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Lait VIP O2 (New - 250ml)

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Lait VIP O2 (New - 250ml)

Biologique Recherche
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Benefits
  • Cleansing
  • Hydrating
  • Soothing
  • Repairing
  • Nourishing
  • Brightening
The Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 Cleanser is a revitalising, oxygen-boosting cleanser that gently purifies the skin while maintaining hydration, balance and comfort. Melatonin energises and brightens the skin. Yeast extract protects the skin from oxydative stress, supports skin barrier function and helps maintain hydration during cleansing. Lactobacillus Ferment supports the skin's microbiome and helps to protect against environmental aggressors.
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The Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 Cleanser is a revitalising, oxygen-boosting cleanser that gently purifies the skin while maintaining hydration, balance and comfort. Melatonin energises and brightens the skin. Yeast extract protects the skin from oxydative stress, supports skin barrier function and helps maintain hydration during cleansing. Lactobacillus Ferment supports the skin's microbiome and helps to protect against environmental aggressors.
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£102 £82
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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
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For you if

Dull Skin

Dehydrated Skin

Pollution Affected

How to Apply
Apply Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 cleanser with fingers or with the BR Face Glove to face, neck, and décolleté, using light circular movements. Remove with slightly moist pads or rinse off with cold water. Repeat steps to complete a second cleansing.
Ingredients

Water (Aqua), Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Diacaprylyl Carbonate, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil, Glycerin, Polyglyceryl-6 Distearate, Triheptanoin, Cetyl Alcohol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Jojoba Esters, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Seedcake Extract, Lavandula Hybrida Extract, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Melatonin, Yeast Extract, Lactobacillus Ferment, Sodium Hyaluronate, Citric Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate, Phospholipids, Tocopherol, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Butylene Glycol, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Polyglyceryl-3 Beeswax, Disodium Phosphate, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Benzoate.

*This product contains nut-derived ingredients and should be avoided by individuals with nut allergies.


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: It has a clean, subtle, slightly botanical scent

Texture: A thin milky, fluid cleanser with a lightweight texture that glides effortlessly on the skin.

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

  • - + Cleansing
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Soothing
  • - + Repairing
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Pollution
Cleansing

Cleansing involves using active cleansing agents to penetrate your skin and pores, breaking down and removing daily impurities, pollution particles, excess sebum, and makeup. Thoroughly cleansed skin renews and regenerates itself more effectively and absorbs follow-up products and active ingredients better.

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.

Soothing

When your skin is sensitive or weakened due to genetics, skin conditions, using incorrect skincare products, or harsh weather, it needs extra care to repair and strengthening. Soothing ingredients with anti-inflammatory properties can reduce redness and irritation while strengthening the skin barrier, making it more resilient and protected against external aggressors.

Repairing

Repairing your skin means restoring cells damaged by external factors like UV rays and free radicals, which can harm cell DNA and slow regeneration. Although our cells naturally repair themselves, this ability weakens over time due to ageing and repeated environmental exposure. Active ingredients can boost this natural process, preserving your skin's health, elasticity, and radiance. By supporting skin cell repair, these ingredients combat premature ageing and help maintain a firm, plump, and toned complexion.

Nourishing

Nourishing skincare focuses on providing a deeply comforting, soothing, and softening experience with richer product formats. Ingredients like oils and ceramides nourish your skin barrier, replenishing essential lipids and hydration to boost resilience and suppleness. These formulas leave your skin feeling nurtured and instantly improve rough texture. Well-nourished skin is less prone to dryness, dehydration, and sensitivity, giving you a more radiant and healthy appearance.

Brightening (Oxygenation)

Brightening your skin through oxygenation means that it helps the skin use oxygen more effectively, boosting its natural energy production and improving its ability to repair itself from within. By supporting cellular respiration, it helps the skin function more efficiently, especially when exposed to stress, fatigue, or pollution. At the same time, it strengthens the skin’s microbiome and barrier, creating a healthier environment for oxygen exchange while protecting against external aggressors. As a result, the skin becomes clearer, more balanced, and better equipped to maintain its own recovery and performance over time.

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.

Microbiome Balancing

Microbiome Balancing involves maintaining a healthy balance of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses) that live on your skin. Your skin's microbiome is crucial for protecting against pathogens, regulating pH, maintaining a healthy barrier, and ensuring optimal hydration. A balanced microbiome leads to clearer, healthier skin that’s more resilient to irritation and inflammation. Probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics are key ingredients that support a healthy microbiome. Probiotics introduce beneficial bacteria, prebiotics fuel the growth of good bacteria and help balance pH, and postbiotics enhance hydration and strengthen the skin barrier. This combination helps your skin stay healthy and vibrant.

Antioxidant

Antioxidant Protection shields your skin and preserves its youthful glow. It refers to a defence system that protects against harmful molecules and keeps your complexion healthy and radiant. Free radicals, those incredibly reactive molecules, come from everyday sources like sunlight, diet, smoking, and pollution. They attack healthy cells, accelerating skin ageing, causing wrinkles, loss of firmness, pigmentation, and dullness.

Incorporating antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, into your skincare routine creates a protective shield on your skin. These powerful ingredients neutralise free radicals, preventing them from causing damage. The result is skin that stays youthful, firm, and luminous.

Anti-Pollution

Anti-pollution ingredients protect your skin from harmful environmental pollutants. They create a barrier to stop pollutants from getting in and causing damage. By neutralising free radicals and detoxifying your skin, these products reduce inflammation, prevent premature ageing, and keep your skin glowing. They also replenish essential nutrients and boost your skin's natural repair, giving you a healthier, clearer complexion.

