Everything You Need To Know About Avène: Dermatological Skincare For Your Face And Body

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Creating thermal spring water-enriched skincare for sensitive skin, Avène is renowned for its skin-soothing formulations that restore and replenish skin prone to eczema, psoriasis, and dermatitis. Committed to dermatological research, Avène’s innovative skin products for sensitive skin are gentle and effective, providing relief for a range of conditions while nurturing dry, damaged, and irritated skin, leaving your complexion calm, radiant, and healthy.

With a rich history dating all the way back to the 18th century, Avène skincare was founded completely by accident, when a horse suffering from pruritus took a few swims in the thermal spring water in Avène, miraculously healing its skin condition, which led to the discovery that the spring water had unique soothing and restorative properties.

Since this discovery, Avène has continued to research the properties of its thermal spring water, developing a range of skin care products for sensitive skin that includes moisturiser for sensitive skin as well as cleansers, serums, sunscreens, and serums that calm and hydrate your skin while reducing redness and irritation.

High Efficacy Skincare That’s Safe

Formulating all their skincare products with just the right amount of ingredients, Avène ensure the safety and effectiveness of their skin products for sensitive skin, reducing the risk of sensitivity and respecting your skin’s delicate microbiome by keeping their range free from fragrances and preservatives.

Tested under dermatologic control, Avène’s skincare range is developed to minimise the risk of allergic reactions, ensuring that every time you use their products, you’re safe in the knowledge that your skin is protected, nurtured, and calm.

Committed To Advancing Dermatology

Always striving to further their knowledge of dermatology to enhance the quality of life of people with sensitive skin, Avène works alongside universities, health professionals, and patient associations to create skin-soothing active ingredients that effectively relieve sensitive, tolerant, and allergy-prone skin.

Working closely with the Eczema Foundation, Avène is committed to developing skincare that eases the burden of eczema on patients, designing and financing education projects to boost the knowledge of the disease while providing strategies to manage eczema effectively.

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Sustainable Skincare That Soothes

Building their brand with the utmost respect for nature, Avène strive for continuous improvement in their approach to sustainability, their primary ingredient, Avène thermal spring water is sourced naturally to soothe sensitive skin without impacting the longevity of our planet.

Carrying out over 40,000 checks a year on their Thermal Spring Water, Avène can attest to the quality and safety of their products.

Reducing the impact of their products on the environment, Avène guarantees that 90% of their rinse-off formulas are biodegradable, packing 93% of their products in recyclable containers to keep the planet safe.  

Five Of Our Favourite Avène Sensitive Skin Calming Products

Avène Intense Protect 50+ Sun Cream for Very Sensitive Skin

Tested to shield sensitive skin through the most intense conditions, this Avène Intense Protect 50+ Sun Cream for Very Sensitive Skin is perfect for using at high altitudes, during tropical weather, and in high humidity, the ultra-lightweight, water-resistant formula permeating your skin in just three seconds to keep your skin hydrated for up to eight hours.

Formulated with TRIASORB™, the first organic sun filter that absorbs and reflects UV rays, and visible blue light back into the atmosphere and away from your skin.

Avène Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Cream for Sensitive Skin

Restoring and hydrating very dry, sensitive skin, this calming, 98% natural Avène Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Cream for Sensitive Skin is formulated with D-Sensinose™, a patented post-biotic active that relieves your skin, soothing sensations of heating, tightness, tingling, and discomfort to calm your skin in just 48 hours.

Free from fragrances and preservatives, this high-tolerance moisturiser for dry sensitive skin is packaged in a new Sterile CosmeticsÂŽ tube that preserves the product from air and bacteria, ensuring its safety on delicate, reactive skins.

Avène Thermal Spring Water Spray for Sensitive Skin

Calming, soothing, and softening sensitive skin, this Avène Thermal Spring Water Spray for Sensitive Skin is perfect for alleviating sunburn, nappy rash, dry skin, tightness, and itching, the thermal water enriched formula hydrating to leave your skin free from irritation and inflammation.

Bottled directly at the source of Avène’s Thermal Spring Water and packaged in a sterile environment, this spray is perfectly pure, the low mineral, neutral pH formula reducing skin sensitivity by 31% after just five minutes of use.

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Avène XeraCalm A.D. Lipid-Replenishing Cleansing Oil for Dry, Itchy Skin

Hydrating as it cleanses, this sensitive skin friendly Avène XeraCalm A.D. Lipid-Replenishing Cleansing Oil for Dry, Itchy Skin is perfect for reducing skin dryness and itching sensations, leaving your skin comfortable, soft, and free from irritation for 24 hours.

Formulated with Avène’s XeraCalm A.D. this oil cleanser locks moisture into your skin, shielding against the drying effects of water when cleansing. Perfect for eczema-prone skin, this gentle and effective cleansing oil is free from fragrance, its kind to skin formulation minimising the risk of irritation or allergy.  

Avène Hydrance Boost Serum

Intensely hydrating your skin for up to 48 hours, this Avène Hydrance Boost Serum is infused with skin-quenching hyaluronic acid and vitamin B3, nourishing your skin while enhancing your natural skin barrier.

Respecting your skin’s pH balance, this hydration serum is ultra-light and nourishing, the non-greasy formula leaving your complexion smooth, supple, soft, and healthy.

Shop Avene's Sensitive Skin Range

Dermatologist Recommended
Avène Intense Protect 50+ Sun Cream for Very Sensitive Skin 150mlAvène Intense Protect 50+ Sun Cream for Very Sensitive Skin 150ml
Dermatologist Recommended
Avène XeraCalm A.D. Lipid-Replenishing Cleansing Oil for Dry, Itchy SkinAvène XeraCalm A.D. Lipid-Replenishing Cleansing Oil for Dry, Itchy Skin
Avène XeraCalm A.D. Lipid-Replenishing Cleansing Oil for Dry, Itchy Skin

Suitable for very dry skin prone to itching, Avene’s XeraCalm A.D. Lipid-Replenishing Cleansing Oil for Dry, Itchy Skin gently cleanses and hydrates the skin for up to 24 hours, helping to reduce skin dryness and...

€12,95
Dermatologist Recommended
Avène Hydrance Boost Serum 30mlAvène Hydrance Boost Serum 30ml
Avène Hydrance Boost Serum 30ml

€16,95

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