In this year's Beauty Awards, the skincare categories witnessed an unprecedented level of competition, showcasing a plethora of innovative and transformative products. Our expert panel of judges embarked on an extensive six-week trial, meticulously testing each product to assess their effectiveness, ingredient quality, and user experience. This detailed assessment process led to the creation of a refined list of skincare champions. Ranging from revolutionary serums to luxurious moisturisers, these winning products are distinguished by their exceptional performance and contribution to skincare innovation. Join us as we reveal the standouts in skincare excellence with our round-up of the best skincare in 2023.
IN THIS ARTICLE:
1) Cleanser
2) Toner
3) Day Moisturiser
4) Night Cream
5) Serum
6) Mask
7) Eye Care
8) Sunscreen
9) Skincare Device
10) Targeted Care
11) Oral Supplements
Cleanser
Best Cleanser for Normal Skin
Winner: Molecular Silk Amino Hydrating Cleanser, $62, Allies of Skin
Expertly formulated with silk amino acids and a blend of antioxidants, the Allies of Skin Molecular Silk Amino Hydrating Cleanser gently yet effectively cleanses the skin, removing impurities without stripping it of essential moisture. This luxurious cleanser is enriched with a unique blend of hydrating and soothing ingredients, making it ideal for all skin types, particularly those with sensitive or dry skin. Its ability to maintain the skin's natural pH balance while providing a deep cleanse ensures that the skin is left feeling refreshed, supple, and radiant after each use.
Best Cleanser for Oily Skin
Winner: The Foaming Cleanser, $100, Augustinus Bader
Crafted with a unique blend of botanicals and Augustinus Bader's patented TFC8® technology, this foaming cleanser offers a gentle yet effective cleansing experience, suitable for all skin types. Its formula is designed to not only cleanse but also to help maintain the skin's natural balance, leaving it refreshed and soothed without any feeling of tightness or dryness. Rich in antioxidants and nourishing ingredients, it supports skin rejuvenation and health, making it a luxurious addition to any skincare routine.
Best Cleanser For Dry Skin
Winner: Gentle Cream Cleanser, $53, Glowfully
With its rich milky texture, the Glowfully Gentle Cream Cleanser offers a luxurious cleansing experience. Blending the indulgent properties of Swiss Pinot Noir grape seed, Swiss apple stem cell extract, and a potent antioxidant triple tea complex, its unique formulation ensures thorough yet gentle removal of makeup and impurities, leaving the skin feeling soft, hydrated, and rejuvenated without any dryness. Embodying a commitment to natural skincare, this cleanser is crafted from 99.8 percent natural and organic ingredients; and is free from water, sulphates, parabens, and synthetic fragrances, making it a pure and soothing choice for daily skincare.
Best Cleanser For Combination Skin
Winner: Creamy Milk Cleanser with BHA, $23.90, My Skin Lab
The My Skin Lab Creamy Milk Cleanser with BHA is designed with a luxuriously soft, milky formula that smoothly applies onto the skin. Enriched with BHA (Beta Hydroxy Acid), this gentle yet effective exfoliant delicately removes dead skin cells, blackheads, and impurities, including light makeup, without causing irritation. Its sulfate-free composition ensures the skin is left feeling soft, smooth, and moisturised; making it an ideal choice for those seeking a deep cleanse that maintains skin's natural hydration.
Best Cleanser for Mature Skin
Winner: Super Anti-Aging Cleansing Cream, $175, Dr. Barbara Sturm
Dr. Barbara Sturm's Super Anti-Aging Cleansing Cream, a part of her renowned cleansing line, offers a rich and nourishing formula, making it especially suitable for mature and dry skin types, or for use in colder weather. This advanced cleanser enhances hydration and nourishes the skin with potent anti-aging actives, effectively removing makeup while preserving the skin's delicate pH balance. It also provides anti-pollution protection, helps to remove fine dust particles, and supports the regeneration of the skin barrier; thanks to its blend of mild tensides, glycans, illipe butter, shea butter, apricot kernel oil, ceramides, carbohydrate complex, glycerine, purslane extract, panthenol, vitamin E, sunflower oil, plant amino acids, and hyaluronic acid.
Best Cleanser for Sensitive Skin
Winner: 1.1 Cleanse, $52, EPION Aesthetics
The EPION Aesthetics 1.1 Cleanse is expertly formulated to not only effectively remove the day's impurities but also to enhance skin elasticity and promote cell renewal. Its unique infusion of Alpine plants provides significant lightening benefits, ensuring naturally radiant skin. This cleanser is particularly recommended for sensitive skin, offering a gentle yet thorough cleansing experience that respects the skin's natural balance.
Toner
Best Toner for Normal Skin
Winner: Watermelon Glow PHA+BHA Pore-Tight Toner, $54, Glow Recipe
The Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow PHA + BHA Pore-Tight Toner is a gentle, hydrating skincare solution that effectively minimises the appearance of pores. Its unique formula combines PHA and natural willow bark BHA with watermelon extract, hyaluronic acid, and cactus water, ensuring a smooth, moisturised complexion without stripping the skin. This toner not only offers gentle exfoliation for softer, smoother skin, but also delivers essential vitamins and amino acids, complemented by an herbal scent with a fruity finish due to the inclusion of cactus water and cucumber.
Best Toner for Oily Skin
Winner: Heroine Mandelic & Licorice Superfood Glow Toner, $52, PSA
The PSA Heroine Mandelic & Licorice Superfood Glow Toner is an innovative skincare solution that combines six percent Mandelic and Lactic Acid, Licorice Root, Kombucha, and Pomegranate Extract to gently exfoliate and refine pores, enhancing the skin's natural glow. Its unique formulation includes Centella Asiatica and Niacinamide, which work together to repair the skin barrier, reduce redness, inflammation, and the appearance of pores and fine lines, while ensuring skin protection and improved moisture retention. Additionally, the inclusion of Bisabolol in the toner adds a soothing effect, helping to reduce dryness and blemishes, and enhancing the skin's brightness, making it a comprehensive treatment for a radiant and healthy complexion.
Best Toner for Dry Skin
Winner: U Essence Lotion, $49, ORBIS
The ORBIS U Essence Lotion is an oil-free formula that notably boosts skin moisture levels, utilising Lipidure, which contains twice the moisture capacity of Hyaluronic Acid. This lotion is expertly designed to deeply hydrate the skin, while its Moist Transform Formula leaves a protective moisture veil, ensuring lasting hydration. Ideal for achieving plump, radiant skin, it also strengthens the skin's barrier functions, helping to prevent future skin troubles and maintain a healthy, glowing complexion.
