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Men's potent longevity night cream · 100 ml
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Men's potent longevity night cream · 100 ml
You don't have to become a skincare guy. Three pumps before bed and it works while your body rebuilds. Night after night it compounds into your face, your weeks, your years. Prime is a habit, not an age.
Look rested, not worn. Three pumps before bed.
35.3% Working Ingredients. Every key dose printed. No added fragrance. Engineered in Denmark.
The first face cream to hold stable retinol, vitamin C and azelaic acid in one bottle. Seven actives at the dose printed on the label in one airless pump. It replaces your serum, peptide cream, moisturiser and eye cream. Three pumps before bed, and that is the whole routine. People will assume you just sleep well.
Every active and the exact dose, in plain words
Total working ingredients 35.3% · no added fragrance, every active within its published tolerability range
This is the full INCI, in the order it sits on the carton, highest concentration first. Notice where the actives land: the first active is second on the list, right after water. No actives buried at the bottom, no "proprietary blend" to hide a low dose behind.
Water, Potassium Azeloyl Diglycinate (PAD)8%, Niacinamide7%, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)6%, Acetyl Hexapeptide-810% complex, Glycerin4%, Propanediol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-110% complex, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-710% complex, Cetearyl Olivate, Encapsulated Retinol0.3%, Sorbitan Olivate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Squalane, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Phytosterols, Panthenol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium PCA, Betaine, Allantoin, Bisabolol, Centella Asiatica Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Hydrolyzed Oat Protein, Saccharide Isomerate, Xanthan Gum, Tocopherol, Sodium Phytate, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate.
Total ingredient load 35.3%. That is 31.3% from the seven actives: 8 + 7 + 6 + 0.3 above, plus the 10% peptide complex (Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 and Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 together, quoted as the blend). Everything from Cetearyl Olivate down is the delivery base, antioxidants, soothing botanicals (Centella, licorice, bisabolol, allantoin) and the preservative system. No added fragrance, no dyes.
The quick reference
Yes. Formulated to the EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC 1223/2009) and made in a GMP-certified facility (ISO 22716). Every ingredient sits within its approved safe-use level.
No added fragrance, no dyes. A plant-derived base instead of mineral oil or silicones, sodium phytate instead of EDTA, vitamin E instead of BHT. Check every one on the full label.
Yes, gently and within EU limits, which is what keeps one bottle safe for about 120 nights. Every preservative is printed by name, nothing banned or hidden.
It can tingle while your skin adjusts; that is the actives working, and it settles. The retinol is encapsulated and time-released, so it is gentler than raw retinol. Go every other night if it feels like a lot.
Every ingredient and every key dose is published. Open Read the entire label and check it yourself.
You don't have to become a skincare guy. Three pumps before bed and it works while your body rebuilds. Night after night it compounds into your face, your weeks, your years. Prime is a habit, not an age.
Published Evidence
What the published studies found
The morning nobody asks if you're tired.
Two numbers on every card: the dose the study used, and the dose in Vector ONE. Published single-ingredient studies.
Use it every night. Judge it at 120 nights, in your own mirror.
The humectant that pulls water into the skin and holds it there. It is what lets seven actives sit on the same face without stripping it. A base, not an active. So we claim nothing for it and we do not count it among the seven.
Published, peer-reviewed results for each active in its own study, not a trial of the finished cream. Every card prints the study's dose and ours. Peptide % is the supplied solution. Dose, duration and source on the ingredient pages.
Durations are how long each study ran, not how long skin takes.
120 nights to decide, on a full money-back guarantee. Not satisfied, every krone back, and you keep the bottle. No results conditions, no photos, no forms.
The breakthrough
Ever layered a retinol, a vitamin C and an azelaic acid at the sink and wondered if any of them still worked by the time the last one went on? You were right to wonder. Each of the three needs its own pH to stay active, and on the same face they start breaking each other down on contact. The industry's answer was three bottles, three price tags, and doses that quietly cancel each other out.
The functional change to each molecule, not the exact manufacturing pathway.
Pure vitamin C oxidises fast and drags the retinol beside it down with it. We capped the reactive site of the molecule, turning it into 3-O ethyl ascorbic acid (EAC), a stabilised form that holds its potency and stops attacking the other actives in the bottle.
Raw azelaic acid is gritty and barely dissolves in water. We reshaped it into potassium azeloyl diglycinate (PAD), which dissolves completely into a smooth, crystal-free fluid. No rough particles left to physically tear the retinol capsules apart.
