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Helichrysum Toner

Helichrysum Toner
Irene Forte
Benefits
  • Hydrating
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Plumping
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-Redness
  • Purifying
  • Anti-Acne
  • Complexion-Unifying
  • Microbiome Balancing
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Brightening

The Irene Forte Helichrysum Toner is a soothing, rebalancing treatment designed to hydrate, calm, and strengthen sensitive or stressed skin while restoring optimal pH balance. Formulated to support the skin barrier and enhance overall resilience, this gentle yet effective toner helps reduce redness, refine texture, and prepare the skin for subsequent treatments, delivering both immediate comfort and long-term skin health.

At the core of the formula is Organic Helichrysum Extract, renowned for its powerful anti-inflammatory and healing properties. Rich in bioactive compounds, it helps to calm irritation, reduce redness, and support skin regeneration, making it particularly effective for sensitive or reactive skin conditions. This is complemented by Aloe Leaf Juice, which provides immediate soothing relief while deeply hydrating and supporting skin repair.

A hydrating complex featuring Sodium Hyaluronate delivers multi-level moisture, helping to plump the skin, improve elasticity, and reduce the appearance of fine lines caused by dehydration. This is reinforced by Saccharide Isomerate, a long-lasting humectant that binds moisture to the skin, ensuring sustained hydration and enhanced barrier function.

Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) plays a key role in strengthening the skin barrier, reducing inflammation, and improving overall skin tone. It helps to minimise redness, regulate sebum production, and refine the appearance of pores, contributing to a more balanced and even complexion.

A protective antioxidant complex, including Vitamin E (Tocopherol), works to neutralise free radicals and defend against environmental stressors, preserving skin integrity and supporting cellular repair. This helps prevent premature ageing while maintaining skin vitality.

Supporting these actives, a blend of gentle botanical extracts enhances the toner’s calming and conditioning effects, promoting a softer, smoother skin texture while reinforcing resilience against external aggressors.

Together, these carefully selected ingredients and targeted benefits deliver a comprehensive approach to skin balance

Read more

The Irene Forte Helichrysum Toner is a soothing, rebalancing treatment designed to hydrate, calm, and strengthen sensitive or stressed skin while restoring optimal pH balance. Formulated to support the skin barrier and enhance overall resilience, this gentle yet effective toner helps reduce redness, refine texture, and prepare the skin for subsequent treatments, delivering both immediate comfort and long-term skin health.

At the core of the formula is Organic Helichrysum Extract, renowned for its powerful anti-inflammatory and healing properties. Rich in bioactive compounds, it helps to calm irritation, reduce redness, and support skin regeneration, making it particularly effective for sensitive or reactive skin conditions. This is complemented by Aloe Leaf Juice, which provides immediate soothing relief while deeply hydrating and supporting skin repair.

A hydrating complex featuring Sodium Hyaluronate delivers multi-level moisture, helping to plump the skin, improve elasticity, and reduce the appearance of fine lines caused by dehydration. This is reinforced by Saccharide Isomerate, a long-lasting humectant that binds moisture to the skin, ensuring sustained hydration and enhanced barrier function.

Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) plays a key role in strengthening the skin barrier, reducing inflammation, and improving overall skin tone. It helps to minimise redness, regulate sebum production, and refine the appearance of pores, contributing to a more balanced and even complexion.

A protective antioxidant complex, including Vitamin E (Tocopherol), works to neutralise free radicals and defend against environmental stressors, preserving skin integrity and supporting cellular repair. This helps prevent premature ageing while maintaining skin vitality.

Supporting these actives, a blend of gentle botanical extracts enhances the toner’s calming and conditioning effects, promoting a softer, smoother skin texture while reinforcing resilience against external aggressors.

