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Montpellier rock-rose
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they’re also absorbed super-fast –
allowing those age-defying extracts
to get to work rapidly.
The second most frequently asked
question asked about serums? ‘Do I
still need to use a moisturiser?’ And the
answer’s yes. Though serums leave skin
feeling deliciously silky, you’ll still need
additional moisture morning and night.
(That applies even to
oily and combination
skins, too, which can
still be thirsty.)
Here’s the how-to,
then, from
Clarins
own consultants:
after cleansing
your face, pat
SUPER RESTORATIVE
skin dry. (You
NIGHT CREAM, £73 for
don’t want to
50ml. Powered by
dilute the serum Harungana and
Montpellier rock rose, to
on damp
capitalise on skin’s
skin.) Apply
‘repair mode’, overnight
a pea-sized
drop of serum, smoothing it evenly over
face and neck. Once it’s sunk in, apply
Clarins Super Restorative Day Cream (if
it’s morning), or Night Cream, and tap
Clarins Super Restorative Total Eye
Concentrate into the eye zone. We’re
now used to the concept of ‘primers’ –
and that’s just what a serum is, within
your skincare regime: think of it as a
‘booster treatment’ that helps you to
minimise the signs of the ageing process.
Last but not least, adding Clarins Super
Restorative Remodelling Serum into your
skincare regime ups the twice-daily
pleasure factor: lightly fresh-scented, silky,
smooth – all in all, a sheer joy to apply.
So we say: ‘Vive le sérum!’
We all need (skin)
The latest to join the line-up
of Clarins bestselling
Super Restorative range is
perfect for answering any
SOS from ageing skin
F
OR Frenchwomen, ‘le sérum’
is an intrinsic step in a
skincare regime. An extra
skin treat to add in to a
morning and evening ritual,
yes – but one that most of our
counterparts on the opposite side of
the Channel wouldn’t skip for all the
tea in Ladurée. Of course, we all know
the use of
CLARINS SUPER
anti-ageing
RESTORATIVE
serums isn’t
REMODELLING
unique to French
SERUM, £80
women – but the for 30ml, targets
two key skin
French famously
challenges – age
devote more
spots and loss of
attention to their
facial firmness
skin than most.
There’s a much bigger emphasis on
a woman’s skincare regime, as
opposed to cosmetics. Fact: the more
beautiful your complexion, the less
foundation and concealer you’ll need –
because you will, as the French like to say, ‘feel
comfortable in your skin…’
Now, the debut of Clarins Super Restorative
Remodelling Serum offers a sublime new
serum option – joining the bestselling line-up of
Super Restorative Skincare. Its USP? As you
might have guessed from the name, over and
above replenishing skin, Clarins Super
Restorative Remodelling Serum works to help
‘lift’ features, remodelling and redefining
contours. But its actions don’t stop there:
this powerful, hard-working remodelling serum
also targets age spots and pigmentation
problems – beauty challenges which truly bother
many women.
As Clarins explain, ‘As women age, skin is
weakened by hormonal changes. But it still has
HEROES
the capacity to “bounce
fibroblasts in skin.
back” and recover; it
When we’re young, these
simply needs the
fibroblasts work almost like
right support. Super
‘girders’ to hold skin up. As
Restorative Remodelling
we age, they start to give
Serum aims to fight the
way (just like posts
Yes, the lifts in Parisian
effects of gravity and to
sometimes do in an ageing
apartment blocks are tiny,
restore density and
building!). That’s where this
and so slow – but the real
luminosity to the
serum comes in: as in-depth
reason Frenchwomen
skin, thanks to the
laboratory research has
choose to use the stairs
combination of powerful
shown, both this Narrow-leaf
to access their
appartements is because
plant extracts and key
Plantain and Harungana
it’s good for firming
ingredients with
extract – a signature
thighs and derrière…
recognised benefits.’
ingredient across the Super
Clarins, of course, are
Restorative collection – have
renowned for their plant-powered
proved highly effective at reactivating hormoneformulas – and Super Restorative
deprived fibroblasts. At the same time, an
Remodelling Serum joins a highly targeted
imperceptible ‘network’ is created on the skin’s
skincare programme which includes
surface: all you’ll feel is a fabulous, light, velvety
Super Restorative Day and Night Creams,
finish - but what you see in the mirror, after regular
for a 360-degree approach to skin ageing.
use, should tell a different story…
The
key
plant
elements
in
The other key botanical element is Montpellier
Narrow-leaf Plantain
Super Restorative
rock-rose – which targets pigmentation marks.
Remodelling Serum have been chosen for their
Perhaps they’re sun-exposure-related, in your case.
ability to target ‘sagging’, and loss of facial volume.
Or linked to the hormonal roller coaster of a
(We may love the way that gravity keeps us firmly
woman’s life. But in combination with
tethered to Planet Earth – but are less happy
hexylresorcinol, a leading age-spotwith the way it causes our faces to droop,
correcting ingredient with an acknowledged
over the years!) So in this blissfully textured
action on melanin production, Clarins Super
serum, one of the key, innovative ingredients
Restorative Remodelling Serum also
is Narrow-leaf
works to tackle age and sun spots, restoring
SUPER RESTORATIVE
Plantain. This
an even complexion.
TOTAL EYE
leaf has been
Right now in the UK, we’re slowly
CONCENTRATE
identified as
wising up to what Frenchwomen have
Powerful botanicals
harnessed in this
literally helping
known for decades – and serums sales
smooth, silky serum
to stop the
are soaring, with Clarins Super
include Asian
‘melting’ of fatty
Restorative Remodelling Serum
silktree extract,
tissue, linked with
tapping right into that skincare trend.
Cassie flower wax,
the ageing of
But one of the commonest questions
Horse chestnut and
Cupuaçu butter
the supporting
beauty editors are still asked is: ‘Do I
FRENCH
BEAUTY
SECRETS
need one?’ And the answer is: if you care about
your skin, certainement. (And over the age of 25,
yes.) Because of the way serums are formulated,
they allow for a superHarungana
intense concentration of
active ingredients.
Precisely because the
molecules in a serum are so small,
SUPER RESTORATIVE
DAY CREAM, £69 for
50ml. In trials on women
using this for three
months, wrinkle depth
was reduced by 20 per
cent, and the volume of
wrinkles by 41 per cent
WIN A CLARINS
BEAUTY BOX
Clarins and the YOU Beauty
Team are giving away 150
Beauty Boxes containing a
full-size Super Restorative
Serum as well as travel
sizes of Super Restorative Day
and Night Creams worth £165.
To enter, please visit mailonline.co.uk/clarins