In case you take a aircraft to Paris, then a practice to Brest, then a bus to Le Conquet, then a ship to Ouessant, you’ll find yourself on the fringe of the world. Take a motorbike up a hill and thru some grassy fields and eventually—lastly!—you’ll end up within the pure habitat of the Ouessant black bee, the crown jewel of Guerlain’s Abeille Royale line. It’s on that small patch of land on an island at France’s most western tip the place, since 2011, the storied French magnificence model has dedicated to defending, researching, and caring for Ouessant’s black bees.
For 15 years, Guerlain’s “bee lab” has been researching how bees and honey from 4 totally different habitats, together with Ouessant, can be utilized in pores and skin restore and sweetness merchandise. Ouessant’s black bees produce honey with tons of amino acids and fructose, which make it excellent for age-repair skincare.
Honey and royal jellies produced by bees are the primary substances in Guerlain’s Abeille Royale line, which they name “a skincare program with BlackBee Restore know-how, which helps stimulate the important thing mechanisms of the pores and skin’s revitalizing course of to assist constantly appropriate wrinkles and lack of tissue firmness.” Honey has lengthy been used as a pure therapeutic substance—since antiquity, it’s been utilized in bandages and wraps to assist heal wounds, because it has anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. Guerlain’s scientists imagine that these properties can be utilized to skincare, to assist sluggish the getting older course of, restore positive strains and wrinkles, and moisturize. They’ve utilized these rules to create two new merchandise impressed by honey bandages—the Honey Treatment Day Cream and Honey Treatment Night Cream—which, when used collectively, might cut back “seen indicators of collagen loss [like] wrinkles [and] lack of firmness.” The lotions embrace two new “dermo-expert” substances: polyfragmented hyaluronic acid, which helps pores and skin keep supreme moisture ranges, and pro-elasticity hexapeptide, which helps enhance the pores and skin’s plumpness.
Each of the lotions use honey harvested from the bee conservation venture in Ouessant, and the night time cream additionally contains honey from Guerlain’s bee conservatory on the Greek island of Ikaria. Given Guerlain’s dedication to sustainability, each additionally are available refillable jars to scale back waste and encourage prospects to buy sustainably.
The merchandise can be found completely on Guerlain.com by August 15, after which at magnificence retailers nationwide.
