Beauty FAQ

When should I start using an anti-wrinkle cream?

Clarins has been an anti-aging expert for more than 65 years. In that time, we’ve never stopped improving our innovative skincare products, so that women can look and feel beautiful at any age.
Browse the anti-wrinkle moisturizers, eye creams, treatment oils, and lotions. You’ll discover targeted formulas for every inch of skin, so you can feel happy and confident each and every day. That is our passion!

01 Do I need an anti-wrinkle cream at age 30?

Hectic days, late nights, stress, and lack of sleep all take their toll on the skin, resulting in fine lines and a dull complexion. Discover the full Multi-Active product line of radiance-making, line-fighting moisturizers for day and night—plus an instant eye reviver that zeroes-in on fine lines and signs of fatigue, including puffiness and dark circles. Multi-Active is formulated with encapsulated Wild Teasel extract to deliver targeted revitalizing and anti-aging action to where your skin needs it the most, so it glows.

02 What should I do at the first sign of wrinkles and fine lines?

What should I do at the first sign of wrinkles and fine lines?

Powered by the latest plant science, Multi-Active Treatment Essence is the first step in your anti-aging routine. This line-fighting face lotion—with energizing Wild Teasel extract and radiance-renewing Acerola Seed extract—instantly refreshes, de-stresses, and boosts the skin’s vitality, leaving it soft, toned, and velvety-smooth. Follow with Double Serum—two power-packed serums in one potent formula that addresses all visible signs of aging. Next, apply Multi-Active Day Cream to smooth, tone, and de-stress with line-fighting Myrothamnus extract.

03 What’s the best anti-aging beauty routine for night?

What’s the best anti-aging beauty routine for night?

Multi-Active Night Cream—with Organic California Poppy—revitalizes, nourishes, hydrates, and smoothes to fight signs of fatigue resulting from a late night or lack of sleep…so skin looks smooth, toned, rested, and refreshed by morning. Essential beauty sleep for skin in its 30s.

04 How can I give my eyes a youthful boost?

The eye area is the most sensitive skin of all and requires gentle daily care to stay youthful-looking. Total Eye Revive—with Wild Teasel extract and Myrothamnus—is a refreshing cream-gel that targets fine lines and visibly minimizes signs of stress and fatigue for an instant beauty boost. Illuminating pigments optically blur fine lines to visibly brighten the eye area. The ultra-cold metal applicator tip enhances drainage to help reduce the appearance of puffiness and dark circles.

05 How does Wild Teasel fight fine lines and wrinkles?

How does Wild Teasel fight fine lines and wrinkles?

Harvested in the French countryside, Clarins Research has harnessed the anti-aging, fatigue-fighting powers of antioxidant-rich Wild Teasel extract—a potent natural ingredient that promotes the production of the energizing molecule ATP, to minimize the appearance of lines and wrinkles caused by a stressful lifestyle.

06 What is the best anti-aging routine at age 40?

What is the best anti-aging routine at age 40?

At 40, even the healthiest skin starts to lose some of its firmness, tone, and elasticity.

Pollution, a busy lifestyle, stress, heredity, UV rays, and the natural aging process begin to make their marks. Suddenly, laugh lines are no laughing matter. Age-telling wrinkles start to set in. The expert anti-wrinkle products in Clarins’ Extra-Firming collection work to visibly reduce fine lines, wrinkles, skin slackening, and crow’s feet—while boosting the skin’s radiance with a youthful-looking glow.

07 How do I fight skin aging in my 40s?

Recover your skin’s youthful beauty with radiance-boosting Extra Firming Energy, a dual-action Anti-Wrinkle Cream for day—formulated with Clarins’ revitalizing blend of Kangaroo Flower, Organic Mitracarpus extracts, and our Glow Plus Complex—that minimizes the look of skin slackening, wrinkles, and dullness for a smooth, even, glowing complexion. Clarins' plant-based Anti-Pollution Complex helps protect skin from outdoor and indoor pollutants, including skin-aging blue lights from electronics.

08 How can I optimize the effects of Extra-Firming Energy?

Use Clarins’ Draining Pressure Method to enhance circulation, revive radiance, and release fluids and toxins:


Warm a dime-size amount of Extra Firming Energy between your palms to bring it to room temperature, so that your skin accepts it instantly.

To apply, use the natural weight of your hands to distribute the product evenly over your face and neck.

Using your whole hand, apply light pressure 3 times on the cheeks, 3 times on the forehead, and 3 times on each side of the neck.

