In a skincare market saturated with temporary fixes, exotic actives and harsh ingredients, finding a product that is kind to the skin and produces the hoped-for results can seem impossible. Consumers are typically forced to choose between gentle formulas that offer little benefit, or potent actives that disrupt the skin’s protective barrier, often with only modest results. And existing products all focus on reducing problems rather than enabling health. This is the challenge that Crescel, a brand founded by Peter Passalacqua and Peter Passalacqua, Jr., was insightfully created to answer. Crescel’s thoroughly innovative focus on product and biocompatible technology introduces this transformative philosophy of restoring health with their flagship product: Crescel Skin Renewal Cream.
A Mission Rooted in Science, Guided by Caring
At its core, Crescel operates from a place of deep scientific inquiry. And the brand’s ultimate driving force is humanitarian: “Our vision is to further knowledge for the benefit of humanity, and to bring Crescel’s supportive capabilities to all those who need it most.”
Their perspective shifts the conversation from cosmetics to long-term skin health. The brand isn’t simply aiming to create another moisturizer; its goal is providing a scientifically-grounded, uniquely innovative tool that supports the skin’s own restorative processes.
The Biochemical Difference: What Sets Crescel Apart
The true innovation behind Crescel lies in Peter Passalacqua’s breakthrough understanding of how skin cells maintain their health. A scientific quantum leap followed, as he selected two plant extracts and created what the company calls a “dynamically integrated group of four breakthrough biochemical technologies” enabling these botanicals to animate the skin’s tools for health. Other skincare products have traditionally either attempted to compensate for symptoms, or inhibit them. Crescel is the first one created with the ability to reach and activate the healing centers of skin cells. This eliminates the typical shortcomings of other skincare products, namely, ingredients that can irritate the skin and/or compromise the skin’s protective ability, and producing only partial benefits.
Here are the four critical differentiators of Crescel’s technology, which is a groundbreaking integration of natural processes and new concepts that empower nature and revolutionize skincare.
- Four Newly Devised Technologies That Work Hand in Hand: One: A breathable and biologically active complex. Two: Optimizes the activity of this breathable complex. Three: A metabolically active complex identical to the cell’s metabolic environment. Four: Enables the optimal synergistic synthesis of the two cell-healing plant derivatives.
- Pioneering Microemulsion Technology: These four unique technologies dynamically integrate to create a novel microemulsion that speaks the same biochemical language of the cells where it’s applied. This produces three essential benefits. It enables Crescel to reach and easily enter its cell-healing targets, which are the many microscopic mitochondria found in all skin cells. It ensures continuous product delivery. And it enables the product to remain metabolically active once it enters the mitochondria.
- Supporting the Mitochondria: Crescel was created with the forward-looking awareness of their executive functions in our cells, and thus the need to restore their ability to maintain cellular health. (Creating energy is the best known mitochondrial function, but they are far more complex than most realize.) This is why Crescel describes its product as “potent therapeutic food for the skin.”
- The Skin’s Innate pH: Crescel carefully duplicates the skin’s slightly acidic pH. This not only supports skin health directly, it avoids the damage caused by the buffering agents added to the myriad of skincare products that would otherwise have a conflicting pH.
This exceptional groundbreaking profile of features is why the brand calls its product the “world’s first intelligent therapeutic™”. Instead of simply working to diminish or inhibit undesirable skin symptoms, Crescel targets the mitochondria in skin cells to restore the skin’s ability to heal itself.
The Product: Crescel Skin Renewal Cream
The brand’s initial focus is on its premier product, Crescel Skin Renewal Cream. Its formula is anchored by the rich spectrum of extracts from the plant world, specifically from aloe barbadensis and oat (avena sativa) kernel oil.
- Aloe barbadensis is famous for its soothing and intensely hydrating properties.
- Oat kernel oil is a celebrated emollient, recognized for its ability to calm the skin and support its natural barrier.
This rich spectrum of extracts is mobilized and synergized by the four transformative technologies that produce food for the skin fine-tuned to the optimal metabolic function of the mitochondria and the cells they govern, activating the skin’s healing mechanisms and the establishment of normal. As a side benefit, these plant derivatives also provide hydrators to bind water to the skin, plus oil-containing moisturizers that help lock the water in and support the skin’s barrier function.
The goal of this intelligent therapeutic is to provide the skin with the resources that will enable its own return to a healthy—and healthy-looking—state.
Written in partnership with Tom White
