Aurabiōm Insights

A water-based peptide serum mostly brings water-binding ingredients. Your moisturizer's job is to add what the serum leaves out, in the amount your skin, season and morning routine call for.

Skin is built to keep large, water-loving molecules out, and most skincare peptides are both. Here is what stands in their way, from the bottle to the living skin, and what palmitoyl peptides, liposomes and cyclodextrins are each trying to solve.

Give your serum a daily place between cleansing and moisturizer, then build an easy morning and evening routine around it.

A practical guide to applying the serum, getting your layers to sit comfortably and deciding what to adjust.

A practical guide to placing peptide serum alongside retinol, vitamin C, niacinamide and exfoliating acids, with clear reasons to combine or separate your steps.