Fresh Faced: Creams to help protect your skin from the winter chill

As the cold season approaches, creams are constantly a vital must-have in every woman’s skincare best practice.

Award winning Fresh luxury perfumes and cosmetics house Lancôme has made a huge impact in the world of beauty. In 2009, its Advanced Génifique collection sold roughly 35 million bottles worldwide and received over 170 awards. The French house has now upgraded the product with a unique complex of seven pre-and probiotic fractions. One drop delivers 30 million pre- and probiotic fractions to the skin and is said to facilitate skin recovery by up to 77 percent an hour after application.

Next on our list is Belif‘s Ritual Time-Honored Tincture of Chamomile Cream. Belif is known for its heritage ingredients, time-honoured extractions method and anti-stress using its own original fragrance of herbs. This product apparently provides skin restoration and lasting radiance with intensive care for rough and dry skin, which makes it healthy and radiant, especially when used in a three-stage process.

Known for its next-generation age-defying solutions, Clé de Peau Beauté has launched its Volumizing Cream Supreme, an age-defying innovation inspired by dermatology and regenerative science. This volumising cream helps boost the skin’s natural plumpness, resulting in a firmer, softer, smoother, moisturised and youthful-looking skin.

Meanwhile, DERM iNSTITUTE marries DNA technology and oriental therapeutic herbs for purportedly unsurpassable results with its Anti-Oxidant Hydration Cream. Rich with antioxidants and ceramides repair ingredients, it apparently helps protect against the winter chill.

Last but not the least, IT Cosmetics employs the mantra of “Sleep your way to younger-looking skin with it!” with its Confidence in Your Beauty Sleep Night Cream helping to renew your dermis overnight. Its rest-and-restore technology addresses five major skin issues: ageing fine lines, wrinkles, dryness, dullness and firmness. Almost instantaneous results are seen in terms of hydrated, smoother and supple skin.

“To ward off winter’s drying effects, hydrating creams are an absolute must”

Neck’s Best Thing: These new creams target your neck and décolleté

Though ladies never hesitate to splurge on skincare routines for their faces, one of the first telltale signs of ageing actually appears around the neck. To combat this undesirable conundrum, a slew of new products have been launched this season, putting the focus beyond the face to the nape and the décolleté as well.

Notable among these is international beauty brand La Mer’s new offering, The Neck and Décolleté Concentrate, said to strengthen, soften and smoothen skin through a cell-renewing Miracle Broth. Coming with a similar promise is the Syntactif Crème Cou et Décolleté cream from Japanese skincare marque Clé de Peau Beauté. When used together with the rose-petal shaped Essential Flow Massager, it enhances blood circulation around the neck area, lifting any signs of sagging.

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Parisian brand Darphin, meanwhile, offers a holistic skincare regime through its Stimulskin Plus Multi-Corrective Divine Cream. Targeting not just the neck but also the face, it’s apparently best utilised when applied using Darphin’s own Kinesio massage techniques. Taking a similar approach is US-based cosmetics company Tom Ford Beauty’s Tom Ford Research Crème Concentrate, said to provide 24-hour moisture protection to the skin, thanks to its algae, caffeine and green tea extracts.

Finally, beauty brand Helena Rubinstein looks to restore damaged skin in just three days courtesy of its Replasty Age Recovery Night cream, that contains an unprecedented 30-percent clinical dose of Pro-Xylane – a key ingredient for skin recovery.

Taking the Fall: Own the coming season with these autumn beauty products

Even as we bid a fond farewell to the fading weeks of summer, autumn is surely waiting in the wings, with its briefer days and cooler temperatures necessitating a different beauty regime. It is, indeed, time to trade in those light summertime creams in favour of weightier, more rejuvenating treatments. Fortunately, there is no shortage of skincare brands only too willing to help you make the required transformation.

With a promise to replenish and revive come the reformulated Intensive Fortifying Emulsion and Intensive Fortifying Cream from Clé de Peau Beauté. Designed to work in harmony, the duo have been formulated for night-time usage, allowing them to nocturnally activate the epidermis’ natural defences, ensuring you wake up with smoother and healthier-looking skin.

Clé de Peau Beauté Intensive Fortifying Cream and Intensive Fortifying Emulsion

Also focussing its attention on dispelling the telltale signs of ageing is Guerlain, with oily and multi-problem complexions particularly in its sights. Using only natural ingredients, the brand’s new Abeille Royale Mattifying Day Cream boosts the skin’s self-regeneration capacity, allowing for a more comprehensive takedown of the visible signs of wrinkles.

Guerlain Abeille Royale Mattifying Day Cream

Meanwhile, the fine folks over at Helena Rubinstein have ventured into decidedly organic territory with the Powercell Skinmunity range, which boasts a high native vegetal cell content. The real miracle products in this range are the Powercell Skinmunity The Serum, with its smoothening properties, and the Powercell Skinmunity The Emulsion, with its hydrating qualities.

Helena Rubinstein Powercell Skinmunity The Serum and Powercell Skinmunity The Emulsion

Last – but certainly not least – is Japan’s Shiseido, with its all-new Legendary Enmei Ultimate Luminance Serum, the crowning glory of its Future Solution LX collection. Incorporating both enmei herbs and green treasured silk, the serum derives its raw regenerative power from nature and smoothly delivers this onto the skin’s defence system, helping to restore your youthful tones and banish wrinkles.

Shiseido Legendary Enmei Ultimate Luminance Serum

Optical optimisation: New eye creams in the market

It’s a commonly known fact that the region around the eyes is the most sensitive area on the face – one that is susceptible to dark circles, wrinkles, eye bags and other tell-tale signs of ageing. Thankfully, some of the leading beauty brands have launched some new eye creams this spring, all promising to be the miracle solution to eye problems. Let’s check them out.

Ever since it was discovered in 1952, Life Plankton – a patented ingredient owned by French luxury skincare company Biotherm – has been celebrated for its rejuvenating effects on the skin. No doubt eager to cash in on the renown of its hero ingredient, the beauty brand has just unveiled Life Plankton Eye, a soothing serum for the eyes that is said to reduce fine lines and dark circles from the first application onwards.

Another brand making a similar claim is Japanese luxury skincare marque Clé de Peau Beauté. Its newly launched Enhancing Eye Contour Cream Supreme is said to not only reduce fine lines and signs of ageing, but also to re-contour the eyes altogether – largely thanks to an iris extract that apparently plumps up the skin from within.

Hot on its heels is Shiseido, with the Japanese brand having just released its Essential Energy Eye Definer, said to deliver a cool, energising look. Saturated with Vitamins E and C, its u