Nadine Baggott is a health and beauty journalist and TV presenter with 35 years in the industry, covering moisturizers, retinoids, serums, and concealer through the lens of real-world wearability and the idea that age is no barrier to looking good. Her channel draws on decades of product testing and editorial experience to flag what is actually worth buying.
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Her authority rests on a 35-year career with bylines in The Times, Marie Claire, and Hello, alongside two decades as the resident beauty expert on This Morning.
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"This is the best moisturizer to be launched this year. I absolutely love it. This is the bioactive ceramide repairing and plumping moisturizer and I've used it most days since it's been launched. It's absolutely brilliant."
"My absolutely favorite high street moisturizer of all time is The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors. It's basically a tick list of everything your skin needs to hydrate itself. It's got a beautiful mix of humectants to lock in water, emollients to keep your skin smooth and soft, and then it's got a little bit of an occlusive in it to lock everything in place. It's beautiful. You can use it morning and night. You can sandwich all of your retinols with it from the 0.2% right the way through to the granactive right the way through to the 1% right the way through to the brand new retinol. You can put it underneath, you can put it on top. Personally I put it on top. They really are gold standard products for me. They are always in my beauty cupboard."
"First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair, beautiful beautiful product does exactly what it says it's going to do, which is not nothing. Another great product that I've used for a really long time, this is a personal recommendation that I recommend forever."
"We're back to Aveeno because it's nine dollars and it's fantastic. It's really lovely for almost everyone. The chemists have come up with all these wonderful hybrid products, these gel creams that speak to oily and combination skin, and Aveeno is one of the gel cream equivalents. They're really lovely."
"The Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream, which as a step either in lieu of moisturizer or as a step prep for it really does bring down the red. You can totally find this and it's wonderful. This has brought things down. It's just very calming, very soothing."
"This is really light, so people say I can't wear moisturizer, it's like very airy, it's like really nothing, and yet it's really hydrating. So when I have people who really don't want something heavy, this is just a really nice light moisturizer. If you're someone like in the summer who doesn't want something heavy, it's a nice product."
"This tube, which is teeny, lasts until you die. You put this on a red spot and just say goodbye. If you're feeling really hot and bothered, find yourself one of the pimple patches, put the tiniest dab on, less than you think you need, put the pimple patch over it and go get married. It's unbelievable."
"This is a Rhode Barrier Repair Cream. I'm fragrance-free and beautiful, and if you've got the budget, it's a great barrier repair product. It's unfragranced, gentle, absolutely no essential oil skincare ever."
"If you get it around your eyes, I was prescribed Elidel cream, which is pimecrolimus, and this is actually an immunomodulator. It works on the T cells and the cytokines within the skin to stop your skin from overreacting to something. So if the barrier function of your skin breaks down and microorganisms and funguses and airborne irritations can get on it, then you end up with this overreaction where your skin is basically popping out these white blood cells to try and sort of shed the irritants that are landing on your skin. That's essentially the only way I can describe it."
"This is the night cream, the Toleriane night cream. They have a day cream as well. I would use that night and day. It doesn't sting your skin because when you're getting a breakout of perioral dermatitis, virtually anything, even tap water, can make it itch and sting so much it's just really unpleasant. It's very light."
"This is a cult bestseller, this is Curel and it's the Curel Deep Moisture Spray. It now comes in a miniature which is great for on flights or for just putting in your handbag. It sprays out pseudo ceramides and humectants and it basically locks water into the skin. Brilliant for flying, brilliant for this time of year. Keep it by the side of bed if you're having trouble sleeping, if you're getting a little bit of hot and muggy it's sort of night."
"I have to moisturize twice a day otherwise my skin will go wild. I love La Roche-Posay Lipikar really, my like one of my favorite moisturizers, and I'll use it top to toe. I'll do that in the morning after I have a shower and I'll do it in the evening as well. I'll usually have a very short quick shower and then I'll apply it on slightly damp skin. You want to get it on and always go downwards, don't do lots of rubbing up and down because you might trap the hairs on your body and get little bumps everywhere."
