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Protection U.V. SPF 25 (Face)

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SPF PROTECT
Protection U.V. SPF 25 (Face)
Biologique Recherche
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Benefits
  • Photo-Protective
  • Antioxidant
  • Nourishing
  • Hydrating
  • Anti-Ageing
  • Plumping
  • Firming
  • SPF25
  • Mineral Filters
  • Anti-Glycation
  • Anti-Senescence
  • Cell Communication

The Biologique Recherche protection U.V. is an anti-ageing and anti-pigmentation cream which protects the skin from UVAs, UVBs and infrared radiation with a Sun Protection Factor SPF 25.

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The Biologique Recherche protection U.V. is an anti-ageing and anti-pigmentation cream which protects the skin from UVAs, UVBs and infrared radiation with a Sun Protection Factor SPF 25.

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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

Mineral SPF

Wrinkles

Loss of Firmness

Dry Skin

Dehydrated Skin

How to Apply
Generously apply Protection U.V. to the entire face, neck and décolleté before sun exposure. If you do not apply enough product, the level of sun protection will be considerably reduced. Apply once every two hours for complete protection, especially after sweating, swimming, towel drying or after a long sun exposure.
Ingredients

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

Water (Aqua), Pongamia Glabra Seed Oil, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Zinc Oxide [Nano], Glycerin, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Titanium Dioxide [Nano], Octyldodecanol, Pentylene Glycol, Oryzanol, Polyamide-5, Ethyl Ferulate, Ferulic Acid, Diatomaceous Earth, Laminaria Ochroleuca Extract, Octyldodecyl Xyloside, PEG-30 Dipolyhydroxystearate, Algae Extract, Silybum Marianum Fruit Extract, Magnesium Sulfate, Lecithin, Alumina, Mannitol, PEG-8 Laurate, Caprylyl Glycol, Xanthan Gum, Isostearic Acid, Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, Stearic Acid, Carnosine, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phaeodactylum Tricornutum Extract, Zinc Sulfate, Phenoxyethanol, Tocopherol, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil.


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 neutral scent with hints of botanical notes.

Texture: Lightweight cream, non-greasy and absorbs quickly

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

  • - + UV Physical Filters
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Glycation)
  • - + Protects against Blue Light
  • - + Protects against Infrared Rays
  • - + Pore Decongesting
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Senescence)
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Cell Communication
UV Physical Filters

Physical sunscreen protection involves using mineral-based filters like Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide to create a barrier on your skin's surface. These ingredients reflect UV rays, effectively blocking them from penetrating your skin. UVA rays, known as ""A for ageing,"" penetrate deeply into the dermis, causing long-term damage to collagen and elastin fibres, which leads to premature ageing. UVB rays, labelled ""B for burning,"" affect the surface layers of the skin, causing sunburns and direct DNA damage, contributing to skin cancer development. It's crucial to use sunscreen that offers high and lasting protection against both UVA and UVB rays for comprehensive sun protection. Physical sunscreen filters are often preferred by those with sensitive skin, as they are less likely to cause irritation or allergic reactions.

Nourishing

Nourishing skincare focuses on replenishing the skin with essential lipids, nutrients, and bioactive compounds to restore comfort, resilience, and optimal function. When the skin is depleted—whether through environmental stress, over-exfoliation, or natural ageing—it can become dry, fragile, and less able to protect itself. Nourishing formulations work to rebuild the lipid barrier using ingredients rich in fatty acids, vitamins, and antioxidants, helping to reinforce the skin’s structure while supporting repair and reducing moisture loss. By restoring what the skin lacks, this approach leaves it softer, stronger, and more supple.

Anti-Ageing (Glycation)

Combat Glycation and maintain firm, plump, and youthful skin with anti-glycation actives. Glycation is a unique phenomenon where excess sugar molecules from your diet bind to essential proteins like collagen and elastin. This binding process can affect the structural proteins in your skin, like collagen and elastin, which are crucial for maintaining its firmness and elasticity. This results in wrinkles, loss of elasticity, and can even trigger excess pigment production, leading to dark marks and dullness.

Prevent and reverse the effects of glycation by adopting a low-sugar diet and incorporating targeted skincare with anti-glycation actives. These specialised ingredients help prevent sugar from binding to your skin's proteins and repair existing damage, preserving your skin's health and radiance.

Protects against Blue Light

Blue light protection provide crucial defence against high-energy visible (HEV) light from digital screens and artificial lighting. They form a protective barrier that mitigates the damageing effects of blue light exposure, which can speed up skin ageing and cause fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation. The result is a healthier, more resilient complexion that stays youthful and vibrant, even with constant screen use.

Protects against Infrared Rays

Protecting your skin against infrared rays guards it from invisible heat damage that can speed up ageing. Infrared radiation penetrates deeply, causing oxidative stress and breaking down collagen and elastin fibres. Using powerful antioxidants and heat-shielding ingredients helps neutralise free radicals and protect your skin’s structural integrity. The benefits include reduced inflammation, preserved skin elasticity, and fewer fine lines and wrinkles, keeping your skin looking youthful and healthy.

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.

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-Ageing (Senescence)

Anti-senescence skincare represents a new frontier in skin longevity, focusing on slowing and reversing the accumulation of “retired” cells that no longer contribute to renewal but actively accelerate ageing. These senescent cells release inflammatory signals and degradative enzymes that weaken the skin’s structure, leading to loss of firmness, uneven tone, and the formation of wrinkles. Advanced anti-senescence formulations are designed to target this process at a cellular level—helping to limit the formation of these dysfunctional cells, neutralize their harmful effects, and support the regeneration of healthy, active ones. By restoring a more youthful cellular environment, this approach goes beyond traditional anti-ageing, promoting skin that appears smoother, stronger, and visibly revitalized over time.

