Evening Routine
An evening skincare routine is essential for repairing and restoring the skin after a long day of exposure to pollutants, makeup, and sun. While you sleep, your skin goes into recovery mode, making it the perfect time to nourish it with hydrating and restorative products. Consistent nighttime care helps prevent premature aging and keeps your skin balanced, clear, and healthy.
Step 1: Oil Cleanser
Gently dissolves oil-based impurities like makeup, sunscreen, and excess sebum without stripping the skin. This first cleanse is essential to break down products that water alone can't remove, preventing clogged pores and breakouts.
Lightweight and quick
deep cleansing
bulk packaging
gentle ingredients
sensitive skin
Step 2: Water-Based Cleanser
Removes sweat, dirt, and remaining residue from the day, leaving your skin clean and refreshed. At night, you can use stronger active ingredients like AHA, BHA, or benzoyl peroxide in your cleanser, which help treat acne, texture, and clogged pores—without the risk of increased sun sensitivity, since you won’t be exposed to sunlight right after.
Acne control and prevention with 10% benzoyl peroxide for less sensitive acne-prone skin
Cerave
A gentler alternative for sensitive skin is to reuse your morning face wash
Acne control, prevention, exfoliation, and sebum control with AHAs and BHAs for less sensitive problematic skin
Step 3: Toner
Provides light exfoliation and helps to rebalance the skin's pH after cleansing. Depending on the ingredients, it can target specific concerns such as acne, dullness, or dryness, and enhances the absorption of serums and treatments that follow. It is preferred to add this step to your nighttime skincare routine over your morning skincare routine due to the exfoliating chemicals that may increase your photosensitivity.
Hyperpigmentation & Texture
Hydration &. Texture
Acne
Acne
Step 4: Serums & Emulsions
These lightweight, concentrated treatments penetrate deeply to target specific skin concerns such as dark spots, fine lines, or dehydration. At night, you can use more potent ingredients like retinols that increase sun sensitivity, making it the ideal time to support cell turnover and long-term skin renewal without immediate sun exposure. Apply them from thinnest to thickest consistency to ensure optimal absorption and layering effectiveness.
Meditherapy retinal with centella is ideal for enlarged pores, fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation
The perfect way to explore various ingredients that target different concerns.
The Ordinary
Step 5: Moisturizer
Moisturizer Hydrates and locks in all the previous layers, creating a barrier that helps prevent overnight moisture loss. It supports the skin’s natural repair process while you sleep, promoting a smoother, plumper, and more resilient complexion by morning.
THE SECRET: most moisturizers are largely the same formula with 70% water, so rather than focusing on the ingredients and their purpose, choose one with the texture that is right for you!
Step 6: Lip Mask
Provides thick, nourishing hydration to the lips, which are prone to dryness and thinning over time. This overnight treatment helps repair and soften the lips, maintaining their fullness and preventing premature aging.
Overnight lip mask with vitamin C to hydrate and renew your lips
Lip mask with Manuka honey to provide intense hydration
Heals dry and cracked lips
Can be layered on top of previous lip masks