Best Toner for Combination Skin
Winner: Super C Glow Water, $60, Fields of Yarrow
The Fields of Yarrow Super C Glow Water is a refreshing toner that starts the day with a revitalising spritz, immersing dry skin in a rich blend of fruit extracts and an invigorating citrus scent. Infused with menthol, it leaves the skin feeling exceptionally refreshed and hydrated, perfect for a morning routine. Packed with a powerful combination of vitamins C, B3, and E, and further enhanced with niacinamide, this toner not only boosts skin radiance but also aids in minimising pore appearance and regulating oil production, offering versatile application methods for either a quick hydration boost or deeper absorption.
Best Toner for Mature Skin
Editor's Pick: Re-Nutriv Ultimate Lift Regenerating Youth Treatment Lotion, $189, Estée Lauder
Infused with the extraordinary powers of the Himalayan Gentian, a resilient flower known for its ability to thrive in harsh environments, the Estée Lauder Re-Nutriv Ultimate Lift Regenerating Youth Treatment Lotion deeply hydrates and brightens the skin. This luxurious lotion, a part of the Ultimate Lift Regenerating Youth ritual, prepares the skin for the lifting benefits that follow, enhancing its youthful radiance. Dermatologist-tested and non-acnegenic, it is ideal for addressing concerns such as dryness, dehydration, dullness, and uneven skin tone, leaving the skin feeling soft and silky.
[Editor's Note]: After using the Re-Nutriv Ultimate Lift Regenerating Youth Treatment Lotion, my skin feels incredibly hydrated and radiant, and I've noticed a visible improvement in its overall texture and tone.
Best Toner for Sensitive Skin
Winner: SEKKISEI CLEAR WELLNESS Pure Conc, $46, Kosé
The Kosé SEKKISEI CLEAR WELLNESS Pure Conc is a gentle, low-irritation moisturising lotion, expertly designed to hydrate the skin and balance the moisture barrier, resulting in a finer skin texture with less visible pores. Its formula, rich in Asian herbs and other botanical ingredients, nourishes the skin deeply, enhancing its quality and making it more resistant to roughness and environmental stress. Free from alcohol, parabens, mineral oil, fragrance, and colorants, this lotion is suitable for sensitive skin, having undergone dermatological testing to ensure its mildness and effectiveness.
Day Moisturiser
Day Moisturiser for Normal Skin
Winner: Moisture Surge 100H™ Auto-Replenishing Hydrator, $74, Clinique
An oil-free, gel-cream moisturiser that penetrates deeply and lasts an impressive 100 hours, Clinique's Moisture Surge 100H Auto-Replenishing Gel Hydrator is designed to provide soothing hydration instantly. Its unique formula, featuring Aloe Bioferment and HA Complex, creates a moisture reservoir, attracting and retaining hydration, while vitamins C and E offer antioxidant protection. This hydrator, also enriched with activated aloe water and Auto-Replenishing Technology, triggers the skin’s own rehydration system, ensuring resilience against environmental stressors and leaving the skin with a dewy, plump glow.
Day Moisturiser for Oily Skin
Winner: Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Cream Combination to Oily Skin, $62, LANEIGE
This gel-type moisturising cream from LANEIGE is specifically crafted for combination to oily skin, providing fresh moisture without any sticky residue, ideal for maintaining a hydrated feel for up to 48 hours while soothing irritated skin. Its skin-soothing gel formula offers immediate relief from redness and discomfort upon a single application. Additionally, the cream is well-suited for acne-prone skin, melting upon contact with the skin to instantly boost moisture levels and create a lasting, lightweight moisture layer.
Day Moisturiser for Dry Skin
Winner: The Dewy Skin Cream, $118, Tatcha
Tatcha's The Dewy Skin Cream is a rich, nourishing cream that combines the hydrating power of antioxidant-rich Japanese purple rice to achieve a dewy glow full of healthy vitality. It effortlessly absorbs into the skin, intensely replenishing moisture and enhancing the skin's ability to protect against dryness, while a blend of botanical extracts nourishes from within, leaving the skin luminous and glowing. This cream, ideal for dry skin but suitable for normal skin types preferring a richer texture, features a fermentation of Japanese anti-ageing superfoods — green tea, rice, and algae — aiding in replenishing ceramides and providing visibly plump, supple skin.
Day Moisturiser for Combination Skin
Winner: The Moisturising Soft Cream, $625, La Mer
La Mer's The Moisturising Soft Cream offers a new generation of moisture, encapsulating the transformational benefits of the iconic Crème de la Mer in a formula that is rich yet weightless, leaving the skin luminously soft and smooth. It is designed to strengthen the skin's natural protective barrier, soothe redness and irritation, and revitalise the skin, making fine dry lines less visible and restoring natural balance, suitable even for sensitive skin. The cream features the Miracle Broth and Lime Tea Extract, providing soothing and energy-boosting properties to the skin, and its unique Moisturising Spheres deliver deep hydration with a smooth, lightweight texture that penetrates instantly upon application.
Day Moisturiser for Mature Skin
Winner: LumiGlow TXA Brightening Cream, $156, ést.lab
The ést.lab LumiGlow TXA Brightening Cream is a potent skin-brightening formula that targets uneven skin tone, hyperpigmentation, and dark spots, enhancing skin luminosity and radiance. It is powerfully formulated with Tranexamic Acid, which effectively evens out skin tone and lightens dark spots, alongside a blend of natural golden oils, and a mix of Safflower seed oil and Candeia tree oil, which work together to reduce melanin production and brighten the skin. Additionally, this cream is equipped with Anti-Blue Light and Faraday Shield Technology, providing comprehensive protection against photo-ageing and digital ageing by bolstering the skin's defence against oxidative stress from UV rays, blue light, and WiFi radiation, thereby preventing future skin discolouration.
Day Moisturiser for Sensitive Skin
Winner: Balance Care Emulsion, $47.50, d Program
The d Program Balance Care Emulsion is expertly designed to target the three primary concerns of combination skin: visible pores, oiliness, and dryness, making it particularly suitable for sensitive skin. This shine-free moisturiser works effectively to reduce sebum production while simultaneously providing essential moisture to dry areas of the skin, helping to maintain a balanced and healthy-looking complexion. Its unique Smooth Airy Milk Formula, enriched with Shiseido’s proprietary H-Stabilizing A, spreads easily without stickiness, promoting moisture retention and reinforcing skin barrier function for up to eight hours of hydrated skin.
Night Cream
Night Cream for Normal Skin
Winner: The Rich Cream, $440, Augustinus Bader
Augustinus Bader's The Rich Cream is a deeply hydrating and luxurious moisturiser, designed to rejuvenate and restore the skin's appearance. Its advanced formula, enriched with Professor Bader's patented TFC8 technology, aids in the skin's natural renewal processes, promoting a smoother, more youthful complexion. This cream provides intense nourishment, leaving the skin feeling soft, supple, and revitalised with regular use.
