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5 best anti-ageing serums
Good Housekeeping's Beauty Director, Eve Cameron, tests the latest anti-ageing serums from Clinique, No7 and Radical Skincare.
By Eve Cameron
No 7 Protect & Perfect Advanced Serum, from £23.95
No7 has tweaked its original and much hyped Protect & Perfect Serum to include more of the powerful Matrixyl 3000 peptide and a host of other skin-improvers.
Clinical results are impressive. I also spotted in one of the ongoing trial reports that the group who weren’t using anything at all on their skin as a control, experienced a worsening of their wrinkles at six months…..proof that using nothing on your face is not a good strategy if you want to look youthful for longer! No 7 Protect & Perfect Advanced Serum, from £23.95.
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Dr Weil for Origins new Mega Mushroom Skin Relief Advanced Face Serum, £49
The stress hormone cortisol causes inflammation in the skin leading to sensitivity, redness and breakouts and accelerated ageing.
Aside from assuming the downward dog more often (yoga is clinically proven to offset stress) look out for Dr Weil for Origins new Mega Mushroom Skin Relief Advanced Face Serum, £49, with calming, skin-supporting mushroom and sea buckthorn extracts.
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Sanctuary Spa Wonder Oil Serum, £22
Shake Sanctuary Spa Wonder Oil Serum, £22, to mix the ingredients, which include red rice stem cells, jojoba and pomegranate oils. It absorbs quickly – in fact, it’s so lightweight you can apply makeup on top. Then in the evening, layer it over moisturiser for a super-hydrating treatment.
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Clinique’s Smart Custom-Repair Serum, £48
Clinique’s Smart Custom-Repair Serum, £48, responds to skin distress signals, releasing appropriate ingredients as needed to target specific issues from inflammation and uneven skin tone to lines and dehydration.
Clinique also tests each product 12 times on 600 people and if one of those 7,200 applications sees a reaction, they start again on the formulation. The beauty team love this because it’s hydrating as well as anti-ageing and leaves your skin feeling velvety soft.
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Radical Skincare Advanced Peptide Anti-oxidant Serum, £125
If you have the budget, try the multi-tasking Radical Skincare Advanced Peptide Anti-oxidant Serum, £125 (radicalskincare.com). It claims to address 16 signs of ageing (not including senior moments like where you put the car keys!). Our tester voted it one of the best for wrinkles, pigmentation and dull skin she’d ever tried.
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