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Lait VIP O2 (New - 250ml)

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BRIGHTENING CLEANSE
Lait VIP O2 (New - 250ml)
Biologique Recherche
(29)
Benefits
  • Microbiome Balancing
  • Mattifying
  • Complexion-Unifying
  • Purifying
  • Anti-Acne
  • Detoxifying
  • Brightening
  • Active Delivery
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Anti-Redness
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Nourishing
  • Anti-Pollution

The Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 is a revitalising, oxygen-boosting cleansing milk that gently purifies while brightening and defending against urban stressors. The reformulated version of the original Lait VIP O2, it is designed for dull, devitalised, and pollution-stressed skin.

Melatonin — a bioactive antioxidant naturally produced by the skin — works at the mitochondrial level to improve cellular oxygen use and ATP production, helping skin recover from fatigue and environmental depletion. The exclusive Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex boosts cellular respiration to restore radiance and vitality, while Yeast Extract rebalances the microbiome, regulates sebum and encourages gentle cellular turnover for a clearer, more even complexion.

Lactobacillus Ferment supports the skin's microbial defence and helps protect against environmental aggressors, while Lavender Hybrid Extract soothes and calms. Coconut Derived Esters and Rice Bran Oil provide gentle cleansing and nourishment, Shea Detox purifies without stripping, and Vitamin E delivers antioxidant barrier protection — leaving the skin clean, bright and thoroughly revitalised.

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The Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 is a revitalising, oxygen-boosting cleansing milk that gently purifies while brightening and defending against urban stressors. The reformulated version of the original Lait VIP O2, it is designed for dull, devitalised, and pollution-stressed skin.

Melatonin — a bioactive antioxidant naturally produced by the skin — works at the mitochondrial level to improve cellular oxygen use and ATP production, helping skin recover from fatigue and environmental depletion. The exclusive Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex boosts cellular respiration to restore radiance and vitality, while Yeast Extract rebalances the microbiome, regulates sebum and encourages gentle cellular turnover for a clearer, more even complexion.

Lactobacillus Ferment supports the skin's microbial defence and helps protect against environmental aggressors, while Lavender Hybrid Extract soothes and calms. Coconut Derived Esters and Rice Bran Oil provide gentle cleansing and nourishment, Shea Detox purifies without stripping, and Vitamin E delivers antioxidant barrier protection — leaving the skin clean, bright and thoroughly revitalised.

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More Info

  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
Who it is for
Green tick
For you if

Dull Skin

Dehydrated Skin

Pollution Affected

How to Apply
Apply Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 cleanser with fingers or with the BR Face Glove to face, neck, and décolleté, using light circular movements. Remove with slightly moist pads or rinse off with cold water. Repeat steps to complete a second cleansing.
Ingredients

Water (Aqua), Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Diacaprylyl Carbonate, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil, Glycerin, Polyglyceryl-6 Distearate, Triheptanoin, Cetyl Alcohol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Jojoba Esters, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Seedcake Extract, Lavandula Hybrida Extract, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Melatonin, Yeast Extract, Lactobacillus Ferment, Sodium Hyaluronate, Citric Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate, Phospholipids, Tocopherol, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Butylene Glycol, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax, Disodium Phosphate, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Benzoate.

*This product contains nut-derived ingredients and should be avoided by individuals with nut allergies.


Please note: The ingredients listed in this product are subject to change as the formulation is updated. We aim to update the INCI list as soon as possible, but we encourage you to read the ingredient list on the product itself to ensure it's suitable for your personal use.

Smell & Texture

Smell: It has a clean, subtle, slightly botanical scent

Texture: A thin milky, fluid cleanser with a lightweight texture that glides effortlessly on the skin.

About the Brand
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Founded in Paris in the late 1970s by biologist Yvan Allouche and physiotherapist Josette Allouche, Biologique Recherche began as a laboratory for bespoke, high-performance formulas for elite skin professionals. Their medical-grade precision and artisanal formulation, paired with consummate savoir-faire, underpin their reputation for outstanding, clinically proven results.

Biologique Recherche treats skin according to its Skin Instant©, the skin’s precise, evolving state. Each formula is loaded with active ingredients in exceptional concentrations, then prescribed to address those real-time needs. This precision approach corrects imbalances, restores function, and delivers visible, lasting transformation.

