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The Vivant Duo: Restoring Skin at the Surface and Below

Dear Friends,

Serum Vivant is such an amazing addition to our serum offerings. To be honest-it’s the launch I have been most excited for all year. Read all about the benefits of combining it with Masque Vivant.

Some pairings aren't optional. You wouldn't cleanse without moisturizing after, or exfoliate without something to calm the skin behind it. Masque Vivant and Serum Vivant belong to that same category — not two products that happen to work well together, but one system that was never really meant to be split apart.

Who It's For

This duo is built for adult skin dealing with persistent, recurring blemishes — not the occasional breakout, but the kind that keeps resurfacing alongside congestion, excess sebum, and lingering post-blemish redness. It suits oily and combination skin types, and because both formulas are gentle enough for reactive skin, it also works for those who've written off blemish treatments in the past for being too harsh or drying.

How They Work Together

The mask acts first. As a concentrated treatment, Masque Vivant calms visible redness and congestion at the surface, resetting the skin's environment in short, intensive sessions. It's the intervention — the step that clears the way.

The serum picks up from there. Formulated for continuous use, Serum Vivant reaches further, working on the underlying mechanisms responsible for persistent blemishes and the redness tied to them. It's the follow-through — sustaining what the mask starts, day after day, between treatments.

Used alone, each does real work. Used together, they address a blemish at its surface and its source at once, which is why the results compound rather than plateau: by day 28, it's not only the blemishes and redness that improve, but the skin's barrier itself.

A Shared Foundation

Both formulas share the same three actives — the reason they read as one family rather than two separate lines:

  • Yeast extract, the range's signature postbiotic, targeting blemish-related redness

  • Inulin, a prebiotic that supports the skin's microbiome

  • Polylysine, a gentle biotech ingredient that addresses imperfections without irritation

The Results

  • At 14 days: excess sebum drops 27%, skin texture refines by 19%

  • At 28 days: persistent blemishes reduce by 42%, blemish-associated redness decreases by 21%, and the skin barrier strengthens, with a 19% reduction in transepidermal water loss

A Recognizable Signature

Both products carry the same distinctive brown hue and fermented scent — unmistakably Vivant, and unmasked on purpose. It's a signature of the concentrated yeast extract at the heart of both formulas, not something to disguise.

In the Routine

Within a full regimen — cleanse, exfoliate, restore, target, moisturize — Masque Vivant sits at "restore," Serum Vivant at "target." One resets, the other sustains. Together, they're less a routine addition than a completed thought.

Experience the Vivant family in Tres Belle Spa’s Acne Prescription Facial. Also available for retail at the spa.

Allison TrayTres Belle Spa