The Night Repair Sale

Friday to Sunday · 13 to 15 November

The Night Repair Sale

Your skin does its building work while you are asleep. These are the six formulas that give it the material. Up to 15% off, this weekend only.

10% off

NIGHT10

No minimum. Any of the six.

15% off

NIGHT15

On $300 or more of the night set.

Codes close Sunday night. Enter yours at checkout, one per order.

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Then stay with me. Further down I have written out what your body is actually doing in those hours, and why it matters for your face.

Why this weekend

Sleep is when the building happens

Your body runs two different programs across twenty four hours. Daytime is largely defense: holding water in, fending off light and friction and whatever the weather is doing. Night is when it switches over to repair, and a surprising amount of that switch is measurable.

Here is what changes after you fall asleep.

Growth hormone

A large pulse of growth hormone arrives shortly after you fall asleep, tied to your first block of deep slow wave sleep. Growth hormone is the signal for tissue building and repair across the whole body. You may have seen the figure that 70% of the daily output happens in early sleep. That number comes from studies in men. In women the sleep-linked share is lower and more variable, which is worth knowing before anyone sells it to you as a fixed fact.

Cortisol steps back

Cortisol runs on a daily curve that bottoms out around midnight and climbs to its peak shortly after you wake. Cortisol suppresses collagen production. So the hours when it is at its lowest are the hours when your fibroblasts have the least working against them.

Blood arrives

Skin blood flow rises through the late afternoon and into the night. Part of this is how you fall asleep at all: the body opens the vessels in the hands and feet to shed heat, and core temperature drops as a result. More blood at the surface means more of everything delivered to the tissue that is rebuilding.

Cells divide

Keratinocytes, the cells that make up the bulk of your outer skin, divide fastest around midnight and slowest around midday. Healthy skin holds this rhythm. DNA repair in skin cells also peaks at night, including repair of damage from sunlight you picked up earlier that day.

The part that changes what you buy

Your skin is more open at night, in both directions

The stratum corneum, the outer layer, is measurably more permeable in the evening than in the morning. Absorption of what you apply reaches its maximum in the small hours, around four in the morning.

That is the good half. The other half is that water leaves at the same time. Transepidermal water loss rises overnight, and sebum production is at its lowest around four in the morning, exactly when permeability is at its highest. So your skin is at its most open and its least oiled at the same hour.

That is why a night cream earns its place. Something has to sit on top and hold the water in through the hours when your skin is both wide open and running dry.

What happens when sleep is short

Sixty women, measured

A study of 60 women compared good sleepers, seven to nine hours a night, against poor sleepers getting five or less. The poor sleepers had higher water loss through the skin at baseline and higher scores on a clinical scale of intrinsic aging.

The number that stays with me is the recovery one. Both groups had their skin barrier deliberately stripped, then measured as it healed. At 72 hours, the good sleepers had recovered 30% more barrier function. Same skin, same procedure, different nights.

Sixty people is a small study, and it shows an association. It does not prove that the sleep caused it. I am including it because it measured the thing itself, with instruments, and most of what gets said about sleep and skin does not.

The sale

Six formulas for the repair hours

Three serums and three creams. The serums are a choice, so take the one that matches what your skin is short of. The creams go on top, or on their own.

The night cream

F109 When I Dream

Built for the hours described above. Ceramides and lipids to hold water in while the rebuilding happens underneath. It can go over a serum or entirely on its own. I use mine alone most nights and I apply more than most people need, so start with less than you think.

From $125

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For dry skin

F2 Barrier Restore

A heavy lipid serum with no water in it at all, just fats and ceramides. This answers dry skin, which is short of lipids. If your face feels tight and rough and nothing seems to sink in, this is the one.

From $82

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F18 Rose and Kakadu Plum Hyaluronic Serum

For dehydrated skin

F18 Rose & Kakadu Plum

The water answer. Hyaluronic acid with Kakadu plum and mild ceramides, enough that it holds its own water in. Suits every skin type, and it is the one to reach for when your skin is short of water rather than fats.

From $62

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F3 Hydration and Skin Plumping Bio-Serum

Water and lipids together

F3 Hydration & Plumping

Two phases in the bottle, which is why you shake it. Laminaria japonica binds water, rosehip and pomegranate give back the fatty acids. If you are only ever going to buy one serum from me, this is the one I would start you on.

From $82

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The everyday cream

F20 Rose Ceramide Barrier

The cream that pairs with F18, and the one most people get on with. Rose and ceramides, substantial without being heavy. A good first cream if you have never used one at night.

From $71

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The richest one

F27 Superfat Barrier Repair

The heaviest cream in the line, and the closest thing to F2 in cream form. For skin that is genuinely depleted, or for a winter house with the heating on. Ceramides and a lot of fats.

From $71

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Putting it together

A night routine that takes two minutes

Clean your face. Everything below works better on skin that is not carrying the day.
Pick one serum. F18 if your skin is short of water, F2 if it is short of fats, F3 if you want both at once. One, not three.
A cream on top while the serum is still slightly damp. F20 for most people, F27 if you are very dry, F109 for the full night version.
Go to bed at a time that gives you a real first block of deep sleep. That is the part no bottle can do for you.

If you are already using a gua sha, do it before the cream. The glide serum goes on first, the stone moves over it, and the cream seals the whole thing in.

Friday to Sunday

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