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The hero Understory recovery cream in a frosted glass jar with a deep green lid and an oat coloured label The same jar with the lid off, showing the surface of the cream A close up of the cream texture, thick with soft ridges Raw kaolin clay, mineral shards and oil droplets weighed out on a stone slab A technical drawing of the jar showing it is 68 mm wide and 74 mm tall

N 03 · Peptide Recovery Cream

Understory

4.9 612 reviews 97% would buy it again

$7950 ml

Free shipping over $75 · Leaves Brisbane in 1 business day · 60 day returns, opened or not

A thick, slow cream for skin that has been through something: a winter, a course of retinol, a fortnight of bad sleep. Eleven ingredients, three of them peptides. It goes on heavy and disappears in about a minute.

SizeThree sizes, same formula

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Free shipping over $75Flat $9.95 under that, anywhere in Australia. Two to five business days, or next day within Brisbane.
60 days to send it backOpened, half used, it makes no difference. We pay the return postage and refund the lot.
The jar refillsA refill pouch is $11. Send the empty glass back and we credit $6 to your next order.
  1. Warm a pea sized amount between your fingers. It is thicker than it looks and a pea covers a whole face.
  2. Press it into damp skin rather than rubbing it in.
  3. Morning and night, after your serum and before sunscreen.
  4. Around the eye socket is fine. Keep it off the lash line.

The full list, in the order it appears on the box:

Aqua, Glycerin, Squalane, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Kaolin, Niacinamide, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Glucoside, Panthenol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Copper Tripeptide-1, Ceramide NP, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopherol, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Phytate, Benzyl Alcohol, Dehydroacetic Acid.

The last four are the emulsifier, the thickener and the preservative system. We count the eleven that do something for your skin, and we list the rest anyway.

Dry, tight or over treated skin, and anyone coming off a course of retinol or acid. It is fragrance free, so it suits reactive skin and it suits people who do not want to smell like a candle.

If your skin runs very oily and you dislike a rich finish, start with the 15 ml before you commit. Safe to use in pregnancy. Never tested on animals.

Twelve months once opened, two years unopened. The batch number and the fill date are printed on the base of the jar, not hidden in a code.

Keep it out of direct sun. A bathroom shelf is fine. A car dashboard in February is not.

The whole formula

Eleven ingredients. Scroll and fill the jar.

Every line has a job we can describe in a sentence. The jar fills as you read, one ingredient at a time.

UNDERSTORY

0 of 11 in the jar

Bought together

Finish the routine and save $19.

The three products most people end up with: the balm to take the day off, the cream, and the oil that goes over it on cold nights.

Sediment clay cleansing balm
SedimentCleansing balm, $42
Understory peptide recovery cream
UnderstoryRecovery cream, $79
Slow Hours overnight repair oil
Slow HoursRepair oil, $65

The recovery three

$167$186Save $19

Free shipping is included at this total.

612 reviews

What people
actually wrote.

Every review here came from a delivered order. We do not edit them and we do not remove the three star ones.

4.9 612 reviews
5 star91%
4 star6%
3 star2%
2 star1%
1 star0%

Would buy it again97%

Say it sank in with no film4 in 5

Average time before a repeat order11 weeks

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