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5 Best Skincare Products Beauty Awards 2019

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Aug 26 2019

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Your official job title may not be Head of Lab at the Stanford Department of Dermatology, but you know skin care, weaving words like "acid mantle" and "moisture barrier" into your everyday conversations and deciphering the ingredients list on the back of your mom's favourite serum at dinner.

We know you're serious about what you smear on your face, and you're not afraid to go down a SkincareAddiction rabbit hole on Reddit to find it, but before you do, consider this: our trusted team of editors road-tested more skincare products than there are skin clinics in New York City to bring you this list of award-winning face cleansers, creams, and treatments. Don't worry, even the strictest of dermatologists would approve.

Don't forget to read up on the rest of our 2019 Power Your Pretty Awards winners – a curated list of beauty products tested by editors, chosen for YOU.

Innisfree Nourishing Cream With Ginger Honey

We're calling Innisfree Nourishing Cream With Ginger Honey ($27) the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" of facial moisturisers. The vat's star ingredients include — you guessed it — ginger and honey, which work simultaneously to soothe and hydrate the skin with impressive prosperity. But the unexpected surprise comes by way of its shea butter base, making for a rich, velvety texture that smears on with ease and leaves behind a protective (but never sticky) layer on the skin. Bonus: It moonlights as a great pre-makeup primer, too.

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Innisfree Nourishing Cream With Ginger Honey
$27
from us.innisfree.com
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SkinCeuticals Glycolic 10 Renew Overnight Cream

There's Hailey Bieber's $500K engagement ring, and then there's your skin after using the SkinCeuticals Glycolic 10 Renew Overnight Cream ($80). It contains a high concentration (as in, a whopping 10 percent) of exfoliating glycolic acid to boost cell turnover without disrupting your pH, which means it's the ideal treatment for someone after that bright, glowier-than-thou effect, but can't seem to shake the image of Samantha Jones after a chemical peel on Sex and the City.

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SkinCeuticals Glycolic 10 Renew Overnight Cream
$80
from skinceuticals.com
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Sunday Riley A+ High-Dose Retinoid Serum

Like a teacher's pet who raises their hand to every question in class, the Sunday Riley A+ High-Dose Retinoid Serum ($85) is ingratiatingly hard-working — and a bit of a show-off (in a good way). The formula is powered by a potent blend of retinol — the rocket fuel of skincare ingredients that can blast away everything from breakouts to hyperpigmentation to fine lines — but counters any potentially harsh side effects with soothing botanicals like algae, white honey, bisabolol, and ginger. As a result, our skin looked clearer and more even in texture, earning itself a final grade of A++.

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Sunday Riley A+ High-Dose Retinoid Serum
$85
from sephora.com
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Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream

Anyone who's ever ruined an omelette knows it's not just the ingredients that make a meal. It's everything else — the smell! The texture! The way it looks perched on the shelf in your home — that adds to its appeal. So while it's easy to love the Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream ($68) for its antioxidant-rich Japanese purple rice bran, skin-softening algae, and moisturising amino acids, we're convinced it's the featherweight consistency and impossibly smooth aftereffects that have catapulted this cream to "Top Chef-of-beauty" status.

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Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream
$68
from sephora.com
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Don't forget to read up on the rest of our 2019 Power Your Pretty Awards winners – a curated list of beauty products tested by editors, chosen for YOU.

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