When the beauty pages talk about freezing your face, they
aren’t referring to unbearable eyeball numbing weather. In fact, this polor vortex wreaks havoc on
your skin, which is why it’s extra important to prep and prevent irritated,
chapped, dry skin and hair.
We’ve scoured the shelves and pulled together a list of
gentle cleansers that won’t strip your skin, hydration boosters that
supercharge your moisturizer and protective emollients to shield your skin and
hair, you’re ready to meet winter head-on.
Give winter the middle finger and don’t spend the rest of
the season hibernating.
FOR GENTLE CLEANSING:
bliss fabulous makeup
melt gel-to-oil cleanser
Don’t let your evening routine dry out your skin. When you
massage this innovative gel cleanser into your skin, it transforms into a
lightweight but powerful cleansing oil that leaves skin clean, soft and
perfectly balanced, never dry or stripped, and easily removes all makeup.
Formulated with our spa-velous blend of seven spa essential oils, which work
synergistically to deep clean without drying.
Price: $28, Available at bliss spas, blissworld.com, Sephora
and Sephora.com
Clarisonic Luxe Brush
Heads
Perfect for gently cleansing irritable, winter-dry skin, the
Clarisonic Luxe Brush Head Collection delivers uncompromised cleansing efficacy
with enhanced hydration. Developed for face, eye, and body, the dynamic
dual-layer design features a soft, massaging top layer over a firmer,
efficacious lower layer. Filaments are almost double the length, creating a
greater sweeping action with increased fluid forces, gently massaging skin to
cleanse and simultaneously increase natural hydration levels.
Price: $30 each, Available at Sephora, Macy’s, Nordstrom and
Clarisonic.com
TO SUPER-CHARGE HYDRATION:
Caudalie Premier Cru
L’Elixir
This part serum-part oil amps up your moisturizing routine
in the winter months; helping to greatly increase the efficacy and absorption
of your favorite face creams. Formulated with cutting edge anti-aging
ingredients – Stabilized Vine Resveratrol, Viniferine, and Grape-Seed
Polyphenol, it includes five anti-aging oils that also have incredible
hydrating properties. The lightweight texture immediately absorbs into the skin
for a smoother, firmer, plumper, and more radiant complexion.
Price: $99, Available at Caudalie Boutiques, and on
US.Caudalie.com and Sephora in February 2015
L’Oréal Paris Age
Perfect Cell Renewal Facial Oil
This advanced facial oil is formulated to combine proven skin
surface renewing ingredient, Lipo Hydroxy Acid, with the hydrating, nourishing
power of light essential oils. As a result, wrinkles are visibly reduced, and
in the cold season, skin feels smoother, softer, firmer, and more resilient.
Price: $24.99, Available at lorealparisusa.com and chain
drug, food and mass market retailers
Meaningful Beauty
Ultra Lifting & Filling Treatment
In your palest, driest winter weather moments, this NEW
dual-action serum comes to the rescue to hydrate and prime the face. Designed
to lift sagging, aging skin and fill and plump fine lines and wrinkles, it’s
infused with a rare, exclusive orchid extract to support healthy collagen and
elastin production. Key ingredients like Hyaluronic Acid, vitamin C and the
brand’s Encapsulated Melon Extract hydrate the skin.
Price: $49.95 for regular shipment members and $72 for
non-members, Available at MeaningfulBeauty.com
FOR EMOLLIENT PROTECTION:
By Terry Cellularose
Baume D’Eau
When skin is hurting from the harsh cold, this fresh balm combines
the hydrating properties of an intense skincare with the luscious softness of a
hydra-quenching gel. Its original and delicately rose-scented
"aqua-fluffy" texture moisturizes, revitalizes and energizes even the
thirstiest, most asphyxiated skin, thanks to [MR+ S]* active ingredients that
ensure continuous three-layer hydration.
Price: $99, Available at Beauty.com
JĀSÖN® Smoothing
Coconut 100% Organic Oil
The perfect, all-purpose moisturizer - rich in nourishing
Vitamin E and antioxidants, this melts-at-first-touch oil delivers
unprecedented care to your skin and hair. It nourishes extremely dry, chapped
skin, tames frizz and fly-aways, minimizes hair breakage and split ends and
smooths chapped lips.
Price: $10.99 (15oz),
Available at natural food stores, Whole Foods Market and
jason-personalcare.com/
Peter Thomas Roth
Mega-Rich Anti-Aging Sleeping Mask
Cold air means dry skin. Get a necessary added layer of
moisture and protection with this intensive overnight treatment, which helps to
replenish moisture, soothe and calm skin, and reduce the look of fine lines and
wrinkles while you sleep. Nourishing Sweet Almond Oil and Aloe help moisturize
and repair the look of dry, damaged skin while Sepi-Calm™ S* helps reduce
irritation for all skin types, especially very dry and sensitive skin.
