The Greatest glow-giving moisturiser

Sophie Beresiner

Beauty & Style Director

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BURO.BEAUTY + STYLE DIRECTOR

I have a strange relationship with illuminating cream. With illuminating cream and moisturisers, in fact. And primers and cell rejuvenating serums and foundation and anything that threatens to clog a pore just by being near it. It was a bout of self diagnosed adult acne - I read you only need three active spots at one time to qualify - at age 26 (very common age for skin to freak out actually), and since then I consider myself ‘reactive’. Sensitive is too specific, cystic is definitely too strong, but put a formula on my face that my skin isn’t used to and boom. Chin squatter. Stay for at least a week, makes a mess of the place, ruins my social calendar etc.

As a rule I have avoided - and obviously, therefore, lacked - an all-over glow this whole time. What is my skincare of choice you ask? Well it comes with a caveat, it is expensive, but I’m lucky that I was sent it by a friend-in-high-place and boom! Bank account annihilator, forever doomed to spend £205 twice a year as long as Augustinus Bader The Cream is in production (don’t ever leave me, please).

Augustinus Bader is foremost a bio-medical scientist who worked with burns victims, and so the story goes that he discovered a trigger for skin to heal and rejuvenate itself, named it (Trigger Factor Complex), bottled it, caused hysteria among reactive beauty editors like me and the rest is cult cream history.

"Could it be? The holiest of holy skin grails?"