A new year is a good moment to take stock. Do you have unsettled skin, enlarged pores, spots or excess shine? The Stabilizing Collection by Natura Bissé brings your skin back into good condition and balance. The products pair beautifully with the other favourites from this Spanish brand, so whatever your age, start 2023 with a new skincare duo.
ADVIES
Try to make this routine a habit
Cleanse the skin twice a day and choose a hydrating day cream
In your twenties you are probably more concerned with your hair and make-up than your skin. Skincare is not top of the list at this age, since you cannot see any real lines yet. But as an energetic twenty-something living on your own, with a steady job and a busy social life that keeps you rushing from one thing to the next, it does matter that your skin stays clean and fresh. Your skin may be a little unsettled, which can bring spots and blemishes, so remove dirt and make-up in the evening and start your day with a cleanser to keep the pores clean.
Your new skincare routine
A cleansing, relaxing facial with a beauty therapist is worth considering from this age onwards, but you can also get started at home with the Stabilizing Cleansing Mask. This clay-based purifying mask has an antibacterial effect and offers mild exfoliation with strong sebum control. It removes dead skin cells and impurities thanks to exfoliating salicylic acid. It is a cleanser and mask in one, designed for oily and acne-prone skin. You can also apply the mask to individual spots before bed. It is just as important to protect young skin from external influences. The hydrating Oxygen Cream gives a detox boost to skin that is exposed to a polluted environment each day, while helping to reduce hyperpigmentation. This hydrating cream is formulated with stabilised hydrogen peroxide, which enters the skin like pure oxygen and, together with spirulina, gives it powerful hydration.
Stay a step ahead of lines
Exfoliate regularly and choose a collagen-boosting vitamin C serum
Your thirties are probably the busiest years of your life. A career, a gym membership and a busy social life fill your diary, and bring plenty of stress with them. Both stress and lack of sleep begin to play a part, and the skin is likely to start showing signs of tiredness. Stress disrupts cell renewal and weakens the skin’s resilience. Hormones affect the complexion too. A shortage of progesterone can leave the skin uneven, with dry patches and fine dryness lines. And that is before we even mention collagen production, which begins to slow around the age of thirty, so the quality of the elastin declines.
Your new skincare routine
Happily, your skin can still be stimulated with ease. The aim is to bring radiance back to the complexion and make the skin look plumper. Collagen-boosting treatments such as peels and microneedling can help. Hydration is key too, and one ingredient that does this particularly well is hyaluronic acid, which works like a magnet to hold on to moisture and gives a long-lasting result. The Stabilizing Resurfacing Essence with its 20% acid cocktail offers a daily polish that leaves the skin fresh, clean and smooth with refined pores. It renews and hydrates the skin and regulates sebum production. The essence delivers intense hydration and balances the skin flora, so impurities are reduced. Combined with the C+C Vitamin 20% Antioxidant Solution, it helps minimise the signs of ageing caused by external influences. This is the age to start using an anti-ageing cream.
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Say goodbye to the early signs of ageing
Take your routine up a level and tackle fine lines and pigmentation
By this age you know your strengths and your limits, though you may want to change things or seek a little excitement beyond the everyday routine. The skin repairs itself more slowly now than before. Cell renewal is not only slower: less oestrogen is produced and the skin’s natural oils (lipids) decline, which leaves the skin drier. Any sun damage picked up earlier in life can also begin to show as pigmentation. The skin needs firming and evening out. Retinol, or vitamin A acid, is the most important rejuvenating active, so it earns its place in your night-time routine. During the day, peptides help keep cell division going.
Your new skincare routine
Deeper peels or treatments that work firmly on the skin encourage it to produce collagen again and repair itself. Alongside this, look for hydrating creams and masks to keep the skin supple and firm, and now and then spend a week using a serum that reduces pigmentation and leaves the skin more even and brighter. The Stabilizing Anti-Aging Concentrate is an ultra-concentrated serum with 10% niacinamide and sea fennel extract, an ingredient that works much like retinol. It is ideal for minimising impurities, pigmentation and blackheads. Diamond Extreme Cream Light Texture does the rest, firming, evening, repairing and protecting the skin while giving it fresh energy.
Embrace your beauty
Choose highly concentrated, lightweight anti-ageing formulas you can layer
Around the age of fifty, many women begin the menopause. As periods come to an end, shifts in hormone levels can bring a range of complaints. Alongside the familiar hot flushes, you may also experience mood swings, uncertainty, loneliness and even depression. This emotional, mental and physical rollercoaster comes about as levels of female oestrogen fall. The skin becomes drier, slacker and duller, and more sensitive to external influences. Pigmentation, spots, thread veins and skin irritation can appear more readily. During this time it is important to stimulate cell division and keep moisture levels up with ingredients such as collagen, retinol, acids and niacinamide. Look for them in products with lightweight textures, such as serums and oils, that layer easily over one another and reach deeper into the skin.
Your new skincare routine
A first step in keeping the stratum corneum healthy is to cleanse with a product that does not foam or draw moisture from the skin. The Stabilizing Facial Cleansing Gel + AHA is a cleansing gel rich in Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHAs) that provides gentle exfoliation and a radiant complexion. The Essential Shock Intense Complex is an intensively firming anti-ageing serum that restores the skin’s elasticity and suppleness and gives mature skin a soft, younger-looking appearance. The key ingredients in this serum are the derma-complex and the isoflavones, which act as a botanical oestrogen to counter hormonal fluctuations in the skin.
