The Benefits of Multi-Functional Skincare Products with La Fervance
Multi-functional and versatile skincare products are increasingly gaining popularity, and for good reasons.
Vanessa Noy
June 7, 2024
Your complete guide
Layering Your Skincare
in the correct order
Let’s be honest, figuring out the correct order of your skincare can be confusing, right? Firstly, we must navigate what we need to use and then there’s what order to apply in! It need not be intimidating nor confusing, as we talk you through the products that genuinely matter and when to use to them.
Step 1: CLEANSE
When: AM & PM
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Cleanse your face morning and night! Your skincare products work better on clean skin.
For morning, a single nourishing cleanse will stimulate cell renewal and clear the skin for your next treatment.
The night cleanse is vitally important to the clarity of your skin tone. Treat your night cleanse as 5-minute skin loving ritual. Ditch the makeup wipes unless you are camping or on a plane and commit to double cleansing. Your skin will thank you. Double cleansing ensures that not only is the first layer of excess sebum, makeup, sunscreen is removed but also that deep pore bacteria, which can aggravate acne.
The cleansing duo by LUXE Botanics is an ideal cleansing system. The Marula Hydrating Pre-Cleanser gently dissolve makeup and excess oil effortlessly priming the skin for the next cleanse. Smooth, lightweight and ideal for all skin types the Camu Brightening Cleanser gently purifies the skin without disrupting the skin barrier.
LUXE BOTANICS Camu Brightening Cleanser
Smooth lightweight cream cleanser.
Purify skin and gently lift dirt, excess oil and other impurities, without disrupting skin’s delicate lipid barrier. Camu Camu and green tea extracts brighten and refine tone while coconut extracts, chamomile and cucumber calm and soothe, revealing a radiant and refreshed complexion.
Best for: brightening in dull, sun damaged or lacklustre skin.
LUXE BOTANICS Marula Hydrating Pre-Cleanser
Silky oil pre-cleanser.
Gently dissolves makeup, dirt, excess oil, pollution and other pore clogging impurities without disrupting skin’s delicate natural lipid barrier. This silky, skin softening blend of marula, jojoba and rosehip oils perfectly purify and prime skin to receive further treatment.
Best for: combination, dry or mature skin.
Volume: 120ml
When to EXFOLIATE & MASK?
It’s your choice when you exfoliate, whatever works for you but commit to exfoliating twice a week (once for sensitive skin types) to deeply cleanse and detoxify the skin.
Exfoliating creates a clean clear canvas so your skin regime can work as it’s formulated to. Why treat dead skin cells right? Suited to all skin types including sensitive types the French Girl Lait Rose Vitamin C Polishing Wash is a gentle powdered exfoliating wash revealing a bright glowing complexion.
A weekly natural beauty mask, whether you choose to exfoliate first or combine the step by using a multi-tasking exfoliator and mask, will benefit your skin with a boost from the concentrated actives. Think of a face mask as turbo charge shot that enhances radiance and healthy skin function. The pore -purging powerhouse Bloomeffects Dutch Dirt Mask is true multi-tasking exfoliator and mask in one. The result is perfectly purified skin, enhanced radiance and invisible pores. Yes please!
BLOOMEFFECTS Dutch Dirt Mask
Exfoliate. Detoxify. Purify.
A skin-purifying, pore-purging powerhouse multi-tasker exfoliating scrub and mask in one. Packed full of botanical plant extracts and fruit enzymes for perfectly purified skin, enhanced radiance and refined pores.
Best For: oily, combination skin, dullness and uneven texture.
Volume: 60ml
Step 2: MIST (aka your Toner)
When: AM & PM
The most underrated skincare product on the market! Natural and organic mists are alcohol-free hydrosol waters that are brimming with plant water loving plant compounds – we call them hydrophilic actives. These compounds are tinier than those of their big cousin oil loving compounds, but just as effective.
Mists are carrier systems; they transport essential vitamins and minerals to the skin helping your oil-based products work to their optimum. And they refresh, brighten and boost hydration!
Both morning and night directly after cleansing mist the face directly and apply your next treatment.
Need extra hydration?
The VENN Synbiotic Defence Mist refreshes and delivers a boost of nourishment and hydration to balance and revitalise the skin.
VENN Synbiotic Defense Mist
Ultra-hydrating prebiotic and probiotic face mist.
Refreshing and hydrating face mist, using VENN’s proprietary combination of probiotics and prebiotics to help balance the skin microbiome and instantly nourish and revitalise the skin.
Best for: All skin types, recommended for acne-prone and dry skin types.
Volume: 100ml
3. SERUM
When: AM & PM
The lightest products go first, regardless of whether you are using an essence or serum. These are supercharged targeted treatments that deliver active ingredients to the skin. There is a serum for every skin type allowing you to customise your regime to your skin concerns.
