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Godfrey’s Guide
Jean Godfrey-June is our beauty director, but her enthusiasms are many.
You know how suddenly everyone you know is whispering about some hot new thing? When I first heard of the Rich
Cream from Augustinus Bader, all of a sudden it was all I was hearing about. And all I was getting beauty
questions about: “Have you heard…?” “Is it as great as people say…?” I had to get ahold of some, and somehow, I did.
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Augustinus Bader
The Rich Cream
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I fell instantly in love with its creaminess (meaning how super moisturizing it is) and the way it sinks in
immediately and plumps up your skin. Then I learned about some of the science behind it—in particular an ingredient
called TFC8 that works, as far as I understand it, as an adaptogen, supporting your skin to take better care of
itself. (The formula also has antioxidants, amino acids, omegas, minerals, vitamins, and all manner of natural oils working
together to coddle your skin into glowy, supple youthfulness.)
That was over a year ago; it turned out the cream didn’t quite pass goop clean standards, so I was unable to share
my enthusiasms here.
Late fall 2020, I got wind of something new happening in the Bader world: The brand (named for the distinguished
Dr. Augustinus Bader, the director and professor of applied stem cell biology and cell technology at the University
of Leipzig in Germany) was reformulating to get rid of the few remaining potentially problematic ingredients in its
products, including my very favorite, The Rich Cream.
I was going away for the weekend to the luxe and COVID-friendly Winvian Farm in Morris, Connecticut. It is
especially luxe and especially COVID-friendly because you stay in your own cottage. Each cottage is unique, and they
are sprinkled around the bucolic property as if they were part of a village; I chose the Woodland one, which is
designed around giant tree trunks and branches and is absolutely fantastical.
I brought my new, improved Rich Cream to the cottage, along with a number of other weekend provisions (traveling
but not flying enables a level of self-indulgence in packing that makes a vacation feel more like a vacation, in my
opinion). The tub, surrounded by tree trunks and a trickling wooden waterfall, overlooks the woods. So I brought the
absolutely best-smelling bath oil ever from Olverum, which is made with Siberian fir needle essential oil (along
with many others, which combine into a scent that transports me to the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, a place I
recommend as highly as the Rich Cream).
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Augustinus Bader
The Rich Cream
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Olverum
Bath Oil
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The Bader comes in a big bottle, with a copper-colored airless pump that feels satisfying in precisely the way the
door of a Mercedes does when it quietly but very solidly slams shut. I set it beside the sink (also made entirely of
wood—like one of those coffee tables in Big Sur, but a sink). The new version felt precisely like the old, and when
I smoothed it on, it felt at least as moisturizing, if not more. A really good, really moisturizing cream makes my
skin look better instantly—almost like makeup, and the Bader super delivers in that department, too.
More indulgences: goop body cream for a little massage. It makes me feel like I’m swathed in cashmere even when
I’m naked. The hair mask from Rahua, because shiny hair that smells incredible makes a person significantly more
irresistible—a laudable goal for a weekend away, no?
And I brought (as I always do, because it’s the most travel-friendly item with the biggest glow payoff on the
planet) my 15% overnight peel pads. Or rather pad, because you need only one once a week. You swipe it on before
bed, in this case after a long, unbelievably delicious dinner alone in our own dining room in front of a roaring fire. (The main structure of
the hotel is an old house, so the dining room is actually many rooms—again, very welcome during COVID times.) We stumbled back to our cottage after a lovely cocktail, which is the perfect moment to do
the peel: A cocktail makes you lazy, so not having to do a full skin routine—you just smooth the pad on over clean
skin—is more than welcome. A cocktail can also make you less likely to wake up glowy and fresh; the peel, for me, is
a hedge against this effect.
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GOOPGENES Nourishing
Repair Body Butter
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Rahua
Omega 9 Hair Mask
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GOOPGLOW 15% Glycolic Acid
Overnight Glow Peel
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I woke up, stared at the giant tree branches that held up the ceiling, and bounded out of my tree-trunk bed. I
washed my face (Tata Harper oil cleanser—nothing better), then smoothed on a layer of the Bader. It felt amazing, of
course, but the combination of peel pad plus Bader is just glow central. It has to be tried to be believed. A
slick of lip balm and I sank back into the fluffy duvet.
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GOOPGENES Clean
Nourishing Lip Balm
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Tata Harper
Nourishing Oil
Cleanser
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Augustinus Bader
The Rich Cream
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