If I’m not banging on about how important it is to wear sunscreen, my other skincare mantra has always been:
Just. Do. Something.
Getting better-looking skin – now and decades into the future – is as easy as that.
At 45, I’m no spring skin chicken but my skin has travelled along nicely {even if I say so myself} thanks to consistently doing SOMETHING every day since I was 18 and twice a day since I turned 30.
Why 30? It was one of those milestone goals I set for myself: to get serious about skincare at night time as well as in the morning.
Plenty of lotions and potions have found themselves on this old face over that time but the key common denominator has always been a mostly three-step process of cleansing, toning and moisturising.
Even before kids, my lazy-girl beauty tendencies were there.
{If you’re new here, I like to address my beauty routine quickly and without fuss! I’m lazy girl like that 
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I was always looking for ways to deliver the care my skin deserved but with minimum thought and effort on my part. And if I could save a dollar or two along the way, then all the better.
Which is why NIVEA has long held prime real estate in my bathroom cabinet. It’s a brand that just seems to understand me.
It may be a skincare company with origins in Germany in the 1890s that has grown to be a world leader in skin research {there are currently about 500 skin research partnerships in place} but to me – and millions of busy women – it’s a skincare brand that gets on with the job of giving good skin.
Photo: NIVEA
Just quietly, the fact that I can sneak a purchase or two into the weekly grocery shopping budget is WINNING in my books too.
Now, if you’re new to NIVEA and wondering where to start, can I make a lazy-girl beauty suggestion?
Start with the NIVEA Daily Essentials range (priced from $7.50 to $12.99 per product).
The target market for this range is women aged 18-35 but women well into their 60s are loving it too – for its simplicity and the science {Hydra IQ} behind it that delivers more deeply hydrated skin.
Because let’s face it, if hydration is being addressed then that’s going to make any of us look better, no matter what our age.
Always read the label. Use only as directed
5 reasons to love NIVEA Daily Essentials
1. It’s as simple as good skincare gets. Choose your skin type {normal & combination, combination & oily or dry & sensitive}. The products for each range are colour coded so you can easily find them on the supermarket shelf. There’s also new packaging, incorporating the timeless NIVEA circle logo, which makes them easy to identify too.
2. You can get a good daily skincare routine going with just four products: start with a cleanser, toner and moisturiser {day and night}.
3. The day creams include an SPF 30+. NIVEA was one of the first brands to talk about SPF back in the day so they know what they’re doing here. NIVEA has just launched the SPF 30+ in two of their most popular day creams – Rich Moisturising Day Cream & Light Moisturising Day Cream
4. The Hydra IQ properties really work. Your skin is moisturised from within.
Breakthrough Hydra IQ is an active ingredient technology that is able to stimulate the skin’s moisture network, activating hydration quickly for non-stop 24-hour moisturisation. Generally, moisturisers absorb into the upper layers of the skin. Hydra IQ, in a proprietary combination of glycerin and glucose, moisturises similarly from above and in addition, hydrates from below by utilising skin’s own moisture network.
5. The range includes face wipes for all different skin types {including normal & combination as well as dry & sensitive}. Now, if you’re still to get into that night-time skincare routine you should be getting into, then leave a packet of these on your bedside table. No excuses. Use them every night. Preferably have a moisturiser sitting there as well.
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Being a lady of a *ahhemm* certain age, the dry & sensitive range is my friend. It draws on natural almond oil and Hydra IQ as its key skin helpers.
I’m not usually one to go for a mousse cleanser {prefer a cream – and do love the gentle cleansing cream wash in this range} but I give this one the thumbs up. It doesn’t leave your skin feeling “stripped” just cleansed and ready for moisturising.
The day cream has proven effective in providing hydration and an everyday SPF 30+. And I’m a huge fan of the wipes. As you know
Always read the label. Use only as directed.
From the “all skin types” range, a big thumbs up to both of the eye makeup removers. Morning-after panda eyes be gone.
Always read the label. Use only as directed.
Have you tried any of the NIVEA Daily Essentials range? Do you like a simple skincare routine?
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