Cleansers can be tricky ground to cover. When I’m wearing make-up, I need a cleanser that can take it off effectively, but still nourish and not aggrivate my skin. It’s actually quite a big ask.

But, this foaming cleanser does it all. As long as I wet my skin beforehand, the gloopy gel transforms into a lightweight foam that lifts make-up (including foundation, mascara and eyebrow wax) with ease.

 Working it into my skin for a few minutes, I was so impressed with how well it took off my make-up and any redness was pretty minimal due to the use of redness-reducing ingredient, niacinamide in the foam.

Foaming cleansers can leave skin feeling stripped of its moisture, but this foaming cleanser is different. My skin didn’t feel tight or dry, it felt clean and free from excess oil.

Using this cleanser in the morning works just as well to remove the skincare I had applied the night before. 

Redness is minimised, oil-levels are stable and my skin looks and feels cleaner.

Shop CeraVe Foaming Cleanser at lookfantastic, £9.50

If you’re using potent ingredients such as retinol or salicylic acid your under-eyes are may bear the brunt of these actives. The skin under our eyes is thinner, and therefore more sensitive, so it requires specific attention to nourish this area.

I deal with particularly sensitive skin at the corner of my eyes from years of eyeshadow and eyeliner staining my eye area, and so need a cream that really doesn’t aggravate this area.

The first thing I noticed was its thin and efficient applicator head. You get a small string of the lightweight cream so it’s easy enough to manage how much you’re applying – and you don’t need a lot.

Applying three small dots under my eyes, it took a minute to tap the cream into my skin and let it absorb, but aftwerwards, my under-eyes looked instantly hydrated. What the cream does really well at is hydrating skin and protecting the skin barrier.

It’s a no-frills cream that really works to maintain moisture levels.

Shop CeraVe Reparative Eye Cream at lookfantastic, £12

Having blemish-prone skin means that a cleanser is a great way to control excess oils, and the CeraVe Foaming Cleanser is the perfect solution for that. But, when my skin needs a detox, or a cleanse that’s free from foam and something a little more gentle, I leant on this hydrating cleanser.

A thicker, gel formula, it works to really nourish skin. I found that massaging the gel in provided a really gentle cleanse.

Working better on make-up free skin in the morning, it has a really cooling effect on skin. Especially if you’ve been trying stronger skincare regimes with acids and actives.

It’s a reliable, dependable and gentle cleanser that works well a few days a week when my skin needs a break from foam.

Shop CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser at lookfantastic, £9.50

If there are actives in your skincare, including treatments such as tranexamic acid or salicylic acid, it’s important to keep the rest of your routine pretty simple. And that includes arguably one of the most important staples in any routine, your moisturiser.

Night moisturisers are particularly important in our skincare routines, as the skin goes into reparative mode while we sleep. The creams are often thicker, too.

This moisturiser while advertised for use on the body and face, makes for a really great hydrating night moisturiser. It’s pretty thick, but absorbs easier than most night creams into the skin. 

Every time I used this at night, I woke up with hydrated, plump skin (thank you, hyaluronic acid and ceramides).

It’s a go-to barrier moisturiser.

Shop CeraVe Moisturising Lotion at lookfantastic, £15