For years and years, my Weleda face cream was my one and only until it finally did me dirty by running out at an inopportune time. I was traveling and I needed a new moisturizer, stat. So, of course, I did what anyone else would do in a beauty pinch, and ran to the drugstore.

I wasn’t sure what I was going to do since my favorite green tube wasn’t sold there, but then I remembered that my skincare-obsessed friend loved La Roche-Posay so much that she took full-size bottles of her essentials abroad last summer. That level of dedication means it must be good, I thought.

And after a few weeks of using the French brand’s Toleriane Double Repair Face Moisturizer , I realized that I, too, would carry jumbo versions of its hydrating goodness across the ocean if I ever had to.

La Roche-Po

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