The advantage of the correct evening skincare
05 Sep 2025
Let’s explore exactly what happens to your skin during the day versus the night and how a focused nighttime routine can facilitate optimal skin regeneration.
DAYTIME:
During daytime, your skin undertakes several unique metabolic activities:
- Skin pH rises due to increased sebum and sweat production.
- Skin density increases as it enters protective mode.
- Cell proliferation (growth and division of cells) slows down.
- Exposure to environmental stressors such as pollution, UV radiation, free radicals, temperature fluctuations, and humidity variations impacts your skin’s health.
- Indoor environments are also challenging, as blue light emitted from electronic devices can cause long-term damage.
NIGHTTIME:
At night (while you sleep), your skin transitions into full regeneration mode, significantly increasing activity:
- Cell regeneration doubles, including high collagen production.
- Enhanced DNA repair occurs, with melatonin levels rising to repair UV-induced and free radical damage.
- Autophagy increases, a process by which the body recycles and renews cellular components, maintaining cellular health.
- Cell proliferation increases through mitosis, shedding older cells and generating new, younger cells.
- Sebum production decreases, skin temperature rises, and trans-epidermal water loss (TEWL) peaks around 03:00 AM, potentially leading to dryness and itchiness.
- Enhanced barrier permeability and increased blood flow improve product penetration.
- Activity of crucial proteins loricrin and filaggrin, key to the skin’s barrier function, increases.
- Barrier recovery rate is significantly lower between 20:00 and 23:00.
Optimized evening formulations:
Our night time products are specifically formulated to take advantage of increased skin permeability at night, ensuring effective penetration, supporting nocturnal repair functions, and preventing dehydration. Our approach emphasizes naturally hydrating ingredients and essential nutrients that enhance rather than override your skin’s natural processes.
Recommended ingredients & products for your evening regime:
Ginkgo Biloba, Green Tea and Kigelia Africana Extract, found in our Intensive Night Serum.
This exclusive phyto-active™ serum boosts cell regeneration, stimulates collagen and elastin production, enhances blood circulation, and strengthens vascular capillaries.
Rich in antioxidants, it effectively repairs and restores skin health. Ginkgo acts as a vasodilator, promoting blood and oxygen circulation, while Green Tea’s antioxidant EGCG protects against free radicals and inflammation.This gel-based serum rapidly penetrates the superficial layers of the skin whereafter you can apply your prescribed evening moisturiser such as the Evening Moisturiser with is a rich botanical based formulation, locking in moisture.
Retinoids/Retin-alts and Vitamin A are excellent for promoting skin cell turnover, reducing fine lines and wrinkles, and improving skin texture. Retinal palmitate is a gentler retinoid as well as Retin-alts. Higher strength retinoids is only recommended for evening application, as it can make your skin more sensitive during the day, to the sun.
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