Looking for that New Year glow? Here is a list of our favorite skincare products to give you the best skin of your life.
Cleanser
At the beginning is an excellent place to start and a fresh face begins with the most luxurious cleanser. Retrouvé’s Luminous Cleansing Elixir is a dream come true for your skin. The silky balm melts away impurities without leaving your face dry. Founded by Jami Morse Heidegger, the heir of the famous Kiehl’s skincare brand, and her husband Klaus Heidegger with the goal of creating a unisex skincare line without compromise in quality, price, or effectiveness. Retrouvé has become the skincare brand for those in the know. Jami and Klaus have sourced ranch-harvested avocados used in Retrouvé’s Luminous Cleansing Elixir. Retrouvé plans to cultivate and include more raw ingredients from their private orchards, affording the brand an exceptional level of control over the quality of its product.
EXFOLIATION – CHEMICAL
After cleansing remember to exfoliate. Our favorite chemical exfoliator by far is Juice Beauty’s Stem Cellular Exfoliating Peel Spray. It takes effective action in just seconds. No wonder powerhouse women look to Juice Beauty; such as Gwyneth Paltrow, who was the brands creative director, and Kate Hudson, who chose Juice Beauty founder Karen Behnke, as the one to help her launch her skincare collaboration. The extremely effective products are created with the highest environmental standards and the Stem Cellular Exfoliating Peel Spray is an instant win.
There are two kinds of exfoliation processes, chemical or physical. Meaning that the chemical exfoliation happens with a chemical reaction on the surface of the skin and a physical exfoliator removes dead skin cells by its somewhat rough textures to physically lift off and remove debris.
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EXFOLIATION – PHYSICAL
When you’ve just got to have that freshly scrubbed face feeling you’ll love the way that the Golden Door’s Bamboo Face Scrub gets to work. The Golden Door Resort and spa in California spares no expense when creating top of the line skincare products. The sweet blueberry scent from the natural blueberry fruit extracts and seeds sets the mood while the bamboo stem powder gets to work. The hyper polyphenol packed grape extract soothes and nourishes your skin and makes this jelly exfoliator one you want to reach for again and again to get the smoothest skin. It’s a sweet treat.
MASK
Need a wake-me-up? This outstanding Corrective Oxygen Mask from Aenea Skin is a deeply hydrating gel face mask that packs a powerful punch. It releases an abundance of oxygen directly to the skin, which helps to lift dirt from deep within the pores while enhancing the skin’s breathing and metabolic process. It truly feels like a breath of fresh air for tired skin. It also features Hyaluronic acid. The cooling, oxygenating effects are a favorite. Just remember that this is salon strength so only use once a week.
TONER
Time to tone up. After a deep clean, exfoliation and mask always remember to use a toner. Often overlooked it can be a simple fix to many skincare concerns. Toning the skin after cleansing restores the pH balance and stop the dry, itchy and tight feeling that can come from cleansing by balancing out the alkaline and acidic nature of cleaners, allowing your skin to come to a naturally balanced state, which basically means happy skin and no breakouts. We love the ethos and over the top determination for quality that the founders of Mun Skin follow to the letter. This boundless dedication to quality and eco-friendly standards help to create one of the most nourishing toners on the market today. The Anarose Hydrating Rose Toner features all the good things; Bulgarian Rosewater, Hyaluronic acid, Willow Bark Extract, Goji Berry Extract, Rose, Jasmine and Daisy Extracts. It’s flower petal soft while being filled with flower power effects that are practically addictive.
SERUM
We recommend an extra dose of goodness for your skin before moisturizing. That’s where serums come into the lineup. With an impressive list of plant-based stem cells, groundbreaking peptides and loads of that magic elixir Chantecaille is so well known for the Year Of The Rabbit Bio Lift Serum+ is definitely getting us excited. The innovative “serum is infused with powerful botanicals and the newest peptides that smooth the appearance of horizontal and vertical lines while working to moisturize, immediately lift, visibly firm and protect against blue light pollution.”
EYE & LIP CREAM
A cult classic for a reason, Sisley-Paris has a two in one product that just delivers when addressing the “visible signs associated with the three types of aging: genetic and environmental aging, and now, those linked to personal lifestyle.” The SISLEŸA L’INTEGRAL EYE & LIP CONTOUR CREAM is filled with Persian Acacia and Lindera extracts, and a Yeast and Soy Protein Complex to help reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles, while the Soy peptide extract visibly firms the upper eyelids. Passion fruit extract, Atlas Cedar extract and Pomegranate fermented extract, all work their magic to reduce dark circles and puffiness around the eyes. We could go on but you get the idea. This is a must have.
Day Cream Moisturizer
All of Furtuna Skin products are formulated with the hardest working, most resilient botanicals – sustainably sourced from the hills of our private organic farm in Sicily.
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A day moisturizer is absolutely mandatory when caring for one’s own skin and Furtuna Skin Perla Brillante Daily Renewal Cream takes it a step further by creating a blend of ingredients that work with your circadian rhythm so you can get the most out of your skincare by day or night. The proprietary Circadian Rhythm Complex is formulated with a blend of botanicals, including skin-clearing lamb’s quarters, brightening water celery and barrier protecting nettle leaf to renew skin clarity and vitality.
Night Cream Moisturizer
Hibiscus and its juicy, rich red color has been revered since ancient Egypt for its healing and restorative powers, so when Irene Forte said they created a skincare using hibiscus that can give similar result to getting injectables at the medi-spa, sans the needle, we said “Yes, please.” The breakthrough discovery of Myoxinol™, “extracted from Hibiscus Seeds, acts in a similar way to injectables in reducing even deep forehead lines, means that there’s a major new approach to reverse signs of skin aging.” This is a moisturizer that you should run, not walk, to buy. Their customer trials had a 100% success rate for hydration and 88% said their skin looked restored in just 10 days. With the Green Pea Peptide, Hyaluronic Acid, Olive Oil Fractions and a Tetra-Ceramide Complex to nourish and protect the skin you can kiss the injectables good-bye and just have a good nights sleep while the Hibiscus Night Cream does all the work for you. It’s time for the best beauty sleep of your life.