Published: January 15, 2025
Wish that your night skincare routine was capable of transforming your complexion overnight? With the right products, it very well could be! Read on as Bionyx shares a nighttime routine that will ensure a radiant glow the next morning.
Gently Cleanse Your Skin
The very first step to any night skincare routine should be a cleanser. Over the course of the day, your skin’s surface will have slowly been covered with a layer of dirt, sweat, oil, dead skin cells, environmental toxins, and more. Not only will these block your other skincare products from reaching your skin cells but they’ll also start to seep into your skin themselves, which can cause some serious damage. As a result, they need to go, making a good cleanser absolutely essential!
With that said, you don’t want to go overboard with your nighttime cleansing efforts. Don’t be tempted to opt for an overly potent cleanser as this will only irritate your skin’s natural protective barrier. Skin barrier function naturally decreases at night and a gentle cleanser will keep it feeling healthy.
If you’re looking for a gentle, easy-to-use cleanser, check out the Bionyx Rhodium Mousse Cleanser. Mousse cleansers are known for being effective yet moisturizing. This formula enhances that with its coconut-derived surfactants and skin-loving amino acids. It will leave your skin feeling refreshed and clean but without compromising your skin barrier.
Exfoliate (But Not Everyday)
One way to quickly transform the look of your skin is by exfoliating it. Exfoliating clears away debris that your cleanser isn’t able to, such as impurities that have made their way into your pores. This immediately has a brightening effect on the look of the skin while also leaving it feeling smoother to the touch.
While that may be the case, it’s important to keep your skin barrier in mind. Exfoliating daily will be too much for it. You’ll need to limit yourself to exfoliating 1-3 times a week, depending on your skin type.
Choosing the right exfoliator is crucial too. A formula that’s too potent or rough will only leave your skin feeling raw and irritated. Likewise, an exfoliator that’s too gentle isn’t going to do much! The best exfoliators are able to strike the perfect balance, just like the Bionyx Rhodium Complex Facial Peeling. It effectively buffs away skin cells but isn’t too abrasive. It’s one of those rare exfoliators that produces excellent results on all skin types, making it worth adding to your night skincare routine.
Use a Face Mask When Needed
Just like exfoliating, masking shouldn’t be a part of your skincare routine every single night. However, adding a face mask in once, or even twice, a week can really help to boost the results that you see.
Ideally, masking should take place after you’ve cleansed/exfoliated. This way, the ingredients within the mask will be able to make their way into your skin without having to fight past any impurities or blockages.
Don’t limit yourself to just one mask, either! There’s nothing wrong with using a different mask each week. Simply pick the one that best matches your skin’s needs at the time. For example, if you want to boost hydration and leave your skin barrier feeling more resilient, the Bionyx Alloy Magnetic Synergy Mask won’t let you down. With hemp seed oil, marula oil, baobab oil, and peptides, it will instantly have your skin feeling softer and smoother.
Meanwhile, the Platinum Transformative Thermal Mask can be used whenever you want to boost your skin’s glow. It’s a self-heating clay mask – the warmth that it produces leaves your pores feeling more relaxed, allowing the clay to better extract excess sebum and impurities. It’s loaded with antioxidants too to ensure a radiant finish.
Splash on a Hydrating Toner
The next step in your night skincare routine, whether you’ve only cleansed or you’ve also exfoliated and used a face mask, is to apply a toner. While this is a step that many people skip, the way in which a good toner will rebalance the pH level of your skin’s surface while also leaving your skin feeling more receptive to the rest of your skincare products makes it more than worth the extra 30 seconds or so!
Ideally, the toner that you use should also be hydrating. One of the effects of the decline in skin barrier function at night is that moisture loss increases. This is because your skin barrier isn’t retaining moisture as effectively as it does during the day, allowing more of it to evaporate away instead. The best way to counter this is to include a few layers of hydrating ingredients in your night skincare routine, and a toner is a perfect one to start with!
The Bionyx Rhodium Facial Toner meets the mark well. It contains a mixture of sodium hyaluronate and glycerin – two of the most hydrating ingredients around! It’s infused with niacinamide too, aka vitamin B3. Not only does it keep the skin barrier feeling soothed and supported but it also evens out the look of discoloration.
