Treat your body like your face

Don’t wait until the skin on your body gets dry, scaly and wrinkly. Start taking care of it now for supple, soft and smooth skin all over.

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Don’t wait until the skin on your body gets dry, scaly and wrinkly. Start taking care of it now for supple, soft and smooth skin all over.

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Help skin retain moisture: Sisley Restorative Body Cream, $190.

It’s more than just a name change for the brand’s decade-old Restorative Fluid Body Cream. Retaining its previous incarnation’s nourishing and soothing properties, the improved formula also has plant ingredients such as jioh and carrot extracts to help strengthen the skin’s barrier function for even softer, more hydrated skin.

Help the body store less, and burn more, fat: Clarins Body Fit Anti-cellulite Contouring Expert, $95.

Here’s a mini science lesson. The body has three types of adipocytes (fat cells): those that gather and store fat, those that burn fat to produce heat, and those that produce fibres to strengthen fat tissues. The quince leaf extract in this formula helps balance the activity of all three types, so that less fat is stored and more is burned.