I am one of the many who uses the original StriVectin as an anti-wrinkle face cream. As most people will remember, this formulation was originally marketed as a remedy against stretch marks, but when it got around that people were putting it on their faces and liked the results, the makers (Klein Becker) were happy to add this unforeseen secondary use to their advertising. In fact, they have since come up with a whole range of specialist products under the StriVectin name; you can now buy eye cream, neck cream, mask, serum and so on, but the small snag is that they cost as much as other beauty products.
So I just stick with a big tube of original stuff and it must have saved me a small fortune in anti-wrinkle creams over the last seven years. My current tube contains 175 ml (or 6 oz) of product. The eye cream I used previously came in a 15 ml jar, so I can refill this 11 times before the tube runs out. The math certainly makes sense but does the cream work? The only way to be sure would be to put StriVectin on one side of my face and nothing on the other half. I haven't conducted a clinical study but I believe StriVectin works better than the creams I used before, at a fraction of the cost. In fact, when I first started using it, I went back to l'Oreal and Revlon and whatever else I used then, just to see, and was not happy with the change.
I put StriVectin-SD on my face and neck twice a day and it is one of the few creams I have tried that does not irritate the sensitive skin around my eyes. My skin used to be quite oily, with large pores and prone to breakouts. All that has improved dramatically. At night I top it with a good quality hand cream for extra hydration and I have to say, it works for me.