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Skin Care by Skin Type: Aging

Skin is less luminous and more easily dehydrated as we age. Mature skin needs an amped-up supply of the essential nutrients—from minerals and antioxidants to moisturizers and exfoliants (our cells turn over more slowly as we get older; one of the reasons a baby’s skin looks so fresh is the rapid-fire skin-cell turnover). Alpha hydroxy and salicylic acids and vitamin C can all make a serious difference. Be especially sure to go clean and nontoxic with any product containing SPF. (Chemical SPF—the stuff in some “daily” moisturizers, tinted moisturizers, primers, and foundations—contains some of the most problematic chemicals in the beauty industry.)

CLEANSERS

Tammy Fender
Cleansing Milk goop, $55
Goop by Juice Beauty
Luminizing Melting Cleanser goop, $90
Tata Harper
Regenerating Cleanser goop, $78

SERUMS AND OILS

Vintner’s Daughter
Active Botanical Serum goop, $185
Tata Harper
Retinoic Nutrient
Face Oil goop, $125
May Lindstrom
The Youth Dew Hydrating
Facial Serum goop, $140

MOISTURIZERS

Dr. Barbara Sturm
Face Cream Women goop, $215
Tammy Fender
Intensive Repair Balm goop, $130
Goop by Juice Beauty
Replenishing Night Cream goop, $140

EXFOLIATORS, MASKS, PEELS

Goop by Juice Beauty
Exfoliating Instant Facial goop, $125
Tammy Fender
Epi-Peel goop, $80
Goldfaden MD
Doctor’s Scrub Advanced goop, $98

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