Nothing beats that post-facial glow; freshly plumped, healthy skin you want to bottle. And although the initial results can last for a few days, who doesn’t want it to keep going until your next treatment, compliments and all? Thankfully you can extend that after facial euphoria by tapping into some of the smart cleansers that’ll work harder to maintain a fresh-out-of the salon radiance, long after your treatment. We’ve heroed 5 of the best cleansers to tailor to your favourite facial’s results, taking the benefits home with you and prolonging that good skin look and feeling well past your facial’s sell by date. Time to hit skin refresh.
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1 Liz Earle, Cleanse & Polish, £14
Best after a: steam and extraction facial
Natural skincare brand Liz Earle recommends booking in for a facial every 6 weeks to reap the benefits of a professional treatment. The brands hero, Cleanse and Polish, can help you keep up the good habits of clearer, brighter skin from the luxury of your bathroom, in between steam and extraction facials. The ritual of daily cleansing helps remove the day’s pore clogging factors such as pollution and make-up, often undetectable to the naked eye. Liz Earle’s two step cleansing routine starts with applying the soothing Eucalyptus Essential Oil and Cocoa Butter cream cleanser followed by removal with the hot cloth (soak in steaming but not boiling water first) giving your skin a micro steam, unclogging pores and leaving it squeaky clean. Like a professional treatment, it works to slough away dirt and dead skin cells before your next facial. Full steam ahead.
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2 Espa, Nourishing Cleansing Balm, £47
Best after: a micro-current facial/CACI
Lifting and toning facials often involve electrical probes for instant, firming results, like CACI’s SkinRejuvenation facial. Dismiss any fears of it being painful, trust us it’s not, the micro current probes are used to tone muscles, much like a gym workout, lifting and smoothing fine lines along the way. To extend this non-invasive ‘face-lift’ like facial, opt for a cleanser that will work with the techniques used to keep up the youth promoting work. ESPA’s Nourishing Cleansing Balm is not only soothing, hydrating and compatible with all skin types, our favourite sort of cleanser, the Rose Damascena works to tone and firm, so it’s the perfect combination in between microcurrent treatments. Use your fingers to work the cleanser into your face, pushing upwards in a lifting motion and finishing with your palms under your cheek bones to sculpt and tone. And lift…
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3 Elemental Herbology Vital Cleanse, £29
Best after a: LED Light Therapy facial
Light therapy (LED) is rapidly gaining popularity because of it’s restorative radiance skills and successful treatment of skin problems like adult acne and rosacea. It’s also a speedy service with no downtime. LED light, normally in the form of red or blue, is near-infrared light, not to be confused with damaging UV light and works to reduce inflammation and stimulate blood circulation which gives the instant glow. To maintain the addictive results, we compare it to a good (and safe) dose of natural vitamin D from the sun, choose a cleanser to maintain the plumper, brighter and less fatigued looking skin you get from the salon. Vital Cleanse, like LED, focuses on the texture of your skin, making use of ingredients such as Manuka Honey (a current buzz beauty ingredient) Vitamin C and Papaya Extract to give skin a thorough, deep cleanse and bring radiance back, cheating that back-from-holiday glow everyday.
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4 Foreo LUNA 2, £149
Best after a: Oxygen facial
Cleansing brushes have exploded onto the beauty scene, favoured for their dirt dislodging and exfoliation expertise as well as aiding skincare penetration. The sonic vibrations of the Foreo Luna, which first appeared in toothbrush technology, helps open up pores and thoroughly clean much like an Oxygen facial. This gives skin a deep clean in between regular appointments, helping the efficacy of each treatment. It means not having to start from scratch every time you jump on the facialist’s couch but simply a more intense, boosting version of your at home cleansing regime. Aside from a deep clean, the Luna comes with a bonus anti-ageing function. Flip the gadget over and use the anti-ageing mode, a slower pulsating set of waves that work to smooth fine lines in just a minute. Go-go gadget.
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5 Elemis Biotec Skin Energising Cleanser, £39.50
Best after a: Elemis BIOTEC Lifting facial/Galvanic facial
With a combination of massage and galvanic (microcurrent) technology, Elemis’s BIOTEC facial combats a multitude of skin concerns by using circulation boosting ingredients and activating them with the microcurrent pulses to contour, lift and tone. Sounds techy? Well it is and their Biotec Skin Energising Cleanser is just as clever. It’s been developed to work along side the facial and uses zinc, copper, amber and a potent blend of acids to put the zing back into skin. Like the facial, it boosts the skin’s cell energy as well as cleansing the skin of impurities to make skin respond to any following skincare more effectively. Electric dreams.