If you’ve begun to notice signs of aging, like wrinkles, fine lines, dark circles and just overall dull and tired skin, worry not, as we have the list for you.
Whether you’re looking for a skin overhaul, or just some preventative action, there is bound to be something on this list that takes your fancy.
Aging might be something on your mind, so let us alleviate some anxiety with 27 of the best anti-aging moisturizers in 2023!
Blu Atlas, here and now, is being announced as the product to use if aging is something that is on your mind. You thought that Nicolas Flamel’s Philosopher's Stone was the magic key? Turns out it’s Blu Atlas’ Classic Face Moisturizer.
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This product will properly and efficiently hydrate your skin, leaving you feeling and looking fresh. This is partly thanks to the seaweed extract- a natural hydrator, which is sourced directly from the ocean. Thankfully, seaweed extract won’t leave you smelling like an open air fish market, but keeps your skin hydrated and revitalizes your natural energy.
What is great about this product is that the Classic Face Moisturizer is a fantastic product for anti-aging. One of the key ingredients is vitamin C, which is great for reducing signs of aging by promoting collagen production, which prevents your skin from sagging!
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2. Kiehl’s Super Multi-Corrective Anti-Aging Cream
Superfoods have been all the rage recently, with instagrammers and chefs alike promoting diets filled with broccolis, acai oil and olive oil from the bottle. While sometimes this can seem like a nagging mom telling you to eat your veggies, they’ve struck gold on chaga mushroom. It’s the expensive add-on at a fancy coffee shop, it’s recommended for smoothies and baking, and it’s the key ingredient in Kiehl’s Super Multi-Corrective Anti-Aging Cream.
While it comes in a small package, this has nothing to do with how it performs.
Right?
Right. The chaga mushroom promotes the growth of collagen, which keeps your skin tightened, as well as containing betulinic acid, an acid that keeps your cells regenerating and creates a more youthful appearance. Because of these two factors, it’s incredible for reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles- thus being one of the best anti-aging moisturizers in 2023!
3. Paula’s Choice C5 Super Boost Moisturizer
With a 100% success rate at reducing signs of aging, Paula’s Choice is an ideal product for anti-aging.
It is absolutely packed with vitamin C, which is perfect for increasing the amount of collagen that your skin produces! Collagen is super important for reducing signs of aging such as wrinkles, dark under-eye circles, and fine lines. It does so by strengthening your skin, giving it more tenacity and elasticity, and creating a more youthful appearance. Vitamin C also gives you a brighter complexion, energizing and brightening your skin. Another ingredient is hexapeptide-5, which ensures your newly hydrated skin stays that way.
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Perfect for use all around the face, this smoothes, softens and reduces signs of aging. It’s also perfectly safe to use if you have acne, rosacea, or other inflammatory conditions!
4. Clinique Repairwear Uplifting Firming Cream
Clinique is making miracles with the Repairwear Uplifting Firming Cream. This product targets any and all signs of aging, keeping your skin looking like you graduated just yesterday, not… several years ago.
This moisturizer is ultra hydrating, meaning that it’s perfect to use during your nighttime skincare routine, and let all the magic happen whilst you sleep. Waking up in the morning, you’ll feel like a new person. Beyonce’s #wokeuplikethis is going to be your new catch phrase.
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One of the main components in this product is jojoba, which is an incredibly effective natural exfoliant, chipping away at dead skin cells and making way for the glowing, exuberant you underneath. You deserve to look your best, and Clinique Repairwear Uplifting Firming Cream will get you there.
This product is more suited for skin that is on the dry side, as opposed to oily skin- so if naturally your skin is dry, Clinique’s Repairwear Uplifting Firming Cream is for you.
5. Murad Anti-Aging Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30
If forgetting to put on sunscreen in the morning is a common occurrence for you, Murad is to the rescue. There’s no need to add another product to your routine; Murad’s moisturizer is not only anti-aging but also contains a 30 SPF coverage to protect from the harmful sun rays.
This is perfect, because the sun is a big contender in the causes of premature aging. Exposure to UV can accelerate aging by 80%, so by protecting your skin with
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SPF, you’ll be doing yourself a favor. Really, this product does it all. It protects against the sun, it’s hydrating, it reduces signs of aging such as fine lines and wrinkles, and can treat acne, blemishes and breakouts.
You don’t need to let acne win the battle; Murad’s moisturizer both fights acne, and works as a preventative treatment. And what makes it even better is that it contains a fermented black tea (same as kombucha!) to help incorporate positive bacteria into your skin biome. You’ll be looking and feeling fresh in no time at all.
6. Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF50
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Say goodbye to wrinkles, dry and tired skin, fine lines and dark circles. Wave them all goodbye, because you won’t see them anymore after using the Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Repair cream.
SPF50 means that 98% of all the UV rays will be blocked from entering your skin, making this a great preventative measure for signs of aging, as those pesky wrinkles and fine lines develop faster after sun exposure!
All you need to do is apply this product in the morning, after cleansing and toning your face, prior to going out into the sun. It’s a medium-weight formula, so you won’t feel like you’ve got a greasy layer of product (never fun in the summer heat, we guarantee).
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White tea is the star player of this moisturizer. The white tea extract is soothing, restores skin cells, protects your skin barrier and heals your skin cells to reduce any signs of aging. If you’re looking for the skincare benefits, we’d recommend using the Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Repair, rather than drinking it before bed, but if you’d like to do that too, that’s not a problem.
7. Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream
If you’ve noticed a trend in this article so far, it’s collagen. It’s the key product amongst so many anti-aging products, and for good reason. Whilst our skin does naturally produce collagen, the rate begins to slow down as we get older - and our skin starts to sag, fine lines become noticeable and wrinkles get more and more prominent.
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Elemis’ Pro-Collagen Marine Cream will solve any collagen-related concerns. Not only did it recently win the Stylist Best Beauty Award of 2023, it’s both clinically proven and has a 100% success rate at increasing skin hydration in just one hour, and wrinkles and fine lines in just two weeks!!
If that isn’t a report card you want to stick up on your fridge, we’re not sure what is.
This powerhouse cream is formulated with rose, mimosa extract (not the drink, sorry, though we wish that’d help with wrinkles too), and padina pavonica, a brown seaweed which is known for increasing the amount of collagen. And to clarify, this cream smells of roses, not of algae!
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8. Fab First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Firming Collagen Cream
We weren’t kidding when we said that collagen was the anti-aging product. Because we’ve got another top pick for you: the First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Firming Collagen Cream. This moisturizer is thick and nourishing, perfect for applying at the end of the day and letting all the work be done for you without you lifting a finger. The best kind of work, if you ask us.
First Aid Beauty’s product gives your skin back the energy and vigor it’s been missing. Day to day life, stresses at work and at home all contribute to your skin getting tired and dull, alongside the pages on the calendar that don’t seem to stop turning. But this moisturizer targets every one of those concerns. Using collagen, peptides and niacinamide, it’s a triple threat that is both preventative and actively fights any damage your skin may be hiding.
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9. Trilogy Line Smoothing Day Cream
At first glance, the ingredients listed on this sound more like something you’d want in your smoothie than your skincare, but it makes a lot of sense. Trilogy’s Line Smoothing Day Cream is all natural, without any harmful ingredients for your skin. If you’re not up with the times, what’s ‘out’ in 2023 are chemicals that are probably also used in floor cleaner.
If the natural ingredients weren’t enough, this product is also vegan friendly and cruelty free, contains no GMOs, has 99% natural ingredients and is made in New Zealand! It’s a well-traveled, good-for-you product that your skin will be incredibly grateful for.
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The Line Smoothing Day Cream uses GlycaBlend, Trilogy’s special concoction of chia, blueberry, strawberry and pomegranate oil to line smooth whilst avocado, evening primrose oil and jojoba work together to hydrate the skin with natural fatty acids. It’s the creme de la creme of skincare. One of the best natural anti-aging moisturizers this year, without a doubt.
10. Jeuneora GoLightly Plump & Protect Day Cream
The GoLightly Plump & Protect Day Cream is a 5-star powerhouse for anti-aging and skin protection. It focusses on all aspects of damaged skin such as hydration, skin firmness and elasticity, protection against UV, and irritated skin. It’s your one stop shop for all things geared towards healthy, youthful skin.
Whether you’ve looked in the mirror and noticed signs of aging for the first time or the fiftieth, this product is suitable for you- no discrimination here. Dual acting as both a preventative measure and addressing the concerns at hand, it’s a great choice either way. And it’s perfectly versatile for any skin type- whether oily or dry is more your vibe, GoLightly has you covered.
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Something unique to this product is the digital light pollution protection. Many of us would agree that we’re all spending too much time in front of our screens and are receiving copious amounts of blue light. And like most things in the 21st century, blue light has nefarious purposes and is bad for your skin. But fighting the good fight is arctalis, an ingredient found in deep sea, which hydrates, smooths and firms whilst protecting us from the digital pollution of our screens.