Watch the Draining Pressure Method video online at Clarins Exclusive Application Methods.

Take your firming routine to the next level by adding three indispensable products for youthful-looking skin. Total Eye Smooth, a 2-in-1 anti-aging eye cream + mask—with age-defying Kangaroo Flower and Organic Mitracarpus extracts—minimizes the look of wrinkles, dark circles, and puffiness. Extra-Firming Phyto-Serum is a power lift serum—with White Lupine, Organic Blue Agave, and Quinoa extracts—that forms a supportive mesh on the skin’s surface for a visible lifting, smoothing, and tightening effect. Extra-Firming Night—with wrinkle-fighting hydrated silica of Moonstone extract—visibly firms, lifts, nourishes, and smoothes for a visible lifting effect.

9 What anti-aging plant ingredients are in Extra-Firming skincare?

What anti-aging plant ingredients are in Extra-Firming skincare?

Kangaroo Flower and Organic Mitracarpus extracts visibly firm, lift, and smooth to minimize the appearance of wrinkles and skin slacking. Organic Blue Agave and Quinoa extracts form an invisible supportive mesh on the skin’s surface, for a visible lifting effect. White Lupine extract visibly tightens.

10 Why does skin have special needs after age 50?

Why does skin have special needs after age 50?

At 50, hormonal changes can result in dull, dry, fragile skin. That’s when skin needs targeted care, specially formulated to restore its density and luminosity. Clarins’ Super Restorative formulas provide all of the replenishment, nourishment, and density expertise skin needs to look smooth and radiant. Day after day, lines and wrinkles are visibly reduced. Skin glows with renewed vitality and the look of youth.

11 How do I treat sagging skin resulting from aging?

How do I treat sagging skin resulting from aging?

By 50, most skin is weakened by hormonal changes linked to the natural aging process—resulting in dullness, dryness, loss of elasticity, and an uneven skin tone. Super Restorative Day and Night Creams, enriched with Organic Harungana extract—the “healing tree” from Madagascar—work in tandem to visibly reduce the appearance of age spots, wrinkles, slackening, and dullness, while illuminating the skin for a vibrant, more youthful look.

12 How can I restore luminosity to mature skin?

How can I restore luminosity to mature skin?

Rose Radiance Cream, from Clarins’ Super Restorative collection, is a deeply replenishing, 3-in-1 daily moisturizer for mature skin that promotes a rosy glow with gently exfoliating Hibiscus Sabdariffa Flower acids; boosts skin’s luminosity with 4 shades of light-amplifying mother-of-pearl; and evens out skin tone with a soft pink tint, and a dark spot-targeting vitamin C derivative. Organic Harungana extract—as effective as retinol,** and gentle on the skin— visibly plumps to minimize the look of wrinkles and skin slackening.

**In vitro test on collagen synthesis.


13 How can I visibly sculpt my facial contours?

How can I visibly sculpt my facial contours?

Super Restorative Remodeling Serum is a powerful anti-aging serum that visibly lifts and helps define facial contours, promoting a youthful-looking oval. Deeply replenishing and densifying Organic Harungana extract visibly reduces lines, wrinkles, and skin slackening. Organic Montpellier Rock-rose targets age-related dark spots for a radiant, uniform complexion.

14 What is the best anti-aging day routine for women at age 50?

15 Why does Clarins use Organic Harungana extract in their products?

Why does Clarins use Organic Harungana extract in their products?

A healing tree, believed to have powerful regenerating properties, harungana promotes reforestation by propagating on barren land in Madagascar, and throughout Africa. Local communities use the leaves in traditional medicine as an antiseptic, and a remedy for healing wounds. In cosmetics, the extract is used to visibly firm and replenish the skin.

The Clarins Laboratories use certified Organic Harungana obtained through a Fair-Trade partnership. The trees are grown and harvested according to practices that promote human rights and fair working conditions. With support from the local Jardins du Monde team, Harungana leaves are harvested and dried by the residents of Joffreville, a village located in northern Madagascar. The replenishing benefits of Organic Harungana extract are found in Clarins’ entire Super Restorative range of products.

16 What’s the best anti-aging routine at age 60?

From age 60 on, skin can become nutrient-deprived, resulting in a loss of elasticity and radiance. This is the time when many women’s skin becomes dull, fragile, and extremely dry—sometimes accompanied by dark spots. To restore vitality to mature skin, follow a nourishing daily skincare routine that is rich in the vital nutrients mature skin needs to stay vibrant and healthy-looking.

