Plant Ceramides + Organic Cocoa Butter + Jojoba
Ceramide Barrier Night Cream
Ceramide Barrier Night Cream
Loved by 2,500+ customers
- Water sits twenty-eighth of thirty-five ingredients
- Organic aloe, cocoa butter, jojoba and sunflower lead the list
- Plant-derived ceramides and glycolipids
- Only two declared fragrance allergens
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Description
Description
Find the Aqua on the ingredient list. It's twenty-eighth of thirty-five. Twenty-seven things come before it, starting with organic aloe leaf juice, organic cocoa butter, organic jojoba and organic sunflower oil — four in a row, all organically farmed. Almost no cream on a shelf is built that way round.
The ceramide part is glycosphingolipids and glycolipids, plant-derived lipids of the kind your skin barrier is made from. Three plant waxes and a resin give it the structure a night cream needs, and organic sea buckthorn, elder and cranberry seed oil sit in behind. 99% natural origin, 27% organic, certified COSMOS Natural by Ecocert.
How to use
How to use
Evenings, on clean skin, as the last step of whatever you do at night. Soften a small amount between your fingers before it goes anywhere near your face — a cream this dense spreads much further once it's warm.
Take it down the neck while you're there. If you use a serum, a retinoid or an acid, those go on first and this seals over the top of them. Avoid direct contact with the eyes.
Who is it for?
Who is it for?
Normal and dry skin, a barrier that's been through something — a winter, a course of acids, a retinoid that went too fast — and anyone whose face feels tight by the time they wake up. The claim it's making is about repair overnight rather than anything you'll see in ten minutes.
It is rich, and deliberately so. If your skin is oily this won't be the cream for you. There's very little fragrance in it though: only linalool and limonene are declared, which is a short list. Gluten free and vegan.
Shipping & returns
Shipping & returns
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If your order arrives damaged, defective, incorrect, or missing an item, please contact us within 30 days of delivery with your order number and photos where applicable. We'll review the issue and arrange a replacement or refund where appropriate.
Ingredients / INCI
How to use it
Soften it first
Warm a small amount between your fingers. Dense cream applied cold drags and you use twice as much.
Last thing at night
On clean skin, after everything else. This is the layer that goes on top and stays there.
Keep going past the jaw
The neck shows age before the face does and gets looked after long after it should have.
It's a rich cream. Give it three or four nights before you decide — most skin takes a few days to settle with something this dense.
Read the list backwards
Ingredients run strongest to weakest. On most night creams, water wins that race by a distance.
| Feature | AVNOIA | Typical night cream | Day cream used at night |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where water sits | Twenty-eighth of thirty-five | First | First |
| The first four ingredients | Organic aloe, cocoa butter, jojoba, sunflower | Water and emulsifiers | Water and emulsifiers |
| Barrier lipids | Glycosphingolipids and glycolipids | Varies | Rarely |
| Plant waxes and resins | Three | Varies | Rarely |
| Built for overnight | Yes | Yes | No — it's a day formula |
| Declared fragrance allergens | Two | Varies | Varies |
| Organic content | 27% | Varies | Varies |
| Independent certification | Ecocert COSMOS Natural | Varies | Varies |
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What's inside and why it's there
Thirty-five ingredients, 99% of natural origin and 27% organic, certified COSMOS Natural by Ecocert. With organic shea butter, sea buckthorn, elder and cranberry seed oil, plus vitamin E and an oil-soluble vitamin C. Gluten free and vegan, GMO free, recyclable packaging.
Organic Aloe, Cocoa Butter, Jojoba + Sunflower
All four organically farmed, and all four ahead of the water at twenty-eighth. That ordering is the single most telling thing on this page, because it's the one claim a brand can't fake — ingredient lists run strongest first by law.
Glycosphingolipids + Glycolipids
Plant-derived lipids from the same family your skin barrier is built from. When that barrier is worn thin, water escapes and everything else gets in — these are what the cream is named for.
Three Waxes and a Resin
Sunflower seed wax, Japan wax and sal resin. They're the reason a night cream can be this rich without sliding off onto your pillow by two in the morning.
Questions people ask before buying
They're lipids that make up part of your skin's barrier — the layer that holds water in and keeps irritants out. When it's depleted, skin loses water faster and reacts to things it normally wouldn't. This cream uses plant-derived ceramides and glycosphingolipids rather than synthetic ones.
Weight, mostly. It's built around butters, oils and waxes that would sit heavily under make-up and sunscreen but suit the hours when your skin repairs itself and nothing else has to go on top. There's also no SPF in it, which is the other reason it isn't a daytime product.
If your skin is oily, probably yes — we'd point you somewhere lighter rather than pretend otherwise. For normal and dry skin it's about right, though it's worth giving it three or four nights. Skin often takes a few days to settle with something this dense before it starts feeling better rather than coated.
Yes, and it's a sensible thing to put over one. Actives go on first, this seals over the top. A well-supplied barrier is exactly what makes a retinoid easier for skin to tolerate.
Please do. The skin there is thinner than your face, gets almost no attention, and shows age earlier as a result. Habit is the only reason most routines end at the chin.
Because twenty-seven other things come before it. Ingredients are listed in order of quantity, so a cream with Aqua at twenty-eighth of thirty-five is telling you something a marketing claim can't. Most moisturisers are water first by a wide margin.
Structure. Sunflower seed wax, Japan wax and sal resin hold the cream together and keep it on your face rather than on the pillowcase. They're also part of why it seals so well overnight.
Lightly, by our standards — white floral with lavender over something herbaceous, and only two allergens declared on the label, linalool and limonene. That's among the shortest lists in the range, which matters in a product designed for a compromised barrier.
None. Phthalates are a synthetic class of ingredient, and the scents across our range are built from natural raw materials instead.
Goes on after
This is the last layer of the night. Whatever's treating your skin goes on underneath it.
5% Urea + 2% Panthenol Body Cream
Why people stay with it
- Water, twenty-eighthAloe, cocoa butter, jojoba and sunflower all outrank it — and all four are organic.
- Ceramides for the barrierPlant-derived glycosphingolipids and glycolipids, not a synthetic stand-in.
- 27% organicCertified COSMOS Natural by Ecocert, on 99% natural origin.
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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