Night Cream for Oily Skin
Editor's Choice: Multi-Active Night Cream Normal to Combination Skin, $130, Clarins
This night cream from Clarins features encapsulated Teasel extract that provides targeted revitalising and anti-ageing action precisely where the skin needs it most. Enhanced with Ginger Lily extract, it effectively counters the visible effects of late nights and interrupted sleep, ensuring that skin appears smooth, toned, and well-rested by morning. Its creamy texture seamlessly blends into the skin, offering a nourishing overnight treatment that revitalises the complexion.
Night Cream for Dry Skin
Winner: Hydra-Essentiel [HA²] Night Cream, $96, Clarins
Enriched with hyaluronic acid and organic leaf of life extract, the Clarins Hydra-Essentiel [HA²] Night Cream intensely hydrates and plumps the skin, providing a nourishing overnight treatment. The Hyaluronic Power Complex at the core of its formula enhances the skin's natural self-hydration mechanisms and helps to preserve its moisture reserves. Additionally, the inclusion of plant-based squalane strengthens the hydrolipidic film, and line-filling pearls visibly smooth dehydration wrinkles, while its airy, creamy texture ensures the skin is left radiant upon waking.
Night Cream for Combination Skin
Winner: Bio-Age'Luxe D.N.A Expert Cream, $69.90, Bio-essence
The Bio-essence Bio-Age'Luxe D.N.A Expert Cream is formulated with advanced DN-A science technology, which activates the skin's DNA to enhance collagen production and strengthen skin density, leading to a more youthful appearance. It is specifically designed to reduce facial fats and the appearance of a double chin, contributing to a more defined facial contour.
Night Cream for Mature Skin
Winner: C5 Super Boost Moisturizer, $69, Paula's Choice
The Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Moisturiser is a multi-active vitamin C moisturiser that not only hydrates but also offers anti-ageing benefits, effectively improving skin dullness, enhancing firmness, and strengthening the skin's barrier. Its hero ingredient, vitamin C, is known for its antioxidant properties, brightening the skin tone, visibly firming, and counteracting free-radical damage, while working in synergy with peptides and lipids to bind in moisture for a youthful complexion. Additionally, this lightweight gel-cream formula contains a five percent stabilised vitamin C that lifts dullness, along with hexapeptide-5 and polyglutamic acid, which reinforce the moisture barrier, ensuring long-lasting hydration and an even, radiant skin tone.
Night Cream for Sensitive Skin
Winner: Pure Retinol Skin Refining Perfect Cream, $55, Neuskin
Neuskin's Pure Retinol Skin Refining Perfect Cream expertly blends the age-defying benefits of retinol with the nourishing effects of niacinamide, green tea, and Centella Asiatica, offering a comprehensive approach to smoother, more luminous skin. This innovative cream works to visibly reduce signs of ageing while simultaneously hydrating and calming the skin, making it ideal for a diverse range of skin types. Its carefully crafted formula ensures that users can enjoy a more youthful and vibrant complexion with every application.
Serum
Best Pre-Serum
Winner: The Serum, $390, Clé de Peau Beauté
Clé de Peau Beauté The Serum is designed to awaken Skin Intelligence, activating the source of profound vitality and radiance, and addressing daily skin concerns with its advanced formula. This serum, based on decades of research, utilises the Skin-Empowering Illuminator, an exclusive ingredient developed to enhance the skin's intuitive ability to repair and defend itself, contributing to a radiantly youthful appearance. Featuring a potent blend of red, yellow, and green kelp known for their light-absorbing properties, it stimulates the skin's regenerative powers, melts into the skin upon contact, and primes it for enhanced absorption of subsequent skincare products, resulting in a visibly plumped look and a supple, cushiony texture.
Best Line-Reducing Serum
Winner: DermInfusions Fill + Repair Serum, $123, Dr Dennis Gross
The Dr Dennis Gross DermInfusions Fill + Repair Serum is a rapid-acting solution that operates in three dimensions within the skin, aiming to fill fine lines, firm, and plump. Its MicroCelle Delivery system minimises the size of water molecules, allowing a blend of hyaluronic acid, peptides, niacinamide, and ectoin to penetrate deeply for effective absorption and performance, offering a non-invasive alternative to injectables. This serum not only hydrates the skin and restores the moisture barrier but also adds volume and controls redness, with a complex of four peptides and four weights of hyaluronic acid working to visibly firm, lift, plump, and hydrate the skin, delivering immediate and long-term benefits.
Editor's Choice: The Retinol Serum, $550, Augustinus Bader
Augustinus Bader's The Retinol Serum is expertly crafted to reduce the appearance of deep lines, wrinkles, blemishes, and pigmentation, whilst minimising irritation and redness, thanks to its potent TFC8 technology. This serum combines pure Retinol with TFC8 to not only accelerate cellular turnover for rejuvenated skin but also to optimise the skin microbiome and prevent the overgrowth of unwanted bacteria. Its advanced formula works to reduce acne scars and hyperpigmentation, while locking in moisture, leaving the skin hydrated, radiant, and plump, achieving a more refined and youthful-looking complexion without discomfort.
[Editor's Note]: Retinol is one of the most potent anti-ageing skincare ingredients but some are hesitant to use it as it is also potentially irritating to the skin. No such worry with the Augustinus Bader The Retinol Serum, just healthy skin that looks smoother and more youthful with use.
Best Brightening Serum
Winner: C-Plus, $162, IDS Skincare
IDS Skincare's C-Plus serum stands out with its potent vitamin C formulation, complemented by the Nobel Prize-recognised 'Fullerenes' and Tocopheryl. This combination not only vigorously stimulates collagen production for a wrinkle-free appearance but also significantly brightens the skin. It excels in increasing collagen, reducing fine lines, and offering skin-lightening benefits that even out skin tone and diminish acne scars, thanks to its blend of powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatory ingredients.
Editor's Choice: Re-nutriv Ultimate Diamond Transformative Brilliance Serum, $412, Estée Lauder
Powered by Black Diamond Truffle Extract and youth-sustaining technology, this serum from Estée Lauder's Re-nutriv Ultimate Diamond range enhances skin's firmness and perfects its surface for a more radiant and unforgettable appearance. Clinically tested, it has shown remarkable results in just two weeks, improving skin radiance, evening tone, reducing dark spots, and minimising pores. It also boosts skin's elasticity and firmness, with continued use visibly reducing lines by 21 percent, all while delivering a luxurious, weightless fluid that absorbs quickly, leaving skin feeling plumper and smoother.
