Triumph & Disaster Dichotomy Eye Serum Review

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Triumph & Disaster, a New Zealand brand, creates "men’s grooming products designed with the best of nature, refined with the best science, and enhance the ritual of selfcare. The products are cruelty-free, designed with circularity at the forefront, and utilize indigenous and efficacious ingredients in formulations that meet EWG standards." While their products are conceived of for men, their Dichotomy Eye Serum is perfect for everyone!

According to Triumph & Disaster,

Triumph & Disaster's philosophy is to use the best of science combined with the best of nature to produce naturally derived but scientifically engineered products that work. We use local indigenous ingredients such as Horopito oil and Ponga fern extract blended with scientifically proven and natural ingredients from around the globe, such as clay from Australia, Jojoba extract from Mexico and Tamanu oil from Polynesia.

Finally we believe that the future of sustainable business is a path of integrity and honesty (great marketing and a rocking distribution system may also help) and that customers deserve at least this much from the brands they support.

We aim to respect nature, utilize science,  create products of ritual and tools for preparation - so we can treat Triumph & Disaster, those two imposters just the same.

Triumph & Disaster Dichotomy Eye Serum is a lightweight nourishing eye serum that effectively reduces puffiness, hydrates dehydrated skin and softens the appearance of fine lines. It is effective and gentle, and never bothers my sensitive eyes. It sinks into the skin immediately and leaves it soft, smooth supple and rejuvenated. Furthermore, this wonderful New Zealand beauty brand is cruelty-free, effective and they use wonderful healthy ingredients.

According to Triumph & Disaster,

Norwegian kelp and Persian silk help Dichotomy to reduce sagging skin and dark circles caused by dehydration, stress and not enough sleep.

Dichotomy optimizes hydrous flow and moderates water circulation, reducing unnecessary puffiness caused by modern lifestyle excesses.

Dichotomy supports collagen production, provides tensile support to blood vessels and improves skin elasticity. Crucial to maintaining healthy skin around the sensitive areas of the eyes.

Dichotomy promotes the synthesis of essential lipids and proteins essential to healthy, youthful looking skin.  Attacks crow's feet by boosting elasticity and improving firmness of the sensitive skin around the eyes. 

Attacks crows feet by boosting elasticity and improving firmness of the sensitive skin around the eyes.

Dichotomy Eye Serum is our happy collision of two historic foes. In the blue corner: Nature. Wild, untethered nature stacked with the supernatural benefits of Norwegian Kelp, Swamp Maple, Horopito, St Paul’s Wort and Persian Silk Tree. The red corner: Science, brandishing clinical evidence and proven efficacy like a killer dance move. Apart, they are tremendous. Colliding together, they are the future.

Directions: Dot a small amount of serum around the orbital bone, working from the inner to the outer corners of the skin around your eye area.

Select Ingredients and Full Ingredients:

Kakadu Plum Fruit Extract (Terminalia Ferdinandiana): Used medicinally for thousands of years by indigenous Australians, Kakadu plum is believed to possess the most Vitamin C of any food on Earth; Being up to 100 times that found in an orange. Vitamin C is a potent antioxidant and vital nutrient in slowing the aging process. It is crucial for the production of prolin, an amino acid essential to create collagen.

Norwegian Kelp (Ascophyllum Nodosum): Predominantly found in the North Atlantic Ocean (near Norway). Traditionally used for its nutritive and skin soothing properties. Being rich in minerals like Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium and Iodine, it's awesome for hydration and is anti inflammatory when applied on the skin as a firming, healing and strengthening agent.

Persian Silk Tree (Albizia Julibrissin): Persian Silk tree bark is an awesome and effective organic extract that is really expensive. Seriously it is one of the most expensive skincare ingredients doing the rounds due in a large part to its proven effect on soft skin, most noticeable on sagging eyelids. Persian Silk tree extract genuinely appears to slow the skins ageing process, like a veritable spring of eternal youth.

Swamp Maple Bark Extract (Acer Rubrum): Maple bark extract is a naturally occurring active ingredient with clinically proven pro-collagen and pro-elastin properties. Swamp Maple stimulates dermal regeneration by increasing collagen production while inhibiting collagenase enzyme synthesis that degrades collagen with age. Clinical studies reveal the complete and long-term efficacy of this polyphenolic extract with measured wrinkle amplitude reduction as well as visible effects expressed with before and after treatment documentation.

Horopito (Pseudowintera Colorata): Found only in Aoteoroa (New Zealand), Horopito is one of the worlds oldest flowering plants, surviving for over 65 million years thanks to its natural chemical defence system. Rich in antioxidants, Horopito has withstood the knocks, lasting ice ages and droughts that wiped out many less robust species. It's properties like these that make it a fantastic toning and conditioning agent.

