
Helps lock in moisture for a softer, smoother-feeling skin surface.
Found in: Line-Smoothing HydroMask
Known as the moisture molecule for its ability to hold 1000x its weight in water, hyaluronic acid “plumps” skin from the inside out, so wrinkles look less noticeable.
Found in: Dermal Reset Exfoliating Concentrate
Contains high concentrations of protective antioxidants shown to help defend against free radical damage and improve the look of wrinkles.
Found in: Line-Smoothing HydroMask
Supports the skin barrier to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles while increasing the look of radiance.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
Coats lashes in a protective barrier to help shield them from damage for stronger strands that are less prone to breakage.
Found in: Beyond Mascara
Enhances skin elasticity, tone, and texture for a more radiant, youthful look
Found in: MicroBiome Night Mask
An alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that brightens and smooths the complexion by clearing dead skin cells on the top skin layer.
Found in: Dermal Reset Exfoliating Concentrate
Derived from cold North Atlantic waters, this algae helps to support skin hydration and diminish the look of wrinkles for a firmer, smoother look & feel.
Found in: UpLift Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum
These Botanical extracts work to minimize the look of dark spots for a younger-looking skin tone. Patented microspheres deliver the extracts into skin’s “pigment factories” for more radiant-looking hands.
Found in: Restoring Hand Treatment
Promotes thicker-looking lashes for a visible volumizing effect. It also supports lash hairs with antioxidants and hydration for a healthier look.
Found in: Beyond Mascara
Locks in essential moisture by supporting the skin barrier — for long-lasting hydration and a healthier, more supple appearance.
Soothes and helps reduce the intensity of redness, irritation, and swelling. It also encourages hydration and nourishes your skin with the ingredients necessary to restore its precious hydrolipid film (skin’s protective “acid mantle”).
Found in: Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector
Instantly reduces dark circles by scattering light under the eye. This advanced compound also brightens the skin and eliminates shadows, making wrinkles undetectable.
Found in: Under Eye Recovery
Rich in fatty acids that help soften and soothe skin, as well as vitamins and minerals to help create a brighter, more youthful look.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler, Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
This marine-derived polymer instantly “fills in” crow’s feet for a dramatically smoother look — with results lasting all day long.
Found in: Eye Revive Firming Serum
This deep-sea plant helps “re-energize” the appearance of aging skin for a more supple, lifted, and youthful look.
Found in: UpLift Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum
A naturally occurring oil, this ingredient softens the appearance of skin with hydration and protects with antioxidant properties for a plump, smooth look.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
A naturally occurring oil, this ingredient softens the appearance of skin with hydration and protects with antioxidant properties for a plump, smooth look.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Uses a direct delivery system to saturate the skin’s surface with hydrating Hyaluronic Acid to help reduce dryness, hollowness & shadows.
Found in: Under Eye Recovery
This unique film evenly coats the skin to deliver and ‘lock in’ deep, lasting hydration for smoother, healthier, and younger-looking skin. It’s also able to boost natural hydration levels and support barrier function.
Found in: Eye Revive Firming Serum
Known as the moisture molecule for its ability to hold 1000x its weight in water, hyaluronic acid “plumps” skin from the inside out, helping minimize the look of wrinkles.
Found in: Restoring Hand Treatment
Supports each stage of the growth cycle to help create healthier, fuller-looking strands.
Found in: City Lash®
This natural botanical oil contains antioxidant properties to help skin look youthful and strong.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Produces a dramatic “tightening” effect to help skin regain a firm, plumped appearance.
This natural dye creates a beautiful rose colored hue while containing potent antioxidant properties to help protect the skin from free radicals.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Supports the look of firmer, tighter, more elastic skin while helping combat visible signs of aging caused by environmental stressors.
Found in: Dermal Reset Exfoliating Concentrate, InvisiCrepe® Body Balm, InvisiCrepe® Body Balm, Line-Smoothing HydroMask, Concentrated Youth Serum, Complete Skin Restore
This antioxidant-rich ingredient soothes and protects skin with it’s conditioning and calming properties.
