Sisley’s Essential Day Care: Fuss-free, all-day, all-year skin regimen

Think of it as the skin’s omnipotent protective armor that shields it from everyday aggressors – the harmful UVA and UVB rays, pollution, stress and, yes, even changes in temperature and air-conditioning. Of course, we’re talking about Sisley’s latest, much-talked-about upmarket skincare product All Day All Year Essential Day Care.

True to its beautiful promise, Sisley’s Essential Day Care protects the skin all day, all year round. According to Sisley’s researchers, only 30 percent of aging is genetic or intrinsic while the bigger 70 percent is extrinsic or controllable. Thus, Sisley has created a wonder day cream that works even while you’re sleeping. It’s the only cream you’ll ever need in your formidable skincare arsenal 24/7.

Exactly How Does It Work?

A breakthrough innovation by Sisley Laboratories, All Day All Year is specially formulated with three successive levels of protection:

• First level – an anti-UV shield that can stop 90 percent of UVA and UVB rays. This exclusive system incorporates UVB and UVA sunscreens. Unlike other UV-blocker formulas, its exclusive filtration system protects for eight consecutive hours without penetrating the epidermis. The result is the skin remains protected from morning to night. And because it is safe, it can be used not only all through the day but throughout the year as well.

• Second level – a shield that traps free radicals, combined with an anti-stress shield. Sisley goes several layers further and arms the skin with the means to strengthen its natural self-defense systems via the following: natural apple skin extract containing high concentrations of antioxidant polyphenols, vitamin E-rich hazelnut oil, soy-derived tocopherol (vitamin E), and white willow extract. Working together, this gung ho army protects the skin cells against its external enemies and helps the skin regain its lost youth.

• Finally, the third level – protection of cell cohesion. To boost the skin’s barrier function, All Day All Year puts the following to work: phytoceramides from rice extract, glycoproteins from natural sesame extract, shea butter, and phytosqualene. The result is that the skin feels nourished and moisturized – yes, all day, all year round.

All told, by giving the skin full, day-long protection, All Day All Year enables the skin cells to focus their dynamic energy solely on the job of regeneration.

Something as awesome as this – too good to be true? – must come with a steep price tag, right?

Right! But, so Dana Wood of Vogue Australia writes, "Having based its entire portfolio of products that push the envelope, Sisley is banking on the notion that its core customers won’t suffer sticker shock when they encounter the new All Day All Year Essential Day Care this February. If they’re smart, said Sisley executives, they’ll work the $330 (yes, you read that right – it costs P14,400 per 1.7 oz, 50 ml bottle at Rustan’s) lighweight day cream into their skincare regimens virtually immediately."

But first, you’ll have to work it into your working girl’s budget.

As soon as you have the budget for it, Sisley urges everyone to go out and buy it. According to Wood, Sisley co-founder Isabelle D’Ornano has made this cool pitch for the product: "Even a woman of 20 can use this. If she can afford a PlayStation, she can afford All Day All Year. It’s a real investment."

Truly, All Day, All Year Essential Day Care is a cream for all. This hardy and hardworking protective bubble for the skin is suitable for all skin types, ages 20 and up.

Of course, if you’re living in a cave, insulated from the rest of the world, you probably don’t need this cream. But for us who live in the concrete jungle where we must battle the elements every day, this dream cream is indeed heaven-sent.

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Sisley products are exclusively available at Rustan’s Makati.