The Best Night Cream for Your Skin Type
2022-04-27
What’s the secret to glowing skin during the day? You can trace your radiance back to the work put in by your nighttime moisturiser. Night creams are often rich in texture and target specific skin concerns, such as dullness, dehydration, wrinkles or blemishes. Skin craves to be nourished throughout the night. During sleep, the skin experiences trans-epidermal-water-loss (TEWL) at a faster rate versus the daytime. Additionally, skin has its own circadian rhythm that dictates the speed of cell regeneration which is typically faster at night. That’s why it’s so beneficial to apply your retinols, retinol alternatives and antioxidants at night, because your rich night cream locks in those benefits, unaffected by UV light. Investing in an intentional and effective night cream is a simple step towards achieving your best-looking skin yet. Ahead, we discuss what is the best night cream for your skin type.
What Is the Difference Between a Day and Night Cream?
Your night cream will differ from your day cream in many ways, and the most noticeable difference between the two will be the texture. Skin loses the most moisture at night, so most night creams are richer and denser to lock in maximum hydration and nourishing benefits. Your day cream should provide light-medium hydration alongside pollution and SPF protection, while your night cream delivers targeted skin solutions, whether for anti-ageing, blemishes, balancing or brightening.
Why Use A Night Cream?
Daytime may be when we are most efficient, but nighttime is when our skin works the hardest. During our beauty sleep, skin cells stay busy regenerating, renewing and repairing.
In today’s modern world, our complexions face a daily barrage of aggressors. From external factors, such as city pollution and UV rays, to internal factors, such as stress and hormone fluctuations, there are numerous threats trying to disrupt the delicate balance of our skin. Our daytime skincare routine will provide defence against these factors, but it’s after dark when our skin really begins to repair the damage. Enter: your favourite night cream.
As it’s applied just before sleep, the actives in your chosen cream will begin to work once the skin is in repair mode. Each ELEMIS night cream is formulated to work with the specific needs of the skin at night, so you can wake up with a revitalized, healthy-looking complexion.
How to Use A Night Cream
Application is similar to your day cream. Sweep an amount equivalent in size to one pence piece, or one US penny, over the complexion in firm upward motions after cleansing balms, cleansers, toning, and application of serums and oils. This should be the last step in your skincare routine, as the denser texture will help to seal in the actives from treatments, oils and serums.
The Best Night Cream for Your Skin Type
Night Cream for Dry Skin
Superfood Midnight Facial
Perfect for dry skin types, is a balancing Prebiotic gel-cream that works through the night to drench dull-looking skin in a cocoon of nourishing hydration. This indulgent formula is infused with Cocoa Butter which contains Omega 6 & 9 Fatty Acids and is well-known to provide skin with essential moisture. Considered a rich source of fibre, vitamins and minerals, Banana Flower Extract offers hydrating and Prebiotic properties. In the morning, the complexion appears radiant and replenished with moisture.
Night Cream for All Skin Types
Featuring superb moisturising benefits, our Pro-Collagen Night Cream is a bestselling staple in our night cream portfolio. Great for all skin types, this rich, nourishing night cream reveals a firmer-looking, radiant complexion whilst delivering intense moisture. It’s also clinically proven to deliver instant and 24-hour hydration, and significantly reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles in 14 days.**
Night Cream for the Signs of Stress on The Skin
Stress can take a major toll on our skin*, causing the breakdown of collagen and skin elasticity, slower cell turnover, increased oil production and depleted Hyaluronic Acid.* You aren’t imagining those frown lines showing up on your forehead, those two lines between your eyebrows, or crow’s feet caused by squinting your eyes. Not to mention sleep wrinkles. We developed Pro-Collagen Overnight Matrix to address stressed skin. This is more than a night cream, rather, an elite force of wrinkle-smoothing agents with one single mission: target and reduce the visible signs of stress on your skin, including deep-set wrinkles.
Ultra-Targeted Night Cream for Ageing Skin
Chronological ageing is the inevitable. And as skin ages, it becomes less plump, smooth and more spots and wrinkles show up. Increased dryness and even flaking can occur. You may find that products you used in the past no longer improve the look of your skin. Enter: Night Genius.
ULTRA SMART Pro-Collagen Night Genius
Feels like cashmere, enveloping the skin in a luxuriously comforting layer of hydration and antioxidants. Ageing skin is particularly susceptible to environmental aggressors, which impart free radicals that can damage our skin. Harmful free radicals accelerate the degradation of healthy cells. Night Genius quenches those free radicals overnight, putting a stop to future damage. Unique to our ULTRA SMART range, bespoke ULTRA SMART Night Restore Technology helps proliferate antioxidant activity and supports the skin’s natural recycling processes for powerful, overnight anti-wrinkle recovery and intelligent skin hydration.
Why skip your night cream when it has so many skin benefits? Maybe now, you won’t. Find a nighttime moisturiser that you love putting on, is right for your skin type and get ready to wake up to younger- and healthier-looking, more radiant skin. Your future skin will thank you.
*Stress-induced changes in skin barrier function in healthy women.” Altemus M, Rao B, Dhabhar FS, Ding W, Granstein RD, 2001.
*“Psychological stress has the potential to cause a decline in the epidermal permeability barrier function of the horny layer.”Fukuda S, Baba S, Akasaka T., 2015.”
**Independent Clinical Trials 2021. Results based on 37 people over 4 weeks.