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Beauty Drops No.2

(1)
AGE-DEFYING HYDRATION
Beauty Drops No.2
Future 5 Elements
(1)
Benefits
  • Firming
  • Lifting
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Plumping
  • Anti-Redness
  • Hydrating
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Complexion-Unifying
  • Active Delivery
  • Exfoliating
  • Brightening
  • Mattifying
  • Anti-Bacterial
  • Anti-Acne
  • Antioxidant

Future 5 Elements Beauty Drops No.2 is a restorative water-based serum for dehydrated, sensitive and reactive skin showing signs of wrinkles, loss of firmness and uneven tone. A rich complex of botanicals soothes, hydrates and visibly rejuvenates in one lightweight formula.

Hop Cone — the hero active — protects collagen and elastin to keep the skin plump and prevent new wrinkles forming, while also calming inflammation and sensitivity. Horsetail stimulates collagen, elastin and Hyaluronic Acid production within the dermis to improve firmness, tone and hydration. And Pine Bud strengthens fragile capillaries and improves microcirculation to reduce redness and flushing.

Silk Protein delivers an immediate smoothing and plumping effect, Propylene Glycol provides lasting humectant hydration, and Lemon Peel brightens and unifies the complexion with Vitamin C and antioxidants. Witch Hazel, Sage, Centella Asiatica, Chamomile and Mimosa Extract complete the formula — soothing inflammation, regulating sebum and repairing collagen fibres damaged by glycation.

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Future 5 Elements Beauty Drops No.2 is a restorative water-based serum for dehydrated, sensitive and reactive skin showing signs of wrinkles, loss of firmness and uneven tone. A rich complex of botanicals soothes, hydrates and visibly rejuvenates in one lightweight formula.

Hop Cone — the hero active — protects collagen and elastin to keep the skin plump and prevent new wrinkles forming, while also calming inflammation and sensitivity. Horsetail stimulates collagen, elastin and Hyaluronic Acid production within the dermis to improve firmness, tone and hydration. And Pine Bud strengthens fragile capillaries and improves microcirculation to reduce redness and flushing.

Silk Protein delivers an immediate smoothing and plumping effect, Propylene Glycol provides lasting humectant hydration, and Lemon Peel brightens and unifies the complexion with Vitamin C and antioxidants. Witch Hazel, Sage, Centella Asiatica, Chamomile and Mimosa Extract complete the formula — soothing inflammation, regulating sebum and repairing collagen fibres damaged by glycation.

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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

Dehydrated Skin

Sensitive Skin

Reactive & Blotchy Skin

Red Cross
Not For you if
How to Apply
Lightly massage 5-6 drops of the Future 5 Beauty Drops No.2 into clean skin over the entire face, neck and décolleté until the product has been completely absorbed. The drops can be combined with other products to create a customized treatment, delivering results specific to your skin’s needs.
Ingredients

Aqua/Water, Propylene Glycol, Humulus Lupulus (Hop), Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Ext., Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Ext., Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Ext., Equisetum Arvense Ext., Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Ext., Centella Asiatica Ext., Pinus Salvatories Bud Ext., Hydrolyzed Silk, Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) Ext., Mimosa Tenuiflora Ext., Phenoxyethanol, Edta

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, water-based 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

  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Vaso-Constricting
  • - + Active Delivery
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Chemical Exfoliation
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Anti-Bacterial
  • - + Antioxidant
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vaso-Constricting

Skincare with Vaso-Constricting ingredients are specifically formulated for Rosacea affected skins. They target veins by strengthening capillary walls, reducing their visibility and preventing new vessels from forming. This helps diminish visible redness and flushing while fortifying your skin, giving you a clearer and more resilient complexion. Vascularization is the process of forming new blood vessels on the skin's surface, often resulting in redness, flushing, or broken capillaries, especially in conditions like rosacea.

Active Delivery

Active Delivery skincare involves advanced technologies designed to boost the absorption and effectiveness of active ingredients deep within your skin's layers. These enhancements ensure that other ingredients deliver their powerful benefits precisely where they're needed most. By overcoming the common issue of low permeability in many effective ingredients, active delivery ingredients maximise the unique benefits and visible results of your skincare routine.

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.

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.

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.

Anti-Bacterial

Anti-bacterial action targets and inhibits the growth of bacteria on your skin's surface. Anti-bacterial ingredients work by disrupting essential bacterial processes like cell wall synthesis or protein production, reducing the risk of skin infections and inflammation. They are especially effective for treating acne by controlling the acne-causing bacteria known as Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes). This anti-bacterial action helps diminish imperfections, prevent new breakouts, and reduce irritation, giving you clearer, healthier skin.

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.

  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Vaso-Constricting
  • - + Active Delivery
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Chemical Exfoliation
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Anti-Bacterial
  • - + Antioxidant

Active Ingredients

  • - + Hop Cone
  • - + Horsetail
  • - + Pine Bud
  • - + Silk Protein
  • - + Propylene Glycol
  • - + Lemon Peel
  • - + Witch Hazel Extract
  • - + Sage
  • - + Centella Asiatica
  • - + Chamomile Extract
  • - + Mimosa Extract
  • - + Rosemary Extract
Hop Cone

Hop Cone, a potent plant botanical, helps keep the skin plump while preventing wrinkles by protecting collagen and elastin, the proteins that give skin its firmness and plumpness. Alongside these firming benefits, Hop Cone is naturally calming and anti-inflammatory, helping to ease irritation and soothe sensitivity. 

