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Hydrating Toner

Hydrating Toner
Vie de Mer
Benefits
  • Hydrating
  • Barrier-Strengthening
  • Anti-Wrinkle
  • Plumping
  • Brightening
  • Anti-Inflammatory
  • Antioxidant
  • Firming
  • Lifting
  • Cellular Anti-Ageing
  • Regenerating
  • Anti-Pigmentation
  • Scar-Repairing
  • Anti-Redness
  • Post-Sun Repair

Vie de Mer Hydrating Toner is an alcohol-free gel toner that hydrates, plumps and brightens, designed to prep and treat the skin simultaneously.

Hydrolyzed Collagen stimulates collagen synthesis and provides humectant plumping, while Ginseng Root Extract — rich in ginsenosides — enhances microcirculation, reduces dullness and improves collagen and elastin production.

Niacinamide strengthens the skin barrier by stimulating ceramide production, regulates sebum and delivers antioxidant brightening. Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5) provides exceptional humectant hydration and converts to Coenzyme A to support skin regeneration.

Glycoproteins act as bio-messengers, stimulating fibroblast activity and collagen and elastin synthesis to improve firmness and texture with regular use. Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract delivers antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection, supports microcirculation and enhances vitality. Aloe Leaf Juice soothes and hydrates throughout.

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Vie de Mer Hydrating Toner is an alcohol-free gel toner that hydrates, plumps and brightens, designed to prep and treat the skin simultaneously.

Hydrolyzed Collagen stimulates collagen synthesis and provides humectant plumping, while Ginseng Root Extract — rich in ginsenosides — enhances microcirculation, reduces dullness and improves collagen and elastin production.

Niacinamide strengthens the skin barrier by stimulating ceramide production, regulates sebum and delivers antioxidant brightening. Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5) provides exceptional humectant hydration and converts to Coenzyme A to support skin regeneration.

Glycoproteins act as bio-messengers, stimulating fibroblast activity and collagen and elastin synthesis to improve firmness and texture with regular use. Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract delivers antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection, supports microcirculation and enhances vitality. Aloe Leaf Juice soothes and hydrates throughout.

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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
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For you if

Dull Skin

Dehydrated Skin

Uneven Complexion

Wrinkles

Loss of Volume

Oily Tendency Skin

Acne-Prone Skin

Red Cross
Not For you if

Rosacea

Active Acne

Dry Skin

Essential Oil Intolerance


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How to Apply
Saturate a cotton pad with the Vie de Mer Hydrating Toner and gently pat over the face, neck, and décolleté.
Ingredients

Scroll down the page for a full breakdown of the active ingredients.

Water (Aqua), Butylene glycol, Niacinamide, Hydrolyzed collagen, Aloe barbadensis leaf juice powder, Ginseng root extract, Panthenol, DNA, Rosa damascena flower water, Anthemis nobilis (Chamomile) extract, Ginkgo biloba leaf extract, Carbomer, Chlorphenesin, Hydroxypropyl guar, Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender) oil, Citrus medica limonum (Lemon) peel oil, Sodium, Glycerin, Tea tree.

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: Clean with a hint of botanical freshness.

Texture: A refreshing, light gel-like texture that melts seamlessly into the skin.

About the Brand
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Vie de Mer was founded in Paris from the belief that skincare should unite purity with proven performance. Frustrated by mass formulas that sacrificed potency, the founders built a small-batch laboratory dedicated to cold-press technology. By preserving the full strength of marine and botanical actives, they created artisanal French skincare that adapts to the skin’s evolving needs.

This is skincare you can feel working from the first use. Potent cold-pressed actives visibly plump, smooth wrinkles, and brighten, while every ingredient serves a clear purpose. Crafted in small batches, the formulas balance elegance with efficacy, delivering French precision and results that bring lasting transformation to daily routines.

