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Definitive Enzyme Cleanser

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Definitive Enzyme Cleanser
Auteur
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Benefits
  • Exfoliating
  • Brightening
  • Plumping
  • Antioxidant
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Anti-Redness
  • Anti-Puffiness
  • Mattifying

Auteur Definitive Enzyme Cleanser is a high-active, powder-to-foam exfoliating cleanser that refines texture, brightens dullness and clears congestion while supporting the skin barrier. Advanced keratin-dissolving enzymes and gentle Alpha Hydroxy Acids smooth the skin’s surface, encourage healthy cellular turnover and minimise wrinkles for a more even, renewed complexion.

A stabilised Vitamin C complex and Niacinamide work together to boost luminosity, even tone, reduce pigmentation and help tighten the appearance of pores.

Ectoin defends against environmental aggressors, calms inflammation and maintains optimal hydration so skin feels resilient rather than stripped.

Caffeine and antioxidant support further energise and de-puff the complexion

Read more

Auteur Definitive Enzyme Cleanser is a high-active, powder-to-foam exfoliating cleanser that refines texture, brightens dullness and clears congestion while supporting the skin barrier. Advanced keratin-dissolving enzymes and gentle Alpha Hydroxy Acids smooth the skin’s surface, encourage healthy cellular turnover and minimise wrinkles for a more even, renewed complexion.

A stabilised Vitamin C complex and Niacinamide work together to boost luminosity, even tone, reduce pigmentation and help tighten the appearance of pores.

Ectoin defends against environmental aggressors, calms inflammation and maintains optimal hydration so skin feels resilient rather than stripped.

Caffeine and antioxidant support further energise and de-puff the complexion

Read less

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  • - + 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
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For you if

Dull Skin

Oily Skin

Blackheads/Whiteheads

Textured Skin

Puffiness

Enlarged Pores

Uneven Complexion

How to Apply
Dispense a small amount of powder onto the palm of your hand. Slowly add water to emulsify into a fluffy foam and massage onto dry or damp skin. Allow the treatment to act for 30-60 seconds to provide better penetration of the active ingredients. Rinse with lukewarm water. Alternatively, the cleanser may be left on the skin for up to 5 minutes as an at-home masking treatment. For best results, follow with our Definitive Lifting Toner, Serum and/or Cream. Can be used in the morning and evening.
Ingredients

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

Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Sodium Myristoyl Glutamate, Tapioca Starch, Ascorbic Acid, Niacinamide, Sodium Bicarbonate, Maltodextrin, Lysolecithin, Sclerotium Gum, Citric Acid, Silica, Xanthan Gum, Parfum/Fragrance, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Ectoin, Pullulan, Caffeine, Protease, Limonene


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

Smells Like: Light and refreshing, with a hint of citrus from Vitamin C.

Texture: It starts as a refined powder that turns into a liquid when activated with water.

About the Brand
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Launched in Germany in 2021, AUTEUR is a luxury skincare house dedicated to advanced anti-ageing. Working with leading scientists, the line merges epigenetic research with potent concentrations of proven actives. Each formula targets the root causes of ageing, rebuilding skin structure, smoothing wrinkles, and improving elasticity. Every product is extremely powerful, designed for maximum potency and visible transformation. The result is high-performance treatments with lasting results.

No other brand marries high-end German skincare technology with such a breadth of actives to deliver transformative results. Each product boasts an unprecedented concentration of ingredients, so every pump provides a multifaceted treatment that tackles multiple skin concerns at once. This clinically driven approach yields dramatic improvements where conventional routines plateau, delivering visible regeneration and smoothing from the very first application.

AUTEUR’s formulations are rooted in biomedical science and engineered for performance. Advanced encapsulated peptide technology delivers potent molecules deep into the skin for optimal repair. Each formula unites growth factors, antioxidants, probiotics, and ceramides to stimulate collagen, calm inflammation, and fortify the barrier, accelerating renewal and delivering cumulative, clinically proven results.

The Benefits

  • - + Chemical Exfoliation
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Anti-Puffiness
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
Chemical Exfoliation

Chemical exfoliation uses acids to dissolve the "glue" holding dead skin cells together, promoting skin cell turnover and replacing old cells with new, healthy ones. Acids like AHAs, BHAs, and PHAs not only help shed skin but also offer benefits like brightening, clarifying, and anti-ageing, depending on the type used.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anti-Puffiness

Ingredients that reduce facial puffiness work by effectively targeting and diminishing swelling in the face. By improving lymphatic drainage and boosting circulation, they help eliminate excess fluids and toxins, leading to a more sculpted and refreshed appearance. The result is visibly smoother, firmer, and more defined facial contours, giving you a revitalised and youthful look.

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.

  • - + Chemical Exfoliation
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Anti-Puffiness
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)

Active Ingredients

  • - + Alpha-Hydroxy Acids
  • - + Stabilised Vitamin C
  • - + Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide)
  • - + Ectoin
  • - + Caffeine
  • - + Zea Mays
  • - + Zymo Lift MD
Alpha-Hydroxy Acids

Alpha-Hydroxy Acids are a chemical exfoliant which exfoliate the top layers of the skin, offering a variety of benefits. They are mostly derived from plant-based sources. Some of the most common AHAs are Glycolic Acid, Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, Mandelic Acid and Malic Acid. Depending on the type of AHA, they can reduce dullness, even skin tone, reduce pigmentation, tighten pores, stimulate collagen production, hydrate the skin and offer antioxidant protection. AHAs are generally less irritating and drying to the skin as they are water-soluble.

