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Beauty Drops No.3

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PURIFY & BALANCE
Beauty Drops No.3
Future 5 Elements
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Benefits
  • Purifying
  • Anti-Acne
  • Clears Pores
  • Mattifying
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Anti-Bacterial
  • Detoxifying
  • Anti-Puffiness
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-Redness
  • Firming
  • Lifting
  • Plumping
  • Exfoliating
  • Brightening

The Future 5 Elements Beauty Drops No.3 is a lightweight water-based serum for oily and acne-prone skin. A concentrated botanical complex targets acne-causing bacteria, regulates excess sebum and decongests pores — delivering clarity and balance without compromising hydration.

Thyme, Juniper and Burdock form the antibacterial and purifying core — regulating oil, fighting acne-causing bacteria, targeting blackheads and whiteheads, and detoxifying the pore lining. Centella Asiatica and Arnica soothe post-acne inflammation and support the skin's natural healing process.

Silk Protein and Propylene Glycol deliver balanced, lightweight hydration to prevent the dehydration that can trigger further breakouts — leaving the complexion clearer, more mattified and visibly refined.

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The Future 5 Elements Beauty Drops No.3 is a lightweight water-based serum for oily and acne-prone skin. A concentrated botanical complex targets acne-causing bacteria, regulates excess sebum and decongests pores — delivering clarity and balance without compromising hydration.

Thyme, Juniper and Burdock form the antibacterial and purifying core — regulating oil, fighting acne-causing bacteria, targeting blackheads and whiteheads, and detoxifying the pore lining. Centella Asiatica and Arnica soothe post-acne inflammation and support the skin's natural healing process.

Silk Protein and Propylene Glycol deliver balanced, lightweight hydration to prevent the dehydration that can trigger further breakouts — leaving the complexion clearer, more mattified and visibly refined.

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  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
Who it is for
Green tick
For you if

Oily Skin

Reactive & Blotchy Skin

Blackheads & Whiteheads

Acne-Prone Skin

Uneven Complexion

Red Cross
Not For you if
How to Apply
Lightly massage 5-6 drops of the Future 5 Beauty Drops No.3 into clean skin over the entire face, neck and décolleté until the product has been completely absorbed. The drops can be combined with other products to create a customized treatment, delivering results specific to your skin’s needs.
Ingredients

Aqua/Water, Propylene Glycol (And) Arctium Majus Root Ext. (And) Juniperus Communis Fruit Ext. (And) Gentian Lutea Root Ext. (And) Thymus Vulgaris (Thyme) Ext. (And) Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Ext., Centella Asiatica Ext., Hydrolyzed Silk, Arnica Montana Ext., Phenoxyethanol, Edta.

Please note: The ingredients listed in this product are subject to change as the formulation is updated. We aim to update the INCI list as soon as possible, but we encourage you to read the ingredient list on the product itself to ensure it's suitable for your personal use.

Smell & Texture

Smell: Very subtle with a light herbal note.

Texture: Lightweight, water-based serum with a fast-absorbing finish.

About the Brand
Brand logo
Future 5 Elements is a family-owned skincare house, originally founded by Anita Bar Lev, with roots dating back to 1993. Over the decades, they became a pioneer in merging natural botanicals with advanced skin science, developing cold-processed, small-batch formulations that preserve ingredient potency. They were among the first to integrate innovative delivery systems such as liposomal encapsulation into clean skincare, ensuring that actives penetrate deeper for optimal results. Today, the brand stands at the intersection of tradition and technology, offering a luxury experience that is both effective and uncompromisingly pure.

Future 5 Elements is a quiet luxury skincare brand created to bring balance and beauty to your skin. Their philosophy embraces the power of nature and the wisdom of tradition. Each product is designed around the brand’s five essential skin functions—purification, stimulation, hydration, nourishment & protection; creating balance while addressing multiple concerns at once. By marrying traditional plant wisdom with cutting-edge biochemistry. Clean, cruelty-free, and transparent; they choose only what truly benefits the skin. With Future 5 Elements, skincare becomes more than a routine; it’s a ritual of harmony and health which is reflected in the complexion.

