It’s not a moisturizer! It’s not a serum! It is the safest skincare product that can be used on all skin types. Divine Skin Rose 001 The Essence is a hydrating liquid product, water-based , that contains high concentrations of active ingredients. The job of essence is to hydrate, protect and boost the health of your skin. When essense is applied to clean skin, it helps restore hydration in your skin cells. Even more, it helps to absorb your serums and moisturizers.
I’ve recently realized that the most important thing you can do for your skin is to protect your skin barrier. Essence is a hydrator, providing moisture to your skin. while it rebalances the pH level of your skin, which in turn helps repair your skin barrier. Providing moisture to rehydrate your skin cells protects the barrier of the skin, and boosts the health of your skin, as it softens and smooths the skin barrier (which is the epidermis). Pat McGrath Divine Skin Rose 001 The Essence is your instant skin perfector. It restores, rebalances, and protects your skin barrier. One result is, it transforms and enhances your skin, which gives you the Pat McGrath Signature Luminous Glow, the glow we all want for our skin. Now, it comes in a bottle!
You can find the Pat McGrath Divine Skin Rose 001 The Essence on the Pat McGrath Website. Eventually it will come to Sephora, but not anytime soon. The Divine Rose 001 The Essence (3.38 fl. oz. / 100 ML) costs $86.
“Pat McGrath Labs has been called out for their unscrupulous use of packaging, such as plastic bags and sequins, with anonymous beauty collective Estée Laundry leading the fight”. Yes, you can recycle Pat McGrath containers. Pat McGrath offers recycling guidelines on its website, and other well-known brand names with similar products are likely to be equally well-informed about recycling guidelines for their companies. I was worried about PM not being eco-friendly. Until I discovered the following article from Clean Beauty Coach.Com.
Happy to know that those gorgeous, opulent boxes, with PM gold hieroglyphics, are recyclable. 
Also, The Essence comes in a beautiful Glass bottle, with a plastic lid. Both can be recycled. 
Screw off the lid, which is a gorgeous rose color, with a gold rim, and there is a plastic disc on top of the essence, with a hole, where, after you shake the bottle to combine the milky top half with the rose watery bottom half, you pour a few drops onto your hands, and the formula comes out of the top, plastic disc with hole. Otherwise, since we are talking about Pat McGrath Labs, the bottle looks like a bottle you would find in an apothecary. The outer box is a piece of artwork. The lid of the box flips up. You never have to trash this. beauty. Pat also gives you four other stickers that you can put on the. box, or bottle to use as decoration.
First, 97% of the ingredients in The Essense are naturally derived. The formula comes in two parts. 
First, is the lightweight milky emulsion that sits on the top 1/2 of the bottle on top of the Rose Colored Water, which rests on the bottom of the bottle. The lightweight milky emulsion is infused with Hydra Sphere 18, a combination of botanically derived oils, lipids, and Vitamin E. (Lipids are a source of energy for your skin, and helps smooth fine lines and wrinkles.)
The Star ingredient in the formula is Rose. The Rose Colored Water, on the bottom half of the bottle, combines centifolia rose petal extract, damascene rose water, and rose biotic, which is a powerful blend that is enhanced by molecular extraction technology. The molecular technology extraction gives you all the benefits of the Rose. This Rose Petal Technology allows for the benefits of the Rose, to calm, hydrate and strengthen your skin.
The Essence, mixing the two parts, milky and rose water, illuminates your skin, and gives you a healthy glow. It soothes stressed, dehydrated skin. Skin will be brighter and more hydrated, immediately, and over time. It will nourish, hydrate and plump your skin, which will make your skin luminous.
Even more, Essence Bolsters the efficacy of the skincare that will go on top. First, Cleanse Your Skin, using a mild cleanser that will keep your pH level at around 5.5 pH. 
Next, Shake your Essence, and then shake it into your hands, and press it into your skin.
Then, you can use your serum, (or serums,) whose primary role is NOT to HYDRATE,! Instead, serum, which is thicker and more viscous, works to penetrate deeper into your skin, to target specific issues, such as aging. 
Essence, applied before serum, helps your skin easily absorb the serum.
Last, serum must be followed with moisturizer to lock the serum into your skin.
