Product Watch: Our anti-aging pick of the month

MooGoo Anti-Ageing Cream, €25.30

Regardless of the label/ad/celebrity endorsement, there is no “facelift in a jar”. Happily, there is a checklist a cream fulfils when it can truly help skin to rehydrate, repair existent damage and produce new collagen and healthy cells. Broad-spectrum sun protection, a lack of fragrance/irritants and a mix of proven antioxidants, skin-repairers and cell-communicating ingredients (which “tell” damaged cells how to behave like healthy ones) are the checkpoints.

MooGoo Anti-Ageing Cream is a fantastic choice for sensitive or normal-to-dry skin. Don’t let the cutesy packaging fool you: the ingredients are potent and backed up by substantial research. The most prevalent (apart from water) is squalene, a proven antioxidant and emollient that is naturally present in skin’s own moisture barrier. Next up are soothing aloe vera, emollient rice oil and apricot kernel oil (which has similar properties to squalene).