French pharmacy skin Care products suggestion for oily skin
If your skin is oily, please do not to choose the cream of heavy texture, which may lead to a clog your skin pores or provoke breakout of acne. It is better for you to choose a light-texture cream, serum or other gelatinous products. For oily skin, we recommend you to try Vichy and La Roche-Posay’s skin care products, these french pharmacy brands are reputed to solve oily skin’s problems.
Following are the best-sellers for oily skin recommended by KAMS duty-free:
1- La Roche-Posay Effaclar K (+) – Oily skin renovating care anti-oxidation anti-sebum
Suggested Price: €13.50, £16.00, $21.84
Effaclar K is a real hot-topic french pharmacy skin care products that people talk about on the Internet. For oily skin, oil-control has been a major problem. This cream of La Roche-Posay laboratory helps you balance the oil secretion, gently remove the horniness, so as to clear excess sebum secretion, remove acne and tighten pores. As what we’ve mentioned, Effaclar K+ remains one of the best-seller french skin care products among others oil-control skin care products.
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2- Vichy Aqualia Thermal Night SPA – Replenishing anti-fatigue sleeping
Suggested Price: €25.90, £27.00, $28.00
This french pharmacy skin care product is suitable for moisturizing and hydrating the oily skin. Its light-texture will hydrate your skin instantly without any oily sensation, it helps to moisturize the skin and reduce the fine lines. After using this cream, your skin will be more moisturized, softer and glossy.
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French pharmacy Skin Care items for dry skin
People with dry skin must pay attention to skin moisturizing and hydrating, especially in winter and windy days. Problems like sensitivity or even redness and peeling are likely to arise when skin becomes extremely dry.
Following are the best-sellers for dry skin recommended by KAMS:
3- Nuxe Rêve de Miel Nourishing Day Cream – Replenishes lipids, soothes and repair
Suggested Price: €27.20, £25.50, $34.78
Nuxe is a famous drugstore brand world widely known by its nature-admiring philosophy and most of its product’s ingredients come from natural plants. “Miel” means honey in French, as the well-known collection, this cream is an accurate solution for skin inflammation, you can use it days and nights to smooth your skin and reduce the redness. It is easy to absorb, people with dry skin can use this french pharmacy skincare product safely without the concern of being greasy or clogging pores.
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4-Filorga Hydra-Hyal Intensive Hydrating Plumping Concentrate – replenish the skin
Suggested Price: €45.90, £45.00, $69.00
The first time I heard about Filorga was about its best-seller, MESO-mask. Then I learned that Filorga started its business from medical beauty chirurgery centre and became an expert in this field.
Filorga created the NCTF Technology to help people anti-ageing, which became its core technology and patent. This complex substance contains four different forme of hyaluronic acid which can increase efficiently fourfold water lock structure, which offers long-lasting moisture to the deeper skin. Although it is a little expensive, the benefits of hyaluronic acid worth it.
If you purchase it in PARIS LOUVRE KAMS DUTY-FREE, we can offer you 20 percents off discount!
The essence, a little sticky, smells freshening. I was afraid it would be greasy, however, I found it light and easy to cover up the whole face with just 2-3 drops. It is absorbed quickly by the skin, helps the skin become soft and smooth.
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French pharmacy skincare items suggestion for combination skin
With combination skin, most people trouble about the dry cheeks and the oily T zone. If you have combination skin, I suggest you avoid excessive cleanliness and using a rich moisturizer. Additionally, I also suggest you to use mild products and pay more attention to maintain the skin balance.
Following are the best-sellers for combination skin recommended by KAMS:
5-Vichy Normaderm Imperfection Prone Skin Lotion
In addition to removing the extra oil of T zone, this product also helps to moisturize the skin, helps skin become soft and smooth. You can use it after cleaning. Along with the gently pat, the product and its dominated ingredients can be absorbed completely and more effective.
6-Darphin Hydraskin Intensive Skin-Hydrating Serum and Hydraskin Light Gel Cream
Suggested Price:
-Serum: €49.90, £45.00, $76.00
-Cream: €43.00, £35.00, $62.00
Here I want to introduce you Darphin, although it is not as popular as Caudalie or La Roche-Posay around the world, it a high-level drugstore brand in France and is popular among the French people. In fact, it is Estee Lauder’s subordinate brand, offering higher-price skincare products, which contain natural ingredients and essential oil.
I really recommend the series HYDRASKIN. After facial cleaning, you can use the green bottle of essence first. The essence is a little sticky but light, and you can apply it to the whole face easily.
