Skin-Nomad's Take — At a Glance
- A firm-and-hydrate duo for face and eyes
- PDRN and Centella for barrier repair and bounce
- For mature, dry or sensitive skin
This bundle contains:
- Centellian24 Expert Madeca Cream Active Renew PDRN (50 ml)
- Centellian24 360° Shot PDRN Lifting Eye Cream (30 ml)
The skin around your eyes gives up firmness before the rest of your face does, and by the time you notice, a hydrating eye cream is no longer the answer. The Centellian24 PDRN Face and Eye Firming Duo puts a three-retinoid eye cream at the eye step and a Centella-led barrier cream over everything else, so the strongest actives go where the change shows first and the comfort goes where it is most needed. Centellian24 is South Korean and made its name on Centella research, which is why the Centella here arrives as a named compound at a stated dose rather than as a plant on a label.
Key Benefits
- Madecassic Acid at 1,600 ppm does the structural work on the face: Together with Asiaticoside, this isolated Centella compound strengthens barrier function and settles the reactivity that comes with a barrier under strain, while layered hyaluronic acids and Niacinamide hold water at several depths. Tightness and sensitivity drop away with continued use.
- The eye cream runs three retinoids at three different speeds: Retinol converts to its active form in two steps, retinal in one, and hydroxypinacolone retinoate binds the receptor directly without converting at all, so the collagen signal arrives staggered rather than all at once. Adenosine stimulates the skin's collagen-producing cells alongside them, and slackness at the outer corner is the slow change the two are working on.
- Five ceramides make a retinoid survivable on skin this thin: Ceramides NP, AP, AS, NS and EOP reinforce the lipid barrier while Centella Asiatica and Portulaca Oleracea settle the irritation retinoid use brings, with caffeine and Rosa Damascena Flower Water doing the equivalent calming job in the face cream. On the thinnest skin you own, that is the difference between a retinoid working and a retinoid flaking.
- PDRN is the thread that runs through both formulas: Sodium DNA, the salmon-derived fraction sold under that name, sits at 2,000 ppm in the Madeca Cream and alongside glutathione in the eye cream, and Centellian24 has built its recent research programme around it for the repair activity that made its name in clinical and injectable use. Topical use is the newer chapter and its research is still growing, which is worth knowing when you find the ingredient dosed at this level across two formats at once.
Texture & Finish
The Madeca Cream is a proper cream in weight, closer to a night cream than to a daily gel, and it settles to a soft, sealed finish rather than a matte one. The eye cream is far lighter than its ingredient list suggests, closer to a cream-gel, which is what lets it go on at the eye step first without anything rolling when the face cream follows over the rest. Neither needs anything over it at night.
Note: Three retinoids is a lot for the thinnest skin on your face, so the eye cream is an evening product to build up to gradually rather than one to use at full frequency from the start. We don't recommend retinoids during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.
Ideal For
- Skin types: Mature, dry, combination and easily irritated skin, including an eye area that has turned dry.
- Skin concerns: Loss of firmness and bounce, fine lines and crow's feet, persistent dryness and tightness, redness, and a tired-looking eye area.
- Best used by: People in their forties and beyond whose skin has stopped tolerating the actives it used to will get the most from this, because the retinoid stays confined to the eye area while the rest of the face gets comfort.
FAQ
Q: How is this different from using one firming cream on the face and around the eyes?
A: One cream for both means either under-treating the eye area or putting a face-weight formula on skin that does not want it. Here the 360° eye cream carries three retinoids, five ceramides, stabilised Vitamin C, Adenosine and Centella in a light texture, while the Madeca Cream is built around Madecassic Acid at 1,600 ppm in a rich base. Each is formulated for the thickness and tolerance of the skin it goes on.
Q: Does PDRN in a cream do what an injectable PDRN course does?
A: No, and it is worth being clear about that. An injection places the molecule beneath the skin surface, whereas a cream works from the outside in, and results from one format do not transfer to the other. Applied to the surface it works on the same repair signalling from the outside, over weeks rather than days, which is a slower rhythm than the comfort the Centella and ceramide side of both formulas delivers in the first few applications.
Q: Do I need both, and which one goes on first?
A: Each is a complete step on its own, since the Madeca Cream is a full moisturiser without the eye cream and the eye cream is the whole eye step without the face cream. Used together in the evening, the eye cream goes on at the eye stage after cleansing, toner or essence and your serum, with the Madeca Cream applied over the rest of the face afterwards. Running both makes sense when the eye area needs something stronger than the rest of your face would comfortably take.
Most firming routines put the strongest thing on the largest area, and this one does the opposite.