Horsetail

Horsetail is a herbaceous plant rich in actives that help to stimulate key components within the dermis: Collagen, Elastin & Glycosaminoglycans such as Hyaluronic Acid. The stimulation of these components improves the skin's firmness, tone and hydration. Horsetail extract is also rich in antioxidants and boasts healing properties, ensuring the skin is protected against environmental aggressors and premature cell ageing.

Pine Bud

Pine Bud is a potent botanical that helps reduces redness and inflammation for rosacea and reactive and blotchy skins. It strengthens fragile capillaries, tiny blood vessels under the skin that can easily dilate or break, causing flare-ups, flushing and visible redness. By improving microcirculation (blood flow at the skin’s surface), it calms flushing and balances the complexion.

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.

Propylene Glycol

Propylene Glycol is a powerful humectant which attracts and binds water molecules to the skin, helping to restore hydration levels and maintain plumpness. It also enhances the absorption of other actives, making it an important building block in effective hydrating complexes.

Lemon Peel

Lemon Peel is nature’s brightener to dull and uneven complexions. Bursting with vitamin C and flavonoids, it protects against free radicals (unstable molecules that break down collagen and speed up ageing). Its gentle exfoliating action sweeps away dead skin cells, revealing a brighter, clearer and more even complexion.

Witch Hazel Extract

Witch Hazel extract is rich in tannins, flavonoids and has potent anti-inflammatory properties. It promotes microcirculation and strengthens the capillary network to reduce skin sensitivity and redness.

Sage

Sage is a naturally purifying and mattifying botanical that helps regulate oil and refine pores. Its natural antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties target impurities and calm irritation, making it ideal for acneic skin. Rich in antioxidants, it helps defend the skin against free radical damage (unstable molecules that damage skin cells and speed up aging).

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.

Chamomile Extract

Chamomile Extract, derived from chamomile flowers, is one of the most potent anti-inflammatory actives. This gentle extract not only soothes and calms but also deeply nourishes and hydrates the skin. With its potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, it effectively heals and protects, promoting skin health and resilience.

Mimosa Extract

Mimosa Extract has the ability to protect and repair collagen and elastin fibres structures which have been damaged by glycation. The reason this is so important is because collagen and elastin is what keeps skin youthful, smooth, plump and taught. Preserving these fibres is a necessary step in anti-ageing.

Rosemary Extract

Rosemary Extract provides soothing and protective benefits. Rich in antioxidants, it shields the skin from environmental damage while its anti-inflammatory properties calm and reduce irritation, promoting a healthy and balanced complexion.

  • - + Hop Cone
  • - + Horsetail
  • - + Pine Bud
  • - + Silk Protein
  • - + Propylene Glycol
  • - + Lemon Peel
  • - + Witch Hazel Extract
  • - + Sage
  • - + Centella Asiatica
  • - + Chamomile Extract
  • - + Mimosa Extract
  • - + Rosemary Extract
Calming Phyto-Repair Complex

Created for skin prone to redness and rosacea, this complex calms flare-ups, strengthens fragile capillaries, and restores long-lasting comfort. With six soothing botanicals: Witch Hazel, Arnica, Horse Chestnut, Grape Leaf, Centella Asiatica and Mimosa Bark, it targets the root causes of irritation while supporting barrier strength.

Rich in natural plant compounds, it improves microcirculation (blood flow at the skin’s surface) and reinforces delicate capillaries to visibly reduce redness and broken veins. It actively soothes inflammation, easing stinging, burning, and tightness, while protecting against daily stressors that can trigger sensitivity. Additionally, it supports natural repair by encouraging collagen and skin renewal, helping to build a stronger, more resilient skin barrier.

Spotlight

Calming Phyto-Repair Complex

Created for skin prone to redness and rosacea, this complex calms flare-ups, strengthens fragile capillaries, and restores long-lasting comfort. With six soothing botanicals: Witch Hazel, Arnica, Horse Chestnut, Grape Leaf, Centella Asiatica and Mimosa Bark, it targets the root causes of irritation while supporting barrier strength.

Rich in natural plant compounds, it improves microcirculation (blood flow at the skin’s surface) and reinforces delicate capillaries to visibly reduce redness and broken veins. It actively soothes inflammation, easing stinging, burning, and tightness, while protecting against daily stressors that can trigger sensitivity. Additionally, it supports natural repair by encouraging collagen and skin renewal, helping to build a stronger, more resilient skin barrier.

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 Beauty Drops No.2
    Future 5 Elements

    Beauty Drops No.2

    £119

    Future 5 Elements Beauty Drops No.2 is a restorative water-based serum for dehydrated, sensitive and reactive skin showing signs of wrinkles, loss of firmness and uneven tone. A rich complex of botanicals soothes, hydrates and visibly rejuvenates in one lightweight formula.

    Hop Cone — the hero active — protects collagen and elastin to keep the skin plump and prevent new wrinkles forming, while also calming inflammation and sensitivity. Horsetail stimulates collagen, elastin and Hyaluronic Acid production within the dermis to improve firmness, tone and hydration. And Pine Bud strengthens fragile capillaries and improves microcirculation to reduce redness and flushing.

    Silk Protein delivers an immediate smoothing and plumping effect, Propylene Glycol provides lasting humectant hydration, and Lemon Peel brightens and unifies the complexion with Vitamin C and antioxidants. Witch Hazel, Sage, Centella Asiatica, Chamomile and Mimosa Extract complete the formula — soothing inflammation, regulating sebum and repairing collagen fibres damaged by glycation.

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