Ready to turn back time? For burring those worry lines, fighting dark spots, and brightening your skin, you need to use a night cream, says Trudi Brewer - find out why?
Editor Trudi Brewer shares the latest night creams on TV3 The Cafe with host Melanie Holmer.
Every day of our lives, we're making and breaking down collagen in the skin, thanks to an enzyme called collagenase. This enzyme breaks down collagen in damaged tissues and generates new healthy cell tissue. This process is directly responsible for how our skin looks and feels aka lines and wrinkles and dryness. To prevent your skin ageing beyond your years, boosting your routine with a night cream that contains active ingredients assists the collagenase process and gives your skin a chance to shut down, rest, and reboot. For any skin type, a daily dose of night cream is just as crucial as an SPF for skin protection during the day. Here are some newbies and old faves.
Shiseido Vital Perfection Enriched Uplifting and Firming Cream, $189.
Boosted with skin-loving antioxidants; the formula is designed to revive tired, lacklustre complexions. The blend of plant and flower extracts, including safflower extract and Bulgarian rose water make up the brand's ‘KURENAI-TruLift’ skin contouring complex. At the same time, the high tech 'ReNeura Technology' is a blend of the olive root, tea, and angelica root extracts, to smooth and firm ageing skin over time. The thick gel-like consistency melts onto the skin and has a delicate citrus scent, from the blend of noble orchid, and Japanese allspice. Vital Protection hit’s stores June 22.
Shiseido Vital Perfection Enriched Uplifting and Firming Cream, $189.
Burt's Bees Sensitive Night Cream, $28.
Burt's Bees Sensitive Night Cream, $28.
Firstly the comforting oat-like aroma is thanks to the rice and cotton extracts that hydrate and soothe the most sensitive of skins. The formulation is 98.9 percent natural with no artificial fragrance, paraben, phthalates, petrolatum and SLS free. This cream is ideal for someone looking for a clean beauty buy..
Avène DermAbsolu Comforting Night Balm, $80.
The fluffy balm-like texture of this cream is brimming with active anti-ageing ingredients. These include the moisture magnet, hyaluronic acid, and sytenol, the radiance-boosting plant-derived retinol or vitamin A. Like all the Avène products the base is thermal spring water, which only enhances those heavy-hitting ingredients to make this the perfect overnight cream to soothe and improve any dull, dry, and sensitive skin.
Avène DermAbsolu Comforting Night Balm, $80.
Shiseido Waso Giga-Hydrating Rich Cream, $69.
Shiseido Waso Giga-Hydrating Rich Cream, $69.
This mineral-oil-free moisturiser is designed for all skin types, even combination with open pores. The blend of Japanese superfoods includes fermented soybean extract, peony, and carrot extracts that boost hydration and encourage skin clarity - and don’t you love the cute jar, with the twist-off handle cap.
Neutrogena Bright Boost Illuminating Serum Neutrogena, $37.
A serum is a perfect partner to a rich, luxe-y night cream, applied first; this newbie powered by a technology called 'Neoglucosamine', contains a blend of three anti-ageing and brightening ingredients. This trio not only speeds up your cell turnover with mandelic to glycolic acids, but the smart moisture-magnet hyaluronic acid boosts hydration levels while you sleep.
Neutrogena Bright Boost Illuminating Serum Neutrogena, $37.
Clarins Bright Plus Advanced Brightening Serum, $135.
Clarins Bright Plus Advanced Brightening Serum, $135.
Pressed under your night cream, the brand says this is an oxygen shot for the skin. The blend of antioxidants, including rose-myrtle, sea lily, and acerola seeds, makes this plant powdered skin conditioner a brilliant brightening boost for a dull complexion. Long-term it works to blur brown spots and hyperpigmentation.