A rich barrier cream. Safflower seed oil is second on the ingredient list, and the back half is unusually dense: six ceramides (NP, NG, NS, AP, AS and EOP) with cholesterol and phytosphingosine, plus the full centella set — asiatic acid, asiaticoside, madecassic acid and madecassoside alongside the leaf, root and whole-plant extracts. Beta-glucan, panthenol and tocopherol are in there too. It is fragrance-free and melts rather than sitting on top.

This is for dry, tight, wind-burned and post-treatment skin, and for anyone whose barrier has been worn down by actives. A pea-sized amount on clean skin after your serums, morning and night. Press it in. Medipair positions it as a post-procedure cream, and we use it that way — after needling or a peel, it is the only thing we want on the face.