What is Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night?

Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night is a rich face and neck cream that is said to reveal a more lifted, youthful look while you sleep. Other purported benefits of this night cream include firmer and more elastic skin with fewer lines and wrinkles. This cream is meant to be applied at night after your serum, or it can be used as a weekly mask. Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night is suitable for all skin types, including sensitive and acne-prone skin.

What are the key ingredients in Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night?

The key ingredients in Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night include petrolatum, acetyl hexapeptide-8, and trifluoroacetyl tripeptide-2. We’ll discuss each of these ingredients in detail below so you’ll know exactly how they affect your skin.

Petrolatum, also known as petroleum jelly or Vaseline, is an occlusive agent that reduces the rate of water loss through skin. Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night contains a pretty high concentration of petrolatum (it is the third highest concentration ingredient), which is why this cream feels very thick and rich. Since petrolatum has a melting point that is close to body temperature, it softens upon application and forms a water-repellant film on the applied area. This film prevents evaporation of the skin’s natural moisture and increases skin hydration by causing buildup of water in the stratum corneum (the outermost layer of skin). Furthermore, petrolatum has been shown to penetrate deeply into damaged skin and enhance recovery of the skin’s barrier function. Maintaining a strong, intact barrier is important to keep harmful things like allergens, bacteria, and irritants from entering the body through the skin.

Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night features a very popular anti-aging peptide called acetyl hexapeptide-8, also known as Argireline. This six amino acid peptide is a fragment of SNAP-25 (a substrate of botulinum toxin). It works by limiting the ability of neurotransmitters to activate movement in your facial muscles, for example, when forming facial expressions such as smiling or frowning. By inhibiting the nerves that cause facial muscles to contract, subtle facial expressions are limited and wrinkles are subsequently reduced.

Another peptide in the Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night formula is trifluoroacetyl tripeptide-2, also known as Progeline. This peptide works by decreasing levels of a protein called progerine by up to 22 percent. Progerine is often called the “skin-aging protein” because it interrupts your body’s natural repair process, which leads to signs of aging. Trifluoroacetyl tripeptide-2 also promotes healthy levels of collagen and elastin, resulting in firmer, fuller, and denser skin. These combined effects can improve your look from the inside out with an enhanced remodeling effect, which is especially noticeable around the jawline and neck

In addition to these three key ingredients, Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night contains a mix of unique botanical extracts, such as Narcissus tazetta bulb extract, cucumber fruit extract , and Mimosa tenuiflora bark extract.

Narcissus tazetta, also known as bunch-flowered daffodil, is a perennial ornamental plant that grows from a bulb. In skin care products, Narcissus tazetta bulb extract provides antioxidant and skin-soothing effects. Research has also found that this extract can especially benefit oily, acne-prone skin. In a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial, Narcissus tazetta bulb extract was evaluated for its safety and efficacy in the reduction of skin oiliness. Subjects from the study reported a reduction in oiliness and shine, as well as an improvement in overall skin appearance.

Cucumber fruit extract is used in the Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night formula because it has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and water-binding properties. Cucumbers contain a rich supply of polysaccharides, which are excellent water-binding agents. After topical application, the polysaccharides in cucumber fruit extract create a gel-like layer on skin that acts as a barrier to attract and keep moisture in.

Mimosa tenuiflora, also known as Jurema Preta or Tepezcohuite, is a perennial tree or shrub that provides valuable skin care properties due to the bark’s rich supply of beneficial nutrients, including lipids, tannins, xylose, and flavonoids. Lipids replenish the skin’s barrier function and thereby help the skin better retain moisture. Tannins are astringent molecules with the ability to temporarily tone and tighten the skin, as well as degrease oily skin. Xylose is another component of Mimosa tenuiflora bark extract that can hydrate the skin by attracting water. Lastly, the flavonoids in Mimosa tenuiflora bark extract function as antioxidants, protecting the skin from the free radicals that can cause premature skin aging.

Where is Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night sold?

Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night is sold on the brand’s website, as well as third party ecommerce websites such as Amazon, Ebay, Sephora, Ulta, and more. Estée Lauder Resilience Multi-Effect Night is also sold at physical retail locations, such as the Estée Lauder counter at department stores like Macy’s and Nordstrom.

What is the Estée Lauder return policy?

The Estée Lauder return policy allows customers to return or exchange a product for free within one year of purchase date if purchased online.

Is Estée Lauder cruelty free?

Estée Lauder is not cruelty free. While Estée Lauder does not conduct animal testing on their products or ingredients, they do test on animals when required to do so by law (such as in China). Despite this, Estée Lauder is committed to abolishing animal testing. In fact, Estée Lauder was one of the first beauty companies to prove that safety can be validated by means other than animal testing. For example, Estée Lauder has a strong partnership with the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS), a non-profit research and testing consortium dedicated to the advancement of in vitro (non-animal) methods worldwide.