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Repairing Face Mask

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Repairing Face Mask
Le Rub
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Benefits
  • Anti-Redness
  • Plumping
  • Antioxidant
  • Post-Sun Repair
  • Hydrating
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Nourishing
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Brightening
  • Anti-Pigmentation
  • Complexion-Unifying
  • Cellular Anti-Ageing
  • Firming
  • Lifting
  • Regenerating
  • Scar-Repairing

Le Rub Repairing Face Mask is a fragrance-free, 15-minute restorative mask for sun-stressed, dry and sensitive skin. Formulated with potent antioxidants and moisture-locking actives, it calms inflammation, replenishes hydration and visibly softens early signs of ageing after a single use. It can also be worn overnight for an intensive moisture boost.

Tomato Skin — an Italian lycopene-rich extract — is the hero active, neutralising free radicals generated by UV exposure, preventing collagen breakdown and delivering powerful anti-inflammatory benefits to reduce redness, tightness and sun-induced irritation. Hyaluronic Acid provides deep, immediate hydration and plumps the skin.

Aloe Vera soothes and calms, Cucumber Juice and Allantoin strengthen the barrier and reduce sensitivity, and Shea Butter nourishes and restores suppleness — leaving the complexion visibly smoother, calmer and thoroughly revitalised.

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Le Rub Repairing Face Mask is a fragrance-free, 15-minute restorative mask for sun-stressed, dry and sensitive skin. Formulated with potent antioxidants and moisture-locking actives, it calms inflammation, replenishes hydration and visibly softens early signs of ageing after a single use. It can also be worn overnight for an intensive moisture boost.

Tomato Skin — an Italian lycopene-rich extract — is the hero active, neutralising free radicals generated by UV exposure, preventing collagen breakdown and delivering powerful anti-inflammatory benefits to reduce redness, tightness and sun-induced irritation. Hyaluronic Acid provides deep, immediate hydration and plumps the skin.

Aloe Vera soothes and calms, Cucumber Juice and Allantoin strengthen the barrier and reduce sensitivity, and Shea Butter nourishes and restores suppleness — leaving the complexion visibly smoother, calmer 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

Sun-Exposed Skin

Sun-Damaged Skin

Dehydrated Skin

Dry Skin

Red Cross
Not For you if

No Contraindications


Not sure? Consult an expert.

How to Apply
Apply a generous layer to the face and neck. If fully absorbed after 5 minutes, apply a second layer for maximum hydration. Rinse off after 15 minutes or leave on overnight for an intensive moisture boost.
Ingredients

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

Aqua [Water], Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice*, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin*, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride*, Cetearyl Olivate*, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Juice*, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter*, Sorbitan Olivate*, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil*, Zinc Oxide, Sodium Hyaluronate*, Myrtus Communis Leaf Extract*, Pistacia Lentiscus Leaf Extract*, Allantoin, Tocopherol*, Saccharomyces Ferment Lysate Filtrate*, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil*, 1,2-Hexanediol, Potassium Sorbate*, Sodium Benzoate*, Citric Acid*,

*Ecocert/Cosmos approved

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

Fragrance-free

Texture: Creamy and rich, yet lightweight.

About the Brand
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Founded in Antwerp by siblings Kim and Raf Maes, Le Rub was created to reimagine sun care as skincare. After three years of development with dermatologists in Italy, they launched a mineral suncare line powered by Mediterranean ingredients. The result is luxurious, protective formulas that merge efficacy, sustainability, and sensorial appeal.

Le Rub transforms sunscreen into a daily ritual worth enjoying. Non-nano Zinc Oxide provides broad-spectrum protection while skincare actives like encapsulated Vitamin C, Hyaluronic Acid, and Grape Ferment nourish and hydrate. Lightweight textures leave no white cast, and Mediterranean-inspired scents make every application feel uplifting.

Le Rub is built on non-nano zinc oxide, the safest and most stable UV filter. Unlike chemical filters, it sits on the skin’s surface to block both UVA and UVB rays without irritation. Its particle size prevents penetration into the skin or marine life, making it reef-safe, protective, and ideal for daily use. This mineral shield is the foundation of Le Rub’s high-performance suncare.

