Core — Dry Sensitive, a cushioning body moisturiser for dry, sensitive skin

The middle of the three textures. Richer and more cushioning than the Flow, made for the body and for everyday use on skin that feels tight and reacts easily. It carries the same blend of cold-pressed organic oils, Atlantic algae and a prebiotic and postbiotic pairing as the Flow, at a higher oil load, so it sits a little longer and nourishes a little harder.

Image brief: coast shot, the Core bottle with its Dry Sensitive label. Same signature setting as the rest of the range.

At a glance

• Skin type: Dry Sensitive
• Texture: Core, the middle of the three. Around 16% cold-pressed organic oil.
• Best for: the body, and everyday use
• Format: [size to supply] · [price to supply]
• Full formulation: published in full below

What it is, and who it's for

Dry, sensitive skin loses moisture easily and reacts to things other skin ignores. Core Dry Sensitive is built for that, in a texture meant for the body. It is the same formula thinking as the Flow, with more cold-pressed oil, so it cushions and stays put rather than sinking away quickly.

The oil blend leans on replenishing evening primrose, hydrating baobab, conditioning tamanu, nourishing sea buckthorn and a light dragon fruit seed oil. Alongside them sit squalane, soothing allantoin, our Atlantic algae, and the prebiotic and postbiotic pairing that supports the skin's own microbiome. The actives are the same as in the Flow. It is the oils that step up.

If you want the lightest version for the face, that is the Flow. For the driest areas, hands, elbows and feet, there is the Deep.

How to use

Massage a small amount into clean skin once or twice a day, until fully absorbed. A little is enough. As with anything new on reactive skin, patch test first.

Image brief: a texture shot showing the Core is richer and more cushioning than the Flow. The three-texture comparison, if you shoot it, does this job best.

Key ingredients

The same six worth knowing as in the Flow, carried here at a higher oil load. Each links to its ingredient page.

Evening Primrose Oil — 3.5% One of the few plant oils with a meaningful amount of gamma-linolenic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid that is rare in the plant world. The research credits it with supporting the skin's barrier, particularly on skin that struggles to hold moisture, which is why it leads the blend for dry, sensitive skin. It sits higher here than in the Flow.

Baobab Seed Oil — 3.5% A stable, conditioning oil rich in oleic and linoleic acids and in skin-friendly sterols. The evidence points to a role in supporting hydration and the skin barrier, and it keeps its quality well over time.

Sea Buckthorn Fruit Oil — 1% Notable for palmitoleic acid, an omega-7 that is also a natural part of the skin's own sebum, and for the carotenoids that give the oil its deep colour. Studies point to antioxidant activity and support for the skin's moisture.

Squalane — 1% A lightweight, skin-identical oil, today derived from plants such as olive rather than the shark-derived squalane of the past. It absorbs quickly and is well tolerated, and it keeps even the richer Core texture from feeling heavy.

Atlantic Algae, Bladderwrack — 0.14% Our signature ingredient. Bladderwrack is the same Atlantic species, Fucus vesiculosus, that grows on the rocks below Welcombe, though the extract itself is produced in France from that species. It is rich in fucoidans and phlorotannins, and the research points to antioxidant activity. The Devon coast is the kinship here, not the source.

Prebiotic and Postbiotic — Inulin 0.5%, Barley Seed Ferment 1% Inulin is a prebiotic, a substrate that the research suggests can help support the skin's own beneficial microbes. The barley seed ferment is a postbiotic, the filtered products of fermentation rather than live cultures, studied for support of hydration and a settled skin surface. The skin evidence here is still developing, and we would rather say so than overstate it.

Image brief: the shared Dry Sensitive key-ingredient stills, reused across the family.

The full formulation

We publish every ingredient and the exact percentage we use.

At a glance: water phase 75.3%, plant oils 16.0%, actives and texture 2.2%, olive-derived emulsifiers 6.5%. The higher oil figure is what makes this a Core rather than a Flow.

Cold-pressed organic where marked.

A note on what's in it, and what isn't

We never use synthetic fragrance, and we never use "parfum" as a catch-all on the label. The formula contains one essential oil, vetiver, here at 0.15%. We chose it on purpose: the research points to genuine benefits for the skin, and it carries none of the allergens that EU rules would require us to declare separately. It is on the label, as everything is, so you can see exactly how much is there.

This product is formulated to be suitable for sensitive skin. As with anything new on reactive skin, patch test first.

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