Nourish, protect, and glow with these essential skincare picks. From serums to masks, these products help your skin look healthy, radiant, and revitalized every day.
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Face Oils
Serums
Moisturizers
Lip care
Face Oils
Rose hip oil has a variety of skin benefits, like anti-inflammatory properties, collagen stimulation, and moisturizing. It’s rich in vitamin A, which can help stimulate collagen and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, as well as fatty a...
The Ordinary 100% Organic Cold-Pressed Rose Hip Seed Oil
It has a lightweight texture that sinks into the skin quickly, leaving it with a silky, soft feel. It provides the most subtle glow that truly looks like an authentic, “glowing from within” look.
Elephant Virgin Marula Luxury Face Oil
If you’re dealing with sensitive or irritated skin, finding a great product that can soothe it and provide hydration is key. The formula gives a gorgeous radiance sans a greasy finish.
Kora Noni Glow Plumping Face Oil
This nighttime oil is formulated with evening primrose oil and a blend of replenishing oils to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and skin texture while also providing moisture and boosting radiance.
Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate Moisturizing Face Oil
Formulated with a blend of prickly pear, acai, squalane, and maqui, it works to combat free radicals, support collagen production and cell renewal, and moisturize the skin.
Youth to the People Superberry Hydrate + Glow Dream Oil
A moisturizer that works for all skin types. Essentially a green smoothie for your face, this lightweight yet ultra-nourishing formula is packed to deliver essential phytonutrients, vitamins, and antioxidants to the skin, while hyaluronic acid helps ...
Superfood Air-Whip Lightweight Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid
Serums
The first of its two namesake ingredients supports collagen production and minimizes the production of sebum, and the latter offers powerful antioxidant protection. It also contains bakuchiol, a plant-based ingredient that provides similar effects to...
Dr. Dennis Gross Advanced Retinol + Ferulic Texture Renewal Serum
It works by basically helping your skin act younger, which is why this formula is ideal for tackling everything from dryness to hyperpigmentation to wrinkles to redness.
The Serum with TFC8®
It really is all you need to apply to your skin in the a.m. First and foremost, you get that important dose of (mineral-based) sun protection. It also imparts a beautiful wash of color. The formula contains hydrating hyaluronic acid and plant-based s...
ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40 Foundation
It combines salicylic acid with niacinamide, which is both anti-inflammatory and boosting radiance, helping to ward off any of the discoloration that can occur after a breakout.
Dermalogica AGE Bright Clearing Serum
A potent blend of AHAs, glycolic acid, and lactic acid target dullness and hyperpigmentation. Collagen peptides aid with discoloration and help repair skin and improving texture.
Complexion Brightening Booster Serum
This fragrance-free formula is specifically calibrated for skin of color to reduce visible dark spots, hyperpigmentation, and post-acne marks with niacinamide. The texture is silky and absorbs easily into skin.
Milk Marvel Dark Spot Serum with Niacinamide and Vitamin C
The formula is ultra-hydrating and excellent under makeup, especially if you're trying to create a dewy, glass skin look.
The Dewy Serum Resurfacing and Plumping Treatment
Moisturizers
The non-comedogenic formula is lightweight—applying it feels like a refreshing splash of water on your face—and effective. It absorbs quickly and doesn't pill or flake.
The Water Cream Oil-Free Pore Minimizing Moisturizer
It comes in a whipped, cloud-like texture that feels like a smooth gel on the skin. It plump up skin without leave a greasy residue, and that makeup glides over the moisturizer with no issue.
Water Drench Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizer
If you have combination or oily skin, this oil-free moisturizer goes on weightless and hydrates skin without a greasy residue. It's full of hyaluronic acid to help skin retain moisture, and contains collagen to restore suppleness.
Weightless Oil-Free Moisturizer
It's expensive, but it's worth it. This face cream is a hard-hitting mix of antioxidants like vitamin E and purslane, skullcap extract, and rich oils that ensure long-lasting hydration.
Face Cream Rich
It’s free of parabens, fragrance, preservatives, and alcohol, common potential irritants, especially for those with sensitive skin. If your skin is easily freaked out and you don't want to take any chances, this is absolutely a lifesaver.