The Benefits

  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Post-Sun Repair
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Glycation)
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Scar-Repairing
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Post-Sun Repair

Post-sun skin repair is all about soothing inflammation and restoring your skin’s natural barrier after UV exposure. Ingredients with calming, antioxidant-rich and barrier-repairing properties help reduce redness, sensitivity and dehydration. These ingredients not only calm sun-stressed skin but also accelerate healing, improve hydration retention and prevent long-term damage. Incorporating post-sun repair products into your routine supports recovery, enhances resilience, and maintains your glow.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anti-Ageing (Glycation)

Combat Glycation and maintain firm, plump, and youthful skin with anti-glycation actives. Glycation is a unique phenomenon where excess sugar molecules from your diet bind to essential proteins like collagen and elastin. This binding process can affect the structural proteins in your skin, like collagen and elastin, which are crucial for maintaining its firmness and elasticity. This results in wrinkles, loss of elasticity, and can even trigger excess pigment production, leading to dark marks and dullness.

Prevent and reverse the effects of glycation by adopting a low-sugar diet and incorporating targeted skincare with anti-glycation actives. These specialised ingredients help prevent sugar from binding to your skin's proteins and repair existing damage, preserving your skin's health 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.

Regenerating

Regenerating skincare actively stimulates the formation of new, healthier skin, working in alignment with the skin’s innate renewal processes. Central to this are growth factors—effectively encouraging the development of new skin tissue. Peptides complement this by acting as targeted messengers guiding the skin to rebuild with greater strength and structural integrity. Stem cell–derived actives further support this environment by delivering protective and regenerative signals that optimize cellular function and renewal. While these mechanisms are synonymous with advanced anti-ageing—improving firmness, elasticity and overall skin quality—they are equally valuable in addressing scarring, as they promote tissue repair, accelerate regeneration and help restore a smoother, more even skin surface.

Scar-Repairing

Anti-Scarring skincare targets the textured scars left by acne breakouts. These scars form due to inflammation disrupting collagen and elastin fibres leading to uneven healing and indented areas. Anti-Scarring actives harness growth factors and exfoliating actives to stimulate cell repair and regeneration, optimising the skin's healing process to reduce scar formation. They also effectively diminish older scars, improving overall skin texture and leaving you with a smoother complexion and significantly reduced scar visibility.

  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Post-Sun Repair
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Glycation)
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Scar-Repairing

Active Ingredients

  • - + High Moleclular Weight Hyaluronic Acid (Hyaluronic Acid)
  • - + Tomato Skin
  • - + Cucumber Extract
  • - + Aloe Leaf Juice
  • - + Shea Butter
  • - + Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil
High Moleclular Weight Hyaluronic Acid (Hyaluronic Acid)

High Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid has a larger molecular size (>1000kDA), which tends to sit on the top layer of the skin, providing surface hydration and improving water retention. It acts as a potent humectant, drawing hydration from the environment into the skin, which helps to plump and smooth the skin's surface texture. Its larger size limits its ability to penetrate deeply into the skin compared to lower molecular weight Hyalurons, making it ideal for providing surface-enhancing hydration provided from other forms of hyalurons and maintaining skin suppleness.

Tomato Skin

Extracted from the nutrient-dense skins of sun-ripened Italian tomatoes, this antioxidant powerhouse is rich in lycopene, a potent carotenoid known for its ability to neutralise free radicals and reduce oxidative stress caused by UV exposure and pollution. Beyond its antioxidant capacity, Tomato Skin also provides natural anti-inflammatory benefits, helping to calm redness and support the skin’s recovery after sun exposure. It works to prevent collagen degradation and supports the skin’s resilience, making it a valuable active for protecting against premature ageing and environmental damage.

Cucumber Extract

Cucumber Extract is rich in Vitamins and minerals. Having a variety of benefits, this ingredient is incredibly gentle and multi-faceted. It is softening and hydrating, as well as calming and refreshing. Furthermore, it also has some astringent and purifying properties, making it suitable for sensitive skins, oily skins and dehydrated skins.

