Beauty sleep: Estée Lauder's iconic night repair regimen

Every morning, appearing as if you've had a full night of beauty sleep, even if you've had less. It's no coincidence that a good night's sleep is often referred to as "beauty sleep." The night is when the skin repairs and rejuvenates itself, but it needs sufficient time for this. Enter the revolutionary products from Estée Lauder's Advanced Night Repair series.

When was the last time you had a good, deep sleep for at least 8 hours? For most of us, it's not a frequent occurrence. Yet, perhaps you have some vague memory of how you looked on that day. Your skin was radiant, glowing, full of volume and vitality, right? This didn't just happen because you woke up without bags under your eyes, but because your skin finally had enough time to repair itself.

Among the first to understand what happens to skin cells during the night were the experts at the luxury makeup and skincare brand, Estée Lauder. Over 42 years ago, they discovered that night is the time when the skin repairs the damage caused throughout the day, rejuvenating and renewing itself. One crucial process that occurs at night is collagen production, responsible for the skin's elasticity and firmness.

So what's the problem? Most of us, as mentioned, don't manage to sleep for 8 hours at night, and as we age and environmental damage accumulates, the skin's repair and renewal process slows down, including collagen production. Fortunately, the experts at Estée Lauder didn't just settle for this revelation. They decided over four decades ago to create a solution that supports the skin's renewal process, accelerates and encourages it, allowing the skin to properly repair itself, even as we age and sleep less.

The result, in our opinion, surpassed even their expectations: Advanced Night Repair, Estée Lauder's legendary serum, known for its iconic brown bottle, whose exclusive formula is patented until 2033, has won over 150 awards, and is continuously refined and improved every few years.

The serum provides 7 different benefits in one product: it reduces wrinkles and fine lines, firms the skin both short-term and long-term, provides moisture, radiance, and a more even tone, strengthens the skin barrier, and contains antioxidants that protect the skin from free radicals. Additionally, it contains Estée Lauder's exclusive night peptide, also patented, which synchronizes the skin's natural repair and defense mechanisms for skin renewal day and night.

Now, 42 years after the serum's launch, with results that prove nighttime is indeed the optimal time for skin repair, the brand expands its Advanced Night Repair series and introduces three additional products. Alongside the iconic serum, they will give your facial skin the beauty sleep it so desperately needs, even if you actually slept much less.

Preparation for the nightly renewal process begins with proper cleansing, removing dirt, sweat, makeup, and sunscreen residue. Skin cleansing is a vital part of repairing the damage it has undergone throughout the day because it resets the skin and prepares it for renewal.

To maximize the renewal process, Estée Lauder's experts have created two new cleansing products:

Advanced Night Cleansing Balm: A gentle, nurturing cleansing balm that easily dissolves even waterproof eye makeup. Enriched with nourishing oils, it transforms into a milky emulsion upon contact with water and rinses off quickly.

Advanced Night Cleansing Gelee: A powerful gel cleanser containing 15 amino acids such as glycerin, serine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, leucine, proline, threonine, and lysine, among others. These amino acids are naturally found in the skin's protective layers and are used, among other things, to support and balance the skin barrier. The gel, which turns into a soft and pleasant foam, not only cleanses the skin but also prepares it for the serum to be applied afterward, allowing it to penetrate the skin's depths five times faster.

These two cleansing products do not dry out the skin, disrupt its natural pH balance, or harm its delicate acid mantle, which serves as its primary defense layer. Unlike other cleansing products that can be aggressive, especially with daily use, here you'll get a gentle yet thorough cleansing that nourishes the skin and leaves it soft and smooth.

Daily Rescue Solution for Sensitive Skin

The third product added to the series is the Advanced Night Repair Rescue Solution—a targeted treatment serum serving as intense daily rescue for sensitive, irritated, or prone-to-redness skin.

The serum contains a 15% concentration of bifida ferment lysate (a bioactive ingredient), the highest concentration ever of this potent ingredient in the brand's products. The fermentation aids in strengthening and protecting the skin, making it more resilient against stressors and external damage. Additionally, the serum contains a yeast extract that soothes the skin and helps reduce redness, as well as the patented night peptide, which aids in skin renewal day and night.

Using the serum soothes the skin, reduces irritations and redness even after exposure to external damage (including harsh climates), strengthens the skin barrier, and leaves it calm, radiant, and flexible. It's suitable for all ages, skin tones, and types, and is indeed a real skin rescue, also suitable for men, to calm facial skin after shaving and prevent irritations.

In fact, all products in the series are suitable and beneficial for men, and between us, a few more hours of sleep at night wouldn't hurt. Unfortunately, the likelihood of us sleeping more soon is almost the same as our chances of winning the war against aging. So it's good that we have a skincare routine that delivers the desired results. It may not help us be less tired, but no one will see it on our faces.