Composition No. 1 Serum

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Composition No. 1 Serum

Auteur
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Benefits
  • Brightening
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Plumping
  • Lifting
  • Exfoliating
  • Complexion-Unifying
  • Hydrating
The Auteur Composition No.1 Serum is an advanced anti-ageing solution that repairs DNA damage and optimises skin functions. With 40 active ingredients, including 2.5% Encapsulated Retinol, it oxygenates, renews, and balances the skin microbiome, leaving it healthier and visibly more youthful.
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The Auteur Composition No.1 Serum is an advanced anti-ageing solution that repairs DNA damage and optimises skin functions. With 40 active ingredients, including 2.5% Encapsulated Retinol, it oxygenates, renews, and balances the skin microbiome, leaving it healthier and visibly more youthful.
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  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + Ingredients
Who it is for
Green tick
For you if
  • Strong Skin
  • Mature
  • Wrinkles
  • Loss of Volume & Firmness
  • Dull & Pigmented
Red Cross
Not For you if
  • Sensitive
  • Pregnant or Nursing
  • Using Lotions P50
  • Can't Tolerate Acids
How to Apply
Gently massage a penny-sized amount of Composition No. 1 into clean, dry skin on the face and neck. Follow with your preferred cream. Apply 1-2 a week.
Smell & Texture

Smells Like: It has a light, clean, and botanical scent.

Texture: A lightweight creamy-serum texture

Ingredients

Aqua/Water, Perfluorohexane, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Cellulose, Niacinamide, Panthenol, Glycine Soja Oil, Alpha-Glucan Oligosaccharide, Ectoin, Phytosphingosine, Perfluorodecalin, Bisabolol, Maltodextrin, Pentafluoropropane, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Saccharide Isomerate, Allantoin, Parfum/Fragrance, Sodium PCA, Xanthan Gum, Retinol, Tocopherol, Alcohol, Lactobacillus Ferment, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Bark Leaf Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Beta-Glucan, Lactic Acid, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Hydrogenated Phosphatidylcholine, Lecithin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Collagen, Citric Acid, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Sodium Citrate, Squalane, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Ceramide NP, Magnolia Officinalis Bark Extract, Paeonia Lactiflora Root Extract, Cyclotetrapeptide-24 Aminocyclohexane Carboxylate, Acetyl Heptapeptide-9, Colloidal Gold, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Tetradecyl Aminobutyroylvalylaminobutyric Urea Triflouroacetate, Magnesium Chloride, Limonene.

Contraindications: Not to be used on the eye contour area. SPF must be used when using this product; do not use if you are going to be exposed to direct sunlight. We do not recommend you use this product alongside any other AHA’s or vitamin A products (such as retinol or retinoids). Do not use after invasive medical/aesthetic treatment for at least one month. Do not use immediately after a facial peel, or a medical laser treatment. Do not use on damaged or irritated skin or on open wounds or burns. Do not use on sensitive/sensitised areas, unless directed otherwise by a professional.

The Benefits

Oxygenating

Oxygenation involves delivering oxygen molecules to your skin cells, boosting cellular respiration, and energising your skin. In skincare, this is achieved using ingredients called Perfluorocarbons, also known as "Oxygen Carriers/Replenishers," which can bind to oxygen molecules and transport them into your skin cells. Oxygen is crucial for optimal skin cell function, promoting the production of new, healthier cells, supporting healing, and aiding in collagen synthesis to preserve skin vitality and combat ageing. Additionally, oxygenation stimulates blood circulation and removes skin cell waste, resulting in brighter, more radiant skin.

Anti-Wrinkle

Anti-wrinkle products work to smooth out fine lines and wrinkles by boosting collagen and elastin, essential proteins that keep your skin glowing. Collagen helps reduce wrinkle depth, while elastin shortens their length. Keeping your skin hydrated is crucial, as dehydration can make wrinkles more noticeable. For smooth, bouncy skin, ensure you stay well-hydrated and use products that promote collagen and elastin production.

Plumping

Skin 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.

Lifting

Lifting is all about visibly firming and tightening skin that shows signs of sagging. As we age, our skin produces less collagen and elastin, the proteins that keep it firm and elastic. Sun exposure and pollution make this worse, leading to a sagging appearance. Lifting products work by creating a tightening film on your skin for an immediate lift, while also rejuvenating it over time. These actives stimulate collagen production and improve skin tone and elasticity, helping to restore facial contours and enhance overall firmness.

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.

Complexion-Evening (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.

Hydrating

Hydration is all about the water content in your skin that keeps it supple and healthy. Humectants, ingredients with water-binding properties, deliver this hydration by attracting water molecules from the atmosphere. For the best results, apply hydrating serums right after a shower. Humectants not only replenish your skin's hydration but also enhance its water retention, creating a long-lasting hydration reservoir. Adding humectants like hyaluronic acid to your routine will restore your skin's healthy glow, minimize fine lines, and provide a plumping effect.

