100% everyone, everywhere. Provided you like the smell of roses – and if you don’t, what on earthThe bottle is plastic but Sisley fund a wide-range if sustainability initiatives and research.Squeeze a 20p-sized dollop into your palm and lavish your face chest with it; wipe-off excess after 15 minutes, or leave on to sleep/on the plane, as you see fit.
There are many under-the-radar beauty products, which are loved by all in-the-know but rarely discussed –is one of them. [n.b. Sisley’s lavender scented SPF body milk is another but that’s a story for another day.] I’ve never worked with an editor who doesn’t keep a tube of it with them wherever they go. Obviously I’ve obediently followed suit like a dutiful beauty slave – but with good reason.
Rich in active anti-aging ingredients and of course rose oil, a natural anti-inflammatory that reduces redness and irritation, it’s a multipurpose moisturising mask, while its rosy scent is endlessly pleasing. AnOther Magazine’s editor-in-chief Susannah Frankel swears by it. “It is the best moisturiser I have ever used,” she raves. “I love that it’s a mask but more than not is completely absorbed. It smells like heaven and rose is cooling.
Instructions are simple but pleasingly customisable: apply a thick layer to cleansed, toned skin . Tissue off any excess after a quarter of an hour but the longer you leave it on, the better. If you’re anything like me, there’d be no excess for said tissue within 30 minutes. Usage in the morning will provide a plump, dewy start to the day . Used at night instead of your cream, orif you’re feeling extra, and simply left to sink in will reveal happy, glowy skin come morning.