Medik8 Red Alert Product Review
While tend to confine out reviews to hair products on this site, we temporarily step-out of that “box” and take a look at products that are brought to our attention by staff, customers, or frequent visitors to our review site. This is one of those cases.
Medik8 Red Alert
For those who are unfamiliar with Medik8®, they are one of Europe’s leading skin care manufacturers and distributors. Their products, though popular and well-known on the other side of the pond, they are just gaining acceptance in thre U.S. I would argue that if it weren’t for the poor economy the past couple of years, they would be knocking the doors down by now.
A Top-Selling Products for Spider Veins
Their top-selling product is Red Alert® – a professional strength anti-redness formula developed for people with spider veins, thread veins, inflammation and chronic tissue redness, bruising and rosacea.
Per Medik8®:
Originally used in post-operative topical ointments to help bruises heal more quickly, the use of Vitamin K1 (phytonadione) has become synonymous with modern topical bruise care.
By chance it was discovered by patients and reported to their surgeons that the reflecting vitamin K base semed to be concealing the signs of thread veins and redness…helps to fade and clear thread veins, skin redness, rosacea and bruises.
Just to clarify, the reference to thread veins is synonymous with spider veins – just a European slang.
The Ingredients Make the Difference
Red Alert® is a very popular product because of its unique ingredients. It uses Vitamin K, that is a primary ingredient in helping to fade and heal broken and damaged capillaries and heal spider veins.
Vitamin K has become the “go to” ingredient for spider vein creams such as Capiderm® or StriMedix-K® – that are very similar to Red Alert®. Vitamin K has been shown to improve the overall health of veins and capillaries – which is a primary contributor to visible vein damage. Valve malfunction, leaking of capillaries into surrounding tissue and weak vein walls are considered the cause of most visible damage.
Vitamin K is used to healp heal the physiological symptoms – repairing and healing damage, while helping fade discolored areas – including bruising. Other ingredients help aid with coagulation, antioxidant protection (which lessens further damage), and vein-wall strengthening.
In addition to Vitamin K, Medik8′s Red Alert® contains several other key ingredients that are beneficial for an anti-redness cream.
- Horse chesnut extract
- Cypress extract
- Linden extract
- Bearberry extract
- Liquorice extract
- Light reflecting pigments
The last item – light reflecting pigments is a key note. One of the claims of Red Alert® is that the “reflectivity” helps hide the veins. Our test showed or indicated very little change. Sunlight or flourescent light may have some impact on the noticeability of the veins, but our staff noticed little effect.
On another note, the packaging is simple and the container has a very conveient and easy to use press applicator with an attached cap.
For most spider veins creams, results vary by individual, the symptoms they are treating, and time and frequency of damage and apoplication.
Overall we rate Medik8′s Red Alert® a 9.2 out of 10. For $40 in a 3 fl oz bottle, it is a bit on the expensive side, but is in-line with the other leading brands such as StriMedix-K ®or Capiderm®.
While we can only compare its effectivgeness by use of active ingredioents, Red Alert® seems to have found a very good formula for not only treating spider veins, buy addressing issues also related to general redness of tissue. The packaging is clean and efficient and it is a well respected brand.
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