Best Firming Serum
Winner: Capture Totale Le Sérum, $250, Dior
Capture Totale Le Sérum by Dior is a pioneering anti-ageing serum that notably improves skin firmness and addresses key signs of ageing, including expression lines, wrinkles, visible pores, unevenness, and loss of elasticity, radiance, firmness, and plumpness. The serum's efficacy is rooted in Dior science, highlighting that skin's mother cells lose anchoring proteins over time, affecting firmness and youthfulness; it counters this with fermented longoza extract to enhance skin firmness. Formulated with 98 percent natural-origin ingredients, it combines fermented longoza extract from Madagascar, iris extract from Tuscany, and hyaluronic acid poly-filler technology, delivering a transformation that intensifies with consistent use, including an instant and lasting plumping effect.
Editor's Choice: Sublimage L'Extrait, $867, CHANEL
SUBLIMAGE L’Extrait by Chanel stands out with its ultra-concentrated formula, combining rejuvenating polyfractioned Vanilla Planifolia and reparative Swertia, a plant native to the Himalayas, chosen for its powerful effects on the skin. This product uniquely blends the potency of an intensive serum with the luxurious feel of an oil, delivering exceptional ingredients in just one drop for comprehensive skin rejuvenation and repair. With each application, skin becomes incredibly supple, soft, and luminous, and with continued use, it appears soothed, repaired, and radiantly glowing, making it suitable even for sensitive skin types.
[Editor's Note]: Even though it has the texture of an oil, this serum absorbs quickly and leaves skin feeling nourished and smooth. When applied at night, skin has an unmistakable glow upon waking up.
Best Hydrating Serum
Winner: Liposome Advanced Repair Serum, $145, Decorté
The Decorté Liposome Advanced Repair Serum features a multilayered capsule composed of biomimetic phospholipid bilayers, which provides intense hydration and high compatibility with the skin. This intensive moisturising serum utilises Liposome Technology to offer sustained hydration, releasing encapsulated moisturising ingredients that recondition and restore dehydrated skin, visibly improving its texture and radiance. It is specifically formulated to reduce the appearance of fine lines caused by dryness, is dermatologically tested, suitable for sensitive skin, non-comedogenic, and has a low stimulus formula, making it a gentle yet effective solution for enhanced skin hydration and health.
Best Acne Control Serum
Winner: Acne Eraser Blemish Treatment, $68, Oh! Hello Bae
Specially formulated for Singapore's hot and humid climate, the Acne Eraser Blemish Treatment by Oh! Hello Bae is a revolutionary serum targeting all forms of acne, from blind pimples to blackheads. Its unique blend of natural ingredients like Willow Bark and Pineapple Extract works effectively to reduce redness, calm inflammation, and promote even skin tone. This lightweight, quick-absorbing gel is free from harsh chemicals like parabens and sulphates, making it a gentle yet powerful ally in achieving clearer, healthier skin.
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Best Resurfacing Serum
Winner: Omni Serum, $116, RE:ERTH
The RE:ERTH Omni Serum is a multi-tasking solution, blending science-driven, nature-derived actives with revolutionary technology to combat rough and dull skin, strengthen the skin barrier, and defend against everyday environmental aggressors. Its unique formula includes the dual Japanese turmeric formula, exclusive to RE:ERTH, harnessing the clear and healthy skin benefits of Japanese White Turmeric and Japanese Spring Turmeric, which improve skin firmness, texture, and help in brightening and lightening hyperpigmentation. Additionally, it contains high-purity Fucoidan extract from Tasmanian seaweed, a sustainably sourced organic extract, which helps maintain the skin's energetic appearance, improve its condition, and balance its microbiome, making it suitable for all skin types and diverse skin concerns.
Editor's Choice: Good Genes All-in-One Lactic Acid Treatment, $195, Sunday Riley
Sunday Riley's Good Genes All-in-One Lactic Acid Treatment is a potent, multi-tasking lactic acid serum that offers rapid exfoliation, enhancing natural radiance while visibly reducing lines, wrinkles, and dark spots. Its high-potency, purified grade lactic acid works to exfoliate dull and pore-clogging dead skin cells, clarifying and revealing a smoother, clearer complexion. Additionally, the serum is infused with skin-brightening licorice, which contributes to the reduction of dark spots and discoloration caused by sun exposure, delivering even-toned, naturally brighter skin and significant plumping of fine lines within just three minutes of application.
[Editor's Note]: A great all-in-one serum if you're looking to brighten and firm skin. Stick to this and you will experience clearer and smoother skin with its gentle yet potent exfoliating prowess.
Best Soothing Serum
Winner: Youth Beam Anti-Ageing Night Serum, $99 for 30ml, Sigi Skin
The Sigi Skin Youth Beam Anti-Ageing Night Serum is an exceptional skin booster, offering instant hydration and relief, nourishing and repairing skin while you sleep for a soft, glowing complexion in the morning. Its unique formulation includes a blend of all three biotics - prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics - which work together to enhance the skin's microbiome, making it more resilient and less sensitive over time. Loaded with antioxidants like reishi mushroom, ginger root extracts, and pine bark extracts, this serum not only hydrates and prevents premature ageing but also helps reduce scar appearance, lighten pigmentation, and slow down collagen breakdown, making it a vital addition to any skincare routine.
Editor's Choice: Advanced Génifique Serum, $143, Lancôme
Lancôme Advanced Génifique Serum, a fundamental step in any skincare routine, is designed to instantly strengthen and repair the skin barrier. Formulated with a blend of pre- and probiotic fractions, Hyaluronic Acid, and Vitamin Cg, this advanced serum enhances skin quality, boosts radiance, and visibly reduces fine lines and wrinkles. The serum, born from 15 years of microbiome science research, contains six billion pre- and probiotic fractions per bottle, and is proven to improve skin on several parameters, including radiance, smoothness, evenness, and firmness, while also locking in moisture for 72 hours and neutralising free radicals.
[Editor's Note]: A cult classic, this serum has undergone many iterations, and the inclusion of pre- and probiotics protects and strengthens skin's microbiome so that it's able to defend against daily aggressors.
Best Anti-Pollution Serum
Winner: Parsley Seed Anti-Oxidant Intense Serum, $119 for 60ml, Aesop
The Aesop Parsley Seed Anti-Oxidant Intense Serum is a powerful serum that offers triple benefits for the skin, including fortification, hydration, and protection against airborne pollutants. Its key ingredients, including Parsley Seed, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), and Red Algae, work in harmony to nourish and shield the skin. This serum not only deeply hydrates but also creates a breathable film on the skin's surface, providing a robust defence against environmental aggressors.
Mask
Best Line-Reducing Mask
Winner: Collagen Boosting Face Mask, $55 for a box of 4, Lavien
The Lavien Collagen Boosting Face Mask is a high-performance sheet mask designed to moisturise, brighten, and provide wrinkle care. Suitable for all skin types, it is particularly beneficial for rough and pigmented complexions, as well as dry, irritated, and wrinkled skin. Each soft cell sheet mask contains 72 percent enriched hydrolysed marine collagen sourced from Italy, effectively delivering the benefits of a whole bottle of essence in just one sheet. With four sheets in each box, this mask offers a deeply nourishing and rejuvenating skin care experience, targeting key concerns for a smoother, more radiant complexion.
