If you’re confronted with dull skin or any other specific skin concern you want to address, your skincare search can lead you to a lot of questions. What is an essence? What is an emulsion? What is a serum? Questions like this will lead you to the ultimate one…do you need them all in your skincare routine? Perhaps. Understanding each one’s unique characteristics and what they can do for your skin will help you answer this question, so let us break down the difference between them below. If ultimate skin clarity is what you’re looking for, Clarifique offers all these options.
CLARIFIQUE BRIGHTENING SKINCARE
Clarifique never shies away from dull skin. It faces it head on with all of the above to refine and brighten skin. Lancôme created Clarifique to change the future of your skin clarity with a skincare collection made to brighten skin tone and refine skin texture. Clarifique stands out due to its innovative combination of ingredients and its commitment to results-driven science. The collection offers all of the above, an essence, an emulsion, and a serum so you can select or combine the steps that address your skin clarity goals.
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WHAT ARE ESSENCES?
An essence is typically a water-based skincare product meant to be sprayed or applied on the skin after your cleanser. It’s usually a liquid solution designed to fortify and hydrate skin and target specific skin concerns with different active ingredients. Essence benefits may include hydration, brightening, or soothing. While somewhat similar to a toner, they tend to be gentler, alcohol free, and less drying.
Clarifique Dual Essence
– This is an advanced at home treatment created to achieve skin clarity. The dual formula is gentle yet effective, leveraging the power of French beech bud extract known to improve cell renewal as well as 4 pro-peeling acids that are as effective as they are gentle. In just one month, users reported significant changes. Among them, a remarkable reduction in oiliness, leaving skin balanced and refreshed, as well as a decrease in dullness to unveil a natural radiance.
WHAT IS AN EMULSION?
An emulsion has a gel-like consistency and acts like a milky moisturizer. Water-based, you can think of emulsions almost as a lighter option for face cream, although nothing prevents you from using both in your routine. For oily skin, an emulsion can be a great alternative to a face cream with its lightweight hydration, while for dehydrated skin with a damaged skin barrier, it can be a great addition to provide extra hydration in combination with your moisturizer. Emulsions can also address specific skin concerns just like an essence or serum.
Clarifique Brightening & Balancing Watery Emulsion
– The formula of this rebalancing and illuminating watery emulsion is also enriched with resurfacing beech buds to accelerate the natural renewal of the skin. Formulated with Vitamin C derivatives, it also offers the radiance and benefits provided by the best vitamin C serum. It leaves skin plumped, softer, and hydrated for up to 24 hours. After 4 weeks of use, the skin appears smoother and rebalanced: complexion is uniform, pores are visibly tightened, and skin texture is refined.
WHAT IS FACE SERUM?
Serums, like an essence or emulsion, are also used to target a specific concern by offering skin a high concentration of active ingredients. They have viscous texture after an essence or emulsion but before your face cream. They are similar to essences and emulsions in that they offer potent concentrations of ingredients, but usually have a lower water content.
Clarifique Pro Solution
– The Clarique Pro Solution is more than a brightening serum, it’s a gentle resurfacing solution with 10% PHA to gently polish the skin surface. Formulated with pure niacinamide, it can also be considered a niacinamide serum to act as a melanin-blocker, and further helps to brighten and clarify skin. Its french Beech Bud that is sustainability sourced also helps for faster skin renewal so skin appears even more clarified over time with continued use. Clarifique Pro-Solution is inspired by Water-Peel Procedure and delivers the same results with a non-evasive and gentler approach in a serum form.