Stabilised Vitamin C

Stabilised vitamin C is a chemically modified derivative of Vitamin C engineered to maintain potency and resist oxidation caused by exposure to light, heat, and oxygen, offering enhanced stability and controlled release into the skin. Once absorbed, they function as potent antioxidants, neutralising free radicals generated by UV radiation and pollution to prevent oxidative stress and premature cellular ageing. Stabilised vitamin C also inhibits tyrosinase activity, reducing melanin synthesis and promoting a more even, luminous skin tone. Additionally, it stimulates collagen synthesis by supporting fibroblast activity, improving skin firmness and elasticity over time. Because of their lower irritation potential and greater formulation stability, these forms are accepted by most skin types; including sensitive, acne-prone, or reactive skin.

Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide)

Vitamin B3 also known as Niacinamide, is versatile and highly effective ingredient with many benefits. It helps to strengthen skin barrier function and increase water retention by increasing natural ceramide production. It's anti-inflammatory and sebum regulating properties soothe, repair and balance irritated, weakened and acne prone skins. Niacinamide is also a potent antioxidant with protective and brightening properties helping to restore skin's natural glow.

Ectoin

Ectoin, alternatively spelled "ectoine," is a derivative of amino acids—organic compounds that serve as the fundamental building blocks of proteins and peptides. It functions to protect cellular structures in organisms exposed to extreme environmental conditions such as high salinity, extreme pressure, and severe temperature fluctuations. It achieves this by stabilising critical biomolecules, including enzymes, proteins, and nucleic acids. Ectoin forms a protective barrier around the skin, shielding it from environmental stressors such as ultraviolet (UVA) radiation and pollution. Furthermore, ectoin mitigates transepidermal water loss (TEWL) by reducing stress on the stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the skin, even in arid and challenging environments. Ectoin provides several scientifically backed benefits for skin health, including: - Its ability to reduce TEWL contributes to softer, smoother skin by maintaining optimal moisture levels and supporting a balanced skin microbiome. - It helps protect against UVA-induced damage, reducing hyperpigmentation and photoaging. - Ectoin alleviates skin sensitivity and stress, making it suitable for irritated or compromised skin.

Caffeine

Caffeine has energising, microcirculation boosting and blood vessel constricting properties helping to quickly and effectively improve puffiness and dark circles.

Zea Mays

Zea Mays, also known as Corn Starch, is used in skincare for its gentle cleansing, mild exfoliating and potent sebum (oil) regulating properties, helping to reveal a clearer and mattified complexion.

Zymo Lift MD

Zymo Lift MD is an Enzyme Complex that accelerates cell turnover by breaking down the proteins that hold dead skin cells together, revealing smoother and brighter skin underneath.

  • - + Alpha-Hydroxy Acids
  • - + Stabilised Vitamin C
  • - + Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide)
  • - + Ectoin
  • - + Caffeine
  • - + Zea Mays
  • - + Zymo Lift MD
Zymo Lift MD

Zymo Lift MD is a cutting-edge enzymatic complex designed to rejuvenate the skin. Its key benefits include removing dead skin cells, refining pores and boosting elasticity for a brighter, plumper complexion. It combines Subtilisin, a micro encapsulated keratolytic protease, with AHAs like Lactic and Glycolic Acid, BHA Salicylic Acid and Urea to accelerate skin cell turnover and clear congestion.

The result is smoother, more radiant skin with reduced dullness and pore visibility. Gentle yet effective, Zymo Lift MD enhances skin health and reveals a refreshed, rejuvenated glow.

Spotlight

Zymo Lift MD

Zymo Lift MD is a cutting-edge enzymatic complex designed to rejuvenate the skin. Its key benefits include removing dead skin cells, refining pores and boosting elasticity for a brighter, plumper complexion. It combines Subtilisin, a micro encapsulated keratolytic protease, with AHAs like Lactic and Glycolic Acid, BHA Salicylic Acid and Urea to accelerate skin cell turnover and clear congestion.

The result is smoother, more radiant skin with reduced dullness and pore visibility. Gentle yet effective, Zymo Lift MD enhances skin health and reveals a refreshed, rejuvenated glow.

Why I love it

  • "Featuring high-end German skincare technology and powerful actives, I was astounded by the results. This is a new kind of luxury, who wouldn't want this on their bathroom shelf?”

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Auteur Definitive Enzyme Cleanser 50g
    Auteur

    Definitive Enzyme Cleanser

    £140

    Auteur Definitive Enzyme Cleanser is a high-active, powder-to-foam exfoliating cleanser that refines texture, brightens dullness and clears congestion while supporting the skin barrier. Advanced keratin-dissolving enzymes and gentle Alpha Hydroxy Acids smooth the skin’s surface, encourage healthy cellular turnover and minimise wrinkles for a more even, renewed complexion.

    A stabilised Vitamin C complex and Niacinamide work together to boost luminosity, even tone, reduce pigmentation and help tighten the appearance of pores.

    Ectoin defends against environmental aggressors, calms inflammation and maintains optimal hydration so skin feels resilient rather than stripped.

    Caffeine and antioxidant support further energise and de-puff the complexion

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