The products from Dermitage that we decided to review were the Anti Aging System that they offer. It is a combination of their “skin renewal complex” and their “Instant Lifting Cream”. Unfortunately, we had a less than positive experience, although the products do contain some high-end ingredients.
The primary warning about this company is that they do two things I personally object to.
1. Computer enhanced pictures where they add or remove wrinkles to the before/after pictures. Why is that necessary. Yes, they do write “enhanced image” and “results not typical” underneath these images in their advertising, but it’s still misleading. I hate that, and I feel that it’s dishonest and probably says something about the ethics of the company.
2. Pushing the “Free Trial” offer that ends up charging you. If you don’t return the products in a very quick time period, and also cancel, you will be billed each and every month the retail price of the products and will be shipped it over and over. Again, I feel like too many people simple get sucked into “OH, it’s free.. let me see if I like it” and they don’t read the fine print. So, Dermitage ends up charging these victims a few times before they figure out what happened. It’s immoral, and I don’t like it. A cream line that works doesn’t have to do that to build their business up. Good products sell themselves.
Setting aside my personal objections to their marketing techniques, let’s see how the anti aging products really worked.
Their ingredients pretty much are just Hyaluronic acid, and their “Rejuvaline” proprietary blend of ingredients. They reference ingredients in their creams such as “lifting spheres” and “antioxidants”. My problem with this is that I dont’ get to find out what ingredients are really in the cream I’m rubbing on my face. What the HECK is a lifting sphere? And “antioxidants” is so vague… there are millions of them in the world, and not all of them are useful in removing toxins from the skin.
I tried the products for 4 weeks, realizing that I WOULD have to pay for them, as their return policy and cancellation of the monthly automatic shipment plan is too short to actually avoid getting charged. The products gave me pretty good moisture on my skin. I could definitely feel an improvement in the softness of my skin.
However, as far as removing wrinkles or age spots, there was no improvement. The “instant lifting cream” did no such thing. As I said, it did moisturize me well, but with a name like “instant lift” I expect some type of improvement in wrinkles and firmness. I was let down by the Dermitage products in that regard.
Customer Support: This is satisfactory. I was treated politely on the phone and I was only billed one time after I cancelled my plan. Par for the course with this type of company, I guess.
Overall Recommendation: I believe you can find better products for less money, and that don’t exhibit a lack of ethics. I will not be buying Dermitage in the future based on several reasons I outline above.