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”

Luxury Hydration Creams to See you Through Summer

With summertime wholly synonymous with sticky days and even stickier nights, it can be a real battle to keep facial skin properly moisturised and hydrated. With that in mind, now is the ideal time to restock your beauty cabinet with all the latest cosmetic technology geared to ensure optimum sun survival.

As fresh to the market as it will be to any suffering skin, Paris-based Guerlain’s new Super Aqua-Serum and Super Aqua-Lotion have both been developed with ensuring the ultimate in skin sensuality very much in mind. Thanks to its apt deployment of advanced aqua complex technology, your skin’s natural water flow is optimised, resulting in instant and persistent rehydration.

Another brand on a mission to help you through the summer is Dior, with its Hydra Life Fresh Reviver Sorbet Water Mist and Fresh Hydration Sorbet Crème taking centre stage. The mist keeps your skin hydrated throughout the day, with its array of active ingredients stimulating the intra-cellular water reserve while energising your epidermis.

Just as its name suggests, Fresh is looking to ensure that your skin is ably moisturised, courtesy of its Rose Deep Hydration Sleeping Mask. The night-time application consists of a cooling gel essence and calming rosewater, which work together to smoothe out and strengthen the skin’s natural barriers.

Meanwhile, Derm Institute is set on reducing your unwanted blemishes and warding off the worst effects of ageing with its new Anti-Oxidant Hydration Blemish Rescue. Featuring such key ingredients as 3D hydra APS, vitamin B3 and nanogold, this is very much an anti-inflammatory, anti-blemish all-star squad.

Last but not least is the new Moisture Cream from Eve Lom. Promising to keep your skin hydrated for up to 72 hours, the cream is said to detoxify cells while strengthening the skin’s own barriers.

Travelling Lights: Light lotions that won’t weigh down your luggage

Just like we switch from cashmere sweaters and over-the-knee boots to flowing dresses and strappy sandals as winter gives way to summer, it’s equally important to abandon the hyper-rich, super-thick moisturisers that see us through the cooler months in favour of their lighter and less oily counterparts. Here are our picks for the best light lotions for the summer season.

With this seasonal shift in mind, your first port of call should be Sisley’s new hero product – the SisleYouth Anti Pollution Energizing Super Hydrating Youth Protector. Ably infused with ginseng and kiwi, it’s said to provide more than enough protection to ward off any pollutants.

Those with blemish-prone skin, however, may be better served by French luxury maison Dior and its La Micro-Lotion de Rose, a new addition to the premuim Dior Prestige range. Rich with the essence of Normandy rose, this lightweight lotion claims to seal nutrients into the skin, without leaving any oilness.

Similarly kind to the skin, apparently, is Derm Institute’s all-new sunblock, Cellular Brightening Daily Defense SPF50+ PA++++. Despite its high SPF count, the sun protector is endowed with a feather-light feel, making it a wise addition to your handbag on a super-sunny day.

For protection from indoor pollutants, though, Barcelona-based Natura Bissé may have the answer to many girls’ prayers in the form of its Diamond Cocoon Global Pollution-Protection Treatment Skin Booster, which protects the skin from harmful indoor blue lighting – thought to be almost as damaging as direct UV exposure.

If you are an avowed Chanel purist, though, you’ll be glad to know that your favoured Parisian brand hasn’t let you down, with its Le Blanc Essence Lotion in the newly-launched Le Blanc 2019 collection proving a joyously light, milky lotion said to leave the skin restored and revitalised even during the most sultry of summer days.

Timeless Beauty: Rediscover the lost cosmetic arts of the Ancient World

It has long been known that many of the world’s most ancient civilizations boasted sophisticated and highly effective beauty regimes, the secrets of which have been lost over the intervening centuries. Now, though, it seems at least some of those arcane aesthetic arts have been rediscovered by the contemporary cosmetics sector…

anti-ageing — *Derm Institute Youth Alchemy Soft Cream*

Pre-eminent in this move to restore such timehonoured treatments is Derm Institute, with the ultragentle formula of its Youth Alchemy Soft Cream said to contain a number of active plant cells, including blue lotus and myrrh, both of which are reported to boost the skin’s immune system and help protect natural collagen, ultimately delivering a luxurious anti-ageing effect.

Fresh to the market and all but guaranteed to freshen up your facial features is Guerlain’s Orchidée Impériale. A modern take on a classic remedy formula, it actively soothes the papillary dermis, reducing enlarged pores and gently concealing deep wrinkles.

Those enamoured with the renowned wisdom of ancient India may already be familiar with su:m37˚’s LosecSumma Elixir Day Ampoule and LosecSomma Elixir Cream. The active ingredients of this traditional Indian Ayurveda fermentation remedy are said to detoxify and regenerate the skin, while trapping essential moisture within for anti-ageing effects.

Another heritage treatment well worth investigating is Sulwhasoo’s Timetreasure Invigorating Cream. The brand’s take on nature incorporates Korean red pine needles, an arboreal element said to help combat the effects of ageing while bolstering skin cells.

Finally, should you still be searching for just one multifunctional means of amelioration, La Prairie’s Platinum Rare Cellular Life Lotion, with its fusion of antioxidants and platinum metal, is said to help restore your skin in myriad different ways.

In Essence: This season’s top three essence treatments

Check out this season’s top three essence treatments that claims to aid in our skin cell’s natural rejuvenation processes…

The Miami-based Derm Institute chose this season to launch its Cellular Rejuvenating Toning Essence. Said to deliver everything from re-hydration to cell regeneration, its potency is apparently down to its groundbreaking nano-platinum delivery technology.

For those looking for an alternative, there’s always Fresh’s new Black Tea Kombucha Facial Treatment Essence, which claims to turn back time, thanks to the anti-ageing properties of Kombucha – a magic ingredient produced by the fermentation of selected microorganisms and black tea.

Meanwhile, Japanese beauty brand SK–II‘s Facial Treatment Essence helps to improve the overall appearance of skin, making it radiant, more firm and crystal-clear – all thanks to its moisturising ingredient Pitera.