For daytime pick an antioxidant rich serum that is brimming with Vitamins and Minerals and for night a AHA (Alpha Hydroxy Acid) based serum that encourages the cellular renewal process, revealing finer looking pores and healthy renewed skin tone and texture. Added bonus….. the nightly accelerated cellular renewal encourages collagen production for firmer skin.
Need to boost your GLOW?
Vitamin C is the one active ingredient every skin type will benefit from. It brightens, protects against sun damage, and promotes collagen production. True luxury, the AMALA Brighten Corrective Vitamin C Concentrate helps diminish pigmentation, while brightening and illuminating the skin tone, and with Hyaluronic Acid to boost hydration.
4. EYECARE
When: AM & PM
The eye contour has thinner more fragile skin in comparison to the rest of the face and often showing the first signs of ageing. Natural eye creams are formulated to treat the fragile skin of the orbital bone, it’s important to note that a natural eye cream is not the same as your facial moisturiser. Natural eye creams are concentrated formulations that target specific concerns such as puffiness, dark circles and fine lines and wrinkles. We recommend using an eye cream from your mid-twenties onwards. Prevention is always more effective than correction.
The Dr.Alkaitis Organic Eye Cream is a rich non-greasy cream that refreshes and de-puffs for a smooth hydrated under eye area and it works!
DR ALKAITIS Organic Eye Cream
5. MOISTURISE
When: AM & PM
Moisturiser seals the deal. They are designed to nourish and prevent trans-dermal water loss, locking in not only the actives of your serum but vital moisture, to keep skin looking plump and hydrated. Natural face moisturisers are formulated with omega rich botanical butters, brimming with antioxidant laden oils and active essential oil compounds that work together in harmony to support skin health.
AMALA Rejuvenate Youth-Renewing Powerhouse Face Cream
Is your skin reactive and sensitive?
Opt for a moisturiser that is all natural and formulated to calm and protect the skin while working to defend from future damage and sensitivity. The Flower & Spice Soothe and Repair Daily Moisturiser is lightweight yet intensely nourishing face cream. Formulated with Aloe Vera and Rose Water, Artic Oat Extracts and Prickly Pear alleviating sensitivities for calm and renewed skin.
Pro tip: If your skin needs a little extra care, a face oil is ideal. Add a drop or two to your moisturiser and apply the emulsion directly after your serum. It’s an ideal boost for Winter skin too!
6. SUNSCREEN
When: AM – Everyday
Sunscreen is your last step in your morning skincare regime. It sits on top of your skin and your products, applied before your natural foundation. Modern natural and organic sunscreen like that of Australian made and owned Little Urchin natural Sunscreen SPF 30 is formulated to not only be pleasant to use and low irritant but also blended with skin nourishing ingredients such as Shea butter, Vitamin E and Rosehip.
LITTLE URCHIN Natural Sunscreen SPF 30
7. FACE OIL
When: PM
When it comes to face oils a little goes a long way! Oils are amazing as they can boost the benefits of your moisturiser and make the skin look radiant and plump. As a general rule apply after your moisturiser. We recommend taking a minute to brush your teeth giving your moisturiser a few minutes to dry.
Never used a Face Oil?
We got you. An antioxidant rich face oil is multi-tasking powerhouse that boosts radiance while working to protect and revive the skin from the effects of the day. Think pollution and other environmental elements like air-conditioning/ heating and non-avoidable UV. We love the transformative formulation of Flora Mirabilis FACE OIL. Lightweight and non-comedogenic, this formulation is rich in essential fatty acids to balance and protect the complexion, for a clear pore free glow.
FLORA MIRABILIS Face Oil
Lightweight botanical face oil.
Handcrafted from 10 transformative plant-based ingredients, Flora Mirabilis® FACE OIL is a hypoallergenic, ultra-clean facial moisturising oil that brightens, balances, softens, and restores skin, enabling a full range of results in a single step.
Best for: All ages and skin types, even the most sensitive.
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Pro Tip: if you are using a Pro-Retinol face oil, this is the time to apply it. Your oil can penetrate the moisturiser, but your moisturiser cannot penetrate the oil.
Natural Pro-Retinol oils are as effective as synthetic retinols without the irritation. Natural retinol is a game changer for mature skin. It isn’t called the superhero of anti-ageing for nothing! And always remember your daily sunscreen when incorporating natural Vitamin A retinol derivatives into your regime, as your skin will be a little more sensitive to the sun. Our pick for Pro-retinol skincare is the AMALA Rejuvenate Illuminating Pro-Retinoic Treatment Oil. Infused with bio-nutrients including gold, pro-retinoic Cacay and Rosehip Oil to boost collagen and improve the skin density.
Your skincare regime is a commitment for a healthy and glowing YOU! Having great skin and a positive attitude towards ageing is holistic, encompassing diet, exercise, sleep, and skincare. It’s a life choice and your wellbeing and skin will reap the rewards.
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