Winter is upon us, and while one can bask in the warm rays of the sun or by a fireside, mulled wine in hand, there’s also dryness in the air, and pollution at an all-time high. This is the time to really care for one’s skin and hair – the first casualties of dry, cold, wintry days. We bring you an array of products for the face and hair, to keep your skin plump, moisturized, and your hair bouncy and healthy.

Avon Reversalist Serum

Reversing Time
The Anew Reversalist range is formulated with TRI – Elastinex technology that enhances the skin’s ability to renew, regenerate and reconstruct itself and renew skin protein’s layer to replenish elastin, and stimulate healthy collagen. It treats concerns like fine lines, wrinkles, age spots, rough skin texture and uneven skin tone and promises you a virtually wrinkle free skin in just four weeks. With 38 patents worldwide, the Anew Reversalist Bi-Phase Serum from Avon is formulated to activate multiple proteins beyond collagen. It reconstructs skin and renews the eye area’s youthful appearance. It contains 20 percent oil serum and 80 percent water serum, plus high amounts of concentrated vitamins and nutrients that give hydration, brightening or damage-repair benefit. Price: INR 2,000.

Sebastian Professional Dark Oil Hair Styling Oil

Smooth Strands
Add extra smoothness to your hair with Sebastian Professional Dark Oil Hair Styling Oil. This styling oil contains precious, natural oils like cedarwood, sandalwood and argan. It smoothens the cuticle, adds body and disappears into hair. This Sebastian oil provides effortless styling and hair care from roots to tips. Price: INR 999. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in.

Forest Essentials Sandalwood and Saffron Night Treatment Cream

Sweet Dreams
This Forest Essentials Sandalwood and Saffron Night Treatment Cream has an exceptionally high oil content to provide extra nourishment for the skin. It is enriched with high performance herbs, enzymes and hydrators to deliver vital nutrition to the skin. Price: INR 2,695. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

Biotique Argan Oil Hair Mask

Smooth as Silk
Biotique Argan Oil Hair Mask is a special formula to smooth away frizzy hair. It deeply conditions, restores moisture, strengthens hair follicles and promotes healthy growth. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

Kama Ayurveda Bringadi Intensive Hair Treatment Oil

Intensive Potion
This Kama Ayurveda Bringadi Intensive Hair Treatment Oil helps to prevent hair loss, dandruff and premature greying. The secret to Indians’ lush, glossy hair, this traditional Ayurvedic Hair treatment oil recipe consists of potent herbs extracted into pure Sesame oil and Milk. This hair oil is a natural conditioner for lush hair growth that nourishes deeply while cooling the scalp. Price: INR 1,295. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

The Body Shop Lip Juicer - Strawberry, Pomegranate & Aloe

Juicy Lips
With blends of naturally derived extracts and five mouth-watering fragrances, this Body Shop Lip Juicer – Strawberry, Pomegranate and Aloe – will easily glide onto your lips and give your lips a smooth, soft and soothing finish. Price: INR 695. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

THE MAN COMPANY Beard & Mooch Care

Bearded Brawn
Perfect for everyday use, Beard & Mooch Care products from The Man Company are sulphate and paraben free. They soften the beard and help tame frizzy hair in your beard to give you that perfectly groomed, bearded look. Price: INR 711. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

The Moms Co. Natural Age Control Night Cream

Sleeping Beauty
The Moms Co. Natural Age Control Night Cream with the Power of Bakuchiol (an Indian plant used in Ayurveda to combat ageing, without irritating the skin) helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Natural Vitamin E and hyaluronic acid boosts the production of collagen and restores firmness for smoother and radiant-looking skin. Price: INR 638. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

WOW Skin Science Wheat & Soy Amino Acids, Moroccan Argan Oil Hair Mask

Soft Tresses
WOW Skin Science Wheat & Soy Amino Acids, Moroccan Argan Oil Hair Mask for Normal Hair gives the ultimate nourishing care to revive and revitalize tresses. The strengthening and conditioning formulation of this Hair Mask contains ingredients that repair and deep condition hair and scalp. Natural moisturizer and conditioner stimulate the hair follicles while wheat germ oil fights free radicals and provides extra nourishment. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

The Body Shop Hemp Hardworking Hand Protector

Hands on Hemp!
This heavy-duty Hemp Hardworking Hand Protector has been one of The Body Shop’s bestsellers for over 20 years. With hemp seed oil from sustainably sourced from a cooperative of 300 farmers from France, it moisturizes very dry skin for up to 24 hours, so it’s legendary for hardworking hands exposed to the elements. The Body Shop Hemp Hand Protector has become the hero of anyone who works hard with their hands – even if you just like to dabble in gardening, DIY, or carpentry for fun. Every 100ml tube contains 966 hemp seeds. Price: INR 450. The Body Shop Hemp Hydrating & Protecting Shower Oil with 10% Pure Hemp Seed Oil

Shower Power
Now you can get hemp power in your shower. This silky Pure Hemp Seed Oil (sustainably sourced from French farmers) by The Body Shop transforms into a rich lather to quench ultra-dry skin without stripping or drying. It helps protect skin’s natural moisture barrier, and skin hydration is boosted by a third after use. Price: INR 1,595.

Avon True Tri-phase Elixir

Elixir of Youth
Avon’s True Tri-phase Elixir Oil is a revolutionary 3-in-1 elixir formulated with youth antioxidant complex and seed oils for a healthier looking skin. With its moisture-boosting, protecting, and skin strengthening qualities, the new facial oil is three layers of self-love. The three in one formula is made of nourishing oils, smoothening primer, and strengthening serum to retain skin’s natural glow. Price: INR 899.

