A Routine You Will Actually Keep
The beauty industry is flooded with promises. The unglamorous truth is that a simple routine done every day beats an elaborate one done occasionally, and that most people already own more products than their routine needs.
This page has been rewritten to remove two figures that were on it and could not be sourced: a percentage of visible skin ageing attributed to UV, and a percentage improvement in product absorption from using a device. Neither came from Nu Skin. Both are gone, and what remains is quotable.
Step 1: Cleanse
The ageLOC® LumiSpa® iO is the device most people start with, because cleansing is the step you do twice a day.
Nu Skin's wording: "Two minutes, twice a day is all it takes for award-winning ageLOC® LumiSpa® iO to deliver a smoother complexion, seven clinically proven skin benefits, and smart IoT technology that helps you personalize your routine." The seven, as printed: softness, smoothness, radiance, clarity, firmness, purified skin and reduced pore appearance.
Not ready for a device? The Nutricentials® HydraClean Creamy Cleansing Lotion is a "luxurious, creamy, soap-free cleanser" that "cleanses away dirt, excess oil, and makeup—all while protecting your skin's natural moisture barrier." That is a perfectly good cleansing step and a fraction of the cost.
Step 2: Tone
The most skippable step on this list, and we would rather say so than pad the routine. If your skin feels fine after cleansing, you can leave it out.
If you like a toner, the Nutricentials® In Balance pH Toner is the Nutricentials option, or the ageLOC Tru Face Refining Toner if you are building the ageLOC routine.
Step 3: Treat
This is where the money is best spent, and where Nu Skin's most specific claims live.
- Fine lines, texture and firmness: ageLOC Tru Face Future Serum. Nu Skin's own wording: "revealing visibly improved skin, eight ways in just seven days: firmness, smoothness, skin tone evenness, fine lines/wrinkles, radiance, pore appearance, discoloration, and hydration", plus "Supports cell turnover in only five days." It is the only product in this article with a manufacturer-published timeframe.
- Retinol, in the evening: ageLOC Tru Face Peptide Retinol Complex — "Provides powerful results while being gentle enough for daily use" and "Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles." Two or three evenings a week to start.
- Comfort and daily protection: Nutricentials® Celltrex® Always Right Recovery Fluid — a lightweight serum that "keeps skin soft, protected, and comfortable during the day, and complements your skin's natural repair process during the night", with "immediate hydration and 24 hours of continuous moisturization."
- The eye area: ageLOC LumiSpa IdealEyes — "Just 30 seconds on each eye area provides immediate hydration, visible firming, brightening, and smoothing to stop the look of tired, stressed eyes in its tracks." There is also the Nutricentials Intensive Eye Complex if you would rather stay within that line.
Do not buy all four. Pick the one that matches your actual complaint. They overlap, and the most common outcome of buying a full treatment set at once is three part-used bottles.
Step 4: Moisturise
The Nutricentials® Thirst Fix Hydrating Gel Cream for a lighter finish, or the ageLOC Tru Face Essence Ultra Uplifting Cream for something richer — the latter "forms a breathable barrier to protect against environmental stressors, instantly enhances radiance and definition, and deeply hydrates to restore a firmer, revitalized complexion over time."
A note if you are looking for ageLOC Transforming Night: Nu Skin has retired it, and this page used to recommend it. See what to buy instead.
Step 5: Protect
Sunscreen every day is the step with the most behind it and the least glamour. We are not going to attach a percentage to that — the figure this page used to carry was not sourceable — but it is the recommendation we would keep if you cut everything else.
Sunright® Solar Screen Mineral Face Sunscreen SPF 50 for the face, or Sunright SPF 50 for face and body.
On Devices and "Absorption"
You will read a great deal about devices increasing how much of your serum gets in, usually with a percentage attached. Nu Skin publishes no such figure for either device, and we have removed the one that used to sit here.
What Nu Skin does claim is narrower. The LumiSpa iO "both treats and cleanses skin through its patented Micropulse Oscillation Technology". The RenuSpa iO is claimed to "Visibly contour, tone, and firm skin through skin stimulation" using patent-pending Adaptive Microcurrent Technology. Different devices, different jobs, and neither is sold on an absorption number.
The Minimum Viable Routine
If all of the above feels like a lot, this is the version we would actually recommend to a friend:
- A cleanser you like, morning and night.
- One treatment product matched to your main concern.
- A moisturiser.
- Sunscreen, every morning, without negotiation.
Add a device once that has been running for a couple of months and you know the habit is real.
The Bottom Line
Start with the basics, add one thing at a time, and give each addition long enough to judge. Consistency is everything, and our 90-day money-back guarantee — opened and used, no restocking fee — is there so that a wrong choice costs you nothing but the return postage. That 90 days is NuBodyRx's own; Nu Skin's published US refund window is 30 days from the purchase date.
Ready to start? Explore our full skincare collection or contact our team for recommendations for your skin type — we will happily tell you when you do not need something.
Where to Buy
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