The Ordinary Balancing & Clarifying Serum

• Balancing Clarifying Serum provides visibly clearer skin, by helping to reduce the look of pores, excess oil, and uneven skin texture. • The formulation offers a simple way to treat multiple concerns, offering a total of seven key benefits for blemish prone and congested skin. • While especially suited to oily and combination skin, it is tested and suitable for all skin types. • Balancing Clarifying Serum minimizes excess shine, and helps reduce the look of enlarged pores, which can be common concerns for oily skin types. • It also provides all day hydration and strengthens the skin barrier to help balance skin's oil and water content, to avoid drying or stripping the skin. • In addition, Balancing Clarifying Serum helps to improve uneven skin texture for smoother looking skin, while promoting skin radiance to make skin look clearer and brighter. • As part of our range of Multi Active Solutions, Balancing Clarifying combines seven key technologies to achieve these benefits:Sarcosine and L Carnitine: Naturally occurring molecules that reduce the appearance of oiliness and shine. • Polylysine:A patented molecule that also reduces the appearance of oiliness and shine. • It has a unique three dimensional branched structure that is composed of 48 naturally derived lysine amino acids. • Adenosine:Helps reduce the appearance of pores and textured skin.N Acetylglucosamine (NAG):An amino sugar that offers similar exfoliation properties to direct acids. • Through this exfoliation, it helps target signs of congestion, while also targeting the look of uneven skin tone. • Ectoin:Protects the skin barrier against water loss and helps maintain skin hydration. • The ingredient ectoin is an amino acid derivative produced via fermentation from ectoine. a naturally occurring molecule found in a wide range of bacteria that live in extreme conditions. • Lactococcus Ferment Lysate:Works to help support the skin barrier. It is a mixture of fragmented molecules derived from the breakdown of the bacteria lactococcus lactis.