Rich in skin-soothing proteins, lipids, and beta glucan to protect against dryness and irritation — this ingredient is appropriate for even the most sensitive skin types.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
Helps smooth the look of wrinkles, promotes the look of skin firmness and elasticity around the upper eye area, and improves the appearance of dark spots.
Found in: Eye Revive Firming Serum
This string of amino acids helps enhance lip volume and smooth the appearance of fine lines — creating a fuller, healthier, younger look.
Found in: City Lips®
Improves the appearance of wrinkles by supporting the renewal process at the skin’s base layer.
Found in: MicroBiome Night Mask
Coats aging, suffocated skin tissues with revitalizing oxygen to reduce the appearance of fine lines and create a smoothing effect for your skin's texture.
Found in: Under Eye Recovery
Helps restore an elastic feel to crepey skin — promoting a tighter, more supple look
Smooths the look of wrinkled, crepey skin by supporting the skin’s natural architecture.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Helps repair the skin barrier, while smoothing wrinkles to give your lips a youthful, rejuvenated, and supple look. This powerful peptide blend supports the skin’s natural repair mechanisms for younger, smoother looking skin.
Found in: City Lips®, Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler, Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
This microalgae helps reduce the look of aging lips for a smoother, younger look.
Found in: City Lips® Night Oil, City Lips® Night Oil
Derived from sugarcane, this naturally sourced ingredient helps promote skin hydration for a younger, smoother, more supple look.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
This rejuvenating ingredient supports a youthful-looking lip shape and contour.
Found in: City Lips® Night Oil, City Lips® Night Oil
This succulent extract soothes, hydrates, and firms the appearance of your hands. It contains potent antioxidants and water-binding compounds — helping skin feel hydrated even after washing it off.
Found in: Restoring Hand Treatment
Balances the skin’s microbiome layer to promote a healthier, plumper, and more youthful appearance.
Found in: MicroBiome Night Mask
Helps your body defend against environmental aggressors while supporting the skin’s barrier for a more even, healthier complexion.
Found in: Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen, Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen, Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen
This polyphenol targets the source of youthful-looking skin — restoring a smoother, firmer, tighter appearance.
Found in: Complete Skin Restore
Helps maintain a healthy skin barrier by boosting your skin’s natural resistance to undesirable bacteria. It does this by supporting the growth of good bacteria without stimulating harmful bacteria.
Found in: MicroBiome Night Mask
Designed to increase skin moisture, this natural ingredient also helps tighten the look of skin for visibly firmer results.
Found in: Advanced Action Sculpting Cream, Advanced Action Sculpting Cream
This blend of plant-based nutrients & phyto-tensors provides a firmer, tighter look.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Reduces the visibility of wrinkles, sagging, dark spots, and dullness from within.
Found in: Complete Skin Restore, Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector
This natural antioxidant promotes even skin tone using a multi-targeted system, pinpointing areas of discoloration & minimizing their appearance.
Found in: MicroBiome Night Mask
Provides a smoother, younger look and feel by reducing the appearance of thinning, wrinkled skin on the body.
This ingredient is loaded with antioxidants and fatty acids to protect against free radicals, soothe the skin, and minimize wrinkles for a younger look.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler, Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
Helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles for a silky smooth texture.
This featherweight ingredient helps moisturize the skin, support the natural healing process, and tackle uneven skin tone for a smoother, softer, younger look.
Found in: Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector
This natural seed extract blend, featuring Miliacin, helps hair appear thicker and fuller, while giving brows an overall denser look.
Found in: Redensifying Brow Serum
This extract supports the look of youthful facial contours around the nose and mouth by helping enhance the look of volume and plumpness.
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
Highly concentrated fatty acids and vitamins work to calm and nourish the skin with hydration for a softer look and feel.
Found in: Restoring Hand Treatment
Helps reduce the look of frustrated skin for a more lifted, smooth, youthful look.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
This powerful blend of antioxidants improves the appearance of crow’s feet and sagging upper eyelids for firmer, brighter, younger-looking skin in the entire eye area.
Found in: Under Eye Recovery
A unique compound designed to improve the appearance of skin tone for a firmer, more youthful-looking complexion.