"Bioderma Atoderm is fantastic. They do an amazing wash because if you often go to an old school GP and you've got a very young child with a really chronic dry skin condition they give you horrible aqueous cream which is really unpleasant. They do the most beautiful rinse off oil for it. It's so much more pleasant to use, it's gorgeous. I think that's a really important thing especially when it comes to anyone with eczema or if you're looking after a child with eczema you need people to be on board to use it, otherwise if you have a horrible thick soap substitute that you'll never use you won't see any benefit."
"The Naturium Multi-Peptide Moisturizer is a beautiful texture. Everything I've put on my face so far has been watery super lightweight, so this I go in with and it's very hydrating, instantly plumps fine lines. It's quite cooling on the skin. For a lot of people that wouldn't be enough hydration, but I'm going to get a lot more hydration from my SPF. I love that."
"Their hero product is Skin Fix Barrier Plus, and it's gorgeous. If you're on a retinoid journey and you want something to buffer it out, this is perfect. I love the fact that it's in a pump action dosed little pot. Really nice range, I think well worth going in and well worth braving the crowds and going and checking out Sephora for it."
"The Ordinary also have a new moisturizer and I absolutely love the NMF, it's one of my go-to budget moisturizers, it's really lovely, super lightweight, goes in really easily, sinks into your skin in seconds, makes a great makeup base. There is now a Natural Moisturizing Factors and Beta Glucan, and beta glucan is a calming soothing ingredient. In comparison to the original one, and I've been testing this for a few days, it is surprisingly a gel and that will really shock you if you're used to the normal NMF. It is super hydrating, goes on, slips over your skin beautifully, and I think is absolutely unique in texture. It's a jelly-like texture that is just so beautiful. This will suit summer skins so well. It's particularly suited to dehydrated sensitive skin that don't necessarily want a heavy oily occlusive moisturizer. It's just heavenly. It will be the most perfect thing to take on holiday, especially for partners that might have had just a little touch too much sun. It also sits under makeup, which is really rare for a gel. It doesn't pill, and I just think it's beautiful."
"I genuinely do love this moisturizer. It's really lovely. It's Mineral 89, which is like their hero serum but in the cream form, so it goes on as a moisturizer. It's got niacinamide in it, bit of squalene, lots of hydration. It's perfect for winter months or if you just are having a bit of a rough time through the winter and you just need a moisturizer, or maybe your sunscreen isn't moisturizing you enough. What I love about this moisturizer is you can use it morning and night, so you can sandwich it with a retinol. It's just a really good sort of moisturizer."
"It was the first multimolecular hyaluronic acid I ever fell in love with. It's not sticky. I use it right up and over my eyelids, over my lips, under my fine lines here, right up and around my eyes to prep my eyes for concealer so the concealer doesn't sit in the fine lines."
"I use the 100% squalane to shave my legs with, shave under my arms with. I'm happy for the kids to use it. Biossance created hempsqualane, which is a squalane molecule which they derive from corn and then they basically feed the corn to the bacteria, the bacteria produce the squalane and then it's half the size so it goes into the skin more, hydrating, amazing."
"I'm absolutely a believer in this. This is not the same formula. It does have C, it does have E, it does have ferulic. This is a smaller brand, Geek & Gorgeous. I think they are really good, they have a very nice vitamin A product, but to me their standout product is this. I think it's just wonderful. I find that if people say they can do five steps, I don't want to give them more than three because the more you give, the less likely they are. You're much better off getting people really committed to a couple of different things and let them develop where they want to go from there. This is one of those products I find that does that. It's a beautiful product."
"It has 30 glycerin, so one of the tricks that I tell people to do with this is after you wash your face, before you go skiing, put this on a very lightly damp face. The stickiness goes away because of that, and I just don't get as dry. This lasts me the whole day. This stuff is genius."