Rosemary Extract (Rosmarinus Officinalis): A powerful natural antioxidant that provides protection against UV stress and glycation and reduces the accumulation of skin damage over time, for healthy looking skin. Stunning long-term oil preservation. Rosemary extract is a powerful oil stabiliser with anti-rancidity and natural anti-oxidation properties that help in the protection of skin collagen and elastin fibres. It also enhances elastin and hyaluronic acid production.

Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Squalane (Olive), Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Xylitylglucoside, Terminalia Ferdinandiana (Kakadu Plum) Fruit Extract, Ascophyllum Nodosum (Norwegian Kelp) Extract, Asparagopsis Armata Extract, Albizia Julibrissin (Persian Silk Tree) Bark Extract, Saccharide Isomerate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Acer Rubrum (Swamp Maple) Bark Extract, Anhydroxylitol, Xylitol, Pseudowintera Colorata (Horopito) Leaf Extract, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Sorbitol, Darutoside, Lecithin, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate.

Overall Assessment: This is such an effective and refreshing eye serum, and it is perfect for the warmer months, and in fact I am using it in lieu of a heavier eye cream this summer.

$69.00 for 0.5 oz. from Triumph & Disaster (Unaffiliated Links). Press Sample. All views expressed are categorically my own. 

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Triumph & Disaster Men's Skincare and Haircare

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Triumph & Disaster makes wonderful men's skincare and haircare products that are effective and a pleasure to use. They make fuss-free and pampering products, and Triumph & Disaster uses top quality ingredients. They make no wild claims, and they deliver on their product promises. 

About Triumph & Disaster, 

The story began with Dion Nash, a professional cricketer, who spent his youth training the harsh elements making him acutely aware of how his skin made him feel. Years later, when a tattered poem given to him by his father when he was age 13 was uncovered and Dion read the line, ‘If you can meet with Triumph & Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same’, Triumph & Disaster and a new challenge was born. Through trial and error, Dion evolved his ideas on what makes great skin, hair & body care products using natural, plant-based ingredients. He assembled a world class team to bring his ideas to life across the T&D range.

Triumph & Disaster Fibre Royale ($29.95 for 3.35 oz. from Triumph & Disaster): This product, which has a wonderful woodsy-citrus aroma, offers a strong hold without being greasy and it doesn't add volume. Hair looks natural, but keeps your hairstyle intact.

According to Triumph & Disaster,

Many tread the path, but few keep the way. Be true to yourself and take the fight to the world, this is Fibre Royale’s DNA. A strong, natural product that provides strength and hold without adding volume or dulling natural shine. Utilizing a bespoke blend of Beeswax, Argan oil and Kawakawa to mould hair and treat the scalp, Fibre Royale (in France they call it something else) is a strong hold, low volume product that delivers a natural look & style. Perfect for medium to long hairstyles, ideal for both men’s and women’s cuts, best for thicker hair types.

Fibre Royale is infused with T&D’s bespoke fragrance named Santa Monica. Like its namesake Santa Monica is a complex juxtaposition of muscle, art and good times, where everyone and anyone are welcome, so long as they come to play. Derived from the emotionally calming ‘Ho wood’ bark, mixed with cold pressed orange rind and pine needle, it has been said that Santa Monica smells like a block party from the 90’s.

Features:

• It’s ‘non-Volumizing’ and delivers a strong hold.

• Key ingredients ‘Beeswax and Argan oil’ combine to deliver tensile strength and weight with a natural look without adding volume.

• Kawakawa treats the scalp whilst the water based formulation allows pores to breathe.

• Fibre is easy to apply especially to thick or longer hair, in fact its designed for exactly these hair types.

• It’s water based so it's non-greasy and it smells like Santa Monica (our bespoke fragrance of Ho Wood bark, Pine Needle and Orange rind).

Directions: Work a small amount of Fibre Royale through dry or damp hair. Walk tall, run strong.

Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Maltodextrin/VP Copolymer, Lanolin Alcohol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cera Alba (Beeswax), Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil, Parfum (natural fragrance), Macropiper Excelsum (Kawakawa) Oil, †d-Limonene, †Citronellol, †Linalool, †Geraniol. (†Component of Natural Fragrance).

Triumph & Disaster Logic Toner ($35.00 for 8.45 oz. from Triumph & Disaster): This is a non-stripping alcohol-free toner that is gentle enough for sensitive skin without compromising its efficacy. Formulated with Witch Hazel, skin is left clean and clear without dehydration or irritation.

