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Eau Micellaire Biosensible

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SMART WATER
Eau Micellaire Biosensible
Biologique Recherche
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Benefits
  • Anti-Redness
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Hydrating
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Plumping
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Purifying
  • Anti-Acne
  • Clears Pores

Biologique Recherche Eau Micellaire Biosensible is a gentle micellar cleansing water that removes makeup and impurities without disrupting the skin's natural equilibrium. Enriched with Hyaluronic Acid, peptides and amino acids, it leaves sensitive and reactive skin clean, hydrated, refreshed and soothed.

The Complex of Hyaluronic Acid & Rhizobium forms the hydrating core of this formula, combining two complementary moisturising agents to support water retention and reinforce microbiome balance throughout the cleansing process.

Rhamnose — a protective sugar obtained by bacterial fermentation — soothes irritated skin and reduces inflammation by limiting cell message propagation, acting as a decoy to protect cells from further damage.

The Cleansing Bio-Polysaccharide provides precise yet gentle emulsification of impurities and residual makeup, lifting away pollutants and excess sebum without stripping the lipid mantle.

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Biologique Recherche Eau Micellaire Biosensible is a gentle micellar cleansing water that removes makeup and impurities without disrupting the skin's natural equilibrium. Enriched with Hyaluronic Acid, peptides and amino acids, it leaves sensitive and reactive skin clean, hydrated, refreshed and soothed.

The Complex of Hyaluronic Acid & Rhizobium forms the hydrating core of this formula, combining two complementary moisturising agents to support water retention and reinforce microbiome balance throughout the cleansing process.

Rhamnose — a protective sugar obtained by bacterial fermentation — soothes irritated skin and reduces inflammation by limiting cell message propagation, acting as a decoy to protect cells from further damage.

The Cleansing Bio-Polysaccharide provides precise yet gentle emulsification of impurities and residual makeup, lifting away pollutants and excess sebum without stripping the lipid mantle.

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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

Balanced Skin

Travel Use

Active Lifestyle

Light Makeup User

Pre-Cleanse

In-Flight Cleanse

Red Cross
Not For you if

Sensitive Skin
Rosacea
Acne-Prone
Active Acne
Dry Skin


Not sure? Consult an expert.

How to Apply
Using a cotton pad saturated in Biologique Recherche Eau Micellaire Biosensible, wipe over the entire face, neck and décolleté. Repeat until all impurities and makeup have been removed. You can use it on its own for a quick cleanse, mix it with any BR Cleansing Milks for additional benefits and/or use it pre/post cleanse for better results.
Ingredients

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

Water (Aqua), Methylpropanediol, Sodium Gluconate, Butylene Glycol, Maltooligosyl Glucoside, Mirabilis Jalapa Extract, Anhydroxylitol, Pseudoalteromonas Ferment Extract, Biosaccharide Gum-2, Xylitylglucoside, Xylitol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Alanine, Proline, Serine, Citric Acid, Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Peel Oil, Mentha Viridis (Spearmint) Leaf Oil, Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate, Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Tocopherol, Propanediol, Sodium Phosphate, 3-Hexenol, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Hydroxide, Limonene.


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: Water-based, features a gentle and clean scent.

Texture: It has a light, watery texture, designed to be gentle and soothing.

About the Brand
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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

  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Pore Decongesting
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Reduces Trans Epidermal Water Loss
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Pore Decongesting

Active Ingredients

  • - + Soothing Hexapeptide
  • - + Complex of Hyaluronic Acid & Rhizobium
  • - + Moisturising Molecular Film
  • - + Rhamnose
  • - + Cleansing Bio-Polysaccharide
  • - + Grapefruit Essential Oil
  • - + Mint Essential Oil
Soothing Hexapeptide

Soothing Hexapeptide, made up of six amino acids, is formulated to be exceptionally gentle on sensitive skin. It works by blocking the PAR-2 receptor, which is responsible for triggering inflammatory responses and itching in the skin. By inhibiting this receptor, the peptide effectively reduces discomfort and itchiness, while also calming redness and irritation. Moreover, it supports the skin's barrier function, boosting its ability to withstand external irritants and enhancing overall resilience.

Complex of Hyaluronic Acid & Rhizobium

The "Complex of Hyaluronic Acid & Rhizobium" contains a high molecular weight Hyaluronic Acid which is designed to remain on the surface of the skin, and forms a barrier to reduce Trans Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL). Whilst, the Rhizobium gel acts like a water reservoir, retaining all the hydration they have accumulated. The result is a newly formed water barrier, which is supple, flexible and non-comedogenic (does not clog pores).

Moisturising Molecular Film

The Moisturising Molecular Film consists of sugars and peptides that form a protective layer on the skin's surface. This film helps to strengthen the skin's barrier, keeping moisture in and environmental stressors out. It effectively provides sustained hydration, ensuring the skin remains moisturised over time.

Rhamnose

Rhamnose is a protective sugar obtained by a bacterial fermentation. It soothes irritated skin after exposure to UV, pollution or harsh ingredients. Rhamnose limits cell message propagation, acting as a decoy to reduce inflammation and protecting cells from further damage.

