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Twelve weeks in, my skin is calmer and smoother, and I keep touching my jaw to check it’s real. Fragrance-free and no sting - it’s the first active I haven’t been scared to put on my face.
*individual results may vary
The retinol result, without the retinol burn
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Firmer skin in 12 weeks, or it’s free.
The studies ran 12 weeks because that’s when the collagen rebuild shows on the surface. Give Regalia the same 12 weeks. If your skin isn’t visibly firmer, smoother and calmer, we refund every cent - bottle empty or not.
The active: Bakuchiol (Sytheon Sytenol® A) at 0.5% - the exact source and strength used in the head-to-head clinical trials.
The Barrier-Repair Matrix: Glycerin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Panthenol (pro-vitamin B5), Centella Asiatica Extract, Allantoin, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) Extract, Calendula Officinalis Extract.
What is not in it: No fragrance or parfum. No essential oils. No limonene, linalool, lavender or bergamot. No added color. No silicones. No mineral oil.
Why it is a soft yellow: the color is natural, not added. Two of the botanicals above - Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) Extract and Calendula Officinalis Extract - are golden by nature and give the serum its pale yellow tint. There is no dye in it, and because these are real plant extracts the exact shade can vary slightly from batch to batch.
On a clean face, after cleanser and toner, before moisturizer. Morning and night.
Because it is gentler than retinol, you do not have to keep it away from the delicate areas. Drop it on and spread it everywhere.
Most bakuchiol serums cut one of three corners: the wrong dose (2%, 5%, “high strength” - none of which the research used), the wrong extraction, or a fragrance load that undoes the point of a gentle active.
Regalia matches the clinical evidence exactly - the same Sytheon Sytenol® A source, at the same 0.5% - and then wraps it in a barrier-repair system so the skin harsh actives stripped gets rebuilt at the same time.
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Twelve weeks in, my skin is calmer and smoother, and I keep touching my jaw to check it’s real. Fragrance-free and no sting - it’s the first active I haven’t been scared to put on my face.
*individual results may vary
It wasn’t. Retinol produces two separate outputs: the collagen result, and the irritation. They travel different routes inside the skin - and for decades you were sold the side effect as proof of the cure.
So you pushed through. The flaking, the tightness, the raw patches that made you cancel plans. And when your barrier finally gave up, you were told you had “not built tolerance properly.”
The burn was never your fault, and it was never the point.
Bakuchiol is a plant molecule from the seeds of Cullen corylifolium - the babchi plant - used in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine for centuries.
It has no chemical relationship to retinol whatsoever. But it reaches the same endpoint: it tells your skin to switch its own collagen production back on (types I, III and IV).
What it does not do is flip the RAR-β and RAR-γ receptors - the exact receptors tied to retinoid irritation.
A 12-week, double-blind trial put 0.5% bakuchiol directly against 0.5% retinol. A dermatologist who did not know which patient used which graded every face.
Dhaliwal et al., British Journal of Dermatology (2019). Receptor profiling: Chaudhuri & Bojanowski, International Journal of Cosmetic Science (2014). The retinol group reported significantly more scaling and stinging at every single check-in.
We would rather you didn’t take our word for any of this. Here is the published evidence, linked directly to the source.
The head-to-head skin trials and mechanism papers:
Beyond the skin: cancer and bone-loss research. Bakuchiol comes from Cullen corylifolium (the babchi plant), used in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine for centuries. Some early research points to the molecule’s wider potential - laboratory work on its anti-tumour activity, and animal studies showing it helped reduce bone loss after estrogen decline, the same hormonal shift that thins post-menopausal skin. This is emerging science, not a medical claim - but it is a window into why this plant has been valued for so long.
No filters, no professional lighting, no clever angles. Real customers, photographed at home, at the start and at week 12.
Individual results vary.
Texture, absorption, finish - the things a still photograph cannot show you.
90-day money-back guarantee - bottle empty or not
Bakuchiol does the heavy lifting. The rest of the bottle exists to rebuild the barrier that years of harsh actives wore down.
Signals your skin to restart its own collagen production - types I, III and IV - and defends what it builds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory action in a single molecule. Sourced from Sytheon, the exact supplier used in the clinical trials.
Madecassoside and asiaticoside support wound healing, collagen synthesis and barrier repair. One of the best-supported botanicals in all of skincare - and the reason the formula holds moisture without a single drop of oil.