The Benefits

  • - + Purifying
  • - + Pore Decongesting
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Anti-Bacterial
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Anti-Puffiness
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Chemical Exfoliation
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
Purifying

Purifying skincare is designed to deeply cleanse and decongest the skin by targeting excess oil at its source—within the pores. Rather than simply removing surface shine, these formulations work to dissolve and dislodge sebum, debris, and impurities trapped inside the pore lining, helping to prevent congestion, blackheads, and breakouts. Actives such as exfoliating acids and oil-regulating ingredients penetrate into the pore to effectively “strip out” excess oil, restoring clarity and refining skin texture. By clearing buildup from within, purifying treatments leave the skin feeling exceptionally clean, balanced and visibly smoother.

Pore Decongesting

Pore decongesting focuses on both clearing and minimising the appearance of enlarged pores. Enlarged pores often result from excess oil production and the build-up of impurities within the pore, which can stretch them over time, while ageing further contributes as reduced elasticity makes them more visible. Effective formulations work first to clear the pores—dissolving and removing trapped sebum, debris, and congestion—before regulating oil production and supporting collagen and elastin to improve skin firmness. By addressing both internal build-up and structural integrity, pores can return to a clearer, more refined, and less noticeable state.

Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)

Sebum regulation involves normalising oil production in your sebaceous glands to reduce shine, oiliness and breakouts, restoring your skin's natural balance. Overactive sebaceous glands can be triggered by internal factors like genetics, hormonal changes and stress, as well as external factors such as using stripping or overly active skincare, climate, pollution and diet. Excessive sebum production can lead to enlarged pores, acne and an oily, shiny appearance. Effective sebum regulation means using skincare products that balance oil levels without over-drying your skin, helping you achieve a clearer, more matte complexion.

Anti-Inflammatory

Anti-Inflammatory skincare soothes, heal, and balance your skin, the targeted actives are designed to reduce inflammation. Inflammation is your body's natural response to injury or irritation, but continuous inflammation can lead to troublesome skin conditions like acne, rosacea, or eczema. Our anti-inflammatory skincare solutions work to soothe and calm your skin, reducing redness, swelling, and discomfort to provide much-needed relief. By strengthening your skin's barrier, these products help protect against further irritation and damage. Additionally, the anti-inflammatory actives support your skin's natural healing processes, leading to a more balanced and resilient complexion.

Anti-Bacterial

Anti-bacterial action targets and inhibits the growth of bacteria on your skin's surface. Anti-bacterial ingredients work by disrupting essential bacterial processes like cell wall synthesis or protein production, reducing the risk of skin infections and inflammation. They are especially effective for treating acne by controlling the acne-causing bacteria known as Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes). This anti-bacterial action helps diminish imperfections, prevent new breakouts, and reduce irritation, giving you clearer, healthier skin.

Detoxifying

Detoxifying skincare focuses on clearing the skin of accumulated pollutants, toxins, and metabolic waste that can dull the complexion and disrupt healthy function. Daily exposure to environmental aggressors such as pollution and oxidative stress can overwhelm the skin, leading to congestion, imbalance, and premature ageing. Advanced detoxifying formulations work to neutralise these impurities, support the skin’s natural elimination processes, and reduce the buildup of harmful particles within pores and on the surface. By restoring clarity and balance, this approach leaves the skin feeling purified, refreshed and visibly brighter.

Anti-Puffiness

Ingredients that reduce facial puffiness work by effectively targeting and diminishing swelling in the face. By improving lymphatic drainage and boosting circulation, they help eliminate excess fluids and toxins, leading to a more sculpted and refreshed appearance. The result is visibly smoother, firmer, and more defined facial contours, giving you a revitalised and youthful look.

