At this time of year, a light body lotion won’t cut it as far as soft skin is concerned. You will need the richer formula of a cream to keep dry winter skin at bay.
Our selection of the best body creams come packed with hydrating and anti-aging ingredients. Choose from creams with firming, toning, or stretch-mark reducing benefits, or essential oils to add a glow to your skin.
Crème de Corps
Crème de Corps has something of a cult following amongst beauty editors, bloggers, mothers and beauty fans alike. This is down to the luxurious but quickly absorbed, softly scented formula, which really does enrich and improve the texture of your skin in just a few weeks of use. Not only is it a favourite among our beauty team, it is known for being used backstage at fashion shoots and shows to smooth models’ legs and add a rich glow.
Extra Firming Body Cream
Day after day, this body saviour helps the skin regain its youthful firmness and tone. The ingredients include lemon thyme extract to protect the collagen fibres in the skin and, over time, increase their resistance to aging. It also contains Shea butter and jojoba oil to intensely nourish and smooth away fine lines.
Lemon + Sage Body Butter
Bliss’s best-selling body butter has a distinctive fresh scent, and a little goes a very long way. It works fantastically on rough or dry elbows and knees.
Vitamin E Body Balm
Vitamin E is an essential skincare ingredient to replenish moisture, sooth dryness and protect from winter weather and environmental aggressors. The formula is rich and lightly scented, quickly absorbed, and Jo Malone’s usual elegant packaging makes the balm a fantastic gift.
Pro-Collagen Body Cream
From Elemis’s high-tech Pro-Collagen range, this brand new formula uses amino acids and natural seed oil extracts to visibly tone for smooth, luminous and firmer-looking skin.
O-Mega Body Cream
Described as ‘Superfood for the skin’, O-Mega Body Cream is a powerful blend of sweet almond, evening primrose, rosehip and borage seed oils, blended with Shea butter to add moisture and aloe vera to soothe. Fragrant, hard-working and with long-lasting effects, we highly recommend if you have problems with dryness, stretch marks or uneven skin texture.
La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Body Cream
Harrods
The sea protein in La Prairie’s luxurious Caviar Collection is designed to reverse the loss of firmness and elasticity. This rich, moisturising cream firms and pampers, transforming dull and aging skin.
Frankincense Toning Body Cream
Another natural choice, Neal’s Yard’s Body Cream deeply nourishes with avocado oil, and the frankincense extract not only smells amazing but has anti-aging properties. Skin becomes softer with restored suppleness and tone. A great post-pregnancy option.
Body Crème Ultra Riche
The Ultra Rich Body Cream contains linseed, marshmallow and honey to deeply sooth, and apricot oil to soften. The nourishing formula restores the hydrolipidic film of the skin, great for Winter if you’ve noticed a change in your skins texture.