Best Anti-Pigmentation Mask
Winner: 7-Day Brightening Rescue Mask, $72.80 for a box of seven, GLOWFULLY
Harnessing the combined strengths of Cucumis Sativus, Arctostaphylos Uva Ursi, and other skin-loving extracts, the Glowfully 7-Day Brightening Rescue Mask offers an effective solution for enhancing skin radiance and reducing pigmentation. Its unique formulation is designed to provide intense hydration and soothing care, making it ideal for sensitive skin types in need of a gentle yet powerful brightening boost. Over a week-long treatment period, this mask not only revitalises the complexion but also ensures a more even, luminous skin tone, thanks to its blend of naturally derived, nurturing ingredients.
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Best Firming Mask
Winner: 10/10 Mask, $58.90 for 100ml, Mirage Miracle
The Mirage Miracle 10/10 Mask is formulated to firm the skin, minimise pores, and remove sebum and dead skin cells, offering noticeable improvements in skin elasticity. Within just 10 minutes of application, it effectively clears away dull surface skin, resulting in visibly smaller pores and a complexion that appears flawless from 10 cm away. Additionally, this mask lifts and rejuvenates the skin, diminishing the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, and leaving the skin glowing, firm, plump, smooth, and hydrated.
Best Hydrating Mask
Winner: A.M Deep Absorption Mask, $100 for a box of five, A.M. Skincare
The A.M. Skincare A.M Deep Absorption Mask is enriched with a blend of PDRN, EGF, polypeptides, and hyaluronic acid, designed to intensely moisturise dry and dehydrated skin. This mask not only accelerates wound repair and boosts skin hydration but also reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, providing the skin with a characteristic 'Korean dewy glow'. Its biocellulose specialty sheet, made from natural organic coconut fibre, is exceptionally effective in improving skin elasticity, preventing premature ageing, and soothing redness and acne, while also deeply hydrating the skin.
Best Acne-Control Mask
Winner: Deepcare Blemish SOS Patch, $38 for a box of 12, Skin Inc
The Skin Inc Deepcare Blemish SOS Patch employs advanced micro-dart technology to infuse a powerful combination of Tea Tree Oil, Salicylic Acid, and Cica directly into blemishes, targeting the root cause and promoting visible skin improvement. This patch effectively interrupts pimple development, working overnight to flatten and reduce inflammation, whilst also providing essential hydration and redness relief. Designed with precision, each patch contains 150 pyramid-shaped microneedles, strategically spaced and with an optimal depth, ensuring deep and effective delivery of the serum for immediate acne care.
Best Resurfacing Mask
Winner: Prime Renewing Pack, $480 for 75ml, Valmont
The Valmont Prime Renewing Pack is celebrated for its swift action in revitalising the skin, effectively diminishing signs of fatigue and ageing, including wrinkles, to reveal a refreshed complexion. Its formula contains Liposome RNA, which energises cellular activity, and a complex of Matrikine peptides that rejuvenate the skin by stimulating cell communication and collagen production, crucial for maintaining youthful firmness. Additionally, the inclusion of Triple DNA in the pack provides exceptional hydration, capable of retaining an impressive 10,000 times its weight in water, ensuring the skin remains deeply moisturised and radiant.
Best Clarifying Mask
Winner: #5 The Mask, $231 for 50ml, RATIONALE
The RATIONALE #5 The Mask works to recalibrate the skin's pH balance using a Complex of Hydroxy Acids, effectively evening out skin tone and texture while unveiling a radiant complexion. It is renowned for its ability to restore clarity, enhance radiance, and improve overall skin comfort. The mask's formula not only boosts radiance and brightness but also contributes to a more even and comfortable skin feel, making it a favoured choice in skincare routines.
Best Soothing Mask
Winner: Floral Recovery Calming Mask, $110 for 100ml, Fresh
The Fresh Floral Recovery Calming Mask is specifically formulated to address sensitivity in the skin, effectively reducing redness, uneven skin tone, and rough texture for a more balanced complexion. Its dermatologist-tested formula combines the calming properties of floral extracts like passionflower, cornflower, cherry blossom, and peony, with the brightening effects of vitamin C and the smoothing benefits of squalane. Passionflower oil hydrates and soothes, peony extract promotes even skin tone, cornflower water refreshes, cherry blossom extract improves texture, and squalane balances, ensuring the skin is left feeling soft, soothed, and evenly toned.
Best Anti-Pollution Mask
Winner: Masque VIP O2, $215 for 100ml, Biologique Recherche
The Biologique Recherche Mask VIP O2 is an ideal choice for dull and lacklustre skin, as it effectively detoxifies by neutralising pollutants and preventing them from reaching skin cells. It also tackles cellular waste accumulated through the oxidation of lipids and proteins, ensuring a thorough cleanse. Additionally, its moisturising properties nourish the skin, countering the effects of urban pollution, resulting in a clearer, more radiant complexion.
Best Overnight Mask
Winner: The Exceptional Chronobiology Sleep Mask, $515 for 8 doses, Noble Panacea
Noble Panacea’s The Exceptional Chronobiology Sleep Mask is a cutting-edge skincare solution that leverages the restorative power of sleep for skin rejuvenation. Infused with advanced OSMV technology, it synchronises with the skin's natural overnight rhythm to enhance regeneration and repair. This luxurious mask promises to transform the skin, delivering firmness, hydration, and a radiant complexion upon awakening.
Editor's Choice: Water Sleeping Mask_EX, $50 for 70ml, LANEIGE
The LANEIGE Water Sleeping Mask_EX is an overnight facial mask that utilises the brand's innovative Sleeping Micro Biome and an enhanced Pro-biotics Complex to strengthen the skin's natural defences, promoting a well-rested, bright, and clear complexion. Its moist gel-type formula, enriched with the excellent moisturiser squalane, offers intensive hydrating care throughout the night without feeling heavy on the skin. Additionally, the mask's comforting scent, hypoallergenic nature, and oil- and pigment-free composition work together to relax the skin, while the sleeping micro biome technology rebalances skin that has been damaged during the day by external factors, leaving it firm and smooth by morning.
[Editor's Note]: This mask has such a lightweight gel texture, it feels really comfortable and cooling on the skin when applied.
Eye Care
Best Under-Eye Mask
Winner: Awakening Eye Gels, $90 for 60 pieces, XLASH
The XLASH Awakening Eye Gels offer a revitalising treatment for the eye area, specifically designed to reduce the appearance of dark circles, brighten the skin, and make it look firmer, while also softening fine lines and wrinkles. The gels are infused with a blend of vitamin C, peach flower extract, niacinamide, and caffeine, working together to even out skin tone and diminish dark circles, resulting in brighter, tighter-looking skin. Utilising advanced Korean hydra-gel technology, these gels ensure a rapid release of active ingredients to the epidermis, perfect for those who need an extra boost in the morning to appear fresh and ready to take on the day.
