Night cream recommended
When you love all things skin care as much as we do, we can't help but look forward to eradicating every trace of our makeup and dirt at the end of a long day with an indulgent double-cleanse followed by our PM routine, night cream being the proverbial cherry on top.
Nighttime is all about repair and soothing. Your skin does all its heavy lifting at night; it repairs, restores, and regenerates while we sleep, so a good night cream is focused on moisture and recovery. night creams are, by design, formulated to penetrate deep into the skin over the course of several hours — aka while you get some beauty sleep — and are often richer in texture than their day cream counterparts. But just as people debate the necessity of an eye cream (use one, please!), not everyone's convinced that so, too, should you invest in a separate moisturizer than what you slather on in the morning. To all the naysayers, we'll just let the pros do the convincing: "The evening is a good time to apply creams with ingredients that may be sun-sensitizing. Additionally, keep in mind that a heavier cream may not play as nice under makeup, but will be exactly what your skin craves after hours. Here, we present 18 of our best overnight companions. Retinol isn't just the gold standard for nearly every skin-care concern, it's the gold-standard for specifically nighttime skin care because of its ability to make skin a bit photosensitive. However, it has other, much more desirable abilities, too, as proven by Murad Retinol Youth Renewal Night Cream. This formula works hard to firm and smooth skin — and even if you're not seeing signs of aging yet, it's a fantastic pick to help hold them off, especially because of its skin-barrier-strengthening niacinamide.