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Masque Vivant

Biologique Recherche
(37)
PURIFY & BRIGHTEN
Masque Vivant
Biologique Recherche
(37)
Benefits
  • Detoxifying
  • Purifying
  • Mattifying
  • Brightening
  • Pore-Tightening
  • Soothing
  • Microbiome Balancing

Biologique Recherche Masque Vivant is a purifying, rebalancing treatment mask that mattifies, tightens pores, and restores clarity to the complexion. Enriched with yeast extract rich in amino acids and B vitamins, it helps regulate sebum production while supporting skin repair and overall vitality.

Cucumber and witch hazel refine texture and soothe inflammation, while antioxidants help protect against environmental stressors that contribute to dullness and congestion.

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Biologique Recherche Masque Vivant is a purifying, rebalancing treatment mask that mattifies, tightens pores, and restores clarity to the complexion. Enriched with yeast extract rich in amino acids and B vitamins, it helps regulate sebum production while supporting skin repair and overall vitality.

Cucumber and witch hazel refine texture and soothe inflammation, while antioxidants help protect against environmental stressors that contribute to dullness and congestion.

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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

Oily Skin

Blackheads/Whiteheads

Enlarged Pores

Dull Skin

Textured Skin

Acne-Prone

Red Cross
Not For you if

Dry Skin

Sensitive Skin

Active Acne

Rosacea


Not sure? Consult an expert.

How to Apply
Apply Masque Vivant all over the face, neck and décolleté. Leave for 15 minutes, moisten the mask and rinse off with cold water and/or damp cotton pads. Use your treatment mask at least twice a week.
Ingredients

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

Yeast Extract (Faex Extract), Water (Aqua), Propylene Glycol, Bentonite, Kaolin, Alcohol Denat., Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Glycerin, Vinegar (Acetum), Lactic Acid, Hamamelis Virginiana Bark/Leaf/Twig Extract, Hypericum Perforatum Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum.


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: A scent reminiscent of yeast, with earthy undertones.

Texture: Thick and rich, with the consistency of a dark brown paste

About the Brand
Brand logo
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

  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Pore Decongesting
Detoxifying

Detoxifying skincare focuses on clearing the skin of accumulated pollutants, toxins, and metabolic waste that can dull the complexion and disrupt healthy function. Daily exposure to environmental aggressors such as pollution and oxidative stress can overwhelm the skin, leading to congestion, imbalance, and premature ageing. Advanced detoxifying formulations work to neutralise these impurities, support the skin’s natural elimination processes, and reduce the buildup of harmful particles within pores and on the surface. By restoring clarity and balance, this approach leaves the skin feeling purified, refreshed and visibly brighter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Purifying
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Pore Decongesting

Active Ingredients

  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Cider Vinegar
  • - + Cucumber Extract
  • - + Witch Hazel & St John's Wort Extract
  • - + Bentonite
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.

Cider Vinegar

Cider Vinegar is extracted from fermented apples and contains high concentrations of fruits acids. Particularly potent in Acetic Acid, Citric Acid and Malic Acid; Cider Vinegar contains powerful exfoliating, purifying and renewing properties. High in Polyphenols, this ingredient also has significant antioxidant effects, combatting damageing photo-induced free-radicals.

Cucumber Extract

Cucumber Extract is rich in Vitamins and minerals. Having a variety of benefits, this ingredient is incredibly gentle and multi-faceted. It is softening and hydrating, as well as calming and refreshing. Furthermore, it also has some astringent and purifying properties, making it suitable for sensitive skins, oily skins and dehydrated skins.

Witch Hazel & St John's Wort Extract

Witch Hazel & St. John’s Wort Extract are rich in tannins and flavonoids, delivering powerful astringent benefits that help tighten tissue, refine pores, and smooth the skin’s surface. They are especially effective for regulating excess sebum while also soothing and calming damaged or irritated skin. While St. John’s Wort naturally contains hypericin, a compound with photosensitising potential, in cosmetic formulations it is carefully refined and used at safe levels, making it suitable for daily use.

Bentonite

Bentonite is a clay which contains highly absorbent properties. It carries a powerful negative charge, which bonds to the positive charge in many toxins and impurities. This mechanism therefore allows it to absorb the toxins and impurities and eliminate them. Furthermore, this ingredient supplies the cells with oxygen by absorbing excess hydrogen. Bentonite is adept at purifying and detoxifying the skin without stripping it too much.