Skin-Nomad's Take — At a Glance
- A firm-and-hydrate duo for face and eyes
- PDRN and Centella for barrier repair and bounce
- For mature, dry or sensitive skin
This bundle contains:
- Centellian24 Expert Madeca Cream Active Renew PDRN (50 ml)
- Centellian24 360° Shot PDRN Lifting Eye Cream (30 ml)
The skin around your eyes gives up firmness before the rest of your face does, and by the time you notice, a hydrating eye cream is no longer the answer. The Centellian24 PDRN Face and Eye Firming Duo puts a three-retinoid eye cream at the eye step and a Centella-led barrier cream over everything else, so the strongest actives go where the change shows first and the comfort goes where it is most needed. Centellian24 is South Korean and made its name on Centella research, which is why the Centella here arrives as a named compound at a stated dose rather than as a plant on a label.
Key Benefits
- Madecassic Acid at 1,600 ppm does the structural work on the face: Together with Asiaticoside, this isolated Centella compound strengthens barrier function and settles the reactivity that comes with a barrier under strain, while layered hyaluronic acids and Niacinamide hold water at several depths. Tightness and sensitivity drop away with continued use.
- The eye cream runs three retinoids at three different speeds: Retinol converts to its active form in two steps, retinal in one, and hydroxypinacolone retinoate binds the receptor directly without converting at all, so the collagen signal arrives staggered rather than all at once. Adenosine stimulates the skin's collagen-producing cells alongside them, and slackness at the outer corner is the slow change the two are working on.
- Five ceramides make a retinoid survivable on skin this thin: Ceramides NP, AP, AS, NS and EOP reinforce the lipid barrier while Centella Asiatica and Portulaca Oleracea settle the irritation retinoid use brings, with caffeine and Rosa Damascena Flower Water doing the equivalent calming job in the face cream. On the thinnest skin you own, that is the difference between a retinoid working and a retinoid flaking.
- PDRN is the thread that runs through both formulas: Sodium DNA, the salmon-derived fraction sold under that name, sits at 2,000 ppm in the Madeca Cream and alongside glutathione in the eye cream, and Centellian24 has built its recent research programme around it for the repair activity that made its name in clinical and injectable use. Topical use is the newer chapter and its research is still growing, which is worth knowing when you find the ingredient dosed at this level across two formats at once.
Texture & Finish
The Madeca Cream is a proper cream in weight, closer to a night cream than to a daily gel, and it settles to a soft, sealed finish rather than a matte one. The eye cream is far lighter than its ingredient list suggests, closer to a cream-gel, which is what lets it go on at the eye step first without anything rolling when the face cream follows over the rest. Neither needs anything over it at night.
Note: Three retinoids is a lot for the thinnest skin on your face, so the eye cream is an evening product to build up to gradually rather than one to use at full frequency from the start. We don't recommend retinoids during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.
Ideal For
- Skin types: Mature, dry, combination and easily irritated skin, including an eye area that has turned dry.
- Skin concerns: Loss of firmness and bounce, fine lines and crow's feet, persistent dryness and tightness, redness, and a tired-looking eye area.
- Best used by: People in their forties and beyond whose skin has stopped tolerating the actives it used to will get the most from this, because the retinoid stays confined to the eye area while the rest of the face gets comfort.
FAQ
Q: How is this different from using one firming cream on the face and around the eyes?
A: One cream for both means either under-treating the eye area or putting a face-weight formula on skin that does not want it. Here the 360° eye cream carries three retinoids, five ceramides, stabilised Vitamin C, Adenosine and Centella in a light texture, while the Madeca Cream is built around Madecassic Acid at 1,600 ppm in a rich base. Each is formulated for the thickness and tolerance of the skin it goes on.
Q: Does PDRN in a cream do what an injectable PDRN course does?
A: No, and it is worth being clear about that. An injection places the molecule beneath the skin surface, whereas a cream works from the outside in, and results from one format do not transfer to the other. Applied to the surface it works on the same repair signalling from the outside, over weeks rather than days, which is a slower rhythm than the comfort the Centella and ceramide side of both formulas delivers in the first few applications.
Q: Do I need both, and which one goes on first?
A: Each is a complete step on its own, since the Madeca Cream is a full moisturiser without the eye cream and the eye cream is the whole eye step without the face cream. Used together in the evening, the eye cream goes on at the eye stage after cleansing, toner or essence and your serum, with the Madeca Cream applied over the rest of the face afterwards. Running both makes sense when the eye area needs something stronger than the rest of your face would comfortably take.
Most firming routines put the strongest thing on the largest area, and this one does the opposite.
