THE JOURNAL
Eight bathroom products that will protect you as the cold bites.
Patronising as they were, 2000s-era men’s grooming ads got something right: winter really does hate your face. Come the colder months, both air temperature and humidity take a nosedive, which leaves your skin at best uncomfortably dry, at worst cracked and flaking. A look, we think you’ll agree, that’s difficult to style out.
Don’t go Googling “chic balaclavas” just yet. Equip yourself with these winter-proof grooming products and you can protect your skin from the worst of what’s to come. From the stuff to put on your skin to the supplements to swallow, consider these your saviours once the mercury sinks.
Sisley Paris Gentle Facial Buffing Cream
Scrubbing your face, however gently, may seem counterintuitive at a time of year when your skin feels most vulnerable. But skipping exfoliation to go straight to moisturising is a bit like applying fresh paint to cracked plaster. Not pretty. To keep your skin primed, try Sisley – Paris’ buffing cream, a kind-to-skin blend of soothing camomile, oil-absorbing kaolin and exfoliating microparticles that promises to turn your mug into a masterpiece.
Lab Series Daily Moisture Defense Lotion SFP15
We know it’s hard to believe when staring down a Sad lamp, but the sun still shines in winter. Which means your skin still needs to be protected from its UV rays. Take the pain out of daily sun protection with Lab Series’ SPF moisturiser, a lightweight, non-greasy cream that guards against UVA and UVB rays to ensure you won’t wrinkle any faster than your DNA decides.
Dr. Dennis Gross C+ Collagen Deep Cream
Not just for your grandmother, a night cream can help restore the moisture sapped from your skin each day by biting winds and full-blast central heating. Turn Sahara dryness into buttery softness with Dr. Dennis Gross C+ Collagen Deep Cream, a luxurious unguent that contains amino acids, herbal extracts and vitamin C and works the graveyard shift to bring your skin back to life.
Tom Ford Hydrating Lip Balm
Newsflash: saliva does not an effective moisturiser make. So just as you wouldn’t, cat-like, lick your arms and legs in the hope of keeping them soft and smooth, you shouldn’t do it to your lips either. Instead, deploy TOM FORD’s hydrating lip balm, an ultra-emollient formula enriched with natural butters, oils and vitamins that not only promises to keep your kisser cared for, but also stops you from looking like you’re, er, perpetually excited.
Haeckels Seaweed & Geranium Hand Balm
Rough, calloused hands aren’t so much a sign of rugged masculinity as regrettable self-neglect. So, whether you earn your crust on Excel or on a building site, keep a tube of Haeckels Hand Balm within arm’s reach. Made in England using natural ingredients, this moisture-rich salve contains nourishing sea lavender, antimicrobial clary sage and geranium to boost cell repair. Very handy indeed.
Sachajuan Scalp Shampoo
Wintry conditions might not cause dandruff, but they can make it worse. Skin-drying central heating and woolly hats, which raise the temperature of your scalp to “cosy” for dandruff-causing microbes, can leave you laden with more flakes than Lapland. This season, banish the snow globe look with Sachajuan Scalp Shampoo, which has been specially formulated with piroctone olamine, climbazole and salicylic acid to rid your dome of dandruff.
Frédéric Malle Monsieur Eau De Parfum
If summer scents are all citrus lightness, winter demands something deeper, smokier and spicier to stay the course, and Monsieur, a woody-oriental fragrance from Parisian parfumerie Frédéric Malle, is just the ticket. Designed by acclaimed nose Mr Bruno Jovanovic, this punchy patchouli-based scent opens with top notes of tangerine and rum before settling into a smouldering base of incense, musk and vanilla. Consider it your winter wingman.
The Nue Co Skin Food + Prebiotic
Your body might crave starchy carbs during the colder months, but what it really needs is this skin-saving powder from organic supplements start-up The Nue Co. Mixed with milk or poured into a smoothie, its collagen-boosting blend of lucuma, baobab and camu camu fruits, combined with cell-regenerating brown rice protein, helps brighten your skin and bolster its defences, proving that it really is what’s on the inside that counts.
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