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We put our skin through a lot: smoky cities, air conditioned offices, and life’s other little hurdles. Fight back against ageing and dull complexions with a good night cream – ranging from Botanics’ affordable offerings to SK-II’s premium Essential Power Rich Cream.
If you want to go mid-range, Bobbi Brown and Caudalie produce exceptional results, with delicate scents that will help you drift off to a wrinkle-free dreamland.
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Show all 10 10 best night creams OSKIA Bedtime Beauty Boost This luxurious supercharged bedtime treat is packed with a potent blend of anti-agers, vitamins and minerals and is rich in essential cell nutrition. But it's amazingly light in texture and completely non-greasy - no mean feat for such a hard working night cream. The scent of Bulgarian rose is perfect for the bedtime wind down too. My skin positively glows the morning after using this and it's now a permanent fixture on my bathroom shelves.
£74 for 50ml, oskiaskincare.com
10 best night creams Elemis Pro-Intense Lift Effect Night Cream A life-long Elemis fan, this is a real corker of a cream. As we age, the skin's renewal cycle slows down and it loses elasticity. The building blocks of skin start to flatten out, which causes drooping and sagging. We all want our skin back where it should be – looking pert and firm, and this is where Lift Effect comes into its own. Designed specifically to revitalise slackening jowls, cheeks and chin, overnight it “stimulates the cells’ biological energy cycle to deliver a lifting effect”. In reality what this means is you wake up with a plumper, more youthful-looking complexion.
£95 for 50ml, timetospa.co.uk
10 best night creams Caudalie Vinexpert Night Infusion Cream Grapevine resveratrol is a flagship active ingredient in cancer research, it's big in the field of cell degeneration, and regarded worldwide as being among the best anti-ageing molecules. It's also packed into this night treatment alongside skin barrier-restoring Ceramide 3, hyaluronic acid to plump the skin from the inside out and organic fair trade shea butter to nourish and repair. Caudalie's Cosm'ethic commitment with this range means they've teamed up with WWF to protect ecological diversity in the threatened Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra. And the cherry on top? It's scent is a sleep-inducing blend of basil, peppermint, sage, lavender and thyme.
£39 for 40ml, caudalie.com
10 best night creams Bobbi Brown Hydrating Intense Night Cream This luxurious concentrated cream works wonders on dehydrated complexions. It's thirsty work living in cities, working in air conditioned offices and dealing with stressful lives, and this boosts the skin's ability to recharge, rehydrate and repair during the night. Fine lines are plumped up and after a few nights’ use my face definitely felt stronger and healthier. Packed with apricot, olive, jojoba, sweet almond and shea butter oils, my skin was also super soft to the touch too.
£39.50 for 50ml, bobbibrown.co.uk
10 best night creams SKYN Iceland Oxygen Infusion Night Cream Skin doesn’t hide stress very well, so if yours is looking dull and worn out, this overnighter is for you. It's packed with natural extracts to help alleviate premature signs of ageing due to stress, including yeast extract to calm and soothe inflamed skin and white willow bark to reduce irritation in sensitive skin.
£49 for 56g, marksandspencer.com
10 best night creams SK-II Essential Power Rich Cream Not for the faint hearted, this cream is seriously rich. Developed to address symptoms of severe ageing, I absolutely loved it, but couldn't use it every night. The 10 signs of ageing outlined by SK-II are loss of firmness, dryness, fine lines, wrinkles, sallow complexion, lack of resilience and radiance, visible pores, sagging and roughness - and this cream works on all those problems. In just a few days my skin felt smoother and I was seriously impressed by how my pores did seem to shrink.
£143 for 50ml, harrods.com
10 best night creams Botanics Ultra Calm Skin Calming Night Cream 'Why create one night cream, when you can develop four?' thought the beauty boffins at Botanics when they came up with these brilliant overnight treats. Whatever your complexion, there's a cream for you while you get your zzzz's. Ultra Calm soothes and replenishes sensitive skin, Firming Triple Age Renewal is perfect for deeper lines and wrinkles, Hydrating All Bright hydrates and brightens normal skin, while Replenishing Radiant Youth boosts radiance and smoothes out finer lines. And all without breaking the bank.
£4.66 for 50ml, boots.com
10 best night creams REN V-Cense Revitalising Night Cream Hot off the press this month, brand new V-Cense is particularly suited to dry and dehydrated complexions suffering from fatigue and dullness. Frankincense is well known for its muscle-relaxing properties and combined with boswellic acid from bark, it eases over-worked muscles and reduces the appearance of fine lines. This cream also minimises the formation of future lines and wrinkles. Like botox at bedtime, but without needles!
£32 for 50ml, renskincare.com
10 best night creams Una Brennan Super Facialist Overnight Repair Radiance Capsules A nourishing super-boost for dull and dehydrated post-winter skin, these concentrated radiance enhancing capsules are packed with anti-aging staple Vitamin C, skin brightening licorice and antioxidant tomato extract. It says you should use for a minimum of 3 weeks, but I found within 2 weeks I was waking up with a more glowy youthful complexion.
£21.99 for 28 capsules, superfacialist.co.uk
10 best night creams Astalift Regenerating Night Cream I try to be impartial when it comes to packaging – it's what's inside that counts, but this stunning mirrored red pot had me diving straight in to test it out. Fortunately, the incredible cream inside more than matches its fabulous exterior. Light and creamy, but intensely hydrating, it renews and repairs while you get your beauty sleep.
£48 for 30g, astalift.co.uk
Verdict:
High-end night creams are a serious luxury, but I can't stop dipping into OSKIA Bedtime Beauty Boost and Elemis Pro Intense lift Effect - not only for their sumptuous textures and scents, but also for their unbeatable results the morning after.
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1. OSKIA Bedtime Beauty Boost, £74 for 50ml
2. Elemis Pro-Intense Lift Effect Night Cream, £95 for 50ml
3. Caudalie Vinexpert Night Infusion Cream, £39 for 40ml
4. Bobbi Brown Hydrating Intense Night Cream, £39.50 for 50ml
5. SKYN Iceland Oxygen Infusion Night Cream, £49 for 56g
6. SK-II Essential Power Rich Cream, £143 for 50ml
7. Botanics Ultra Calm Skin Calming Night Cream, £4.66 for 50ml
8. REN V-Cence Revitalising Night Cream, £32 for 50ml
9. Una Brennan Super Facialist Overnight Repair Radiance Capsules, £21.99 for 28 capsules
10. Astalift Regenerating Night Cream, £48 for 30g
