Prevage is an anti-wrinkle cream that is to be applied topically and is supposedly only available through a physician, generally a dermatologist, obtained prescription. Prevage is a skin care product from Allergen the creators of the wildly successful Botox and the increasingly popular Juvederm both of which are injectable age-reversal solutions. Prevage is said to focus on correcting sun, pollution and other environmentally acquired skin damage. Prevage is available at the price of $115.

How It Works

Prevage ascribes its superior power to its main ingredient idebenone which is also known as Coenzyme Q10. Coenzyme Q10 has been hailed by some as a “miracle ingredient” and it is said to be able to correct current skin damage as well as prevent future skin stressors and the onset of injuries caused by free radicals that are unavoidable for those of us who do not have a plastic bubble to age gracefully in.

Unfortunately Prevage only utilizes Coenzyme Q10 in the minuscule amount of .5% which is dismally lower than the recommended amount for effectiveness. The rest of this product’s ingredients are equally as unimpressive and range from industrial grade preservatives, moisturizers, to other things that may harm the skin instead of restore it as claimed.

Our Take

Prevage boasts of its “prescription strength” but the truth is that, at least where skin care is concerned, the only need for a prescription would be in the event that the product contained a harmful element and required close monitoring. There is no validity to the idea that a prescription age-reversal cream can give you better results than an over the counter cream. At any rate, Prevage is a weak formulation that does not have enough potency to give you any benefits whatsoever. We do not recommend this product.