Valentine’s Day is all about finding the perfect match and your skincare routine deserves the same kind of love. Just like any great relationship, the best results come from products that complement each other, working in harmony to support, protect, and enhance your skin.
When thoughtfully paired, skincare ingredients can boost effectiveness, minimise irritation, and deliver that healthy glow we all desire. This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating the power of skincare couples that are simply better together, because great skin, like great love, is all about balance.
The DOUBLE Cleanse
Two steps that work better together than alone. It starts with an oil-based cleanser to gently melt away makeup, sunscreen, and daily buildup, followed by a water-based cleanser that deep-cleans the skin without stripping it. This dynamic duo ensures your skin is truly clean, balanced, and ready to absorb the rest of your routine.
Our Top Recommendation
Osmosis Lift Away is the first step: a gentle, oil-based cleanser that dissolves makeup, sunscreen, excess oil, and environmental debris without disrupting the skin barrier. It works by lifting impurities from the skin rather than stripping them away, making it ideal for sensitive, acne-prone, or compromised skin. Because it respects the skin’s lipid balance, it leaves the complexion calm, comfortable, and prepped.
Osmosis Deep Clean follows as the second step: a water-based cleanser that purifies the skin at a deeper level. It removes residual impurities, sweat, and bacteria while supporting the skin’s microbiome and maintaining optimal pH. Instead of foaming aggressively, it cleanses intelligently—leaving the skin refreshed, clear, and receptive to active ingredients.
Together, create an effective double cleanse:
- One dissolves and lifts impurities
- The other cleanses and balances the skin
- Both protect the barrier and reduce inflammation
Retinol + Moisturiser
Retinal is an amazimg ingredient but it can be intense. This is where moisturiser comes in as it provides a nouriishing barrier on the skin to help prevent dryness, peeling or irritation.
Retinol renews & smooths, but can dry skin; a hydrating cream protects & soothes, helping your skin stay comfortable and resilient.
Our Top Recommendation
ZO Wrinkle + Texture Repair contains 0.5 % retinol, a potent form of vitamin A that aims to speeds up cell turnover, encourages collagen production and improves overall skin surface appearance.
ZO Hydrating Crème is formulated to Replenish moisture, alleviating dryness caused by retinol. It works to support the skin barrier, reducing irritation and sensitivity as well as improving comfortable tolerance to active treatments.
Moisturizing after a retinol like Wrinkle + Texture helps your skin stay hydrated while still benefiting from the retinol’s effects.
Pro Tip – The retinol sandwich is a layering method used to reduce irritation from retinol; especially helpful if you’re dry, sensitive, or new to vitamin A. So moisturiser, retinol then mosituriser.
DNA repair enzymes + SPF
DNA repair enzymes and SPF pair well together because they work at two different but complementary levels of sun protection. SPF helps prevent UV rays from penetrating the skin and causing new DNA damage, while DNA repair enzymes help support the skin’s natural ability to fix damage that still occurs despite sunscreen use. Since no sunscreen blocks 100% of UV radiation, enzymes like photolyase or endonuclease act as a second line of defense by targeting UV-induced DNA lesions. Together, they provide both prevention and correction, which helps reduce long-term photoaging, pigmentation, and cumulative sun damage more effectively than SPF alone.
Our top recommendation:
Photozyme MD | Youth Recovery Facial Serum contains 3 DNA repair enzymes that help target and repair UV-induced cellular damage and support healthier skin structure, tone, and texture. These enzymes go to work on damage that’s already occurred and help prevent it from progressing.
Forlle’d Hyalogy | UV Intense protector (SPF 50) gives broad-spectrum sun protection against UVA and UVB rays before they can cause new DNA damage. It also has antioxidants and hydrating actives that support skin resilience.
Using a repair serum under SPF daily means you’re not just defending superficially; you’re actively helping your skin deal with past and present UV stress. Over time, this combination can lead to fewer sunspots and pigmentation, improved texture and tone and reduced appearance of fine lines.
EGF with TGF Growth Factors
EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor) and TGF (Transforming Growth Factor) work well together because they support skin regeneration at different but complementary levels of the healing and renewal process.
EGF improves surface renewal while TGF strengthens the deeper support structure. Together they enhance overall skin regeneration and they support both texture and firmness.
Our top recommendation
Le Mieux | EGF-DNA ttargets damaged, inflamed, and aging skin. Self-activating, energizing youth molecules enhance texture, encourage renewal, and restore a radiant glow.
Le Mieux | TGF-β Booster creates bouncier, tighter skin on contact. Supercharged with transforming growth factors, this best-selling anti-aging serum actively plumps fine lines and wrinkles while boosting the power of your entire skincare routine.
Using EGF and TGF together means you’re simultaneously boosting skin renewal and surface recovery (EGF) while supporting deeper collagen health and firmness (TGF) – yielding broader and more balanced anti‑aging benefits than using either growth factor alone.