TREAT yourself to an early night and do your skin a favour too, with hard-working intensive overnight treatments.

Skin cell renewal is at its peak at night, which means potent blends do all the hard work and offer a power boost while you close your eyes and get a good night's sleep.

Clarins Super Restorative Night Cream, £73, has been specially developed to target skin suffering from age-related hormonal changes.

Typically, leading up to the menopause, the complexion becomes drier, less plump and more lined. This natural blend particularly focuses on reducing dark spots, skin slackening and wrinkles.

Stimulate cell renewal with Murad Complete Reform, £69, for firmer, brighter and more resilient skin by morning. Use this anti-ageing hero every evening under your night cream.

Then massage in a layer of Murad Essential-C Night Moisture, £57, formulated for environmentally stressed skin and anyone with sun damage. It gets to work ironing out morning creases and shea butter instantly hydrates, leaving skin silky smooth.

Dr Andrew Weil for Origins Mega-Bright dark spot correcting night mask, £48, boosts radiance and evens out skin tone overnight.

The lightweight gel cream contains mulberry, used in traditional Chinese medicine, molasses to brighten skin tone and vitamin C, an antioxidant to fight damaging free radicals.

Described as haute couture for your skin, Anne Semonin Firming Essential Oils Intensive Complex, £70 from www.annesemonin.com, follows the thinking that everyone's skin needs are different.

Choose from one of three intensive complexes - firming, balancing or smoothing - of trace elements blended with essential oils to work deep into the layers of the skin. Just add a few drops to your favourite moisturiser or mask.

Apply Jurlique Rose Moisture Plus Moisture Cream Mask, £32.50, before bed and leave on overnight for an extra hydration boost.

The mineral blend works to provide a light-diffusion effect on the skin, while reviving luminosity.

Don't let your hands give your age away. The skin here ages faster than any other part of the body and because they are always in and out of water we can neglect them.

Try Aveda Hand Relief Night Renewal Serum, £25, to improve the texture and tone skin while you sleep.

It smells amazing, with organic orange, lavendin and eucalyptus, in time dark spots and visible lines should be reduced.

Weleda Oat Replenishing Treatment , £11.50, works like a hair mask. Comb a small amount through hair before bed, and then wash out in the morning for silky, healthy looking locks.