"Summer Fridays was the first product to bear that I genuinely, genuinely became a believer in like a nice elegant product that wasn't disgusting, and I think it's because Mariana crew understand about putting it under makeup, under sunscreen, that it has to really not be a standalone lovely product."
"This is called Deliverance from Dieux, this is Charlotte Palomino's company, the most beautiful wonderful Charlotte, you know my friend, but this is a wonderful product that does exactly that. If you use it as serum before your moisturizer it also brings down the red. It's just very calming, very soothing."
"It's called April Skin Vitamin ACE Brightening Serum. Never heard of it, know nothing about them. All I know is that if we talk pigment, she will bring people to show the spot before the picture and the spot. We've given this to a few people, it's great. I've given it to people of multiple melanin levels and just gotten really good feedback."
"This is just a lovely product that people put on as exactly what it's called a fortifier and it does do a nice job of that. This is for someone who is a little raw, who is a little bit in need of extra support. It's a very nice product because it's a few different things, it's DNA repair, it's got some very nice hydrating things. This is not inexpensive, this runs over a hundred dollars, but it's half the fluid ounce and it lasts. It's a dermatology brand, and there's not a lot of dermatology brands I'm huge on, this is one of them. It's quite good."
"This is the brand new La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 serum and I love it. I know it's had mixed reviews actually but I really love it. It's a beautiful milky serum."
"You can also use a peptide at night. This is the Medik8 Liquid Peptides, and I would happily put that all over my face before putting on a retinol. You can easily use peptides, which are signaling ingredients, and they basically signal for the skin to repair itself as you sleep. You can wear them during the day as well. I just want something to give my skin slip to put the retinol or retinaldehyde over the top."
"Step two is non-negotiable for me: it has to be a vitamin C, and you'll not be surprised to know that I use the gold standard, which is SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic. I know, I know, it's expensive. This is 15% L-ascorbic acid with ferulic acid and vitamin E. A lot of people don't like the smell; I've just got over it. I've used it since it was launched, it's probably 12 years now. I swear it's one of the reasons my pigmentation and my sun damage isn't as bad as it is, but I get that it's expensive. It's a pure L-ascorbic acid, so it's the active form of vitamin C, meaning your skin doesn't have to work hard to access what it needs. It gives you an antioxidant boost, boosts collagen production, protects your skin from pollution, and boosts the effect of your SPF. It's just clinically proven. Dr. Sheldon Pinnell was the person who started SkinCeuticals and did all the research on topical vitamin C and skin, and it's a gold standard for that reason."
"The Allies of Skin vitamin C, slightly more expensive but I love it. It's a blend of L-ascorbic acid and other forms of vitamin C that have to be converted on the skin by your skin's enzymes naturally, so it takes slightly longer to deliver but actually makes it better for sensitive skin if skin's irritated by vitamin C."
"This vitamin C is definitely worth testing. It's stabilized, non-reactive. Vitamin C stuff can scare me, but this one did not. It's not the way you'd expect from vitamin C products, and it's versatile enough that you could use it all day and night because it's not quite as heavy."
"This was the original retinol that I stuck with for years, Paula's Choice Clinical 1% Retinol Treatment with Peptides and Vitamin C. I swear by it, it's wonderful. I would go back to it in a heartbeat, it's absolutely brilliant. I probably have been through about at least 20 tubes of that in my time."
"I have to use a retinoid. I am currently Medik8 Crystal Retinal 24. Retinal is the strongest form of vitamin A that you can have over the counter before going to prescription tretinoin."
"If you love The Crystal Retinol and I've been using it for quite a few years now I really love it, there is now a Crystal Retinol 24, obviously that's a play on the fact that it's 2024, but that is 0.24% retinaldehyde. Retinaldehyde as I've mentioned before is the next metabolic step, so retinol is metabolized to retinaldehyde, that then gets metabolized to retinoic acid which is the active form of vitamin A in the skin. This is the strongest one you can get in the UK."
