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Brightening Touch Serum

BRIGHTENING RENEWAL
Brightening Touch Serum
Future 5 Elements
Benefits
  • Brightening
  • Anti-Pigmentation
  • Anti-Redness
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Plumping
  • Firming
  • Lifting
  • Hydrating
  • Anti-Wrinkle

Future 5 Elements Brightening Touch Serum is a non-irritating, non-photosensitising brightening serum for dull, uneven and reactive skin. A multi-botanical anti-pigmentation complex targets excess melanin production and reduces pigmentation without triggering sensitivity.

Licorice Root Extract inhibits tyrosinase activity to reduce hyperpigmentation and dark spots, while Tara Plant and Punarnava Root reinforce this action with their own melanogenesis-blocking compounds.

African Potato (Hypoxis Rooperi) provides the antioxidant core — its key compound converts to Rooperol inside the skin to neutralise free radicals and preserve collagen structure.

Centella Asiatica soothes inflammation and redness, Silk Protein delivers an immediate smoothing and plumping effect, Cotton Oil strengthens the barrier with Omega-6, Omega-9 and Vitamin E, and Glycerin provides humectant hydration throughout.

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Future 5 Elements Brightening Touch Serum is a non-irritating, non-photosensitising brightening serum for dull, uneven and reactive skin. A multi-botanical anti-pigmentation complex targets excess melanin production and reduces pigmentation without triggering sensitivity.

Licorice Root Extract inhibits tyrosinase activity to reduce hyperpigmentation and dark spots, while Tara Plant and Punarnava Root reinforce this action with their own melanogenesis-blocking compounds.

African Potato (Hypoxis Rooperi) provides the antioxidant core — its key compound converts to Rooperol inside the skin to neutralise free radicals and preserve collagen structure.

Centella Asiatica soothes inflammation and redness, Silk Protein delivers an immediate smoothing and plumping effect, Cotton Oil strengthens the barrier with Omega-6, Omega-9 and Vitamin E, and Glycerin provides humectant hydration throughout.

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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

Pigmentation

Reactive & Blotchy Skin

Uneven Complexion

Red Cross
Not For you if
How to Apply
Lightly massage 5-6 drops of the Future 5 Brightening Touch Serum into clean skin over the entire face, neck and décolleté until the product has been completely absorbed. The serum can be combined with other products to create a customized treatment, delivering results specific to your skin’s needs.
Ingredients

Scroll down the page for a full breakdown of the active ingredients.

Aqua/Water, Glycerin, Sorbitol, Propanediol, Hydrolyzed Silk, Phenoxyethanol, Disodium Edta, HypoxisRooperi Rhizome Ext., Centella Asiatica Ext., Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Ext., Chondrus Crispus Powder (And) Cellulose Gum (And) Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum (And) Glucose, BoerhaviaDiffusa Root Ext., Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Gossypium Herbaceum (Cotton) Seed Ext., Caesalpinia Spinosa Gum

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: Very subtle with a light herbal note.

Texture: Lightweight serum with a fast-absorbing finish.

About the Brand
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Future 5 Elements is a family-owned skincare house, originally founded by Anita Bar Lev, with roots dating back to 1993. Over the decades, they became a pioneer in merging natural botanicals with advanced skin science, developing cold-processed, small-batch formulations that preserve ingredient potency. They were among the first to integrate innovative delivery systems such as liposomal encapsulation into clean skincare, ensuring that actives penetrate deeper for optimal results. Today, the brand stands at the intersection of tradition and technology, offering a luxury experience that is both effective and uncompromisingly pure.

Future 5 Elements is a quiet luxury skincare brand created to bring balance and beauty to your skin. Their philosophy embraces the power of nature and the wisdom of tradition. Each product is designed around the brand’s five essential skin functions—purification, stimulation, hydration, nourishment & protection; creating balance while addressing multiple concerns at once. By marrying traditional plant wisdom with cutting-edge biochemistry. Clean, cruelty-free, and transparent; they choose only what truly benefits the skin. With Future 5 Elements, skincare becomes more than a routine; it’s a ritual of harmony and health which is reflected in the complexion.

The Benefits

  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
Brightening (Energising)

Brightening skincare involves using active ingredients to boost your blood circulation, detoxification and cellular energy. Improved blood circulation brings more essential nutrients and oxygen to your skin, while detoxification helps eliminate cell waste and impurities that can make your skin look dull. Certain active ingredients also enhance your skin's metabolism and regeneration. These combined actions restore your skin's vitality and radiant appearance, giving you a fresh, energised complexion.