Retinol is the most fragile of the three. We sealed it inside rigid phospholipid spheres that shield it from the water and acids, then release it slowly through the night. That same slow release is why it stays gentler than raw retinol.
Those three structural changes let all three actives sit at the same skin-native pH, the narrow window where each stays fully active instead of cancelling the others out. Seven actives plus the glycerin hydration base: 35.3% working ingredients, every concentration published.
Together, those three changes are TRI-01™, the complex that holds retinol, vitamin C and azelaic acid at the dose printed on the label in one bottle. TRI-01™ is our name for that formulation approach, not a separate ingredient, which is why it does not appear in the ingredient list: every ingredient is printed on the label under its INCI name, and the full list is published on this page.
DILUTION
From the founder
For years I looked tired no matter what I put on my face. And I am a chemist. I had a drawer full of the right actives at the doses printed on their labels, and I layered them one after another every night. Then one evening I saw it in my own palm: every bottle thins the one before it. I was paying for the doses on the labels and wearing something weaker.
So I spent three years building the bottle where nothing gets diluted. Seven actives in one base, one pH window, every molecule matched to the depth where it works. That is Vector ONE.
Our formulation standard comes from pharma, not cosmetics. The chemist behind Vector ONE built his career in GMP quality work at one of Denmark's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, where a 0.1% deviation stops a production line.
Our formulation standard comes from pharma, not cosmetics. The chemist behind Vector ONE built his career in GMP quality work at one of Denmark's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, where a 0.1% deviation stops a production line.
The point
The handshake gets firmer. The eye contact holds. You show up composed: rested, sharp, in command, and no one can say why. Three pumps before bed.
Verify the label
Every common worry, answered straight. Open the one that is yours.
It can tingle or sting a little in the first week or two while your skin adjusts to seven active ingredients, and some skin goes through a short purge as cell turnover speeds up. That is the formula working, not failing, and it settles.
Calm on contact
Centella, panthenol, bisabolol and allantoin land the moment it touches your face.
Barrier first
Your skin barrier is rebuilt first, before the strongest actives release. Nothing potent lands on a raw surface.
Slow‑release retinol
The retinol is encapsulated. It releases slowly through the night instead of hitting your skin all at once.
0.3%, the EU maximum
The strongest retinol dose EU law allows, with a simple ramp: start every other night, then go nightly when your skin is ready.
The retinol is encapsulated and time-released, so it is gentler than straight retinol. If it ever feels like a lot, drop to every other night for a week, then go nightly. Patch test first if your skin is reactive. The formula also carries soothers (centella, bisabolol, allantoin, panthenol) to keep the adjustment calm.
Yes. Vector ONE is formulated to the EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC 1223/2009), one of the strictest cosmetic safety standards in the world, and engineered by a chemist to GMP standard (ISO 22716). Every ingredient sits within its approved safe-use level.
The seven actives are dosed to work together in one pH window, not stacked blindly. Three pumps at night is the whole routine.
We built it on plant-derived emollients (squalane, shea, olive-derived emulsifiers) instead of mineral oil or silicones. We thicken it with xanthan gum, not acrylates or microplastics. We chelate it with sodium phytate instead of EDTA, and stabilise it with vitamin E instead of BHT.
And there is no added fragrance and no dyes at all, the two things most likely to irritate skin, left out on purpose. You can confirm every word of this on the full label below.
Yes, and that is a good thing: it keeps one bottle safe for about 120 nights. Any water-based cream that promises "no preservatives" is either lying or unsafe.
We use a gentle, modern system, printed by name on the label: a radish-root ferment, ethylhexylglycerin, phenoxyethanol and potassium sorbate, each well within EU safe-use limits. Nothing banned, nothing controversial, and nothing hidden, so whatever you were hoping to avoid, you can check for it yourself.
Yes. Your three nightly pumps cover the whole face, including under and around the eyes, so there is no separate eye cream to buy. Keep it on the bone around the eye, not the moving eyelid, and out of the eye itself.
The skin there is thinner, so the first week or two can bring a light tingle while it adjusts. If your eye area is reactive, start there with every second or third night and build up.
Every single ingredient. The complete formula is published in concentration order, and the four key actives carry their exact printed dose (PAD 8%, niacinamide 7%, vitamin C 6%, encapsulated retinol 0.3%) plus a 10% peptide complex. Glycerin at 4% is the hydration base, not an active. Nothing is buried in a "proprietary blend."
