SPRING
Daddy is suspicious of a cream that has to sit on the skin for ten minutes announcing itself. This one goes in and gets on with it, which is the entire point of a day cream.
The rule: this is the last step in the morning before sunscreen, and it goes on damp. Not soaking — damp. You are giving the hyaluronic acid something to hold onto. Put it on bone-dry skin in February and it will pull moisture out of you instead, and then you will blame the cream.
Small jar. That is not a slight — it is a face cream, not a body lotion, and if you are going through it in three weeks you are using far too much.
A day cream that behaves like water and finishes like skin.
Aloe leaf juice stands in for the water phase, so it is hydrating from the first line of the ingredient list down. Hyaluronic acid at several molecular weights works at more than one depth — surface plumpness and something a little further in. Bisabolol, the soothing fraction of camomile, keeps it comfortable; organic rowanberry extract handles the antioxidant defence against sun, wind and city air. Jojoba and betaine hold it all in place.
The texture is silk and it absorbs almost immediately, which matters if you have anywhere to be. Under sunscreen in the morning, on its own at night, over a serum when the weather turns.
15ml. Suitable for normal to dry skin.
How to Use:
Apply to clean skin, morning or night.
Aloe leaf juice
Used as the water phase rather than as a claim. Hydrating and calming from the first ingredient down.
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.
Betaine
Sugar-beet humectant. Draws in moisture and takes the edge off surfactants, which is why a wash built on it rinses without that tight, squeaky finish.
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.
Bisabolol
The soothing fraction of camomile, isolated. Present so a cream can be actives-forward without turning the skin red.
Rowanberry extract
Organic rowan fruit. Antioxidant defence against the everyday environmental load — sun, wind, city air.
Raspberry seed oil
Organic, cold-pressed. Antioxidant, and one of the reasons this finishes dry rather than slick.
THE SPRING — Moisturising Day Cream INCI
Ingredients:
Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe) Leaf Juice, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil➀, Glycerin➁, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Pentylene Glycol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Betaine, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Parfum, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Bisabolol, Nasturtium Officinale (Watercress) Flower/Leaf Extract➀, Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry) Fruit Extract➀, Sorbus Aucuparia (Rowan) Fruit Extract➀, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Rubus Idaeus (Raspberry) Seed Oil➀, Tocopherol, Aqua, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Phytate, Potassium Hydroxide, Benzyl Salicylate➂, Limonene➂, Citral➂, Linalool➂
➀ Ingredients from organic farming
➁ Made using organic ingredients
➂ From natural essential oil
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