Post-quarantine skincare and winter on the same page just mean one thing, your skin needs as much hydration as possible these days, we’re sure you’ve heard this before, but in case you needed a reminder, here you go, don’t wait for your skin to start giving warning signs and listen to it, that’s the smartest choice you should as we thrive the winter season along with using the best moisturizer for your skin types.
Find what’s working for you and stick to it, pampering your skin on a regular basis keeps it healthy, smoothed, plumped, and glowy, whether you’re braving a stiff wind on your morning run or simply staring in the mirror and wishing to tone down a few scars and having that eternal glow.
To begin with, we asked Paula’s Choice educator, Desiree Stordhal for her expert tips to choose the best moisturizer for any skin conditions.
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Best Ingredients to look for before buying a moisturiser:
- Antioxidants help defend against the effects of numerous environmental stressors, from damaging UV rays to airborne pollutants. Green tea extract, resveratrol, vitamin C, superoxide dismutase, and licorice extract—to name a few.
- Skin-replenishing ingredients enrich the skin’s surface, drenching it with revitalizing hydration and repairing its all-important barrier. This helps skin look and feel soft, smooth, and supple. Examples include hyaluronic acid, ceramides, sodium PCA, and glycerin.
- Ingredients thwart water loss and have beautiful softening, protective, and soothing effects on the skin. These may be fluid or thick in texture and include shea butter, fatty acids, amino acids, algae, borage oil, evening primrose oil, and sunflower oil.
What is the best way to maximize your day moisturiser, and what is the best order you apply it?
The most important thing is that your daytime moisturizer should contain sunscreen. Unprotected sun exposure continually hammers away at your skin, hindering its ability to hold moisture in and, of course, leads to accelerated signs of aging and the literal breakdown of skin’s collagen and elastin. Make sure your daytime moisturizer contains a mix of antioxidants that can help further defend the skin.
Your moisturizer with SPF should be the last product you apply in your morning skincare routine. After cleanser/toner/exfoliant steps, at night, apply the rest of your products, including moisturizer, in order of thinnest to thickest texture.
What ingredients should you look out for when choosing the best moisturiser?
First, determine which kind of moisturizer texture wok best for your skin type. Then you can focus on ingredients.
- For oily skin, lighter weight consistencies, like a weightless lotion or gel work great. In terms of ingredients, the superhero antioxidant niacinamide is an oily skin favorite due to its ability to help minimize enlarged pores. Oily skin types should avoid heavier plant butter and oils.
- Paula’s Choice pick: CLEAR Oil-Free Moisturizer
- Dry skin does best with the richer textures you’ll find in creams. There are all kinds of emollient ingredients to look for including antioxidant-rich plant oils like argan, jojoba, sunflower, or plant butter like shea and mango. Ceramides that help skin retain moisture are incredibly beneficial for dry skin as well.
- Paula’s Choice pick: RESIST Barrier Repair Moisturizer with Retinol
- Combination skin does well with hybrid textures, like a gel-cream. Hyaluronic acid is a phenomenal ingredient to look for due to its ability to intensely hydrate skin without a heavy, greasy feel. Electrolytes are another exciting category as they help the aquaporins (water channels) in the skin deliver hydration more efficiently.
- Paula’s Choice pick: Water-Infusing Electrolyte Moisturizer
* This isn’t a comprehensive list—there are all kinds of great ingredients to choose from. You can look those up in the ingredient dictionary on paulaschoice.com.au.
Here’s the CF list with 6 of the best moisturisers for every skin conditions:
1. Best Moisturiser for Combination Skin
The Skinstitut Moisture Defence has a lightweight texture belies its hydration and protection superpowers.
And for the combination skins wondering: no, it won’t clog your pores. Instead, it smooths, hydrates, and improves the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
A few reasons why you’ll love it? For its humectant and emollient properties: it attracts water and holds it within the skin to soften, smooth, and hydrate. Contains natural peptides and native antioxidants that protect against pollutants and free-radical damage. It has a lightweight texture to be easily absorbed.
Price: $34.30AUD
2. Best Multitasker Moisturiser
The Mere, Elemental 360 Cell-Active Face Cream is a safe bet for those worried about the first signs of aging, those needing protection for environmental factors (as we’re getting out of ISO) and if that wasn’t enough reason to love it, it works as a primer too.
