With access to the best aestheticians, dermatologists and facialists in the world, celebrity beauty routines rarely come cheap. From Pamela Anderson’s go-to lip balm to Sienna Miller’s favourite face cream, the expectation is that these are products shaped (and signed off) by the industry’s most in-demand experts.
Which is why Dame Joanna Lumley’s loyalty to Astral has always stood apart. The famously no-frills moisturiser – one she once described as ‘cheap as chips’ – is about as unfussy as it gets. A cult classic, Astral is a fragrance-free barrier cream powered by lanolin, designed to seal in moisture and protect the skin. It’s effective, certainly. But it’s not the full picture.
