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Beauty Beat: Top Skincare Products

By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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The Skin You’re In

It’s a new year, time to put your best face forward! Streamline your beauty regimen with these complexion perfecting products, each guaranteed to give your skin a healthy, radiant glow.

Beauty Beat: Top Skincare Products
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Philosophy Moisture Collection

This moisture-drenched collection comes with creams for hands, eyes and lips that moisturize while providing gentle exfoliation for rough patches and flakes ($32, sephora.com).

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L’Occitane Hand Cream Confections

This fancy kit includes twelve Shea Butter Hand Creams in Cherry Blossom, Cocoa Flower, Hibiscus Flower, Lavender, Shea Vanilla, Verbena, and more. ($98, usa.loccitane.com)

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Clinique Super Defense Age Defense Moisturizer

This luscious daily moisturizer fights the effects of emotional and environmental stress, while hydrating and leaving skin supple and flake-free ($46, amazon.com).

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Murad Soothing Skin, Lip and Cuticle Care

This vitamin E-infused, ultra-healing salve instantly relieves dry, chapped lips, skin and cuticles. We’re obsessed with this multi-tasking wand! ($15, beauty.com)

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Soap & Glory Hand Food

This decadent hand cream softens and moisturizes with a blend of shea butter, macadamia oil, and marshmallow. ($10, sephora.com).

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Bliss Winter Wonder Hands Spa Set

This no-messing-around, dry-hands-curing set comes with a pair of glamour gloves and a high intensity hand cream for seriously dry mitts ($54, blissworld.com).

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First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream

A prescription-grade, deeply emollient cream has the most luscious, whipped texture, ever — you’ll want to slather it on every inch of your body! ($28, sephora.com)

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Olay Ultra Moisture Lotion

With continued use of this skin-softening miracle worker, your skin becomes softer, more smooth, and resistant to dryness. And the price is to die for ($7, drugstore.com)!

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Olay Professional Pro-X Advanced Cleansing System

This genius hand-held device comes with 2-speed, rotating bristles that ensures deep cleansing and exfoliation ($27.99, amazon.com).

Beauty Beat: Top Skincare Products
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Philosophy Help Me Nighttime Treatment

Blended with retinol, this treatment helps diminish large pores, fine lines, and droopy skin…all while you sleep ($38, qvc.com)!

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Carol’s Daughter Bring in the Moisture Gentle Face Wash

This hydrating cleanser contains willowbark extract to clear troubled skin and ylang ylang and patchouli to fight aging ($20, macys.com).

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Kiehls Ultra Facial Cream Kit

This dry skin-combating kit comes with the three essentials you need to moisturize winter skin: Ultra Facial Toner, Ultra Facial Cleanser, and Ultra Facial Cream ($24.50, kiehls.com).

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L’Oreal Skin Expertise Collagen Eye Correction System

This fancy little wand vibrates to gently deliver a brightening, collagen-rich cream to the eye area ($19.99, drugstore.com).

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Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20

Need the coverage of a foundation with the hydration of a moisturizer? This tinted moisturizer evens out skin tone and leaves skin feeling smooth and supple ($42, sephora.com).

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Original Skin

Biore Makeup Removing Towelettes with Green Tea ($7.99, drugstore.com) gets skin squeaky-clean while also removing all your makeup with one swipe—including mascara. We’re obsessed!

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Origins Brighter By Nature Skin Tone Correcting Serum

This must-have serum helps even out hyperpigmentation with a skin-illuminating blend of basil leaf, cucumber, peony and vitamin C ($39.50, origins.com).

Beauty Beat: Top Skincare Products