For many decades, the skincare industry has operated on a simple premise: put together some appealing ingredients to mask or minimize a problem, and add a variety of chemicals to make it spread easily and feel good to the touch. But results are frequently disappointing for a great many users, and many products can cause annoying side effects. They continue searching for the right product, the one that will work the promised magic. But skincare products that continue to follow the standard approach cannot meet this goal.
This is precisely the challenge that the founders of Crescel, Peter Passalacqua and Peter Passalacqua, Jr., sought to address. They are driven by a passion “to further knowledge for the benefit of humanity.” And they pursued the path of discovery highlighted by master biochemist Peter Passalacqua’s formidably insightful understanding of the healing process, and how to access it in the skin. He drew on his deep knowledge of the plant world to choose the ideal botanical ingredients. Then he developed an integrated complex of biologically-based technologies enabling these ideal ingredients to reach the cellular centers of healing and start the process. Their flagship product, Crescel Skin Renewal Cream, is the result of Passalacqua’s breakthrough understanding and research—a formula built to restore the skin’s inherent healing pathway, with welcome continuous moisturization as an essential benefit.
The Crescel Difference: Creating an “Intelligent” Skincare Product
Crescel presents what the company describes as a “dynamically integrated group of four breakthrough innovative technologies” that are delivered by a pioneering microemulsion, with a pH in harmony with the skin. It is fully in sync with the skin’s biology and function—what the brand calls the “first intelligent therapeutic™.”
1. Four Newly Devised Technologies That Work Hand in Hand: One: A breathable and biologically active complex. Two: Optimizes the activity of this breathable complex. Three: A metabolically active complex identical to the cell’s metabolic environment. Four: Enables the optimal synergistic synthesis of the two cell-healing plant derivatives.
2. Pioneering Microemulsion Technology: These four unique technologies dynamically integrate to create a novel microemulsion that is the cornerstone of Crescel’s technology, because it speaks the same biochemical language of the cells where it’s applied. This produces three essential benefits. It enables Crescel to reach and be metabolized by its cell-healing targets, which are the many microscopic mitochondria found in all skin cells. It ensures continuous product delivery. And it enables the product to remain metabolically active once it is recognized and accepted by the mitochondria.
3. Supporting the Health-Restoring Mitochrondia: Crescel was created with the forward-looking awareness of their executive functions in our cells, and thus the need to restore their inherent ability to maintain cellular health. (Creating energy is the best-known mitochondrial function, but they are far more complex and central than most people realize.) This is why Crescel describes its product as “potent therapeutic food for the skin.”
4. The Skin’s Innate pH: Crescel carefully duplicates the skin’s slightly acidic pH, which ensures a healthy acid mantle. This is the invisible multifunctional film covering the skin’s surface layer that maintains a healthy skin microbiome and interacts with the surface lipids and oils that all work together to create a protective barrier against infections irritants, heat, and water loss. In addition to maintaining a healthy acid mantle, providing the natural pH from the get-go avoids the damage caused by the buffering agents added to the myriad of skincare products that would otherwise have a conflicting pH.
The Formula: Pure Ingredients, Powerful Science
These giant steps of innovation are used to deliver precisely chosen plant-based ingredients. Crescel Skin Renewal Cream features a rich spectrum of extracts from aloe barbadensis and oat (avena sativa) kernel oil.
- Aloe barbadensis: famously known for its soothing and intensely hydrating properties.
- Oat kernel oil: a celebrated emollient recognized for its ability to calm the skin and support its natural barrier.
This rich spectrum of extracts is mobilized and synergized by the four transformative technologies that produce food for the skin fine-tuned to the optimal metabolic function of the mitochondria and the cells they govern, restoring the skin’s healing mechanisms and the establishment of normal. As an additional benefit, these plant derivatives also provide hydrators to bind water to the skin, plus oil-containing moisturizers that help lock the water in and support the skin’s barrier function.
The goal of this intelligent therapeutic is to provide the skin with the resources that will enable its own return to a healthy—and healthy-looking—state.
A Mission for All Skin
The brand’s mission is “to bring Crescel’s supportive capabilities to all those who need it most.” This goes beyond those with specific skin conditions. This cream’s formula is equally relevant for anyone seeking to proactively maintain their skin’s health and resilience.
In a market full of trade-offs and competing claims, Crescel Skin Renewal Cream stands apart. It is the only truly scientifically calibrated topical product, created to incorporate Peter Passalacqua’s unparalleled breakthrough understanding of how the skin heals, and how to restore this process with a product that speaks the skin’s language. It is a product uniquely designed to support the skin’s biological processes that enable long-term health, regardless of the goals.
Written in partnership with Tom White
