My favourite instant face peels for smaller pores and an 8-hour glow

Ah, at-home peels. The perfect midway point between milder everyday scrubs and mysteriously long lunch breaks to an aesthetician. As wee caveat: Always spot test on the nook of your elbow, and start slow once a week should suffice.

Disclaimer aside, click through the gallery slides for a fantastic fivesome of pore-tightening poultices, for your perusal and purchasing consideration, please!

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OMG, I’m obsessed with this delightful Dior concoction, which is as fuss-free and fabulous as it gets: Slap it onto your skin, massage it into your mien for 60 seconds or so until it melts into “milk”, then splash off in the shower. A carefully curated suite of exfoliants – think salicylic, glycolic and citric acids – work in tandem to slough off gunk and grime for a gorgeous glow, aided along by encapsulated pearlescent pigments for instant incandescence. Earmark this as a new year’s treat – your skin will thank you for it, pinky promise!   

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Talk about the power of flowers. This Body Shop elixir boasts a formula that’s positively packed with edelweiss – yes, that famous flower whose praises have been sung to high heaven by the divine Julie Andrews in that priceless piece of childhood cinematography, The Sound of Music. Because who hasn’t spent their primary school years jiggling along to Julie’s alpine adventures?

But back to the product at hand. This peel marries said edelweiss extract with other brightening botanicals for a potent potion that promises to restore your complexion to its beautiful best. It’s immensely satisfying to use, too: Dispense a pump or two onto dry skin, then rub it in until you see clumps of dirt and debris coalescing on the surface. Rinse off for skin that’s plump as a petal. Because hey, as the inimitable Julie Andrews once predicted, blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow.

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I’m a go-big-or-go-home sort when it comes to skincare, so this potent potion is right up my beauty alley. Stash this in your cabinet for Very Special Occasions, when you know you have to bring out the big guns; think Tinder date or performance appraisal with the boss.

A smidgen of this snow-white creamy concoction goes a long way, especially when it comes to ironing out the creases and crinkles around my mouth. Then there’s the inclusion of star player salicylic acid, one of my favourite blemish busting ingredients. This being La Prairie, the peel also packs in all of the burnished bells and whistles to be expected from the swanky Swiss brand: Cool chrome stand, sumptuous synthetic brush et cetera. Word of warning, though: Stick to the stipulated three-minute cut-off point and splash off with warm water when time’s up – any longer and the tolerable tingling becomes a troubling throbbing.  

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This one-two punch is perfect for babes who want a pronounced brightening boost – that means more or less everyone these days, I suppose. There’s an amusing air of sciencey seriousness about the application that’ll go down well with aspiring cosmetic chemists. First, massage the Vitamin C/Peptide Crystals Scrub into damp skin and leave on for two minutes – the gratifyingly gritty consistency is quite shiok, once you get used to it – then smear on a generous glob of the Activating Gel. Wait another minute, then wash it all off. With any luck, your skin should be feeling supremely soft, pleasingly plump and pore-free. Bonus points for the sensorial pleasure afforded by this treatment’s cool citrusy tang.

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No-nonsense and efficacious: Exactly what you’d expect from this cult cosmeceutical company. Precision-engineered with skin-scouring salicylic and glycolic acids, I’m addicted to the agreeably pebbly pearls in the formula, so much so that I’ve taken to using this as a thrice-weekly rinse-off scrub. Tactile pleasure aside, the biggest plus has got to be the smooth-as-silk finish of your face once you’re done with this treatment– fending off the caresses of your #bae when you emerge from your boudoir may be an exercise in futility!

Want more? Check out this treasure trove of body exfoliants that will leave you looking soft, smooth and scrumptious from head to toe, and see if you’re game to try this eye-popping new treatment for supermodel-worthy skin. Get your daily dose of beauty at www.herworldplus.com/beauty.