At the core of every formula is cold-press technology, a method that avoids heat to preserve the molecular integrity of antioxidants, peptides, and enzymes. Where traditional processing breaks actives down, this approach keeps them stable and potent. Marine and botanical extracts remain at full strength, delivering higher absorption, stronger repair, and better tolerance backed by clinical results.

The Benefits

  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Cell Communication
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Scar-Repairing
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Post-Sun Repair
Hydrating

Hydration is a fundamental part of healthy skincare, focusing on maintaining and restoring the skin’s water content. Well-hydrated skin appears plump, smooth and radiant, while dehydration can lead to dullness, tightness, fine lines and increased sensitivity.
Hydrating the skin can work through a fascinating mix of ingredients with different roles. Humectants like hyaluronic acid and glycerin act like water magnets, pulling water into the skin to instantly plump and smooth, while Natural Moisturizing Factors (NMFs)—such as urea, amino acids and sodium PCA—mimic the skin’s own hydration system, helping it hold onto water and stay balanced from within.
Adding humectants like hyaluronic acid to your routine will restore your skin's healthy glow, minimize fine lines, and provide a plumping effect.

Skin Barrier Strengthening

Strengthening your skin barrier involves replenishing the key elements in the top layer of your skin (stratum corneum), leading to a stronger and healthier barrier. These essential elements include lipids (ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol) and Natural Moisturizing Factors (amino acids, hyaluronic acid, etc.). Various factors, such as incorrect skincare use, seasonal changes, and aesthetic treatments, can damage your skin barrier. When this happens, your skin loses excess water through Trans Epidermal Water Loss (T.E.W.L) and becomes less capable of defending against environmental stressors, resulting in dryness, sensitivity, and irritation.

A healthy skin barrier is crucial for overall skin health as it helps prevent hydration loss, protects against environmental damage, and reduces the risk of skin conditions like eczema and acne. By strengthening your skin barrier, you ensure your skin remains well-hydrated, resilient, and protected.

Anti-Wrinkle

Anti-wrinkle skincare is focused on both preventing and visibly reducing the formation of lines by targeting the structural and dynamic causes of wrinkles within the skin. Fine lines and deeper wrinkles develop as collagen and elastin decline, cell turnover slows and repeated facial movements create creases that become etched over time. Advanced formulations address these mechanisms through a combination of elastin-stimulating actives, smoothing peptides that help relax the appearance of expression lines, and deeply hydrating ingredients that plump the skin from within. By reinforcing the skin’s architecture while softening surface contractions and improving elasticity, anti-wrinkle skincare delivers a visibly smoother complexion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cell Communication

Cell-communicating ingredients support the skin by enhancing the dialogue between its cells, helping them function in a more intelligent and responsive way. Advanced actives such as growth factors, peptides and plant stem cells act as molecular messengers, signalling to skin cells and encouraging them to repair, regenerate and protect themselves against environmental stress and the visible effects of ageing.

When delivered topically in well-formulated skincare, these ingredients help stimulate essential processes such as collagen production, cellular renewal and barrier repair. The result is skin that appears stronger, smoother and more resilient over time. For these ingredients to perform optimally, they must also be bioavailable meaning the skin can readily recognise, absorb and utilise them. The closer an ingredient’s structure is to that of human skin cells, the more effectively it can interact with the skin’s natural biology, allowing it to deliver meaningful and visible results.

Regenerating

Regenerating skincare actively stimulates the formation of new, healthier skin, working in alignment with the skin’s innate renewal processes. Central to this are growth factors—effectively encouraging the development of new skin tissue. Peptides complement this by acting as targeted messengers guiding the skin to rebuild with greater strength and structural integrity. Stem cell–derived actives further support this environment by delivering protective and regenerative signals that optimize cellular function and renewal. While these mechanisms are synonymous with advanced anti-ageing—improving firmness, elasticity and overall skin quality—they are equally valuable in addressing scarring, as they promote tissue repair, accelerate regeneration and help restore a smoother, more even skin surface.

