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Every year, beauty advent calendars get bigger, glossier, and more extravagant and honestly? Sometimes it can feel a bit excessive. Keeping things refreshingly compact but just as luxurious this year is high-end skincare brand Avant, whose festive countdown has sold out three years running, with 2025’s set to follow suit.
The Avant Wonders Advent Calendar is a 12-day ritual of luxury skincare, with a strong emphasis on botanicals, sustainability, and anti-ageing innovation. While 24 and 25 door calendars are undoubtedly thrilling, they frequently feature similar products, with some containing three cleansers or five lip products. Instead, Avant has crafted a complete skincare journey where nothing feels wasted.
The box itself is really elegant and opens up to reveal 12 drawers inside which almost every item is full-sized, immediately making the £99 investment look generous compared to the claimed £935 value. It works out at £8.25 per item, which is particularly impressive seeing as many of the products are £70-100 to buy individually.
The calendar includes everything from cleansers and exfoliants to masks, serums, and eye care. It’s a well-rounded edit, with a clear focus on hydration, anti-ageing, and radiance. The Hyaluronic Acid theme runs heavily throughout, which will thrill anyone with dry or mature skin.
The star of the calendar is the full-sized Pro-Intense Hyaluronic Acid Illuminating Day Cream, worth £97. This powerful formula is crafted to help smooth fine lines, deeply hydrate, and restore radiance, with 97% of users agreeing their skin looks and feels smoother after use. The Damascan Rose Petals Revitalising Facial Serum feels like a spa treatment at home and is great for soothing stressed skin with the Blue Volcanic Stone Cleansing Gel leans more towards balancing and clarifying.
Here’s everything inside the Avant skincare calendar:
- Pro-Intense Hyaluronic Acid Illuminating Day Cream 50ml
- Damascan Rose Petals Revitalising Facial Serum 30ml
- Blue Volcanic Stone Purifying & Antioxidising Cleansing Gel 50ml
- R.N.A Radical Anti-Ageing & Lifting Duo Moisturiser 50ml
- Hyaluronic Acid Molecular Boost Eye Cream 10ml
- Hyaluron-Filler Lip Plumping Treatment 8.5ml
- Bi-Phase Hyaluronic Acid Rejuvenating Micellar Water 100ml
- Centifolia Rose Radiance Capturing Mask
- Deluxe Hyaluronic Acid Vivifying Face & Eye Night Cream 50ml
- Gentle Rose Beautifying Face Exfoliant 50ml
- Brightening & De-Puffing Hyaluronic Overnight Eye Recovery Mask 15ml
- Pro-Perfecting Collagen Primer Touche Éclat 30ml
The Avant Wonders Advent Calendar 2025 may not be as playful as some of the other calendars on the market, but it is definitely an indulgent one, offering a fantastic amount of skincare for the price. If you love hydrating, anti-ageing formulas and enjoy a more pared-back, ritualistic approach to an advent calendar, this will feel like money well spent.
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