Open the full label and check the math yourself. That is the whole point: you should not have to take our word for it.
OBJECTIONS
Before you buy
We built this for people who read the label, check the studies, and don't trust marketing. Here are the hard questions we get, and the straight answers.
Short answer: there is no subscription. There never will be.
We do not have one. Most men's skincare brands run on subscriptions, and the pattern is always the same: easy to start, hard to cancel, charges you stopped noticing. We want none of that between you and the product.
Saturate has no subscriptions. No auto renewals. No "free trial" that quietly enrols you in recurring billing. You buy a bottle. That is the entire transaction. When you want another one in 120 days, you come back and order it. If you do not want one, nothing happens. No account traps. No dark patterns. No surprise charges on your statement.
If you come back, it is because your skin improved. That is the only retention strategy we need.
Short answer: seven bottles was a business model, not a biological requirement.
If this were a 2-in-1 shampoo, one formula doing two things badly, you would be right. But Vector ONE contains seven distinct actives, each at the dose printed on the label, in one base built to carry them. Not one active stretched across two jobs: seven, each doing the job its own published data covers.
The seven product routine exists because skincare brands sell you each active in its own bottle. The ingredients do not need to be in separate containers. They need to be at the right concentration and delivered at the right time. That is a formulation problem, not a product count problem.
Vector ONE solves the formulation problem. The seven bottles were always the industry's business model. Never a biological requirement.
Short answer: it can sting or purge a little at first. That is it working, and it settles.
You should be. With most retinol products. Standard retinol lands on the skin surface at full strength the moment you apply it. Your barrier gets overwhelmed. Dead cells shed faster than your skin can handle. And you spend the next four to eight weeks looking worse than when you started. That is the infamous purge.
Vector ONE uses encapsulated retinol at 0.3%, the EU maximum for cosmetics. The capsule releases it gradually through the night instead of delivering the whole dose the moment it touches your skin. And it does not arrive alone: centella, panthenol and glycerin sit in the same formula, working on the barrier at the same time. A slow release into a supported barrier is a different proposition from a raw dose onto an unprepared one.
Straight answer: while your skin adjusts it can sting or purge a little. That is the formula working, not failing, and it settles. On application it tends to feel hydrating, not stripping. If your skin runs reactive, start every other night for the first two weeks, then move to nightly. Encapsulated retinol is gentler than raw retinol, not weaker.
Short answer: every dose is printed on the label, so you can check it.
Most men's skincare brands highlight "key ingredients" that appear after the preservative on the INCI list. That means they are present at less than 1%. That is not a working dose. That is a marketing claim with a trace amount behind it.
Every dose in Vector ONE is printed on the label, next to the study it leans on: sometimes above the studied concentration, sometimes below it, and we say which. Niacinamide at 7%. Argireline at ~5%, inside the 10% peptide complex. Vitamin C at 6%. Retinol at 0.3%. The full INCI is published. You can verify every ingredient and its position in the formula yourself.
If a brand will not tell you the concentration, it is because the concentration would not impress you.
Short answer: don't trust us. Verify us. Everything is checkable.
You have heard of the brands that pour their budget into influencer deals and YouTube sponsorships. That is why their 30ml serums cost 358 kr. You are paying for the marketing, not the formulation. The ingredient budget gets whatever is left over.
We spend that budget on concentration. Our formula is engineered in Denmark by our chemist and manufactured in a GMP-certified facility (ISO 22716), registered with the CPNP, and fully compliant with EC 1223/2009. Every ingredient, every concentration, every study citation is published on this site.
Our budget goes into the formula instead of the feed. So we made everything checkable: the label, the doses, the company registry, and a 120-night refund that means a wrong guess costs you nothing. You do not need to trust a brand. You need to verify a formula. Read the INCI. Check the studies. If the chemistry checks out, the brand name is irrelevant.
Short answer: the wrinkle studies were run on skin that already had wrinkles.
Here is the part nobody tells you: a wrinkle study can only be run on skin that already has wrinkles. You cannot count "fewer wrinkles" on a smooth 25-year-old face. So the published numbers behind these actives come from adults who started with visible damage.
The clearest example is a published single-ingredient retinol study that ran 12 months: it recorded 44% fewer wrinkles and 84% less pigmentation, measured on skin that started with both. That is the study's result, over the study's timeframe. What it shows is that skin with visible damage still responds. Your skin never stops replacing itself. It just slows down. Retinol's documented job is speeding that turnover back up.