Cold-processed actives are the core of Biologique Recherche. Formulated at 18–25°C, this method avoids the 70°C heat of standard processing that breaks down actives. Botanical, marine, and biotechnological extracts stay intact for higher absorption, stronger repair, and better tolerance. Antioxidants, peptides, and enzymes remain stable, ensuring consistent, visible results.

The Benefits

  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)
  • - + Active Delivery
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Balancing the Skin pH
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Non-Comedogenic
  • - + Anti-Pollution
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
Microbiome Balancing

Microbiome Balancing skincare focuses on supporting the skin’s ecosystem through a precise combination of prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics—each playing a distinct and complementary role. Prebiotics act as a targeted nutrient source, feeding and promoting the growth of beneficial microorganisms to maintain balance within the skin’s microbiome. Probiotics then introduce and reinforce these beneficial bacteria, helping to strengthen the skin’s natural defenses and reduce the presence of harmful strains. Postbiotics, the bioactive compounds produced through this process, enhance overall skin function by supporting barrier strength, improving hydration, and calming inflammation. Together, this synergistic approach stabilises the skin environment, resulting in a complexion that is clearer, more resilient, and visibly healthier.

Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)

Sebum regulation involves normalising oil production in your sebaceous glands to reduce shine, oiliness and breakouts, restoring your skin's natural balance. Overactive sebaceous glands can be triggered by internal factors like genetics, hormonal changes and stress, as well as external factors such as using stripping or overly active skincare, climate, pollution and diet. Excessive sebum production can lead to enlarged pores, acne and an oily, shiny appearance. Effective sebum regulation means using skincare products that balance oil levels without over-drying your skin, helping you achieve a clearer, more matte complexion.

Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)

Evening skin tone is all about reducing blotchiness and achieving a more uniform complexion. Skincare products designed for this purpose use a blend of active ingredients, including soothing agents, anti-pigmentation compounds, antioxidants, and skin-restoring elements. These ingredients work together to diminish redness, inflammation, and pigment irregularities caused by inflammation, while also strengthening and protecting your skin against environmental irritants and future damage. This promotes healing and resilience, leaving your skin more balanced, radiant, and beautiful.

Purifying

Purifying skincare is designed to deeply cleanse and decongest the skin by targeting excess oil at its source—within the pores. Rather than simply removing surface shine, these formulations work to dissolve and dislodge sebum, debris, and impurities trapped inside the pore lining, helping to prevent congestion, blackheads, and breakouts. Actives such as exfoliating acids and oil-regulating ingredients penetrate into the pore to effectively “strip out” excess oil, restoring clarity and refining skin texture. By clearing buildup from within, purifying treatments leave the skin feeling exceptionally clean, balanced and visibly smoother.

Detoxifying

Detoxifying skincare focuses on clearing the skin of accumulated pollutants, toxins, and metabolic waste that can dull the complexion and disrupt healthy function. Daily exposure to environmental aggressors such as pollution and oxidative stress can overwhelm the skin, leading to congestion, imbalance, and premature ageing. Advanced detoxifying formulations work to neutralise these impurities, support the skin’s natural elimination processes, and reduce the buildup of harmful particles within pores and on the surface. By restoring clarity and balance, this approach leaves the skin feeling purified, refreshed and visibly brighter.

Brightening (Oxygenation)

Brightening your skin through oxygenation means that it helps the skin use oxygen more effectively, boosting its natural energy production and improving its ability to repair itself from within. By supporting cellular respiration, it helps the skin function more efficiently, especially when exposed to stress, fatigue, or pollution. At the same time, it strengthens the skin’s microbiome and barrier, creating a healthier environment for oxygen exchange while protecting against external aggressors. As a result, the skin becomes clearer, more balanced, and better equipped to maintain its own recovery and performance over time.

Active Delivery

Active Delivery skincare involves advanced technologies designed to boost the absorption and effectiveness of active ingredients deep within your skin's layers. These enhancements ensure that other ingredients deliver their powerful benefits precisely where they're needed most. By overcoming the common issue of low permeability in many effective ingredients, active delivery ingredients maximise the unique benefits and visible results of your skincare routine.

