Y-Age Glutathione patch: wellbeing and the look of your skin
The Y-Age Glutathione patch is LifeWave's patch for overall wellbeing and skin. Here is how it is made, how to wear it and how to pair it with your skincare.
Y-Age Glutathione is a LifeWave phototherapy patch for overall wellbeing. According to the company, it helps you relax and reduce stress, and it improves the appearance of skin.
How does the Y-Age Glutathione patch work?
The patch is named after glutathione — a substance the body produces on its own. The patch itself, however, contains no glutathione: it does not enter the skin but responds to body heat and reflects specific wavelengths of light.
Glutathione patch benefits: what the company says
When people search for a “glutathione patch”, they usually mean this LifeWave patch. According to the company, Y-Age Glutathione:
- improves the appearance of skin;
- helps you relax and reduce stress;
- supports overall wellbeing;
- works without medicines or stimulants.
The company stresses a simple idea: a good overall state of the body is the best protection. So Glutathione is about wellbeing as a whole, not just skin. The patch does not promise to lighten skin or change its tone, and you shouldn't expect it to.
How to wear Y-Age Glutathione
- 5–7 days a week, rotating the recommended points.
- In the morning on clean, dry skin, for up to 12 hours.
- With Aeon or Carnosine — two patches on two Y-Age points, center or right.
- Drink enough water.
Glutathione patch placement: where to put it
Glutathione goes on the recommended Y-Age points — the diagram is in the instructions inside the pack. Rotate the points from day to day. If you wear two patches from the line at once, use two Y-Age points: center or right.
Skin should be clean and dry before you apply the patch. Put on cream after the patch is in place, and not on the spot where it sits.
Common mistakes
- Expecting the patch to do things the company doesn't claim, such as lightening skin.
- Wearing the patch for longer than 12 hours or applying it to damp skin.
- Putting the patch on the same point every day.
- Relying on the patch alone and forgetting about sleep, water and sun protection.
How to judge the results
Take a photo in daylight on day one and after a month of regular wear, and note your stress levels and overall wellbeing. That way you'll see your own picture instead of relying on other people's impressions. Results are individual for everyone.
How to pair the patch with your skincare
How your skin looks depends on many things: sleep, water, sun protection and daily care. What matters after 45 is covered in “Skin changes with age”, and a ready-made morning and evening routine in “Alavida skincare: a morning and evening routine”. For sun protection, see “Sun protection for your skin”.
Glutathione on its own or in the Y-Age system?
The patch can be worn on its own. Together with Aeon and Carnosine it is part of the Y-Age System Kit — how to combine all three is explained in “The Y-Age system”.