All I want for Christmas, Santa, is GoLightly Plump and Protect Day Cream. Please.
11. Allies of Skin Peptides and Antioxidants Firming Daily Treatment
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We know the phrase ‘hitting two birds with one stone’. But we’re willing to bet you haven’t heard of hitting five birds with one stone.
Luckily enough, we’re here to introduce it for you, accompanied by our prime example, the Allies of Skin Peptides and Antioxidant Firming Daily Treatment. Our five metaphorical birds are hydration, firming, refining, antioxidant protection and brightening. Long gone are the days of clutter, your skincare cabinet loaded with more products than you can shake a stick at- especially when you can have this and be done with it all.
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With over 40 active ingredients, this will be your new go-to if you’ve noticed early signs of aging, your skin is sensitive, dull and lacking, or if you’re just after a new moisturizer.
This product is dermatologically tested, clinically proven and award winning, so you can trust that this will do exactly what it says it will. Hydrate and heal your skin from the strains of day-to-day.
12. CeraVe Skin Renewing Day Cream
If ever we’re at a loss, CeraVe is there for us. CeraVe knows where to turn, what to do, and is a general all-rounder. It’s fantastic, and we have only glowing reviews for it. Without even telling you the name of this product, we can guarantee it is one of the best anti-aging moisturizers on this list.
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It’s CeraVe Skin Renewing Day Cream, by the way.
It’s an anti-aging moisturizer that is formulated with SPF and a slow release of retinol. The slow release action means that it works gradually throughout the day, providing long lasting protection and action instead of shocking the skin, which can lead to irritation.
Some of the key components, aside from the retinol, are ceramides and hyaluronic acid, which work together to restore your skin cells and protect the skin barrier from any external damage and debris.
CeraVe,is where it’s at. Consistently hitting it out of the park, this inexpensive option is a great place to turn for skin hydration, anti-aging and more.
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13. Burt’s Bees Renewal Firming Moisturizing Cream
If you don’t want to break the bank to afford skin care, Burt’s Bees is where your business should be-e. We’ve all seen the Burt’s Bees lip balm, but they actually have an entire line of inexpensive skincare products that are the bees knees.
Sorry, I’ll bee-have.
One of the star players is bakuchiol, retinol’s vegan and organic cousin, found within a specific plant. Working as an antioxidant, it reduces inflammation and tightens the skin, whilst also encouraging your skin cells to change over. Just like you might be skeptical that vegans don’t get enough protein, you might be concerned that bakuchiol won’t do the trick, but we promise that it does. Due to its gentle nature, you can even use it every day without fear of tiring your skin out. All you have to do to access the benefits (bee-nefits?) of the Renewal Moisturizing Cream, is apply it to your face and décolletage after cleansing. Simple as that!
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14. Cocokind Resurrection Polypeptide Cream
Cocokind truly is kind to your skin, with their Resurrection Polypeptide Cream replenishing your skin cells, restoring the skin barrier, promoting collagen and nourishing and hydrating. It’s simply grand.
Some of the ensemble cast of ingredients are plant-based polypeptides, plant extracts, squalane and watermelon seed oil, all of which moisturize and protect the skin. Consider it like the Avengers: they all work well together but they’ve got individual talents that shine. It wouldn’t work if Captain America could shoot a bow and arrow too. The polypeptides increase collagen production, plant extracts encourage skin hydration, squalane ensures that the hydration stays hydrated and the watermelon seed oil is full of antioxidants, which is great for anti-aging.
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Something cool about Cocokind is how they calculate their carbon emissions too - so you can guarantee you are being kind to both the planet and your skin. The carbon emissions of one container of the Resurrection Polypeptide Cream is 7.7g, which is monumentally low in comparison to a cotton t-shirt, whose emission racks up to 4340g, or a cup of coffee, at 600g.
15. Augustinus Bader The Cream
With a name like The Cream, you know this is the real deal. It’s like when people are referred to as one elusive code sign, like 007, or Zendaya. Powerful things are happening in our midst.
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It’s a pocket rocket of skincare, packing in a big punch with only a small drop. While the price may be slightly eye watering, it’s a worthwhile product that should be considered an investment into your skin’s health and wellbeing. Bader’s products are based on stem cell research, and are focused on cell rejuvenating and overall skin health. By targeting the cells as opposed to any external factors, this cream directly addresses the problem, as opposed to going through a third party middleman. The Cream goes to the root of the cause, your cells, and heals them via something akin to magic, which leaves your skin looking healthier, because it literally is healed. You have been healed when you use this product.
