✨ A nightly face cream from Christine Valmy built for dry, sensitive, and mature skin — where retinol-driven cell renewal meets a barrier-reinforcing ceramide complex in one rich, leave-on formula.

🧪 The formula pairs retinol with a dual stable Vitamin C system (Glyceryl Ascorbate and Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate) — delivering vitamin A and C activity without the instability concerns that undermine single-active alternatives. Skin-identical ceramides shore up the lipid barrier overnight, while plant oils, Squalane, and Tucuma Seed Butter provide lasting emollient depth. A bamboo-leaf probiotic ferment and a soothing botanical complex — Chamomile, Aloe, White Tea — make the formula a credible choice for reactive or sensitized profiles.

For esthetics practices, this is a natural retail pairing after facial services targeting dryness, dullness, or visible aging. Clients new to vitamin A should be guided to ease in gradually, making your expertise part of the recommendation.

A strong retail close for clients leaving a facial with dry, sensitive, or mature-skin concerns.

• Visible Anti-Aging Support: Retinol — the gold-standard vitamin A active — works overnight during leave-on contact to help reduce the visible appearance of fine lines and uneven texture, supporting a more youthful-looking complexion with consistent nightly use.
• Brightened, More Even Skin Tone: Two stable Vitamin C derivatives (Glyceryl Ascorbate and Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate) deliver vitamin C activity without oxidative instability, helping improve the look of uneven skin tone and dullness over time for a more luminous appearance.
• Reinforced Skin Barrier: A ceramide complex mirroring the skin's own lipid structure helps strengthen the surface barrier, reducing the look and feel of dryness and sensitivity — especially beneficial for clients with dry or compromised skin.
• Deep Overnight Nourishment: A rich blend of plant oils (Grape Seed, Sweet Almond), Squalane, and Tucuma Seed Butter provides lasting emollient nourishment during extended leave-on contact, leaving skin feeling soft and comfortable by morning.
• Probiotic Skin Balance: A bamboo-leaf probiotic ferment filtrate delivers fermentation-derived bioactives that complement the formula's nourishing and revitalizing actives, supporting a balanced and healthy skin appearance.
• Soothing, Calm Complexion: Chamomile flower extract, Aloe Vera, White Tea, and Rosemary extracts work together to help soothe the appearance of sensitivity and redness, making this formula particularly well-suited for reactive or sensitive skin types.
• Radiance and Revitalization: Ginseng root extract, brand-named for its revitalizing properties, supports a glowing, refreshed skin appearance as part of the formula's botanical complex.

Retinol: The gold-standard vitamin A active in cosmetics; at typical sub-1% use levels in leave-on night creams, Retinol supports skin-surface renewal over time and helps diminish the visible appearance of fine lines and uneven texture, making it the category-defining active for a night cream targeting prematurely-aged skin.

Glyceryl Ascorbate / Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate — Stable Vitamin C System: Two distinct stable, phosphate- and glyceryl-ester forms of Vitamin C that remain active without the oxidative instability of pure ascorbic acid; together they help improve the appearance of uneven skin tone and support a brighter, more luminous complexion over continued nightly use.

Ceramide NP / Ceramide AP / Caprooyl Phytosphingosine — Skin-Identical Lipid Complex: A trio of skin-identical ceramides and a ceramide precursor phytosphingosine that mirrors the natural lipid composition of the skin barrier; this complex helps reinforce the skin's protective surface layer, supporting moisture retention and reducing the look of dryness and sensitivity in leave-on application.

Lactobacillus/Arundinaria Gigantea Leaf Ferment Filtrate: A biotech-derived probiotic ferment filtrate produced from bamboo leaf fermentation that delivers ferment-derived bioactive compounds to the skin surface, supporting a balanced skin appearance and complementing the nourishing actives in this night cream formula.

Retinyl Acetate: An ester form of Vitamin A that complements the Retinol in this formula, providing additional retinoid activity with a gentler profile; contributes to the product's overall vitamin A nourishing effect on the skin's surface over nightly use.

Panax Ginseng Root Extract - known as Ginseng Extract: A standardized root extract rich in ginsenosides that is known in professional skin care for its association with a radiant, revitalized skin appearance; brand-named and positioned as a key revitalizing botanical in this formula.

1. Ensure the client's face and neck have been thoroughly cleansed and any toner or treatment serums have been applied prior to cream application.
2. Dispense a small amount of the cream onto the fingertips.
3. Apply to the client's face and neck using gentle upward massage movements, working from the center outward.
4. Avoid the immediate eye contour area and any broken or irritated skin.
5. Allow the cream to absorb fully; no rinsing is required. Instruct the client to leave the product on overnight.

Retail and Home-Care Guidance

This cream is formulated for nightly use, making it an ideal retail recommendation following any facial service for dry, sensitive, or mature-skin clients. The Retinol content means clients new to vitamin A products should be advised to start with every-other-night use to allow the skin to adjust. Highlight the stable Vitamin C system and ceramide complex as points of professional differentiation when presenting to clients — these are ingredients they can understand and value.