When it comes to face lotions that you wear during the day, you always want to look for two things. One is lightness and how it can reflect the light. When I say lightness, I mean you don’t want your daytime moisturizer to be too heavy or creamy. You want something that is light, that will reflect the light well and bend it to your benefit to make your face look more flawless and alive. There are many good daytime facial lotions out there that get the job done. As long as they are also non pore clogging, you can pick from a variety of lotions.
The night time lotions are where I get a little pickier, since I know that night time is when my facial skin primarily gets to rest and repair itself, and for night time, I want to use a moisturizer that is most conducive to that crucial process and has the most repairing and healing ingredients in it. You also don’t have the sun interfering with the absorption or utilization of ingredients like retinols, which are inactivated by the sunlight, so it’s important to utilize the night time for these types of heavier, therapeutic ingredients.
Two daytime lotions that I’ve recently tried are the Clinique Dramatically Different daytime lotion and Body Shop’s Vitamin C daytime lotion with SPF in it. I liked both, but I have to say the Body Shop one wins out over the Clinique one, simply because I think it moisturized more effectively. I almost felt like I was putting water on my face with the Clinique lotion, because it was almost too thin and light. The Body shop lotion was a bit more emollient, and you didn’t have to put a bunch on. The other obvious reason I chose the Body Shop brand over Clinique was that the Body Shop one has SPF in it.
The Clinique Dramatically Different lotion however, I did feel helped to make my face look a bit more luminous and glowy than the Body Shop one, so maybe because it was such a light formula, it helped to reflect the light a bit better. They both had a great scent, the Clinique having a very light fragrance to it that was clean and fresh, and the Body Shop having a more heavily fragranced smell of citrus.
I’d have to say, one of the turnoffs about Body Shop skin products is how heavily they tend to be scented. I don’t like anything that is heavily scented, since there are often a lot of chemicals that go into the achievement of that level of scent that can be irritating to the skin.