Antioxidant

Antioxidant skincare is dedicated to protecting the skin against oxidative stress—one of the primary drivers of premature ageing and cellular damage—while preserving overall skin integrity and vitality. These formulations rely on potent molecules such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and polyphenols, which neutralize free radicals generated by UV exposure and environmental aggressors before they can compromise cellular structures like lipids, proteins, and DNA. Beyond defence, many antioxidants also support repair processes and enhance collagen stability, contributing to improved firmness, brightness and resilience. The result is skin that is not only shielded from ongoing damage but maintained in a healthier, more luminous state over time.

Anti-Redness

Anti-Redness skincare is all about reducing and preventing facial or body redness, which can result from irritation, skin conditions, compromised barriers, and hormonal changes. A targeted approach with multiple strategies works best for tackling redness. Anti-Redness formulations include active ingredients that soothe and strengthen your skin barrier. Their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties calm inflammation and protect against environmental irritants. Additionally, these ingredients have vasoconstrictive properties, meaning they reduce blood vessel dilation to lessen redness. Together, these actions help achieve a more even-toned, balanced complexion that's less prone to redness flare-ups.

Firming & Lifting

Firming & Lifting skincare is designed to restore strength, structure, and definition to the skin, creating a visibly tighter, more sculpted appearance. As the skin loses collagen and elasticity over time, it can begin to soften and sag, losing its natural contours. Advanced formulations work to rebuild this support from within—boosting firmness while helping to visibly lift and redefine the skin. The result is a smoother, more toned complexion with enhanced bounce and resilience, where facial contours appear sharper and elevated.

Prevents Collagen Breakdown

By preventing collagen breakdown (Collagenase), you preserve your skin's firmness and elasticity. Inhibiting the enzymes that degrade collagen helps maintain the skin's structural integrity, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This promotes a firmer, more lifted complexion. The result is resilient, plump skin that defies the signs of ageing, keeping you looking youthful and radiant.

Plumping

Plumping involves using active ingredients to boost the production of key structural components like collagen, the dermal-epidermal junction and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), giving your skin more volume and density. Collagen provides structural support and firmness, while the dermal-epidermal junction, a thin connective layer, ensures smooth, wrinkle-free skin by facilitating cell communication. GAGs, like hyaluronic acid, keep your skin hydrated and plump from within. By stimulating these components, active ingredients help restore your skin's plumpness and radiance.

Chemical Exfoliation

Chemical exfoliation uses acids to dissolve the "glue" holding dead skin cells together, promoting skin cell turnover and replacing old cells with new, healthy ones. Acids like AHAs, BHAs, and PHAs not only help shed skin but also offer benefits like brightening, clarifying, and anti-ageing, depending on the type used.

Brightening (Energising)

Brightening skincare involves using active ingredients to boost your blood circulation, detoxification and cellular energy. Improved blood circulation brings more essential nutrients and oxygen to your skin, while detoxification helps eliminate cell waste and impurities that can make your skin look dull. Certain active ingredients also enhance your skin's metabolism and regeneration. These combined actions restore your skin's vitality and radiant appearance, giving you a fresh, energised complexion.

  • - + Purifying
  • - + Pore Decongesting
  • - + Sebum Regulating (Mattifying)
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Anti-Bacterial
  • - + Detoxifying
  • - + Anti-Puffiness
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Prevents Collagen Breakdown
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Chemical Exfoliation
  • - + Brightening (Energising)

Active Ingredients

  • - + Thyme
  • - + Juniper
  • - + Burdock Extract
  • - + Centella Asiatica
  • - + Arnica Extract
  • - + Silk Protein
  • - + Lemon Peel
  • - + Gentian
Thyme

Thyme helps keep oily, congested, and acne-prone skin clear and balanced. It works to regulate excess oil, fight acne-causing bacteria, and target whiteheads and blackheads, while its anti-inflammatory action calms irritation. These results come from its natural phenolic properties which are plant-based antioxidant compounds with strong antibacterial and purifying power.

Juniper

Juniper is a powerful antibacterial botanical especially suited to oily and breakout-prone skin. It is rich in natural compounds terpenes and flavonoids which work to regulate sebum, reducing excess oil, refining pores and limiting the growth of acne-causing bacteria.