Best Anti-Ageing Eye Treatment
Winner: Abeille Royale Double R Renew & Repair Eye Serum, $229 for 20ml, Guerlain
Inspired by dermo-cosmetic care, the Guerlain Abeille Royale Double R Renew & Repair Eye Serum brings together two exclusive technologies to illuminate and resculpt the eye area, including the eye contour, eyelids, and eyelashes. It significantly reduces various types of dark circles and puffiness, and smoothes wrinkles and fine lines, while appearing to densify lashes. The serum is formulated with 95 percent naturally-derived ingredients and incorporates a radiance-activating technology with a white honey concentrate and an anti-fatigue complex, alongside a lifting-effect technology that utilises Dynamic Blackbee Repair technology and tensing polyfermented honeys, providing an intense radiance boost, smoothing the eye contour, and delivering a lifted effect.
Best Hydrating Eye Treatment
Winner: The Eye Cream, $305 for 15ml, Augustinus Bader
The Augustinus Bader The Eye Cream is a groundbreaking all-in-one solution that significantly reduces the visible signs of aging, damage, and stress around the delicate eye area. It effectively improves the appearance of under-eye circles, puffiness, dark shadows, fine lines, and wrinkles, while enhancing firmness, hydration, and skin protection, backed by three decades of scientific research and the power of TFC8. This eye cream not only diminishes fine lines and wrinkles and reduces under-eye puffiness but also eliminates dark circles, increases elasticity, nourishes, hydrates, protects against environmental stressors, and boosts overall radiance for a well-rested appearance.
Best Depuffing Eye Treatment
Winner: Skin Caviar Luxe Eye Cream, $660 for 20ml, La Prairie
Designed for the delicate skin around the eyes, this luxurious eye cream from La Prairie penetrates quickly to alleviate dryness and reduce under-eye circles, leaving the area smooth and firm. It lifts and firms the skin, providing support, tightening, and toning, while also effectively diminishing puffiness. The Skin Caviar Luxe Eye Cream's silky texture ensures effortless application, resulting in deeply moisturised lower and upper eyelids and a feeling of unparalleled comfort.
Best Eye Treatment for Dark Circles
Winner: Luminous Glow Real Eye Cream For Face, $29 for 30ml, AHC
The AHC Luminous Glow Real Eye Cream for Face is enriched with antioxidant-rich ingredients, and is clinically proven to brighten skin and reduce wrinkles within 14 days. This dermatologist-tested cream is a versatile two-in-one solution, tackling eight different brightening and anti-ageing concerns for both the eyes and face. Its formula, featuring glutathione, hyaluronic acid, and vitamin C derivatives, uses micro-capsule technology for quick absorption, ensuring effective delivery of active ingredients for a comprehensive, luminous glow.
Sunscreen
Best Sunscreen
Winner: Every. Single Face. SPR-Shield Watery Lotion SPF50, $52 for 50ml, Supergoop!
The Supergoop! Every. Single Face. SPR-Shield Watery Lotion SPF50 is a daily sunscreen offering powerful protection with a refreshing, cooling feel and an undetectable, barely-there finish. Designed to be universal and versatile, it's suitable for all skin types and tones, seamlessly integrating into any skincare routine without leaving a white cast; and its natural, non-greasy finish is ideal for everyone from dry to oily skin. This SPF is packed with effective ingredients such as Cress Sprout Extract to retain hydration and strengthen the skin barrier, Wild Butterfly Ginger Root Extract as a potent antioxidant for blue light protection, and active ingredients like Avobenzone, Homosalate, Octisalate, and Octocrylene for broad-spectrum UV defence.
Editor's Choice: Supreme Screen Hydrating Facial Skinscreen SPF 50+, $52 for 50ml, Ultra Violette
Ideal for normal to dry skin, the Ultra Violette Supreme Screen Hydrating Facial Skinscreen SPF 50+ is an all-in-one product; acting as an SPF 50+ moisturiser, sun protection, and primer, perfect for those seeking a simple yet effective skincare routine. This hydrating, satin-finish moisturiser cream combines high-level SPF protection with a clean scent and a formula that complements your beauty routine without overwhelming it. Its key ingredients include Kakadu Plum, rich in vitamin C and antioxidants for hydration and skin brightening, and Dragosine Plus, offering additional protection against the entire solar spectrum, including infrared, visible light, and blue light from digital screens.
[Editor's Note]: If you want a sunscreen that applies like a moisturiser and feels weightless on skin, this is it. None of the greasiness that's associated with sunscreens.
Best Sunscreen for Sensitive Skin
Winner: #3 The Tinted Serum SPF50+, $197 for 30ml, RATIONALE
The RATIONALE #3 The Tinted Serum SPF50+ is not only effective in providing SPF50+ protection and visibly brightening the skin, it's also suitable for sensitive skin types. Its hydrating formula, enhanced with proprietary Zinc Fusion technology, is gentle on the skin, safeguarding its natural luminosity while imparting a transparent, tinted finish. This serum's blend of high-level sun protection and a subtle tint makes it a great choice for those with sensitive skin looking for a product that enhances their natural complexion without causing irritation.
Best Spray-On Sunscreen
Winner: UV Aqua Protect Mist, $22.10 for 60ml, Biore
The Bioré UV Aqua Rich Aqua Protect Mist SPF50 PA++++ is a non-aerosol sunscreen spray that offers a lightweight, even layer of UV protection with its innovative Aqua Protect Mist Technology. Formulated with hydrating Squalane, it nourishes the skin without leaving a greasy residue, making it suitable for use over makeup. Designed for convenience and safety, it is ideal for travel due to its non-aerosol nature and can be applied easily to both skin and hair, ensuring comprehensive sun protection.
Best Waterproof Sunscreen
Winner: SEKKISEI Clear Wellness UV Sunscreen Essence Gel, $26 for 70g, Kosé
The Kosé SEKKISEI Clear Wellness UV Sunscreen Essence Gel is a hydrating, waterproof UV gel that provides SPF50+ PA++++ protection, ensuring defence against the strongest UV rays and preventing sun-induced dark spots and freckles. Its 70 percent ITOWA formulation serum is designed to deeply moisturise the stratum corneum, enhancing both the quantity and quality of the skin's moisture barrier, making it an ideal solution for maintaining healthy skin without dryness or irritation. This gel not only shields the skin from UV rays but also from dryness and airborne particles, and its smooth, easily spreadable texture doubles as an effective makeup base, remaining resistant to sweat and water yet easily removable with regular facial cleanser or body soap.