Apply a Serum to Target Your Visible Skin Concerns
There are definitely a few downsides to the decline in skin barrier function at night. However, there’s also a big positive aspect to this. Since your skin barrier won’t be blocking things out of your skin in the way that it does during the day, active ingredients will have a much easier time penetrating your skin. This is when potent serums will have the biggest impact on your complexion. So, pick a serum that has been designed to target the visible skin concerns you’re hoping to eradicate.
If you aren’t sure where to begin on your serum search, an antioxidant serum will always be a safe bet. Antioxidants are the best ingredients for tackling the appearance of free radical damage while keeping your skin cells feeling strong and healthy.
Vitamins are some of the most effective antioxidants in the industry, and the Bionyx BioLift Platinum Deep Wrinkle Concentrate contains the trifecta; vitamins A, C, and E. Together, these antioxidants will not only reduce the appearance of aging but will also brighten, tighten, and revive the look of your skin.
Layer on a Hydrating Serum
As we mentioned earlier, the best way to keep your skin sufficiently hydrated overnight is to layer on a few different hydrating skincare products. You started that process with a hydrating toner and should now continue it with a hydrating serum. Just like toners, serums are lightweight skincare products. This texture enables them to dive deep down into your complexion, taking their hydrating ingredients with them. A good hydrating serum applied in your night skincare routine will make your skin look plumper and fuller the next morning.
For this, we would recommend turning to the Bionyx Alloy Platinum Synergizing Serum. Just like the toner we featured earlier, it also contains sodium hyaluronate and glycerin. However, this time, those hydrating ingredients have been combined with even more humectants, including collagen and a duo of peptides. This greatly intensifies the hydrating effects of this serum.
Even better, this serum also contains 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C. This means that in addition to enjoying the hydrating properties of this serum, you’ll also be treating your skin to another dose of one of the best antioxidants around!
Apply an Eye Serum or an Eye Cream
Your eye area is the focal point of your face, so keeping the skin here looking smooth and perky will have the knock-on effect of giving the rest of your face a more youthful glow too. While that may be the case, this isn’t always as easy as it sounds. The skin around the eyes is very thin – much more so than the skin elsewhere on your face and body. As a result, it’s highly prone to wear and tear. This is why fine lines and wrinkles usually develop around the eyes before they’re noticed anywhere else.
To keep your eye area looking firm and voluminous, an eye care product can be helpful. The Rhodium Intensive Eye Serum from Bionyx is one well worth considering. With a blend of hydrating ingredients and antioxidants, it will leave your eye area looking rejuvenated.
Another option would be the Bionyx Rhodium Advanced Eye Cream. Again, it hydrates while providing antioxidants. However, its thicker texture, compared to an eye serum, will do a better job of locking moisture in.
Lock Everything in With a Moisturizer
As we discussed earlier, moisture loss increases overnight. This doesn’t just apply to your skin’s natural moisture reserves – the hydrating ingredients that you slather onto your skin as part of your night skincare routine will also end up evaporating away…unless you lock them in with a moisturizer.
While just about any face cream will help with this, this is a great opportunity to give your skin a little extra before you head to bed. Since your skin focuses on repair and regeneration while you sleep, use a moisturizer that contains ingredients capable of leaving your skin cells feeling supported as they go about these processes.
One moisturizer that does this exceptionally well is the Bionyx Rhodium Night Recovery Cream. One of its key ingredients is shea butter, which acts as a humectant, emollient, and occlusive. This means that not only will it bind moisture to your skin but it will also seal off your skin to prevent evaporation while filling in any tiny gaps and cracks in your skin’s surface. Meanwhile, the other ingredients in this moisturizer will leave your skin cells feeling fortified and capable of functioning to their full potential while you’re in slumberland.
Creating the Perfect Night Skincare Routine With Bionyx
If you haven’t been seeing any major results from your current night skincare routine, this is a sign that things could do with an overhaul. Try putting your current products aside for a while and switching to the steps that we’ve shared above. Not only will you notice an immediate transformation in the look and feel of your skin but your complexion should continue to steadily improve as the weeks and months progress.