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My Highly Coveted Skin Care Essentials For Your 40s!
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items This list is a secret glimpse into how i have legitimately maintained my skins Youthful tightness, smoothness, plumpness, hydration and elasticity as it was in my 25th year and as it remains now we'll into my 44th trip around the Sun! Mary a wrinkle,...
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Products that span the decades and are lifelong essentials!
Decade 40: Reinforcement Products
Higher Potency Products for Age Reversing
The Internal Sector of The Eternal Youth Fountain
From the Earth to the Skin: The 100% All Natural Time-Travelers' Toolkit
Products that span the decades and are lifelong essentials!
A line up of the one's ive been using spanning all the decades that have thusly been the reasons ive retained that look of youth ive fought so diligently to maintain since age 20!
This line up has been on my shelf at home throughout the years, day in...
Avene spa water is one of those products that span the decades and remains a go to from age 25 and on! Whether it's a daytime refresher or a base for make up, this work horse product is essential to daily care! *pro secret: use spa water by avene all...
Avène Thermal Spring Water - Avene
What can I say but another decades spanning winner from Vichy?! Soap free is the way to go and I use this cleanser daily AFTER I use a make up remover to freshen my skin for makeup application in the morning and removal finisher at night before I app...
Pureté Thermale Fresh Cleansing Gel | Vichy Laboratoire
What can I say about the foundation of youth that is this absolute essential and the basis of keeping your 20s skin until well into your 60s! That's right, if you begin your journey and this is key at no later than age 25, and follow the additions an...
LiftActiv Supreme Serum 10 | Vichy Laboratoires
This is a brand new product that just hit the market and of course I had to scoop it up because of the word contour and the word lift also Neutrogena is a lifelong purveyor of products that we use regularly they're just a wonderful brand as good as a...
Neutrogena Rapid Firming Peptide Face Cream
I often say French pink clay is the only mask you ever need! Of course we use a bunch more but if you can only afford one this is the totally natural totally from the earth totally chemical free solution to 1,001 skin difficulties! If you're lucky en...
French Pink Clay - The Chemistry Store
Finally we have arrived at game changer! Retinol, what is it? How does it work? How do I use it? Why is there selling crossbones on the bottle it tells me that I should not use too much????? Lol. But in all seriousness do not use too much retinol is...
Retinol Concentrated Serum - Derma E
Decade 40: Reinforcement Products
Think of this section as the ultimate elite construction crew for your face. We aren’t just dusting over the cracks; we are pouring new foundations, re-weaving the internal scaffolding, and ensuring your skin’s barrier is as impenetrable as a vault....
Hyaluronic acid. I I know you all have heard this big long weird word and wonder what the heck is this stuff how do I use it when do I use it how much do I use ? For being a foolproof acid replacement Serum at a great price point and low concentratio...
Revitalift 1.5% Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum - L'Oréal Paris
This collagen product is ny absolute favorite and the reintroduction of collagen taken internally happens in your era of 40s! Truly beneficial even if you have not followed a regime for skin care throughout your 20s and 30s this product would be esse...
DeepMarine Collagen 100% Canadian Made ...
So all the rage in the 2020s is Korean skin care regimens and what these Beauties youthful faces into their 70s even and what the heck are they doing over there in Korea to afford 40-year-old skin after age 75? Well it's the rice! Specifically a bree...
Black Rice Hyaluronic Toner - Haruharu WONDER
So this new chemical that's been around for probably forever but nobody's ever heard of before niacinamide Is absolutely essential in your skin care regimen and I started my use in my 30s, and bumped up to a higher concentrate form as my interim Seru...
The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%
This guy is my pre makeup game changer! After I cleansed and toned and serum and moisturized during my mornings and I'm going to do a makeup look that day I hit my last product which is this one Clinique IDs hydrating clearing jelly for anti-imperfec...
Dramatically Different™ Hydrating Jelly Moisturizer - Clinique
At 40, good skin and due diligence or not, your gonna wanna add a regular under eye cream to the Dream☆Team, (what i call my skin care 'Arsenal' at every decade point lol). Its called TheDream☆Dream and includes all external, internal and other non-e...
Eye Cream & Under Eye Cream for Dark Circles - Sephora
Its Vichy, Its new and its a formulated winner! Watch out for the entire Neovidiol line because ive tried them all and im a convert! Vichy is once again taking over my shelf space for the daily line up of anti-aging winners at price points we all can...
