Essential Night Cream

{ 60 applications } 1 fl oz / 30 ml

Comprehensive nighttime repair and renew treatment for your skin.

This is more than a night cream, it's a restorative treatment designed to align with the body's natural overnight repair cycles. By combining barrier-supporting ingredients, deep hydration, cellular renewal peptides, and next-generation antioxidants, this formula helps skin recover from daily oxidative and environmental stress, rebuild collagen and elastin, improve tone, clarity, and firmness, wake up visibly refreshed and resilient.

50 ml
Approximately 90 daily applications

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Plant-based10 clinically proven activesNon GMONo IrritationEthically SourcedCruelty Free

Pro Anti-Aging^™

A new science that reactivates your skin’s built-in anti-aging processes.

Traditional anti-aging works by damaging your skin to force a response. Pro Anti-Aging™ works differently, activating your skin's own anti-aging processes throughout each skin layer, so healthier more youthful skin comes without the inflammation, sensitivity, or long-term wear.

Protect and Restore

without damage and irritation

More effectively

Targeted Anti-Aging

Your skin defends itself against aging at three distinct layers, the surface barrier, the structural collagen layer, and cellular, each running its own set of regenerative processes around the clock. When you're young, these systems keep pace with daily damage, maintaining a natural equilibrium that keeps skin firm, resilient, and self-repairing. more.

Formulas that deliver clinically proven actives to all three areas of your skin.

Essential
Night Cream

Nighttime is about restoration

If your skin can’t fully repair the day’s damage overnight, aging accelerates. Most night creams are part of the problem.

Your skin does something remarkable while you sleep. Cortisol drops and your body naturally shifts into repair mode. However, harsh actives like retinol often used in nighttime products can trigger irritation, interrupting the very repair cycle your skin is trying to run.

Together, our Essential Night Cream and Essential Daytime Face Cream deliver a comprehensive anti-aging regimen that will keep your skin looking and functioning at its best.

Ingredients optimized

for Nighttime skin biology

Gentle & Effective

3^x faster cell turnover

5^x moisture retention than HA

28^% wrinkle reduction

Surface

Skin’s outer barrier weakens throughout the day from UV exposure, pollution, and everyday friction, leaving it dehydrated and reactive. This zone rebuilds the barrier with skin-identical lipids, restores the skin’s ability to hold onto moisture overnight, and normalizes cell renewal so skin sheds evenly instead of looking rough or inflamed.

Rebuilds barrier integrity with skin-identical lipids
Locks in moisture overnight
Calms visible redness and irritation
Supports smooth, even cell turnover

Ingredients: Ceramide NP, Ceramide AP, Ceramide EOP, Cholesterol, Phytosphingosine, Sodium Hyaluronate, Polyglutamic Acid, Hexapeptide-48 HCl, Allantoin, Panthenol

67^% dermal density improvement

60^% increase structural collagen

0 irritation

Structure

Structural support in the dermis breaks down with age and UV exposure, leading to visible wrinkles and loss of firmness. This zone rebuilds that support with a retinol-alternative that activates the same collagen-producing pathways, without the irritation, paired with antioxidants that protect newly built collagen from breaking back down.

Stimulates Type I, III, and IV collagen synthesis
Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkle depth
Protects new collagen from oxidative breakdown
Delivers retinol-equivalent results without irritation

Ingredients: Bakuchiol, Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate, Ferulic Acid

4^x Sirtuin, NAD+ AMPK activation

59^% dark spot improvement

44^% more radiant skin

Cellular

Aging isn’t only visible on the surface — it’s also driven by how skin cells communicate and repair themselves at a genetic level. This zone activates the longevity pathways tied to youthful cell function and quiets the inflammatory signals aging cells send to healthy tissue nearby, supporting skin’s natural overnight repair cycle.

Activates sirtuin longevity pathways (SIRT1, SIRT3, SIRT6, SIRT7)
Supports NAD+ and mitochondrial function
Calms inflammatory signaling between aging and healthy cells
Promotes long-term cellular vitality

Ingredients: Hydrolyzed Myrtus Communis Leaf Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Cucumber Extract

Supercharge repair and restoration during the night

Woman with radiant skin after a night of rest

Repair & Regenerate.