Skincare Device
Best Cleansing Device
Winner: LUNA 4 Plus, $668, FOREO
The FOREO Luna 4 Plus is an advanced facial cleansing device that combines clinical-grade anti-ageing treatments, including targeted microcurrent and LED light therapy, to cleanse the skin and address signs of aging simultaneously. It utilises T-Sonic pulsations and bacteria-resistant silicone touchpoints to effectively remove 99 percent of dirt, oil, and makeup residue, and is clinically proven to be 35 times more hygienic than traditional nylon-bristled brushes. This device not only offers a gentle heated cleanse but also helps to smooth fine lines, refine the complexion, and deliver tailored cleansing routines based on skin type and problem areas, making the skin appear tighter, firmer, and brighter.
Best Firming and Lifting Device
Winner: Hyaluronic Acid Microneedle Rolling System, $209, NAIIAN
Transform and rejuvenate your skin at home with the advanced microneedling technology of the NAIIAN Hyaluronic Acid Microneedle Rolling System, which combines a high-potency Cultivated Stem Cell Matrix and DNA Water Serum with high molecular weight hyaluronic acid. The innovative microneedling roller creates micro-channels in the skin, enhancing the absorption of the NAIIAN Growth Factor Matrix + DNA Water Serum for a visibly firmer, smoother, and younger-looking complexion. The unique roll-to-activate dissolving needling tip, concentrated with hyaluronic acid, dissolves upon rolling, releasing its active complex directly into the skin, ensuring maximum efficacy and a glowing complexion.
Best Light Therapy Device
Winner: Tri-Light + Sab AI, $458, Skin Inc
The Skin Inc Tri-Light + Sab AI is a skincare device that offers a unique combination of advanced technologies for an enhanced skincare experience. Utilising Tri-Light™ technology alongside the innovative +SABI AI App, it provides a comprehensive eight-in-one virtual wellness and skin coaching experience. The device integrates Sonic, PEMF (Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field), and Hydro-Sensor technologies with five specific LED lights, enabling tailored routines to target a range of skin concerns. This combination of technologies not only optimises the effectiveness of skincare products but also promotes a brighter, more youthful, and soothed complexion, adapting to the individual needs of your skin.
Best Anti-Acne Device
Winner: ESPADA, $259, FOREO
The FOREO Espada is an FDA-cleared medical device that effectively targets, treats, and helps terminate acne at home, combining blue LED light with T-Sonic pulsations to address acne both before and during breakouts. This non-invasive and pain-free approach is clinically proven to treat and heal acne-prone skin, and also offers rapid results, with 75 percent of users reporting visible improvements after just one use. In addition to fighting acne, pimples, blemishes, and inflammation, the device is made from medical-grade silicone, and has been shown to promote healthier, less irritated skin, with a significant decrease in breakouts and smoother, less oily skin.
Best Brightening Device
Editor's Choice: Lumiglow Smartskin Buddy, $298, ést.lab
The ést.lab Lumiglow Smartskin Buddy is an innovative all-in-one beauty tech facial device that elevates the home spa experience to new heights. This user-friendly device features four preset modes — Cleanse, Firm, Soothe, and Glow — catering to a variety of skincare needs from deep cleansing to addressing specific skin concerns without the need for complicated apps or smartphone pairing. It combines advanced treatments like Galvanic Ion Therapy, Sonic Vibration Therapy, Thermal and Cryo Compress, and a trio of LED lights (Red, Blue, and Green), offering a comprehensive skincare solution that transforms and enhances skin health, suitable for all skin types and even safe for use during pregnancy.
Targeted Care
Best Cleansing Oil
Winner: Soothing Cleansing Oil, $84 for 200ml, Bobbi Brown
This gentle yet potent facial cleansing oil from Bobbi Brown effectively melts away makeup and pollution while deeply nourishing the skin, leaving it soft and luminous for hours. Its unique water-light oil texture is designed to gently dissolve long-wear and waterproof makeup, preserving the skin’s moisture and instantly emulsifying with water to remove pollution and impurities that can lead to breakouts. Enriched with a Nourishing Botanical Oil Complex, this cleansing oil leaves the skin feeling soft, smooth, and glowing, and is gentle enough for use on delicate areas of the face, including the eyes.
Editor's Choice: Ultime8∞ Sublime Beauty Cleansing Oil, $175 for 450ml, shu uemura
The shu uemura Ultime8∞ Sublime Beauty Cleansing Oil, infused with precious Japanese Tsubaki oil, is not only shu uemura's first nutritive cleansing oil but also a luxurious makeup remover that goes beyond cleansing to nourish the skin deeply. Formulated with 75 percent skincare ingredients, including Korean Ginseng, Golden Bamboo, Jojoba Oil, and Olive Oil, it effectively removes impurities and makeup, including long-lasting and waterproof products, without stripping the skin's moisture. This cleansing oil also features Ginger Root Oil, Shea Butter Oil, Corn Oil, and Papaya Extract, which together provide anti-inflammatory, nourishing, hydrating, and exfoliating benefits, making it an essential part of a daily skincare and makeup routine.
[Editor's Note]: The oil offers a luxurious cleansing experience, nourishing skin upon contact with water and melting away tough water-proof makeup.
Best Makeup Remover
Winner: Clean it Zero Cleansing Balm Original, $45 for 180ml, Banila Co
The Banila Co Clean it Zero Cleansing Balm Original is a hypoallergenic cleanser that starts as a sherbet-like texture and transforms into a smooth oil on the skin, designed to remove waterproof makeup and impurities in a single step. Its Zero Balance Technology ensures a deep yet gentle cleanse without stripping the skin of its natural moisture, maintaining hydration even after cleansing. This product, formulated with active botanicals, hot spring water, vitamin E, and vitamin C, not only offers effective cleansing but also nourishes the skin for a healthy complexion, making it an ideal choice for those seeking a moisturising and non-drying cleansing option.
Best Chemical Peel
Winner: Alpha Beta Extra Strength Daily Peel, $151 for 30 pieces, Dr Dennis Gross
The Dr Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Extra Strength Daily Peel is a potent two-step daily treatment designed to deliver clinical results at home, featuring a combination of seven AHA/BHAs (alpha-hydroxy acid/beta-hydroxy acid) to enhance radiance, refine pores, clear breakouts, and smooth lines and wrinkles. The first step of this patented formula exfoliates and rejuvenates the skin with a blend of acids, while the second step provides anti-ageing actives to nourish and balance the skin. This powerful treatment lifts away dead skin, excess oil, and impurities, improving uneven tone and texture, resulting in a smoother, more radiant complexion with reduced fine lines and smaller-looking pores.