Together, these carefully selected ingredients and targeted benefits deliver a comprehensive approach to skin balance

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  • - + 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

Uneven Complexion

Reactive Skin

Redness-Prone

Sensitive Skin

Red Cross
Not For you if
How to Apply
Spritz directly onto the face. Pitter-patter fingertips over the skin to allow ingredients to absorb and boost circulation. Use morning and/or evening.
Ingredients

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

Aqua, Glycerin, Helichrysum Italicum Flower Water, Allantoin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Saccharide Isomerate, Panthenol, Glucose, Sorbitol, Sodium Glutamate, Urea, Wine Extract*, Citric Acid, Sodium PCA, Lactic Acid, Tropolone, Glycine, Caprylyl Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Parfum**.

*Organic ingredients.

**Allergen-screened fragrance


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

Smells Like: It has a fresh, herbal scent with subtle floral notes.

Texture: A light and fine mist.

About the Brand
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Irene Forte founded her namesake brand with Dr. Francesca Ferri, a scientist with over 35 years of expertise, to bridge the gap between nature and clinical skincare. First created for Rocco Forte Hotel spas, the line pairs eco-friendly, vegan formulations that distil the sun-soaked richness of Sicilian botanical extracts like Olives, Almonds, and Prickly Pear. Each product reflects Irene’s vision of sustainable luxury rooted in science.

Irene Forte Skincare combines Mediterranean wellness with proven clinical efficacy. Each formula is vegan, eco-friendly, and enriched with natural anti-ageing actives that smooth and firm while deeply nourishing the skin. Clinically tested and spa-approved, the products deliver hydration, calm, and protection with luxurious scents and textures that bring the Rocco Forte spa experience home.

At the core is Myoxinol, a patented hibiscus seed peptide known as a plant-based Botox for its wrinkle-smoothing effect. Clinical trials show visible results in hydration and elasticity within days. Formulas unite Mediterranean botanicals with advanced actives, originally created for luxury Rocco Forte spas, and are rigorously tested for anti-ageing performance and skin tolerance.

The Benefits

  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Complexion-Unifying (Anti-Blotchiness)
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Brightening (Energising)

Active Ingredients

  • - + Organic White Wine
  • - + Helichrysum Water
  • - + Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid
  • - + Sodium PCA
  • - + Saccharide Isomerate (PENTAVITIN)
  • - + Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)
  • - + Allantoin
Organic White Wine

Organic White Wine from Sicily, provides hydrating and protective antioxidant benefits. It reinforces the skin's environmental protection and promotes cellular renewal for healthy and supple looking skin.

Helichrysum Water

Helichrysum Water, derived from the bright yellow Helichrysum flower, is a versatile ingredient beneficial for all skin types. It helps reduce redness, promote healing, and balance blemish-prone skin due to its anti-inflammatory, purifying, and astringent (tightening) properties. Rich in antioxidants, it also lightens dark spots, unifies the complexion, and protects cells from free radical damage.

Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid

Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid (LMW-HA) is a smaller, more penetrative form of hyaluronic acid. Unlike high molecular weight forms that primarily hydrate the skin’s surface, LMW-HA has the ability to penetrate deeper into the epidermis, where it attracts and binds water to maintain optimal moisture levels from within. This deep hydration helps improve skin elasticity, firmness and smoothness, while reducing the appearance of fine lines and dehydration-induced wrinkles. Additionally, it enhances overall suppleness, making the complexion look plumper and more resilient. It is ideal for dehydrated, dull or mature skin, and especially those in need of long-lasting hydration and improved texture.

Sodium PCA

Sodium PCA (Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid) is a Natural Moisturising Factor found in our skin. It acts as a powerful humectant, attracting and retaining hydration in the skin.

Saccharide Isomerate (PENTAVITIN)

Saccharide Isomerate, also known as PentavitinÆ, is a carbohydrate complex derived from plants that closely resembles those 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.

Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)

Panthenol, also known as Pro-vitamin B5, is a potent humectant renowned for its exceptional hydrating, repairing, and soothing qualities. When applied to the skin, Panthenol converts to Coenzyme A, an enzyme crucial for skin regeneration. Its versatile benefits and compatibility with all skin types make Panthenol a preferred choice for replenishing and fortifying dehydrated and compromised skin.

Allantoin

Allantoin is a natural plant derivative, widely used in skincare for its soothing, hydrating, softening and healing properties.

  • - + Organic White Wine
  • - + Helichrysum Water
  • - + Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid
  • - + Sodium PCA
  • - + Saccharide Isomerate (PENTAVITIN)
  • - + Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)
  • - + Allantoin
The Importance Of Hydration

Hydration is vital for maintaining healthy, radiant skin. Properly hydrated skin retains moisture, which helps maintain its elasticity, plumpness and natural barrier function.

This barrier protects against environmental stressors like pollution and bacteria while preventing moisture loss. Dehydrated skin, on the other hand, can become dry, flaky and prone to irritation, fine lines and breakouts.

In skincare, using hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, squalane and ceramides can help lock in moisture, keeping the skin balanced and supple. Using moisturisers consistently is essential for promoting long-term skin health and resilience.

Clinical Proofs

In-Vivo: Clinically approved for sensitive skin.

* 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 Importance Of Hydration

Hydration is vital for maintaining healthy, radiant skin. Properly hydrated skin retains moisture, which helps maintain its elasticity, plumpness and natural barrier function.

This barrier protects against environmental stressors like pollution and bacteria while preventing moisture loss. Dehydrated skin, on the other hand, can become dry, flaky and prone to irritation, fine lines and breakouts.

In skincare, using hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, squalane and ceramides can help lock in moisture, keeping the skin balanced and supple. Using moisturisers consistently is essential for promoting long-term skin health and resilience.

Clinical Proofs

Clinical Proofs

In-Vivo: Clinically approved for sensitive skin.

* 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

  • "Irene Forte is like a Mediterranean diet for my skin. Ingredients from their family Sicilian farm ensure unmatched quality and efficacy."

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Irene Forte Toner with green luxurious packaging
    Irene Forte

    Helichrysum Toner

    £100

    The Irene Forte Helichrysum Toner is a soothing, rebalancing treatment designed to hydrate, calm, and strengthen sensitive or stressed skin while restoring optimal pH balance. Formulated to support the skin barrier and enhance overall resilience, this gentle yet effective toner helps reduce redness, refine texture, and prepare the skin for subsequent treatments, delivering both immediate comfort and long-term skin health.

    At the core of the formula is Organic Helichrysum Extract, renowned for its powerful anti-inflammatory and healing properties. Rich in bioactive compounds, it helps to calm irritation, reduce redness, and support skin regeneration, making it particularly effective for sensitive or reactive skin conditions. This is complemented by Aloe Leaf Juice, which provides immediate soothing relief while deeply hydrating and supporting skin repair.

    A hydrating complex featuring Sodium Hyaluronate delivers multi-level moisture, helping to plump the skin, improve elasticity, and reduce the appearance of fine lines caused by dehydration. This is reinforced by Saccharide Isomerate, a long-lasting humectant that binds moisture to the skin, ensuring sustained hydration and enhanced barrier function.

    Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) plays a key role in strengthening the skin barrier, reducing inflammation, and improving overall skin tone. It helps to minimise redness, regulate sebum production, and refine the appearance of pores, contributing to a more balanced and even complexion.

    A protective antioxidant complex, including Vitamin E (Tocopherol), works to neutralise free radicals and defend against environmental stressors, preserving skin integrity and supporting cellular repair. This helps prevent premature ageing while maintaining skin vitality.

    Supporting these actives, a blend of gentle botanical extracts enhances the toner’s calming and conditioning effects, promoting a softer, smoother skin texture while reinforcing resilience against external aggressors.

    Together, these carefully selected ingredients and targeted benefits deliver a comprehensive approach to skin balance

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