LACTEA — Sensitive Skin Oil-To-Milk Cleanser
Three actives. Seventeen ingredients in all.
Sunflower oil·Chamomile·Sea buckthorn
Not sure it's right for your skin? Four questions — Daddy will tell you.
Sunflower oil, chamomile, sea buckthorn, cloudberry. Oil going on, milk coming off — dissolves the day without stripping. Flesh, gentled.
The best cleanse is a change of state. LACTEA goes on as a rich, dewy oil-gel that dissolves make-up, sunscreen and the day on contact — then meets water and turns to a silky milk that rinses clean away. Nothing pulls, nothing strips, and the skin doesn't get that tight, over-cleansed feeling that sends it into overdrive.
It's built for sensitive and dry skin and dermatologically tested, but it's the one to reach for on anyone's heaviest make-up day, or as the first step in a double cleanse. Organic chamomile calms, sea buckthorn and cloudberry feed and brighten, sunflower oil and glycolipids do the lifting. Skin is left fresh, soft, and nourished — clean in the way skin is supposed to be clean.
Massage in dry. Add water. Watch it change.
What it does
- Dissolves make-up and impurities, including heavy make-up
- Transforms from oil to milk on contact with water
- Cleanses without stripping moisture
- Leaves skin fresh, soft, and nourished
- Gentle for dry, delicate, and sensitive skin
What is in it
- 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.
How to use
Apply to dry or damp skin, massage gently to lift make-up and impurities, add a little water to turn it to milk, then rinse thoroughly. Avoid direct contact with the eyes. As a full cleanse, or as the first step before IMBER; follow with serum and REQUIES or BASIS. In the THE RITUAL set.
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.
