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12 Winter Skin Heroes Giving Your Face A Fighting Chance This Season
Winter is coming...
We're taking a stand against the cold winter weather as we laugh in the face of the wind, the rain and the inevitable central heating induced cold and flu. Time to tackle the change in season head-on and be saved by our top choice winter skin and hair heroes.
Be ready! Winter is coming...
Arganic Organic Cosmetic Argan Oil - £24
Argan oil boasts many unique health and medicinal properties with its high Vitamin E level, making it a very powerful and versatile antioxidant. Its cell repairing properties are suitable for use on face, body and hair.
Malin + Goetz Jojoba Face Scrub - £30
A hydrating exfoliating scrub with calming cilantro and amino acids, this purifies and helps balance the skin's ph and is especially formulated for sensitive and fragile skin. Add to that beads which help remove dead skin, stimulate cell renewal and soothe without irritating, drying or stripping the skin.
The Yorkshire Soap Company No6 Invigorating Bath Bomb - £3
A little Yorkshire treat packed with vibrant pure essential oils and calendula flowers. Hand made with love, each bath bomb will unleash a flurry of fizzing goodness to cleanse your skin and lather away your winter worries. Made with Pure Essential Oils which will be kind to even the most sensitive of skins.
LUSH Dream Cream Body Lotion - £14.50
Upset skin? Eczema suffers can find that their symptoms get worse in the winter, so its soothing and cooling ingredients, such as oat milk, rose water and chamomile blue oil, can help calm itchy skin. It's also vegan, Fair Trade and includes organic cocoa butter that glides on skin. Lush!
Sarah Chapman Liquid Facial Resurfacer - £38
With its combination of face friendly acids, it dissolves dulling dead skin cells and surface residue, tightening pores and revealing smoother toned skin. Even the most challenging complexions will be glowing, balanced and blemish free as it increases daily cell turnover and prepares skin for maximum absorption of its supercharged actives. Serious face food.
DR JART+ Rubber Mask Hydration Lover - £10
When an emergency pick-me-up is needed, now! The two-step system includes an ampoule serum complete with a rubber mask (to prevent the lipophilic and hydrophilic active ingredients from evaporating), while the Phyto Keratin Complex - a botanical protein gets to work. The result? Optimum glow and dewy-looking skin.
Soaper Duper Yuzu Fruit And Fig Body Butter - £10
An impressive 97% naturally derived ingredients and a socially-conscious brand that supports WaterAid and Clean The World - what's not to love? This everyday body butter contains Vitamin E and nourishing butters and oils.
Burt's Bees Coconut & Pear Lip Balm - £3.99
On-the-go lip therapy that smells delicious. A moisturising balm that combines extract of vitamin-rich pear with hydrating coconut oil and creamy shea butter. It's 100% natural and contains no phthalates, parabens, petrolatum or SLS. And, for each one sold, 5,000 bee-friendly wildflower seeds will be planted. So your conscious will be clear too.
L'Occitane Ultra Rich Body Cream - £34
Dry or very, very dry skin thanks to the central heating being on full blast? Formulated with 25% shea butter, this cream works hydrating miracles as it intensely nourishes and protects the skin. Packed with linseed, marshmallow, sweet almond, apricot oil and honey, it durably hydrates for 24 hours without leaving any greasy film.
Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel Cleanser - £7.99
Hydrate whilst you cleanse. Pollution and sleep deprivation (as we enter the after-work party season) can take its toll on the skin. But for true city girls, slowing down isn't an option. It's time to get tougher and boost our defences with this lightweight gel. Activated with water, it lathers away dirt and make-up, whilst boosting the skin's hydration.
Ameliorate Intensive Hand Treatment - £15
A serious solution to softer, hydrated and more youthful looking mitts this winter. Formulated with optimal levels of Lactic Acid and packed with Sweet Almond Oil, Oat Oil and Shea Butter – as well as Barley Extract (incidentally first discovered years ago by brewery workers for its skin smoothing properties) it replenishes moisture and balances PH levels, targeting skin on both the back of the hands and palms.
Sebastian Professional Hydre Treatment Hair Masque - £21.90
Restoring dry and frizzy hair hair in just three minutes, with this intensely hydrating masque. Quenching your hair's thirst it will reinvigorate and replenish your hair leaving it full of body and with a silky soft finish and healthy shine.
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