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Every skincare junkie knows that moisturisers make up one-third of the must-have beauty trio for good skin, which includes cleansers and sunscreens. These three products are absolutely non-negotiable when it comes to getting a good complexion.
Why? It’s because your skin is an organ that, like any other organ in your body, needs water to stay healthy. And anti-ageing moisturisers not only hydrate, smooth and plump up your complexion, they also strengthen your skin’s protective barrier against external aggressors.
The beauty industry knows how important these creamy little miracles in a bottle are, and are always coming up with better formulations to nourish and treat your skin.
With the plethora of new moisturisers coming out every month, it can be hard to sift through them all and discern the great from the good. To help you along, we’ve put together a curated list of the best new anti-ageing moisturisers to check out.
What do we love about them? These awesome anti-ageing moisturisers get absorbed right into skin without leaving a sticky residue and immediately relieve any feelings of dryness and tightness. Your complexion feels soft, supple and comforted.
On top of that, the products are made with all sorts of skin-loving and anti-ageing goodies to leave your face looking and feeling fresher and younger. Read on – and please don’t blame us if you end up getting them all, because they are that great.
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It is right there in its name: formulated to plump up your skin with caviar-like collagen capsules, this anti-ageing serum by Dr Lewinn’s is designed to reduce the appearance of wrinkles while promoting firm skin.
We’re talking hydration, improved elasticity, and lifting and firming that precious visage.
You’ll adore this whipped cream-textured night moisturiser, which is infused with fresh, hand-picked lotus extracts. It detoxifies and destresses skin, minimises and prevents the first signs of ageing, boosts radiance and fights free radical damage as you snooze.
The Fresh Lotus Youth Preserve Dream Face Cream also has a delicate peach scent to help you relax, and will leave your face feeling silky smooth the next morning.
The gentle moisturiser is infused with Grand Rose extracts to help your skin regenerate in as little as three weeks.
What’s special about the Lancome Absolue Soft Cream, is its unique thick-thin-thick texture. It starts off feeling rich on your skin, to nourish and comfort, then melts into a lightweight texture for better and faster absorption, and finally, it thickens again to plump up skin and give it a soft glow.
We especially loved how soft our complexion felt after just a few days of use.
The weightless anti-ageing cream is infused with the brand’s exclusive ingredient reviscentalis, and moisturising agents like hyaluronic acid and mannose, to boost skin regeneration, soften and plump, while providing intense hydration for up to 12 hours.
But what truly sets the Giorgio Armani Beauty Crema Nuda apart is its hybrid pigment technology. A combination of transparent and ‘skin affinity’ pigments work together to instantly blur out imperfections and illuminate skin, leaving you with a dewy glow, and a perfect-looking complexion.
Shiseido’s Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Cream works by optimising the communication between sensory nerves and your brain to improve the skin’s cellular response and trigger its self-repair process. This helps to prevent damage to skin, delay the ageing process and leave you with a healthier complexion.
And if that’s not enough, the Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Cream is infused with an algae complex to smooth and prevent the formation of fine lines and wrinkles, tea extract to fight pigmentation and boost radiance, as well as yuzu seed extract to improve skin elasticity.
The Laneige Time Freeze Emulsion is infused with musk mallow water and carob bean extract to improve skin elasticity and soften fine lines. It also contains low-molecular weight hyaluronic acid that can penetrate the deeper layers of skin to intensely hydrate and leave you with a firmer, more supple complexion.
The formula also helps to balance the skin’s oil and water ratio to keep your complexion soft, plump and shine-free.
This luxe anti-ageing moisturiser in an indulgence, but it’s worth every cent. It stimulates the production of DHEA in the skin, a hormone that works on physiological ageing, to soften and smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, repair damage, prevent the over-production of melanin, detoxes and boosts cell regeneration.
The result: a younger-looking, healthy complexion. And because the cream is chock-full of active ingredients, a little goes a long way. Just a soya bean size amount is enough for the whole face.
The Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream is like a protein shot to your skincare regime. It is made with a cocktail of signal peptides, growth factors, supportive amino acids, as well as pygmy waterlily extract, to visibly improve the appearance of skin’s tone, texture and firmness.
Used over time, it will help treat lines, wrinkles and sun damage, while also leaving your complexion more resilient. The anti-ageing moisturiser is also free of silicones, chemical screens, colourants, perfumes and fragrant essential oils, making it great for sensitive skin.