Anti-Pigmentation

Dealing with pigmentation means targeting melanin overproduction to reduce dark spots and prevent new ones. Melanin production can be triggered by UV exposure, pollution, hormonal changes (like during pregnancy), and inflammation (from acne or cuts). This excess pigment is then transferred to surrounding cells in epidermis called keratinocytes, which then moves to the skin's surface, causing visible dark spots.

To treat hyperpigmentation, a personalised and consistent approach is needed. Our anti-pigmentation products include lightening agents to block tyrosinase (the enzyme that creates melanin), antioxidants to fight free radicals, and ingredients to speed up skin cell turnover, removing pigmented cells. Using broad-spectrum sun protection is crucial to prevent new pigmentation during treatment.

Scar-Repairing

Anti-Scarring skincare targets the textured scars left by acne breakouts. These scars form due to inflammation disrupting collagen and elastin fibres leading to uneven healing and indented areas. Anti-Scarring actives harness growth factors and exfoliating actives to stimulate cell repair and regeneration, optimising the skin's healing process to reduce scar formation. They also effectively diminish older scars, improving overall skin texture and leaving you with a smoother complexion and significantly reduced scar visibility.

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.

Post-Sun Repair

Post-sun skin repair is all about soothing inflammation and restoring your skin’s natural barrier after UV exposure. Ingredients with calming, antioxidant-rich and barrier-repairing properties help reduce redness, sensitivity and dehydration. These ingredients not only calm sun-stressed skin but also accelerate healing, improve hydration retention and prevent long-term damage. Incorporating post-sun repair products into your routine supports recovery, enhances resilience, and maintains your glow.

  • - + Hydrating
  • - + Skin Barrier Strengthening
  • - + Anti-Wrinkle
  • - + Plumping
  • - + Brightening (Energising)
  • - + Anti-Inflammatory
  • - + Antioxidant
  • - + Firming & Lifting
  • - + Cell Communication
  • - + Regenerating
  • - + Anti-Pigmentation
  • - + Scar-Repairing
  • - + Anti-Redness
  • - + Post-Sun Repair

Active Ingredients

  • - + Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)
  • - + Ginseng Root Extract
  • - + Hydrolyzed Collagen
  • - + Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide)
  • - + Glycoproteins
  • - + Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract
  • - + Aloe Leaf Juice
Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)

Panthenol, also known as Pro-vitamin B5, is a potent humectant renowned for its exceptional hydrating, repairing, and soothing qualities. When applied to the skin, Panthenol converts to Coenzyme A, an enzyme crucial for skin regeneration. Its versatile benefits and compatibility with all skin types make Panthenol a preferred choice for replenishing and fortifying dehydrated and compromised skin.

Ginseng Root Extract

A powerful adaptogenic botanical traditionally used in East Asian medicine, Ginseng (Panax Ginseng Root Extract) is rich in ginsenosides, compounds shown to enhance skin microcirculation, protect against oxidative stress, and improve collagen and elastin production. It helps plump the skin and reduce fatigue-induced dullness by supporting cellular energy production and barrier integrity. Ginseng also exhibits strong anti-inflammatory activity, making it ideal for calming or environmentally stressed skin while improving tone, texture, and hydration.

Hydrolyzed Collagen

Hydrolyzed Collagen refers to collagen that has been broken down by enzymatic hydrolysis into amino acids and smaller peptides for deeper and better absorption. Amino Acids and Peptides assist in skin repair processes and encourage collagen synthesis resulting in firmer and more resilient skin. Hydrolyzed Collagen also act as a potent humectant, attracting and retaining water in the skin for hydrated, plump complexion.

Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide)

Vitamin B3 also known as Niacinamide, is versatile and highly effective ingredient with many benefits. It helps to strengthen skin barrier function and increase water retention by increasing natural ceramide production. It's anti-inflammatory and sebum regulating properties soothe, repair and balance irritated, weakened and acne prone skins. Niacinamide is also a potent antioxidant with protective and brightening properties helping to restore skin's natural glow.

