Annique Lucid Freshener 100ml (Previously HydraRestore Freshener) this innovative, hydrating antioxidant freshener for dry and dehydrated skin is enriched with anti-ageing inca omega oil.

Spray over face and neck, mornings and evenings after applying all your other Annique Creams and skin treatment products

Benefits

• Helps maintain skin hydration
• Inca omega oil assists in decreasing inflammation and redness of skin
• Balances the skin's pH levels
• Improves skin texture
• Suitable for sensitive skin
• Fragrance Free

Key Active Ingredients :

• Mushroom extract
• Inca omega oil
• Green Rooibos extract
• AquaVital+
• Pre and Probiotics

Product Application :

• Spray over face and neck, mornings and evenings after applying all your other Annique skin treatment products
• For especially dehydrated, aged and dry skin – use as often as possible by spraying over the face and neck when tightness or discomfort is noticed

Ideally for :

• Ideal for dry/ dehydrated, sensitive and mature skin types
• People who live in very dry areas
• People who live in extremely cold areas

What makes this Freshener Unique :

1. The crucial last step in your skin care routine
2. Improves skin texture
3. Antioxidant mist

Now we are making history again by introducing amazing new innovative ingredients into our best-selling daily skin care range. Lucid and launching our new packaging look.

With the new Lucid Skin Care range for dry skin, we have combined three new active ingredients, namely Green Rooibos, probiotics and AquaVital+. This combination of active ingredients is gentle on the skin, yet effectively helps moisturise and condition dry, dehydrated and mature skin

1) Green Rooibos

The previous Lucid range contained the fermented Rooibos, in the new range we have included Green Rooibos, it contains much more antioxidants that fermented Rooibos and is a powerful anti-ageing ingredient for skin care formulas.

It has free radical quenching abilities that help to protect skin and preserve a more youthful look. Rooibos is also known to have anti-viral, anti-fungal, and antibacterial properties, making it perfect for those with acne, eczema, psoriasis and other difficult skin conditions. Rooibos protects the skin against damaging UV rays and is known to be hypoallergenic, helping to calm skin and sooth redness, itching and rashes

2) Pre- and probiotics

What are Probiotics?

Probiotics are an ever-changing group of microorganisms that live within and on the surface of our bodies. There are trillions of them. Every person has their own distinctive combination of these organisms, which is known as the microbiome. We are very familiar with how probiotics in our digestive system can be beneficial for overall health and the incredible benefits it can provide. But did you know you also have your own unique 'family' of probiotics that live in and on your skin?

Why are Probiotics important for Healthy Skin?

Probiotics in skin care is set to become the next wave of innovations emerging in the beauty industry. The surface of the skin is a multifaceted environment and probiotics play a crucial rolse in its balance. Over the past decade or so, scientists have uncovered a myriad of benefits that probiotics can have on your skin, including strenghening the skin's barries from invading bacteria and balancing the skin's pH

Probiotics help calm and comfort skin to instantly relieve the dry, tight, bothered sensations that come with irritation. They soote and balance your skin just like probiotics can do for your stomach.

How Probiotics Benefit Skin

Only recently have researchers started understanding the effect that probiotics have for acne and other skin conditions

The goal of probiotics in skin care is to restore the delicate balance that allows good bacteria to flourish so skin can keep itself in top shape

Stabilising the skin's microbiome helps:

• Strengthen the surface of the skin against environmental invaders
• Enhance the skin's ability to become hydrated and stay that way
• Reduce factors that trigger sensitive, red skin
• Improve dryness, including a fight and uncomfortable skin
• Restore a healthy pH to the skin

Probiotics used in Lucid

We have incorporated two Lactobacilus strains of probiotics into the new Lucid range called Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus acidophilus, it helps calm and comfort skin to relieve the tight, dry, bothered sensations that come with irration. Yes Lactobacilllus soothes and balances your skin just like probiotics can do for your stomach.

Important

Probiotics work best when combined with prebiotics - to fuel the growth of probiotics. The new Lucid range also includes a prebiotic (oligosaccharide). Prebiotics serve as food for probiotics, helping them multiply.

Did you know?

As probiotics break down on the skin's surface, they create postbiotics. These include hyaluronic acid, peptides and vitamins, which reduce signs of ageing, boost hydration and improve skin-tone. It's the synergy between these 'biotics' that makes all the difference when it comes to probiotic skin care.

Signs to look out for to determine if you have dry / dehydrated skin include :

• Almost invisible pores
• Dull, rough complexion
• Red patches
• Your skin is less elastic or bouncy than it used to be
• More visible lines
• A general dry or tight feeling
• Uneven skin complexion
• Lack of plumpness

Our stunning new Lucid jars are also more environmentally friendly. The new jars contain 33% less plastic and use 60% less energy to manufacture than the old jars.

We Care for the Environment

Aligned with two of our missions, to do our bit to save the environment and sustainability, the material for new Lucid unit cartons are also responsibly sourced. You will see a logo on the bottom of the cartons from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). As the original pioneeers of forest certification, FSC has 25 years of experience in sustainable forest management. They use their expertise to promote the responsible management of the world's forests, bringing together experts from the environmental, economic and social spheres.

Simply put : by choosing products with the FSC logo, you are helping to take care of the world's forests. Our new unit cartons are made using materials from FSC certified forests. This ensures that the materials that are used for making the paper are sourced from responsibly managed forests that do not practice illegal logging, or deforestation and don't violate human and tranditional rights.

3) AquaVital+

The previous Lucid range contained an active called AquaVital, derived from a plant-derived carbohydrate complex. Its function was to create a "moisture reservoir" in the skin thus keeping the skin hydrated for longer.

Through extensive research and technology, we have found an incredible new moisturising active ingredient, replacing the previous AquaVital. It is called AquaVital+

AquaVital+ has the same function as its predecessor, AquaVital, which is to create a "moisture reservoir" in the skin, however it does it in a significantly improved way and is derived from a different natural source.

What is AquaVital+ ?

AquaVital+ is a sophisticated, yet gentle plant moisturising complex extracted from the seeds of a Peruvian plant called Tara (Caesalpinia Spinosa). It grows in a very dry mountain climate, in the Andes, in which it had to adopt to the surrounding conditions of rapid drying to survive, by developing an internal system to prevent rapid water loss.

It contains valuable molecules called galactomannas (up to 80%) that moisturise the skin by creating a protective film that prevents the rapid evaporation of water.

How does AquaVital+ work ?

Immediately and lastingly improves the level of hydration of the stratum comeum (the outermost layer of the skin)

Prevents transdermal water loss

The skin gains a healthy glow, elasticity and softness

In vivo test prove +30.8% immediately hydration after 30 minutes. +21.1% long-term hydration after 4 hours, +12.5% long-term hydration after 3 weeks

In a sensory evaluation 83% said they had softer skin. 67% said they have more moisturised skin