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Lait VIP O2 Milk Cleanser (150ml)

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BRIGHTENING CLEANSE
Lait VIP O2 Milk Cleanser (150ml)
Biologique Recherche
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Benefits
  • Brightening
  • Microbiome Balancing
  • Mattifying
  • Complexion-Unifying
  • Purifying
  • Anti-Acne
  • Detoxifying
  • Antioxidant
  • Nourishing
  • Barrier-Strengthening

Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 is an oxygenating, pollution-defending cleansing milk that gently lifts impurities while brightening and revitalising dull, devitalised skin.

The exclusive BR Oxygenating Complex boosts cellular respiration to restore radiance and promote a fresh, healthy-looking complexion, while antioxidant botanicals help neutralise environmental stressors that contribute to fatigue and uneven tone.

Amino acids and hydrating humectants support barrier integrity and retain hydration.

Read more

Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 is an oxygenating, pollution-defending cleansing milk that gently lifts impurities while brightening and revitalising dull, devitalised skin.

The exclusive BR Oxygenating Complex boosts cellular respiration to restore radiance and promote a fresh, healthy-looking complexion, while antioxidant botanicals help neutralise environmental stressors that contribute to fatigue and uneven tone.

Amino acids and hydrating humectants support barrier integrity and retain hydration.

Read less

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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

Oily T-Zone

Red Cross
Not For you if
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

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

Water (Aqua), Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil, Glycerin, Polyglyceryl-6 Distearate, Perfluorodecalin, Cetyl Alcohol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Jojoba Esters, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Seedcake Extract, Yeast Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Citric Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Cellulose Gum, Xanthan Gum, Tocopherol, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Propylene Glycol, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax, Polyperfluoromethylisopropyl Ether, Poloxamer 188, Disodium Phosphate, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, O-Cymen-5-Ol.

*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

  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)
  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Non-Comedogenic
Brightening (Oxygenation)

Brightening your skin means restoring its natural glow. One way to do this is through oxygenation, which helps skin cells "breathe" better by delivering more oxygen. Perfluorocarbons are key ingredients that carry oxygen into the skin cells. This process also boosts blood circulation and removes skin cell waste, resulting in brighter, more radiant skin.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)
  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Non-Comedogenic

Active Ingredients

  • - + Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex
  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Vitamin E
  • - + Coconut Derived Esters
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Shea Detox
Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex

Biologique Recherche's "Oxygenating Complex" utilises Perfluorodecalin to enhance cellular respiration by delivering oxygen deep into the skin. This ingredient effectively carries oxygen to the skin's deepest layers, promoting rejuvenation, plumping, reducing wrinkles, and brightening the complexion.

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.

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.

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.

  • - + Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex
  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Vitamin E
  • - + Coconut Derived Esters
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Shea Detox
The Biologique Recherche Proprietary Oxygenating Complex

Biologique Recherche's proprietary Oxygenating Complex is a powerful skincare ingredient known for its rejuvenating properties. It enhances cellular respiration and promotes better tissue oxygenation, which helps boost the efficacy of other active ingredients.

It contains perfluorodecalin, a compound renowned for its ability to transport oxygen. It stimulates cellular exchange to replenish oxygen-deprived skin, resulting in improved skin vitality and enhanced absorption of skincare products.

This advanced formulation is particularly suited to city workers, smokers and those with stressed or dull skin, leading to a more radiant and healthier complexion with boosted cellular function.

Clinical Proofs

EFFICACY TEST: ANTI-POLLUTION EFFECT
Test conducted on 22 women aged 19 to 48. Micro-particles were deposited on the skin before cleansing it.
Lait VIP O2 eliminates 80% of micro-particles from the surface of the skin.
- 100% of women said the product cleanses the skin and removes even waterproof
makeup
- 100% of women said impurities and particulate pollutants were removed from their
skin
- 100% of women said their skin was healthier and cleansed
- 100% of women said their skin was oxygenated
- 100% of women said their skin was revitalized and their complexion more radiant
- 100% of women said their skin was moisturized
- 100% of women said their skin felt more comfortable
- 100% of women said their skin was protected

* The above information has been supplied to the Embassy of Beauty by the brand manufacturer. Embassy of Beauty takes no responsibility for these claimed studies and or results.

Spotlight

The Biologique Recherche Proprietary Oxygenating Complex

Biologique Recherche's proprietary Oxygenating Complex is a powerful skincare ingredient known for its rejuvenating properties. It enhances cellular respiration and promotes better tissue oxygenation, which helps boost the efficacy of other active ingredients.

It contains perfluorodecalin, a compound renowned for its ability to transport oxygen. It stimulates cellular exchange to replenish oxygen-deprived skin, resulting in improved skin vitality and enhanced absorption of skincare products.

This advanced formulation is particularly suited to city workers, smokers and those with stressed or dull skin, leading to a more radiant and healthier complexion with boosted cellular function.

Clinical Proofs

Clinical Proofs

EFFICACY TEST: ANTI-POLLUTION EFFECT
Test conducted on 22 women aged 19 to 48. Micro-particles were deposited on the skin before cleansing it.
Lait VIP O2 eliminates 80% of micro-particles from the surface of the skin.
- 100% of women said the product cleanses the skin and removes even waterproof
makeup
- 100% of women said impurities and particulate pollutants were removed from their
skin
- 100% of women said their skin was healthier and cleansed
- 100% of women said their skin was oxygenated
- 100% of women said their skin was revitalized and their complexion more radiant
- 100% of women said their skin was moisturized
- 100% of women said their skin felt more comfortable
- 100% of women said their skin was protected

* The above information has been supplied to the Embassy of Beauty by the brand manufacturer. Embassy of Beauty takes no responsibility for these claimed studies and or results.

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 150ml
    Biologique Recherche

    Lait VIP O2 Milk Cleanser (150ml)

    £70

    Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 is an oxygenating, pollution-defending cleansing milk that gently lifts impurities while brightening and revitalising dull, devitalised skin.

    The exclusive BR Oxygenating Complex boosts cellular respiration to restore radiance and promote a fresh, healthy-looking complexion, while antioxidant botanicals help neutralise environmental stressors that contribute to fatigue and uneven tone.

    Amino acids and hydrating humectants support barrier integrity and retain hydration.

    Size

    • 150ml
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