Photo-Protecting

Photo-protecting skincare at a cellular level focuses on defending the skin against the internal damage triggered by UV exposure, rather than simply blocking rays at the surface. Ultraviolet radiation generates free radicals and disrupts cellular DNA, accelerating collagen breakdown, inflammation, and premature ageing. Advanced formulations work by neutralising oxidative stress, supporting DNA repair mechanisms, and strengthening the skin’s natural defence systems to limit long-term damage. By preserving cellular integrity and maintaining healthy skin function, this approach helps prevent visible signs of photo-ageing—such as wrinkles, loss of firmness, and uneven tone.

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.

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.

Cell Communication

Cell-communicating ingredients support the skin by enhancing the dialogue between its cells, helping them function in a more intelligent and responsive way. Advanced actives such as growth factors, peptides and plant stem cells act as molecular messengers, signalling to skin cells and encouraging them to repair, regenerate and protect themselves against environmental stress and the visible effects of ageing.

When delivered topically in well-formulated skincare, these ingredients help stimulate essential processes such as collagen production, cellular renewal and barrier repair. The result is skin that appears stronger, smoother and more resilient over time. For these ingredients to perform optimally, they must also be bioavailable meaning the skin can readily recognise, absorb and utilise them. The closer an ingredient’s structure is to that of human skin cells, the more effectively it can interact with the skin’s natural biology, allowing it to deliver meaningful and visible results.

  • - + UV Physical Filters
  • - + Nourishing
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Glycation)
  • - + Protects against Blue Light
  • - + Protects against Infrared Rays
  • - + Pore Decongesting
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Anti-Ageing (Senescence)
  • - + Photo-Protecting
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Cell Communication

Active Ingredients

  • - + Golden Seaweed Extract
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Anti-Glycation Complex
  • - + Karanja Oil
  • - + Pink Coralline Extract
  • - + Titanium Dioxide & Zinc Oxide
Golden Seaweed Extract

Golden Seaweed naturally lives in highly stressful environments which contributes to its resilience and powerful cell DNA protecting properties. This multi-benefit ingredient soothes the skin by reducing inflammation while simultaneously increasing natural Hyaluronic Acid production and improving barrier function. Skin is left calm, hydrated and protected.

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.

Anti-Glycation Complex

The Anti-Glycation Complex features Carnosine, a peptide with potent anti-glycation properties. Glycation is a crystallisation of collagen and elastin fibres, making them rigid and unable to operate, resulting in the skin's premature ageing. The action of carnosine is supercharged by two antioxidants: Sylimarine and Vitamin E, protecting the skin from free radicals and preventing premature cellular skin ageing.

Karanja Oil

Karanja Oil has strong nourishing, photo-protective and antioxidant properties, helping to shield the skin cells from harmful free radicals induced by UV and other environmental factors. Additionally, it helps to prevent lipid oxidation which can manifest in brownish/yellowish pigment on the skin. Its nourishing action ensures the skin barrier is healthy and resilient against external stressors as well as keeping hydration locked in.

Pink Coralline Extract

Pink Coralline Extract has the unique ability to protect the skin from heat-emitted infrared radiation, which is known to stimulate the MMP enzyme. This enzyme can degrade collagen overtime, resulting in a lesser plumped and toned skin. Pink Coraline Extract helps to preserve the skin's tightness.

Titanium Dioxide & Zinc Oxide

Titanium Dioxide & Zinc Oxide are physical (mineral) sunscreen filters. They protect the skin against UVA (Ageing) and UVB (Burning) rays from the sun. They have high photo-stability, are FDA approved and non-irritating, making them preferred choices for sensitive skins and for post-aesthetic treatments. They work by creating a protective shield on the skin that reflects UV rays, directing the rays away from the skin.

  • - + Golden Seaweed Extract
  • - + Rice Bran Oil
  • - + Anti-Glycation Complex
  • - + Karanja Oil
  • - + Pink Coralline Extract
  • - + Titanium Dioxide & Zinc Oxide
Triple Shield Complex

Triple Shield Complex is an advanced sun protection blend designed to defend skin from UVA, UVB and infrared rays. Its key benefits include preventing skin ageing, dehydration and long-term sun damage. Featuring 100% natural, eco-friendly and reef-safe filters, it creates a comprehensive shield against harmful solar radiation.

The result is enhanced skin hydration and protection, without compromising environmental safety. Offering water-resistant, non-irritating SPF 25, it provides lasting skin defence while preserving health and radiance, for daily reassurance against the harmful effects of prolonged sun exposure.

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Triple Shield Complex

Triple Shield Complex is an advanced sun protection blend designed to defend skin from UVA, UVB and infrared rays. Its key benefits include preventing skin ageing, dehydration and long-term sun damage. Featuring 100% natural, eco-friendly and reef-safe filters, it creates a comprehensive shield against harmful solar radiation.

The result is enhanced skin hydration and protection, without compromising environmental safety. Offering water-resistant, non-irritating SPF 25, it provides lasting skin defence while preserving health and radiance, for daily reassurance against the harmful effects of prolonged sun exposure.

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

    Protection U.V. SPF 25 (Face)

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    The Biologique Recherche protection U.V. is an anti-ageing and anti-pigmentation cream which protects the skin from UVAs, UVBs and infrared radiation with a Sun Protection Factor SPF 25.

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