The natural ingredients can be absorbed quickly. And it is effective to remove the grease while moisturizing your dry skin, so as to help your skin keep balanced and enlarge the benefit of the following products. After that, I suggest you apply the moisturizer to your skin, in order to keep your skin soft and comfortable.
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French Skin care items for sensitive skin
Care for the sensitive skin has always been a big headache. Then we really recommend you to try the pharmacy products of these 3 popular brands: La Roche-Posay, Caudalie, and SVR. Particularly, the anti-allergic cream of SVR is the saviour for sensitive skin. Some pharmacy products that we suggested are legally prescribed by the French dermatologist as an official medical treatment solution.
7-La Roche-Posay Thermal Spring Water – soothing, softening
Suggested Price: 150ml – €6.20, £7.00, $12.99
Absolutely a signature product of La Roche Posay! The thermal spring water from the town La Roche-Posay constituted the main ingredient, which contains rich trace elements, helps to calm, soothing and toning the skin as well as maintaining the balance of sensitive skin. It is a permanent product for many white-collar workers who often work in front of the computer, who like to use the spray whenever they want. Additionally, the spray of La Roche-Posay helps to reduce the wrinkles due to the trace element of Se, which is typically contained by the thermal spring water from La Roche-Posay.
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8-La Roche-Posay Toleriane Ultra Fluide – soothing
Suggested Price: €17.00, £17.50, $29.99
It is a new product of La Roche-Posay, which is designed especially for sensitive skin. It helps to against the city’s pollution, repair the barrier function of the skin and reduce the loss of moisture and lipid. Therefore, the problems of redness, tension, and tingling will be solved and your skin will become less sensitive and feel at ease.
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9-Caudalie Instant Foaming Cleanser
Suggested Price: €13.30, £15.00, $22.40
The cleansing mousse of Caudalie is also a best-seller. You just need 2-3 pumps of the product each time, as the foam is very rich and dense. Since it is a soap-free cleanser, it is mild and not to stimulate your sensitive skin. In addition, this facial cleanser can also moisturize your skin, so your skin will not become dry after cleansing. This facial cleanser is durable and really cost-effective.
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10-SVR Sensifine cream – soothing, moisturizing
Suggested Price: €13.00, £8.19, $34.22
It is definitely the signature product of SVR. If your skin is sensitive and causes redness, rash or acne, it is the anti-allergic cream you need. You will feel cool when you apply it to your skin. It contains liquorice extract, which helps you to calm the skin and against inflammation. And this product was listed in the Top20 anti-allergy products of France in 2016.
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Recommendation for different kinds of skin problems
Different skin problems need different skincare products. So in this part, I am going to talk about common skin problems and give you advice for choosing the suitable drugstore pharmarcy products.
Reducing fine lines with French skin care products
Fine lines often appear in the forehead, eye corner. Therefore, when you buy facial cream or eye cream, I suggest you check out whether it mentions the functions like “reduce fine lines” on the packing. Moreover, the anti-wrinkle products mostly also help to reduce the fine lines. Following products could represent our best-sellers for reducing fine lines.
11-Nuxe Prodigieuse Hydrating and Anti-Ageing Night Cream
Suggested Price: €24.90, £23.00
It really a hot-selling product in KAMS. Containing AHA (Alpha Hydroxy Acid) complex and precious vegetable oil, the night cream helps to remove the aging skin, brightening complexion and reducing fine lines. If you are over 25 years old and need to eliminate fine lines as well as smooth your skin, then this night cream of Nuxe is what exactly fit you.
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12-Filorga Hydra-Filler Pro-Youth Boosting Moisturizer – replenishing, moisturizing, limiting wrinkles and cracks
Suggested Price: €45.90, £37.40, $59.00
Thanks to this facial cream, your skin will be moisturized as well as brightened, and the fine lines will be eliminated, which is suitable to against early signs of skin ageing. Filorga’s core technology – NCTF patented ingredient is honoured as the future of anti-ageing technology by ELLE.
Therefore, if you want to against skin ageing, I suggest you take the creams of Filorga into consideration. It smells good and the texture is special, between gel and cream. Every time after using this cream, my skin is moisturized and becomes soft and smooth. There is no doubt that I will repurchase. Filorga Hydra-Filler Cream is suitable for young people under the age of 24, helps hydrating and prevent the appearance of fine lines.
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Eliminating deep wrinkles with French pharmacy skin care products
Deep winkles always appear as nasolabial folds, forehead wrinkles and other wrinkles caused by facial expression. To against expression lines, generally, the anti-wrinkle products should contain two functions, one is eliminating wrinkles, another is firming. When choosing an anti-wrinkle product, I advise you take the one with both functions.