According to Triumph & Disaster,

A Witch Hazel Toning Lotion by Triumph & Disaster. This natural, alcohol-free toner is your ticket to the show. As the name suggests, ‘Logic’ is all about simplicity, accuracy and clarity, values espoused in the pursuit of an honest, natural, effective solution to toning and treating skin. By cleaning out the last remnants of each day’s oily residue and unwanted build up, ‘Logic’ works hard to clear pores and leave skin clean and taut. Engineered with a bespoke blend of proven actives this natural formulation balances, clears and tones without stripping or dehydrating sensitive skin, providing much needed ceremony to a daily routine.

Features:

• Water based and Alcohol Free (No Denatured Alcohol) – this means it is gentle on your skin and will not strip or dehydrate sensitive skin.

• An Everyday Balancing/Cleansing/Hydrating Toner – meaning ‘Logic’ works to balance, regulate and even out skin tone and appearance with a bespoke combination of known natural cleansing and toning agents.

• Water based and Alcohol Free (No Denatured Alcohol) – this means it is gentle on your skin and will not strip or dehydrate sensitive skin.

• Natural acne treatment ingredients – well known natural alternatives to chemical washes Witch Hazel, and Tasmanian Pepper work topically on the skins surface to treat and protect against acne.

• Reduces pores creating a smooth appearance – with regular, daily use by cleaning out excess oil and unwanted build up ‘Logic’ will work to reduce pore size creating a smooth even skin tone.

• Soothes and treats the skin – this formulation has been developed with proven natural ingredients such as Mamaku extract and Tasmanian Pepper for their natural soothing and calming qualities that leave skin feeling toned and calm.

Directions: AM: Use a splash of Logic Toner on your hands or on a cotton pad after cleansing with Ritual Cleanser. If you're shaving - make sure to use Logic Toner afterwards. Follow with Gameface Moisturizer. PM: There's nothing wrong with finishing of the day with Logic! If you've cleansed - apply a dash of Logic Toner before applying Dark Moon Hydrating Cream. We suggesting allowing Logic to really penetrate the skin before applying Dark Moon.

Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender), Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside, Gluconolactone, Sodium Benzoate, Cyathea Medullaris (Mamaku) Extract,Benzyl Alcohol, Salicylic Acid, Glycerine, Sorbic Acid, Cyathea Cumingii (Fern) Leaf Extract, Tasmannia Lanceolata Fruit Extract, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Epilobium Fleischeri (Alpine Willowherb) Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) Extract.

Triumph & Disaster Dark Moon Hydrating Cream ($65.00 for 1.69 oz. from Triumph & Disaster): This is a deeply hydrating and nourishing face cream that is mid-weight, and yet fast absorbing and incredibly emollient. It is very concentrated, and therefore only a tiny amount is needed to achieve the desired results. It leaves skin soft, smooth, supply and deeply moisturized. It has a wonderful, and light, earthy aroma that is a delight to the senses.

According to Triumph & Disaster,

The dark moon is invisible to Earth, silent and hidden in shadow, a deep breath taken before each lunar cycle. ‘Dark Moon’ by Triumph & Disaster represents this concept of reflection and recovery and is designed to work with our body’s natural rhythm. A scientifically engineered hydrating cream, Dark Moon utilizes Vitamin C, Olive and Horopito to facilitate healthy, vibrant skin; working silently and naturally in the deep hours before dawn.

Features:

• Engineered to enhance collagen production using multiple sources rich in Vitamin C such as Kakadu plum, Swamp maple, and Rosemary. Vitamin C is for Collagen.

• Hydration for regeneration. Best used as a night cream, this is a light hydrating phenomenon. Feels effortless on the skin whilst delivering outstanding hydration.

• Perfect aid for overnight rejuvenation rich in Swamp Maple and its proven pro-collagen and pro-elastin qualities. Clinical trials show the long-term efficacy of this polyphenolic extract, a wonder ingredient that promotes healthy collagen production 

• Go easy, don’t overload. We believe heavy, thick night creams are counter-productive to the regenerative process. Our role is to facilitate repair not hinder it by overloading the system with synthetic obstacles that then need to be flushed.

• Clinically proven - We have investigated and adopted the very latest science combined with our knowledge and philosophy of skin to promote the healthiest skin we can. The science we use is clinically proven, the ingredients traceable and sustainable, the ethos pure and green.  

Directions: Apply daily prior to bed, or as a top up to your daily moisturizing routine. 

Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Squalane, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glyceryl Citrate/Lactate/Linoleate/Oleate,Glycerin, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Terminalia Ferdinandiana (Kakadu Plum) Fruit Extract, Saccharide Isomerate, Acer Rubrum (Swamp Maple) Bark Extract, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Pseudowintera Colorata (Horopito) Leaf Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Lecithin, Parfum: †Geraniol, †Citronellol, †Oak Moss, †Butylphenyl Methylpropional, †Linalool, †Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone. (†Fragrance Component).

Overall Assessment: These are really wonderful products from a brand created with men in mind, and yet I have also been dipping into these products, and think that they are first-rate.

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