"This is 0.2% retinal Emulsion and it's a retinoid and in my opinion it's the strongest and the best value for money retinoid that's currently available. [...] Retinal [...] is the next metabolic step on from retinol. [...] Traditionally in skincare [...] we had retinol esters, which your body then has to convert from a retinol ester to a retinol to a retinal to the active form of vitamin A in your skin called trans retinoic acid. [...] Retinol esters are still available but retinol was a beauty buzz word probably about two or three years ago and then as you got used to working through retinol esters to retinol you wanted more, [...] and that's where retinal comes in."
"Skin Rocks Retinoid 2 is beautiful stuff. I've been on retinoid since 365 years ago so I'm not a starting person, but this is number two and it's a good product."
"Elf have an amazing value for money retinol. I remember putting this on this morning and I was most impressed. I know it's stronger than 0.05, I think it's 0.1 with a granactive as well. It's stronger than the 0.05 and it's got a granactive activity as well."
"If you're on a medium budget look at the No7 Advanced Retinol 1.5% Complex. It also comes with a buffering cream if you're not used to using a one percent retinol."
"It has Ferulic acid so if you worry about using a vitamin C and A retinol together, if you trust a really good formulator and Beauty Pie have the best formulators then you get it all in one product you haven't got to think about it. You can team it with a triple hyaluronic acid, you can team it with Shinkai, don't worry it is gorgeous. I did a live with a really really prominent UK consultant dermatologist and that was one of the few retinols she recommended you buy over the counter."
"It's great, and this is super heavenly because you can toss it in your purse and you don't want to find out that your purse has more of this product on than you do, very very helpful. This is the Max Hydration, and I just think it's beautiful. It's for somebody who is not, I'm not a scientist and I'm not interested in as much of the research, doing it on my own. I want a brand you can trust. It's just the perfect weight, it's the perfect amount of moisture. It mixes beautifully with a touch of water, so if you don't want it as heavy, it's not heavy anyway, but it is a true traditional night experience. But it can be used on your hands, it could be used on a flight, it can be used before you go to work. For me, before I go to work and I know I'm going to sit in a hair chair first, it's kind of just like a nice little fella to come with me. This was my first introduction to RoC and I love this product, and it's been around a long time. I mean they've revisited it, and I think this is one of the elder statesmen of the brand."
"I know everyone's onto Beauty of Joseon, but I actually prefer the Beauty of Joseon Sun Serum because I find it's completely, completely gone the moment you put it on. This is the one everybody knows about and loves, but I actually like the sun serum better because it's really skin care that's just sneaking around, it happens to be a brilliant sunscreen at the same time. So I put this stuff all over my body. I find that that's motivational, like, oh no, not just the naked parts, anything uncovered, like my arms and stuff."
"I would be bereft if I did not mention the most wonderful Evy Technology Daily Defense Face Mousse SPF 50. I can use this as a primer too. I have pretty dry skin. If you have a Wrigley toddler, give them a pouch of mousse and let them apply it and just go about their day, they will do everything it is just fantastic. It works, it really is good. They did extended testing and it actually does last longer. My only question is how do you know how much to apply, but I love it."
"The best American sunscreen that I think is really fantastic is this EltaMD UV Restore Tinted. This is the one I wear day in and day out on my face when I don't have European stuff available. It does a really nice job. I am very, very, very pale, I have a really lack of melanation, and it's very hard to do tints well on very fair skin. People often think that's not true, no, you look pretty damn orange. This does a really good job of it. Not the other ones of their brand because people interchange, like, well I use this. It's the UV Restore that is the one that I find is a great color match. You wear that in place of foundation."
"This is SPF 70 broad spectrum water resistant 80 minutes and this is really easy to find. Nice, they make a very nice lip product too. I use this on the children all the time."
"The Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Body Mist will give you the look of that dewy product which everybody under a certain age loves. If you're the person who wants that look, it will work. And it's sunscreen, so if you want to put it on for the shine, it will work all right."
