Fab Find of The Week: L'Occitane Immortelle new line-up
This L’Occitane range has been blowing away Beauty Bible testers since the get-go. It blows us away, too, and several of the products are fixtures in our own skincare regimes. Once upon a time, a cornerstone product in the original range – Divine Cream – held the top slot as highest-scoring product we’d ever trialled in the MIRACLE TREATMENT – CREAM category of our Awards.
Jo was promptly invited to visit the organic immortelle harvest in Corsica to make a little film about this distinctively, aromatically-scented product – and we’re not over-blowing our own trumpet to say that the original Divine Cream helped to transform L’Occitane from what was then an albeit much-loved bath and body range, into a skincare powerhouse.
So: it’s big news when a bunch of new launches or tweaked-in-some-way products all land on our desk at the same time, featuring a turbo-charged version of that immortelle ingredient (which is 100% organic and sustainably sourced), now incorporated as a mega-antioxidant ‘super bomb’. It’s not only proven to protect elastin fibres, responsible for the complexion’s ‘bounce-back’ factor), but to reduce pores.
We’re talking a LOT of products, so here’s a skip through what you’ll find in the range – which also has enhanced eco-credentials… What they have in common, meanwhile: a smell we really love, which reminds us of violets, powder, with a touch of wild aromatics, inciting an almost Pavlovian ‘relax’ response, whenever we use it.
Immortelle Precious Emulsion/£55 for 75ml. Normal-to-oily skins can now enjoy the benefits of immortelle with this lightweight, milky hydrator, featuring (among other ingredients) a 5% micro-hyaluronic acid ingredient.
L’Occitane Immortelle Precious Cream/£50 for 50ml. This is a cream that Jo reaches for whenever her skin’s sending out dehydrated cries for help, now featuring a pre-refining extract for radiance (and also available with an SPF20, at £55 for 50ml).
Immortelle Precious Eye Balm/£40 for 15ml. This much-loved gel-cream has been formulated to guard against the effects of blue light from our devices, with caffeine and cornflower extract to target under-eye puffiness.
Immortelle Precious Cleansing Foam/£24 for 150ml. We don’t ritually use foaming cleansers (could we have an immortelle balm cleanser next, please, L’Occitane?) However, this is one of the gentler ones we’ve come across, with that immortelle ‘super-bomb’ and lentil extract, to retexturise and clarify.
L’Occitane Immortelle Precious Essential Water/£22 for 200ml. The final cleansing sweep, divinely-scented with rose water – which also has soothing powers.
And there is also… L’Occitane Overnight Reset Serum/£52 for 30ml, the key age-defying product in the Immortelle range, with refills also now available, priced £65 for 50ml, along with L’Occitane Overnight Reset Eye Serum/£45 for 15ml. Soothing, smoothing, hydrating, the both.
Plus… of course… Immortelle Divine Youth Oil/£80 for 30ml, which scooped a Beauty Bible Award 2022 in the Facial Oils category.
Divine, divine, divine. The lot of them.
£22-55 – buy here
