Revitalising winter skin
Nuxe Nuxuriance serum. Photo: Claire Pepper
As a year-round cyclist, I’m on my bike in all weathers (only taking the train to the office if there’s a torrential downpour or the roads are icy). While I’m often wrapped up in hi-viz layers and two of everything, my face is open to the elements. Even though the weather is unseasonably warm right now, winter can be harsh on the skin. How serendipitous then, when an email from Nuxe popped into my inbox asking if I’d like to test-drive the Nuxe Nuxuriance Gold range of replenishing beauty products designed to brighten (with ‘golden micro-reflectors’) and nourish the skin (94% natural ingredients and hyaluronic acid). Ooh, go on then…
Now widely available, Nuxe is one of those cult brands I used to buy on the obligatory trip to the French pharmacy, when in Paris. But that’s nothing, one of my French friend boasts about being one of the beauty brand’s early customers at the mini laboratory near the Gare du Nord back in the 1990s….
Photo: Lucid Rep
Anyhow. After 28 days, my standout products are the Nuxuriance Gold Nutri-Revitalizing Serum and the Nutri-Fortifying Oil Cream, my weather-beaten face is lapping them up. The day cream is luxurious and rich with a distinctive scent which some of my friends love (that’ll be the natural bougainvillea extract, then). Nuxe very generously sent samples to some of my friends – and one commented on the ‘sweet, floral aroma’ and how it ‘resolved into one reminiscent of a perfume my mum wore when I was a child’.
Most were impressed by the percentage of natural ingredients in the products and the fact that Nuxe uses glass jars (for the creams), rather than plastic, with items ‘housed in only a cardboard box’. My French friend Linda sent me a ‘1000 mercis’ but it was another friend Lucy who was most effusive, ‘My skin has changed since turning 50 and these products have given me back a skin I recognize. I am delighted! Having never had problem skin in my teens, now as an adult I have menopausal skin and every product I’ve tried over the last 18-months has irritated it in some way. I’m a convert – Nuxe has a new customer!’
If you would like to try the Nuxe Nuxuriance Gold range, click over to Instagram for details of a giveaway.
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Discussion (30 Comments)
Maureen says:
Try M&S. They stop nuxe products. But I think you were using it as an excuse for another European trip
Hi Sue,
If you can’t get hold of Nuxe for your lips and need an alternative, try Elizabeth Arden eight hour intensive lip balm. It’s been indispensable for me as it’s the only one I’ve found so far that works. Last year my lips got so bad, I had to have hydrocortisone cream! This stopped it happening again. I’m going to give the Nuxe one a try now.Mrs Tonia says:
I agree about Elizabeth Arden lip balm in a tube. I have used this forever. And it now has a SPF of 15. Recently I discovered another very good product made by REN. In a similar tube. But half the price. Vita Mineral lip balm it’s called.
Bliss says:
thank you for sharing NUXE, I have never seen this product in any stores in the USA, including high-end or pharmacies, from your description and lifestyle NUXE sounds perfect for me……I hope we can find NUXE in the USA! thank you Allison, I haven’t responded in over a year but follow you every day! xoxo
Fifi Stead says:
I would thoroughly recommend Lush Ultrabalm for hands, feet … not lips because it doesn’t taste very nice ( well, I thought I’d try it!) ….. great for keeping tattoos looking good … I always keep it in my travel bag. Any dry skin and any soreness it really soothes.
CHARITY GIRL says:
Hi Alison
I don’t usually comment now on posts, after being horrified by the nastiness on various forums, but I wanted you to know how much I love your site and all the posts.
I’ve always been green fashion wise out of necessity not choice. Jumble sales at 15, charity shops in my 20’s and 30.s when nobody went to charity shops. I’ve gravitated towards car boot sales now and the M&S 70% sales in my 50’s.
I used to get my ideas for what to wear from magazines, but have used a few of your photos for various nights out, very successfully. At the moment I find the stylists who style for uk tv dramas are more interesting than the magazines I used to read. My fave’s were Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honourable Woman, Sharon Horgan in Catastrophe. At the moment am loving the Stylist for Gillian Anderson in the Netflix Sex Education (warning, very rude, but laugh out loud funny).
I’d love you to do a piece on the tv women stylists, where they get their ideas from and influences from.
Isobel says:
Hello, Charity Girl… what a great idea! I’ve also lived a life of jumble sales and op-shops and have been working in them for years. The best part is having customers of all shapes and sizes and cultures and persuasions find just what they were they were looking for and sharing that delight with us! Occasionally, someone will come in and buy up big for a tv series being filmed locally, which is always exciting!