With age, the skin’s micro-nutrient network—which is responsible for supplying the vital nourishment that maintains a youthful-looking complexion—starts to slow down, resulting in dullness, deep wrinkles, dark spots, and dry and fragile skin. Skin craves nutrient-rich anti-aging treatments to restore its suppleness and youthful-looking glow.

17How can I restore radiance to undernourished skin?

How can I restore radiance to undernourished skin?

The Nutri-Lumière collection was created for skin that is weakened by age and is powered by Clarins’ nutrient-rich plant discovery, the Horse Chestnut. Two potent parts of the plant—organic flower extract and the active fruit molecule, escin—work together to revitalize and restore luminosity to mature skin. Ten organic plant extracts—including a nourishing blend of Harungana, Desert Date, and Leaf of Life—help visibly lift and smooth slackened skin, target dark spots, deeply hydrate, and restore radiance and comfort. Our Anti-Pollution Complex protects skin from harmful indoor and outdoor pollutants, including blue lights from electronics.

Clarins Research has found that combining two parts of the Horse Chestnut plant—the organic flower extract and the active fruit molecule, escin—helps to nourish and revive skin’s natural luminosity. Organic Wakame Seaweed extract and plant squalane promote supple, youthful-looking skin. Organic Leaf of Life extract super-quenches thirsty skin—leaving it comfortable, radiant, and perfectly hydrated. Organic Desert Date extract targets dark spots to promote an even skin tone. Everything mature skin needs to get glowing again.

18 How can I boost the power of my anti-aging skincare?

How can I boost the power of my anti-aging skincare?

No anti-aging skincare routine is complete without Clarins’ iconic, award-winning Double Serum—two power-packed serums in one potent formula that targets all visible signs of aging to visibly firm, smooth, and enhance skin’s radiance in just 7 days.* Formulated with 21 potent plant extracts—including age-defying Turmeric—it boosts the benefits of any Clarins moisturizer, and is our #1 bestselling anti-aging serum.***

*Satisfaction test - 362 women - 7 days
**Satisfaction test - 362 women — 28 days
***Double Serum range - Clarins internal sales data Jan-Dec 2020

19 How does Double Serum’s two-phase formula work?

How does Double Serum’s two-phase formula work?

Inspired by the dual water and oil nature of the skin, this iconic two-phase formula delivers the perfect ratio of water soluble (hydric) and oil soluble (lipidic) ingredients. Once dispensed, the two concentrates combine into one powerful serum that is easily absorbed into the skin to effectively target all visible signs of aging. Perfect for all ages, all ethnicities, all genders, and all skin types—even the most sensitive. Follow with your Multi-Active, Extra-Firming, Super Restorative, or Nutri-Lumière routine to boost your anti-aging results.

20 What is the technological innovation behind Double Serum?

To create Double Serum, Clarins Research traveled the world in search of the most potent anti-aging plant extracts; then combined their natural energies to create a serum that is unsurpassed in gentleness and anti-aging efficacy.

Avocado, Kiwi, Mango, and Mary’s Thistle soothe, soften, and nourish.

Beautyberry, Organic Goji Berry, and Horse Chestnut energize, eliminate toxins, and revive radiance.

Cocoa, Edelweiss, and Ginger Lily soothe and fight off skin-aging free radicals.

Organic Green Banana, Teasel, Myrothamnus, and Organic Oat Sugars visibly firm, lift, and fight fine lines and wrinkles.

Huang Qi and Jania help eliminate dead skin cells, purify, refine, and mattify.

Organic Leaf of Life boosts the skin’s natural hydration.

Marsh Samphire hydrates and softens.

Quinoa supports the natural skin barrier.

Orthosiphon mattifies and refines.

Turmeric targets all visible signs of skin aging.

21 Where do Double Serum plant ingredients come from?

Where do Double Serum plant ingredients come from?

Double Serum’s universal, nature-inspired formula contains 21 potent plant ingredients from around the world, including nine that are organic, three of which are Fair Trade-certified.

22 What is the best way to apply anti-aging skincare?

Clarins called upon our rich spa heritage to create unique Application Methods based on our expert knowledge of the skin, so that you can enjoy the full beauty of our formulas.

Learn to master these easy, relaxing, professional methods at Clarins Exclusive Application Methods with step-by-step demonstrations that you can repeat at home to achieve optimal anti-aging results.

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