So the question is not whether skin can still change after 45. The published studies say it can. Whether this cream earns its place on your shelf is yours to judge: 120 nights to decide, on a full money-back guarantee. Not satisfied, every euro back, and you keep the bottle.
Short answer: timed release. Each active deploys at its own hour, not all at once.
This is the most common concern in every skincare community. And the worry is valid. Dumping seven actives onto skin at once would flood your receptors, trigger irritation, and waste half the formula before it absorbs.
Vector ONE does not do that. The soothing base goes to work on contact. The azelaic acid and the vitamin C are derivative forms, modified so they stay stable instead of degrading, and they absorb differently from the raw acids. The peptides ride in the same base. Only the retinol is held in a capsule, so it releases slowly through the night instead of landing all at once. Seven actives sharing one pH window, not seven raw acids competing on your face.
There is no receptor competition. No ingredient chaos. Just a timed sequence that lets each compound do its job without interfering with the others. That is why seven actives work together here when they would fight each other in a layered routine.
The result: 100ml that stays fully potent for the full life of the bottle, 120 nights of use. No colour change. No efficacy dropoff. No throwing away half a bottle of degraded formula.
Short answer: light gel cream, matte in about a minute, nothing left on the pillow.
Lightweight gel cream. Not a serum that sits wet on your face for minutes. Not a thick cream that leaves residue on your pillow. Absorbs completely in under 60 seconds with a matte finish.
Fragrance-free, so there is no perfume on your face. The centella and allantoin base gives a slight cooling on contact. If your barrier is already compromised you might get a brief, mild tingle as it absorbs, gone in under a minute. In the morning your face feels hydrated and smooth, not coated or shiny.
No stickiness, no greasy film, nothing left on the pillow. It absorbs fully, matte, in about a minute. You will not feel like you are wearing anything. Your skin just feels done.
Short answer: yes, with a simple rule: not on the same night as other strong actives.
If you are on prescription retinoids like tretinoin or adapalene, do not layer Vector ONE on the same night. You would be doubling retinoid exposure. You can alternate nights, one for your prescription, one for Vector ONE, but confirm with your prescribing dermatologist first.
If you are currently using AHAs, BHAs, or standalone vitamin C serums, you do not need them anymore. Vector ONE handles exfoliation through niacinamide and PAD, brightening through stabilised vitamin C, and resurfacing through encapsulated retinol. All at the dose printed on the label. Layering more actives on top would be redundant at best and irritating at worst.
The only product you still need alongside Vector ONE is SPF in the morning. That is it.
Short answer: then it costs you nothing. 120 nights, full refund, keep the bottle.
You get 120 nights to decide, on a full money-back guarantee. Not satisfied, for any reason? One email and every euro comes back, and you keep the bottle. No results conditions, no photos, no forms, no return shipment, no restocking fee.
We can offer this because the formula holds up across almost every skin type: oily, dry, combination, and sensitive. It was built to minimise the usual reasons a product fails: actives that release too fast, harsh compounds with no barrier support, packaging that lets air in.
But skin is biological. No product works for every human on earth. If you are in the minority, we do not penalise you for it.
Short answer: night is when repair happens. Daytime, SPF if you want the edge.
Your skin runs on a day-night clock. During the day it is in defence mode, shielding itself from UV, pollution, and stress. At night it switches to repair mode: rebuilding cells, making collagen, and soaking up actives far better than it does in daylight.
Vector ONE is engineered for the repair window. Retinol, peptides, and vitamin C all perform best when your skin is in overnight recovery and not fighting environmental stressors. Applying these in the morning would waste half their efficacy and increase photosensitivity from the retinol component.
Your morning routine is one product: SPF. A broad spectrum sunscreen protects the new skin cells that Vector ONE helped generate overnight. That is the complete system. Night repair plus morning protection. Two products total. One minute each.
Vector ONE today 669 kr
Every answer above is covered by the same promise: 120 nights, keep the bottle.
The math is easy: three pumps a night replaces a seven-product shelf.
Same actives, one airless bottle, every dose printed on the label. About 5,58 kr a night, with one bottle to keep track of instead of seven.
THE COMPARISON
Same actives, one airless bottle, every dose printed on the label. About 5,58 kr a night, with one bottle to keep track of instead of seven.
A 30 ml serum lasts about 40 nights, so over 120 nights it counts 3 times.