Christian P. says:
Your idea for a piece on television stylists is fantastic. I had the same thought after studying Julia Montague’s capsule wardrobe on Bodyguard. It’s amazing what the BBC costumer did with a palette of light grey, blue, and merlot; four fine tailored suits; three coats, a couple of merino sweaters; and several lovely silk blouses. Her name is Charlie Knight and her credits are extensive (https://www.charlieknightcostume.com/). I’m now eager to watch the shows you mentioned. Thanks for the tip.
Hello Charity Girl, Thank you for commenting – we seem to be on the same wavelength, I’m just writing a piece on sustainability! My friend Edward K. Gibbon styled Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honourable Woman and I love both those comedies you mention. Great styling, too. I’ve been meaning to write a post on Gillian Anderson’s wardrobe in Sex Education. Spooky.
maggie g says:
i think the yellow robe in particular deserves a credit as a cast member in sex education.
Maisie says:
Nuxe products are on sale in most chemist shops here in Greece. I usually get my lip balm from local shops selling natural products, try Aphrodite skin care next time you are in Greece, Alyson ! I will look out for the Nuxe lip balm. Dry hands are my problem, they are like a barometer of the weather ( ! ) and my best ever find is The Body Shop’s Hemp hand cream, it works brilliantly and smells wonderful, none of the headache-inducing scent that many hand creams seem to have.
Gabrielle says:
Love Nuxe products. The crème fondante haute protection SPF 50 is a must for me all year round. It makes a luxurious soothing and moisturising base for make-up and I am convinced using it has cut down on sun-related damage. I love discovering new products in the range: often through free samples from French pharmacies. Why are they so much more generous with their samples than UK shops? I have discovered some of my “must haves” that way. Anyway, looking forward to trying your recommendations. Thanks!
Joan says:
Re: cruelty free. I was wrong. They sell their products in mainland China. Chinese law requires beauty products to be tested on animals.
Christine says:
Thanks Alison,
Perfect timing! My Biotherm hand cream is finishing and I want to try something else, hopefully a bit more nourishing. I use Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse all the time so I will give their hand cream a go.Reve de Miel hand and nail cream by Nuxe is an old favourite classic product I’ve used for ages. Really good. They also make a Reve de Miel body lotion. Recommend that too. Probably available online.
Gerri Alfino says:
Nuxe is genius, and widely available on line. Have been using the line for some time and highly recommend.
PS Coveting the large signet ring in the photo — able to share details?Thank you.
GerriChristine says:
The fragrance issue is so interesting — and personal. I find many French face creams overly floral for my taste. I don’t like feeling as if I can’t escape a scent on my own person.
My personal favourite range of French skin products is Caudalie made with grapes. The scents are minimal, they are pure and non-irritating but effective. Preferred moisturiser is Vinosource for dry skins. And am using Vin Active range eye cream which I also like. Good texture and absorption under eye make up. I agree about the generous giving of samples in French pharmacies. When I’m there they always give me handfuls of things to try if I’m buying one or two products. Very helpful for trying new lines of a brand.
Anna K. says:
Nuxe products are lovely. Three I can recommend are Huile Progidieuse which is wonderful on dry skin on legs and arms. There’s a clear version and a subtly gold tinted version for ‘summer’ skin. Their night cream Merveillance Expert is excellent. It absorbs well and leaves my skin soft and refreshed looking; and finally, Masque Creme Fraiche, a gentle mask that can even be used on eye contours, and is comfortingly moisturising. End of advert (no shares in the company!)
I live out in the sticks, a 35 mile round trip to Tesco’s or Boots, and buy my Nuxe products on ebay – often much cheaper than in the shops.
Thanks, Alyson, I’m going to buy the lip balm for my daughter… she hasn’t been able to find a product yet that she’s happy with.
See my lip balm recommendation of Ren Vita Mineral lip balm. No aftertaste. Now prefer it to Elizabeth Arden Eight hour cream one. This also comes in a tube with an SPF good for summer lip protection.
Rosemary Eychenne says:
Hi Alison, here in France, the Nuxe Huile Prodigeuse, is THE go-to product in summer. It’s always on special offer at that time of year. It’s used on skin and hair. In fact, the fragrance of it is so recognisable and well-loved that a few years ago, Nuxe actually brought out an eau de toilette of it !
As for dry hands, L’Occitane have a fabulous karité hand cream which you can buy in big tubes. However, I don’t know if it’s sold in Britain. Haven’t seen it.
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I tried Nuxe products for the first time when we were in Italy last fall. I stopped into a pharmacy to ask the cosmetician to recommend something for my very, very dry and painfully chapped lips. I ended up buying their Honey Lip Balm and it was a miracle worker. Withing a couple of days my lips felt wonderful. Now both my husband and I use it , and have been all winter. Don’t know what I’ll do when I run out? Back to Italy? Or France? Ha.