More Than a Feeling: Cooling and Care for Heat-Stressed Skin
A Fresh Perspective on Cooling in Skincare
When temperatures rise, we naturally look for ways to cool down and feel more comfortable. This also shapes what people look for in beauty and personal care, where freshness and relief become especially relevant. In response, a growing range of products is emerging around this need, from cooling sunscreens and masks to refreshing body care and skincare designed to be chilled or frozen before use.
What Heat Does to Skin
Heat affects more than the way skin feels. Warmer conditions can increase facial sebum and perceptions of oiliness and stickiness, while also influencing inflammatory signalling. Increased blood flow can contribute to visible redness, and sweating and evaporation can shift the skin’s water balance. Together, these responses create distinct skincare needs in hot conditions, from hydration and soothing to balance, comfort and resilience under environmental stress.
When Sensation Becomes Part of the Product Experience
Skincare is increasingly about more than efficacy alone. How a product feels during application has become an important part of the experience, especially when that sensation answers an immediate need. In hot weather, cooling and refreshment offer exactly that kind of direct and intuitive benefit.
This is reflected in a growing range of products built around cooling and refreshment, across sun care, facial skincare, masks, body care and after-sun concepts. Increasingly, products combine familiar skincare benefits such as hydration, soothing and comfort with a cooling or refreshing sensory experience.
From Heat Comfort to Skin Support
Products designed to improve comfort in the heat can address both the sensory experience and the skin’s response to higher temperatures. Depending on the formulation, that can mean supporting hydration, soothing visible redness, balancing excess sebum or helping skin stay resilient under environmental stress.
Discover four formulations that bring sensorial comfort and targeted skin support together, from daily sun protection and deodorant care to refreshing eye care and after-sun.
Daily Protection Sun Care OW
Created for daily facial sun care, this formulation combines protection with targeted support for skin exposed to the sun and its environment.
G+C Complex CLR™ supports the skin in dealing with UV-induced stress and its consequences. CefiraProtect CLR™ helps strengthen skin resilience under repeated environmental stress, while MultiMoist CLR™ supports immediate and long-lasting hydration.
Soothing Deo Cream OW
Heat, sweat and friction can make the underarm area feel particularly uncomfortable. This deodorant cream combines everyday odour care with targeted support for the skin.
CutiBiome CLR™ helps regulate sebum and support a balanced skin ecosystem, ProRenew Complex CLR™ supports skin renewal and barrier recovery, while SyriCalm™ CLR (PC) helps soothe visible irritation and improve skin comfort. MultiMoist CLR™ adds immediate and long-lasting hydration.
Cooling Eye Gel
This Cooling Eye Gel brings an immediate cooling and refreshing sensation to the delicate eye area, while providing targeted care.
MultiMoist CLR™ helps keep the skin well hydrated, while JuvenEye CLR™ helps diminish the appearance of dark circles and leaves tired-looking eyes looking refreshed.
Cooling After Sun Mist
This Cooling After Sun Mist brings a cooling, refreshing sensation to skin after sun exposure, while providing targeted care when skin needs extra comfort.
MultiMoist CLR™ supports the skin’s moisture balance, while AnnonaSense CLR™ helps reduce skin sensitivity and promotes a calmer, more comfortable skin feel.