"I've long been a fan of the original Clinique Moisture Surge, and they've now launched it with an SPF 25 in. While you cannot get your primary SPF from a moisturizer because you don't apply enough of it, I do think there's nothing wrong with layering SPFs. This is a beautiful lightweight gel that actually has an SPF 25 in it as well, and if you want a really nice lightweight hydrating moisturizer, it's great."
"What I want from an SPF that I use every single day is I want it to be super light, I want it to be almost like a watery serum. This is the Biore UV Aqua Rich [...] Watery Essence. [...] I've created lots of videos and I've written about this in The Times, but I don't think I've ever spoken to you guys on YouTube about it. [...] Let me show you the texture. [...] I will actually apply that to my chest as well, which is the one place I always forget to apply SPF. It's an SPF 50, they have an SPF 30 as well. It goes in so quickly, it's super light, lightly fragranced, without a doubt for me the perfect texture. Never forget the backs of your hands. Look at that, absolutely beautiful, sinks in in seconds, and it's so reasonably priced. It's exclusive to Superdrug, previously you had to go to specialist sites like YesStyle to get it. [...] There's an SPF 32, I honestly can't tell that much difference in terms of texture, so for me I would always go for the SPF 50. It is slightly richer, by the way, than the original Japanese formula, still amazing. It comes from a company called Kao, that also owned John Frieda."
"I love color science because it comes in different shades so it's a SPF 50 really high UVA protection but it blocks out your visible light which is really important. It's called something like Flex, it comes in a bit like a medicate tube with a little pump and it goes on as a cream or fluid. The reason they're tinted is because iron oxide has a rusty red appearance which doesn't look good on anyone so if you put a tint in it becomes more cosmetically acceptable."
"I used Medik8 Advanced Day Ultimate Protect. I love this. It has a really high UVA rating, five stars means the highest UVA rating. I love this because it's really moisturizing and I get eczema, I have hay fever, very atopic skin, so I want something that's quite moisturizing. It doesn't leave a white cast, has a really elegant finish to it. I will often use this in the summer with no moisturizer underneath, whereas usually I'll moisturize throughout the winter and then put a sunscreen on. But I think that this is personally for someone with dry skin, reactive skin, it works really well for me."
"La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVMune 400 SPF 50, this has got the brand new generation extra long length wavelength UVA protection. Very similar texture to other face SPFs, they're beautiful, they're absolutely lovely. The original one that everybody recommends and I still really love is La Roche-Posay Anthelios."
"The INKEY List have just gone into an SPF and I love this one, the Polyglutamic Dewy Sunscreen SPF 30. It's an SPF 30 so it's going to be an easier texture to formulate with. I'm choosing this because it's for those people who want a dewy finish because this is a much dewier finish. It's a beautiful moisturizer with a very slight sheen to it, really nicely formulated. It's about finding an SPF that you can afford that your skin really loves to protect you from pollution."
"Garnier this year have launched the invisible serum super UV SPF 50 which I know what you're thinking oh it's a serum it'll be lighter somehow it's thicker though right I don't know why it's like that see oh it takes a while to run down your hand that's how you can always tell and it's definitely definitely definitely a thicker richer consistency it all goes on beautifully still sits well under makeup better for dryer skins or for me in winter still love the original however what I have fallen in love with this is this this is without a doubt the best"
"Everybody knows I love the glycolipid cleanser. This was probably my absolute favorite high street cream cleanser of last year. It's beautiful, it's creamy, it basically melts away all your makeup. It respects your barrier function. I personally use it with a microfiber cloth, it gets rid of every scrap of makeup, and then I rinse it away at night. It leaves your barrier intact but cleanses your skin super gently."
"Plain old unsexy but does the job, 8 ounces for nine dollars. Vanicream, I have now been able to find it almost globally in a couple places I haven't looked, but it's fantastic. It does it, it does it really really well."