Antioxidant

Antioxidant skincare is dedicated to protecting the skin against oxidative stress—one of the primary drivers of premature ageing and cellular damage—while preserving overall skin integrity and vitality. These formulations rely on potent molecules such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and polyphenols, which neutralize free radicals generated by UV exposure and environmental aggressors before they can compromise cellular structures like lipids, proteins, and DNA. Beyond defence, many antioxidants also support repair processes and enhance collagen stability, contributing to improved firmness, brightness and resilience. The result is skin that is not only shielded from ongoing damage but maintained in a healthier, more luminous state over time.

Photo-Protecting

Photo-protecting skincare at a cellular level focuses on defending the skin against the internal damage triggered by UV exposure, rather than simply blocking rays at the surface. Ultraviolet radiation generates free radicals and disrupts cellular DNA, accelerating collagen breakdown, inflammation, and premature ageing. Advanced formulations work by neutralising oxidative stress, supporting DNA repair mechanisms, and strengthening the skin’s natural defence systems to limit long-term damage. By preserving cellular integrity and maintaining healthy skin function, this approach helps prevent visible signs of photo-ageing—such as wrinkles, loss of firmness, and uneven tone.

Balancing the Skin pH

Skin pH balancing involves keeping your skin's pH slightly acidic, between 4.5 and 6.5. This acidity is vital for the skin’s barrier, known as the acid mantle, which protects against harmful bacteria, pollutants, and environmental stressors while retaining hydration.

When your skin's pH is out of balance, you might experience dryness, irritation, acne, and increased sensitivity. Using skincare products that balance your skin’s pH helps preserve the acid mantle, keeping your skin healthy, hydrated, and resilient against external factors.

Anti-Inflammatory

Anti-Inflammatory skincare soothes, heal, and balance your skin, the targeted actives are designed to reduce inflammation. Inflammation is your body's natural response to injury or irritation, but continuous inflammation can lead to troublesome skin conditions like acne, rosacea, or eczema. Our anti-inflammatory skincare solutions work to soothe and calm your skin, reducing redness, swelling, and discomfort to provide much-needed relief. By strengthening your skin's barrier, these products help protect against further irritation and damage. Additionally, the anti-inflammatory actives support your skin's natural healing processes, leading to a more balanced and resilient complexion.

Anti-Redness

Anti-Redness skincare is all about reducing and preventing facial or body redness, which can result from irritation, skin conditions, compromised barriers, and hormonal changes. A targeted approach with multiple strategies works best for tackling redness. Anti-Redness formulations include active ingredients that soothe and strengthen your skin barrier. Their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties calm inflammation and protect against environmental irritants. Additionally, these ingredients have vasoconstrictive properties, meaning they reduce blood vessel dilation to lessen redness. Together, these actions help achieve a more even-toned, balanced complexion that's less prone to redness flare-ups.

Skin Barrier Strengthening

Strengthening your skin barrier involves replenishing the key elements in the top layer of your skin (stratum corneum), leading to a stronger and healthier barrier. These essential elements include lipids (ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol) and Natural Moisturizing Factors (amino acids, hyaluronic acid, etc.). Various factors, such as incorrect skincare use, seasonal changes, and aesthetic treatments, can damage your skin barrier. When this happens, your skin loses excess water through Trans Epidermal Water Loss (T.E.W.L) and becomes less capable of defending against environmental stressors, resulting in dryness, sensitivity, and irritation.

A healthy skin barrier is crucial for overall skin health as it helps prevent hydration loss, protects against environmental damage, and reduces the risk of skin conditions like eczema and acne. By strengthening your skin barrier, you ensure your skin remains well-hydrated, resilient, and protected.

Nourishing

Nourishing skincare focuses on replenishing the skin with essential lipids, nutrients, and bioactive compounds to restore comfort, resilience, and optimal function. When the skin is depleted—whether through environmental stress, over-exfoliation, or natural ageing—it can become dry, fragile, and less able to protect itself. Nourishing formulations work to rebuild the lipid barrier using ingredients rich in fatty acids, vitamins, and antioxidants, helping to reinforce the skin’s structure while supporting repair and reducing moisture loss. By restoring what the skin lacks, this approach leaves it softer, stronger, and more supple.

