Aqua Defense | Soft Derm

When skin is sensitive, dry, or easily reactive, every step in your routine matters. This hydrocalming toner has been created to turn the moment after cleansing into true comfort care: it hydrates, soothes, and helps desensitize the skin, while gently restoring its natural balance and preparing it to receive the active ingredients from your subsequent treatments with maximum effectiveness.

Its formula, based on mineromedicinal thermal water and high-value dermocosmetic actives, works from the very first contact to relieve tightness, reduce redness, and bring deep calm, freshness, and softness back to the face.

Benefits for sensitive and reactive skin

This toner has been designed as an essential step in the routine for skin that needs more than a simple toning: it seeks repair, protection, and long-lasting comfort.

• Instantly calms the feeling of discomfort, itching, or tightness after cleansing.
• Helps to reduce inflammation, repair, and soften the appearance of sensitive, dry, or finely textured skin.
• Hydrates and helps restore the balance of the skin’s hydrolipid barrier.
• Provides a progressively desensitizing effect thanks to the combined action of thermal water and specific actives.
• Promotes skin regeneration and reduces flaking, improving the feel and elasticity of the skin.
• Refreshes, tones, and leaves the face ready to get the most out of treatment serums and creams.
• Alcohol-free formula, especially respectful of delicate, reactive skin or skin prone to redness.

Sensory and visible results

The watery texture glides over the skin like a cool caress, leaving no sticky residue or heavy feeling. With continued use, the face looks more even, less reactive, and with lasting comfort throughout the day. The skin regains a calmer, more flexible, and healthy-looking appearance, as after a highly precise thermal treatment.

Dermocosmetic technology and key actives

The effectiveness of this toner lies in the synergy between a base of hydrotherapeutic thermal water and a selection of soothing, repairing, and neurocosmetic actives, specifically formulated for the needs of sensitive skin.

Mineromedicinal thermal water

Coming from the Salies de Béarn Thermal Baths, this thermal water is considered mineromedicinal due to its richness in trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, and copper. Inspired by hydrotherapy treatments:

• Provides a deep soothing, relaxing, skin-healing, and desensitizing action.
• Helps support the synthesis of collagen and elastin, contributing to firmness and skin elasticity.
• Offers anti-inflammatory and antioxidant action, helping protect against environmental stress.
• Supports repair of the skin barrier and improves the skin’s tolerance of daily routines.

Enteromorpha compressa algae extract

A next-generation marine bioactive, classified as a neurocosmetic active. It acts on hypersensitivities caused by neurosensory reactions mediated by neuropeptides:

• Reduces the feeling of lack of comfort, irritability, and redness typical of sensitive and/or dry skin.
• Delivers a strong soothing and anti-itch effect, helping to mitigate itching associated with the loss of water and lipids.
• It reduces erythema and helps to control the cutaneous neurosensors involved in reactivity.

Allantoin

Classic reference active in the care of delicate skin, known for its soothing and softening action:

• Helps to relieve irritation and improve the sense of well-being after cleansing.
• Supports the skin’s natural repair processes.
• Helps keep the skin surface smoother, more even, and more comfortable.

Provitamin B5 (Panthenol)

High-profile moisturizing and regenerating ingredient:

• Increases the epidermis’s water-retention capacity, providing long-lasting hydration.
• Reinforces the barrier function, helping to reduce transepidermal water loss.
• Contributes to the skin’s elasticity and softness, enhancing overall comfort.

Recommended use

Incorporating this tonic into your daily routine turns toning into a true soothing treatment for sensitive skin.

• Use in the morning and at night on perfectly clean and dry skin, after your usual cleanser (ideally one specifically for sensitive skin).
• Apply to a cotton pad or in the palm of your hand, then spread with gentle pressing motions over the face, neck, and décolleté, avoiding direct contact with the eyes.
• Do not rinse: leave it to absorb completely before continuing with the serum and treatment cream.
• In moments of special sensitivity, it can be reapplied throughout the day as an extra gesture of calm and freshness.
• To enhance its action, combine it with other products designed for sensitive and reactive skin within the same treatment line.

Ingredients

Extract of the alga Enteromorpha compressa, Allantoin, Provitamin B5 (Panthenol), thermal water from the Salies de Béarn Thermal Baths, and the rest of the cosmetic excipients necessary to ensure the formula’s stability, sensorial properties, and safety.