Aloe Leaf Juice

Aloe Leaf Juice has a long history of use for its calming, anti-inflammatory, and hydrating effects on the skin. Its versatility makes it suitable for all skin types, especially beneficial for dehydrated, weakened, and sensitive skin.

Shea Butter

Shea Butter is renowned for its deeply nourishing benefits. It helps to repair and strengthen a weakened skin barrier while enhancing water retention. It quickly replenishes and restores dry, dehydrated and fragile skins.

Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil

Vitis vinifera (Grape) Extract is rich in polyphenols, proanthocyanidins, resveratrol, and viniferin—potent natural antioxidants and brightening compounds. These actives help inhibit tyrosinase activity, reducing excess melanin production to combat pigmentation and promote a more even complexion. In addition, they protect against glycation, oxidative stress, and UV-induced damage, preserving collagen and elastin for firmer, smoother skin. By improving circulation, supporting cell renewal, and enhancing skin clarity, Vitis vinifera extract helps restore luminosity and brightness to the skin. It is ideal for dull, uneven, or environmentally stressed skin, as well as those looking to reduce pigmentation and maintain a bright and even complexion.

  • - + High Moleclular Weight Hyaluronic Acid (Hyaluronic Acid)
  • - + Tomato Skin
  • - + Cucumber Extract
  • - + Aloe Leaf Juice
  • - + Shea Butter
  • - + Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil
Tomato Skin

Tomato Skin is a potent natural antioxidant extract sourced from sun-ripened Italian tomatoes. Rich in lycopene, a carotenoid revered for its ability to neutralise free radicals, it helps combat oxidative stress, one of the key drivers of premature ageing and environmental skin damage. Its antioxidant action supports the prevention of collagen breakdown, improves skin texture, and protects against the lingering effects of UV exposure long after you've left the sun. In addition to defending skin at a cellular level, Tomato Skin provides anti-inflammatory benefits, helping reduce redness, irritation, and tightness in sun-stressed or sensitive skin. With regular use, it supports smoother, more resilient skin, making it a hero ingredient in restorative, post-sun skincare.

Spotlight

Tomato Skin

Tomato Skin is a potent natural antioxidant extract sourced from sun-ripened Italian tomatoes. Rich in lycopene, a carotenoid revered for its ability to neutralise free radicals, it helps combat oxidative stress, one of the key drivers of premature ageing and environmental skin damage. Its antioxidant action supports the prevention of collagen breakdown, improves skin texture, and protects against the lingering effects of UV exposure long after you've left the sun. In addition to defending skin at a cellular level, Tomato Skin provides anti-inflammatory benefits, helping reduce redness, irritation, and tightness in sun-stressed or sensitive skin. With regular use, it supports smoother, more resilient skin, making it a hero ingredient in restorative, post-sun skincare.

Why I love it

  • Le Rub brings a rare elegance to mineral sun care, this SPF feels like skincare, wears invisibly, and delivers protection without compromise. It's a daily essential we genuinely reach for.

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Le Rub Repairing Face Mask
    Le Rub

    Repairing Face Mask

    £37

    Le Rub Repairing Face Mask is a fragrance-free, 15-minute restorative mask for sun-stressed, dry and sensitive skin. Formulated with potent antioxidants and moisture-locking actives, it calms inflammation, replenishes hydration and visibly softens early signs of ageing after a single use. It can also be worn overnight for an intensive moisture boost.

    Tomato Skin — an Italian lycopene-rich extract — is the hero active, neutralising free radicals generated by UV exposure, preventing collagen breakdown and delivering powerful anti-inflammatory benefits to reduce redness, tightness and sun-induced irritation. Hyaluronic Acid provides deep, immediate hydration and plumps the skin.

    Aloe Vera soothes and calms, Cucumber Juice and Allantoin strengthen the barrier and reduce sensitivity, and Shea Butter nourishes and restores suppleness — leaving the complexion visibly smoother, calmer and thoroughly revitalised.

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