Buro 247: The Greatest Glow-Giving Moisturiser

Buro 247: The Greatest Glow-Giving Moisturiser

20 November 2019

"Could it be? The holiest of holy skin grails?"

"Sophie’s hero glowy moisturiser might become your hero glowy moisturiser. If you buy one thing today, make it this."

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"I have a strange relationship with illuminating cream. With illuminating cream and moisturisers, in fact. And primers and cell rejuvenating serums and foundation and anything that threatens to clog a pore just by being near it.

As a rule I have avoided - and obviously, therefore, lacked - an all-over glow this whole time. What is my skincare of choice you ask? Well it comes with a caveat, it is expensive, but I’m lucky that I was sent it by a friend-in-high-place and boom! Bank account annihilator, forever doomed to spend £205 twice a year as long as Augustinus Bader The Cream is in production (don’t ever leave me, please).

Augustinus Bader is foremost a bio-medical scientist who worked with burns victims, and so the story goes that he discovered a trigger for skin to heal and rejuvenate itself, named it (Trigger Factor Complex), bottled it, caused hysteria among reactive beauty editors like me and the rest is cult cream history.

A sample package landed on my desk today. Could it be? The holiest of holy skin grails? Victoria Beckham (knows her stuff, loves her stuff, I love her stuff) by Augustinus Bader (most miraculous skin magician of recent years). Oh yes.

Victoria’s first foray into skincare, this Cell Rejuvenating Priming Moisturiser, £92, has the Augustinus TFC8 technology, and it has Victoria’s clean ingredient approach - “Harper is 8 years old and wants to know about sustainability too. She’ll always pick up a product and say ‘is this safe shampoo mummy?’”

Cell Rejuvinating Priming Moisturiser sort of sounds like it doesn’t quite know what it’s doing yet, but it so does.

I keep turning my face in the light to check the natural glow. "Sophie you look so nice today, did someone do your makeup?" (Slightly backhanded but I’ll take it!). And so, unto us a new classic is born. Glowy, primed, moisturised skin from a healing, soothing and cellular life-affirming cream. My chin has spoken. It’s only just out but it’s going to be extra-ordinary."

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