
Ingredients / INCI
How to use it
Morning or evening, face or body.
Moisturiser in your palm
Use your usual amount of face or body moisturiser. No need to change your routine.
Add one to three drops
Start with one drop. Mix it into your moisturiser with a fingertip until evenly blended.
Apply as normal
Smooth over clean skin as you normally would. No extra waiting time is needed.
A booster, not another bottle
The usual way to add antioxidants is to add a step. This is the other way of doing it.
| Feature | AVNOIA | Antioxidant serum | Vitamin C serum |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you use it | Drops mixed into your own moisturiser | As its own layer | As its own layer |
| Adds a step to your routine | No | Yes | Yes |
| Antioxidant sources | Four organic plant extracts | Varies | Usually one |
| Oil content | None | Varies | Varies |
| Alcohol | Second on the list | Varies | Varies |
| Declarable allergens | None | Varies | Varies |
| Natural-origin ingredients | 99% | Varies | Varies |
| Independent certification | Ecocert COSMOS Natural | Varies | Varies |
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What's inside and why it's there
Seventeen ingredients, 99% natural in origin and 8% organically farmed, carrying Ecocert Greenlife's COSMOS Natural certification. Scented, yet with an empty allergen line. Vegan, gluten free, nut free, GMO free, recyclable bottle.
Organic Ginkgo Biloba Leaf
The extract the product is named for, sitting above every other botanical in it. Ginkgo has a long record in skincare aimed at dull, tired-looking skin and environmental exposure.
Green Tea, Grape Seed + Oak Bark
All organically farmed, like the ginkgo. Oak bark is the one you won't have seen before — tannin-rich and rarely used, and the reason this reads differently from every other antioxidant product on a shelf.
Carrageenan, Cellulose + Carob Gum
Three plant gums give the concentrate its gel texture with no oil involved at all. That's what lets it vanish into a cream instead of sitting on top of it as a separate film.
Questions people ask before buying
Squeeze your normal moisturiser into your palm, add one to three drops of this, mix it in and apply. Nothing else about your routine changes — that's the entire idea. Begin with a single drop and increase it if you want to.
You can. Apply it to clean skin and put your moisturiser over the top — it works either way. Mixing is simply faster and means you never forget the extra step.
It holds a botanical concentrate together and helps the extracts disperse evenly, which is difficult to achieve otherwise in a formula this short. Bear in mind you're using drops mixed into a cream, not applying it neat. That said, if you avoid alcohol in skincare on principle, we'd rather you knew now than found out from the label.
None. Carrageenan, cellulose gum and carob gum give it body instead — three plant gums doing the job an oil normally would. It's why oily and dry skin can both use it without adjusting anything.
Both. Drop it into a body lotion the same way you would a face cream. Hands, neck and décolleté get more sun exposure than most people account for.
Ginkgo, green tea, grape seed and oak bark are all plants with antioxidant compounds, and each brings a slightly different set. Using four rather than one is the point — no single plant covers everything, and all four here are organically farmed.
Not really — they're different arguments. Vitamin C is one well-studied antioxidant at a measured strength; this is a spread of plant antioxidants added to something you already apply. Plenty of people use both, at opposite ends of the day.
Nothing in it requires an allergen declaration, which is worth noting in a fragranced product. The scent is minty with a fruit note behind it, and it's barely detectable once you've mixed a couple of drops into a cream.
Vegan and cruelty free, and free of gluten, nuts and GMO ingredients. The bottle is recyclable. Ecocert Greenlife certify it to COSMOS Natural — 99% natural origin, 8% organically farmed.
Mix it into
Any cream you already use, ours or otherwise. That's rather the point of a booster.
5% Urea + 2% Panthenol Body Cream
Why people stay with it
- Four extracts, all organicGinkgo, green tea, grape seed and oak bark. No single plant covers everything.
- It doesn't add a stepDrops into the cream you already own. Nothing else about your routine changes.
- 99% natural originEcocert's COSMOS Natural standard, on seventeen ingredients and no oil.
Made for your everyday routine
Thoughtfully formulated skincare and haircare designed to make your daily routine feel simple, effective and enjoyable.
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