Turn your back on dull, dehydrated skin this spring! Spring months in Ireland can be a funny time for our skin. The weather is still changeable and unpredictable often leaving skin feeling sensitive. Combined with extended periods indoors with central heating on and prolonged screen usage, our skin can become dry and dehydrated.
French skincare brand, Eau Thermale Avène, has suggested five hero products which can slot easily into any regime to improve the quality of the skin this spring. Keeping our skin nourished and hydrated is essential for ensuring our complexions are healthy and glowing coming into summer!
Avène Thermal Spring Water €5-€15
Avène’s hero offering is the Thermal Spring Water Spray. It’s at the core of every product created by Avène. This wonder spray can be used to hydrate and soothe the skin at any stage during the day. The spray can also be used over the hair to calm frizz or sprayed directly onto sensitive, delicate skin prone to redness and itching sensations to soothe the face and body. Avène tip – Keep the Thermal Water Spray by your desk when you WFH (Work from home) and set an alarm reminder on your phone to drink water and spritz your skin at regular intervals. We must not forget to hydrate the skin from within too!
Hydrance Aqua Gel €30
Many factors can diminish the skin’s water content resulting in dehydrated skin. Symptoms of dehydrated skin include dryness, tightness, fine lines and uneven skin tone. Avène’s hero product of 2019, the Hydrance Aqua Gel, is the all-in-one wonder pot for all your hydration needs.
The Hydrance Aqua-Gel is a visibly dense gel at first sight which breaks into a beautiful freshwater formula when applied to the skin. This unique formula combines 75% Avène Thermal Spring Water, patented active ingredient CohedermTM as well as Dextran Sulfate to intensely hydrate, soothe and detoxify the skin. The delicate blend offers immediate comfort and a soothing feeling upon application and can be used as a moisturiser, a mask and an eye cream.
Avène tip – Store in the fridge for the ultimate cooling treat for puffy or tired eyes.
Cicalfate+ €13
Let’s face it… our hands are suffering the most at the moment, feeling dry and fragile. The constant hand-washing is drawing water from our skin drying it out further and leaving hands with a feeling of tightness and discomfort.
Avène’s reformulated Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream is a hand care hero. Containing a new biotechnological active ingredient called [C+ – Restore], Cicalfate+ was developed to provide a bandage-effect, protective dressing to the skin.
Avène tip – Try out the new Cicalfate+ LIPS too if you’re experiencing dry or dehydrated lips!
Soothing Radiance Mask €19
Nothing says self-care quite like a soothing face mask. Avène’s Soothing Radiance Mask is a deep-penetrating, nourishing mask that provides comfort and protection to tired, dehydrated skin. The cream texture envelops skin, reinforcing the skin’s natural barriers, leaving it hydrated, energised and radiant.
This super-nourishing mask contains 69% Avène Thermal Spring Water. With its natural and unique calming and soothing properties, skin feels refreshed, comforted and is left glowing.
Avène tip – Apply a thicker layer in the evening over your serum or moisturiser for an over-night mask effect.
Avène B Protect €17
The final and some-might-say, most important step in every skincare routine is SPF. Whether you work by a window or pop out for some fresh air throughout the day, Avène’s award-winning B-Protect SPF50+ is a perfect city shield BB-style high protection SPF50+. This long-lasting, tinted cream formula is a 3-in-1 facial skin care protector with an antioxidant complex for sensitive skin.
Thanks to micro-encapsulated pigments, the light-weight cream provides a radiant, nude skin finish on application and protects the skin from free- radical damage. Avène tip –Give skin a boost without the need for makeup with B-Protect. The lightweight formula gives skin an instant boost with its gentle illuminating tint – perfect for those no-makeup days!
Avène is available from pharmacies nationwide and online at www.boots.ie.
For more information please visit www.avene.ie.
