Here Are The 10 Best Anti-Ageing Face Creams Under $50
These moisturizers don’t cost a bomb, but still do the job well
By Harper’s Bazaar Singapore Team - published
As much as we enjoy our La Mer, La Prairie and Guerlain face creams – the luxurious textures melt into skin and the sensorial scents just ease away stress – we also think that anti-ageing skincare shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. It’s not about being politically correct. It’s just a fact of the matter that normal women (not beauty insiders, celebrities, influencers, and cash-rich beauty aficionados) would think twice about shelling out a few hundred dollars for a 50ml tub of face cream that’s going to last them about three months. And we’ve been in the industry long enough to know that quality and efficacy doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag, especially with the rise of indie beauty brands. With that in mind, here’s a list of the best anti-ageing face creams under $50 that love both your skin and wallet.
With a blend of TCM herbs such as angelica, wolfberry and ginseng, and the brand’s snail extract, this lightweight face cream deeply hydrates skin while accelerating skin repair and renewal for smoother and more youthful-looking skin.
This classic offering from Clinique helps strengthen skin’s moisture barrier (reportedly by 54 percent) to help your skin better retain moisture so it looks more supple and youthful.
This oil-free moisturiser helps re-energize dull and lacklustre skin (both symptoms of premature skin ageing) with skin-boosting ingredients such as panax ginseng and coffee bean, to restore a youthful glow to skin.
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As skin ages, its barrier functions get disrupted and it loses moisture easily. This lightweight cream has ceramides, a proven-effective ingredient that helps repair and support skin structure to combat ageing effects, as well as shea butter, meadowfoam seed oil and avocado oil to nourish and hydrate skin.
Your skin starts ageing once you hit your 20s, so don’t wait till your mid-30s to start slathering on preventive ageing and anti-ageing creams. This paraben-free gel cream has minerals and a blend of plant extracts, amino acids and ferments to help calm and soothe skin (irritation and inflammation accelerates skin ageing) while boosting its suppleness.
This day cream has niacinamide (a form of vitamin B3), which is said to help improve the production of ceramides in skin, to plump up wrinkles and fine lines and even out skin texture. It also has antioxidant-rich green tea to combat free radical damage which leads to accelerated skin ageing.
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Suitable for dry and sensitive skin types, this moisturiser has antioxidant-rich Lumiphenols, Jowae’s signature ingredient, and red ginseng to help protect skin against free radical damage and rejuvenate skin. It also helps smooth out skin texture and brighten up skin tone for a more youthful-looking glow.
This soft, creamy moisturiser has a blend of ingredients, including adenosine and pro-xylane, to plump up wrinkles and boost the production of collagen, which improves skin density and firmness. There is also a mild exfoliating ingredient that helps smooth out pores and refine skin texture, and encourage cellular turnover for brighter, younger-looking skin.
If you have oily and combination skin and prefer lighter, gel-type moisturisers, this is the anti-ageing face cream for you. It has retinol (vitamin A), which is known for its ability to diminish the appearance of fine lines or wrinkles, and hydrolysed collagen and hyaluronic acid which helps plump and firm up skin.
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Hibiscus extract and ceramides in this lightweight cream help strengthen skin barrier functions, to keep moisture locked in for smoother and plumper-looking skin. The flower extract also encourages skin cell turnover, and is said to prevent elastin breakdown, so skin appears firmer and more supple.