Priced and sourced
Every product named, every price from a Danish shelf, every calculation shown. Normalised to 100 ml per slot so it is compared like for like against one 100 ml jar. Tap a brand.
The like-for-like basket: the product a skincare-literate buyer would actually pick per slot, matched on format and dose class rather than on price. Eight bottles, not seven, because there is no combined vitamin C and retinol product in the range.
The only mainstream brand besides The Ordinary that fills all seven slots, azelaic included. The 20 ml booster format drives part of the multiplier; as sold, the eight bottles come to 3.544,60 kr.
The clinic-channel ceiling, at list price. Seven bottles rather than eight because Triple Lipid Restore covers both barrier and moisturiser. Danish stockists discount continuously, so in practice the shelf lands nearer 6.700 kr than the 7.775 kr list.
A different argument. The drugstore men's shelf is not expensive. It simply does not carry the actives, so no amount of money assembles the routine. Three of the seven slots have a nearest product at Matas; four have none.
Danish retail incl. VAT, Matas unless the link says otherwise, checked 30 Aug 2026. Prices move with campaigns (Matas runs frequent 20% brand discounts), so re-check before relying on any figure.
The maths is volume only: price ÷ ml × 100. It says nothing about how much active is in any bottle, and every basket here doses differently from Vector ONE. This compares what a routine costs to assemble, not what it delivers.
The fit check
Who it's not for
Everyone else gets 120 nights to see it on their own face. One email and your money is back. You keep the bottle.
THE OFFER
Everything you would ask a salesman, without one in your face.
The honest math
Evolvee ApS, CVR 44432277. Formulated in Denmark by chemist Frederik Bjerg Jensen. Manufactured under GMP (ISO 22716) and registered with the CPNP. Verify on virk.dk
What this replaces
The same seven-product shelf, mapped active by active in the comparison table above. Here is the bottom line.
Replacement prices benchmarked against EU premium men's and specialist lines. Your shelf may cost more or less.
860 kr New formula launch sale, get 22-34% off
Three pumps. One bottle. Seven actives plus a glycerin base, every dose printed on the label. 5,58 kr a night over 120 nights.
The 120 nights to decide only start once the bottle is on your shelf.
Or 3 × 223 kr with Klarna where available. No interest.
If it does not work
One email to support: it lands with Chemist Bjerg. Keep the bottle. Your refund is processed within 5 business days. That is the whole process.
A guarantee this big only survives if the cream works. We can afford to mean it.
Three pumps, lights out. Nobody will know why you look better. That's the point.
The last word
You have seen the whole case now. One bottle, three pumps before bed, 120 nights to decide. Not satisfied? Keep the bottle and ask for a prompt and courteous refund. No results conditions, no photos, no forms.
FORMULATION
Every dosed ingredient at its exact concentration, with the actives and the hydration base listed separately. Tap any row for the published data behind the dose.
The 10% is the supplier's peptide solution as it goes into the batch, not 10% pure peptide. It is the same basis the published studies dosed, which is why the figures below sit against it. We do not print a pure-peptide number, because that is not a figure we can verify.
This is the full INCI, in the order it sits on the carton, highest concentration first. Notice where the actives land: the first active is second on the list, right after water. No actives buried at the bottom, no "proprietary blend" to hide a low dose behind.
Water, Potassium Azeloyl Diglycinate (PAD)8%, Niacinamide7%, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)6%, Acetyl Hexapeptide-810% complex, Glycerin4%, Propanediol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-110% complex, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-710% complex, Cetearyl Olivate, Encapsulated Retinol0.3%, Sorbitan Olivate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Squalane, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Phytosterols, Panthenol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium PCA, Betaine, Allantoin, Bisabolol, Centella Asiatica Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Hydrolyzed Oat Protein, Saccharide Isomerate, Xanthan Gum, Tocopherol, Sodium Phytate, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate.
Total ingredient load 35.3%. That is 31.3% from the seven actives: 8 + 7 + 6 + 0.3 above, plus the 10% peptide complex (Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 and Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 together, quoted as the blend). Everything from Cetearyl Olivate down is the delivery base, antioxidants, soothing botanicals (Centella, licorice, bisabolol, allantoin) and the preservative system. No added fragrance, no dyes. Tap any active to read its data.
Six quick questions read your skin, score it out of 100, and pinpoint the actives that actually move the needle for you.
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A sting or short purge early on is the actives working, the feel of progress. Too much? Use Vector ONE every other day the first week to ease in.
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