Anti-Pigmentation

Dealing with pigmentation means targeting melanin overproduction to reduce dark spots and prevent new ones. Melanin production can be triggered by UV exposure, pollution, hormonal changes (like during pregnancy), and inflammation (from acne or cuts). This excess pigment is then transferred to surrounding cells in epidermis called keratinocytes, which then moves to the skin's surface, causing visible dark spots.

To treat hyperpigmentation, a personalised and consistent approach is needed. Our anti-pigmentation products include lightening agents to block tyrosinase (the enzyme that creates melanin), antioxidants to fight free radicals, and ingredients to speed up skin cell turnover, removing pigmented cells. Using broad-spectrum sun protection is crucial to prevent new pigmentation during treatment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prevents Collagen Breakdown

By preventing collagen breakdown (Collagenase), you preserve your skin's firmness and elasticity. Inhibiting the enzymes that degrade collagen helps maintain the skin's structural integrity, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This promotes a firmer, more lifted complexion. The result is resilient, plump skin that defies the signs of ageing, keeping you looking youthful and radiant.

Plumping

Plumping involves using active ingredients to boost the production of key structural components like collagen, the dermal-epidermal junction and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), giving your skin more volume and density. Collagen provides structural support and firmness, while the dermal-epidermal junction, a thin connective layer, ensures smooth, wrinkle-free skin by facilitating cell communication. GAGs, like hyaluronic acid, keep your skin hydrated and plump from within. By stimulating these components, active ingredients help restore your skin's plumpness and radiance.

Firming & Lifting

Firming & Lifting skincare is designed to restore strength, structure, and definition to the skin, creating a visibly tighter, more sculpted appearance. As the skin loses collagen and elasticity over time, it can begin to soften and sag, losing its natural contours. Advanced formulations work to rebuild this support from within—boosting firmness while helping to visibly lift and redefine the skin. The result is a smoother, more toned complexion with enhanced bounce and resilience, where facial contours appear sharper and elevated.

Hydrating

Hydration is a fundamental part of healthy skincare, focusing on maintaining and restoring the skin’s water content. Well-hydrated skin appears plump, smooth and radiant, while dehydration can lead to dullness, tightness, fine lines and increased sensitivity.
Hydrating the skin can work through a fascinating mix of ingredients with different roles. Humectants like hyaluronic acid and glycerin act like water magnets, pulling water into the skin to instantly plump and smooth, while Natural Moisturizing Factors (NMFs)—such as urea, amino acids and sodium PCA—mimic the skin’s own hydration system, helping it hold onto water and stay balanced from within.
Adding humectants like hyaluronic acid to your routine will restore your skin's healthy glow, minimize fine lines, and provide a plumping effect.

Anti-Wrinkle

Anti-wrinkle skincare is focused on both preventing and visibly reducing the formation of lines by targeting the structural and dynamic causes of wrinkles within the skin. Fine lines and deeper wrinkles develop as collagen and elastin decline, cell turnover slows and repeated facial movements create creases that become etched over time. Advanced formulations address these mechanisms through a combination of elastin-stimulating actives, smoothing peptides that help relax the appearance of expression lines, and deeply hydrating ingredients that plump the skin from within. By reinforcing the skin’s architecture while softening surface contractions and improving elasticity, anti-wrinkle skincare delivers a visibly smoother complexion.

  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle

Active Ingredients

  • - + Licorice Root Extract
  • - + Tara Plant
  • - + Punarnava Root
  • - + African Potato
  • - + Centella Asiatica
  • - + Silk Protein
  • - + Cotton Oil
  • - + Glycerin
Licorice Root Extract

Derived from the Glycyrrhiza Glabra plant, Licorice Root Extract is a potent botanical known for its brightening, soothing, and reparative properties. Rich in glabridin and liquiritin, it helps to inhibit tyrosinase activity, visibly reducing hyperpigmentation and dark spots while promoting a more even skin tone. Its natural anti-inflammatory and antioxidant actions help to calm redness, support healing, and protect the skin from environmental aggressors. Licorice Root Extract promotes a clearer, brighter, and a more balanced complexion over time.

Tara Plant

The Tara plant (Caesalpinia spinosa) combats pigmentation by inhibiting tyrosinase, the key enzyme involved in melanin production, which helps reduce the formation of pigmentation and uneven skin tone. Rich in tannins and polyphenols, it also offers powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits, protecting the skin from oxidative stress and calming irritation that can worsen pigmentation.

