Peter Thomas Roth is a name I often hear rolling off the tongues of the beauty set; unsurprisingly, as the brand has been on the radar since 1993. When I met Noreen Donovan Roth, the managing director of the beauty label and wife of the clinical skincare founder himself, she whispered to me that she uses the Pumpkin Enzyme Mask a couple of times a week to give her complexion a lit-from-within radiance.
Racing back to the office after our beauty téte à téte, I couldn’t wait to give this potent, full-of-promise face treat a whirl. Turning the beauty desk into a testing laboratory, using damp fingertips, my assistant and I started working the pumpkin enzyme and alpha hydroxyl acid formula all over our complexions. As the scent of spiced pumpkin pie wafted through the office, the fine aluminum oxide particles acted like a microdermabrasion, skin-polishing treat. What I loved most about this product was that we could really feel it work—as if our pores were purging themselves of toxins.
Left on for 3 to 7 minutes and then rinsed with warm water, our comparative notes were that our skin felt fresh, tingly, visibly brighter, squeaky clean, and soft to the touch.
This is one skin cell-sloughing mask that will be a popular, twice-a-week skin pick-me-up from this day forward.
