This Product Is Our Secret Weapon For Tight, Cold-Weather Skin—And It Makes Our Skin So Glowy We Don’t Even Need To Wear Makeup.
We only work with companies we feel passionately about, and this post contains sponsored content. Our opinions are 100% our own, and in fact we only work with brands AFTER we've discovered something of theirs we love. Supporting this content means we all get to keep doing what we're doing here at The Candidly. And keep our jobs. So thanks for that.
If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission. Gifted items will be called out (gifted), and affiliate links will include an asterisk (*). We have to eat, after all.
by The Candidly Team
When the fall and winter roll around, most of us start transitioning from light, gel moisturizers to thick creams and rich serums—to stave off the inevitable flakes, dry patches, and tight winter-whipped skin that accompanies the cold months.
We dutifully did this every year as the air turned brisk, and every year we still noticed that our sensitive, post-40 skin would basically fall apart no matter what we used. Angry, reactive skin is essentially what welcomed us with open arms every. single. holiday season.
But we discovered an oil* last year that made such an enormous difference on our vertical chest wrinkles (see the astonishing before and after photos HERE) that we started using it over the summer as our only moisturizer (see those photos HERE), and it was a revelation—our skin was soft, hydrated, never greasy, always glowy.
So this fall, when we would have normally already switched to some super occlusive cream (and risk getting weird breakouts) we have begun using this oil* as our last step over our gel moisturizers to sort of lock everything in so to speak—and (knock on wood) our skin has never been happier.
* Gifted
Use CANDIDLY at checkout for 25% off.
Ok so … why? What is it? How is it different? Can’t I just use some random oil from Amazon? Ok let’s break this down, because we had all the same thoughts.
First, this oil* is actually a blend of olive leaf and olive leaf water that, when shaken and combined, create a luminous glow while actually repairing the skin’s barrier.
Next, it’s literally packed with antioxidants like calendula, grape vine, and the wildly potent medical flower called Anchusa. It also contains chicory (which boosts collagen), asparagus (full of vitamin E), and mallow, which is the secret to boosting our skin barrier.
Lastly, most straight oils just leave our skin greasy, and while we don’t love to be dry, looking oily and greasy is also not the goal. This oil* never has a greasy feel—within a few minutes our skin feels soft, hydrated, glowy, calm. Here’s a photo of one of us with JUST the oil* as a moisturizer:
We also just had to include a snippet of these astonishing clinical trials because we really need to impress upon you how this product just isn’t like anything else we’ve tried.
And finally, to prove the title of this article, here’s a photo of one of us with only a thin layer of moisturizer, with the shaken, biphase oil* pressed over it, at the end of a very long day—nothing else on the skin, and no makeup save just a swipe of mascara so we didn’t look like a sick Victorian boy:
We have been using the oil over this other (magic?) balm this brand makes, but we’ve also tried it pressed over this affordable French pharmacy moisturizer, and this very affordable drugstore moisturizer we recently found out Drew B. loves. And no matter what we pair the oil* with, our skin is happy, glowy, with no dry patches, never greasy, and blessedly, never breakoutty, even as many of us are very acne prone even though we’re also perimenopausal—fun!
We know the price is a little tough, and it’s why we begged for the highest code possible from the brand and they happily obliged, so use CANDIDLY at checkout for 25% off your entire order.
But also, we recently gave ourselves permission to invest in our skin—not in some rampant way, in a pragmatic way. More of us are too scared of filler or toxins or surgery, but we also want to look refreshed, with our faces matching the vibrancy of our hearts and brains. We invest FAR more in skincare than we do with makeup—there’s just so many products that essentially do the same thing. And we wash it all off at night anyway. But healthy, hydrated skin is for life—and nothing we do with blush or lipstick or foundation matters unless our skin is utterly gorgeous.
We also use this oil as the last step in our evening skincare routine, and our skin wakes up with a glow every. single. morning. Oh, and don’t forget the chest! Remember these miracle photos?
And the scent of this oil* is almost impossible to describe, it’s so fresh and light and subtly citrusy. We might just go fetch our bottle, give it a little shake, and press some on right now.
Price: $125
Use CANDIDLY at checkout for 25% off your entire order.
We only work with companies we feel passionately about, and this post contains sponsored content. Our opinions are 100% our own, and in fact we only work with brands AFTER we've discovered something of theirs we love. Supporting this content means we all get to keep doing what we're doing here at The Candidly. And keep our jobs. So thanks for that.
At The Candidly, we try a lot of stuff so you don’t have to. We only recommend things we truly love, and that we think you’ll love, too. All products are chosen independently by our creative team, and all details reflect the price and availability of products at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission.
We have to eat.
