Out of every beauty category, skincare might be the most daunting. We’ve eliminated the guesswork by selecting 27 multitasking all-stars that will streamline—not complicate—your morning and nighttime skin rituals. With just a couple of these in your arsenal, we’re convinced you’ll have the best skin of your life.
- This high-performance eye cream is clinically proven to decrease puffiness, wrinkles, and sagging skin in (wait for it) one week.
- Testing this year’s crop of skin care winners made us feel like we’d accidentally taken The Substance — in a good way.
- Below, take a look at our 2022 Beauty Award Winners in the skincare category.
- “I like a lip balm, but I love a lip serum–especially this chic one from Retrouvé.
- The universal tint erases the potential for a white cast, giving the skin a smooth, glowing base.
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The addition of sodium hyaluronate is what will give you plump, juicy, hydrated AF skin. This serum amplifies the results of traditional retinol by combining it with a powerful antioxidant called malassezin. Together, the all-star ingredients target lines, wrinkles, texture, discoloration, loss of firmness, and more. “This sheet mask is super hydrating and plumping. I usually dry out like the Sahara Desert when I fly, but when I put this on mid-flight, I land looking like a delicious, dewy dumpling.” —N.V.
For starters, senior beauty editor Margaux Anbouba just got a laser treatment for the first time, which meant her skin needed special TLC to get back to its youthful glow. Beauty editor-at-large Arden Fanning Andrews, on the other hand, has found renewed love in Tatcha’s The Silk Sunscreen—its mini version is perfect for summertime travels to reapply sheer mineral UV protection. And if it’s an anti-frizz hair treatment you’re after, I cannot recommend Color Wow’s Dream Coat spray enough. Available in regular, extra strength, and curly-specific variants, each helps keep hair shiny, smooth, and sleek despite what’s on the weather forecast. Low on lather but big on moisture, this calming cream cleanser from Drunk Elephant helps break down makeup and sunscreen without stripping the skin of its natural balance.
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“A classic but still relevant. I love Hydroboost for all skin types and especially for those with mixed and oily skin. It’s light, hydrating, and works well under makeup.” —D.B. It strengthens your barrier, hydrates, boosts skin’s cellular energy, and reduces the look of fine lines in just one night (!). You’ll wake up looking like you’re the kind of person who goes to bed at 8 p.m., eats a balanced diet, gets your daily dose of exercise, and definitely doesn’t spend all night doom-scrolling through TikTok until 3 a.m.
Below, take a look at our 2021 Beauty Award Winners in the skincare category. “There’s hyaluronic acid, and then there’s this Noble Panacea face oil’s proprietary Organic Super Molecular Vessel (OSMV) technology, which enhances delivery by encapsulating HA in a protective molecular vessel for deeper penetration. Alongside squalane, sea fennel extract, and retinol, this silky and fast-absorbing oil supplies a well-rounded dose of hydration, nourishment, and replenishment. Not to mention, the individual, single-dose capsules preserve the potency and ensure each application is the perfect amount.” —L.V. “I may not get nearly as much sleep as I should, but I make sure my skin always looks like I did. This mask is one of those saviors. It cloaks skin in a layer of peptied, hyaluronic acid, polyglutamic acid, and lipids to plump, smooth, and strengthen.” —K.J.B.
- From nostalgic makeup products that blew up on TikTok and sustainable skin-care innovations that reshaped our routines to buzzy launches, 2024 so far has been a playground for our beauty editors to rediscover old formulas—and fall in love with new ones.
- She has 10 years of experience in the editorial industry, having previously written for other industry-leading publications, like Byrdie, InStyle, The Zoe Report, Bustle, and others.
- This do-it-all serum uses peptide-rich plasma, glycolic acid, niacinamide, and hyaluronic acid to target 10 signs of aging.
- This serum amplifies the results of traditional retinol by combining it with a powerful antioxidant called malassezin.
- This one does too, while also protecting it from environmental pollution and preventing signs of aging, thanks to antioxidants and copper PCA.
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A trio of peptides plus 12% hyaluronic acid and skin-soothing adenosine work during your body’s reparative cycle to hydrate, plump, and smooth the complexion — meaning you wake up to visibly dewier, glowier, and more moisturized skin. As much as we love cleansing balms for their ability to get rid of waterproof/sweatproof/lifeproof makeup formulas, we don’t love having to dip our mitts into jars, contaminating the formula with our not-so-clean digits. This genius balm solves that issue with a mechanism that grinds out a fresh portion with just a twist of the top, letting you get the exact amount you need of the gentle, yet powerful formula. It uses camellia sinensis seed oil, grape seed oil, madecassoside, and centella extract to cleanse and condition, soothing redness and irritation as it dissolves even the most hardcore makeup, dirt, and sunscreen. They don’t call Sofie Pavitt the “Acne Whisperer” for nothing, and this genius mask is just another reason why the New York City-based aesthetician is so beloved for keeping her clients’ skin crystal clear.
