Best Product Recommendations for Dry Bodies, Skin Texture, Fake Tan & More
Sadaf Razi is Adore Beauty's Senior Beauty Editor.
She's a former fashion editor (who worked at various glossy mags) and stylist-turned digital beauty and lifestyle writer. She has been in the lifestyle/media industry for over 10 years and her work has also been featured on international covers like Elle France and Vanity Fair Mexico.
Some of her fave Adore Beauty products include Cicaplast B5, CeraVe Cleansing Oil and Lancôme Renergie Triple Serum.
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In a recent episode, Hannah shared some of her personal product recommendations based off questions that were flooding her Instagram DMs.
So she thought she’d answer them all in one place. That place? Yep you guessed it - Beauty IQ Uncensored.
From the best affordable hydrating moisturiser for dry body skin to the fake tan she loves, here’s just some of Hannah’s personal faves...
1. Best Recommendations for Dry Body and Dry Hands.
"I’m going to put my Joanna Fleming hat on, she would recommend Kiehl's Crème de Corps 250ml. It's one of our best-selling body moisturisers, it has the best hydrating ingredients.
Moving on to my favourite moisturiser for dry skin; I recently discovered the CeraVe Daily Moisturising Lotion 236ml, I took it to Thailand with me, and I think I've been through three bottles now.
I like the pump, the pump locks so you can take it away with you, but it’s actually such a good moisturiser.
Firstly, it’s really affordable (it’s under $20) and it's formulated for dry to very dry skin types.
It’s got 3 types of ceramides and hyaluronic acid. It's really, really good. It’s not heavy which is what I really like about it, it’s not like a thick heavy cream, it dries nicely on the skin but you can feel that it’s really moisturising.
You can use it as much as you like because it’s really affordable.
They also have a reparative hand cream and going by how much I love the moisturiser, that’s on my list of products to try.
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2. Best Recommendations for Texture on the Neck and Décolletage.
"The main thing you need to be doing for the neck and the décolletage is bring your serums down to your neck and your chest.
That doesn't just apply for texture.
I get all this pigmentation so the skin on my face is looking really good but then I'm getting pigmentation on my chest.
The ingredients that you’ll want to be using are AHAs (so glycolic, mandelic and lactic acid) and I would also suggest a retinol.
Another one that might be good if you struggle with AHAs and retinol is niacinamide, however, if you're not wanting to waste your expensive serums from your face to your chest, (fair enough), I'd be exactly the same.
I would actually recommend looking for some more affordable brands. One that might be good for texture on the neck and the décolletage would be The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution.
I’ve actually used this as a body toner before; my little trick is to put a spray pump on the bottle, (you can also use it on a cotton round) and I would spray it on my chest and on my arms."
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3. SPF Recommendations for Combination and Irritation-Prone Skin.
“I would recommend if you haven't used one before, looking into a mineral sunscreen.
What I find with mineral sunscreens is that they are a lot more mattifying.
If you’ve got irritation-prone skin and you've got some oil production you would want to steer clear of anything that’s too oily on the skin, so a mineral sunscreen would be a really good option."
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4. Best Fake Tan Product Recommendations.
"Joanna likes the Loving Tan 2HR Express - Medium 120ml , and they've got all different colours, (they just brought out their Ultra Dark colour as well).
The reason she likes this one is because she doesn't like to sleep in her fake tan.
Whereas I’ll put fake tan on after the shower in the morning and then I can shower later in the night after I've left it on all day.
I use the Tuscan Tan Self Tan Foam 150ml. The reason I like this one is the colour - it’s amazing.
It’s really streak-free and it doesn't have that fake tan smell.
Overall the way that I assess a fake tan is if people comment on the fake tan, that’s usually a really good test for me.
And whenever I wear this one, people always ask me what tan I'm wearing."
Shop Loving Tan Express and Tuscan Tan:
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