Dom Moore, the founder, started foraging seaweed on the beaches of Margate after a health crisis. Not as a marketing gimmick — because he couldn’t find anything that actually fixed his skin.
The Hibernal Night Oil isn’t made in some pristine Swiss lab. It’s fermented on a coast that smells like low tide and rain. That’s the whole point.
It’s a regenerative night oil (30ml) from Haeckels. The label says “foraged from coastal wildflowers and fermented seaweed.” I bought it because I’m a sucker for anything that involves the word “fermented” and a beach.
Wild Sea Fennel
Foraged by hand from the chalk cliffs of Kent. Not grown. Not farmed. Picked by people who know the tides.
Fermented Seaweed Complex
This isn’t a trendy extract. It’s a 12-month fermentation process that breaks down the seaweed into peptides your skin actually recognizes.
No Squalane, No Jojoba
They use a base of cold-pressed rapeseed oil from a local farm. Felt weird to me at first. Now I get it.
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The stars here are Sea Fennel (a coastal succulent that smells like the ocean after a storm), Fermented Bladderwrack (the seaweed that’s been sitting in saltwater for a year), and Chamomile from the same fields where the wind tastes like salt. Nothing in this bottle traveled more than 30 miles.
- Sea Fennel: Tightens pores without stripping anything
- Fermented Bladderwrack: Repairs the moisture barrier better than ceramides
- Chamomile Roman: Soothes redness in 48 hours — tested it after a sunburn
- Cold-pressed Rapeseed Oil: Absorbs in 10 seconds. Unreal.
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It pours like honey but disappears like water. The scent is… divisive. Imagine walking through a coastal marsh at dawn. Salty, green, slightly funky. I love it. My partner asked if I “forgot to shower.”
Week 2: My skin stopped looking thirsty by midday. Week 3: The weird hormonal bump on my chin just… left. Didn’t even announce itself.
My skin is calmer. The redness around my nose is gone. The fine lines on my forehead? Still there — but they look hydrated, not etched in. I wake up looking like I slept 9 hours even when I didn’t.
This isn’t a luxury oil you buy for the packaging. It’s a functional, fermented, foraged oil that smells like the coast it came from. Buy it if you’re ready to stop fighting your skin.