When you hear the term “superfood,” you probably think of nutrient-dense acai bowls and kale salads. Ingesting these potent powerhouses helps nourish the body on the inside by delivering a high volume of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants, giving you more nutritional bang for your buck. But does the same apply when these powerful ingredients are used topically on the skin? With that question in mind, we asked four Eminence Organic Skin Care Team Members to add the Superfood Booster-Powder to our best-selling Bakuchiol + Niacinamide Moisturizer for 10 weeks to see what results this combination could produce.
Key Takeaways
Superfoods in Skin Care: Eminence Organics uses a farm‑to‑face approach, sourcing naturally potent, vitamin and antioxidant-rich organic ingredients. Its Superfood Booster‑Powder contains nutrient‑dense botanicals like Kakadu plum, spirulina, coix seed and sweet potato to deliver visible skin benefits.
Personalized Skin Care: The powder can be mixed into any moisturizer (other than those containing SPF), allowing users to tailor treatments to their unique skin type and concerns. This customization optimizes product effectiveness and adapts easily to seasonal or lifestyle changes.
Benefits of Powder Vitamin C: Keeping vitamin C in powder form until application ensures superior stability, potency and freshness compared to pre‑mixed serums, while reducing the risk of oxidation and maintaining maximum benefits for brightening the look of skin.
10‑Week Team Member Trial Results: Four of our Team Members used the powder with the Bakuchiol + Niacinamide Moisturizer for 10 weeks, reporting noticeable improvements in the look of skin brightness, hydration, texture, reduced appearance of dark spots and softer fine lines.
Superfoods In Skin Care
When it comes to skin care ingredients, Eminence Organics sources our natural, organic and Biodynamic® plants from a select number of partner farms. While we consider many of our fruit and vegetable-based ingredients to be “super,” some of the more potent ones are used in the Superfood Booster-Powder.
What Is Superfood Booster-Powder?
Just like the name suggests, Superfood Booster-Powder is a vitamin-rich, ultra-fine powder designed to be sprinkled into a moisturizer to supercharge effectiveness and results. Packed with vitamin C from Kakadu plum, vitamin B3 (niacinamide) from coix seed, vitamin K from spirulina and beta carotene from sweet potato, this unique product targets the look of uneven skin tone, reduces the appearance of dark spots and visibly brightens the complexion.
The powder can be added to almost any moisturizer to amp up the results and give the skin an extra helping of vitamins. One exception: SPF! Although you can layer SPF over almost any skin care products (and you should, every day!), it shouldn’t be mixed in with any other products before applying. SPF is considered by many to be the most important product in your daily skin care routine and retaining your SPF product’s integrity is paramount for its efficacy as a guard against the sun and UV light. This is one product that can’t be improved by mixing with other skin care products and we’d advise against mixing it in with makeup or moisturizer. We recommend letting your skin care products settle into the skin, then layer the sunscreen on top as the last step in your routine.
Personalized Skin Care
One of the highlights of the Superfood Booster-Powder is that it allows the user to customize their skin care. Personalized skin care takes a custom approach to your complexion, matching products to your unique skin type, concerns, goals and lifestyle. Unlike a one-size-fits-all routine, it focuses on targeted treatments that address your skin’s specific needs for optimal results.
Some of the benefits of personalized skin care include:
More Effective Results: By targeting your personal needs and goals, it can lead to more noticeable and positive outcomes.
Optimized Product Use: Using the right products for your skin type and concerns ensures that you’re getting the most benefit from each product.
Adaptability: Personalized skin care routines can be adjusted over time to accommodate changes in skin condition, seasonal variations and lifestyle adjustments.
Why Add Superfood Booster-Powder to Your Moisturizer?
As mentioned above, personalizing your skin care can make it more effective and garner even better results because you are honing in on exactly what your skin needs. Adding Superfood Booster-Powder takes things one step further. Because it can be added to most moisturizers, you can choose the best formula for your specific skin goals. Taking things to the next level by mixing vitamin C powder into a moisturizer immediately before application has a few extra benefits.
“Vitamin C in dry powder form is significantly more stable and has a longer shelf life [than after it’s mixed with liquid],” according to Into The Gloss. While they insist that vitamin C serums can also be very effective, “…the biggest advantage with vitamin C powder is superior stability.” Vitamin C in powder form can be more potent than pre-mixed skin care, fresher and at reduced risk of oxidation.
