LACTEA Sensitive Skin Oil-to-Milk Cleanser
Daddy has watched grown men use one all-in-one wash on every kind of skin and then wonder, sincerely, why their face is tight and angry by noon. Wrong cleanser, not bad luck.
The tell is simple. An hour after washing with nothing else on: if your face feels tight, drawn, maybe flaking — you're dry, and this is yours. Oil on dry skin, water in your hands, and the day leaves without a fight. If you're shining by midday, pores you can see — you're oily; go to PURGO or CENSOR. Somewhere in between, or it changes with the season — combination; RUBOR most days.
The rule for this one: dry skin first. Not damp. Dry. Massage like you mean it, then wet your hands and let it turn. If you're double-cleansing, it's step one — the step most people skip.
LACTEA
Goes on as oil. Comes off as milk.
The heaviest day you can put on a face — SPF, city, a full beard of grime — dissolves into a dewy oil the second this touches dry skin. Then a splash of water turns the whole thing to silky milk and it rinses away, and everything it lifted goes with it. Nothing dragged, nothing stripped, none of that tight over-cleaned feeling that makes skin panic and overproduce by noon.
Gentle enough for sensitive skin and dermatologically tested, ruthless enough to be your make-up remover and your morning cleanse both. The skin it leaves behind is soft, fed, and calm — clean the way skin is meant to be clean.
Massage in dry. Add water. Watch it change.
Sunflower seed oil (organic)
Sunflower seed oil (organic) + tocopherol (vitamin E) — replenishes what the scrub removes; leaves skin conditioned, not stripped
Glycolipids
Gentle sugar-derived cleansing agents. What lets an oil turn to milk on contact with water instead of needing a hard surfactant.
Camomile extract
Organic. The calming half of a formula meant for skin that reacts to things.
Sea buckthorn
Orange berry from the Nordic coast, unusually rich in carotenoids and vitamin C. Antioxidant support, and the colour in anything it touches.
Cloudberry
Arctic berry, brief season, high vitamin C. Antioxidant work in the base while the actives do the loud part.
Tocopherol (vitamin E)
Vitamin E. Protects the oils in the bottle as much as the skin they go on.
LACTEA — Sensitive Skin Oil-To-Milk Cleanser INCI
Ingredients:
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glycerin, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil➀, Aqua, Sucrose Laurate, Sucrose Palmitate, Alcohol, Tocopherol, Mica (CI 77019), Parfum, Chamomilla Recutita (Camomile) Flower Extract➀, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Extract➀, Rubus Chamaemorus (Cloudberry) Fruit Extract➀, CI 77491 (Iron Oxides), Glycolipids, Limonene, Linalyl Acetate
➀ Ingredients from organic farming
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