"Youth to the People Kale and Green Tea Spinach Vitamin Superfood Cleanser, this lathers in the nicest gentlest way. It smells like fresh spinach when you take it out of the garden and cut it, it is just this really lovely very earthy kind of smell in a good way and I just happen to love this. It's about 35 dollars and it lasts until forever."
"A more recent player in the game that I love is Aveeno. I'm specific to the Calm + Restore - it has feverfew, really well done, and their process is really elegant. This is one of those examples where when people tell me you have to spend a lot of money on product, I like to just sort of whip this out."
"I've fallen in love with a lot of balm cleansers, and this is the Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt. I love this for summer because it's runnier than traditional waxy balm cleansers, which means it's lighter weight, which means it's much nicer when it's humid. Even though it's been raining in the UK, it's been really hot and humid, and it gets rid of every scrap of makeup. I have to say, Geek & Gorgeous, I've not put a foot wrong. I really love that product."
"This is the Dermatica Balancing Glycerin Gel Cleanser. This is absolutely like all of my favorite gel cleansers. This is more of a rich one so this might be nicer in summer. Go and check out the Dermatica range particularly if you're on any prescription skincare that could be for rosacea, it could be for acne, it could be for sun damage, it could be for a whole host of reasons, psoriasis, eczema, check out their supporting skincare, but also if you're a first-time retinal user as well."
"I've got long nails so I don't like to put my fingers into tubs of cleanser, but this you just squeeze out. It's thick, it's gorgeous. You massage it into your skin and then it sort of turns from a balm to an oil. You rinse it away in water with a cloth. It gets rid of every single scrap of makeup, leaves skin really fresh, really hydrated, really clean. It's a bestseller for good reason."
"My all-time favorite body lotion forever and ever is Eucerin, and it is important that I say it's the Advanced Repair. Now they've gotten cute and there's like ultimate repair and happy repair, but Advanced Repair with urea is the one to look for. I have the driest skin on God's Great Earth and this is like the triumphant of the Gods. This one I think is actually urea and glycerin because hello, this is brilliant. The thing about urea is what's amazing about it is that it really works as a humectant."
"This is the Summer Fridays body lotion and it smells oh it smells nice. It's like a little citrus and a little bit like a new baby powder kind of smell which sounds kind of gross but yet isn't. It's just really nice. Do you need to spend the money on it? No. Should you because it'll make you moisturized? Yeah. Because you know what, you're worth it."
"I like a gentle rinse off milky oil that I can shave with that will protect my skin will cleanse off SPF but won't dehydrate my skin but will leave it fresh and this is it, it's absolutely beautiful. This is Naturium Glow Getter Multi-Oil Body Wash and essentially it's an oil but it's a cleansing oil for the face, super light but actually rinses away to milk and just leaves the skin perfectly hydrated. [...] It's loaded with glycerin and squalane but it's also got a super light oil to gel texture. I just love it, absolutely gorgeous."
"This is the Aquaphor Healing Ointment Body Spray, really good. [...] It's great for if you're just walking out and about, flip flops, you just want to make the heels look tidy or your shins look tidy, you can spray it on and suddenly you [...] look down and go oh my God, actually legs quick when you're already dressed."
"I have to say honestly, I did not expect to be impressed by a celebrity skincare line. If you've got teenage daughters, they should be buying Rhode. I think that this brand is so clever, it's barrier boosting, it's gentle, it's peptides, it's barrier protecting. I've not used a duff product, I love it, it's really nice. They are so good, this is the range your daughter should be using. The Peptide Lip Treatment, I don't like the smell of them but I totally get why you love them. The Rhode Peptide Glazing Fluid is just a really beautiful lightweight gel cream with peptide and hyaluronic acid, super lightweight, lovely lovely."
"They've come back, they're bigger, they're chunkier, they're sexier, they have a huge do foot for your lips that's quite large, but they are super light in color. There's one of the darkest shades but you can barely see the color on the back of my hand. They are very sweet and very sickly, so technically not something I would wear, but only because I don't like heavily fragrant scented things on my lips. But we have to give a shout out to the OG Clarins, they were there first before anybody else."
