ILes Sérums · Day and Night

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 1% bakuchiol, CoQ10, stabilised vitamin C and the four-mushroom M-Veil complex. 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
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Barbi gliding the PHILOGENI Resilience Balm stick across her cheekbone in soft morning light.
The balm, worked along the cheekbone
IILe Matin · AM

Morning wants slip, not weight.

Three to five 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.

The Philogeni Antioxidant Serum bottle with oil pooled beside it
30 mL, Miron violet glass
IIILe Soir · PM

Night is when the lipids go back.

Barrier repair runs on a circadian clock, and it runs fastest while you sleep. 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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