A treatment cream, that is soothing, capable of calming inflammation, and also rich in anti-aging ingredients? This is the promise of the Midnight Blue Calming Cream, the multi-tasking (and blue!) cream from the Korean skincare brand Klairs!
I’m a bit late with this review as I started using the Midnight Blue Calming Cream several months ago, in early spring.
However, this pretty blue cream definitely deserves your attention!
In fact, I think I even owe it a great debt of gratitude, because it allowed my skin to survive the application of a very harsh retinol cream (the Drunk Elephant’s retinol cream, I’ll probably talk about it at one point).
For me, the Midnight Blue Calming Cream is great to have in your closet, even if I don’t use it all the time (my skin feels much better, fortunately) because it’s so good to soothe and repair sensitive skin!
At the moment, in summer, it’s also perfect in the evening if you were outside in the sun during the day!
I’ll give you all the details about this all-purpose blue cream in this review! 🙂
My review:
Klairs (or Dear, Klairs) is one of my favorite Korean brands right now. I love their vision of skincare!
Klairs offers simple, minimalist, eco-friendly products, with formulas that are usually rather natural. But they also contain plenty of sophisticated ingredients, which are scientifically recognized as effective.
The Midnight Blue Calming Cream represents this approach very well!
Its formula is indeed a concentrate of skincare ingredients that are soothing, anti-inflammatory, but also very repairing and anti-aging.
The Midnight Blue Calming Cream is primarily intended for irritated and sensitive skin.
Which means skin overly stressed because of harsh treatments or subjected to extreme weather conditions (cold weather, sun exposure, strong pollution)…
It contains very soothing ingredients such as the one that gives it its natural blue color, guaiazulene (a derivative of chamomile), but also the famous Centella Asiatica, which I have mentioned many times here.
And you can also find in its formula other regenerating and anti-aging actives, which makes it a truly complete treatment, in my opinion.
There are indeed no less than 6 peptides in its formula!
Peptides are very small protein precursor molecules that act on the skin as a trigger (they are also known as a “signal” molecule) to generate a specific reaction. In the case of the peptides used in this cream, they have an anti-aging effect, particularly on wrinkles, and they also stimulate cell renewal.
These peptides include the famous Epidermal Growth Factor/ EGF (which you hear a lot about at the moment) and bFGF, which is also very popular for its stimulating and toning effect on the skin.
I used this cream for about 3 months in the evening.
It’s quite rich, but not heavy and in the morning I never woke up with greasy skin.
I greatly appreciated its soothing effect. I could definitely see visible results on my skin, it reduced the irritation I had with this retinol cream that didn’t work for me.
I stopped it when it started to get very hot outside because I wanted to switch to a cream with a lighter texture but I still use it from time to time as an SOS treatment. I apply it in a thick layer at night, only on my redness or on a breakout, at the end of my routine.
It’s great for reducing inflammation and when I wake up in the morning my skin is more soothed and I have visibly reduced inflammation!
I also asked my husband, who has very sensitive skin, to try it. It works very well on him also to reduce his redness and he also uses it after shaving to soothe his sensitive skin.
I think I’ll repurchase when I finish the tube. It’s always nice to have this kind of soothing product at hand, especially when you’re addicted to strong anti-aging ingredients, retinol and acids, like me!
In addition, I used this cream at the same time as the Midnight Blue Youth Activating Drops serum from Klairs, which I reviewed a few months ago, and I found that the two products complemented each other very well, and strengthened this anti-inflammatory effect!
In conclusion:
I am quite pleased with this Midnight Blue Calming Cream, which seems to be a good SOS product to always have at hand if you need it. And if you have sensitive skin, it may also suit you as a daily moisturizer as well!
In short, I appreciate its versatility and the fact that it contains powerful anti-aging ingredients. That’s the icing on the cake! 🙂
The retails between $30 and $38 for 60 ml depending on the resellers.
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