These products will all work hard to improve your skin. Choose the appropriate ones for your skincare concerns, and use them like medicine. By that, I mean use them as it tells you on the directions that come with the product, and be patient. Skincare can help to make great improvements in your complexion, but you do need to give it time. This is my shortlist, but I’m going to keep adding to it.
Which skincare products might you try, to see real results? Here is a selection of the ones I really rate - because they do a great job, and are a pleasure to use.
Advanced Nutrition Programme Skin Youth Biome™
We all know by now how important it is to look after our gut, but Advanced Nutrition Programme's new Skin Youth Biome supplement takes it...
Albus and Flora Multi-active balm UVA/UVB SPF30
Albus & Flora is all about making everyday lip care beautiful. These are no mere lip balms – they’re more like cosmeceuticals for...
Altrient-C Liposomal Vitamin C
Vitamin C is key both to general health and to your skin but taking high doses can be a quick route to an upset stomach. Altrient has...
Ballancer® Gold
Perfect for smaller businesses and home use, the Ballancer® Gold is an easy-to-use, reliable and robust system that produces a
Calecim Professional Multi-Action Cream 50g
An extraordinary, cutting edge product derived from stem cells that produces tighter, smoother, firmer skin with fewer wrinkles. Calecim...
Dermalux Flex MD
BLACK FRIDAY DEAL £250 OFF with a code TWEAKFLEX. Add the code during a checkout with our partner CurrentBody. Alice says “I tried...
Dr. Harris Anti-Wrinkle Sleep Mask
Smooth frown lines and ease a busy mind with this brilliant new eye mask created by top aesthetic practitioner Dr Steven Harris. It may...
Exuviance Night Corrector
This gel is really brilliant for acne sufferers of all ages. It’s a treatment product which not only helps decongest the skin and clear...
FOREO LUNA 3 Facial Cleansing Brush
This latest cleansing brush is brilliant. Using vibration and its soft silicone ‘bristles’, it gently shifts dirt, oil and makeup off...
Heliocare 360° Fluid Cream SPF 50+
A runny broad spectrum sunscreen with both physical and chemical filters. Nicely hydrating and with an invisible finish. It is brilliant...
Heliocare 360° Mineral Tolerance Fluid SPF 50
This is brilliant – a 100% mineral sunscreen which is really easy to tolerate even for sensitive skin but which also has an invisible...
Heliocare 360° Oil-Free Gel SPF 50
If you hate wearing sunscreen as it feels sticky or heavy on your skin this could change your mind. It’s a lightweight gel that melts...
iS Clinical Cleansing Complex 180ml
You could call this clear, lightweight gel an ‘everything’ cleanser as it offers. A deep cleanse plus resurfacing/ exfoliating,...
iS Clinical Extreme Protect SPF30
One of my favourite sunscreens as it is not only protective and hydrating but contains added antioxidants to help defend your skin – and...
iS Clinical Moisturizing Complex 50ml
This Moisturizing Complex is… a moisturiser – but what a moisturiser! It’s rich but not heavy so you don’t need that much of it. It...
iS Clinical NeckPerfect Complex
A terrific investment product for tightening, firming and hydrating the neck. It’s really good at making neck skin look less crepey....
iS Clinical Youth Eye Complex
I really recommend this eye cream for the thin, delicate skin around the eyes. Meticulously tested to prove its benefits a clinical study...
Medik8 Advanced Day Total Protect, SPF30
This is a very nice absorbing/ chemical sunscreen that offers broad-spectrum UV protection. It’s good and hydrating but settles down to a...
Medik8 C-Tetra
This is a terrific ‘starter’ vitamin C serum if you haven’t tried a ‘serious’ one before. It is effective but also gentle as the...
Medik8 C-Tetra Luxe
Once your skin is accustomed to the Medik8 C -Tetra serum, you may want to step up to this, the Intense version of this product, with the...
Medik8 Calmwise Serum
An anti-redness serum that really works for skin that is irritable, inflamed or suffering a rosacea flare-up, and you don’t know whether...
Medik8 Crystal Retinal 1
A serious night-time anti-ageing product based on vitamin A. It gives the sort of results you see from prescription level treatment –...
Medik8 Crystal Retinal 3
This is a serious night-time anti-ageing product based on vitamin A, which gives the sort of results you see from prescription level...
Medik8 Hydr8 B5 Skin Rehydration Serum
A long drink of water for your skin this serum sinks in, plumps out fine lines and keeps your skin feeling smoother and more comfortable....
Medik8 Lipid-Balance Cleansing Oil
If you have never tried cleansing oils before, this is a great place to start. It’s really effective – it will get everything off your...
Medik8 Liquid Peptides Complex
I love this serum. You can use these peptides on their own or alongside other serums to improve texture, fine lines and elasticity. It is...
