The 10 Most Searched Skin Care Ingredients of 2020

Ask any skin care expert to name a few of the best skin tips, and she (or he!) will, without a doubt, suggest you check the ingredient list of the products you are using. Sadly, you can’t trust every product that promises the best results for your skin and sways you with a good smell and eye-catchy packaging. It takes more than fancy marketing and a nice scent to ensure that a product really provides you with clear, firm, flawless, youthful, and acne-free skin. In this post, we’ve pinned down the 10 most searched skin care ingredients of 2020 to help guide you in your own skin care journey.

Ingredients matter!

Honestly, beauty and skincare manufacturers can make their products pretty striking to attract consumers, but to be sure of their effectiveness, we suggest you check the ingredients before buying. Undoubtedly, last year was full of challenges for everyone! Quite apart from heightened health and financial stresses that many have endured (and their effects on our skin), add to that the fact that we’ve likely not been able to visit our skin care specialist as frequently (or at all!) in-person since the pandemic—plus we’ve also had to deal with mask wearing and what it’s done to our skin. (Hello, maskne!) Because visits to our skin therapists became more difficult, Google was the place that helped users understand the ingredients that can help troubleshoot various skin care concerns.

Not surprisingly, Google witnessed huge traffic last year. In the following table we’ve listed those top 10 trending skin care ingredients, what their benefits are, and which Synergie products contain them. In all, only 2 of the most searched skin care ingredients are not used in Synergie products (and Terri Vinson, Synergie’s founder and formulator, has good reasons for not using them. You can read about why she doesn’t like glycolic acid here).

Top skin care ingredients searched on Google

Synergie products – proven ingredients in high concentration

As you can see, Synergie products contain 8 of the top 10 searched skin care ingredients and all the top 5 most searched ones. Hyaluronic acid can be found in 9 different Synergie Skin products, and the vitamin C (ascorbic acid)—one of the skin’s essential vitamins—is in abundance in SupremaC+, the best vitamin C serum, in my opinion. With the October 2021 launch of LumiBalance,  we can add bakuchiol to the Synergie-matched top-10 ingredients. It’s a great alternative to those who want the benefits of retinol but find the latter too harsh on their skin. But my personal favorite ingredient in this list is niacinamide (vitamin B3). It’s in plenty of Synergie products but stands out Vitamin B Serum and XCell B serum. The former contains 13% niacinamide and the latter has 21%—the highest concentration niacinamide serum on the market. (Compare that to The Ordinary Niacinamide, which has a measly 10%.)

By choosing Synergie products, you’re not only getting proven ingredients in high concentrations that are clinically proven to be beneficial to the skin, you’re also getting the benefit of Synergie’s Clean Science® formulating, where the best of nature is combined with the latest cosmeceutical science, but without any questionable ingredients.

If you’re planning to add some of these wonderful ingredients to your daily routine, shop our full range of products. And if you’d like to become a Skin Elegance member, you get 20% off the listed price automatically without having to wait for sales.