Best Hydrating Face Mist
Winner: Beauty Elixir, $75 for 100ml, Caudalie
The Caudalie Beauty Elixir is a cult-favourite skincare mist, crafted with entirely natural ingredients, and known for its multiple benefits, including enhancing complexion glow, tightening pores, and setting makeup. This versatile mist is formulated with hydrating and radiance-boosting green grape and rose essential oils, alongside rosemary and lemon balm essential oils known for their soothing properties. Suitable for all skin types, its fine mist texture is perfect for use throughout the day. The vegan product is housed in environmentally-conscious packaging, ensuring ethical beauty standards.
Best Lash Serum
Winner: XLASH PRO Lash Serum, $145 for 6ml, XLASH
The XLASH PRO Lash Serum, scientifically developed for optimal results, promises to significantly lengthen, thicken, and strengthen lashes within 28 days. Infused with a blend of biotin peptide, green tea, and hyaluronic acid, its formula is designed to stimulate growth while nurturing lash health. Gentle and hypoallergenic, it's ideal for those with sensitive eyes and is compatible with lash extensions, ensuring both safety and efficacy in lash care.
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Best Face Oil
Winner: Marigold & Moringa Night Treatment Oil, $160 for 30ml, Fields of Yarrow
Rejuvenate your skin overnight with the Fields of Yarrow Marigold & Moringa Night Treatment Oil, a luxurious addition to your nightly skincare routine that brings the spa experience to your home, leaving you with a brighter, healthier complexion when you wake up. This potent formula features antioxidant-rich Marigold and Moringa Oil to repair environmental skin damage, while Safflower Oil moisturises, Hibiscus tones and exfoliates, Allantoin soothes and hydrates, and Kombucha aids in skin renewal. The blend of these natural ingredients works synergistically to deeply nourish and rejuvenate the skin, showcasing the transformative power of nature in enhancing skin health and appearance.
Editor's Choice: Aromatic Certified Organic Rosehip Oil, $69.90 for 45ml, Trilogy
The Trilogy Aromatic Certified Organic Rosehip Oil is infused with a natural fragrance of lavender, geranium, and frankincense to offer a soothing and calming experience while providing intense all-over nourishment for skin renewal and radiance. This oil, rich in essential fatty acids, is quickly absorbed into the skin, making it ideal for improving overall skin health and leaving your skin glowing with just a few drops. Its formula comprises vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant for environmental protection, and sunflower seed oil, rich in omega-6, which effectively smooths and restores dry skin, showcasing the oil's ability to rejuvenate and protect the skin naturally.
Most Luxurious Face Cream
Winner: Platinum Rare Haute Rejuvenation Cream, $2,500 for 50ml, La Prairie
The La Prairie Platinum Rare Haute Rejuvenation Cream is an embodiment of luxury skincare, specifically designed to target and rejuvenate multiple layers of the skin. Its advanced formula, featuring the exclusive Platinum Multi-Peptide, refines skin texture, diminishes fine lines and wrinkles, and improves elasticity, thereby restoring the radiance and even tone of youthful skin. This cream, a manifestation of Dr Paul Niehans' pursuit of eternity, is enriched with rare platinum and the Exclusive Cellular Complex, initiating a virtuous loop of rejuvenation within the skin and offering a supreme feeling of comfort and softness.
Oral Supplements
Best Skin Brightening Oral Supplements
Winner: Radiant Baby Face Jell-Oh!, $78 for 15 sachets, Cheryl W
The Radiant Baby Face Jell-oh! from Cheryl W is a skincare supplement that simplifies beauty routines. Packed with nourishing ingredients like fish collagen, cranberry, and elderberry extracts, it's crafted to hydrate and rejuvenate the skin while supporting overall immunity. Ideal for on-the-go lifestyles, this collagen jelly is a convenient and effective way to enhance skin health and radiance.
Best Skin Firming Oral Supplements
Winner: Tense Up, $58 for 50ml x 10 bottles, FANCL
FANCL Tense Up stands at the forefront of skincare innovation, featuring a specialised Tri-Peptide Collagen formula that significantly enhances skin elasticity and resilience. Central to its composition is HTC Collagen, a high-triad collagen known for its superior absorption and efficacy in replenishing the skin's natural collagen levels, thus promoting a more youthful and radiant appearance. With its unique blend of HTC Collagen and essential nutrients, Tense Up not only rejuvenates the skin from within but also holds a Japan patent for its remarkable absorption efficiency, offers a thoughtful approach to skincare, focusing on internal health for external beauty.
Best Sun Care Oral Supplement
Winner: Radiant Good to Glow, $78 x 15 sachets, Cheryl W
The Cheryl W Radiant Good To Glow is an essential skincare product for those seeking not only a radiant complexion but also effective protection against UV rays and the reduction of skin pigmentation. Its unique blend, including tomato essence and plant extracts, not only shields the skin from harmful UV damage but also actively works to reduce melanin production, key in addressing skin pigmentation issues. In addition to enhancing skin brightness and firmness, it offers the added benefits of stimulating collagen production and providing antioxidant protection, making it a comprehensive solution for maintaining healthy, youthful skin.
Best Skin Hydrating Oral Supplement
Editor's Choice: Defencera, $56 for 30 sachets, ORBIS
The ORBIS Defencera is a pioneering oral skincare product from Japan, specifically designed to combat moisture loss from the skin across the entire body. Its advanced formula features highly-purified DF-Ceramides extracted from brown rice, which effectively stimulate the body's natural ceramide production. These ceramides create a robust three-layer barrier, significantly enhancing the skin's ability to retain moisture and offering protection against environmental factors. This product is particularly suitable for individuals with dry skin, providing comprehensive hydration benefits for not just the face, but for the entire body.
[Editor's Note]: The ORBIS Defencera comes in three flavours, all of which are really tasty, so taking it doesn't feel like a chore. Plus, there's no need to mix it in water, making it a handy oral supplement you can take at any time of the day.
Best Hair Care Oral Supplement
Winner: Miriqa Professional Hair Nutrition Supplement, $138 for 60 capsules, Miriqa
Miriqa Professional Hair Nutrition Supplement is a pioneering oral supplement designed to enhance hair health, formulated with a blend of natural ingredients like Saw Palmetto Berries and Tocotrienol. This 100 percent drug-free product promises to not only promote hair growth but also improve hair thickness and strength, catering to both men and women experiencing hair thinning. Backed by clinical research, this supplement offers a convenient and holistic approach to maintaining lush, healthy hair, with just two capsules daily.
The selections made for the Harper’s BAZAAR Singapore Beauty Awards 2023 are the result of extensive and rigorous testing of over 500 entries. Over the course of six weeks, the BAZAAR team, alongside a panel of esteemed experts from the beauty industry, including makeup artist Larry Yeo, aesthetic doctor Dr Rachel Ho, makeup artist Dollei Seah, and beauty insider Michelle Sielman, each brought their unique expertise to the judging process and have meticulously evaluated each product.