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Few skincare products achieve true cult status, but Charlotte Tilbury's Magic Cream is one of them. It's the OG backstage darling, the product that started it all for the legendary makeup artist's eponymous brand in 2013.
Originally created to revive dull, tired-looking skin before applying makeup, the moisturizer quickly became a staple in beauty routines all over the world. It lived up to the hype, giving skin the ultimate glow-up while hydrating, plumping, and smoothing.
Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream
Give your skin care routine a VIP reboot with the newly formulated Magic Cream. Charlotte Tilbury's original brainchild has been a staple for over a decade, and the new version builds on the success and benefits of the original.
With innovative ingredients (including the superstar Eternal Jasmine Youth Plant™), this is destined to be your everyday go-to for radiant, plump, baby-soft skin.
They say never to mess with perfection, but Tilbury saw there was room for improvement. That's why the icon has reinvented her legendary formula after over a decade of research.
The new formula truly is 'magic,' with new technology formulated to amplify moisture, strengthen the skin barrier, and enhance the radiant finish fans already love.
We spoke with Tilbury about the inspiration behind the Magic Cream reformulation, the breakthrough ingredient powering the update, and why great makeup still begins with great skin.
In Conversation With Charlotte Tilbury
DailyMail.com: Magic Cream is both a moisturizer and a makeup primer, which is rare to nail in a single formula! How did you protect both of these functions in the reformulation?
Charlotte Tilbury: Darling, honoring everything people loved about my iconic Magic Cream in my new formula was essential. We spent years perfecting the optimal blend, combining skin-conditioning vitamins C and E with nourishing rosehip and camellia oils to give skin an instant visible glow and radiance while improving the appearance of smoothness, firmness and elasticity over time. That's why it became known as a 'miracle' moisturizer.
I wouldn't touch my trusted formula until I found a breakthrough truly capable of supercharging it! I worked with my labs and scientists through hundreds of iterations to ensure loyal customers wouldn't notice a difference in texture, but would see a difference in results.
DailyMail.com: What are the main differences between the original and the new Magic Cream?
Charlotte Tilbury: We have now tripled the power of Magic Cream's Cushion + Lift Mesh Technology™, which creates that cushioning, mesh layer that makes foundation glide on flawlessly.
Now infused with barrier-boosting Ectoin, it helps form a hydration shield that reduces transepidermal water loss and protects against environmental stressors, making it smoother-looking over time. It's still the iconic Magic Cream you know and love - supercharged for our skin concerns today!
DailyMail.com: A decade of research is absolutely incredible. Tell me more about that and the origins of the Eternal Jasmine Youth Plant.
Charlotte Tilbury: Recoverstem™ Peptide is derived from the Eternal Jasmine Youth Plant™, a star jasmine strain found naturally in the Mediterranean. What makes it so special is that we extract the plant stem cells and grow them in a lab using advanced biotechnology.
These plant stem cells are known for their ability to continuously renew themselves. Using a bio-extraction method, we isolated over 100 multi-action peptides from these stem cells and combined them into our incredible ingredient, which is exclusive to Charlotte Tilbury Beauty.
DailyMail.com: How does the Recoverstem Peptide actually work at a skin level, and what is it doing that a conventional peptide moisturizer isn't?
Charlotte Tilbury: Unlike synthetic peptides that often serve only one function, Recoverstem™ Peptide is naturally derived and has the power to transform and recover the look of skin both instantly and over time. It's science so advanced; it performs like magic!
Magic Cream is now clinically proven to reverse 10 visible signs of aging, boosting the appearance of hydration, glow, plumpness, firmness, elasticity and lift while reducing the look of redness, uneven texture, wrinkles and fine lines, and neck lines.
DailyMail.com: When you were testing the new formula, how did you know when it was finally "right" and ready for the world?
Charlotte Tilbury: I have always had a forensic obsession with skincare - and that is why I am so relentless in pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation to create products that truly perform and give people these clinically proven results.
The moment I knew it was ready was when we saw the full breadth of the clinical data from our largest skincare testing to date. In just 28 days, we saw the appearance of wrinkles reduced by up to 24 percent, redness reduced by 51 percent, and glow boosted by 40 percent. By eight weeks, the look of firmness increased by 33 percent*. For a topical cream, those kinds of results are remarkable!
DailyMail.com: You've spent your career enhancing people's faces. What have you learned on this journey about the relationship that people have with their skin, and how did that inspire the new formula?
Charlotte Tilbury: As a makeup artist for 34 years, I've transformed countless faces across red carpets, runways and editorials. And one thing it has taught me is that good skin is the key to confidence.
What makes my Magic Cream so special is not just how it makes you look - it's how it makes you feel. I've learned that confidence doesn't come from obsessing over aging or anti-aging. It comes from supporting your skin barrier, so it looks healthy, radiant and resilient!