Ceramide Barrier Cream

After your serum or oil

Use as the moisturizing step, after your essence, serum, or facial oil.

Start with less than you used to

Take a small amount on clean fingertips and warm it briefly between them. The new texture spreads further than the old one, so the amount that used to be right will be more than you need. Begin small and add if you want it.

Press it in, slowly

Press and smooth gently over the face and neck until it sinks in. No rubbing, no pulling. Let your shoulders drop while you do it.

Morning and night

Use twice daily, AM and PM. Light enough to be your daytime moisturizer, and comfortable enough to be your night one. Nothing here needs to be rushed.

Where it sits in your routine

This is the moisturizing step, and it goes on last in the morning. Cleanse with the Hydrate Cleansing Bar, then your essence and serum, then this. That is the Steady Ritual, and the four pieces are built to be used in that order.

Once or twice a week the Cacao Renewal Polish or the Radiance Mask goes in after cleansing. At night, if you want something heavier over the top, the Defy Face Butter presses in last.

How long a jar lasts

A little goes a long way, and most customers enjoy one jar for about six months using it morning and night. It is a press-in cream rather than a slather-on one, so the amount you need is smaller than the habit suggests. The lighter texture spreads further still.

Whether it is preserved, and why

Yes, and this one has to be. It is a water-based cream, built on aloe vera leaf water, and water is what makes a preservative necessary. Without one, a cream like this would not be safe to keep on a bathroom shelf.

The system includes benzyl alcohol. It is here as a preservative rather than a scent ingredient, and it is also a declarable fragrance allergen on EU labels. That single fact is the whole reason this cream is called unscented and never fragrance-free. If you want a facial step with no benzyl alcohol at all, the Hydrate Cleansing Bar and our waterless oils carry none.

Storing it, and keeping water out

Cool, out of direct sun, lid on between uses. Because it is water-based, scoop with dry fingers or a small spatula rather than wet hands, and keep the jar off the wet edge of the sink. A preserved cream is protected, and it still does better when you are not adding tap water to it twice a day.

If it arrives warm, and when to stop

Softening in a hot mailbox is normal. Let the closed jar sit somewhere cool and it will come back to its usual texture.

If it arrives separated, with a watery or oily layer sitting apart from the cream, that is different. Do not use it. Send us a photograph and we will replace it. This is an emulsion of water and lipids, and a split jar is not something to stir back together or work around. We would always rather send another one.