The trend of night creams is confirmed. No wonder, it is at night that the skin regenerates itself … All the more reason to apply a treatment that encourages and accelerates the necessary repairs! Zoom in on these new generation cosmetics.
“Night creams are really useful, explains Anne Clément, scientific director of the Dr Pierre Ricaud laboratories. Because the cell repair process takes place after midnight”. You should know that during the day the skin cells are damaged by all kinds of attacks, such as pollution, UV rays. And if the skin has its own repair system, past its 30s, it is always useful to give it a boost, because this system regularly weakens with age! On the other hand, “as much a lack of hydration quickly felt, as much a repair defect does not feel! continues the specialist.
Since our skin is more receptive at night, we must take advantage of it. ”By applying treatments that in addition to moisturizing and nourishing will treat skin problems, whether they are stains, wrinkles, lack of sparkle…
1. Night creams that erase spots
Linked to photo aging, these hyperpigmentations, which concern 90% of women over the age of 50, appear on exposed areas such as the face, hands and décolleté. If in the morning, it is interesting to protect your face with a treatment that contains a sun protection factor, it is however judicious to apply an anti-dark spot treatment in the evening. “It will act by regulating the pigmentation on the whole face. It is not a question of depigmenting, because that would risk damaging the skin next to the spots”, specifies Anne Clément. Thanks to effective active ingredients (azelaic acid, glycolic acid, vitamin C …), this type of care gradually fades spots (hyperpigmentations and dyschromia), but does not make them completely disappear. However, on condition that you do not expose yourself to the sun and protect your skin with a high index.
Our choice
Complete cream
A night cream that offers a triple action since it corrects, unifies and nourishes the skin by attacking spots but also wrinkles, thanks to a combination of active ingredients (encapsulated peptide and anti-spots vitamin C, antioxidant niacinamide) and enriched with more hydrating hyaluronic acid and vitamin E.
Melascreen Photoaging night cream, Ducray, € 30 for 50 ml.
Correction fluid
Formulated to fight visible spots and those that have not yet appeared, this fluid contains two complexes: brightening Bi-Ascorbyl based on vitamin C and Illuminol, which reduces skin color, as well as hyaluronic acid for anti-aging action.
Anti-wrinkle night fluid New skin effect Lift + super corrector, Diadermine, € 12.50 for 50 ml.
2. Anti-pollution night cosmetics
Whatever your skin type, pollution plays a harmful role ! Studies have shown that emissions of ozone, microparticles and gases related to automobiles and industries exacerbate skin reactions. It amplifies oxidative reactions (due to free radicals), intensifies pigment spots, accentuates wrinkles and accentuates loss of radiance. It increases the secretion of sebum, responsible for blackheads, and modifies their composition.
As for reactive or allergic skin, they have more tightness, redness and discomfort. If a conscientious make-up removal every evening makes it possible to get rid of it easily, it is necessary to apply each evening a night cream, enriched with antioxidants. Which will help the skin to fight against destructive free radicals.
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Special sensitive skin
A fluid and comfortable treatment which, thanks to a duo of antioxidant active ingredients (Carnosine and vitamin E) and soothing and anti-irritant active ingredients (Neurosensine and niacinamide), combined with thermal water, repair the effects of oxidative stress and prevents redness and irritation upon waking up.
Tolériane Ultra-Nuit, La Roche-Posay, € 18 for 40 ml.
Regenerating formula
This cream acts as an anti-pollution shield with a formula based on the purifying and cleansing glycolic acid and gluconolactone duo, on an anti-oxidant complex and on anti-aging Maltobionic acid to improve the quality of the skin, and redensify the mattress. dermal.
Cellular Restoration Regenerating Night Cream, Neo Strata Skin Active, € 62 for 50 g.
3. Night creams that treat dryness
Did you know that water evaporation from the skin is more important during the night, and reaches its maximum at 8 am? When you have dry skin, this justifies not letting it dry out further, during your seven to eight hours of sleep! By applying a strongly nourishing night care, therefore rich in fatty acids and moisturizing active ingredients, the skin will be much more comfortable when you wake up. Because dry skin does not produce enough lipids. Because of this, the water contained in the dermis evaporates easily, and its intercellular cement tends to degrade. If we do not act, she cannot fight alone …
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Intense nutrition treatment
Nourishing and soothing shea butter, sphingo-lipid which helps to synthesize skin lipids and a beech bud extract which improves hydration, rebalancing thermal water improve the comfort and softness of the skin dried.
Nutrilogie Night Intense and nourishing care for dry skin, Vichy, € 17.50 for 50 ml.
Silky balm
Smooth, this very nourishing and regenerating cream was created from 30 different oils, rich in essential fatty acids, and an oil with a thousand roses that promotes cellular regeneration of the skin for a more plump epidermis when you wake up.
Nourishing anti-wrinkle cream Nuit Riche Crème, Yves Rocher, € 31.80 for 50 ml.
4. Night care that gives radiance
To have a fresher, clearer complexion, it is necessary to gently stimulate the natural desquamation of the skin with active ingredients (often from the plant world), but not irritating. The little help is therefore to apply for at least four weeks a night cream based on fruit or flower acids or even vitamin C which, by accelerating cell renewal, act on the luminosity of the skin and promote good internal hydration. The result ? An epidermis that reflects light well. Because over time, this natural process can become slower, less effective, which makes the complexion dull and dim.
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Nutritive elixir
A few drops of this organic care oil based on royal jelly, argan, jojoba, camelina, olive and Helianthus oils, massaged on the face in the evening, make the skin (even sensitive) more supple , soft and luminous when you wake up and its delicate fragrance is pleasant.
Nuit des Reines Infusion of botanical oils, Sanoflore, € 42 for 30 ml.
Night frost
A surprising treatment in the form of a bluish jelly which intensely hydrates and gives radiance to the complexion, thanks to a short formula (few ingredients) which contains a gentle exfoliating active (papaya enzyme), associated with vegetable glycerin, sorbitol and hyaluronic acid, diffused throughout the night, thanks to a gel micro-patch.
Beauté de Nuit Chrono-Active Jelly, Galénic, € 48 for 50 ml.
5. Creams that smooth out wrinkles
To fight against wrinkles, a nourishing night care alone is not enough … To really act, we must target treatments with strong active ingredients such as retinol, a precursor of acidic vitamin A, much less irritating but very active or more plumping and anti-aging hyaluronic acid. These molecules will ideally be associated with soothing and antioxidant vitamin E, and / or other anti-aging active ingredients. One application every night for at least three months to see the benefits.
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Cure anti-rides
A cure based on retinol pure, powerful anti-aging ingredient, combined with soothing vitamin E, to effectively reduce the appearance of wrinkles in one month, in a metal tube that guarantees the stability of the assets.
Supremage Marked anti-wrinkle method, Dr Pierre Ricaud, € 55 for a box of 4 tubes of 15 ml.
Organic energizing treatment
A balm texture that promotes cell renewal, revitalizes, boosts cells for smoother, less tired skin thanks to hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, organic grape extract, and plant saccharides that plump up.
Re-energising Sleeping Cream, Lavera, 13,50 € les 50 ml.
