{"id":267632,"date":"2026-01-05T01:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267632\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:46:22","slug":"this-turbocharged-body-retinol-has-revived-my-winter-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267632\/","title":{"rendered":"This turbocharged body retinol has revived my winter skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I completely ignore the skin on my body in winter, on the basis that it\u2019s hidden away under many layers of clothing. (I also shave my legs much less, which is really unattractive in my view. I say \u201cin my view\u201d to avoid accusations of being hairist. My legs, my hair, you do you.)<\/p>\n

In fact winter is the perfect time to pay attention to your skin. Whatever unguents you apply will sit there happily, under the layers of clothing, quietly improving things. No one\u2019s dipping them in sea water, no one\u2019s boiling them in the sun \u2014 they can just get on with it. So whereas I am more than happy to use cheapo body lotion in the warmer months, the upcoming fallow period is usually the time I up my game a bit, so that when my limbs emerge in the spring they are in optimal shape. The idea is to avoid them emerging at the first sign of sun looking slightly withered and parched. We want plump, hydrated skin. Glowing, ideally.<\/p>\n

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This means bringing out bigger boys than, for example, shea butter, so I am steering you to N\u00e9cessaire The Body Retinol<\/b> (\u00a355, spacenk.com<\/a>). It not only contains retinol, friend of mature skin, but also 10 per cent AHAs and some vitamin C, all ingredients that I use on my face. The retinol here does what it always does, namely boost skin cell turnover and collagen production, which translates into helping with fine lines, pigmentation marks, uneven tone, lumpy pores and texture generally. It\u2019s not going to eradicate these things, obviously, but it really does help. <\/p>\n

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I have a dark mark on the back of my left leg from where I spilt a bottle of Cacharel scent (in my great-aunt\u2019s beach hut, talk about dedication) when I was a teenager. I didn\u2019t think anything of it, but when I went out to sunbathe, the spillage sort of baked in and turned into this dark splodge. Annoying, but quite useful several decades later in terms of monitoring the success or otherwise of products that claim to fade dark marks. This is fading it. Very little! Don\u2019t get overexcited. But noticeably to me, which in terms of this particular mark is a lifetime first.<\/p>\n

I also think my skin is firmer (I have been using the product for just over three months) \u2014 again, not dramatically, but noticeably. More to the point, it is incredibly soft and smooth. The thing I like best of all \u2014 see earlier remarks about layers of clothing \u2014 is that this is a body serum, meaning it\u2019s not heavy or claggy. <\/p>\n

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Sometimes I actively like quite a heavy body cream, but not when I\u2019m wearing tights, a T-shirt, a jumper, woollen trousers and a coat, when the idea of anything sticking under all those would be both claustrophobic and unpleasant. I want something that sinks right in, that I can forget about while it works its magic. Same thing in bed \u2014 I don\u2019t want anything adhering to my cosy flannel sheets. This is that product. Not cheap, but it works and feels extremely luxurious to use (as well it might).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I completely ignore the skin on my body in winter, on the basis that it\u2019s hidden away under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-267632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115839971282508672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}