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We’ve discovered galore of our favourite quality essentials successful French pharmacies implicit the years. Of course, arsenic we’ve cleaned up our quality routines, our favorites person changed (indeed, we wrote a French pharmacy roundup backmost successful the aboriginal days, and precisely 1 of the products successful it meets our standards for cleanable today). But our emotion matter with French beauty—whether the products are really French oregon simply springiness disconnected that ineffable aerial of some enigma and communal sense—remains arsenic passionate arsenic ever. From a velvety orangish tegument balm and a rich, elegant pick infused with resveratrol (the French Paradox antioxidant compound recovered successful reddish wine) to a styling pick for the shiniest, smoothest hairsbreadth ever, our French-pharmacy-inspired obsessions are each clean—and champion successful class.
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SERUM
This skin-brightening gel-serum combines progressive ingredients recovered successful vino (including resveratrol, the antioxidant of The French Paradox fame) with salicylic acid, roseate water, and indispensable oils. It hydrates, brightens, and evens skin, leaving it smooth, refined, and glowy. The serum feels refreshing and sinks close in, and the dewy decorativeness works beautifully nether constitution oregon connected its own.
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GEL-TO-MILK CLEANSER
This raspberry-colored exfoliating cleanser brightens and hydrates similar a dream. It’s made with pumpkin, bamboo powder, salicylic acid, and papaya to mildly expanse distant each traces of ungraded and makeup, arsenic good arsenic squalane to assistance replenish tegument lipids. It besides doubles arsenic a hydrating look mask.
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ANTIFRIZZ STYLE CREAM
This French-girl concealed limb for hairsbreadth from the Paris salon of legendary hairsbreadth colorist Christophe Robin gets escaped of frizz and nourishes your hair, leaving it smooth, silky, and shiny. Use it connected bedewed hairsbreadth to moisturize, forestall frizz, and support against some vigor harm (during styling) and colour fade. On adust hair, you tin usage it to creaseless distant adjacent the astir stubborn frizz oregon divided ends, redirect a cowlick oregon babe hairs astir the hairline, and adhd gorgeous French-girl texture. (Bonus: The frizz extortion lasts forty-eight hours.) Whether you’ve got large frizz oregon conscionable emotion a never-fails touch-up, this brilliant, life-changing botanical look is simply a immense measurement guardant successful cleanable hairstyling.
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MICELLAR WATER
This micellar-water-meets-essence sweeps distant ungraded and airy makeup, leaving almighty botanicals down to enactment connected skin. It clarifies tegument arsenic it cleanses and tones, making it the eventual multitasking product, and looks gorgeous successful its towering file of a bottle. Made with integrated ingredients hand-harvested connected an unthinkable 800-acre property successful Sicily, it’s thing you’ll usage aggregate times a day—it’s specified a pleasure—and your tegument volition beryllium the amended for it.
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HAIR PERFUME
Made with Epsom, Dead Sea, Himalayan, and of people French oversea salts, on with moisturizing coconut lipid extract and indispensable oils of jasmine, roseate geranium, and ylang-ylang, this casual spritz infuses immoderate hairsbreadth benignant with sexy French-girl texture. Spray it successful bedewed oregon adust hairsbreadth for tousled, effortless formation hairsbreadth that looks large with practically immoderate outfit, not to notation a subtle, lingering scent that is conscionable exquisite.
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SHORT RED-POLISHED NAILS
The classical French look is champion rendered successful polish that’s ace shiny, incredibly long-lasting, and chicer than chic. And usage the orange-peel-scented, acetone-free nail polish remover pads to mildly region polish and cleanse nails with unthinkable ease.
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RESCUE BALM
This rich, velvety orangish tegument balm combines oversea buckthorn, carrot, and tomato-seed oils with willow bark, pomegranate sterols, and bisabolol to supercharge tegument with moisture and antioxidants, leaving it supple and incredibly soft. The whipped, weightless, skin-coddling look melts close into skin, smells faintly of vanilla, and—most incredibly—works arsenic a moisturizer, an oculus balm, a look mask, and erstwhile mixed with water, adjacent a cleanser.
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HAIR COLOR
Our favourite at-home impermanent colour (also from French hair-color prima Robin) sidesteps astir hair-color problems: It’s made without PPD, 1 of the astir common—and perchance astir dangerous—chemicals successful hairsbreadth color, and it contains nary bleach, truthful you debar the harm that overcoloring typically causes implicit time. The look besides blends imperceptibly, looks arsenic earthy arsenic the colour Robin would springiness you if you flew to his Parisian salon, doesn’t smell, lasts for 7 shampoos earlier fading, comes successful 4 shades, and feels much similar a hairsbreadth attraction than hairsbreadth color.
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ESSENTIAL EYE CREAM
This French gel-cream is afloat of antioxidant resveratrol, hydrating hyaluronic acid, and vegan collagen to steadfast and depuff. Made with quinoa extract and peptides to assistance and creaseless the undereye area, the affluent but delicate pick besides works connected acheronian circles for a well-rested look.
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BIPHASE FACE OIL
This look oil, shake-activated to harvester 2 concentrated formulas (a h2o signifier and an lipid phase), results successful an perfectly exquisite texture, and it supercharges tegument with moisture and attraction ingredients. Each signifier is packed with rejuvenating integrated botanicals, nutrients, and antioxidants that assistance combat escaped radicals, brighten, profoundly hydrate, and plump skin.
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LIP SCRUB
Scented with integrated roseate otto, peppermint, and roseate geranium, this ace moisturizing articulator rescue leaves tegument smooth, plumped, and profoundly hydrated. A premix of shea butter, olive oil, uncommon botanical waxes, and sweetener mildly removes adust tegument and smooths the aboveground for your healthiest, prettiest lips ever.
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RICH MOISTURIZER
This was already a cult-favorite supermoisturizer with astonishing results—and present it’s clean. It’s heavy and affluent and skin-coddling, and it plumps, smooths, softens, and profoundly hydrates your skin. Made with argan, avocado, and evening primrose oils to replenish skin; omega-6 fatty acids and antioxidants to assistance combat escaped radicals; and a groundbreaking constituent analyzable called TFC8 containing amino acids, high-grade vitamins, and synthesized versions of molecules recovered people successful skin, the pick addresses everything from good lines and wrinkles to elasticity. It’s particularly superb for adust tegument and harsh, arid climates—smooth it connected some time and nighttime for ultranourished, silky skin.
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FACE SPRITZ
This glorious one-of-a-kind look mist is made with botanicals grown connected an integrated workplace successful Italy, 3 antithetic molecular sizes of hyaluronic acid, aloe vera, and roseate water. It’s some soothing and moisturizing—spray it connected earlier you creaseless successful look pick oregon lipid for tegument that’s radiant, plump, and wholly hydrated.
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TREATMENT TONIC
This daily-use, highly progressive pore-refining attraction made with detoxifying malachite positive glycolic, phytic, and effect acids helps wide pores and refine texture. Hydrolyzed hyaluronic acid, vitamin B3, and mineral-rich deep-sea h2o from France assistance replenish and soften skin, and implicit time, pores look tighter and tegument appears visibly much wide and radiant.
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HELLO, BARDOT
This brushwood (also from Robin) makes shiny, bouncy blowouts astatine location incredibly easy. Brilliant for mean to agelong hair, it has 12 rows of earthy boar bristles—all curved to easy glide done hair, adhd body, and make loose, ample curls with the summation of heat. The lightweight, ergonomic plan makes maneuvering and styling ace easy.
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