Non-Comedogenic

Non-comedogenic skincare is specifically formulated to avoid clogging pores, making it ideal for skin prone to congestion, breakouts, or excess oil. These formulations are carefully designed using ingredients that do not block the pore or contribute to the build-up of sebum and debris within it, allowing the skin to function normally without obstruction. By maintaining clear pores and supporting a balanced skin environment, non-comedogenic products help reduce the likelihood of blackheads, whiteheads, and blemishes.

Anti-Pollution

Anti-pollution ingredients protect your skin from harmful environmental pollutants. They create a barrier to stop pollutants from getting in and causing damage. By neutralising free radicals and detoxifying your skin, these products reduce inflammation, prevent premature ageing, and keep your skin glowing. They also replenish essential nutrients and boost your skin's natural repair, giving you a healthier, clearer complexion.

Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss

Reducing Trans Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL) is key to maintaining your skin’s optimal hydration levels. By strengthening your skin’s natural barrier, these ingredients prevent water from escaping, keeping your skin well-hydrated and plump. The result is a smoother, more supple complexion with improved texture and resilience, giving you a healthier, more radiant look.

  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)
  • - + Active Delivery
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Balancing the Skin pH
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Non-Comedogenic
  • - + Anti-Pollution
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss

Active Ingredients

  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex
  • - + Melatonin
  • - + Lactobacillus Ferment
  • - + Lavender Hybrid Extract
  • - + Coconut Derived Esters
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Shea Detox
  • - + Vitamin E
Yeast Extract

Yeast extract is a bio-fermented active that helps rebalance the skin’s microbiome while regulating excess sebum and reducing congestion or dullness. By supporting a healthier microbial environment, it limits the growth of unwanted bacteria on the skin’s surface, helping to purify and refine texture without stripping or irritation. Its enzymatic action also encourages gentle cellular turnover, which helps lift away built-up dead skin cells and improves clarity, contributing to a brighter and more even complexion. Furthermore, yeast helps to reinforce barrier function so the skin remains more stable, resilient, and less reactive over time. This makes yeast extract especially effective for skin that is unbalanced, oily-tendency, stressed by urban pollution, or in need of both soothing repair and a clearer, healthier surface environment.

New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex

The Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex combines melatonin, yeast extract, and Lactobacillus ferment to enhance the skin’s ability to use oxygen efficiently at a cellular level. Melatonin boosts mitochondrial respiration, yeast extract provides the cofactors needed for energy production and repair, and Lactobacillus ferment supports a balanced microbiome, improving oxygen availability and reducing stress on the skin. Supported by phospholipids for improved penetration and dandelion extract for pollution protection, this complex promotes healthier skin function and better oxygen utilisation from within

Melatonin

Melatonin is a bioactive antioxidant naturally produced by the skin that works at the mitochondrial level to improve how cells use oxygen and generate energy. Unlike surface-level antioxidants, melatonin penetrates deeper, where it protects the respiratory chain from oxidative stress and supports ATP production, helping skin maintain its internal repair processes more effectively. By enhancing cellular efficiency and reducing the impact of environmental stressors, it helps the skin recover from fatigue, pollution exposure, and urban aggressors. It is ideal for dull, stressed, or depleted skin, and especially for those needing improved cellular function and stronger resilience against external damage.

Lactobacillus Ferment

Lactobacillus Ferment, a probiotic derived from the fermentation of Lactobacillus bacteria that focuses on microbiome balancing. A balanced microbiome is crucial for healthy skin as it strengthens the skin's barrier, reduces inflammation, and improves hydration, resulting in healthier and more resilient skin. It also helps maintain optimal pH levels and protects against infections.

Lavender Hybrid Extract

A soothing botanical extract used for its calming and antioxidant properties. Lavender Hybrid Extract helps to gently balance and comfort the skin while protecting against environmental stressors. Its natural aroma adds a subtle, refreshing scent.

Coconut Derived Esters

Coconut Derived Esters solubilises lipophilic dirt (dirt attracted to oils) and removes impurities for a very effective cleanse without stripping the skin and disturbing the skin barrier function.

