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Elif D., Robert A. and 145 others have reviewed the neck cream 147 reviews across the range

the neck cream

Firms the zone everyone forgets.


$237.60 $264.00 Save $26.40

  • Firms the zone everyone forgets
  • GHK-Cu at 0.5% with a matrixyl-class peptide, in a texture built for skin that moves
  • The fourth and final copper product. Upward, and take it onto the chest

DO NOT LAYER direct acids

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  1. Ordered Today
  2. Dispatched by Wed 26 Aug
  3. Delivered Fri 28 Aug – Wed 2 Sep
What it is

GHK-Cu at 0.5% with a matrixyl-class peptide and niacinamide, in a texture built for skin that moves all day. The fourth and final copper product.

Morning and night, upward, and take it down onto the chest. Not with direct acids.

What is in it

THE ACTIVE

0.5%GHK-Cu

with matrixyl-class peptide, niacinamide

SIZE
50 ml
FORMAT
cream
STEP
treat
WHEN
AM/PM
Where it sits on the ramp

Five flood bands, F-100 to F-500, by how dilute the formula is.

F-500
BAND
F-500 · cupric
SYSTEM
the copper system
PER ML
$2.64

The Copper System only — four SKUs, face only.

How to use it
  1. 01After the water layer, before cream.
  2. 02Use it morning and night.
  3. 03Do not layer it with direct acids — alternate them on different days instead.
  4. 04Introduce one new active at a time, so an irritation has one obvious cause.

What’s inside

Every active, and what it is doing there.

The number on the bottle is a position on a scale. This is what sits behind it.

  • ACTIVE

    Copper tripeptide-1 0.5%

    A copper-carrying peptide. The most-studied peptide in cosmetic use and the one the range is built around.

  • SUPPORTING

    Signal peptide

    A palmitoyl peptide used to support the look of firmness. The "matrixyl class" is the family, not a brand name we are borrowing.

  • SUPPORTING

    Vitamin B3

    Used for the look of pores, tone and barrier comfort. One of the few actives that plays well with almost everything.

These are the actives and the supporting ingredients we formulate around. The complete INCI list is being added to every product page.

The difference

Why ANNEAL is different

Every line below is something you can check on the label or the page before you buy. None of it is a claim about how well the product works.

ANNEAL compared with a the category, across 6 things you can verify on the label.
What you can verify ANNEAL The category
Every active stated at the percentage it is used at Yes Usually a range, or folded into one “complex”
A position on one scale, printed on the bottle Yes A name and a claim, with no system behind it
Layering conflicts printed on the product page Yes Rarely mentioned before checkout
Volume and price per millilitre both stated Yes Volume often left off the label
The range is capped at eight and stays eight Yes Extended into new SKUs each season
No promo code, spend ladder or seasonal sale Yes At least one running, most of the year

Reviews

What people who bought it say.

Unedited, in their words. Every one is tied to a confirmed order, and the four- and five-star ones are not moved to the top.

4.5/5

6 reviews

5 of 6 rated it 4 stars or higher

5.0

I am fifty four and I have ignored my neck for fifty four years

Four months in and the crepey texture under my jaw is visibly better. I wish I had started earlier.

Diane F. Verified buyer
5.0

Also using it on my chest, which is where my sun damage actually lives. Working there too.

Elif D.
4.0

Works. My only gripe is that I go through it faster than a face cream because the area is bigger, so factor that into the cost.

Robert A. Verified buyer
5.0

Same copper as the face products and it is not a watered down afterthought, which is what most neck creams are. Thick but it sinks in.

Clara S. Verified buyer
3.0

Perfectly good cream

I cannot honestly say I see more from it than from just taking my face products further down, which is what I did before.

Gideon M. Verified buyer
5.0

Firmer, and no reaction on skin that reacts to almost everything.

Naomi C. Verified buyer

Decide for yourself.

The full label, the dose and the price are back at the top of this page.

the neck cream

Questions

Frequently asked

Common questions about the neck cream

What does the colour on the bottle mean?

It is the dose. Every product floods one of five steps of the same blue: the palest is the cleansers, where water does the work, and full-strength cupric is reserved for the four copper products. A product cannot change band because of a season or a repackage.

Why is copper limited to four products?

Because a flagship that can be extended forever is not a flagship. GHK-Cu at full dose is the most expensive thing we make and it stays on the face, in four products. If we launch a fifth copper SKU, we will have changed our minds in public rather than quietly.

Do you publish the percentages?

On every product, in the first chapter of the page, before any claim is made about it. Where a formula is a blend rather than a single active, the page shows the blend instead of inventing a headline number.

How do I know what not to layer?

It is printed in the how-to-use block on each product, not buried in an FAQ. The short version: copper peptides and direct acids do not go on together, and a retinal night is followed by SPF in the morning.

Where do I start?

The copper protocol — the blue serum, the barrier cream and the daily spf. Treat, repair-adjacent support, and protection, which is the whole argument of the system in three steps.

Before you buy

The number is a position, not a grade.

Every active at the percentage it is used at, and what not to layer it with — stated before any claim is made about it.