  • - + Cleansing
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Soothing
  • - + Repairing
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Brightening (Oxygenation)
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Microbiome Balancing
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Pollution

Active Ingredients

  • - + Lavender Hybrid Extract
  • - + New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex
  • - + Coconut Derived Esters
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Shea Detox
  • - + Melatonin
  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Lactobacillus Ferment
  • - + Vitamin E
Lavender Hybrid Extract

A soothing botanical extract used for its calming and antioxidant properties. Lavender Hybrid Extract helps to gently balance and comfort the skin while protecting against environmental stressors. Its natural aroma adds a subtle, refreshing scent.

New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex

The Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex combines melatonin, yeast extract, and Lactobacillus ferment to enhance the skin’s ability to use oxygen efficiently at a cellular level. Melatonin boosts mitochondrial respiration, yeast extract provides the cofactors needed for energy production and repair, and Lactobacillus ferment supports a balanced microbiome, improving oxygen availability and reducing stress on the skin. Supported by phospholipids for improved penetration and dandelion extract for pollution protection, this complex promotes healthier skin function and better oxygen utilisation from within

Coconut Derived Esters

Coconut Derived Esters solubilises lipophilic dirt (dirt attracted to oils) and removes impurities for a very effective cleanse without stripping the skin and disturbing the skin barrier function.

Rice Bran Oil

Rice Bran Oil contains high concentrations of Phytosterols and Fatty Acids (Omegas 3&6), which can aid in the skin anti-ageing process by combatting free radicals. It also contains high levels of Vitamin E, Phytosterols and Ferulic Acid which also offer a very strong antioxidant action. Lastly, it is an extremely thin oil which is also deeply nourishing, providing suppleness and softness to the skin.

Shea Detox

Shea Detox is a powerful detoxifying ingredient, rich in Gallic Acid and Shea Derivatives, not only removing debris from the surface of the skin, but also pollutants such as Chlorine, Nicotine, Lead and exhaust gases.

Melatonin

Melatonin is a bioactive antioxidant naturally produced by the skin that works at the mitochondrial level to improve how cells use oxygen and generate energy. Unlike surface-level antioxidants, melatonin penetrates deeper, where it protects the respiratory chain from oxidative stress and supports ATP production, helping skin maintain its internal repair processes more effectively. By enhancing cellular efficiency and reducing the impact of environmental stressors, it helps the skin recover from fatigue, pollution exposure, and urban aggressors. It is ideal for dull, stressed, or depleted skin, and especially for those needing improved cellular function and stronger resilience against external damage.

Yeast Extract

Yeast extract is a bio-fermented active that helps rebalance the skin’s microbiome while regulating excess sebum and reducing congestion or dullness. By supporting a healthier microbial environment, it limits the growth of unwanted bacteria on the skin’s surface, helping to purify and refine texture without stripping or irritation. Its enzymatic action also encourages gentle cellular turnover, which helps lift away built-up dead skin cells and improves clarity, contributing to a brighter and more even complexion. Furthermore, yeast helps to reinforce barrier function so the skin remains more stable, resilient, and less reactive over time. This makes yeast extract especially effective for skin that is unbalanced, oily-tendency, stressed by urban pollution, or in need of both soothing repair and a clearer, healthier surface environment.

Lactobacillus Ferment

Lactobacillus Ferment, a probiotic derived from the fermentation of Lactobacillus bacteria that focuses on microbiome balancing. A 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 protects against infections.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a powerful oil-soluble antioxidant renowned for its excellent skin-protecting and replenishing properties. It helps prevent premature ageing by safeguarding skin cell membranes from damaging free radicals. Its nourishing qualities strengthen the skin barrier, enhancing resilience against environmental aggressors and improving water retention by reducing trans-epidermal water loss (TEWL). Additionally, Vitamin E has soothing effect thanks to it anti-inflammatory properties.

  • - + Lavender Hybrid Extract
  • - + New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex
  • - + Coconut Derived Esters
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Shea Detox
  • - + Melatonin
  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Lactobacillus Ferment
  • - + Vitamin E

Spotlight

New Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex

The Biologique Recherche Oxygenating Complex combines melatonin, yeast extract, and Lactobacillus ferment to help the skin use oxygen more effectively inside its cells. Melatonin acts directly on the mitochondria — the “power stations” of the cells — to improve how they convert oxygen into energy, which allows the skin to repair itself more efficiently. Yeast extract supplies essential cofactors such as peptides, amino acids, and B-vitamins that the skin needs to run these energy-producing reactions smoothly, almost like giving fuel and tools to the mitochondria. Lactobacillus ferment helps rebalance the microbiome on the surface of the skin, reducing micro-inflammation and creating a calmer, healthier environment where oxygen can circulate more freely. Phospholipids then help these actives penetrate into the upper layers of the epidermis, and dandelion extract protects against pollution-induced stress that otherwise blocks oxygen exchange. Together, they don’t add oxygen from the outside — they help the skin breathe and function better on its own, supporting more efficient repair, protection, and cellular renewal.

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 Lait VIP O2 Milk Cleanser 250ml
    Biologique Recherche

    Lait VIP O2 (New - 250ml)

    £102 £82

    The Biologique Recherche Lait VIP O2 Cleanser is a revitalising, oxygen-boosting cleanser that gently purifies the skin while maintaining hydration, balance and comfort. Melatonin energises and brightens the skin. Yeast extract protects the skin from oxydative stress, supports skin barrier function and helps maintain hydration during cleansing. Lactobacillus Ferment supports the skin's microbiome and helps to protect against environmental aggressors.

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    • 250ml
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