13-Caudalie Premier Cru Cream
Suggested Price: 50ml – €87.30, £92.50, $94.80
This cream, with 3 patents, has been researched and developed for a decade by Caudalie. Its major benefits are helping with firmness, elimination of deep wrinkles. It could tighten your skin after few weeks’ applications. It features natural but strong floral fragrance. The texture is dense, which fits the normal and extremely dry skin. Since its texture is really rich, it may not fit people with oily skin. The complex phenol substance is scientifically proven efficient against cellular’s ageing issues.
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14-Vichy Liftactiv Supreme Global Anti-Ageing and Firming Essence Water
It seems this product is a combination of lotion and serum. I felt it comfortable and easily absorbed when I applied it to the skin. With this product, your skin will benefit from firmness and elimination of wrinkles. As the first step after cleansing, it can enlarge the benefit of using following anti-wrinkle products and helps reduce the wrinkles appeared on the forehead, the neck and around the eyes.
15-L’Occitane Precious Cream
Suggested Price: €52.00, £52.00, $64.00
This night cream was named “the best floristic product” of the GQ grooming award in 2013. When you open the cover, you can smell the strong fragrance of immortelle. The texture is between cream and paste. Dominated by the active ingredient of immortelle and Vitamin E, the cream helps you repairing the skin during the whole night, against the wrinkles and firming your skin. Therefore, your skin may become more smooth and elastic.
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16-Clarins Shaping Facial Lift Total V Contouring Serum
Suggested Price: 100ml – €130.00, £100.00, $81.00
It’s a great product for firmness. So far, there are many anti-wrinkle drugstore products on the market, but Clarins is absolutely the expertise in this field, it is unique that they even created a special firming serum for males. This serum helps to reshape the contours of your face, relieve the problem of flabbiness and improve the firmness of your skin.
Honestly, I love this serum! It is freshening and not greasy, definitely. If you want to eliminate the wrinkles more effectively, I suggest you not to forget using firming products additionally or use the product that contains this two functions.
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Above is the photo of my testing, it is a fresh gel-like emulsion and it can be absorbed quickly.
17- Clarins Double Serum
Suggested Price: 100ml – €240.00, £150.00, $122.00
If you ask me which product of Clarins is worth buying, then there must be Clarins Double Serum.
It is a combination of more than 20 natural floristic extracts, which helps you activate the cells. One of the most effective ingredients, rhizoma atractylode, which is a traditional Chinese medicine, plays the role of boosting the metabolism. This product is a perfect combination of French technology and Chinese medicine.
Benefits: provides moisturizing and nourishing benefits to the skin; acts against oxidation; helps to activate and renewing the cells; protects the skin from pollution.
Clarins Double Serum consists of two bottles, which respectively filled with oily serum and watery serum. When you use it, the two mix together and optimize the benefits of the product. It breaks through the single function of the anti-wrinkle product and provides you double benefits. You can use the serum day and night before applying other skincare products. Every time you put 2-3 drops on your hand and then apply it on your face and neck.
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Removing freckles with French pharmacy best seller products
18- Caudalie Vinoperfect Radiance Serum
Suggested Price: €41.40, £45.00, $63.20
It is worth buying if you need whitening or removing freckles. The serum is nourished but light, so there is no need to worry about causing fat granules. Some people found that the freckles began to fade just after one week’s application! No wonder it is the best-seller of Caudalie.
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Eliminating dark circles and puffiness under eyes with French Skin Care items
Nowadays, many people stay up late as working overtime or just keep playing the cellphone, then the dark circles and puffiness under eyes appeared silently and becoming more and more apparent. These problems really make people look tired and lack of energy.Therefore, except go to bed and sleep earlier, I also recommend you some products to help to eliminate dark circles and puffiness under eyes.
19-Filorga Optim-Eyes Cream – eliminating dark circles, puffiness, and wrinkles
Suggested Price: €39.90, £40.00, $49.00
Actually, this award-winning eye cream is well-known and many tourists came to us and ask for it. The major benefits are reducing eye dark circles, puffiness under eyes and fine lines. It also helps with moisturizing and firming. Every time you just need 2 grain of the beige cream, so it is really durable. You will feel a little cool when you apply it to your eye corners. After absorbing, it seems the skin becomes a little tighter.
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20-NUXE Merveillance Expert Anti-Wrinkle Eye Cream
Suggested Price: €29.00, £29.00, $45.00
As a combination of lily and acacia extracts, hyaluronic acid, daylily and mimosa, this eye cream helps to diminish the appearance of dark circles, wrinkles and helps to smooth the eye corners. It is also friendly to sensitive skin.
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Relieving the effects of staying up late with French skin care products
My boss often works overtime and stays up late, and he highly recommends a skincare product that he loves to help to relieve the bad effects.
