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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
  • Hydrating
  • Brightening
  • Nourishing
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Pore-Tightening
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Anti-Ageing
  • Anti-Wrinkle

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.

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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
Brand logo
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

  • - + Cleansing
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Pore Decongesting
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)
Cleansing

Cleansing involves using active cleansing agents to penetrate your skin and pores, breaking down and removing daily impurities, pollution particles, excess sebum, and makeup. Thoroughly cleansed skin renews and regenerates itself more effectively and absorbs follow-up products and active ingredients better.

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.

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.

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.

Pore Decongesting

Pore decongesting focuses on both clearing and minimising the appearance of enlarged pores. Enlarged pores often result from excess oil production and the build-up of impurities within the pore, which can stretch them over time, while ageing further contributes as reduced elasticity makes them more visible. Effective formulations work first to clear the pores—dissolving and removing trapped sebum, debris, and congestion—before regulating oil production and supporting collagen and elastin to improve skin firmness. By addressing both internal build-up and structural integrity, pores can return to a clearer, more refined, and less noticeable state.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  • - + Cleansing
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Pore Decongesting
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)

Active Ingredients

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

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.

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.

  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Vitamin E
  • - + Coconut Derived Esters
  • - + Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex
  • - + 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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