Pro-vitamin B5. Consistent evidence for reducing water loss, strengthening the barrier, soothing and supporting healing.
The strongest and best-studied humectant in skincare. Decades of robust evidence for hydration and barrier repair, working at multiple depths rather than just the surface.
Strong evidence for topical hydration and visible plumpness. Surface-level and temporary by nature - which is exactly why it sits alongside glycerin rather than instead of it.
Strong evidence for soothing, conditioning and promoting healing. Quiet, well-understood, and does its job.
Licorice-derived, with a real mechanism via glycyrrhetinic acid. Strong evidence as an anti-inflammatory and soothing agent.
Anti-inflammatory and soothing via bisabolol and chamazulene - without the fragrance load that usually comes attached to botanicals.
Traditionally used to soothe and repair the barrier, including for conditions as demanding as radiation dermatitis.
No fragrance. No essential oils. No limonene, linalool, lavender or bergamot. No added color. If you can smell perfume, it isn’t ours.
After cleanser. After toner. On a clean face, before moisturizer. Morning and night.
Cleanser
Start with a clean face
Toner
If you use one - optional
Regalia Serum
Four to ten drops pressed into clean, slightly damp skin - face, neck, chest, hands. It's water-based, so it sinks in within seconds. After toner, before moisturizer.
moisturizer
Seals everything in
Sunscreen
Morning only, always last
Because the serum is water-based, it dries down within seconds. moisturizer goes on top to seal it in - that is the whole reason for the order. Put moisturizer first and you have created a barrier the serum has to fight through.
No. Pilling happens when oils and silicones sit on the surface and roll. There are no oils in this formula at all - it is entirely water-based, and it contains centella asiatica for moisture retention rather than an oil to lock it in. It sinks in and disappears.
Three to four drops. Because it is nowhere near as aggressive as retinol, you do not have to keep it away from the delicate areas or dot it carefully around the eyes. Drop it on your face and rub it everywhere - face, neck, chest, the backs of your hands, the jawline.
If you use a cotton pad, be sparing: the pad soaks up most of it before it reaches your skin. Hands are better.
Both, if you want. Unlike retinol, bakuchiol does not increase your sun sensitivity, so there is no reason to restrict it to the evening. Wear your sunscreen either way - that part never changes.
There is no shortcut. This is a rebuild, and rebuilds are cumulative - they climb week over week. Here is the honest arc.
Night 1
Nothing dramatic - and that is the point. No heat, no tightness, no sting. For anyone whose skin was wrecked by retinol, the first real milestone is a product that does not hurt.
Week 2
The first glow. Skin looks calmer, more hydrated and plumper. These are surface-level changes from the barrier-repair side of the formula - real, visible in the mirror, but not yet the structural work.
Week 4
Makeup starts sitting better. Skin feels less reactive to weather and to the rest of your routine. Underneath, collagen synthesis has been running for a month - you cannot see it yet.
Week 8
Texture and tone begin to even out. Roughness smooths over, and dark spots start softening. This is where the trial data showed pigmentation pulling ahead of retinol.
Week 12
The structural payoff, and where the studies stopped measuring. Skin is visibly firmer and smoother, with lines softened. This is the point the 90-day guarantee is built around - because this is the point at which you can fairly judge it.
Month 6+
Maintenance. Because this is your own collagen rather than a filler, the gains hold as long as you keep signalling for them. Most people settle into it as the one treatment step they never drop.
Refundable for 90 days - the full course, risk-free
Same collagen endpoint. The entire difference is in what you have to survive to get there.
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Typical retinol |
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|---|---|---|
| Visible wrinkle reduction at 12 weeks | Yes | Yes |
| Fades pigmentation and dark spots | Yes | Yes |
| No stinging or burning | Yes | No |
| No flaking or peeling | Yes | No |
| No “purge” period to survive | Yes | No |
| No tolerance build-up needed | Yes | No |
| Safe morning AND night | Yes | No |
| Does not increase sun sensitivity | Yes | No |
| Fragrance-free | Yes | No |
| Safe on neck, chest and hands | Yes | No |
| Barrier-repair system included | Yes | No |
| Requires you to push through irritation | No | Yes |
90-day money-back guarantee
Every review here is from someone who tried retinol first, and stopped.