  • - + Oxygenating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Lifting
  • - + Chemical Exfoliation
  • - + Complexion-Evening (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Hydrating

Active Ingredients

Hydrolite® 5 Green

HydroliteÆ 5, also known as Pentylene Glycol, is a multi-purpose ingredient that hydrates and strengthens the skin while enhancing the performance of the other active in the formula to ensure skin receives maximised benefits.

Lactobacillus Ferment

Lactobacillus Ferment, a probiotic derived from the fermentation of Lactobacillus bacteria that focuses on microbiome balancing. Balanced Microbiome is crucial for healthy skin as it strengthens the skin's barrier, reduces inflammation, and improves hydration, resulting in healthier and more resilient skin. It also helps maintain optimal pH levels and protect against infections.

SYNÆ-HYCAN

SYNÆ-HYCAN is a cutting-edge, low molecular weight peptide formulation designed to diminish the signs of ageing by significantly boosting the skin's natural production of collagen and hyaluronic acid. This advanced peptide technology penetrates deeply into the skin, delivering rapid and visible anti-ageing benefits. By increasing collagen and hyaluronic acid levels, SYNÆ-HYCAN enhances skin hydration, plumps up the skin, and effectively diminishes wrinkles in rejuvenated appearance.

10% Perfluorocomplex

The 10% Perfluorocomplex features three powerful oxygen carriers that accelerate oxygen delivery to your skin. This boost in oxygen energises your cells, enhancing collagen and elastin production, removing toxins, and repairing cellular damage. Plus, the increased oxygen levels brighten your complexion, giving your skin a radiant, luminous glow.

Golden Collagenine

Golden Collagenine combines a collagen-boosting peptide with gold and platinum carrier particles to deliver actives directly to the receptors of collagen producing cells, thereby enhancing its activity. This unique formula creates channels within the skin that allow deeper penetration of ingredients, increasing the bioavailability of actives by up to 90x. As a result, it significantly reduces wrinkles and restores youthful firmness to the skin.

Beta-Glucan

Beta-glucan, derived from yeast, is a chain of sugar molecule known for its humectant (hydrating), collagen-boosting, and anti-inflammatory properties. It strengthens the skin barrier, supports a balanced microbiome, and enhances resilience against environmental aggressors. Beta-glucan deeply hydrates the skin, diminishes wrinkles, and provides a soothing effect, making a great multi-benefit ingredient for all skin types.

Ceramides Complex

Ceramides are lipids naturally found in our skin barrier. They play an essential role in preventing Trans epidermal Water Loss (TEWL) which is the loss of moisture through the skin, by restoring and maintaining healthy the skin's barrier function. Ceramides also enhance the skin's natural protection against environmental aggressors and irritants, helping to keep skin balanced and calm.

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.

Cyclopeptide-5

Cyclopeptide-5 is a biomimetic peptide that mimics natural cellular communication to enhance skin repair and regeneration functions. it works by mimicking the natural signalling processes within skin cells, which are essential for repair and regeneration. When applied topically, it penetrates into the skin and interacts with receptors on cell surfaces, triggering mechanisms that enhance collagen and elastin production. These proteins are crucial for maintaining skin structure, firmness, and elasticity. By protecting collagen and elastin from degradation caused by ageing and UV exposure, Cyclopeptide-5 helps to preserve skin density and smoothness. It also supports the restructuring of the extracellular matrix, which can reduce the appearance of wrinkles, tighten facial contours, and restore youthful volume to the skin. Overall, Cyclopeptide-5 promotes a more resilient, rejuvenated complexion with improved elasticity and a reduction in visible signs of ageing.

SYN®-AKE

SYN®-AKE is a synthetic Tripeptide (a small molecule made up of three amino acids) designed to mimic the muscle-relaxing effects of snake venom. It works by inhibiting facial muscle contractions, which are responsible for forming expression lines like those around the eyes, forehead, and mouth. Similar to injectable treatments, SYN®-AKE smooths wrinkles and provides a noticeable lifting effect, particularly on sagging skin. This peptide is revolutionary in skincare for its ability to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles without the need for invasive procedures, helping to achieve a more youthful and rejuvenated complexion.

Auteur Hyaluronic Complex

Auteur's supercharged Hyaluronic Complex includes 5 different molecular weights of Hyalurons ranging from ultra-low too high for and instant boost of hydration, increased skin firmness and elasticity and long-lasting plumping results.

Auteur Hyaluronic Complex includes:

Cross-linked Hyaluronic Acid or Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, forms a three-dimensional mesh-like structure on the skin's surface. This unique structure acts as a breathable hydration barrier, helping to increase water retention by blocking trans epidermal water loss (TEWL). Cross-linked hyaluronic acid also has wrinkle-filling and skin-softening effect.