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16. Olay Total Effects 7-in-1 Anti- Aging Daily Face Moisturizer
The Olay Total Effects 7-in-1 Daily Face Moisturizer is going to be your new skincare best friend. And whilst hearing ‘7-in-1’ might leave you feeling a bit skeptical, you can trust Olay with this one.
Packed into one bottle of moisturizer, this does much more than just hydrate the skin. It brightens, firms and tones your skin, giving you a much more youthful appearance, and also reduces the appearance of pores and lightens up dark circles and fine lines. All you need is to use a few drops of Olay’s moisturizer after cleansing and toning either in your morning routine, night routine, or both if you’d like, and you will begin to reap all of the benefits.
Feel hydrated without feeling greasy? Tick.
Leaves you looking thirty, flirty and fabulous? Also tick.
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17. Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream
It’s all the craze to be making every meal packed with protein, all the protein powders are a must buy, you have to be hitting your macros… but what’s the difference between Protein and Protini?
First off: Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream has nothing to do with making gains at the gym. But, it does help your skin heal and replenish. While our muscles need protein to grow, our skin needs something similar in order to stay healthy and strong. It makes sense, right?
Drunk Elephant’s moisturizer has incredible anti-aging benefits, too. Any signs of aging, like fine lines, wrinkles or dark circles, are reduced thanks to the proteins and polypeptides in the formula, which tone up your skin whilst brightening your complexion.
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If heading to the gym each day isn’t quite in your ballpark, try adding Drunk Elephant’s Protini Polypeptide Cream. It’ll be a gamechanger.
18. FaceGym Liftwear Vitamin C Moisturizer Gel Cream
Speaking of the gym, here we have FaceGym, a relatively new entrant to the skincare scene, founded by Inge Theron. And while it might not have you closing fitness rings on your Apple Watch, you’re certainly going to be discovering how to move the muscles in your face in ways you’d never thought about before.
The Liftwear Vitamin C Moisturizer Gel Cream is a great anti-aging moisturizer, and combined with FaceGym’s facial workouts, it will have your skin firmed up and appearing years younger. The formula itself has great, tried-and-true ingredients such as vitamin C for brightening, hyaluronic acid and niacinamide for hydrating and jojoba esters for exfoliating, leaving you with a brighter complexion overall.
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Being the winner of the Summer Beauty Awards for the Best Moisturizer in 2022, this has some serious proof that this is a product to keep your eye on!
19. L’Oréal Paris RevitaLift Triple Power LZR Hydrating Moisturizer
Gone is the saying of two is a party, three is a crowd. We all knowthat everything good comes in threes. Including, but not limited to, L’Oréal Paris’ RevitaLift Triple Power LZR Hydrating Moisturizer.
With proven results in just one week, this is something you won’t want to miss. And not only that, but each time you use it, the product leaves your skin hydrated for up to 24 hours. All you have to do is incorporate this into your skincare routine in either the morning or night and you’ll be able to see the difference in your old skin versus your hydrated, youthful skin.
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L’Oréal Paris’ product replenishes skin cells and evens out your complexion, giving you an overall more youthful, healthy appearance!
20. ROC Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle Daily SPF Moisturizer
If you don’t know about retinol yet, get ready to learn, because if signs of aging are problem areas for you, then retinol might just be the thing you need in your life. The perfect match, the swipe left on Tinder, if you will.
RoC’s Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle Daily SPF Moisturizer uses retinol as its key ingredient to remove and buff away the top layer of dead skin cells. This makes way for your skin to look healthy and bright again, rather than dull and tired. And retinol, being derived from vitamin A, means that it is a totally safe product to use.
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What is suggested though is to start using this product every other day to ensure there are no harsh reactions, as jumping in with two feet first can sometimes lead to less desirable results. It’s like dating - you’ve got to get to know the person before you’re married.
21. Neocutis neo firm Neck & Décolleté Tightening Cream Care
This is a powerful product with deep reaching effects that will have your skin going from sagging to bragging about just how good it looks.
The NEO FIRM Moisturizer has been scientifically and clinically proven to reduce signs of aging, and will take away some of the stress that comes with getting older. We know, it's just one more thing that you don’t want to have to deal with, and Neocutis has your back (and face, and neck)
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This product has some of the key ingredients we see in other skincare products, such as vitamin C, glycolic acid, peptides and glycerin, but it also uses beetroot extract. Beetroot extract has been known to help skin hydration, brightening up your complexion and reducing scars and signs of aging- and it won’t make you turn pink!