Rice Bran Oil

Rice Bran Oil contains high concentrations of Phytosterols and Fatty Acids (Omegas 3&6), which can aid in the skin anti-ageing process by combatting free radicals. It also contains high levels of Vitamin E, Phytosterols and Ferulic Acid which also offer a very strong antioxidant action. Lastly, it is an extremely thin oil which is also deeply nourishing, providing suppleness and softness to the skin.

Shea Detox

Shea Detox is a powerful detoxifying ingredient, rich in Gallic Acid and Shea Derivatives, not only removing debris from the surface of the skin, but also pollutants such as Chlorine, Nicotine, Lead and exhaust gases.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a powerful oil-soluble antioxidant renowned for its excellent skin-protecting and replenishing properties. It helps prevent premature ageing by safeguarding skin cell membranes from damaging free radicals. Its nourishing qualities strengthen the skin barrier, enhancing resilience against environmental aggressors and improving water retention by reducing trans-epidermal water loss (TEWL). Additionally, Vitamin E has soothing effect thanks to it anti-inflammatory properties.

  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex
  • - + Melatonin
  • - + Lactobacillus Ferment
  • - + Lavender Hybrid Extract
  • - + Coconut Derived Esters
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Shea Detox
  • - + Vitamin E
New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex

The Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex combines melatonin, yeast extract, and Lactobacillus ferment to help the skin use oxygen more effectively inside its cells.

Melatonin acts directly on the mitochondria — the “power stations” of the cells — to improve how they convert oxygen into energy, which allows the skin to repair itself more efficiently.

Yeast extract supplies essential cofactors such as peptides, amino acids, and B-vitamins that the skin needs to run these energy-producing reactions smoothly, almost like giving fuel and tools to the mitochondria.

Lactobacillus ferment helps rebalance the microbiome on the surface of the skin, reducing micro-inflammation and creating a calmer, healthier environment where oxygen can circulate more freely.

Phospholipids then help these actives penetrate into the upper layers of the epidermis, and dandelion extract protects against pollution-induced stress that otherwise blocks oxygen exchange.

Together, they don’t add oxygen from the outside — they help the skin breathe and function better on its own, supporting more efficient repair, protection, and cellular renewal.

Spotlight

New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex

The Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex combines melatonin, yeast extract, and Lactobacillus ferment to help the skin use oxygen more effectively inside its cells.

Melatonin acts directly on the mitochondria — the “power stations” of the cells — to improve how they convert oxygen into energy, which allows the skin to repair itself more efficiently.

Yeast extract supplies essential cofactors such as peptides, amino acids, and B-vitamins that the skin needs to run these energy-producing reactions smoothly, almost like giving fuel and tools to the mitochondria.

Lactobacillus ferment helps rebalance the microbiome on the surface of the skin, reducing micro-inflammation and creating a calmer, healthier environment where oxygen can circulate more freely.

Phospholipids then help these actives penetrate into the upper layers of the epidermis, and dandelion extract protects against pollution-induced stress that otherwise blocks oxygen exchange.

Together, they don’t add oxygen from the outside — they help the skin breathe and function better on its own, supporting more efficient repair, protection, and cellular renewal.

Why I love it

  • "The efficacy of Biologique Recherche relies not only on its science-driven approach to balancing and curing the skin, but on its prescriptive and tailored nature."

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 Milk Cleanser 250ml
    Biologique Recherche

    Lait VIP O2 (New - 250ml)

    £102

    The Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 is a revitalising, oxygen-boosting cleansing milk that gently purifies while brightening and defending against urban stressors. The reformulated version of the original Lait VIP O2, it is designed for dull, devitalised, and pollution-stressed skin.

    Melatonin — a bioactive antioxidant naturally produced by the skin — works at the mitochondrial level to improve cellular oxygen use and ATP production, helping skin recover from fatigue and environmental depletion. The exclusive Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex boosts cellular respiration to restore radiance and vitality, while Yeast Extract rebalances the microbiome, regulates sebum and encourages gentle cellular turnover for a clearer, more even complexion.

    Lactobacillus Ferment supports the skin's microbial defence and helps protect against environmental aggressors, while Lavender Hybrid Extract soothes and calms. Coconut Derived Esters and Rice Bran Oil provide gentle cleansing and nourishment, Shea Detox purifies without stripping, and Vitamin E delivers antioxidant barrier protection — leaving the skin clean, bright and thoroughly revitalised.

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