Core — Oily Sensitive, a light body moisturiser for oily, sensitive skin

The middle of the three textures. A little more cushioning than the Flow, made for the body, but still kept light and simple for skin that is both oily and easily upset. The same restrained blend, carried at a higher oil load.

Image brief: coast shot, the Core bottle with its Oily Sensitive label.

At a glance

• Skin type: Oily 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

Oily, reactive skin on the body wants the same light, simple touch as the face, with a little more substance to it. Core Oily Sensitive is the same thinking as the Flow, with more cold-pressed oil, but it stays lighter than the other Core moisturisers in the range, because this skin type is better served by restraint than by loading on more.

The blend is the familiar one: light, linoleic-rich grape seed and antioxidant-rich pomegranate, a light dragon fruit seed oil, and a modest note of conditioning argan, with squalane, soothing allantoin, our Atlantic algae, and the prebiotic and postbiotic pairing. The actives hold steady. It is the oils that step up.

As with any new product on reactive skin, it's worth patch testing before regular use.

For the lightest version for the face, that is the Flow. For drier areas, the Deep.

How to use

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

Image brief: a texture shot showing the Core is a touch richer than the Flow but still light.

Key ingredients

The same six, carried here at a higher oil load. Each links to its ingredient page.

Grape Seed Oil — 4.01% A light, fast-absorbing oil high in linoleic acid, the essential fatty acid the skin draws on to keep its barrier in order, and a natural fit for oily and combination skin. It also carries proanthocyanidins, a group of polyphenols the research credits with antioxidant activity.

Pomegranate Seed Oil — 4.01% An antioxidant-rich seed oil notable for punicic acid, an unusual fatty acid found in few other plants, along with tocopherols and polyphenols. The research points to antioxidant and possible soothing activity.

Argan Kernel Oil — 2% A well-tolerated, medium-weight oil with a balanced profile of oleic and linoleic acids, natural vitamin E, and some unusual plant sterols. We keep it to a modest level as the conditioning note in a blend built to stay light. We stick to describing what it is rather than what it is said to do.

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 cleanly without greasiness.

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 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, not the source.

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

A light dragon fruit seed oil completes the blend at 3.34%. See the full list below.

The full formulation

We publish every ingredient and the exact percentage we use.

At a glance: water phase 75.4%, plant oils 15.9%, actives and texture 2.2%, olive-derived emulsifiers 6.5%. Lighter than the other Core moisturisers, by design.

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. For skin that reacts easily, patch testing a new product first is always sensible.

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