Robb Recommends: The Anti-Aging Serum That Rejuvenates Your Skin on the Cellular Level
Welcome to Robb Recommends, a regular series in which our editors and contributors endorse something they’ve tried and loved—and think will change your life for the better.
A few months ago, one of my favorite skincare brands launched one of its best-ever products. Orveda’s new Omnipotent Concentrate is aptly named, because it was painstakingly designed to address three dimensions of visible aging. And because it works.
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This restorative serum takes a timeless approach, addressing past damage, keeping the skin balanced in the present, and anticipating future needs by building up resilience to future signs of aging. It does all this with a whopping 24 percent concentration of active ingredients—and 16 active ingredients—in a formula whose development took years to finish. Among the top-billed in this formula, Orveda deploys antioxidant-rich Schisandra sphenanthera (magnolia vine), saccharomyces cerevisiae (like yeast used in baking or brewing), as well as the highly reparative and firming adenosine (which is yeast-derived).
Orveda The Omnipotent Concentrate
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I always think of Orveda as the “great reset” of skincare brands. If you’ve bounced between a bunch of different products, brands, procedures, and whatnot, then there’s a good chance that your skin is inflamed, or that your barrier is fried from being overtreated. (Hopefully, you’re applying a routine dose of niacinamide and ceramides to fortify that barrier.) But back to Orveda: The relatively young brand was founded on the idea that skin care should restore and replenish your largest organ, not resurface it. It only uses highly effective active ingredients that are biocompatible with the skin (including prebiotics to preserve the microbiome). In other words, Orveda’s skincare products work with the skin instead of trying to chemically sand it down into smoothness.
It’s also backed by serious science. We tested The Omnipotent Concentrate in our recent roundup of serums that were conceived to tackle the problem of cellular senescence, the problem that happens when aging cells in all of our organs start influencing healthy cells to behave badly. Part of the reason Orveda’s researchers spent so long on this product is because its clinical testing required way more effort than standard anti-aging serums.
I’m having difficulty deciding if The Omnipotent’s brilliance outshines one of my all-time favorite products, The Vital Sap (formerly known as The Healing Sap). I get my brightest, happiest, glowiest skin ever with that toning serum, which probably explains why I associate Orveda with “skin balancing”. But let me tell you, the microbiome- and barrier-honoring assortment has zero skips, and The Omnipotent Concentrate is arguably at the top of the prestigious roster now. And best of all, its high concentration means you can ditch a bunch of those other products in your regimen, because its day-and-night formulation targets what you’d use Vitamin C for in the morning and what you’d turn to retinol for in the evening. Your skin barrier will thank you.
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