ISans Parfum · Fragrance-Free

Fragrance-Free Skincare for Sensitive Skin

The same active core, with the most common trigger of irritation taken out of it.

Fragrance is the single most frequent cause of contact reaction in cosmetics, and reactive skin is one of the things the hormonal transition reliably produces. So every formula here is offered either entirely without fragrance, or in an unscented version that is otherwise identical to the scented one — same actives, same lipids, same dose.

Choosing the unscented option is not choosing a gentler, weaker product. It is choosing the same product with one variable removed.

  • No added fragrance
  • No essential oils in the Unscented
  • Made in Victoria BC
Philogeni Antioxidant Serum 30 mL, Unscented bottle, front
30 mL · Unscented
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What is left out

No fragrance

no parfum, no masking fragrance, and nothing added to cover a raw material's own smell

No essential oils

in the Unscented. Neroli and sandalwood exist only in the scented version, and are declared

Full INCI

printed on the outer carton, not only on the website. Nothing sits behind the word “fragrance”

IIL'Étiquette · The Label

The whole panel, on the box.

“Fragrance” is a legal term that can stand in for dozens of undeclared materials. Nothing in these formulas hides behind it. The full INCI list is printed on the carton so it can be read before the seal is broken, and read again by whoever is helping you work out what your skin reacted to.

If you are patch-testing, this is the panel to photograph.

Philogeni Antioxidant Serum 30 mL Unscented carton — ingredient panel
Fig. IAntioxidant Serum 30 mL, Unscented — ingredient panel
IIIFurther Reading

If your skin has turned reactive.

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