mixsoon Bifida Ferment Essence Jumbo 100ml is a barrier strengthening, skin renewing essence formulated with 100 percent Bifida Ferment Extract to support healthier, more resilient skin. Designed to repair and restore, this gentle essence helps reinforce a weakened skin barrier while improving overall texture, elasticity, and balance.
Bifida Ferment is known for its ability to support skin recovery and resilience, making this essence ideal for sensitive, irritated, or compromised skin. The lightweight, fast absorbing texture delivers deep nourishment without heaviness, helping to smooth rough patches, calm sensitivity, and leave skin feeling soft and comfortable.
Clean and gentle, this vegan friendly formula is free from alcohol, artificial fragrance, and animal derived ingredients. Suitable for all skin types, it layers easily into any routine and is gentle enough for daily use.
Benefits
Supports skin barrier repair and long term skin resilience
Helps soothe sensitive or irritated skin
Improves skin texture and elasticity
Lightweight, fast absorbing formula with no stickiness
Suitable for daily use and all skin types
Customer review
Good
December 19, 2025
Absorbs quickly and feels light on the skin. Leaves my face feeling moisturised.
How to use
After cleansing, apply a few drops to the entire face using your hands or a cotton pad. Gently pat until fully absorbed. Use morning and night.
Ingredients
Aqua, Butylene Glycol, Bifida Ferment Extract, Glycerin
FAQs
What’s the difference between the mixsoon essences
Each mixsoon essence focuses on a single key ingredient to target specific skin concerns. Bifida Ferment Essence is designed to strengthen the skin barrier and support repair, making it ideal for sensitive or damaged skin. Other mixsoon essences focus on concerns such as soothing, hydration, or brightening, allowing you to customise your routine based on your skin’s needs.
What Bifida Ferment actually does
Think of bifida as skin “repair food”.
It is a fermented ingredient that helps your skin bounce back when it is stressed, irritated, or overworked. Its main job is to strengthen your skin barrier, which is the layer that keeps moisture in and irritants out.
In real life terms, bifida helps when your skin feels
thin or fragile
easily irritated
tight or dehydrated even after moisturising
reactive after using actives like acids, vitamin C, or retinol
It does not tingle, exfoliate, or actively calm redness on contact. It works more quietly in the background, helping skin become stronger and more resilient over time.
What Centella (like SKIN1004 Centella) does
Centella is more like immediate first aid.
Centella calms, soothes, and reduces redness fast. It is brilliant when skin is inflamed, angry, broken out, or flaring. That is why brands like SKIN1004 Centella are so popular for sensitive, acne prone, rosacea prone, or post breakout skin.
Centella helps with
redness
inflammation
breakouts
skin healing after irritation
It gives quicker visible relief, but it does not do as much long term barrier rebuilding on its own.
So are they similar
They are related but not the same.
Centella is calming and soothing
Bifida is repairing and strengthening
If your skin is red, hot, or flaring right now, centella is usually the better choice.
If your skin feels weak, reactive, or damaged and keeps flaring again and again, bifida helps fix the underlying problem so your skin can cope better.
Which one should you choose
If you had to pick just one
choose Centella for active redness, irritation, acne, rosacea flare ups
choose Bifida if your skin barrier is compromised, over exfoliated, or sensitive long term
The best part is they actually work very well together. Centella calms things down, bifida helps stop it happening again.
Ingredients are subject to change at the manufacturer’s discretion. For the most complete and up to date list of ingredients, please refer to the product packaging.
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