Glycoproteins

Naturally occurring proteins that play a key role in skin regeneration and structural repair. Glycoproteins function as bio-messengers, stimulating fibroblast activity and promoting the synthesis of collagen and elastin. They also enhance cell-to-cell communication and support the skin’s natural biological processes for renewal. With regular use, they improve firmness, skin texture, and resilience, making them highly effective for barrier-strengthening support and wrinkle-prevention

Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract

Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract is rich in flavonoids and terpenoids, potent antioxidants known to neutralise free radicals and reduce oxidative stress. Its anti-inflammatory properties help minimise redness and calm irritation, making it especially beneficial for sensitive or sun-exposed skin. Additionally, it supports microcirculation, enhancing skin vitality and resilience over time.

Aloe Leaf Juice

Aloe Leaf Juice has a long history of use for its calming, anti-inflammatory, and hydrating effects on the skin. Its versatility makes it suitable for all skin types, especially beneficial for dehydrated, weakened, and sensitive skin.

  • - + Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5)
  • - + Ginseng Root Extract
  • - + Hydrolyzed Collagen
  • - + Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide)
  • - + Glycoproteins
  • - + Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract
  • - + Aloe Leaf Juice
Ginseng Root Extract

A highly bioactive botanical rich in ginsenosides, saponin compounds known to modulate multiple biological pathways involved in skin ageing, inflammation, and barrier dysfunction. Ginseng has been shown to stimulate fibroblast proliferation and enhance Type I collagen synthesis, improving skin elasticity and reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Its antioxidant properties help mitigate oxidative stress by scavenging free radicals, while its anti-inflammatory action reduces pro-inflammatory cytokine expression, supporting calmer, more resilient skin. Ginseng also promotes microcirculation and nutrient delivery, contributing to improved cellular metabolism and hydration levels. As an adaptogen, it enhances the skin’s ability to recover from external stressors, making it particularly effective for dull, fatigued, or environmentally stressed complexions.

Spotlight

Ginseng Root Extract

A highly bioactive botanical rich in ginsenosides, saponin compounds known to modulate multiple biological pathways involved in skin ageing, inflammation, and barrier dysfunction. Ginseng has been shown to stimulate fibroblast proliferation and enhance Type I collagen synthesis, improving skin elasticity and reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Its antioxidant properties help mitigate oxidative stress by scavenging free radicals, while its anti-inflammatory action reduces pro-inflammatory cytokine expression, supporting calmer, more resilient skin. Ginseng also promotes microcirculation and nutrient delivery, contributing to improved cellular metabolism and hydration levels. As an adaptogen, it enhances the skin’s ability to recover from external stressors, making it particularly effective for dull, fatigued, or environmentally stressed complexions.

Why I love it

  • I love how Vie de Mer packs each formula with potent, cold-pressed actives to plump, smooth wrinkles, and brighten. Every ingredient has a purpose, and you can feel the results.

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Vie de Mer Hydrating Toner 200ml
    Vie de Mer

    Hydrating Toner

    $78

    Vie de Mer Hydrating Toner is an alcohol-free gel toner that hydrates, plumps and brightens, designed to prep and treat the skin simultaneously.

    Hydrolyzed Collagen stimulates collagen synthesis and provides humectant plumping, while Ginseng Root Extract — rich in ginsenosides — enhances microcirculation, reduces dullness and improves collagen and elastin production.

    Niacinamide strengthens the skin barrier by stimulating ceramide production, regulates sebum and delivers antioxidant brightening. Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5) provides exceptional humectant hydration and converts to Coenzyme A to support skin regeneration.

    Glycoproteins act as bio-messengers, stimulating fibroblast activity and collagen and elastin synthesis to improve firmness and texture with regular use. Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract delivers antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection, supports microcirculation and enhances vitality. Aloe Leaf Juice soothes and hydrates throughout.

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