Collection: Skincare - Toners & Essences

Decide what you want the step to do. Adding water back after a wash is one job. Delivering an active before a serum is another. Wiping away what a cleanser left behind is a third, and it is the one modern formulas have largely dropped, because a cleanser that needs correcting afterwards was too harsh to begin with.

In Japanese and French skincare, lotion means the watery step after cleansing, not a moisturizer. That is why the shelf holds a Treatment Lotion, a Revitalizing Lotion, a Fortifying Lotion, a Toning Lotion and an Essence-in-Lotion, none of which is a cream. If a product calls itself a lotion and pours like water, it belongs here.

Start with the straightforward ones: a hydrating toner built for dry skin or an alcohol-free toner for normal to combination skin, with a milky emulsion for skin that is already irritated as the gentlest reading of the step. Essences go further: treatment essence built on a 90% Pitera formula is a step in its own right, and corrective essence in mist form suits anyone who dislikes cotton pads.

Reactive skin is the one case to go carefully, so check what we group for easily irritated skin before adding a step.
Whatever you choose, it goes on damp and gets sealed by the moisturizer shelf.
This is one step of several, and where the other skincare steps sit covers the rest.