This luxury cream was scientifically formulated to get the most out of your skin’s natural sleep repair cycle.

Comprehensive restoration

28^% Reduction in wrinkle
depth (4 weeks)

67^% Enhanced dermal
density at 28 days

5,000^x Moisture retention
capacity

59^% Improvement in dark spots
and uneven tone

50^% Reduction in visible
redness and irritation

4 Sirtuin longevity
pathways activated

4.9 / 5

Sensitive skin. This really calms and softens.

I’ve struggled with red, flaky, and easily irritated skin. This night cream works really well with my skin. I think it actually calms and softens my skin through the night because I wake up and it looks refreshed and more radiant.

Lisa Stevens.

Dry, sensitive skin

Big change to my dry, dehydrated skin

Extremely moisturizing. My skin feels firmer and looks plumper. The cream is luxurious feeling and the scent is really nice. This is a fantastic product.

Carla Thornton.

Dry, sensitive skin

Older, sensitive skin love this product

I saw a gradual improvement to the firmness of my skin over the first few weeks of using. I noticed improvement to wrinkles and zero irritation so far. My esthetician loves this product and recommended to me.

Karen Sivuchi.

Dry skin, blotchiness

Reminds me of La Mer

This product is ultra luxurious. It feels like silk and immediately softens your skin. I love the ingredients and have noticed improvement after just one month of using.

Holly Anzen.

Wrinkles, age spots

Day and Night cream from Alina really work

I love the science behind this night cream. I used a retinol cream at night that worked great initially but then I started experiencing redness and irritation. I absolutely love the Essential night cream and have now combined it with their daytime face cream and am loving the results.

Patricia Lu.

Dry, sensitive skin

In-Depth Questions & Answers

How is this night cream different from others?

Most night creams are just richer daytime moisturizers. This one is built around a specific biological window: cortisol drops during deep sleep, and that drop is what allows your skin’s repair processes to run at full capacity.

Cellular renewal accelerates, collagen synthesis peaks, and inflammation naturally quiets. The formula is designed to take advantage of that window with a suite of complementary actives operating at the surface, structural, and cellular levels simultaneously. It’s not one hero ingredient doing one job — it’s coordinated repair and restoration across all three, timed to when your skin is already primed to do that work.

How is this different from a retinol-based night cream?

Retinol works by provoking a low-grade irritation response — that’s actually the mechanism. It triggers immune activity and inflammation, which is what drives cell turnover. That’s the opposite of what a repair window needs.

This formula uses actives like bakuchiol that stimulate the same collagen-production pathways without provoking that immune response, so your skin can do its restorative work without triggering an inflammation response. You get the structural benefit without the irritation cost.

How soon will I see results?

Longer than most treatments claim, and that’s intentional.

Because this formula works by reactivating and supporting your skin’s own repair processes rather than forcing rapid change chemically, results build gradually. Most people see visible improvement after 12–14 weeks of consistent nightly use. That timeline reflects real biological turnover that your skin can benefit from long-term without incurring damage. If a product promises visible change in days, it’s usually doing that through irritation, not repair.

Can I layer this with other products?

You can, but you likely won’t need to. This formula is designed as a comprehensive nighttime treatment on its own: barrier support, peptide and mitochondrial actives, and collagen-stimulating actives are all included specifically so you’re not assembling a multi-step routine to get complete overnight care.

If you do layer other products, avoid pairing with harsh actives — combining multiple intense actives at night is one of the more common ways people end up over-treating and irritating their skin, working against the exact repair process this cream is built to support.

What’s the ingredient sourcing?

Plant-based, with sustainability and ethical sourcing treated as an Alina standard. We work directly with ingredients suppliers, formulate and manufacture all of our products in-house without the use of third party production.

How does this work with the Daytime Cream as a system?

The two formulas are intentionally non-overlapping.

Daytime is weighted toward barrier reinforcement and antioxidant defense against environmental exposure; Night is weighted toward peptide and collagen focused restoration during the skin’s natural repair window. Vitamin C, for example, is present in both, but functions differently at each time. Daytime it’s used to neutralize oxidative stress, and at night it combines with other actives to support collagen synthesis.