The autumn and winter months bring cooler air, lower humidity, and indoor heating, all of which can strip skin of moisture.
Your lightweight summer face cream may no longer provide enough hydration or protection. Switching to a richer, more nourishing formula in autumn helps strengthen your skin barrier, lock in moisture, and keep your skin soft, smooth, and comfortable through the colder months.
Here’s some of my favourite face creams to use in autumn and winter:
I’m from Mushroom Collagen Cream
A deeply moisturising cream to enhance skin elasticity and provide a healthy glow.
Key ingredients: 30% mushroom-derived collagen to boost skin elasticity and plump skin.
Texture: The cream has a very rich texture, but it sinks in surprisingly well.
Experience: It is super nourishing, instantly makes my skin feel smoother, softer and plumped, plus I gain a healthy glow.
Skin1004 Probio-cica Enrich Cream
A nourishing cream to soothe skin and balance oil and moisture levels. It repairs the skin barrier, helping to keep moisture in the skin. This cream is a great choice for dry and sensitive skin.
Key ingredients: Centella Asiatica Extract (aka Cica) and Probio-Cica, which is fermented centella asiatica, which aims to soothe skin and repair the skin barrier.
Texture: It has a thick and stringy texture, but it sinks into skin surprisingly well.
Expereience: It doesn’t make my skin look or feel greasy or shiny, so I could use it morning or evening. It hydrates and smoothes my skin well.
Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Cream
A moisturising and soothing cream aimed at dehydrated oily skin.
Key ingredients: Birch tree sap to maintain water balance and vita hyaluronic acid to hydrate.
Texture: It is halfway between a gel and cream texture, which is perfect for providing great moisturisation for oily skin types without being too heavy.
Experience: It feels lightweight on my skin and it sinks in well without any greasiness. My skin feels softer and looks brighter after using it.
Dr G Black Snail Cream
Key Ingredients: 20% snail mucin and propolis extract, to nourish and hydrate, plus niacinamide for glowy skin.
Texture: The texture is rich but sinks in beautifully, with no greasy feeling at all!
Experience: The cream makes my skin feel super soft, plump, and bouncy. Perfect for days when my skin needs extra love.
Medicube Triple Collagen Cream
Collagen is one of the best ingredients for making your skin look younger, and this cream is super nourishing, perfect for autumn and anti-ageing!
Key Ingredients: Collagen to help plump skin, Elastin to improve skin elasticity, Hyaluronic Acid to hydrate, Enantia Chlorantha Bark Extract to improve pores, Olive Leaf Extract to reduce dark spots.
Texture: It is a thick and nourishing cream. Despite being thicker it sinks in nicely and isn’t greasy.
Experience: This cream makes my skin super soft and smooth. It plumps my skin for a more youthful appearance.
Dr G RED Blemish Clear Soothing Cream
A calming, lightweight cream perfect for sensitive, breakout-prone skin.
Key Ingredients: 5-Cica Complex (madecassoside, madecassic acid, asiaticoside, asiatic acid and centella asiatica extract) to hydrate, soothe and calm skin.
Texture: The cream has a pudding-like texture. It’s a gel cream that quickly absorbs and hydrates skin without being sticky or greasy.
Experience: It is soothing and helps to calm skin. The cream is lightweight and perfect for my oily skin when I need a bit of extra skin soothing and nourishment.
d’Alba Vita Toning Capsule Cream
A cream infused with encapsulated vitamins, to help visibly brighten and invigorate skin for a youthful-looking appearance.
Key Ingredients: vitamin E, K and C capsules to keep the ingredients stable and at their most effective. The cream itself contains white truffle, niacinamide and sea buckthorn water to brighten skin, moisturise and improve skin firmness.
Texture: The cream and the capsules blend together on your skin as you rub it in and it absorbs pretty quickly.
Experience: After using, my skin looks radiant and glowy and feels smoother.
Which face cream do you like to use in the autumn and winter months?