Activated with a unique plant-powered complex to replenish the skin barrier and defend against unavoidable infra-aging. Using Aussie botanical ingredients and actives such as:
ELIXR-IR: This Australian Knotgrass derived extract is the first botanical active designed to fight infrared-induced skin aging, a breakthrough concept in photoprotection and photoaging.
MARITECH REVERSE: Extracted from wild-grown seaweed in the pristine oceans of Tasmania, this next generation Fucoidan extract holds a multitude of the life-force of the ocean and protects against UV radiation and environmental contaminants.
Niacinamide: Niacinamide boosts the immunity of the skin, improves epidermal barrier performance, and increases the production of collagen and ceramides.
Price: AUD $62
3. Best Night Time Moisturiser
The Grown Alchemist Generating Night Cream has been Ana’s favorite for the month of June and we can’t wonder why.
Price: $100.00AUD
4. Best Moisturiser For Boosting Skin Hydration
The Jojoba Company Ultimate Youth Potion with L22 just got even better (so good, you’d think it was a serum).
Formulated with patented L22, a blend of botanical oils that deliver the same ratio of lipids as a healthy 22-year old skin and free-radical fighting CoQ10, this advanced facial oil packs a powerful punch to deliver age-defying results, putting back in what age takes away. Packed with the full spectrum of vitamins (a, b, c, d, e & f) and essential omegas from anti-oxidant rich jojoba, this time machine in a bottle will boost skin hydration to nourish, plump, and deliver a healthy, youthful and radiant complexion to help you put your best, vibrant face forward.
You would want to apply it daily after cleansing, dispense 1-2 pumps on to fingertips, onto a clean, damp face, and going all the way down till your neck and décolletage, to boost skin hydration, restore healthy skin lipids, and increase elasticity.
Price: AUD $44.95
5. Best Moisturiser To Protect Skin from External Factors
The Magic Cream Light is a ground-breaking light-textured formula that nourishes the skin, delivering advanced hydration whilst helping reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Skin is left looking plumper and naturally-looking glow. It is also created with a unique Urban Pollution Defence Complex to defend skin against visible and invisible pollution, digital blue light, UVA and UVB rays with an SPF 20.
Darlings, there are so many people who love the INSTANT and LONG-TERM RESULTS of MAGIC CREAM, but as the seasons change, and people’s skin changes, sometimes there’s a need for a lighter-textured moisturizer that still delivers clinically proven results in hydration, skin-smoothing, and skin-defense. When I traveled to Asia, so many women and men told me that they ADORED Magic Cream for winter but needed a fluid-like moisturizer for humid conditions, sweat-inducing summer weather, and oil-prone skin. My NEW! Magic Cream Light gives you fresh, hydrated, shielded MAGIC SKIN for every skin type, everywhere!
Charlotte Tilbury
This new CT moisturizer also tackles the impacts of modern life with ground-breaking ingredients, very much needed these days as most of us are getting out from lockdown and the skin can feel more sensitive. We know that when we take a step out of our home in the morning, the skin is immediately exposed to a multitude of external environmental aggressors, including air pollution; UVA & UVB rays, but also there’s blue light everywhere we go.
Studies around Blue Light, which emanates from most digital devices, including your smartphone, laptop, and computer, found that it can stimulate photo-aging and skin damage, including inflammation and breakdown of the skin’s natural barrier. Therefore, when the skin is exposed in this way, unstable molecules within these aggressors known as free radicals start to damage the skin’s natural protective barrier, in turn leading to the breakdown of lipids and collagen, which are responsible for keeping the skin hydrated, supple and youthful-looking.
Price: AUD $125
6. Best Moisturiser For Blemish Prone Skin
The Skin Virtue Super Clear Essential Cream has a lightweight fast-absorbing formula targeted for anti-aging skin, sensitive and blemish-prone skin.
It contains a potent combination of patented plant stem cells encapsulated in an advanced liposome delivery system and enriched with AHAs, antioxidants, and vitamins. Super Clear Essential Cream will rehydrate, nourish, and revive skin while helping to visibly reverse signs of aging.
Price: $90AUD
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