Shiseido Future Solutions LX Serum, £300

Shiseido has hit nature’s beauty jackpot. It’s teamed up with a Japanese plant hunter, who introduced them to the enmei herb. Grown on Mount Kõya in Japan, legend has it that Buddhist monks used to offer it to sick travellers, and research shows this herb has astonishing beauty benefits. It’s the only known ingredient able to activate the longevity gene sirtuin, which controls ageing. The more sirtuin present in a skin cell, the better equipped it is to inhibit the production of serpin B3, the protein that speeds up signs of ageing. Shiseido found that enmei is effective even on damaged skin, so no-one’s complexion is beyond repair. Hallelujah.

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