In any given bathroom cabinet, one can usually find an assortment of skincare products and steps promising benefits from A to Z—brightening, exfoliating, hydrating, wrinkle reducing—but the truth is, the most important skincare routine starts from the inside out. From what we eat to how much water we drink and how much sleep and exercise we get, our well-being shows in our skin. At Ritual, we pride ourselves on science-based supplements and efficacious ingredients, so when we thought about making a daily skin hydration supplement, we knew we had to make a game-changing one.*

What Is HyaCera™?

Meet HyaCera™, a daily ingestible skin hydration supplement that puts the fiiiiiiine back into lines. A nested capsule made with two skin health supporting ingredients, Ceratiq® and Hyabest®. This once-daily, vanilla-essenced capsule, helps minimize wrinkles and hydrate skin from the inside out. Like all Ritual supplements, these ingredients are Made Traceable®, so you never have to worry about what you’re putting into your body— although we can’t say the same about everything in the average skincare routine.*

The name (HyaCera™) comes from combining the names of the two individually clinically-studied ingredients, Hyabest® and Ceratiq®, which are two of the best clinically-studied ingredients shown to reduce wrinkles and hydrate skin after 90 days of daily use.*

Did we mention we put HyaCera™ through a 12-week double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled clinical trial? After 90 days, results showed a 3.6x reduction in crow’s feet wrinkles and 2.9x increase in facial skin smoothness, compared to placebo. HyaCera™ outperformed placebo with more subjects reporting improvement in skin elasticity, glow, and radiance.*†

†Based on a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study on 63 women and men ages 26 to 64 years old

HyaCera™’s Active Ingredients

In a recent Q&A with our CEO & Founder, Kat Schneider, on the making of HyaCera™, she explains “A lot of products out there have ingredients that don’t even have clinical studies behind them. And if they did, they didn’t even match the dosage that was in those clinical studies. At Ritual, we found two clinically-studied skin-supporting ingredients Ceratiq® and Hyabest® which you can ingest. We encapsulated them into one single-nested capsule."

Here’s a quick rundown on each ingredient:
Ceratiq®: Making up the outer capsule of HyaCera™, Ceratiq® helps, promote smooth skin, and supports full body hydration that goes beyond the face, and is made from a sustainably harvested plant oil extract.*

Hyabest®: The inner capsule of HyaCera™ is made from Hyabest®, a lower molecular weight hyaluronic acid (a substance found in the body that supports skin hydration) to help support skin barrier function and hydrated skin that glows.*

How to Add Our Skin Hydration Supplement Into Your Skincare Routine

In a world where a 7, 10, or 12 step skincare routine is commonplace, we’re here to support skin health with a lot less work. If you’re feeling burnt out on an overcomplicated skincare routine, HyaCera™ couldn’t make it any easier—you can take it morning or night, with or without food, or even alongside your other daily supplements (like, for instance, our multivitamin and Synbiotic+). You can also easily fold it into an existing skincare routine—we love to take the vanilla-essenced capsule in the evening with a cup of chamomile, a sheet mask, and some reality TV (or just while we wait for our moisturizer to sink in).*

We do recommend taking HyaCera™ daily, because like anything else in a skincare routine (or a fitness routine, or learning a new skill— you know we’re all about forming healthy habits), results take time and consistency. The key ingredients in our skin hydration supplement were shown to support hydrated skin after 90 days of daily use in clinical studies, so if you don’t see results immediately, keep at it! Implementing HyaCera™ into a daily Ritual (see what we did there?) can help simplify our skincare routine—while feeling good about what we’re putting into our body, too.*

Now that you know how our HyaCera™ works, you can get on your way to supporting moisturized, smooth, glowing skin from within. The science of skincare is so fascinating, and we at Ritual are committed to enhancing our skincare routine with science-based skincare ingredients that deliver on results. Now, go ahead and put the fiiiiiine back into lines!*

†Consult your health care practitioner before using this product if you are pregnant or nursing, using medications or have a medical condition.

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