Ingredients Spotlight
The superfood designation is not something we take lightly. Kakadu plum is a miniature pear-shaped superfruit found in Australia. This almond-sized fruit has the highest concentration of vitamin C within the fruit family, up to 100 times the amount found in oranges! Adding this superfruit to your skin care can help minimize the appearance of dark spots and improve overall skin radiance, while reducing the appearance of wrinkles.
Coix seeds are rich in B vitamins, including niacinamide, which works to brighten and enhance the look of skin tone. It’s also hydrating to the skin without being oily, can help soften the complexion and promote surface cell turnover and is known for properties that help sensitive skin.
Spirulina is a blue-green algae rich in vitamins B1, B2 and B3, and is a botanical source of vitamin K. Its high nutrient and mineral content can help the skin appear stronger, and it is also known to improve hydration and skin texture.
The powder also contains sweet potato, which is rich in beta-carotene and helps the skin look and feel rejuvenated. Sweet potato is rich in antioxidants called anthocyanins, which help reduce the visible signs of aging due to drying environmental stressors.
A Perfect Pairing
The Superfood Booster-Powder can be paired with almost any moisturizer. Sprinkling a spoonful of the powder into a moisturizer that addresses your particular issues will activate the powder and supercharge the moisturizer with a blend of vitamins to promote healthy-looking skin. Because the vitamin C formula used in the powder is non-oxidizing and stays in powder form until use, the potency of the vitamin doesn’t degrade or oxidize. This results in an even more powerful product.
How We Tested: Our 10-Week Experiment
We asked four Eminence Organics Team Members to try out the Superfood Booster-Powder combined with the Bakuchiol + Niacinamide Moisturizer for 10 weeks to see what improvements they noticed in their skin.
The Bakuchiol + Niacinamide Moisturizer is a gel-cream formula with the unique combination of niacinamide and the retinol alternative, bakuchiol. This popular moisturizer softens the look of wrinkles while visibly firming skin, minimizing large pores and improving the look of uneven texture, all with no visible irritation. By adding the powder to the moisturizer, we were hoping to see an improvement in the look of dark spots, fine lines and wrinkles, pore size and hydration.
The powder mixes well with almost any moisturizer, but the Bakuchiol + Niacinamide is both a customer (and staff) favorite and suitable for all types of skin, so combining it with the Superfood Booster-Powder for this experiment made sense.
One of our testers, Choo, commented on the moisturizer saying: “Love the scent! Texture is perfect — light enough for day use and feels nourishing enough for overnight too.”
Maya L. loved it too, saying: “My favorite moisturizer! The texture works perfectly, keeping my combination skin hydrated without feeling too heavy. A little goes a long way, so one jar lasts me a long time!”
For 10 weeks, our testers mixed a spoonful of Superfood Booster-Powder into the gel-cream moisturizer and applied to their skin morning and night. They were advised to keep the rest of their skin care routine the same and to be extra vigilant with their SPF during the day.
Results: Before & After
After 10 weeks, the testers were excited about their results. Monisha C. noticed visible improvements in her skin’s texture, tone and brightness, and she’s not the only one: “I’ve received so many compliments about how healthy and glowing my skin looks,” she told us. She went on to say: “My complexion has become noticeably radiant and my skin feels bouncy and well-hydrated throughout the day. It’s been amazing to see these changes, especially since I’ve been diligent with my routine and applying the products morning and night.”
Choo’s changes were visible to others too: “I’ve received compliments from unknowing friends and family about how good my skin looks during this trial period.” Her complexion appears more even-looking overall, but the real show-stopper is her undereye area. Her dark circles are noticeably less visible and the area appears smoother and brighter.
Maya is a fan of the Superfood Booster-Powder and moisturizer combo. “I notice how soft my skin feels and I’m more confident about the way it looks. I can keep my makeup minimal or even go makeup free! This powder is an awesome option for those who love vitamin C and love to travel, as it saves on your liquids allowance and lasts such a long time.”
Sherry A. had high hopes for the combination and was not disappointed: “I’ve noticed a visible improvement in my skin. My dark spots have faded, my texture is much smoother with fewer bumps and my skin feels tight, yet well hydrated. The fine lines on my forehead are noticeably less prominent and there’s a radiance to my complexion that wasn’t there before. I don’t know if I would ever let go of the Superfood Booster-Powder!”
After 10 weeks of consistent use of this dynamic duo, our testers are all happy with the visible improvements in their skin tone, texture and radiance. They found the combo easy to incorporate into their skin care routines and all four of them are excited to continue with the protocol.
If you’re interested in mixing our Superfood Booster-Powder into your moisturizer, visit your nearest Eminence Organics Spa Partner to find out how!
