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Oily

Skin that makes plenty of its own oil,
and does better for a lighter touch.

Skin that shines through the day, especially across the forehead and nose, with more visible pores. Oily skin makes more surface oil than it needs, but it rarely reacts. It does best with light hydration, without being stripped back.

Is this you?

Oily skin tends to shine by the middle of the day, particularly across the T-zone. Make-up may start to slide, a tissue pressed to the skin comes away with a shine, and pores are usually easier to see. What it doesn't often do is feel tight, flake, or react badly to new products.

If your skin is more shine than tightness and generally takes things in its stride, you're in the right place. If you're not sure, the skin type finder will point you the right way.

What Oily skin needs

Most advice for oily skin is about stripping the oil away. Harsh cleansers do that, and they strip the barrier lipids with it, which can leave oily skin tight and irritated as well as shiny.

Oily skin still has a barrier to look after, and linoleic acid matters here, because the sebum in oily skin tends to run low in it. So this blend uses light, linoleic-rich oils.

The oils in every Oily moisturiser

Every Oily moisturiser shares the same blend of four cold-pressed and organic plant oils, all from the light end.

Grape seed and rose hip lead it, both light and high in linoleic acid, and rose hip also carries linolenic acid, the other fatty acid the barrier is built from. Dragon fruit seed oil is light and linoleic-rich too. Argan, in a small amount, adds vitamin E and an emollient feel.

Every Biotaderm moisturiser also contains squalane, a barley ferment upcycled from gin distilling, the plant prebiotic inulin, allantoin, vitamin E and chlorella. Each one also carries bladderwrack, the same seaweed species that grows on the rocks below Welcombe, as a cold infusion in sunflower oil made in the UK.

Each product page lists every ingredient with its exact percentage, and links each one to its entry in our ingredient library.

Your three Oily moisturisers

The same Oily blend comes in three textures, so you can match the richness to where you use it. All three use the light oils of this blend.

Flow, over 9% plant oil, is made for the face. Core, over 14%, is the most versatile, for anywhere on the body and the face when it wants more than Flow. Deep, over 19%, is the richest, for hands, elbows and feet, which can run dry even when the face is oily.
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  • A pump bottle of Biotaderm Flow Oily Face Moisturiser next to a small vial of cold-pressed plant oils, argan nuts, and a rolled towel.

    Biotaderm Flow Oily Face Moisturiser

    Biotaderm Flow Oily Face Moisturiser
    £20.90
  • Biotaderm Core Oily All-Over Moisturiser pump bottle with a wooden cap and white label listing cold-pressed plant oils and inulin.

    Biotaderm Core Oily All-Over Moisturiser

    Biotaderm Core Oily All-Over Moisturiser
    £22.90
  • A pump bottle of Biotaderm Deep Oily Hand and Foot Cream for oily skin resting on a glass slab with sea glass, grapes, and a slice of dragon fruit.

    Biotaderm Deep Oily Hand and Foot Cream

    Biotaderm Deep Oily Hand and Foot Cream
    £24.90

Looking after Oily skin

A couple of habits help oily skin far more than any amount of stripping does.

Don't skip moisturiser, because oily skin still loses water and still has a barrier to keep in order. Cleanse gently, with lukewarm water, since hot water and harsh cleansers strip the barrier as well as the oil. Reach for lighter textures, and use sensible sun protection.

We never add synthetic fragrance. The range contains one essential oil, vetiver, at a tenth of a percent, and the label shows exactly how much is there.

Your skin type can change

Oily isn't a fixed label. Oil output shifts with age and hormones, and with steady, gentle care some people find their skin settles toward the Balanced type. Any change is slow, and it comes from steady care more than from any one product. If your skin changes, the skin type finder will place you again.

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