Daily Dynamic Hydrator

The antioxidant network, complete

Oil-soluble tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate high in the formula with a touch of classic ascorbic acid, glutathione, astaxanthin, and, unusually, superoxide dismutase itself, the frontline antioxidant enzyme most products only claim to support. Antioxidants regenerate one another in a relay; this is the full team on the field in one product.

The firming chorus

Tripeptide-1 and caprooyl tetrapeptide-3, two renewal-signalling peptides, with dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline, a lipid-carried form of the amino acid collagen is largely built from, and acetyl tyrosine in support.

The energy and survival story

ATP, the molecule cells actually spend as energy, arrives alongside Haberlea rhodopensis, the Balkan “resurrection plant” that revives from complete desiccation, and black spruce bark: botanicals selected from organisms that survive what skin merely endures.

The hydration floor

Hyaluronic acid, konjac glucomannan, glycerin and two forms of shea keep the actual moisturising generous, this is a genuine daily hydrator, not a serum in a jar’s clothing.

Skin consolidating its ageing-focused routine into fewer, harder-working steps, normal to dry textures, mornings that want antioxidant cover plus moisture in one move, and evenings over actives. A natural graduation for skin that has outgrown a plain moisturiser.

Worth knowing

Contains fragrance, patch test with a known fragrance allergy. Shea is used in its refined forms, which carry negligible allergenic protein even for nut-allergic users. This jar replaces a moisturiser, not a sunscreen: SPF still finishes every morning.

Morning and/or evening as the final skincare step (before SPF in the morning): a small amount massaged over face and neck, the texture spreads further than the jar suggests.

Judge the firming and tone work at eight weeks; the hydration you get on day one.

Use alongside

The sealing layer over any iS Clinical serum, Active Serum or the Brightening pair at night, Copper Firming Mist beneath it any time. It holds the premium-moisturiser chair alongside Humidify and Harmonize: choose one daily cream and commit. On heavy-antioxidant mornings it can carry the routine alone under SPF, that consolidation is rather the point of the price.