topic Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn? in Beauty

Anyone still using Ethocyn?

drizzellla — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:02:34 GMT

I used to be on auto-ship with HSN for Ethocyn. Then HSN stopped the auto-ship.

Finally found a company that sold it. Then they stopped selling it.

Then I was able to buy directly from Ethocyn Skincare. Then they stopped selling it.

I am so glad that I hoarded the stuff because it was getting harder and harder to find, I bought many vials. Well, I am down to my last batch.

Has anyone found a similar product?

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

Icegoddess — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:18:20 GMT

I stopped using it years ago. After HSN stopped selling it, I was able to get it on Ebay for awhile, but it got to be harder and harder to find. Didn't know you could get it directly from Ethocyn, but I probably wouldn't pay full price for it anyways. I didn't even realize the company was still in business.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

FlyersGirl — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:28:03 GMT

@drizzellla Wow that is a blast from the past for me. I was also on auto delivery for Ethocyn from HSN until they stopped the A/D. I was buying it at Drug Store Emporium after that. Once those stores closed I could not find it anywhere and moved on to other products. This was probably in the late 90s or very early 2000s. I think that was when I switched to philosophy skin care.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

drizzellla — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:48:54 GMT

@FlyersGirl wrote:
@drizzellla Wow that is a blast from the past for me. I was also on auto delivery for Ethocyn from HSN until they stopped the A/D. I was buying it at Drug Store Emporium after that. Once those stores closed I could not find it anywhere and moved on to other products. This was probably in the late 90s or very early 2000s. I think that was when I switched to philosophy skin care.

Thank you!

I could not remember the store where I bought Ethocyn. It was DrugStore . com!

We followed the same route until I went directly to Ethocyn Skincare. I think I bought directly from them for about 10 years.

Thanks, @FlyersGirl .

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

drizzellla — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:37:50 GMT

@Icegoddess

I never bought it from ebay. I heard a few stories about the vials being filled with a different product other than Ethocyn.

Buying directly from Ethocyn was quite a deal. They had half off sales a few times a year. So I would stock up during the sales. That is why I had such a nice hoard of product.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

FlyersGirl — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:38:15 GMT

@drizzellla You are welcome! I wish I had thought to go directly to the company to purchase the product. I did love Ethocyn. ❤

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

Icegoddess — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:45:26 GMT

@drizzellla wrote:
@Icegoddess

I never bought it from ebay. I heard a few stories about the vials being filled with a different product other than Ethocyn.

Buying directly from Ethocyn was quite a deal. They had half off sales a few times a year. So I would stock up during the sales. That is why I had such a nice hoard of product.

I never saw or felt anything to indicate there was anything amiss about the products I was getting. I also used their moisturizer and eye cream. I use a mixture of other products now, and was told just yesterday at the dermatologist's office that I had very nice skin, so what I'm doing is working for me. I wasn't there for my skin, but to have a large mole removed on my back.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

drizzellla — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:55:54 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
@drizzellla wrote:
@Icegoddess

I never bought it from ebay. I heard a few stories about the vials being filled with a different product other than Ethocyn.

Buying directly from Ethocyn was quite a deal. They had half off sales a few times a year. So I would stock up during the sales. That is why I had such a nice hoard of product.
I never saw or felt anything to indicate there was anything amiss about the products I was getting. I also used their moisturizer and eye cream. I use a mixture of other products now, and was told just yesterday at the dermatologist's office that I had very nice skin, so what I'm doing is working for me. I wasn't there for my skin, but to have a large mole removed on my back.

It might have been just one seller on Ebay that was selling something other than Ethocyn in the vials. I read "somewhere" that a woman complained that she thought the product was different. And other women commented.

And who knows maybe the woman who was complaining was wrong. I just didn't want to take the chance at that point. But so glad that it worked out well for you. AND so glad to hear that the Dermatologist thinks you have nice skin. They know their skin. Quite a compliment.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

SeaMaiden — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:01:56 GMT

@drizzellla I was on auto ship and used this from HSN MANY MANY years ago! Had not thought about it since...

can you tell me what was the ingredient (s) was or were in this product?

It is such and old product, I wonder if there is not better skin care out there today?

What was it suppose to do? I do not even remember that LOL!

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

SilleeMee — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:21:42 GMT

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

Icegoddess — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:27:02 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
Ethocyn is a brand name of a type of retinoid (retinyl palmitate).

Retinyl Palmitate is IN Ethocyn, but it is not Ethocyn. The ingredient claimed to be Ethocyn is Ethoxyhexyl-Bicyclooctanone which it claims specifically to increase the synthesis of elastin.

The full list of ingredients is: Cyclomethicone, Dimethiconol, Squalane, Dimethicone Ethoxyhexyl-Bicyclooctanone, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Linoleate, Evening Primrose Oil

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

drizzellla — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:03:30 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
I stopped using it years ago. After HSN stopped selling it, I was able to get it on Ebay for awhile, but it got to be harder and harder to find. Didn't know you could get it directly from Ethocyn, but I probably wouldn't pay full price for it anyways. I didn't even realize the company was still in business.

@Icegoddess

I think Ethocyn went out of business in 2021. The end of 2020 or early 2021 I got an email stating if you wanted any Ethocyn product, to order it now. Sadly, I did not open the email until I was cleaning out my new email folder months later.

I had ordered Ethocyn on 11/25/20. And thought it was just an email pertaining to my order, My regret.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

Shelbelle — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:48:17 GMT

It just reminded me of the late Polly Bergen who was the rep on HSN for it, and later it was Joyce DeWitt.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

SilleeMee — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 19:00:00 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
@SilleeMee wrote:
Ethocyn is a brand name of a type of retinoid (retinyl palmitate).
Retinyl Palmitate is IN Ethocyn, but it is not Ethocyn. The ingredient claimed to be Ethocyn is Ethoxyhexyl-Bicyclooctanone which it claims specifically to increase the synthesis of elastin.

The full list of ingredients is: Cyclomethicone, Dimethiconol, Squalane, Dimethicone Ethoxyhexyl-Bicyclooctanone, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Linoleate, Evening Primrose Oil

@Icegoddess

Yes, you're right! My error. I deleted my post if you haven't already noticed.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

Icegoddess — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 19:28:28 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
@Icegoddess wrote:
@SilleeMee wrote:
Ethocyn is a brand name of a type of retinoid (retinyl palmitate).
Retinyl Palmitate is IN Ethocyn, but it is not Ethocyn. The ingredient claimed to be Ethocyn is Ethoxyhexyl-Bicyclooctanone which it claims specifically to increase the synthesis of elastin.

The full list of ingredients is: Cyclomethicone, Dimethiconol, Squalane, Dimethicone Ethoxyhexyl-Bicyclooctanone, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Linoleate, Evening Primrose Oil

@Icegoddess
Yes, you're right! My error. I deleted my post if you haven't already noticed.

@SilleeMee no problem. No, I hadn't noticed. Been out and about doing things and hadn't been back since my last post. Thanks.

Re: Anyone still using Ethocyn?

Icegoddess — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 19:44:39 GMT

@SilleeMee , that was when I first started becoming interested in the ingredients in my products, so I started documenting them and what they did (or were claimed to do). Ehthocyn was #6 in my database. That's the only reason I had that info. Retinyl Palmitate wasn't in their moisturizer or eye cream. Interestingly, at least to me, I see that Sodium Hyaluronate was in their moisturizer, long before that ingredient was being touted to the general public.