"If I want something maybe if I'm out in the evening or something where I'm gonna have a lot of light in the face, I love the Pat McGrath foundations."
"What's great about this product is that it doesn't sink into the wrinkles. It's got 1% hyaluronic acid in it. It's just a fantastic, really quick, easy to use foundation skincare product. I really rate this, it's major, it is brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant, it's such a good product. You can apply it the way you just apply skincare. You don't really need any skills, you don't need a brush, you don't need a sponge, you don't need a makeup artist. It's amazing. Using this little serum thing at night, it's perfect for me. It's easy, so that's perfect."
"There's just not enough superlatives for me to explain how much I love that product. It is without a doubt my go-to skin coverage. So don't panic about the reformulation as far as I'm concerned it performs in exactly the same way. It's just more suited for all skin conditions including very sensitive skin because of the 100 mineral pigments. The BB Cream goes on as a tint and just gives you soft focused skin."
"Hydration Vaccine is a really unique beautiful moisturizer and it's unlike most moisturizers I love in that it tends to be quite thick. [...] What I love about it is it almost feels like a balm but it's got a soft focus effect on the skin. It does hydrate the surface of the skin, it's loaded with actives, but it's also got a silicon masking effect. [...] It doesn't peel under makeup. It's beautifully under makeup. It's actually formulated to be a hydrator and an emollient but also a makeup primer."
"Obviously the Big Daddy if you want to spend the money I encourage you to because it's wonderful. I bring it skiing every time. There are many people who fake, yeah no, they're the original. Sometimes you stay with the original because it's just better."
"It's clear spackles, it's a silicon that basically fills in all of the imperfections for the face. The technology was originally created by Clinique with a product called pore minimizer, and there are about 15 similar products out there, but this just happens to be the nicest one I found. It lasts, it's a nice little tin. This is just a wonderful product. I have a ton of patients who are using this."
"There's a new dual eye cream that's really exciting and interesting because it also takes away all the questions that I have, you know, when do I use this and when, like how do they pair, how do they marry, how does it work. So it takes care of a lot. It's convenient, the packaging is great, it's simple, you understand what it is that you are putting on your face. This fits in a purse. I use it when I'm working and when we do touch-ups. This is a product that's so friendly and helpful because it moves beautifully, it cleans up, it doesn't take everything away but it helps get everything sort of back in order and behaving. And it also has sunscreen."
"This is peptides and lash conditioning ingredients alone, so it's not like the first generation prostaglandin analogs which there's been a lot of backlash with because they can cause discoloration of the lashes and irritation and all that. I had zero irritation with them. A cosmetic chemist told me they're a tick box of great ingredients, which is why I'm testing it."
"It's so clever, [...] it must be the juice. [...] I have used it for about three days now. I've got two coats on today, not a single clog, pretty much unheard of, right? You have to go in, you know, maybe move lashes around, they stick together. It's so clever, absolutely brilliant. Last night I had supper with Monica and she said to me, 'You have lash extensions in, don't you?' I didn't. I just had L'Oreal Air Volume on."
"I absolutely love my Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer. I love it because I've been through so much with this. Maximum wind minimum heat, which means it maximizes the drying power but minimizes the damage. I've never found a dryer lighter, more effective, more powerful than this. When you go to the hairdresser and they're drying your scalp and you think that's got a bit too close, that's burning my scalp, but imagine what that's doing to your hair. Even though your hair is dead, it does burn and is damaged by heat. Never had that feeling with this ever. Maximum wind minimum heat to dry your hair effectively, and it smooths as well. I just absolutely love this product. Dyson have mastered the cyclone technology of wind because obviously they do all the vacuum cleaners as well. It is expensive, but to me it is unique for hair gadgets on the market."