Perenne Cosmetics-Hydrating Body Lotion

Timeless Beauty
Launched by Ritu Khanna in 2017, Perenne Cosmetics is a clean and natural skincare brand. A fine amalgamation of products that are both safe and effective in making the consumer look and feel beautiful, Perenne is derived from a Spanish word that means ‘ageless’.

The Perenne Hydrating Body Lotion is filled with the wondrous qualities of Vitamin E and Shea Butter that deeply nourishes the skin, making it baby smooth and supple. The hyaluronic acid in its formulation delivers instant and skin hydration and moisturization. Price: INR 750 (200 ml).

Perenne Moisturizing Cream

Bringing the ‘clean’ in beauty
After seven years of research, Ritu Khanna launched Perenne Cosmetics in 2017, inspired by the purity of European skincare products (it’s the first Indian company to use OE – Original Extract – fruit water which is Ecocert and imported from France), she uses only 1 percent of fragrance in her products, botanical extracts and actives from France and Switzerland, and no ingredients like parabens, phthalates, sodium lauryl sulfate, silicones, polyethene and polypropylene (microbeads), metallic aluminium, triclosan, talc, mineral oil, petrolatum, formaldehyde, toluene, and chemical sunscreens! Plus the packaging is from recycled plastics and glass. This Perenne Aqua Restoration Moisturizing Cream with Grapefruit Extract contains Vitamin E and shea butter, is perfect for dry to normal skin, and embodies ‘clean beauty’. Price: INR 799.

Perenne Glow Booster Serum

Sophisticated Serum
Effectively used on both dry and oily skin; consisting of Arbutin, Sophora Flavescens Root Extract, Mulberry Extract, Lavender Oil, Green Tea extract and Gatuline Spotlight – the Perenne Glow Booster Serum replenishes the skin, stripping it of harmful environmental toxins – giving a healthy glow from within. Price: INR 1,750.

MANTRA IMMUNITY KIT

Shore up your Immunity
The Immunity Kit by Mantra Herbal consists of Shikakai and Bhringraj Mild Hair Cleanser, Face Gel Pollution Defense SPF, Natural Handmade Soap, Jasmine and Neem Body Wash, Giloy (Guduchi) Immunity Booster, Vital – Tea Freshness and Energy, and Hand Sanitizer, Neem and Aloe. While these products are not too strong on the skin, they ensure, cleaner and healthier looking skin. Price: INR 1,622.

MANTRA Anantam Gold and Saffron Glowing Face Gel

Gold Glow
The Anantam Gold and Saffron Glowing Face Gel by Mantra with 24 kt Gold is an essential product for a refreshed party look. While the saffron helps cleanse the skin from the outside, the gold flakes help to rejuvenate the skin making it look supple and younger, all brought to you by the Ayurvedic knowledge of the Baidyanath Group. This is a great product to apply for a pre-makeup prep or just in your daily routine of moisturizing. Price: INR 4,500.

pH DEEP MOISTURE SHAMPOO

Italian Luxe
After seven years of international success, Maison D’Auraine, founded by entrepreneur Arpit Jain has just launched their high-end hair care brand, pH (Pure Hair) in India. pH is a dynamic and avant-garde Italian brand crafted using a special bouquet of Floral and plant extracts along with nourishing oils, all produced in Italy. The hair products address major hair concerns like frizzy, dry, damaged, unmanageable, stressed hair, and scalp concerns. The pH Deep Moisture Shampoo is perfect when you want to give your hair that special care during winter. Most people face extreme dryness on their scalps during winter causing flakiness and itching in the scalp. This shampoo will help you maintain the correct pH balance while keeping your hair rejuvenated and healthy. Price: INR 2,350 (250 ml).

pH HYDRATING LEAVE-IN DETANGLER

Tangle Banisher
For dry hair that tends to get frizzy and tangled in the winter, pH’s Hydrating Leave-In Detangler is your go-to product. It instantly detangles and smoothens out the hair, and leaves it smelling like fresh flowers. Price: INR 2,050 (250 ml).

Arata Super Shampoo

Hair Therapy
The Arata Super Shampoo is formulated with revitalizing onion oil, argan oil, and apple cider vinegar, which come together to boost circulation, restore moisture, and prevent hair thinning for a lush, natural look. The shampoo provides a powerhouse of nourishment for regeneration and hair growth, giving you natural therapeutic benefits that prevent hair fall and hair thinning caused by chemical damage. A refreshing combination of extracts to moisturize and repair dry, damaged hair. Price: INR 899. Available on www.arata.in, as well Amazon, Nykaa, and Flipkart.

Arata Face Masque

Masque of the Moment
Infused with jojoba oil, Brazilian blue clay, and blue tansy oil, this potent Arata Face Masque revitalizes the skin. Packed with powerful botanical extracts, this gentle formula evens the skin tone, rejuvenates the face, minimizes pores, and reduces redness for radiant and healthy skin. Created with soothing natural extracts, the formula contains no synthetic ingredients, no chemical additives, and no toxic preservatives. Price: INR 599. Available on Amazon Beauty - Amazon.in

Arata Purfying Face Wash

Matcha Magic
Formulated with purifying matcha green tea, the all-natural Arata Purifying Face Wash contains natural antioxidants that soothe irritated skin and offer a refreshing cleansing experience. The vegan formula is packed with powerful botanical extracts of aloe vera, witch hazel, rose water, and oatmeal to gently soothe and rejuvenate your face – for radiant, healthy skin. Price: INR 675.