What You Need In Your Post-Summer SOS Beauty Kit
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The Skin Renewal Treatment
Sensitive Resurfacing Peel, £70 | Votary
Skin can often look and feel sluggish after a summer spent slathered in SPF i. Kickstart yours with this at-home peel treatment that contains a whopping 10% lactic acid, an AHA known for its gentle yet effective sloughing prowess. There’s also chia seed extract in there to boost moisture in the skin and strengthen the skin barrier, and soothing horse chestnut extract to calm post-sun redness and help reset niggling inflammation.
Available at JOHNLEWIS.COM
The Overnight Barrier Boost
Indigo Overnight Repair, £86 | Tatcha
UV can seriously compromise the integrity of the skin barrier, which is designed to protect against external aggressors and moisture loss. This serum-moisturiser hybrid is best applied before bed for an intensive treatment and contains a roster of ingredients like red sage root and Japanese indigo extract to accelerate healing, as well as ceramides to support moisture retention. Mondo grass extract helps balance the microbiome and encourage a healthier environment for good bacteria to flourish.
Available at TATCHA.CO.UK
The Tan Extender
Face Tanning Drops, £19 | Bare By Vogue
One of the worst things about summer being over is waving goodbye to that gentle skin glow, and in its place, welcoming in a greyer, more pallid complexion. If you’re not yet ready to say goodbye, these easy-to-use tanning drops offer the perfect solution. Non- tacky, non-greasy and imparting an always-natural hint of colour to skin, use as much or as little you want, depending on how much you’re mourning your summer glow. Before bed is best – and easiest – but it can just as easily be added to your daily moisturiser.
Available at BAREBYVOGUE.CO.UK
The Daily Skin Support
Hydrating Gel-Cream, £55 | Soho Skin
If you’re looking to optimise hydration after a summer of your skin feeling parched, try this silky, lightweight cream that, despite its refreshing gel-like texture, delivers a serious boost of hydration. It’s formulated with acetylated hyaluronic acid, which offers twice as much water-retentivity than normal hyaluronic acid, as well as red seaweed to lock in moisture and keep skin hydrated for longer and barrier-boosting vitamin D.
Available at SPACENK.COM
The Glass-Shine Saviour
Mirror Rinse Treatment, £63 | Oribe
If you’re entering autumn with hair that’s been dulled by too much UV, chlorine or seawater, an intensive glossing treatment is just the thing to inject some vitality. In addition to the brand’s signature Gloss Hair Technology complex, which delivers smoothness, softness and silkiness, a trio of fruit extracts wards off excess moisture loss and lock in essential hydration. Use instead of or as well as your usual conditioner, depending on how desperately your strands need saving.
Available at SPACENK.COM
The Wrinkle Reducer
The Sculpt Neck + Décolleté Concentrate, £128 | U Beauty
Thanks to the thinner skin on the neck and décolletage, sun damage is often more prevalent there, showing up as fine lines, wrinkles and excess pigmentation. Helping to firm and recontour the area, this treatment uses 4D hyaluronic acid for long-term hydration and polyunsaturated fatty acids, biomimetic plant extracts and peptides to improve skin's density and promote natural collagen production. As well as helping to soften the look of wrinkles long-term, there’s an immediate blurring effect too.
Available at HARVEYNICHOLS.COM
The Skin Smoother
KP Body Scrub & Mask, £20 | Naturium
If your summer tan has faded quicker than you’d like, reinstate a healthy glow by treating your skin to a thorough scrub. Containing physical exfoliants in the form of jojoba esters and pumice and chemical ones from a host of AHAs, BHAs an PHAs, this buffing cream transforms dull, dry and scaly skin both instantly and over time. While consistent use will help reduce the look of keratosis pilaris, it’s just as good as a once-in-a-while pick-me-up for neglected skin.
Available at SPACENK.COM
The Glow Giver
Marrakech Shimmer Luminous Gel Body Oil, £45 | Whind
The combination of six cold pressed plant oils including argan oil, apricot and pomegranate oil help make this shimmering body oil the perfect way to reinstate a bit of a post-summer glow. As well as containing moisture-binding copolymers that deliver intense hydration to even the driest areas of skin, sustainably sourced micro-pearls impart a pretty, but not OTT golden shimmer.
Available at WHIND.COM
The Inside-Out Rejuvenator
Pro Collagen +, £55 | Vida Glow
Take an inside-out approach to the accelerated ageing that UV damage can cause with this daily supplement that aims to target deeper lines and reduces wrinkle count by 42% in 21 days. Formulated with a high concentration of bioavailable marine collagen tripeptides to promote the skin’s collagen synthesis and improve suppleness, hydration and elasticity, it’s also flavourless and easy to add to any hot or cold drink, shake or smoothie.
Available at BEAUTYBAY.COM
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