Sali Hughes’s affordable skincare range with Revolution has landed – here’s our verdict

Rating: 8/10

The first step in your evening routine, this balm dissolves any make-up and the grime of the day. Once you break the surface, the formula has a great texture: it melts into skin easily yet feels rich and nourishing – the best of both worlds. It easily removes waterproof make-up (though we did find it stung our eyes a little) and has the same subtle, slightly soapy scent as the rest of the range. This is an excellent quality balm, akin to classics like Elemis’s cleansing balm, at a fraction of the price.

Rating: 7/10

This is a non-foaming cleanser that’s designed for morning use, but it can also be used as a second cleanse in the evening. It has more of a balm than gel texture when you first apply it, but once you add water it transforms into a milk. Skin is left clean, fresh and glowing but not tight and dehydrated, unlike many other cleansers; we could – though we didn’t – quite comfortably go to bed after this step. By this point of the routine, our skin was baby-soft.

Rating: 10/10

It is difficult to find an acid exfoliant that contains this many quality, glow-giving acids at such a moderate price. This one contains lactic, malic, glycolic, tranexamic and salicylic acids in a gentle, non-irritating formula. It effectively smoothed out uneven texture around the nose and reduced the appearance of dry, flaky patches. This is another formula that easily competes with the luxury offering.

Rating: 10/10

Our first impression of this was that we were absolutely blown away by the slip. A small amount covers the face incredibly easily, and it has a silky, hydrating feel. It contains 15 per cent ascorbyl glucoside, a form of vitamin C, which brightens and clarifies skin, and niacinamide, which evens out complexion and improves the appearance of blemish-prone skin. We suggest using in the morning, post-cleanse and pre-moisturiser, and using a retinol from another brand in the evening at this point in the routine.

Rating: 9/10

Hughes has written extensively about her dry skin and is evangelical about hydrating ingredients such as glycerin and hyaluronic acid, so we were expecting big things from her dry skin moisturiser, which contains jojoba oil and vitamin E. Immediately out of the tub it has the stiffer texture of heavier duty moisturisers but absorbs very quickly, leaving skin softer and plumped and tightness relieved, without any tackiness. As with the serum, it has brilliant slip, meaning a small amount easily covers the whole face.