★★★★★
Two years ago I did what everyone told me to do. Retinol. Gold standard. By 3am my face was so hot and tight, I spent the entire night googling and researching.
What made me finally try Regalia was that they didn’t pretend my fear was silly. Fragrance-free. No sting. Patch test instructions right there, like they expected me to be scared. I tested behind my ear for three nights. Nothing. Then one cheek. Nothing - no heat, no fire alarm.
Twelve weeks in, my skin is calmer and smoother.
Michelle, 48 Verified purchase
★★★★★
I’m the woman in the comments asking “what percentage?” I know most serums sit on the surface doing an expensive impression of moisturizer. So my first reaction was: absolutely not.
After doing some more research into bakuchiol I was actually surprised - the evidence actually is so compelling, it's just that it's new. I think Regalia did a great job explaining the mechanism, the concentration, and what it wouldn’t do. Nobody promising me my twenties back.
The hand I decided to test it on visibly smoother (it took a while though, around 3 - 4 weeks of daily use). Not a miracle worker. Just the first product I’ve ever finished a bottle of on purpose.
Samantha, 53 Verified purchase
★★★★★
Forty years of knowing my skin, and then estrogen left. Thinner. Drier. Crepey in places I’d never thought about. I bought every rich cream on the shelf and they all did the same trick - plumped me up like a water balloon for a few hours.
Hydration wasn’t the problem. Structure was.
I used it morning and night - face, neck, backs of my hands, décolletage. Around month three my husband asked if I’d done something different. I’d just started looking like myself again.
Deborah, 57 Verified purchase
★★★★★
Look, I’m 50. My routine is sunscreen, moisturizer, and drinking enough water to water my garden. Every “life-changing” serum I’ve bought has ended up in the drawer of shame next to the jade roller.
Regalia earned the one open slot in my routine for boring, practical reasons: absorbs in seconds, no film, no gunking when I layer sunscreen over it. Silk pillowcase, and I don’t feel any piling or greasiness.
Results? I’m still 50. But my skin is genuinely smoother, less “tired tea towel,” and my daughter asked if I’d changed my diet.
Jennifer, 50 Verified purchase
Six specific complaints women make about serums, and six specific commitments in return.
What people say about other serums: “Just hocus pocus. Putting water on my face. Three stars because it hydrates - but sorry, I’m still 50.”
Our promise: The studies ran 12 weeks because that is when the collagen rebuild shows on the surface. Give Regalia the same 12 weeks. If your skin isn’t visibly firmer, smoother and calmer, we refund every cent - bottle empty or not.
What people say about other serums: “As soon as this stuff touches my face, it feels like it’s on fire. It was like I got retinol burns.”
Our promise: Regalia reaches results without the receptor that burns, and without fragrance, the number-one trigger for reactive skin. No stinging. No flaking. No “it means it’s working.” If it stings, it isn’t ours - send it back.
What people say about other serums: “A thin layer of purple slime. Gritty, sandy. It sat so heavy on my skin.”
Our promise: No grit. No pilling. No purple residue. No pillow stains. It sinks in light and disappears - which is the entire point of a serum.
What people say about other serums: “Playdough smell. Smells like mold. It felt like something designed for children.”
Our promise: Fragrance-free, full stop. And none of the essential-oil irritants - limonene, linalool, lavender, bergamot - that quietly flare sensitive skin. If you can smell perfume, it isn’t us.
What people say about other serums: “The bottle came empty. Only about 60% full - rip-off. I now have two bottles I can’t get anything out of.”
Our promise: Every bottle filled to the line, sealed and batch-checked, with a dropper that actually works - or we replace it free, no questions asked. We ship direct from our own facility, so we can stand behind the quality control.
What people say about other serums: “So tiny yet so expensive. More bottle than product.”
Our promise: Honest fill, honest strength, and a fully transparent ingredient list where every item works as part of one system: repair, restore, revitalize.
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Yes to all three. It is entirely oil-free and non-comedogenic, and it is fungal-acne safe: there are no plant oils, esters or fatty alcohols in it for malassezia to feed on. Sensitive and retinol-damaged skin was the case it was formulated around rather than an afterthought - fragrance-free, no essential oils, and eight soothing botanicals including centella, licorice root and chamomile. If your skin is reactive, patch test behind one ear for three nights before going full face. It is not an acne treatment and will not replace one, but it will not work against yours either.