22. La Roche Posay Redermic Retinol Cream
Retinol is once again striking a pose in front of the camera, in La Roche Posay’s Redermic R Pure Retinol Cream. With the approval of over 90,000 dermatologists worldwide, we wouldn’t be skimming over this cream!
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With slow-release technology, this product will keep working long after you’ve applied it, making it great to use at night. And while it is great for reducing the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and dark circles, what it excels at is helping with skin damage from the sun.
However, it also makes your skin more sensitive towards the sun, so it’s critical you use SPF while applying retinol cream. La Roche Posay makes this easy though, with sets complete with the pure retinol cream, cleanser and SPF toner.
23. ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint
While there’s no ‘moisturizer’ in the name, and this is a list about anti-aging moisturizers, just give us a chance. We’re over exclusivity in 2023, and ILIA’s Super Serum Skin Tint has a rightful place on this list.
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This is a hot-off-the-press formula that is blurring the lines between makeup, skincare and sunscreen and we are all here for it. While evening your skin tone and complexion with the skin tint (coming in 30 different shades with varying undertone options), it also has a 40 SPF protection, which helps both UV and blue light pollution. If that wasn’t enough, the formula also contains hyaluronic acid, squalane, and niacinamide to protect, repair skin barriers, increase lipids, and firm up your skin.
We’ve all been scammed by something that sounded too good to be true, but trust us, this is the real deal.
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24. Farmacy Honey Halo Ceramide Face Moisturizer
Farmacy’s new Honey Halo Ceramide Face Moisturizer is one of the best anti-aging moisturizers in 2023, for its powerful and potent formula that is amazing at reducing aging signs such as wrinkles and fine lines.
Made using buckwheat honey and fig fruit extracts, this is an all natural product which works for both you and the environment. The moisturizer gives your skin a natural boost and lift whilst hydrating and moisturizing, giving you the clean aesthetic we are all after.
A feature we really appreciate what Farmacy is, and while their formulas do have some scary, chemical-y sounding ingredients, their website explains each ingredient and what its role is. All you have to do is hover over the ingredient you are curious about and it will explain how it works and what it will in turn do for your skin!
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25. Tatcha Ageless Enriching Renewal Cream
Listen up. This product comes with a bow on top and it truly is the present for you.
Often we look to the East for skincare, with ancient Chinese medicinal rituals providing the foundations for today’s skincare, or with the insanely effective Korean products and face masks, but how often do we look to Japan? Tatcha has brought Japanese skincare into the limelight and has presented us with the Ageless
Enriching Renewal Cream.
The key ingredient in this is Hadasei-3, Tatcha’s patented formula of green tea, rice from Akita and algae from Mozuku. This is a power packed, antioxidant rich trio that revitalizes the skin and gives back your natural shine. And while you’ll look younger, and less dull on the outside, your skin on the inside will be shining too- with ingredients that restore skin cells, protect the cell barrier and put in place nourishing effects. You simply will look, feel and be ethereal when using this cream.
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26. Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Pink Juice Moisturizer
With thousands of 5-star reviews, Glow Recipe’s Watermelon Glow Pink Juice Moisturizer is where it is at. Say adieu to wrinkles, sayounara to fine lines and auf to dark circles. Healthy, youthful skin is on its way!
It’s a triple whammy of soothing, moisturizing and healing, so really this is the one product you want in your routine. The Watermelon Extract, whilst smelling great, is incredibly hydrating, which gives your skin a plumper, more glowing look, and is also packed with vitamin C and amino acids! Because of this, it protects the skin on the inside and out, helping to prevent any futur, or premature aging, and gives you a smoother, cleaner tone.
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27. Emma Lewisham Supernatural 72- Hour Crème
We’ve all seen at least one supernatural show in our lifetimes, or at least glimpsed at someone else’s screen. Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Once Upon a Time, Teen Wolf… there truly is no shortage of shows and films to binge watch on a rainy weekend. And looking at Stefan Salvatore, of 162 years of age, with his skin looking like that?
Well it’s clear he uses Emma Lewisham’s Supernatural 72- Hour Crème.
Emma Lewisham’s anti-aging product is fantastic. It’s a thick, nourishing formula that is best left to work overnight, which plumps, hydrates, replenishes and nourishes your skin. It works by using a collagen ‘boosting complex’ and a hydrating complex that works in tandem to effectively reduce signs of aging and leave you looking firmer, more toned, and more youthful. While it may be the last on this list, we still think it is one of the best anti-aging moisturizers in 2023, for certain.