Medik8 Mutiny Lip Balm
This lovely lip balm is more like a gel than a balm. When you put it on it just melts in and leaves your lips feeling really soft – and...
Medik8 r-Retinoate Day & Night Eye Serum
This eye serum will definitely give you results. It is a powerful wrinkle-fixer for the eye area which softens crows feet wrinkles,...
Medik8 r-Retinoate Youth Activating Cream Day & Night
This is a terrific product for renewing the skin and will definitely give you results. It is a powerful wrinkle-softener and improves skin...
Medik8 Retinol 3TR
If you want to try retinol for the first time, this is a great place to start. Retinol stimulates the growth of new collagen – for...
Medik8 Retinol 6TR
Retinol stimulates the growth of new collagen – for firmer, smoother skin, fewer wrinkles, reduced pigmentation and more even skin tone....
Medik8 Ultimate Recovery Bio-Cellulose Mask (6 Pack)
This is a real SOS treatment if your face is feeling a bit frazzled. These masks are hydrating, soothing and calming so you can use one...
NeoStrata Enlighten Illuminating Serum
If you’ve got age spots or patchy pigmentation this is well worth trying. It’s a lightweight serum which corrects dark spots, brightens...
NeoStrata Foaming Glycolic Wash
I love this foaming face wash and always have a bottle on the go. It exfoliates, deep cleanses and improves skin texture. It will leave...
NeoStrata Glycolic Renewal Smoothing Cream
This corrective night cream smooths, brightens and refines skin texture while also improving skin hydration from the inside out. It’s...
NeoStrata Problem Dry Skin Cream
This is a great cream that dramatically softens and moisturises really dry skin. It is designed as a body product to help people with...
NeoStrata Sheer Physical Protection SPF50
This has an SPF50 and is a mineral sunscreen but the minerals are very finely milled giving it a sheer finish, which is what I really like...
NeoStrata Skin Active Antioxidant Defense Serum 30ml
This superstar product uses powerful antioxidants to neutralise free radicals, prevent oxidative damage and protect the skin from premature...
NeoStrata Skin Active Tri-Therapy Lifting Serum 30ml
This is a fantastic de-wrinkling, smoothing, hydrating serum which can bring about dramatic changes in the skin with a month of consistent...
Neostrata Targeted Clarifying Gel
This is an anti-spot gel, and a very good one too. It clears blocked pores, reduces inflammation and targets spots. The key ingredient...
NeoStrata Triple Firming Neck Cream
The neck is a really tricky area to treat once it starts going crepey and sagging. This cream lifts, firms and plumps up the skin and...
NuFACE Fix Line Smoothing Device
The latest device from NuFACE is a cute little thing that offers super-speedy and convenient treatment of fine lines - around the eyes, the...
NuFACE Mini Facial Toning Device
Running low-level microcurrents through the face improves the circulation, helps reduce fine lines and, by tweaking and toning the face...
NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device
This device improves facial contours by toning and tightening facial muscles using low-level electrical microcurrents. The NuFace devices...
Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant
This brilliant chemical exfoliant is outstandingly useful if you have oily skin or pores that get easily congested. It clears congested...
Priori Barrier Restore Complex LCA fx140
This is a great product for skin that’s feeling a bit stressed out and in need of some TLC. It strengthens the skin barrier, is hydrating...
Priori Gentle Cleanser LCA fx110
If you need a clever new cleanser in your life why not try this lovely product. It suits all skin types, is gently exfoliating and
Profhilo Haenkenium Cream
BLACK FRIDAY OFFER: 15% OFF This fab moisturiser is from Profhilo. If you‘re thinking, ‘Profhilo, isn’t that the injectable moisture...
Skinbetter+ AlphaRet Overnight Cream
An innovative and excitingly new overnight skin treatment product that gives visible skin rejuvenation in four to eight weeks. What does...
Skinbetter+ Even Tone Correcting Serum
A great serum that can give a dramatic reduction in the appearance of pigmentation. It works well on all skin tones and is also good for...
Smoothskin Pure
It works on black, brown and dark blonde hair; there isn’t enough melanin in grey, white, red or pale blonde for it to get to grips with....
Teoxane 3-D Lip
This high-grade serum will plump, hydrate and protect your lips. Suitable for all skin types it will reduce the appearance of fine lines on...
Teoxane Advanced Filler Dry Skin
A deeply hydrating moisturiser for dry skin. It reduces the appearance of fines lines and wrinkles, nourishes dry skin, visibly improves...
Teoxane Advanced Perfecting Shield SPF30
A sophisticated and protective day cream with SPF30 which is fab under make-up. It is a hydrating serum based on hyaluronic acid which...
Teoxane RHA Serum
An advanced serum to improve dehydrated, dull or old-looking skin. Deeply hydrating it helps regenerate the skin, strengthen the skin...
Totally Derma Tub
Collagen supplements help improve the skin from the inside out. This is my favourite as I have seen great results from it and because it...
