The winter months are never too kind on our skin. The weather is consistently wet and cold whilst our skin gets drier and thirsty for moisture. But now that we’re seeing the last of the darkest days and spring is awakening perhaps our skin can finally breathe a sigh of relief? The spring holiday suggests all manner of optimistic symbolism mainly revolving around celebrating youth and rejuvenation with new born lambs, baby bunnies, Easter eggs and, consequently spring chickens, being the common characters of the post-winter season.

As the nights are gradually becoming shorter and the days longer, respectively, we can’t effectively keep relying on the winter darkness to hide all manner of s(k)in. The weather may not be trying to deceive us that 6pm is suitably dark for bedtime anymore, but we still need to ensure that we are getting enough sleep. You may be tired of being repeatedly told this, but getting a good 8 hours sleep is a good habit to take up just to complement the notion of giving up any other vices we might have for the Lent season.

You can thank the condition of your skin for all those sympathetic comments of , “You look tired…” or, “Late night last night?” because it will involuntarily and seemingly unashamedly project how much rest you have. The fewer the hours the more apparently productive your skin has been in creating misplaced lines, shadows, bags and general puffiness. Probably because you caught it out by waking up too soon after a non-sufficient sleep and it didn’t have time to remove its figurative graffiti off the walls.

Your skin needs to spend its time doing more worthwhile activities such as regenerating skin cells (where fresh, new cells replace the old, dead ones) which happens more quickly overnight than during the day. Your skin also needs a few hours to repair all the damage it may have suffered during the day, such as pollution, UV rays and other environmental elements and it’s this repair work that is helping to prevent lines and wrinkles.

Using a product at night when there is an absence of UV rays ensures that ingredients are more active in working efficiently and therefore help to produce more satisfying results.

Lubatti’s Dreamy Night Cream contains Mango & Avocado which are both high in vitamins and work to soften and recondition your skin. Infused with Shea Butter which is also packed with vitamins A and E, this combination of natural ingredients ensures that this intensive night cream is absorbed quickly and easily and with it’s thick and creamy, almost edible texture, it still allows the skin to breathe. The fruity smell is incredibly more-ish and comforting and your skin receives the hydration it needs making it feel moisturised, soft to touch, great to look at and comfortable to be in.

There’s a belief that in our culture, looking young = looking attractive, feeling desired and being successful but you can appear all of the above no matter what your age, and becoming older should not be as much of a taboo as it’s increasingly become. Author, Harriet Beecher Stowe says, “So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?” It rings very true today, and even this season is focusing on youth and freshness. These features are so desired because we associate them with energy, opportunity and excitement, in forgetting that the result and climax of these may not be reached till years later. Lines and wrinkles mark the years of experience of a woman but they are ahem ‘creasingly more frowned upon in our society. The prevention and eradication shouldn’t be promoted to erase our signs of age and experience but rather to encourage the appearance of good health - which initially needs to come from inside our bodies anyway.

Along with substantial sleep, a good diet is also integral to not only looking good but feeling in good physical shape. And things like antioxidants and vitamins which help prevent illness can also prevent the damage to our skin which occurs naturally everyday as we age. Lubatti can provide this dosage in what you use on your skin with vitamins A and E being a key ingredient in most of the products and is part of a sufficient diet for your skin. As Bridgette Bardot said, “It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.”

Written by Rosie Flynn