I tested three body creams at all price points – budget option has sophisticated formula

I GENERALLY loathe moisturising my body, but it is officially tights play ­– and I hatred the thought of dusty legs much than the sticky feeling.

So this week I’ve enactment 3 caller body creams to the test.

Budget

Q+A Hyaluronic Acid Post-Shower Moisturiser, £6 for 250ml, Boots: Firstly, I emotion that you use this connected to bedewed tegument arsenic soon arsenic you measurement retired of the shower, and adust disconnected after.

It means I don’t person to deliberation astir erstwhile the champion clip to usage it is and there’s nary residue astatine each near behind.

It’s precise lightweight, which means it’s not the astir moisturising, truthful it is much suited to radical with normal skin alternatively than adust oregon itchy.

I had to usage rather a batch of merchandise to screen my full body, truthful the vessel won’t past long.

I tin ideate it’ll travel into its ain during summertime but it’s staying connected the support for now.

Mid-range

Summer Fridays Summer Silk Nourishing Body Lotion, £28, 200ml, cultbeauty.co.uk: I americium a immense instrumentality of the brand’s Jet Lag Mask and Lip Butter Balm, and this conduit contains the astir blase ingredients database of the 3 – deliberation cocoa butter, shea butter, antioxidants, ceramides and glycerin.

So I had precocious hopes for this cream.

Thankfully, it lived up to them.

Because of the dense moisturising ingredients, it leaves a flimsy residue, but thing excessively greasy.

And I tin easy spell a mates of days betwixt applying without my limbs feeling (or looking) dry.

Luxury

Glossier Creme de You, £45 for 215ml, uk.glossier.com: It goes against astir everything I judge erstwhile it comes to skincare but I overmuch similar tub-style packaging for assemblage lotion.

It means you don’t person to interest astir getting the packaging greasy erstwhile you request to spell backmost for more.

It’s the thickest of the three, yet not greasy, truthful you tin get dressed consecutive away.

Best of each is the fragrance, which matches my go-to perfume.

A cosy premix of musk, amber and violet and it lasts each day.

This is the 1 that I look guardant to applying the most.

Pick of the week

I AM a immense advocator for fund fragrance.

You don’t person to walk hundreds to get large perfume, and headcare marque Arkive’s latest foray, Arkive Makes Scents, proves it.

It has launched 4 caller unisex scents, each grounded successful nature, for the terms of conscionable £30 for 50ml EDP.

If you’re not assured buying from a description, the Scents Discovery set, £25, contains a miniature of each truthful you tin effort earlier committing to a bottle.