Medium Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid or Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate (70-1,000 kDa?), occupies a unique position between high and low molecular weight hyaluronic acids, boosting skin hydration in the middle layers of the skin. It complements and enhances hydrating plumping results from famous Low and High Hyaluronic Acids, giving the skin even more suppleness and volume. It's in particularly good for those who have hollow faces due to density loss.

Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid or Sodium Hyaluronate, is a salt for derived from naturally occurring hyaluronic acid. Sodium hyaluronate has a low molecular size (<70 kDa), which allows it to penetrate the skin deeper and more effectively. Sodium hyaluronate has superior hydrating and skin-plumping benefits. Increased skin hydration also contributes to efficient desquamation, supporting the skin's natural renewal cycle.

Ultra-Low Molecular Weight? or Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid? (<10 kDa), penetrates the skin the faster and the deepest compared to other forms. This provide ultra hydrating and plumping results. Additionally it can enhance collagen and elastin synthesis by stimulating fibroblast activity, resulting in firmer, denser and smoother looking skin.

Encapsulated Retinol

Encapsulated Retinol is a stabilised form of Vitamin A that is released gradually when massaged into the skin, reducing irritation and dryness typically associated with retinol use. Retinol is one of the most well proven skincare actives for treating blemishes, pigmentation, and signs of ageing. It works by speeding up cell turnover, stimulating collagen and elastin production, supporting DNA repair and regulating melanin (pigment) and sebum (oil) overproduction. This results in a smoother, firmer, more even complexion.

Saccharide Isomerate (PENTAVITIN)

Saccharide Isomerate, also known as PentavitinÆ, is a carbohydrate complex derived from plants that closely resembles the natural carbohydrates found in human skin. It serves multiple functions in skincare: first, it acts as a prebiotic, supporting a healthy balance of microorganisms on the skin's surface, which is crucial for maintaining skin health.

Secondly, Saccharide Isomerate functions as a powerful humectant. This means it attracts moisture from the environment and binds it to the skin, acting like a "water magnet." This ability helps to deeply hydrate the skin, making it appear plump, smooth, and intensely moisturised.

Studies have shown that Saccharide Isomerate can increase skin hydration levels for up to 72 hours after application, making it an effective ingredient for providing long-lasting hydration and maintaining skin moisture balance.

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 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.

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.

  • - + Hydrolite® 5 Green
  • - + Lactobacillus Ferment
  • - + SYNÆ-HYCAN
  • - + 10% Perfluorocomplex
  • - + Golden Collagenine
  • - + Beta-Glucan
  • - + Ceramides Complex
  • - + Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide)
  • - + Cyclopeptide-5
  • - + SYN®-AKE
  • - + Auteur Hyaluronic Complex
  • - + Encapsulated Retinol
  • - + Saccharide Isomerate (PENTAVITIN)
  • - + Alpha-Hydroxy Acids
  • - + Ectoin

Spotlight

The Auteur's Triple Flow Perfluorocarbon Complex

Triple Flow Perfluorocarbon Complex is a revitalising skincare ingredient composed of Perfluorohexane, Perfluorodecalin and Pentafluoropropane. It literally breathes life back into the skin by increasing oxygen flow which enhances cellular metabolism, and boosts collagen and elastin production. By supporting the skin’s ability to detoxify and repair, it leads to a brighter, firmer and more luminous complexion. This oxygenating formula is gentle yet highly effective, offering enhanced skin vitality and repair while delivering a rejuvenated, healthy 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

  • Customer Reviews

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    Powerfully effective yet gentle. It's lightweight so it layers well with other products. Price point is a bit high but worth it. Will repurchase.

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    Over 40 ingredients in one serum

    I had 2 samples of serum. First sample I did apply before bed time. Read carefully how to apply, remember it is cream textured serum, I can’t describe how it was felt like, I can say skin was treated and prepared for a repair process and restoration to a great condition. By the way serum has got light amazing scent! 2nd sample I did use in 2 days same way before bed time. I have never used such a great complex of ingredients in one serum. It is fantastic serum for my over 40 yo skin
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    Auteur - Serum Composition No.1 - Regenerative & Optimising Serum
    Auteur

    Composition No. 1 Serum

    £955

    The ultimate optimising serum.

    A complete regenerative solution, Composition No.1 is the definitive expression of the Auteur skincare philosophy. This cream textured serum brings together over 40 active ingredients that activate cellular regeneration, repair the skin and restore it to its optimal condition.

    The key active ingredients Triple Flow Perfluorocarbon Complex, SYN®-HYCAN and Golden Collagenine revive healthy cellular activity, boosts collagen formation and synthesis, and supports skin’s structure. Retinol 10 and SYN®-AKE smooth and soften the epidermis, increasing the skin’s firmness and density while instantly tightening.

    Your skin will be firmer, denser and restored to its optimal condition.

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