La Roche-Posay Toleriane Dermallergo Moisturizing Cream
It does a great job of moisturizing dry skin, and also leave it looking healthy and glowy. Dab a bit of this cream on the high points of your face to replace a highlighter when you're in a pinch.
Weleda Skin Food Original Ultra-Rich Cream (2.5 fl. oz.)
It features two adaptogens—ashwagandha and schisandra plant extracts—to help support natural collagen and protect against the environmental aggressors that can cause it to break down.
Cosmic Cream™ Collagen Protecting Moisturizer
This lightweight cream is super-affordable, it delivers on its promise to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and add back firmness and elasticity.
Peptide Moisturizer
It delivers serious hydration to the skin barrier with hyaluronic acid and niacinamide, which also helps to fade dark spots. Kalahari melon, aloe, and baobab keep the formula shine-free and help to reduce the appearance of large pores.
It's a super-rich, oil-free gel hybrid that promises to repair your skin's moisture barrier. The blend of Vitamins C and E provides antioxidant protection against daily dehydrators, and it's paraben and phthalate-free.
It comes with an applicator wand and spreads easily without a sticky or greasy feeling. In addition to a slightly glossy sheen, lips feel extra juicy from hydration and supremely soft and supple.
Lip Sleeping Mask Intense Hydration with Vitamin C
I love the smooth, lightweight, easy-to-spread texture. It's delivers instant moisture and hydrated the lips for several hours.
Aqua Bomb Overnight Lip Mask
The thick, nourishing formula went on as smooth as butter. It feel like the softest, smoothest cocoon. Fast-acting formula also could work as a daytime lip balm.
Buttermask Intense Repair Lip Treatment
This exfoliator leave noticeably smoother lips. The formula is hydrating and the moisture remained long after applying it.
The Lip Polish
It was easy to scoop out of the container and had a nice consistency reminiscent of a higher-end product. Leaves the lips smooth, supple, and hydrated.
Burt's Bees 100% Natural Exfoliating Lip Scrub with Honey Crystals, 0.25 oz
This exfoliator tackled dry flakes like a champ and leave soft, supple lips.
Sugar Lip Polish Exfoliator
This is a 100 percent natural formula infused with beeswax (duh) plus vitamin E. Leaves lips hydrated.
It's able to keep lips hydrated for up to 24 hours. It's the perfect option if you don't like wearing lipstick but still want to wear something that adds some color while hydrating.
Dior Addict Lip Glow
One swipe delivers a gorgeous wash of the pink color, though it’s also easily buildable if you want more of a punch of pigment.
Sugar Lip Balm Hydrating Treatment
The velvety texture and long-lasting hydration. The ingredient list is squeaky clean, with plenty of natural moisturizers such as beeswax and olive oil. The clear option is great for lips as well as any other dry areas on face or body.
Olio E Osso Tinted Balms
This boasts a rich, salve-like consistency but comes in an easy to use, mess-free tube. Three hydration heavy-hitters—castor oil, beeswax, and lanolin—do the moisturizing work to soothe and condition chapped lips.
Glossier Balm Dotcom
It contains hyaluronic acid, one of the best hydrating ingredients out there, and plenty of natural oils, so chapped flaked lips don’t stand a chance.
Kosasport LipFuel Hyaluronic Acid Lip Balm
While it starts as more of a solid jelly, it melts into lips quickly, imparting plenty of hydration thanks to cannabis sativa seed oil. It’s choice for anyone who likes swiping balm on from a pot or tin, and also has a rose-like scent.
Just Kinda Bliss Hemp Hydration Lip Jelly
For those who can’t go a day without swiping on their favorite lip color, this pick is choice. Jojoba oil and cocoa butter make for an ultra-creamy base that makes lips feel oh-so-soft.
Hydrating Tinted Daily Lip Balm
It uses plant-based oils and butter for hydration and also happens to be cruelty-, paraben-, and petroleum-free, too. Have the refreshing mint flavor.