Once Upon a Ceramide Barrier Night Cream

A dream-woven night cream for deeply rested skin

Once upon a ceramide, they said she slept for a hundred years.
We say: she started a better nighttime ritual.

Not cursed.
Just rested.
Deeply.

This is a rich, restorative night cream — loyal to your skin’s natural rhythms.
Not simply a moisturizer, but a ritual of repair — a quiet revolution sealed in silk-smooth balm.

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🕯️ WHAT IT DOES

• Deeply moisturizes and replenishes overnight

• Supports and strengthens the skin barrier

• Helps skin wake soft, calm, and luminous

• Works in harmony with your natural repair cycle

Skin doesn’t just recover.
It remembers.

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🌿 THE FORMULATION PHILOSOPHY

Each ingredient holds centuries of care.

Chosen not just for performance — but for lineage.

Together, they don’t just moisturize.
They protect.
They reweave.
They restore what rest forgot.

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✨ HERO INGREDIENTS (Lore + Science)

Aloe Vera

Sacred to Greek healers and Cleopatra’s scrolls, aloe is the original plant of restoration. It cools inflammation, calms stressed skin, and delivers deep hydration without weight.

Sea Buckthorn

Favored by Nordic warriors and Russian apothecaries, this vibrant berry strengthens the skin barrier and floods it with resilience-building antioxidants.

Peony Root

Beloved by empresses and Roman goddesses alike, peony restores softness and luminosity where life has asked too much of the skin.

Elderberry

The dark fruit of hedgewitches and folk healers, elderberry shields skin with antioxidant wisdom and protective calm.

Ceramides

The architects of the skin barrier. Ceramides help reinforce moisture retention overnight so skin wakes supported, not depleted.

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🌙 THE RITUAL

Formulated between dusk and dream.

Apply nightly to clean skin as the final step in your ritual.
Melt upward with slow strokes.

Best used after serum and before sleep —
when your day ends in softness, not silence.

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👑 WHO IT’S FOR

A ritual for women who rise whole —
not because the world lets them,
but because they choose to.

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🪞 AFFIRMATIONS

Every ONCE product includes a quiet affirmation — printed directly on the jar.

Say it aloud or in your head as you apply.

“I do not wake empty.
I wake luminous, whole.”

“My softness is not surrender.
It is sanctuary.”

Because this isn’t just skincare.
It’s how you return to yourself.

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🕰️ MOOD / TIME OF USE

Night.
After cleansing and serum.
Before dreams.

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🗝️ PROVENANCE (mythic)

Found beneath embroidered linens in a forgotten turret —
wrapped in silk inside a carved cedar box.

Inscribed:
“For nights when you must rest like royalty.”

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🌱 FORMULATION STANDARDS

• Vegan

• Cruelty-free

• Gluten-free

• Nut-free

• Allergen label free

• Natural certified

• Certified by ECOCERT Greenlife to the COSMOS Natural standard

(Please recycle ♻️)

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⭐ STAR FEATURES

• Deeply moisturizing

• Supports skin barrier repair

• Anti-age care

• Restorative overnight nourishment

Type: Moisturizer
Concerns: Anti-age, Dehydrated skin, Damaged skin barrier
Skin Types: Normal, Dry
Active Ingredients: Ceramides, Hyaluronic Acid, Shea Butter, Aloe Juice

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🧪 INCI

Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe) Leaf Juice➀, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter➀, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil➀, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil➀, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Pentylene Glycol, Polyglyceryl-6 Stearate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin➁, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Cera, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter➀, Olea Europaea (Olive) Oil Unsaponifiables, Sodium PCA, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Polyglyceryl-6 Behenate, Parfum, Cellulose, Rhus Verniciflua Peel Cera / Rhus Succedanea Fruit Cera, Shorea Robusta Resin, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Extract➀, Xanthan Gum, Paeonia Lactiflora (Peony) Root Extract, Sambucus Nigra (Elder) Fruit Extract➀, Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Seed Oil➀, Glycosphingolipids, Glycolipids, Aqua, Sodium Phytate, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Tocopherol, Lactic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Linalool➂, Limonene➂

➀ Ingredients from organic farming
➁ Made using organic ingredients
➂ From natural essential oils