She’s the woman trusted to care for Queen Camilla’s complexion. Now, Deborah Mitchell, founder of Heaven Skincare and holder of a coveted Royal Warrant, has launched what she describes as her most groundbreaking product yet.
After 30 years in the industry and three years of rigorous testing, Queen Camilla’s facialist has unveiled Prism Protection SPF 50+. A moisturiser she claims is the first of its kind: combining powerful sun protection with deep, long-lasting hydration.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Express, the expert claimed: “This is the first ever SPF moisturiser we have ever done.” Revealing it was a “miracle moisturiser”
“Not because I didn’t want to. It was because I couldn’t get it how I wanted. It’s took me thirty years to get it to get it to this point and three years of fully testing. I didn’t realise it, until it was perfect,” she added.
Unlike many formulas on the market, Deborah says her innovation solves a problem that has baffled skincare experts for decades.
“The problem with SPF moisturisers: they either don’t moisturise the skin, or the SPF doesn’t work,” she explained.
“The reason being an SPF needs to stay on the surface to protect the skin and a moisturiser needs to sink in and absorb into the skin to moisturise. Therefore what we have created is a product that contains cotton stem cells, which plump out the skin, while leaving the SPF on the surface to protect,” she continued.
The patented formula, Deborah adds, also has a unique interaction with light. “On contact with the negative light, the product works not only to protect it, but to release peptides in your skin to anti-age your skin and create a youthful appearance,” the expert added.
She’s equally keen to highlight what the moisturiser doesn’t block: vitamin D.
“When you are on your computer, that’s a type of light that’s touching your face. And that broad spectrum will cut out that light to prevent damaging your face. It will also cut out the damage of infrared. It also cuts out UVA and UVB. But it won’t cut out vitamin D,” Deborah said.
“The other point of this is, vitamin D is so important to use. To block out vitamin D is really bad. So to add a broad-spectrum SPF that is natural, and moisturises the skin to such a degree, it is like a unicorn – something so special and impossible to find. We’ve created that unicorn.”
Mitchell was honestly about the drawbacks of traditional chemical sunscreens, sharing, “Chemical SPFs react on the skin with the heat of the sun and have been known in some cases to be more damaging to the skin. When you thought you were putting on something to protect the skin – the SPF – and it is chemical-based, it can cause more problems. It can cause breakouts, rashes, all sorts of things,” she warned.
Instead, Prism Protection is designed to be lightweight, non-greasy and suitable for daily wear, protecting against UVA and UVB rays, as well as blue light and environmental aggressors. While also hydrating, soothing and smoothing the complexion.