Found in: Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler, Line-Blurring Wrinkle Filler
This ingredient helps shield skin for a rejuvenated, years-younger appearance.
Found in: Barrier Rescue Firming Night Cream
These powerful peptides help skin look firm, elastic, and plump while reducing the appearance of wrinkles.
Found in: Barrier Rescue Firming Night Cream
Jojoba Oil & Ylang Ylang Flower Oil, infuse this formula with well-known, soothing and restorative properties to create long-lasting, all day comfort.
Found in: City Lips®
Supports healthy collagen production to help reduce the appearance of wrinkle depth and improve the appearance of skin firmness.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
This lipid molecule helps “lift” the appearance of the neck & decolletage.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Smooths the look of wrinkled, crepey skin to help improve its youthful appearance.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Mimics the skin’s natural oils to support the moisture barrier and increase hydration. The result is a softer, smoother, more supple look and feel.
Found in: Dermal Reset Exfoliating Concentrate
Helps target visible signs of aging for a brighter, smoother, more even-looking complexion.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System
This specialized Vitamin C works to support brighter, firmer-looking skin by reducing the appearance of dark spots and sagging skin.
Found in: Advanced Retinol System, City Lips®, InvisiCrepe® Body Balm, InvisiCrepe® Body Balm
This ingredient supports the appearance of skin firmness and elasticity, helping to minimize the look of lines, wrinkles, and “sad expressions.”
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
Extracted from sugar beet molasses and vinasses, this gentle ingredient moisturizes hair fibers to promote flexible, naturally-shiny looking hair.
Found in: Redensifying Brow Serum
This molecule provides intense hydration and helps defend the skin from external stressors for a smoother, tighter look.
Found in: Ultra-Fill Marionette Line Treatment
This brightening ingredient targets the appearance of dark circles, making the delicate skin under the eyes appear thicker plumper, resulting in a fresher, well-rested look.
Found in: Under Eye Recovery
Helps prevent visible premature aging while calming and soothing for a more radiant, even skin tone.
Found in: UpLift Firming Serum, UpLift Firming Serum
This blend of plant-based phytonutrients & phyto-tensors provides a firmer, tighter look.
Found in: Ultra-Firming Dry Oil
Helps promote healthy, youthful function of hair, skin, and nails for a rejuvenated look from head to toe.
Found in: Complete Skin Restore
Stabilized Vitamin C supports firmness and elasticity for a more youthful look.
Found in: Complete Skin Restore
Helps defend against visible signs of aging and helps protect against environmental contaminants.
Found in: Advanced Action Sculpting Cream, Advanced Action Sculpting Cream
Helps support immunity while “jumpstarting” the vital reactions needed to promote healthy skin cell turnover
Found in: Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen, Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen, Essential Radiance Vegan Collagen
Promotes healthy follicles while rejuvenating hair strands for a denser overall look.
Found in: Redensifying Brow Serum, City Lash®
Decreases the appearance of eye-area wrinkles by nourishing skin with molecules that help it look firm, supple, and smooth.
Found in: Eye Revive Firming Serum
This unique lipid blend helps support the skin barrier for long-term hydration while shielding against environmental stressors.
Found in: Barrier Rescue Firming Night Cream
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How City Beauty® products deliver results you can see and feel
Skin-rejuvenating ingredients make your skin look beautiful while providing deeper benefits.
We specialize in functional beauty.
City Beauty® products are formulated to help diminish visible signs of aging while nourishing your skin from the inside out. They are designed to make you look beautiful while providing deeper benefits.
Science-backed ingredients.
Our formulas have been rigorously tested and contain ingredients that are backed by scientific studies. Ingredients include: Hyaluronic Acid, which helps your skin retain moisture and suppleness; Oligopeptides, strings of amino acids that help smooth the appearance of fine lines; and Resveratrol, a natural antioxidant that promotes even-looking skin tone.
Skincare that’s on the cutting edge.
We pride ourselves on always being at the forefront of beauty by using ingredients that are innovative and scientifically shown to help improve the appearance of your skin — whether it’s to volumize thinning lips, brighten the look of dark spots, diminish wrinkle appearance, or visibly smooth skin texture.