It’s supercharged with 13 skin-brightening ingredients, nine antioxidants, seven peptides, and an algae complex. Together, they dial up brightness while protecting, firming, and smoothing the skin. This do-it-all serum uses peptide-rich plasma, glycolic acid, niacinamide, and hyaluronic acid to target 10 signs of aging.
With so many red-light masks on the market, it takes a lot to impress us these days. Shark managed to get everyone in the office talking (and clamoring to try) when it debuted this hybrid red-light and cryo-tech face mask. It not only features three wavelengths of clinically tested LED lights — red, infrared, and blue — but also has a built-in under-eye cooling patch with three temperature settings to refresh, depuff, and visibly tighten your under-eye area. This SPF is hydrating enough to be a daily moisturizer and offers broad-spectrum SPF 40 with a lightweight and transparent finish. No wonder it’s recommended by so many derms and estheticians. This serum is chock-full of growth factors and peptides that help repair the skin at a cellular level.
A spritz of this will hydrate, brighten, and gently exfoliate the skin. It’s formulated with PHA, tranexamic acid, and bromelain (enzymes found naturally in pineapple), so it gently and mildly renews dull, textured skin. Make no mistake—this isn’t any old serum-moisturizer hybrid.
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It’s elegant, potent, and keeps our skin bright, happy, and hydrated without having to worry about degradation from the elements. Shea and murumuru seed butters cushion dry lips in moisture, while vegan wax smooths rough skin. It’s shiny, never sticky, and every single flavor begs to be collected.
The toner-soaked pads are convenient to use and feel like a mini facial each time you swipe them across your skin. This 100% mineral sunscreen delivers broad-spectrum SPF 30 with a light, serum-like texture and serum-like ingredients (think niacinamide, snow mushroom, and ceramides). It’s also lightweight, plays well with makeup, and doesn’t leave a white cast. As much as we love vitamin C for its ability to help protect our skin from free-radical damage, we don’t love how delicate an ingredient it is. Too much exposure to air, moisture, or direct sunlight in an unprotected clear bottle, and you’ve got yourself a contaminated formula that’s less effective, especially if you’re working with high doses of it.
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With this hybrid clay mask and exfoliating scrub, Chanel managed to make exfoliating chic by adding the lexatrade brand’s signature camellias into this refining treatment that delivers an airbrush effect to your skin. It leaves you looking smooth and soft while reducing the appearance of shine and large pores, all without irritating sensitive complexions. With celebrity fans galore, we’ve had our eye on the CurrentBody Skin Series 2 LED Mask since it hit the shelves. Its flexible silicone shape, added chin strap, and three clinically proven wavelengths of light make it one of the most scientifically tested masks for reducing wrinkles, boosting collagen production, improving skin plumpness, reducing redness, and evening skin tone. We’re talking juicy jelly masks that brighten even the dullest complexions, moisturizers that help build up your collagen while you sleep, and serums that literally sculpt your cheekbones. We didn’t believe it either, but the results were undeniable.
“Transform your bathroom into a Japanese spa with this mask, which uses Japanese volcanic ash to warm, konjac to gently exfoliate, and Okinawa Kucha clay to absorb excess oil. It’ll leave your skin clean and refined without over-drying.” —K.J.B. Good skincare is practically a religion at this point—it’s personal, it’s intimate, and it helps build community around us. Finding a product that’s efficacious and fun to use makes a difference in our happiness (it really does!). This year, as always, we tried every product that came across our desks to narrow this list down to the formulas that make us feel best (and really work). Below, take a look at our 2022 Beauty Award Winners in the skincare category. Wildfleur innovated a solution to that issue by creating a super-stabilized form of 15% L-ascorbic acid — the most potent form of vitamin C — using a patented technology that features xanthophyll from marigolds.
Best of all, it’s instantly transportive, conjuring a faraway beach paradise—like, say, the Coppola Hideaways resort in Belize, which I’m dying to visit. ‘Til then, a few spritzes of this essence will take me there.” —L.V. Toner pads are still a relatively new concept in the United States, but once you start using them, you’ll wonder why you’ve waited so long to jump on this K-beauty staple. This rose-infused version from Femmue won our testers’ hearts for its instant soothing, hydrating, and refreshing benefits.