SOMNUS — Ceramide Night Cream
Three actives. Thirty-five ingredients in all.
Not sure it's right for your skin? Four questions — Daddy will tell you.
Skin does its real work between midnight and six. Repair, turnover, the slow rebuilding of the barrier that the day pulled apart. A night cream's only job is to not get in the way of that and to hand over the materials. SOMNUS hands over the materials.
Ceramides — the lipids the barrier is actually made of — to shore up what's thinning. Cocoa and shea to seal it. Sea buckthorn, peony, elderberry, and cranberry seed oil for the overnight glow the morning mirror reports back. Sodium PCA and hyaluronic acid hold water in the tissue so it's plump when you wake up, not tight. The texture is rich without being heavy; it glides on and finishes to skin, not to a film on the pillow. Lavender and white flower, kept quiet.
Nothing to do but sleep.
What it does
- Deeply moisturizes overnight
- Supports and restores the natural skin barrier
- Promotes skin renewal and a healthy-looking glow by morning
- Softens the look of fine lines through hydration
What is in it
- Sea buckthorn
Orange berry from the Nordic coast, unusually rich in carotenoids and vitamin C. Antioxidant support, and the colour in anything it touches.
- Shea butter
Organic, unrefined. The occlusive that gives a light cream enough body to actually stay put.
- Jojoba seed oil
Technically a wax ester, and close enough to skin's own sebum that it absorbs instead of sitting on top. Conditions without the grease.
- Sunflower seed oil (organic)
Sunflower seed oil (organic) + tocopherol (vitamin E) — replenishes what the scrub removes; leaves skin conditioned, not stripped
- Sodium PCA
Part of skin's own natural moisturising factor. Replaces what washing takes out, and keeps the hydration from evaporating off again.
- Hyaluronic acid
Humectant; pulls water into the upper layers and holds it there, so skin reads plump rather than merely damp. Used here at multiple molecular weights so it works at more than one depth.
- Ceramides
Glycosphingolipids and glycolipids — the fats that hold skin's own barrier together, running low by the time night creams start getting reached for.
- Cocoa butter
Dense and emollient, melts at skin temperature. Named on the label because it's doing real work, not because it smells like dessert.
How to use
Evening, on clean skin. A fingertip, warmed between the hands, pressed across face and neck. After PEPTIDE ONE or OLEUM, and before or after JUVENTAS at the eye. In the morning, BASIS or HELIOS takes over. Reactive skin that wants no fragrance: REQUIES instead.
Night cream is the one product that works while you do nothing, which is why it's worth getting right. Put it on last, put the phone down, and let the barrier do its rebuilding.
