How much does skincare products really cost?Updated a year ago
In general, we don’t believe there’s any good reason why a skincare product should ever cost more than $100. If you’ve done your research and discovered that a product truly offers some significant benefits, it’s worth also looking up the base cost for that product’s actually worthwhile ingredients. You can look up prices through wholesale cosmetic ingredient retailers like makingcosmetics.com.
In some cases, it’s not the ingredient that’s expensive but the process of formulating with it or keeping it effective. For example, our tough-to-formulate heavy hitters, vitamin C and retinal, are admittedly pricey because bottling them demands an oxygen-free process so complex that we had to bring in NASA engineers to develop it. On the other hand, our simpler products, like our cleaners and moisturizers, are pretty affordable!
Skincare is priced significantly higher than it needs to be, especially when you shop from luxury brands.
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We developed Protocol out of a profound frustration with the existing skincare industry. It often feels like brands are intentionally misleading their customers. In reality, skincare doesn’t need to be all that complicated, and there’s no reason to get excited about ingredients just because they sound kind of exotic.
The truth is that research on new skincare ingredients is pretty lacking yet we have a ton of amazing evidence to prove the benefits of some very old ingredients. We’ve known about the benefits of ingredients like retinoids, vitamin C, and even glycolic acid for decades. Newcomer ingredients pale in comparison to these old staples!
But please, don’t take our word for it. We want to cultivate skintellectuals who won’t just blindly follow our advice, but who’ll understand why our products work, and who’ll make excellent skincare purchasing decisions regardless of which brand they shop for. That way, if you do happen to pick up some Protocol Skincare, it’ll be an even greater honor!