We sleep to allow our bodies time to rest and repair itself. In particular, resting well at night is key to allowing our skin to regenerate itself. But we don't always get the required amount of sleep.

Here is where Christian Dior's Capture Totale Nuit comes in. An extension of the brand's Capture Totale range of anti-aging battlers, Capture Totale Nuit is Christian Dior's first anti-aging night program to target essential cell components to help skin fully benefit from the time you spend sleeping.

Dior researchers have demonstrated that the mitochondrion, the cellular “lungs” and youth engine at the heart of the cell, works at night on two levels. It is activated by a specific enzyme called aconitase. The keystone of cellular energy functions, aconitase allows the mitochondrion to produce its own energy and antioxidants to protect the cell against free radicals.

By acting on the mitochondrion, and more precisely on aconitase activity, the skin can be reeducated to fully benefit from the time you spend sleeping in order to recharge itself with energy.

To achieve this, a new ingredient, calamansi, which is not unfamiliar to Asian audiences, is used for its anti-inflammatory medicinal properties.

The latest work carried out by the Dior Innovation Center showed the exceptional power of calamansi: it restores 100% of aconitase activity. In the presence of calamansi, the cells of a 70-year-old woman, for example, regain 100 per cent of the aconitase activity of 20-year-old skin.

This is then combined with the Capture Totale's active ingredient trio of Alpha-Longoza Complex, Centuline™ and Aminolumine™,  for intense and complete correction of all signs of aging.

The Intensive Night Restorative Creme comes in two textures adapted to each skin type for an intense energy recharge and a radiant awakening in the morning. The Intensive Night Restorative Creme has a fine, enveloping texture that makes it ideal for normal to combination skin, while the Intensive Night Restorative Rich Creme is firm to the touch before melting away like a balm on the skin surface to intensely nourish normal to dry skin.

For a more intensive treatment, CAPTURE TOTALE 21 NIGHT RENEWAL TREATMENT is a 3-week treatment with an increasing dose of the Capture Totale Nuit's active ingredients. It includes three serums with a gradual concentration for 21 nights of continuous use and is recommended for momentarily 'exhausted' skin or during seasonal changes.


They retail at the following prices:
Capture Totale Intensive Night Restorative Creme 50 ml - S$224.00
Capture Totale Intensive Night Restorative Rich Creme 50 ml - S$224.00
21 Night Renewel Treatment (3 x 10ml vials) - S$340.00