Price: $68, Available at PeterThomasRoth.com
StriVectinLABS
Extreme Cream
A deeply nourishing hydration cream formulated with patented
NIA-114 technology and moisture seeking molecules, known for their ability to
maintain water reserves and prevent dehydration. Energizing Oxygen Complex
breathes new life into skin to activate cell renewal and stimulate collagen
formation, diminishing the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
Price: $89, Available at StriVectin.com
FOR SOFT, HYDRATED HAIR:
Alterna Haircare
Caviar Moisture: Replenishing Moisture Milk
Winter does not have to mean dry, static-ridden, knotty
hair. A few spritzes of this ultra-hydrating spray will drench your locks in
weightless moisture for maximum softness and shine. Clinically proven to absorb
instantly and deep condition for 20x more hydration and a 90% improvement in
detangling, its formula also adds elasticity to reduce breakage.
Price: $30, Available at AlternaHaircare.com,
Sephora/Sephora.com, and Ulta/Ulta.com
DESSANGE Paris Oleo
Miracle Replenishing Oil
Give your hair the hydration it craves during winter with
Oleo Miracle Replenishing Oil. The reparative oil works to help transform hair
suffering from thermal, chemical and environmental damage for a visibly softer,
healthier look. Offering intense nourishment, the formula is infused with
three key natural oils: Argan Oil, Camelia Oil and Pracaxi Oil, leaving hair
smooth, bouncy and manageable.
Price: $11.99, Available at Target.com and Target stores
nationwide
KÉRASTASE ELIXIR
ULTIME SERUM SOLIDE
Combat winter’s harsh weather and restore dry, damaged hair.
Enriched with 15 precious healing oils to restore split ends, revive
highlights, control frizz and more, Serum Solide is the FIRST-EVER versatile
oil serum in a solid form. Ideal for dry, damaged, thick or frizzy hair, use by
warming a dime-size amount of the serum between fingers. The solid serum
instantly melts and can be applied to targeted areas of hair.
Price: $45, Available at kerastase-usa.com and Kérastase
Salons
L’Oréal Paris
EverPure 8-in-1 Color Miracle Color Revitalizing Treatment
As winter continues to damage hair, this color-revitalizing
treatment instantly delivers eight essential benefits for color-treated hair:
protect color from fading, even out hair’s texture, boost radiance, shield
against heat damage, quench dry hair, detangle instantly, control frizz &
flyaways and silken hair from root to tip. Simply spray once or twice on wet
hair and comb through prior to styling.
Price: $8.99, Available at mass, food and drug retailers
nationwide
FOR REPAIRING DAMAGE AND IRRITATION:
Alba Botanica® Very Emollient™
Coconut Rescue Body Lotion
This ultra-moisturizing lotion instantly delivers potent
hydration with a unique blend of unrefined Coconut Oil, Coconut Milk, and Shea
Butter. This lotion uses only unrefined, virgin coconut oil that is cold
pressed from fresh coconut meat. This process allows it to maintain more skin
nourishing phytochemicals, vitamins and antioxidants that provide immediate
relief to even the driest skin.
Price: $14.99 (32 oz), Available at Whole Foods Market,
Target, natural food stores, grocery stores, and AlbaBotanica.com
bliss glamour gloves
Pamper parched paws with our mitt moisturizing glamour
gloves. In 20 minutes flat, dehydrated dukes are transformed into something so
soft and smooth you'll be absolutely smitten over your new mittens!
Price: $52, Available at bliss spas and blissworld.com
Clinique Repairwear
Sculpting Night Cream
Hydrate your skin during the harsh winter months with
Repairwear Sculpting Night Cream, equipped with eight potent ingredients to
help skin rebound. These ingredients help support skin during its sleep cycle,
when skin’s repair ability peaks, supporting natural skin cell regeneration.
Murumuru Butter and Linoleic Acid work to prevent dehydration and maintain an
optimum balance of moisturization leaving skin feeling soft, smooth and
comfortable.
Price: $65, Available at Clinique counters nationwide and
Clinique.com
Proactiv+ Redness
Relief Serum
The cold wind can chafe your skin, leaving it red and
irritated. Relax the skin with this cooling serum designed to instantly reduce
acne-induced inflammation. Featuring calming botanical extracts that help
relieve swelling and irritation and improve the overall appearance of the
complexion, the formula glides directly onto the skin via a built-in stainless
steel roller. Store in the refrigerator as needed.
Price: $44.95 for regular shipment members and $52 for
non-members, Available at DiscoverProactiv.com
SkinCeuticals
Epidermal Repair
Perfect for skin sensitized by harsh environmental
aggressors, this therapeutic treatment combines beta glucan and centella
asiatica to provide a protective veil for traumatized skin while facilitating
the processes necessary to accelerate restoration of the skin’s barrier.
Epidermal Repair is clinically shown to greatly diminish redness and soothe
irritated skin.
Price: $69, Available at SkinCeuticals.com
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