StriVectin SD Advanced Plus Review: The One Tube for Face, Neck and Beyond

This is a concentrate in behaviour as much as name: rich, substantial and slow to disappear, which dry and normal skin will read as thorough and oily skin will read as a winter weight. The fragrance is present and divides owners more than any other property of the product. The tube deserves its own praise. It is hygienic, it travels, it dispenses the generous amounts that neck and chest application actually requires, and it empties completely, none of which is true of the prestige jars it outranks here.

Owner commentary returns to three themes: smoother feeling, more even looking skin across the face and neck; appreciation for covering the chest with the same product rather than a second purchase; and the scent, praised as pleasant by some and flagged as strong by others. Complaints cluster on pilling over silicone heavy serums, which is a layering note rather than a formula flaw, and on richness in humid weather. Applied over water based serums on slightly damp skin, most of the friction owners describe disappears.

Skip this tube if your skin is oily and your climate humid, if fragrance is a hard exclusion, or if your goal is a retinoid, which this formula does not contain and does not imitate. Retinol seekers belong with the Murad night cream; fragrance free buyers with Protini or Augustinus Bader. Within its own brief, though, face, neck and body in one collagen focused concentrate, nothing else in this guide competes with it directly.