Keep it light at night

24 Feb

During the day your needs protection from environmental factors such as weather, wind, pollution, dehydrating air conditioning etc. Your Day Cream, Day Lotion or Clarifying Day Oil are created with formulations which help to regulate and balance, firm and tone, nourish and protect, activate and enliven or soothe and strengthen.

During the nighttime, however, your skin is really busy with its natural regenerating and eliminating activity. We keep it light at night which supports and guides your skin’s nighttime processes - so you wake up to refreshed and revitalised skin!

At Dr. Hauschka, we believe that using a heavy night cream weighs down the skin and slows down your skin’s natural regenerating properties. You really don’t need a heavy night cream which impedes the nighttime work for your skin, so long as you use a gentle and effective Cleanser which respects your skin’s pH, and Toner so your Serum locks in the hydration. Our night treatment preparations are light Serums, to support your skin’s night time activity, so you wake up to refreshed and revitalised skin!

Lose the heavy night cream, your skin will thank you for it

During the night your skin is regenerating, metabolising and eliminating the day’s waste, that’s one of its many functions as the largest organ in your body.
The night time rhythm of the skin is one of a ‘breathing out’.
How do you know this is happening? Because skin disorders such as eczema, shingles, chicken pox or measles are often worse during the night. And how often have you woken up in the morning to be greeted by a pimple?
There are no environmental factors that you need to protect your skin from while you’re asleep.
A night cream, which is usually a heavy, expensive, often occlusive substance, impedes your skin’s normal night time process.
In our experience we have found heavy night creams also exacerbate dry skin, because the skin isn’t being encouraged to work for itself.

Dr. Hauschka’s gentle and effective cleansing rituals support our stance on no heavy night cream. Our night treatment preparations are light Serums, to support your skin’s night time activity.

At first our no night cream guiding principle seems unusual

However, we think after one month (a skin cell cycle) you will need no more convincing!

Please note: We don’t recommend eye cream use at night either, it’s likely to give you puffy eyes in the morning.

Check out our Serums below:

Night Serum based on apple hydrosol and apple blossom for all skin types. Regenerating Serum for maturing skin 40+ based on highly regenerating and anti-oxidant rich red clover and nourishing honey. Regenerating Intensive Night Serum for maturing skin 50-55+ that’s increasingly dry and may also be increasingly sensitive with olive extract and root extracts of dandelion and marshmallow.