Night Creams

A night cream is not a day cream with a heavier texture. It is the product you apply to skin that will spend eight hours with nothing else on it — no sunscreen, no makeup, no wind. That is the one window where a formula gets uninterrupted contact, and it is why the choice is worth thinking about.

How to choose between our three

• If your skin reacts to things — the NOCTURNIS™ Overnight Calming Cream. Fragrance free, which removes the single most common cause of contact reaction from the equation.
• If your concern is firmness and the look of lines — the COLLAVIS™ Firming Night Cream.
• If your skin feels tight, flaky or stripped — the MURALIS™ Barrier Repair Cream, built on ceramides, which are what a compromised barrier is short of.

Two things worth knowing

You do not need a night cream and a day cream. If your day moisturiser is comfortable and you are wearing sunscreen separately, using the same one at night is a perfectly sound routine. The case for a separate night cream is that it can be richer and can carry ingredients you would rather not wear under sun.

Apply it last. Whatever else is in your routine — toner, serum, oil — the cream goes on top, because its job includes slowing the water loss from everything underneath it.