Posted by Elizabeth, Beauty, Health & Fitness EditorI love summer. I love being outside. I love the sun-drenched afternoons, the light-filled evenings. I love it right up until I find myself standing on a 100-degree subway platform with moisturizer melting off my face. Fortunately, a few months ago I discovered Clarins' new Truly Matte Hydra Matte Lotion ($38), which doesn’t allow my skin to become a glistening mess at the first hint of heat coming off the pavement. I started using it in April and liked that it really did balance the bipolar nature of my skin (part dry, part oily, part sensitive/psycho). But this past weekend, it was put to the test -- the hot subway platform test, that is -- and I emerged shine free.
I also particularly love the new line’s Truly Matte Blemish Control. You get not one but two lipstick-size roll-on sticks in each carton, for $21. Leave one tube at home, and use the other to treat blemishes on the go (while stopped in traffic, at the office, on vacation, or any other time that blemish needs the skin-care equivalent of a talking-to). And like all Clarins products, these natural wonders use effective botanicals in lieu of chemicals ingredients -- making them not just potent treatments, but shining examples, too.
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