Burdock Extract

Burdock Extract, derived from the root of the Arctium Lappa plant, has strong antioxidant, antibacterial, detoxifying, and anti-inflammatory properties. These qualities make it an excellent ingredient for treating acne, eczema, dark circles, and excess sebum production. When applied around the eyes, it boosts circulation, helping to reduce dark circles and puffiness while strengthening and protecting the delicate skin in this area.

Centella Asiatica

Centella Asiatica is a powerful antioxidant which has immense anti-inflammatory, soothing and wound-healing benefits. Rich in chlorophyll, it is also extremely proficient at reducing redness. Also known as "Tiger Grass" as tigers were known to roll in it after having been wounded.

Arnica Extract

Arnica Extract is rich in flavonoids and Phenolic Acid. It has powerful anti-inflammatory benefits, expert at protecting sensitive skin and soothing tightness. Arnica also contains strong antioxidant and protective benefits.

Silk Protein

Silk, composed of Glycoprotein Polymers, forms a film on the skin's surface, delivering an immediate smoothing effect. It also provides hydrating, firming, and softening benefits for the skin.

Lemon Peel

Lemon Peel is nature’s brightener to dull and uneven complexions. Bursting with vitamin C and flavonoids, it protects against free radicals (unstable molecules that break down collagen and speed up ageing). Its gentle exfoliating action sweeps away dead skin cells, revealing a brighter, clearer and more even complexion.

Gentian

Gentian helps revive dull skin by restoring brightness. It works by stimulating microcirculation (blood flow at the skin’s surface) whilst it supports the skin’s natural detoxification processes by eliminating the buildup of toxins and impurities to reveal a brighter and more even complexion.

  • - + Thyme
  • - + Juniper
  • - + Burdock Extract
  • - + Centella Asiatica
  • - + Arnica Extract
  • - + Silk Protein
  • - + Lemon Peel
  • - + Gentian
Juniper

Juniper is a powerful antibacterial botanical, especially suited to oily and acne-prone skin. Rich in flavonoids and phenolic acids, it targets acne-causing bacteria in three keyways. First, through antibacterial action by stopping the bacteria from multiplying. Second, by regulating sebum activity (the skin’s natural oil production), it removes the nutrient source bacteria feed on and reduces excess oil that leads to congestion. Third, its anti-inflammatory properties calm the skin, easing redness, swelling, and irritation caused by acne.

Spotlight

Juniper

Juniper is a powerful antibacterial botanical, especially suited to oily and acne-prone skin. Rich in flavonoids and phenolic acids, it targets acne-causing bacteria in three keyways. First, through antibacterial action by stopping the bacteria from multiplying. Second, by regulating sebum activity (the skin’s natural oil production), it removes the nutrient source bacteria feed on and reduces excess oil that leads to congestion. Third, its anti-inflammatory properties calm the skin, easing redness, swelling, and irritation caused by acne.

Why I love it

  • What I adore most is how these products blend purity with performance. They are so gentle on the skin yet incredibly potent. Their encapsulated actives make every drop a powerhouse of effectiveness, delivering deep, bioavailable results that transform the skin from within.

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Future 5 Beauty Drops No.3
    Future 5 Elements

    Beauty Drops No.3

    $163

    The Future 5 Elements Beauty Drops No.3 is a lightweight water-based serum for oily and acne-prone skin. A concentrated botanical complex targets acne-causing bacteria, regulates excess sebum and decongests pores — delivering clarity and balance without compromising hydration.

    Thyme, Juniper and Burdock form the antibacterial and purifying core — regulating oil, fighting acne-causing bacteria, targeting blackheads and whiteheads, and detoxifying the pore lining. Centella Asiatica and Arnica soothe post-acne inflammation and support the skin's natural healing process.

    Silk Protein and Propylene Glycol deliver balanced, lightweight hydration to prevent the dehydration that can trigger further breakouts — leaving the complexion clearer, more mattified and visibly refined.

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