The Porcelain Essentials Deep Hydrating Lotion aka the best hydrating toner delivers what one’s skin needs the most — a hefty dose of hydration.
Pauline Ng, the founder and director of Porcelain has had two missions in mind since the inception of the business in 2009. The first is to attain the trust of her customers, like every other business owner. Great skin, all smiles. The second is to help them achieve healthy skin — it should be warm but not red; it should neither be flaky and dry nor moist and wrinkled. The proof is in the touch, how it springs back immediately once pinched.
What about anybody who is time-starved? That is a lot of us. Ng’s answer is the relaunch of Porcelain’s award-winning skincare line, each zen-like bottle containing as few ingredients as possible, which have to be as efficacious as they are tolerable on one’s skin. Each of them too, has to respond quickly to what users desire of it. The ingredients in its Control line immediately works as an anti-inflammatory for angry skin and the botanicals in its Plus+ mask line is saturated in a plumping essence — a 20-minutes treatment done in a flash.
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“I wanted the rebranded skincare line to encapsulate the brand’s complexity and reflect our growth that has taken place over the years. With the new product design and packaging, we took the opportunity to source for more sustainable packaging materials and reformulated some of our products to ensure they are free from controversial ingredients while delivering the same efficacy,” shares Ng.
However, the Porcelain Essentials Deep Hydrating Lotion is not just a “Best Hydrating Toner” winner because it does exactly what it claims to do — combating the free radicals one experiences in the environment (simply stepping out of one’s house is pollutive enough) while bringing the skin’s hydration level to an optimum (the product does not contain alcohol) — it can be considered the product that makes every product one successively uses even better.
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While lotions have been usually marketed towards those of a pimpled disposition (they often contain salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide), the Porcelain Essentials Deep Hydrating Lotion changes the game by soothing instead. Damascena Rose extract hydrates while encouraging collagen strength and production while a combination of sodium hyaluronate, jojoba seed oil and hyaluronic acid enhances suppleness. The addition of Vitamin E also provides antioxidant properties while allantoin provides healing properties — reducing the redness of acne scarring and evening out one’s skin tone.
Another reason it is considered a game-changer in the hierarchy of skincare is its delivery system — a spray system that delivers a fine mist with each press of its nozzle (the cap even twists off with a satisfying “pop”). Good as a skin revitaliser throughout the day, even better when moistened on a cotton pad and swiped on twice a day. Yes, it can even be used around the eye area.
The Porcelain Essentials Deep Hydrating Lotion is available on porcelainskin.com or in any three of its spa locations. It also comes in two versions, a 30ml and a 150ml bottle. This story about the best hydrating toner money can buy first appeared in our June/July 2021 issue.
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