Sleep Plus Collagen Cream - Night Cream with Hyaluronic Acid, Collagen & Aloe - 2 oz Jar, Cruelty Free

The evening is the only part of your day where nothing else is competing for your attention, and your skin is the only thing left asking for it.

That is really the whole argument for a night cream. Not that skin does something magical at 2am, but that a richer, heavier moisturiser is one you can actually wear for eight hours without worrying how it sits under makeup or whether it pills beneath your SPF. You get to use the good stuff, generously, with nothing to work around.

Here is what is doing the work, and what each part gets you:

• Hyaluronic acid – the humectant, and the best-supported ingredient in this jar. It draws water into the surface of the skin and holds it there, which is what stops skin waking up tight and what makes fine lines sit softer
• Avocado oil – the emollient. Humectants pull water in and emollients help keep it from leaving again, so the hydration is still there at seven in the morning rather than gone by midnight
• Collagen – a moisturising film on the surface that helps skin hold water and feel smoother, which is the texture everything else sits on the next day. It works on top of the skin rather than underneath it, and there is more on that below
• Aloe vera and rosemary leaf extract – aloe traditionally used to soothe and hydrate, rosemary a naturally antioxidant-rich botanical. Between them they are why skin is calmer at eight than it was at eleven
• Melatonin – studied topically as a skin antioxidant, covering the everyday environmental wear your face takes between one evening and the next. It is here for your skin, not to make you sleepy

FERNWOOD Sleep Plus Collagen Cream is a 2 oz jar, applied to face and neck in the evening. What that gets you:

• A humectant and an emollient in the same jar, so the water goes in overnight and is still there in the morning
• Skin that feels cushioned rather than tight, and looks rested on the mornings you did not earn it
• One step at the end of the evening, for face and neck, and the routine is finished

🌅 The first morning is the tell

Hydration is the fastest thing a cream does. If your skin usually feels tight when you wake, the first morning after is where you notice that it does not, and that is the humectant doing exactly what a humectant is for.

🧴 Rich, but it does not sit on you

This is a cream rather than a lotion, which is what lets it keep working for eight hours instead of absorbing and disappearing by midnight. Warmed briefly between fingertips it spreads further and sinks in faster, rather than sitting on your face like a mask.

😴 It will not make you sleepy

There is melatonin on the ingredient list and it is a fair thing to ask about. It is there as a skin antioxidant. This is a moisturiser and it works on your skin rather than on you, so it will not clash with anything else in your evening.

📆 Texture first, then how it looks

Softness is the change people report first, usually inside a few weeks. How skin looks in the mirror is slower, because that is well-hydrated skin reflecting light differently, and light is fussier than touch.

The name of this cream has collagen in it, so here is the straight version rather than the marketing one.

• What it does – collagen is a large, water-loving protein, and on skin it forms a moisturising film that helps hold water at the surface and makes skin feel smoother. That is a real, useful thing for a moisturiser to do, and it is what your makeup sits on the next morning
• What it does not do – become your collagen. The collagen molecule is far too large to pass through the outer layer of skin, so no topical collagen reaches the dermis where your own collagen lives
• Why that is fine – surface hydration is most of what makes skin look better in the morning anyway, and hyaluronic acid, avocado oil and aloe are all doing that job alongside it
• What we will not tell you – that this cream boosts, rebuilds or restores collagen. Plenty of pages will. The molecule size has not changed for any of them

Buy this as an excellent hydrating night cream that happens to contain collagen, and it will do exactly what it says on the mornings you need it to. That is a better deal than a promise that cannot be kept.

This was made for anyone who wants their evening step to be the one that actually does something.

It's especially for you if:

• Your skin feels tight or looks dull by morning, whatever you put on it the night before
• You have a night cream that sits on your face like a greasy mask and never quite sinks in
• You read ingredient lists and you would rather be told what each one is for
• You want a moisturiser rather than a miracle, and you are tired of being sold the second one
• You want one jar for face and neck rather than a five-step evening routine

A 2 oz jar, for face and neck, in the evening. Gluten free, non-GMO, alcohol free, phthalate free, silicone free and cruelty free. Made in the USA.

It is for external use only, and it contains lavender oil, so patch test first if your skin reacts to fragrance.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If FERNWOOD isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.