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New Luxury Skin Care That’s Worth The Investment

model applying a creamy product on her freckled face

There’s so much affordable {skin care} out there that you might think you don’t need the luxury stuff but we all need a little indulgence and sometimes, the splurge reaps rewards in the long run. Brimming with targeted actives to fast-track the path to a healthy complexion, we’ve rounded up luxury must-haves that work for their ritual real estate.  

New to the prestigious Vintner’s Daughter family is the {Active Renewal Cleanser} — a light foaming cream that’s packed with energising extracts to revitalise all skin types. Powered by the brand’s proprietary ‘Phyto Radiance Infusion’ which cleverly combines water with oil-soluble solutions to eliminate your make up, daily dirt and SPF, consider this a one-step ‘double cleanse’ that leaves your face feeling refreshed and incredibly comfortable. Lovingly crafted, this luxe formula boasts an array of free radical-fighting antioxidants and pH-balancing minerals to soothe and soften skin while prepping for your next, essential skin care steps — and lest we forget, it looks chic on your #shelfie *amen*.

Laced with resurfacing acids alongside the patented Miracle Broth, La Mer’s {The Resurfacing Treatment} will gently refine while replenishing skin with a cocktail of nourishing nutrients. Boasting exfoliating AHAs, clarifying BHAs and brightening PHAs, this leave-on toning treatment has a swathe of beauty benefits — dispelling dullness, unifying skin tone and battling blackheads from very first use. You’ll notice a glow after one application and, when used twice a day for four weeks, 93% of 112 testers said their skin felt “purified and clean”— it’s time to recover your radiance. 

Developed to supplement barrier function, Omorovicza’s indulgent (and aptly named) {Queen Oil} is fit for beauty royalty. Brimming with vitamins C, E and K to support skin’s defences and soothe irritation, this cherishing blend is the ultimate ‘top coat’ — shielding your face from aggressors while helping to ward against moisture loss. Light and non-greasy, it’s great for allowing your skin care to work unencumbered, while also infusing dry, compromised skin with a medley of plumping, replenishing extracts that dial up the dew so you wake looking wonderfully rested. It’s also ideal in the daytime when skin feels especially vulnerable — just use it in lieu of your day cream or layer on top when you need extra nourishment *curtseys*. 

Synonymous with luxury and efficacy, Augustinus Bader is the leading name in skin care (with very good reason). Having developed the proprietary TCF8 Technology — renowned for its unparalleled reparative, regenerative prowess — Dr. Augustinus Bader has distilled his expertise into {The Face Cream Mask}; in other words, your winter skin care saviour. The ultimate indulgence, this treatment works to ease your stressed complexion through the swathe of common crises — from flare-ups and breakouts to dryness and dehydration — this comforts and calms as it helps to relieve irritation and trigger renewal. With a hypoallergenic spatula to cool and depuff, this floods cells with much-needed moisture and works to promote elasticity, dial up the brightness and boost luminosity.  

Great for globe-trotting Decree devotees — as well as those keen to discover the range — the four-piece {Decree AM Mini Essentials Kit} boasts an all-star routine from Decree by Dr. A J Sturnham, whose mission to streamline your skin care routine with effective, easy-to-follow steps has been beyond revelatory. Uniting travel-compatible sizes of her best-loved formulations — Deep Cleanse, Preparatory Mist, Treat Tincture and Peptide Emollient Veil + — this targets the spectrum of common concerns to correct and protect your complexion. With generous helpings to trigger a skin care obsession, consider yourself duly warned…  

Année de Mamiel is tackling our biggest beauty nemesis — fatigue — with her new {Fatigue Fix}; a targeted treatment that tackles the primary signs of a stress-heavy (sleep-deprived) lifestyle. Working to revitalise and fortify, this counteracts the side-effects of too much cortisol (the stress hormone) — supporting healthy barrier function and promoting luminosity for skin that looks deceptively well-rested. Boasting an abundance of bio-fermented minerals, polygluconic and multi-molecular hyaluronic acids to dial up the dew and replenish cells’ reservoirs, this leaves your face feeling refreshed and replenished (what deadline?).  



Verity Douglas

Verity Douglas

Content Editor

Cult Beauty’s Content Editor and a Cult Beauty OG, Verity loves nothing more than the marriage of language and lip balm. A quintessential Libran, she’s a self-professed magpie for luxury ‘must-haves' and always pursuing the new and the niche — from the boujee-est skin care to cutting-edge tech. Balancing an urge to stop the clock with her desire to embrace the ageing process (and set a positive example for her daughter), Verity's a retinol obsessive and will gladly share her thoughts about the time-defying gadgets, masks and treatments worth the splurge...