Serums for Day and Night

Two anhydrous formulas built on the same active core, in the two textures a day actually asks for.

The difference between morning and evening is not a different chemistry. It is a different vehicle. A facial oil that presses into damp skin and disappears under the day; a solid balm that stays where you put it and works through the night.

Both carry the same actives at the same doses: 0.5% bakuchiol, 1% CoQ10, 2% oil-soluble vitamin C and four mushroom extracts at 1.25% each. Which one you reach for is a question of texture and of what your skin is doing that week, not of potency.

  • Two formulas
  • Morning and evening
  • Fragrance-free option on both
Warming Philogeni Antioxidant Serum between the palms before applying
The serum, warmed before it is pressed in
Barbi gliding the PHILOGENI Resilience Balm stick across her cheekbone in soft morning light.
The balm, worked along the cheekbone

Morning wants slip, not weight.

Two to three drops of the Antioxidant Serum into skin still damp from washing. Press, do not rub, the water is doing half the work, and the oil is there to hold it in rather than to sit on top of it.

The Resilience Balm goes over the top only where the day is hardest: the outer cheek, the jaw, anywhere that feels tight by mid-morning. It is a stick, so it is also the one that travels.

Warming Philogeni Antioxidant Serum between the palms before applying

Night is when the lipids go back.

Sleep is the longest stretch your skin spends undisturbed. That is the window the evening application is aimed at: a heavier hand with the serum, the balm over the whole face rather than in patches.

Bakuchiol does its work here too, without the photosensitivity that forces retinol into the same slot. Nothing in either formula asks you to build tolerance.

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