The French. Renowned for great cheese, better wine and never ageing – in spite of all those skinny cigarettes they smoke. How so? Well, tbh, some genius beauty products.
Fashion and beauty folk used to hot-foot it to Paris to track down a Celine bag and some Bioderma Crealine make-up remover (no, not stopping for a sneaky croissant), but now they’re all available online you don’t even need Eurostar to track them down. Still, any excuse eh? Here’s the low-down:
Throw out your fancy face cream and make new best friends with Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré, £20. This old-fashioned, cold-style cream is a go-to for prepping model faces pre-shoot because it softens and smoothes skin to create a perfect canvas for make-up.
While Homeoplasmine, £5.20, was traditionally designed to soothe the chapped nipples of breastfeeding mothers (not a glamorous task, but necessary), it has since become known as the best all-round healing cream and ultimate solution for dry chapped wintery lips.
You know when you get back from a night out, and want to face-plant your pillow but don’t because nice girls wash their faces before bed, but then your crappy make-up remover smears that smoky eye all over your now peaky face and you wish you hadn’t bothered?
Allow us to introduce Bioderma Solution Micellaire, £4.50. Another backstage staple, this gentle, water-textured cleanser makes light work of sweeping away make-up and is suitable for even the most sensitive skins.
The La Roche-Posay packaging can be kind of confusing, but don’t be disheartened because this brand could change your skin forever. Now available in many good pharmacies as well as online, try Cicaplast Baume B5, £16, a multi-tasking hero of a balm that soothes and often gets rid of all kinds of rashes and skin irritations.
The smell of the multi-tasking Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse Dry Oil, £28, is so bloody great that the brand has now released it as a scent due to popular demand. Apply it to your body, hair and face to soften, nourish and repair. Lovely.
This article originally appeared on The Debrief.