SPRING CLEAN FACIALS WITH NIMUE

Just like our homes need a springtime scrub, our beauty routine will benefit from a spring clean too. Spring is a time of birth and rejuvenation. It is the season for new life, rejuvenation and for our skin to come out of hibernation. Hopefully, skincare lovers everywhere have meticulously kept up a regular skin regime throughout the Winter months, but fear not, now is as good a time as any to start. What better time than spring to breathe some new life back into your skin?

I’ve been trying Nimue over the last few months and I have to say i LOVE the products…. So I have rounded up seven products to show you the way to clean, soft, healthy skin with this very exciting skinceutical brand.

Age Intelligence Cleansing Cream – €63.00

A superior, rich, and creamy cleanser which removes all traces of make-up and impurities and rapidly hydrates and leaves skin glowing.

Cleansing Gel – €41.00

A soap-free, 2-in-1, gel cleanser that gently removes eye and face make-up and impurities and provides light exfoliation.

Y:Skin Facial Wash – €36.00

A gentle, soap-free gel cleanser with a light consistency that removes impurities and exfoliates the skin, leaving it soft and smooth.

Cleansing Milk – €41.00

The Nimue Cleansing Milk is a creamy milk emulsion with a soft, smooth, and delicate texture that gently and effectively removes make-up, pollutants, and daily impurities, leaving the skin with a delicate smooth finish.

Clarifying Mask – €44.00

A cream face mask formulated to remove impurities and excess oil while still retaining moisture. Use weekly for a refined and smooth skin texture and a cleansed, hydrated feel.

Glyco Mask – €50.50

A fast-acting resurfacing treatment mask that rapidly exfoliates and tightens, for improved skin texture, radiance, and a more youthful, glowing complexion. The ideal skin boost before a special occasion.

Exfoliating Enzyme – €46.00

An enzymatic exfoliator that gently removes dead skin cells and promotes cell renewal.

FACE | SKINGREDIENTS TURNS ONE!

With so many products on shelf and so many skincare options available, I thought we would take you on a journey with me as I introduce you to the amazing Skingredients range one by one. I’ve featured its founder Jennifer Rock here on the blog before, she is the person behind The Cleanse Off Mitt (the banisher of the facial wipe!!) , and i have demo’ed that plus the Skingredients products over on my Instagram stories ( @cathymartin ) but i think it’s time we put pen to paper so to speak, and covered the details in black and white.

SKINGREDIENTS is as simple as 01,02, 03, 04. It is a balanced skin diet, a capsule skincare collection made up of all the key ingredients that skin needs. In this range we have the Core 4 and the Mix + Match products. The Core 4 is the basis of any Skingredients skincare recipe, with a kick ass cleanser, a punch-packing pre-serum, a ‘fill up my cup’ serum and a sun shielding SPF 50 PA +++. All of which are filled to the brim with vitamins, fats, fruit and veggies and botanical extracts for glowing healthy skin. The Mix + Match products allow you to turbocharge and customise your Skingredients recipe for that extra va va voom.

Your skincare routine should be like a balanced dinner plate of nutritious ingredients that your skin needs. Regular readers will know that i am a fan of feeding skin from the inside, so I truly believe what goes on the inside should also go on the outside.

00 Cleanse Off Mitt (£6) This is the very first step of the Skingredients routine. Cleanse Off Mitt is best used as a pre-cleansing step before using your favourite cleansing product, we recommend PreProbiotic Cleanser. It removes all makeup naturally – including heavy duty mascara and is free of any product and causes no irritation.

Not only is the Cleanse Off Mitt friendlier to the skin than wipes, it’s friendlier to the planet. The majority of wipes are not recyclable or compostable and end up contributing greatly to landfill, or being flushed and ending up in the ocean. When washing, turning your COM inside out and popping it in the washing machine under 60 degrees Celsius once a week too!

01 PreProbiotic Cleanser (£23.00, 100ml) is step 1 in your Core 4 routine, and is ideal for alternating with active, exfoliating treatment cleansers like Sally Cleanse from the Mix + Match range. The Skingredients® Core 4 is the basis of any Skingredients® skincare recipe, with a cleanser, pre-serum, serum and SPF filled with vitamins, fats, and fruit, veg and botanical extracts for healthy skin. It’s food for your face!

02 Skin Veg (£38.00, 30ml) is your skin’s 10+-a-day, a hero, highlighter and hydrator. It works to prep your skin to best absorb the active ingredients in your other products with penetrant-enhancing PHA (polyhydroxy acid). It also provides your skin with tonnes of goodness, including extracts from tomato, broccoli and cucumber, as well as liquorice root, aloe vera, beta-glucan, beta carotene and hyaluronic acid, and a clinically-proven pro-collagen peptide, to brighten, exfoliate and hydrate your skin. Suitable for all and ideal for using AM + PM prior to your serums, moisturisers and masques.

03 Skin Protein (£38.00, 30ml) is a serum enriched with vitamin A and C enriched to protect and maintain healthy skin. Skin Protein is an all-rounder that revamps, revitalises and restores for smoother, tighter, firmer, hydrated and generally healthier skin. Containing two forms of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, a clinically-proven pro-collagen peptide, essential fatty acid rich sunflower seed oil plus super potent antioxidants such as green tea extract, it supports your skin while protecting it from environmental damage.

04 Skin Shield SPF 50 PA+++ (£38.00) is not only your daily broad-spectrum SPF, it’s your primer, with a peachy universal tint and a dewy finish – no need to stress about a chalky white cast and no photo flashback, no wonder why it’s the top selling product in the Skingredients range. Non-comedogenic, oil-free, water-resistant and non-greasy, so it’s perfect for all hoomans® Be sun-savvy, not sun-fearful: an even application is key. Avoid the sun at peak times and remember that we’re exposed to UVA, HEV, UVB and IR rays even on the dullest and cloudiest of days.

MIX + MATCH PRODUCTS: Skingredients Sally Cleanse (£23.00, 100ml) is formulated with 2% salicylic acid, the highest amount of salicylic acid permitted for use in skincare in the EU. Sally’s rock star ingredient is salicylic acid, an oil-soluble exfoliating acid, which means that it can dissolve oil and dead skin cells in our pores to help prevent congestion such as blackheads, whiteheads, lumps and bumps while assisting in our skin’s natural exfoliation process and aiding in oil regulation.

Sally also picked up an award in MARIE CLAIRE for the best cleanser for acne prone skin! Skin Good Fats (£38.00, 30ml) works to hydrate, soothe and protect dry, irritated, sensitised, flaky or sensitive skin prone to redness, and contains a clinically proven anti-itch ingredient.

On top of this, it features antioxidants vitamin B3 and vitamin E to help protect your skin from environmental damage. Skin Good Fats is also perfect for those who crave the feeling of a moisturiser after their lightweight hydrators. Use PM after the skin is cleansed and serumed. Skin Good Fats can be used in the AM for extra skin balance and moisture. It is also great for irritation post-peel, and on dry and cracked elbows and heels.

And there you have it - the full low-down on Skingredients. You can purchase all products and more via the skingredients website, and follow them on insta at @skingredients too. You’ll thank me for it!

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