Yahoo Lifestyle 9 Medal-Winning Serums, Soaps, and Scents to Stock Up on in Paris
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If you’re pressed to find a French souvenir while you’re in Paris for the Olympics, look no further than the barbershops, salons, and boutiques that uphold the city’s luxe standards. From legacy labels to fresh-faced brands and in-town exclusives, these products will transport you back to the City of Lights while simultaneously helping you look your absolute best. You could do a whole lot worse. Many of them are also available online, but these grounded locales are worth logging the steps—and checking your luggage.
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Les Bains Guerbois 1885 Bains Sulfureux
With past lives as Paris’s best nightclub (in the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s…) and the bathhouse of your favorite Impressionist painters (in the late 19th century), Les Bains has many stories to tell. The fragrance boutique across the street takes its name from that storied history. And with over a dozen stunning scents in stock, you’ll certainly walk out with a French masterpiece in tow. Of these, the 1885 Bains Sulfureux scent—which commemorates the bathhouse that opened in 1885—is the one to get. Its blend of herbaceous rosemary, uplifting orange blossom, and mind-centering resinous and incense notes make it truly renewing and zenlike.
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Horace Anti-Fatigue Under-Eye Patches
Traveling overseas can wreak havoc on your skin, from dehydration to puffy under eyes. You can get ahead of the return-trip jetlag with these fatigue-fighting eye patches from Paris-based Horace. It has 17 boutiques across France and one in London, and we’d suggest stopping into the Marais store in Paris, or even the shop inside the storied Galeries Lafayette. Sure, Horace retails online in the States, too, but nothing beats buying something right from the source, and you can also stock up on other brand favorites, including its skin-quenching hyaluronic acid and panthenol serum, or detoxifying blue-tinged face mask—all to help you put your best face forward for the fashionable French.
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La Roche Posay Anthelios UVMune 400 Solar Cream
American sunscreens can leave a lot to be desired. Fortunately, French versions don’t—and you can get the very best of them by stopping into nearly any pharmacy. La Roch Posay’s Anthelios UVMune 400 contains the world’s newest chemical filter, which protects your skin from even more wavelengths of ultraviolet light. You’re looking at the hydrating formula here, but there are options for people with oily skin, and even versions in tinted and liquid formulas.
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Le Barbière de Paris Beard Mousse
Paris boasts some real world-class barbershops, chief among them is Le Barbière, which has six salons across the city (near Pont Nuif, Gare du Nord, Jardin du Luxembourg, and more). You’d be wise to stock up on its hair- and beard-care supply, too, including this unusually alluring beard mousse, which keeps any grown-out facial hair looking shapely and eye-catching. They’ve also got a terrific beard mask to calm the skin beneath your mane, as well as multiple brushes, combs, and grooming tools to preserve your Le Barbière-approved sculpture.
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Carita Or Rejuvenic La Crème
If you don’t have the time for a beauty treatment or hair styling at Carita’s Maison de Beauté, at least swing by to invest in this replenishing, mineral-dense night balm. It layers on 24-karat gold to firm and brighten skin on contact—as well as to boost radiance long term. You may as well round out your regimen with high-dose Vitamin C ampoules and skin-plumping peptide serum, too—real gold-medal skincare to don with pride.
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Le Labo Paris City Exclusive Vanille 44 EDP
Le Labo has given us some of the absolute best fragrances on planet earth. There’s the ubiquitous Santal 33, for starters, though we’re inclined to endorse the playful Bergamote 22 and stirring Thé Matcha 26 above all else.
But one of the absolute best things the company has done is roll out a series of 16 (and counting) city-exclusive scents, the latest being Mexico City’s Coriandre 39. Each is available only in its respective locale, or online/in all stores for the month of September. So, if you’re in Paris now, get the city’s own Vanille 44 EDP. It’s a sexy, sultry vanilla-bourbon-incense cocktail that casts a spellbinding radius. Even Napoleon would feel two feet taller if he spritzed this stuff on.
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David Mallett Elixir Hair and Scalp Rescue
The legendary globetrotting Aussie stylist David mallett has two salons in Paris, and you can even book a cut with him for €200 (when he’s back from his summer holiday, that is). His team of stylists is also a cut above the rest, should your coif be chuffed and in need of repair. If you don’t have time for a cut, stock up on Mallett’s strand-rescuing serum, which uses oils of broccoli, sweet almond, jojoba, and avocado to restore the scalp’s balance. That’s just one of his signature products—others include a strengthening hair mask, hydrating hair-and-face spritz, and volume-boosting hair tonic.
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Amalthēa Facial Rituals
One product by morning, two by evening—all formulated for your skin’s specific needs. That’s the simplified premise behind these skin rituals from Amalthēa. All of the company’s vessels are refillable and reusable, as well as intentionally gender-neutral. You can stock up on Amalthēa’s facial care and body nourishment goods in its Le Marais boutique, and can get a jump on the products you need with their virtual assessment. Your trio will include some combination of moisturizing and cleansing products based on your skin’s sebum levels and age—likely a cream, oil, and cleanser.
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Marius Fabre Olive Oil Marseille Soap Bar
Soapmaking may be Marseille’s signature, but unless you’re passing through that southwest corner of France, we suggest stocking up on this soap log from legacy label Marius Fabre in Le Marais near the Bastille. The 88-oz. brick has been cauldron-cooked the Marseille way (for 10 days) and is 100 percent vegetable-derived. Cut it into bars with the included wire, then use it for your hands, your face, and your body. You can even shred it and use it in your laundry.
