Creams for sleeping beauties
COULD NIGHT WRINKLES MAKE YOU LOOK YEARS OLDER?
the skin, peptides to fight ageing and antioxidants to protect the skin from damage. There are a few things you can do to maximise the effectiveness of your night cream.
First, work out your primary skin concern and choose the right product for your skin type.
Cleanse your skin thoroughly so it is able to fully absorb the ingredients. Massage the product in well and wait at least five minutes before you get into bed so you don’t end up rubbing most of the cream into your pillow. Here is our pick of the new overnight sensations.
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Marks & Spencer Formula Absolute Ultimate Sleep Cream, £22 (marksandspencer.com)
Packed with active ingredients including wrinkle-smoothing peptides, hydrating hyaluronic acid and skin-brightening actives, this overnight cocktail works by slowly releasing ingredients while you sleep.
Origins Limited Edition BCA Drink Up Intensive Overnight Mask, £23 (origins.co.uk)
Regenerating and replenishing, this sleep mask contains avocado and apricot kernel oil for skin repair. For each one sold in October the Breast Cancer Research Foundation receives £4.
Elemis Biotec Skin Energising Night Cream, £85 (elemis.com)
This hard-working sleep cream contains zinc and copper and helps maintain energy levels in skin cells leaving the complexion refreshed, glowing and deeply hydrated.
For advice on cosmetic surgery consult your GP. For more tips visit lesleyreynolds.com DO you ever wake up looking much older than you did the night before? There’s a good chance you’re not imagining it.
A new study has suggested that your sleeping position – especially if you sleep on your side and stomach – can give you wrinkles.
When patients tell us they have more lines on one side of their face than the other we always ask how they sleep at night.
The chances are those extra wrinkles and creases are often more deeply etched on their favourite sleeping side.
These sleep wrinkles mostly occur from squashing your face into your pillow and can develop as cheek and forehead creases, lip lines, lines running across the cheeks, under the eyes and across the chest.
While sleep-induced wrinkles increase with age, the study also shows that they are influenced by the number of times we move in the night. We tend to move less and sleep longer in one position as we get older, which is bad news if you sleep on your side or stomach.
One solution is to train yourself to go to sleep on your back but this won’t stop you from moving once you’re asleep.
Investing in a C-shaped pillow may help by preventing you rolling over on to your side and using a silk pillowcase is kinder to your complexion as it helps to stop the skin from compressing as much.