"This is Bare by Head & Shoulders and I'll be really honest with you, I went down to interview Claudia Winkleman again and I was a little bit sort of 'am I going to love this or not'. I have used this shampoo pretty much all of the time since I had my Brazilian blow dry and yes it is sulfate free and it's just incredible. If you want a really good High Street shampoo this is the one to go for. There is Pure Clean which is really great in the height of summer when your scalp is slightly oily and then there's another version that's more gentle on your hair if your hair is colored. I can essentially shampoo my hair with this and still brush my hair without any conditioner in it. Now I do have a Brazilian blow dry but that is my at the moment my number one sulfavorite shampoo that I'm using."
"I do love the original Good Genes lactic acid by Sunday Riley. Lactic acid is particularly good if you've got a drier skin that needs resurfacing. I love it if you've got an older drier skin that's a perfect thing to resurface your skin."
"Laneige also gets a plug, also wonderful. They don't really call it a gel cream, they call it oddly a sleeping mask, which I get, have no idea what that means, but I can use a moisturizer and it's fantastic."
"Josh Rosebrook is a wonderful product and the smell is just this very subtle spice in the best way, kind of like oh hello I can face the day. It's hydrating. It's very much almost like a watery product, it just adds in a bunch of hydration. I picked this up at an airport and now I have to sneak it in and enlarge it because I love it so much."
"Jordan Samuel Skin Hydrate the Mist is just so nice. It's very much almost like a watery product that just adds in a bunch of hydration. It's got that like cucumbery kind of business thing happening and it just makes me happy."
"You basically use it on freshly cleansed skin. Most people use it at night just before they go to bed. You can see the pop in pop out eye protectors, so you actually don't get any infrared going anywhere near or any red light going near your eyes. It's really comfortable. It comes in close contact with the skin. In 8 weeks, it's proven to reduce the signs of fine lines by 30%, increase plumpness by 57%. It boosts brightness. I think it's particularly good at reducing redness. It's a 10-minute treatment three to five times a week, but most people I know use it five to seven because they just love love love the results. You've got a 16-week money back guarantee and a 2-year warranty. FDA approved, cleared safe."
"It feels warm. It's a genuine pleasure to use. It's a nice relaxing treatment. And you can see the areas that I'm treating getting warmer. I like it to target all of that. If you do that once a week, you are going to see really, really good results. I love this gadget. To me, it's the most pleasant at home gadget to use. It's an electromagnetic wave that basically heats up the deeper layers of the skin. So that's how it can target those collagen boosting cells, those collagen making cells. It heats the skin to an optimum 43 degrees or 104 Fahrenheit to activate collagen. Five minute treatments one to two times a week, but the whole face is really going to take you down to here is really going to take you 70 minutes. It's FDA cleared for all skin tones and skin types, so it's completely safe to use. And it has absolutely zero risk of fat necrosis which I know some of you are concerned about in terms of getting radio frequency micro needling done in clinic. That goes much much deeper into the skin and that can be a risk for some people. No downtime, no pain. Basically, it's like a warm stone massage for the face. But more importantly, you can use it on your body as well. Once you've invested in that gadget, you can essentially use it anywhere you want on your skin. And I think that's really impressive."
"Obviously I would not be allowed to speak in dermatologic circles if I didn't bring Aquaphor Healing Ointment Advanced Therapy to the table. It really does do everything. Use it for your cuticles, use it for everything you want. If you have a baby and the baby has a tush, which one would hope, that's what goes on. Period, end of discussion."
"If you're looking for a really good under eye concealer look no further than the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer. It's incredible and really reasonably priced."
"It looks like milk, it really does, and somehow as a spray it acts as basically also a primer. You do not need primer if you use this and it's incredible. It just leaves you really hydrated. I'm someone who in the course of the day on a dry day working indoors you can definitely see the edges of my skin if I'm wearing makeup, but it starts to dry. You can see it. Not with this. It just makes it all go bye-bye. Unbelievable. It's an amazing product."
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