There is no smell to question, because there is nothing in the bottle capable of producing one. No fragrance, no parfum, no masking scent, no essential oils. At most you may catch something faintly herbal from the botanicals, and it is gone within seconds of application. So if a bottle ever reaches you smelling musty, chemical or spoiled, that is not the product behaving normally - stop using it, send us the batch number printed on the bottle, and we will replace it.
After cleanser, after toner, on a clean face, before moisturizer. Morning and night. 4 to 10 drops pressed into slightly damp skin across face, neck and chest. It is water-based, so it sinks in within seconds and you do not wait between steps. Sunscreen goes last in the morning. It does not replace your moisturizer - this is a treatment step, and you still want something on top to seal it in. It can replace your eye cream, because unlike retinol it does not need to be kept away from the eye area. For the exact order, jump to Where Does It Go In My Routine?
No, and if yours is, it is faulty and we will replace it free. Ours is a glass pipette with a proper rubber bulb: squeeze, release, and it draws a full dropper cleanly. You should never be fighting it, shaking it upside down, or leaving half a bottle behind because the pipette will not pull. Email us with your order number and a replacement goes out. We do not ask for the old one back.
Yes, and the arc is honest rather than flattering: hydration and calm around week two, texture and tone from week eight, the structural payoff at week twelve. That timeline is not caution - it is the length of the double-blind trial, which measured a 19.0% wrinkle surface reduction against retinol’s 23.2%, a difference with no statistical significance, and beat retinol outright on pigmentation, 59% against 44%. Photograph yourself on day one in the same light. Almost everyone who says nothing happened has no baseline to check it against. If week twelve arrives and nothing has changed, we refund you in full.
Instead of it, in almost every case. Bakuchiol reaches the same collagen genes - types I, III and IV - without switching on the RAR-β and RAR-γ receptors that produce retinoid irritation. Layering the two puts the burning back for no additional collagen benefit. If you are coming off retinol, let your barrier settle for one to two weeks first, then patch test and begin. There is no tolerance to build and no purge to survive, so you can go daily from night one.
None of the three. There are no capsules, no beads and no grit in it. The texture is a thin, near-clear, water-based fluid that absorbs in seconds and leaves nothing behind - no film, no tack, no pilling under moisturizer or makeup, and nothing on your pillowcase. If you have used a bakuchiol serum that felt sandy or sat heavy on the skin, that was the formulation around the molecule, not the molecule itself.
Fine lines: yes, and that is precisely what the head-to-head trial measured. Sun damage and dark spots: yes, and this is where bakuchiol outperformed retinol, so expect movement from around week eight. Texture, dullness and crepiness on the neck, chest and backs of the hands: yes, and those are the areas most people forget to treat. Pores do not shrink - nothing shrinks them - but they read smaller when the skin around them is firmer and smoother. Deep, set-in creases need volume or resurfacing, and we are not going to pretend a serum fills them.
The yellow color is derived from 2 of the soothing extracts - Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) and Calendula Officinalis - both are naturally warm and golden in color which gives finished serum a soft yellow tint. There is no added color in the formula, and because these are real plant extracts the exact shade can vary a little from batch to batch. A pale yellow is normal and is not a sign that anything is wrong.
We ship globally. Orders are processed and dispatched within 1 - 2 business days. Most orders are delivered in 5 - 7 business days. Tracking is emailed the moment your parcel leaves the facility. All duties and taxes are covered - the price you see at checkout is the price you pay. For more information, please view our Shipping & Returns.
Ninety days from the day it is delivered. If your skin is not visibly firmer, smoother and calmer, email support@regaliabeauty.com with your order number and we refund every cent - bottle empty or not. You do not return anything, there is no form to fill in, and nobody is going to read you a retention script. Ninety days rather than thirty because the clinical trials ran twelve weeks, and judging a collagen rebuild at one month is not a fair test. We set the window to match the science instead of setting it to minimise refunds.
Still not sure? Email support@regaliabeauty.com - we will have a response in 24 hours.
The burn was never proof. The blinded trials answered whether it works years ago. The only question the research cannot answer for you is what your skin does with twelve weeks of it - and with every cent refundable, there has never been a cheaper or safer moment to find out.
90 days. Bottle empty or not.