Cleansing Bio-Polysaccharide

Cleansing Bio-Polysaccharide is a surfactant made up of different saccharides, which are sugars. It functions as a cleanser that removes impurities from the skin's surface with both gentle and thorough actions. Additionally, it offers protective benefits to the skin and helps to reduce inflammation, making it suitable for maintaining skin health while cleansing effectively.

Grapefruit Essential Oil

Grapefruit Essential Oil has been used for over 4,000 years for its therapeutic qualities. It provides a deep cleanse, removing daily impurities and leaving the skin clearer and purified.

Mint Essential Oil

Mint Essential Oil is known for its medicinal properties. It has a toning and astringent (tightening) effect, helping to minimise the appearance of enlarged pores on the skin while enhancing the skin's natural radiance.

  • - + Soothing Hexapeptide
  • - + Complex of Hyaluronic Acid & Rhizobium
  • - + Moisturising Molecular Film
  • - + Rhamnose
  • - + Cleansing Bio-Polysaccharide
  • - + Grapefruit Essential Oil
  • - + Mint Essential Oil
"Living Stone" Stem Cells

Living Stone Stem Cells, sourced from resilient succulents, are celebrated for their unique ability to manage water and light. This pioneering ingredient is designed to enhance skin health by harnessing nature’s adaptive strategies. Living Stone Stem Cells work to optimise hydration, improve skin texture, and boost Vitamin D levels, strengthening the skin’s barrier function. This ingredient is particularly effective against dryness, dullness, and the signs of ageing, leaving the skin feeling supple, soothed, and restored. Living Stone Stem Cells are rich in hyaluronic-like bio-sugars that promote the formation of the Glycocalyx—a protective layer surrounding each cell. This layer plays a crucial role in maintaining a favourable skin environment by optimising hydration and enhancing light absorption. Increased light passage through the skin helps boost Vitamin D levels, which fortifies the skin barrier and combats glycation. Glycation, the harmful binding of reducing sugars to proteins, leads to advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) that cause wrinkles, loss of elasticity, dullness, and reduced skin function. With regular use, Living Stone Stem Cells deeply hydrate the skin, making it feel soft, supple, and revitalised. Users often report a noticeable improvement in skin radiance and texture, as well as a reduction in the appearance of fine lines. Living Stone Stem Cells provide a soothing and restorative experience, effectively addressing dryness and dullness. By incorporating this ingredient into your skincare routine, you’ll enjoy a revitalised, hydrated complexion that feels stronger and looks more youthful.

Spotlight

"Living Stone" Stem Cells

Living Stone Stem Cells, sourced from resilient succulents, are celebrated for their unique ability to manage water and light. This pioneering ingredient is designed to enhance skin health by harnessing nature’s adaptive strategies. Living Stone Stem Cells work to optimise hydration, improve skin texture, and boost Vitamin D levels, strengthening the skin’s barrier function. This ingredient is particularly effective against dryness, dullness, and the signs of ageing, leaving the skin feeling supple, soothed, and restored. Living Stone Stem Cells are rich in hyaluronic-like bio-sugars that promote the formation of the Glycocalyx—a protective layer surrounding each cell. This layer plays a crucial role in maintaining a favourable skin environment by optimising hydration and enhancing light absorption. Increased light passage through the skin helps boost Vitamin D levels, which fortifies the skin barrier and combats glycation. Glycation, the harmful binding of reducing sugars to proteins, leads to advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) that cause wrinkles, loss of elasticity, dullness, and reduced skin function. With regular use, Living Stone Stem Cells deeply hydrate the skin, making it feel soft, supple, and revitalised. Users often report a noticeable improvement in skin radiance and texture, as well as a reduction in the appearance of fine lines. Living Stone Stem Cells provide a soothing and restorative experience, effectively addressing dryness and dullness. By incorporating this ingredient into your skincare routine, you’ll enjoy a revitalised, hydrated complexion that feels stronger and looks more youthful.

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 Eau Micellaire Biosensible 100ml
    Biologique Recherche

    Eau Micellaire Biosensible

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    Biologique Recherche Eau Micellaire Biosensible is a gentle micellar cleansing water that removes makeup and impurities without disrupting the skin's natural equilibrium. Enriched with Hyaluronic Acid, peptides and amino acids, it leaves sensitive and reactive skin clean, hydrated, refreshed and soothed.

    The Complex of Hyaluronic Acid & Rhizobium forms the hydrating core of this formula, combining two complementary moisturising agents to support water retention and reinforce microbiome balance throughout the cleansing process.

    Rhamnose — a protective sugar obtained by bacterial fermentation — soothes irritated skin and reduces inflammation by limiting cell message propagation, acting as a decoy to protect cells from further damage.

    The Cleansing Bio-Polysaccharide provides precise yet gentle emulsification of impurities and residual makeup, lifting away pollutants and excess sebum without stripping the lipid mantle.

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