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The real reason your face changes with age.

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The reason your face looks different in the mirror isn't just gravity. Your face has three fat pads sitting just under the skin: the malar, buccal, and temporal. When you were younger, those pads were full. They gave your face its roundness, its lift, the soft definition that didn't need any work to look like itself. With age, those pads don't just shift downward. They shrink. The face deflates before it droops. Most anti-aging skincare doesn't reach this layer at all. Collagen serums and retinols work one floor up, in the dermis. The fat pads sit below that, untouched by most of what the industry sells. Arctic arnica may work differently. Researchers screened hundreds of plant extracts looking for something that could support the small fat cells sitting under the skin before they mature into the pads that give the face its fullness. Arnica flower extract was the only one that could both grow those baby fat cells and mature them into full, plump fat cells. Speeding the first process by 20% and the second by 25%, at just 0.1% concentration. There is a formula built around this. Arctic botanicals. Cold-pressed. Waterless. Exactly as the plant intended. Not something you use to fight what's happening to your skin. Something that accompanies you through it. 👇 Discover what Arctic arnica can do for your skin. https://froyaorganics.com/pages/fr-ya-organics-hyper-potent-arctic-balms-for-mature-skin Source: Sakamoto et al. (2023). Arnica montana L. extract containing 6-O-methacryloylhelenalin and 6-O-isobutyrylhelenalin accelerates growth and differentiation of human subcutaneous preadipocytes and leads volumizing of skin. International Journal of Cosmetic Science, 45(1):1–13. DOI: 10.1111/ics.12815. PubMed ID: 35984685.