You know when you’re really, really thirsty and glug a glass of gloriously cold water? (The advice is generally to sip at room temperature,oes anyone’s thirst truly feel slaked by that? Not ours.) Well, this real ‘beauty steal’ from Garnier is the skin equivalent: a cooling gel-cream – that innovative product texture we just love to use – which effectively quenches skin’s thirst, hydrating up to 10 layers of skin and delivering (so we’re promised) 72-hour hydration.

We’re not about to put that claim to the test (who can imagine not cleansing for 72 hours?), but this ‘bouncy-textured’ cream leaves skin feeling truly fresh, plumped up and comfy as heck. There’s vitamin C, antioxidants from pomegranate and amla and lots of moisture-retentive glycerine in there, but ultimately, the skin’s plumptious glow in the morning says it all. (There is, in fact, a day version of this, but we’re less entranced.)

72% of testers agreed that after just one night, skin looked smoother and fresher. And so do we.

Garnier Moisture Bomb Super-Recharging Antioxidant Night Gel-Cream/£7.99 for 50ml at www.boots.com