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Growing up, I often heard people comment that my mom looked younger than her age. While genetics certainly play a role in her graceful aging, so does her skincare routine. Naturally, as I got older and started establishing my own beauty regimens, I turned to my mom for recommendations and was surprised to learn that one of her secrets is an affordable drugstore cream. Recently, she mentioned to me that she’d been using Olay’s Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream on and off for the past ten years. She first started using the product to soothe her dry skin. Then, a few years ago, she rediscovered the moisturizer, which had since been reformulated, and decided to give it another try. “It works as well as some other more expensive similar products,” she told me. Unsurprisingly, I rushed to try it.
The first thing I noticed about this face cream—which is priced under $30 —is its thick consistency compared to similar products I’ve tried. It goes on smoothly and feels refreshing on my skin. After using it a few times, I realized that it also gives my face an instant firming effect. It also seems to fill in fine lines and blur the look of texture, so I decided to incorporate the Micro-Sculpting Cream into my morning skincare routine in place of my typical primer, and I haven’t gone back to it ever since.