  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Cider Vinegar
  • - + Cucumber Extract
  • - + Witch Hazel & St John's Wort Extract
  • - + Bentonite
Non Active Acne

Clogged pores result from the accumulation of excess sebum and keratinized dead skin cells within hair follicles, leading to various dermatological manifestations.

Blackheads, or open comedones, form when a pore remains open, allowing the contents to oxidize and darken, resulting in their characteristic black or dark brown appearance. In contrast, whiteheads, or closed comedones, occur when a pore is occluded and sealed by a thin layer of epidermis, appearing as small, raised, white or flesh-colored bumps due to the lack of oxygen exposure.

The broader term "congestion" refers to the buildup of debris within pores, commonly observed on the face and presenting as blackheads, whiteheads, or other blemishes, often serving as precursors to inflammatory acne lesions.

Clinical Proofs

EFFICACY TEST:
Test conducted on 10 volunteers aged 21 to 53 years with oily and/or acne-prone skin, with 3 applications
per week for 4 weeks on the face, neck and décolleté.
Measurements were taken on D0 and D28 to compare the results:

Face has an oily appearance -11%
Face has a shiny appearance -13%
Size of pores -8%
Radiant complexion +14

USAGE TEST:
Test conducted on 20 volunteers aged 29 to 59 years with oily skin, with 3 applications per week for 3
weeks on the face, neck and décolleté

95% of participants said their skin was cleaner
95% of participants said their skin was healthier
95% of participants said their pores were tightened
90% of participants said sebum secretions were less abundant
90% of participants said their T-zone was less shiny
90% of participants said their skin was regulated
100% of participants said their skin was purified
100% of participants said their skin had fewer skin blemishes
95% of participants said their skin had less diffuse redness
90% of participants said their skin was more beautiful
100% of participants said their skin texture was refined
95% of participants said their skin was revitalised

* 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

Non Active Acne

Clogged pores result from the accumulation of excess sebum and keratinized dead skin cells within hair follicles, leading to various dermatological manifestations.

Blackheads, or open comedones, form when a pore remains open, allowing the contents to oxidize and darken, resulting in their characteristic black or dark brown appearance. In contrast, whiteheads, or closed comedones, occur when a pore is occluded and sealed by a thin layer of epidermis, appearing as small, raised, white or flesh-colored bumps due to the lack of oxygen exposure.

The broader term "congestion" refers to the buildup of debris within pores, commonly observed on the face and presenting as blackheads, whiteheads, or other blemishes, often serving as precursors to inflammatory acne lesions.

Clinical Proofs

Clinical Proofs

EFFICACY TEST:
Test conducted on 10 volunteers aged 21 to 53 years with oily and/or acne-prone skin, with 3 applications
per week for 4 weeks on the face, neck and décolleté.
Measurements were taken on D0 and D28 to compare the results:

Face has an oily appearance -11%
Face has a shiny appearance -13%
Size of pores -8%
Radiant complexion +14

USAGE TEST:
Test conducted on 20 volunteers aged 29 to 59 years with oily skin, with 3 applications per week for 3
weeks on the face, neck and décolleté

95% of participants said their skin was cleaner
95% of participants said their skin was healthier
95% of participants said their pores were tightened
90% of participants said sebum secretions were less abundant
90% of participants said their T-zone was less shiny
90% of participants said their skin was regulated
100% of participants said their skin was purified
100% of participants said their skin had fewer skin blemishes
95% of participants said their skin had less diffuse redness
90% of participants said their skin was more beautiful
100% of participants said their skin texture was refined
95% of participants said their skin was revitalised

* 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

  • "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 Masque Vivant 100ml
    Biologique Recherche

    Masque Vivant

    £99

    Biologique Recherche Masque Vivant is a purifying, rebalancing treatment mask that mattifies, tightens pores, and restores clarity to the complexion. Enriched with yeast extract rich in amino acids and B vitamins, it helps regulate sebum production while supporting skin repair and overall vitality.

    Cucumber and witch hazel refine texture and soothe inflammation, while antioxidants help protect against environmental stressors that contribute to dullness and congestion.

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