Neovadiol Meno 5 Oil-in-Water Serum | Vichy Laboratoires
Higher Potency Products for Age Reversing
These are the tried and true Powerhouses of defying the inevitable unfairness of our DNA & gravity combined that causes us to age. A wise woman once told me a hard truthh;
☆you cannot reverse the signs of aging, you can only prevent them.☆
That...
A listing of heavyweight age reversing, surgeon-in-a-bottle products to make an impact on already visibly aged skin/skin without any preventive routines over the decades.
DOUBLE SERUM - Anti Aging + Anti Wrinkle Serum
This is the standard of age reversing in my opinion. Although ive been fortunate enough to have had a sample size given to me, this is worth its weight in gold with over 40 ground-breaking actives working in concert overnight to rescue distressed sk...
Composition No. 1 Serum - AUTEUR
A must have for the luxury treatment of already visible signs of aging. This once a week dermal penetrative treatment masque is a soothing and easy process that has immediate effect on the skin condition improving firmness and elasticity with a singl...
Cryo-Flash Cream - Cold Face Mask
Evidens the Triple Serum is the splurge YOU NEED TO MAKE AND MAKE NOW!
For a few reasons, most namingly, because the product WORKS AND WORKS WELL! You can spend $40 each on 50 different products and not get the instant and absolutely visible result...
The Special Triple Serum
La Mer The Lifting Firming Serum is without a doubt a high impact, visible results product that defies the rules and truly provides surgical results without the knife! Worth its price tag, this product promises decades off your look and delivers!
The Lifting Firming Serum | Anti-Aging Serum - La Mer
Genifique is a fountain of youthful skin in a bottle at a very reasonable price point and from a company we love and trust!
Advanced Génifique Youth Activating Serum - Lancôme Canada
The Internal Sector of The Eternal Youth Fountain
Ahhh the age old benefits of what we can ingest internally to give us lifelong nutrition based anti aging benefits! Using food as fuel is always going to be the best way to keep us healthy on the inside that will absolutely then translate to being he...
Evian Water! Whether it's drinking it bathing in it washing my face in it as he on water is another winner from the hills of France! And yes I've tried the rest the flow the energy the super the glacier and all the other waters that can claim to do a...
Evian
Watermelon. Delicious nutritious a summer treat that you should enjoy all year long because this stuff has magical benefits for your insides as well as your outsides! Along with other such fruits which we will live here the key to ingesting fruits th...
Whole Seeded Watermelon
Delicious! Super sweet super uncious and just all around delightful fruit to eat again seeded is key to all the fruits that you should ingest! I love eating black grapes first thing in the morning before I have anything else in my system I do find th...
Black Seeded Grapes
Tumerik, the spice of the moment, its actually been on the world's most beloved top 10 best, most diversity of use and most healthy lifestyle benefits, not withstanding.
Inventing nem ⁴⁴⁴meg ț
Turmeric Benefits
Sea-moss! The Asians have been making it a fine dining option for just about forever and I learned about its uses and benefits from a Rastafarian friend of mine who swore by it. He was not wrong! This super food and its anti aging benefits are too ma...
Sea Moss Gels - Original, Elderberry pineapple, strawberry, mango
From the Earth to the Skin: The 100% All Natural Time-Travelers' Toolkit
Before you spend your retirement fund on creams made of liquefied stardust and crushed diamonds, let’s take a breath. Earth has been growing the ultimate anti-aging solutions for a few billion years, no lab coat required. We’re stripping away the syn...
Meet Aloe Vera. Visually, it looks like a cross between a hostile desert weed and a medieval weapon. But slice open one of those spikey green spears, and you unlock a gooey, translucent gel that has been running an absolute masterclass in anti-aging ...
Seven Minerals Organic 100% Pure Aloe Vera Gel
A nutritional jackpot for the skin, containing rare Omega-7 and high concentrations of Vitamin E to repair the skin barrier and improve elasticity.
Leven Rose Sea Buckthorn Seed Oil 100% Pure
(Natural Vitamin A & C): Packed with trans-retinoic acid and essential fatty acids, it accelerates cell turnover, fades dark spots, and deeply hydrates.
Cliganic Organic Rosehip Seed Oil Face
(The Natural Retinol): Derived from the Psoralea corylifolia plant, it delivers the same collagen-boosting, line-smoothing results as traditional retinol, but with zero purging, redness, or sun sensitivity.
Bakuchiol sérum visage anti-âge et anti-imperfections - Aroma-Zone
Rich in punicic acid, it fights off free radicals (the main culprit behind premature aging) and fends off collagen breakdown.
Granatapfelkernöl - 100% Kaltgepresst