21-Biotherm Aquasource Night SPA -rehydrating, smoothing, soothing
Suggested Price: €41.90, £33.84, $50.00
If you always work in front of the computer and stay up late, your skin could suffer from dehydration and metabolism slowing which needs more skin care. Doing a SPA is a good choice, but how if you do not have so much time? Then the SPA mask of Biotherm is your best choice. You just need to apply the mask to your face evenly before you go to bed and let it stay for the whole night. During the night, it helps nourishing, smoothing and moisturizing your skin, just like doing a SPA. My boss said it is the mask that helps him remain handsome.
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French pharmacy antioxidant products suggestion
22-Caudalie Vinexpert Dietary Supplements – anti-oxidation, anti-aging
Suggested Price: 30caps – €23.30, £15.00, $14.40
Grape seeds contain rich grapeseeds oil and procyanidins, which helps against oxidation and skin aging. Moreover, it also helps against allergy, protecting heart vessels and protecting eyes. In Spring, sensitive skin may face with more skin problems, then taking this product will provide you protection of allergy.
1 tablet per day and 1box per month with totally 30 tablets inside. Taking it for 3 month, which is to say 3 boxes, is a course of treatment. Keep applying it, you will find out that your skin is less sensitive but calmer.
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French drugstore products for diminishing closed comedones
23-Caudalie Beauty Elixir
Suggested Price: 100ml – €31.80, £32.00, $39.20
Closed comedones is kind of whiteheads. It is not easy to find but you can feel it when you touch your face. Closed comedones are caused by the clogged skin pores. It is such annoying. Then the essence lotion from Caudalie offers me great help. I was scared by it the first time I applied it to my face as it was so cool but fresh. Then I get used to it and it is so effective in diminishing closed comedones. It is a spray and do not forget to shake it before using it.
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Removing the make-up with French pharmacy best-sellers
24-BiodermaSensibio H2O cleansing and make-up removing water – sensitive skin
Suggested Price: 500ml – €9.50, £15.99, $14.90
The remover of Bioderma is one of the best removers in the world. Bioderma provides specific removers for different skin types. And this pink one is suitable for sensitive skin. If you use it for daily cleansing instead of removing make-up, you even do not need to wash your face again with a normal cleanser.
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Travel kit of French pharmacy skin care products
Many tourists ask for travel kits in KAMS. There are 2 main reasons why travel kit is so hit: it provides the possibility to try varied products with an affordable price; products from the same series optimize the benefits. Following are the best-sellers of travel kit of french pharmacy skin care products in KAMS.
25-Caudalie Travel Sets
This travel kit contains 30ml of remover, 10ml of face cream, 30ml of shampoo,30ml of shower gel and 30ml of body cream.
This another travel set of Caudalie, containing 50ml of make-up removing water, 70ml of shampoo, 70ml of shower gel, 70ml of body cream and 30ml of hand cream.
If you want to give the elders as a present, I recommend you the following 2 travel kits from Caudalie and Uriage.
26-Caudalie Premier Cru Gift Set
Containing 7ml of eye cream, 50ml of face cream, and 10ml of serum, this kit mainly provide an effect of eliminating wrinkles and against skin aging.
27-Uriage Isodense Cream Kit
As an anti-early aging travel kit, its major benefits are reducing fine lines and smoothing the skin. It is an attractive and affordable travel kit with 50nl of face cream, 15ml of eye cream and 50ml of spray. If your age is between 18 to 25, taking this travel kit is a great deal.
French pharmacy gift ideas
I believe most tourists are trouble about buying what products as presents for friends or family when they travel abroad. Therefore, I will recommend to some delicate but practical and affordable french pharmacy skin care products.
28- L’Occitane Hand Cream – Rose, Sakura, Shea Butter
The hand cream of L’Occitane is popular and not expensive, especially you can enjoy a discount and tax refund in KAMS. With a delicate appearance and different pleasant fragrances, the hand cream is effective. The fragrances of rose (from Provence), sakura and original shea butter are the most popular.
If the friends are not so close or you have too many friends, you can give everyone a tube of L’Occitane hand cream.
If you want to give your best friends or your superior a present, you can choose a beautiful gift box of L’Occitane hand cream.
29-L’Occitane Verbena Gift Set
This gift box contains 10ml of perfume, 30ml of shower gel, 10ml of hand cream and a soap. Dominated by verbena from Provence, the fragrance is fresh and natural.
30-L’Occitane Peony Gift Set
Containing 75g of soap, 10ml of hand cream and 50ml of shower gel, this product exhales strong scent of peony. it is a nice gift for ladies that love floral fragrances.
