Twice a day. The last step that stays on the skin the longest.
- Feeds the cell while it seals the barrier.
- Firms, plumps and evens over time.
- Works where you can't see. Shows where you can.
Ascorbic Acid

Beetroot Extract

Birch Juice

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride

Ceramide NP

Chaga Mushroom Extract

Cordyceps Sinensis Extract

Date Seed Extract

Erythritol

Fructooligosaccharides

Glycerin

Hibiscus Fruit Extract

Hydrogenated Lecithin

NAD+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide)

Niacinamide

Plum Seed Extract

Snow Mushroom Extract

Squalane

Tocopherol

Sodium Hyaluronate



(Skin health is built by daily choices)
Nothing comedogenic. Nothing greasy. A cream-based treatment that addresses that rejuvenates the skin at a cellular level.
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| Addresses the root cause of dryness anddehydrations (not just the surface) | ||
| Resolves skin concerns at a cellular level | ||
| Rich, non-greasy formula (doesn’t containany comedogenic ingredients) | ||
| Fragrance- and irritant-free |
NAD+ is the coenzyme almost every repair process in a cell draws on. It carries electrons through the mitochondria to make energy, it is the substrate the sirtuins require to do their signalling work, and PARP-1 spends it repairing breaks in DNA. Without it, none of that machinery runs.
It also falls by roughly half between the ages of 20 and 50. (Verdin E, Science, 2015; Rajman L et al., Cell Metabolism, 2018.)
So the premise of this step is not that your skin's repair machinery is broken. It is that it is underfunded.
NAD+ is 663 g/mol, and the rule of thumb for a molecule crossing intact stratum corneum is about 500 Daltons. (Bos JD & Meinardi MMHM, Experimental Dermatology, 2000.) It is a large molecule, and a large molecule does not simply sail in.
Which is exactly why the formula also carries Niacinamide, at 122 g/mol. Niacinamide crosses easily, and the cell converts it into NAD+ through its own salvage pathway. So there are two routes running at once: direct supply at the surface layers, and a precursor small enough to reach the cells that will do the converting.
We did not pick two ingredients that do the same thing. We picked one that arrives and one that gets in.
Because the pathway has three positions and each mushroom sits at one of them.
Chaga is the protective one. Grown on birch, dense in polyphenols, melanin and betulinic acid. Oxidative damage is what depletes NAD+ in the first place, so this sits upstream of the core active rather than beside it.
Cordyceps is the metabolic one, working on the mitochondrial machinery that NAD+ supplies.
Snow mushroom is the hydrating one. Its polysaccharides hold water in a three-dimensional network at a smaller average particle size than hyaluronic acid, and it is what gives the cream its cushion.
Three mushrooms, three jobs, no overlap.
No to both. It is light in the hand and silky on the skin rather than a heavy night cream, and reviewers specifically call out that sunscreen does not pill on top of it. That is the objection that ends most step-four creams, so it is worth saying plainly.
Yes, and this is the one to use if you have avoided moisturiser for that reason. Oiliness is not the same as hydration, and a barrier that is short of water often produces more oil, not less. The texture here is light enough to disappear, and ceramides, squalane and the humectant ingredients are doing barrier work rather than sitting on top.
Yes, and it is a good idea. It layers over or under a retinoid and it is the step that supports skin through the dryness and flaking of a retinol or tretinoin adjustment period. Apply it last, after your treatment step.
If you are using a prescription, keep following your dermatologist's directions and add this alongside rather than in place of anything you have been told to do.
Yes. Apply a thicker layer on nights when skin needs more, and leave it. It is the same formula given more contact time, which is the whole argument for putting the slow-acting ingredients in the last step: everything before it either rinses off or absorbs in seconds. This one stays on for hours.
First night: skin feels cushioned and looks plumper in the morning. That is hydration and the barrier ingredients, and it is immediate.
Two to four weeks: dryness and tightness stop being a daily problem. Whatever you layer underneath behaves better.
Eight to twelve weeks: firmness and tone. Published ingredient research is the basis for the barrier and metabolic claims here rather than a trial of this product, and those studies run to twelve weeks.
It is a moisturiser, and it is more than one. Every moisturiser holds water and reinforces lipids, and this one does both properly - skin-identical Ceramide NP, squalane, hyaluronic acid, snow mushroom polysaccharides.
The difference is the fourth pillar. Barrier, structure and metabolism are three different things that change with age, and almost nothing in this category has a step for the third. That is what the NAD+, the niacinamide and the mushrooms are doing here, and it is why this is Step 04 of a system rather than a cream you finish with.
50ml, used morning and night, is about [VERIFY]. On subscription your next one arrives before you run out, and you can pause or change the interval any time.
You're covered by our 30-Day Results Guarantee. Use it for the full 30 days, and if you don't see a visible improvement, we'll refund you. The guarantee exists because the Motif customer is skeptical by default, and shouldn't have to take our word for it.