Punarnava Root

Punarnava Root is a brightening botanical that targets pigmentation while calming inflammation. Its active compound, helps inhibit the melanogenesis process (excess melanin production), reducing pigmentation and evening the complexion. Additionally, its anti-inflammatory properties soothe irritation, reduce redness and post-acne pigmentation.

African Potato

Hypoxis Rooperi is a powerful antioxidant that helps prevent wrinkles while protecting skin from pollution and UV damage. Its key compound, Hypoxoside, converts into Rooperol inside the skin, where it neutralises free radicals (unstable molecules that break down collagen and speed up ageing). By blocking this chain reaction, it acts as a shield that preserves the skin’s structure and slows visible ageing.

Centella Asiatica

Centella Asiatica is a powerful antioxidant which has immense anti-inflammatory, soothing and wound-healing benefits. Rich in chlorophyll, it is also extremely proficient at reducing redness. Also known as "Tiger Grass" as tigers were known to roll in it after having been wounded.

Silk Protein

Silk, composed of Glycoprotein Polymers, forms a film on the skin's surface, delivering an immediate smoothing effect. It also provides hydrating, firming, and softening benefits for the skin.

Cotton Oil

Cotton Oil is extracted from cotton seeds. Naturally rich in Omega 6 & 9, two essential Fatty Acids that limit Trans epidermal Water Loss (TEWL) and strengthen the skin barrier. Cotton Oil is naturally rich in Vitamin E whose antioxidant properties protect cells from external damage and premature ageing.

Glycerin

Glycerin is a potent humectant commonly used in skincare for its powerful hydrating properties. It works by attracting water molecules from the atmosphere and retaining them in the deeper layers of the skin, effectively boosting hydration reservoir. This helps to plump up the skin, resulting in reduced dehydration lines and a soft, supple complexion.

  • - + Licorice Root Extract
  • - + Tara Plant
  • - + Punarnava Root
  • - + African Potato
  • - + Centella Asiatica
  • - + Silk Protein
  • - + Cotton Oil
  • - + Glycerin
Brightening & Anti-Pigmentation Complex

This brightening and anti-pigmentation complex is suited to dull and pigmented skins. Boerhavia Diffusa (Punarnava Root) brightens by regulating melanin production and calms post-acne inflammation and redness. Hypoxis Rooperi (African Potato) provides antioxidant protection by neutralising free radicals (unstable molecules that weaken collagen and speed up ageing). Caesalpinia Spinosa (Tara Plant) strengthens the barrier with hydrating polysaccharides (sugar molecules that form a protective film) while shielding against UV-induced damage. Together, these actives create a powerful system that supports the reduction of pigmentation, brightens and restores an even complexion.

Spotlight

Brightening & Anti-Pigmentation Complex

This brightening and anti-pigmentation complex is suited to dull and pigmented skins. Boerhavia Diffusa (Punarnava Root) brightens by regulating melanin production and calms post-acne inflammation and redness. Hypoxis Rooperi (African Potato) provides antioxidant protection by neutralising free radicals (unstable molecules that weaken collagen and speed up ageing). Caesalpinia Spinosa (Tara Plant) strengthens the barrier with hydrating polysaccharides (sugar molecules that form a protective film) while shielding against UV-induced damage. Together, these actives create a powerful system that supports the reduction of pigmentation, brightens and restores an even complexion.

Why I love it

  • What I adore most is how these products blend purity with performance. They are so gentle on the skin yet incredibly potent. Their encapsulated actives make every drop a powerhouse of effectiveness, delivering deep, bioavailable results that transform the skin from within.

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Future 5 Brightening Touch Serum 30ml
    Future 5 Elements

    Brightening Touch Serum

    £141

    Future 5 Elements Brightening Touch Serum is a non-irritating, non-photosensitising brightening serum for dull, uneven and reactive skin. A multi-botanical anti-pigmentation complex targets excess melanin production and reduces pigmentation without triggering sensitivity.

    Licorice Root Extract inhibits tyrosinase activity to reduce hyperpigmentation and dark spots, while Tara Plant and Punarnava Root reinforce this action with their own melanogenesis-blocking compounds.

    African Potato (Hypoxis Rooperi) provides the antioxidant core — its key compound converts to Rooperol inside the skin to neutralise free radicals and preserve collagen structure.

    Centella Asiatica soothes inflammation and redness, Silk Protein delivers an immediate smoothing and plumping effect, Cotton Oil strengthens the barrier with Omega-6, Omega-9 and Vitamin E, and Glycerin provides humectant hydration throughout.

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