Beauty science is simply unstoppable. Here’s how some of the smartest face products in the world keep you radiant and youthful, with the help of nature’s ingredients and super-advanced technology.
They are powerful game-changers in the beauty world. They offer unequaled efficacy and results. Emollients, creams, serums and lotions that combine the work of Mother Nature with cutting-edge knowledge of skin science. All literally at our fingertips. Beauty science never stops, never sleeps. With these, no one needs to look tired, stressed or weather-beaten anymore.
YSL Beauty Pure Shots – This range comprising the Night Reboot, Lines Away, Light Up, Y Shape serums covers every anti-ageing base, leaving no needs unplugged. This comprehensive suite of products targets the stress – both internal and external – of fast-paced city living, in innovative and sustainable refillable packaging.
Key ingredients: Potent botanicals sourced from Moroccan gardens such as moonlight cactus, iris, marshmallow, burbary, orange blossom and ribose, with vitamins C, E and B, peptides, hyaluronic and glycolic acids.
Sulwhasoo 5th Generation First Care Activating Serum – First launched 23 years ago, it has evolved over time and been reinvented as its latest incarnation. After two decades, it is still the fundamental first step to any Sulwhasoo beauty regime. This comprehensive antioxidant serum promotes healthy skin cell regeneration, firms up the skin’s structure and strengthens skin’s protective layer, so that beneficial bacteria can survive.
Key ingredients: A combination of peony, rehmannia lotus, Solomon’s seal and white lily, used in a 1:1:3 combination.
Lancôme Advanced Génifique – Famed for producing results in 7 days, it has become a go-to for every Lancôme user, no matter her age or lifestyle. Its bonus addictive texture adds radiance, tackles fine lines, wrinkles and offers improved skin evenness, smoothness, elasticity and firmness in just 1 week.
Key ingredients: Microbes in the form of pre- and probiotics such as cutibacterium, staphylococcus and corynebacterium that play 3 key roles:
- to protect against pathogens,
- to modulate and regulate inflammation; and
- to repair and build up skin’s resilience.
Lancôme Absolue Soft Cream – It is the icon of French-style premium skin care and is based on the power of the Lancôme Rose (or the Grand Rose), a powerful rose that, as the result of hybridisation through bio-technological processes, has been turned into an active ingredient and empowered with skin improvement capabilities. It has a beautiful rose bouquet from the rose complex that’s both soothing and invigorating. It is suitable for sensitive skin. A Rich Cream version is also available for normal to dry non-sensitive skin. This eco-sustainable luxury skin treat is earth-friendly through the Absolue Refill.
Key ingredients: Grand Rose Extracts made from centifolia rose, rosa damascene; a rose essential oil and concentrate.
Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair – Launched in 1982, it is patented till 2033 and has won 150 awards so far. The original Night Repair achieved many firsts too – it was the first skin care product to use hyaluronic acid, the first serum in the repair category, and the first luxury skin care product to be bottled in a ‘medicine’ bottle. Every minute, 22 bottles of Advanced Night Repair is sold around the world.
Key ingredients: Hyaluronic acid and anti-oxidants that repair the skin by night and protect the skin by day.
Dior Capture Youth – This customized mix and match program allows users to pair 3 products in different combinations. The Age-Delay Advanced Crème doubles skin’s antioxidant power in 2 hours and if the Intense Rescue Age-Delay Revitalizing Oil-Serum is added to it, the new concoction resets dry, fatigued skin too. For a smooth, clear, strong skin barrier, users can add Age-Delay Resurfacing Water to the Crème. Just 1 to 2 drops of either will do.
Key ingredients: Aragan oil, iris florentina and tamanu, an oil seed from Asia.
Dior Capture Totale C.E.L.L. Energy Range – Strongly based on Dior’s research on stem cells and the House’s legacy floral expertise, this super serum acts like an energy cell enriched with active ingredients in a highly penetrative form that allows it to be more targeted and active in the skin for longer.
Key ingredients: An exclusive next-generation hyaluronic acid with a low molecular weight that increases its bio-availability and longevity. Also Madagascan Longoza, Chinese Peony, White Lily and Chinese Jasmine.
Chanel Le Lift Serum – The luxurious Le Lift Serum targets damage caused by daily oxidation, to leave the skin feeling and looking soft, firm and luminous.
Key ingredients: Alfalfa and black peppermint to protect, strengthen and de-stress the skin.
Chanel Le Lift Crème Yeux – Formulated just for the delicate and sensitive eye area, the first part of the face to show signs of ageing and fatigue.
Key ingredients: Alfalfa concentrate and a phyto-active complex derived from horse chestnut seeds; hyaluronic acid, beeswax and shea butter.
If your hands need the same help, preserve them with this product to keep them moisturised and pigment-free.
Images courtesy of respective brands, artwork by Curatedition. All rights reserved.
Related links:
The Science behind Lancôme’s New Advanced Génifique
Kiehl’s: Making its Best Better
Lancôme: In the Name of the Rose
Sulwhasoo: Achieving the Fine Art of Balanced, Harmonious Beauty
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