You've just been outvoted retinol: Enter exosomes

This new ingredient is leaving the clinics and joining our beauty shelf with promises of multipurpose everything.

- Stuti Agarwal

A few years ago, the market was inundated with news about retinol being the miracle ingredient for everything anti-ageing. More recently, there has been talk about peptides and ceramides being everything supple your skin needs. New ingredients pop up every week, and sure, you may think exosomes is just another one, but we suggest you put a pause on that thought. We spoke with industry experts who think otherwise, who are convinced that what were earlier ignored as waste cell material in the skin can actually take years off our face.

WHAT ARE EXOSOMES?

While we worried about pigmentation, cried over acne, and worked relentlessly with products, diets, pills, and treatments to fix it all, there were, all along, these little helpers on the inside working tirelessly to deliver messages to our cells to get off their bums and get the reparative and regenerative process going.