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1. Acure Brightening Facial Scrub multitasks better than the other exfoliants in your medicine cabinet because it clears excess oil, treats breakouts, and leaves skin feeling smooth, supple, and bright (duh). Glow, bb, glow!
2. Skinfood Black Sugar Wash Off Mask is a delicious-smelling crowd favorite that physically but gently exfoliates away blackheads and dead skin cells, while also hydrating your face — and that's thanks to mineral-rich Brazilian black sugar granules! After 10 to 15 minutes, say hello to baby-soft skin!
3. Bioré Deep Cleaning Pore Strips draw a grossly satisfying amount of gunk — blackheads, dirt, and oil, oh my! — out of clogged pores from your nose and forehead. Who needs an expensive round of extractions from a facialist? We're good.
4. The Ordinary "Buffet" is a multi-peptide serum filled to the brim with wonderful, skin-helping ingredients like hyaluronic acid, amino acids, and many other scientifically-backed complexes to help reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and uneven skin texture, while also upping the elasticity of your skin. It's truly a magical lil' bottle that gives major bang for your buck.
5. La Roche-Posay Effaclar Purifying Foaming Gel Cleanser uses Zinc Pidolate to purify skin and target signs of oily skin so you can mattify your face and be on your merry way.
6. Bliss Mighty Marshmallow Bright & Radiant Face Mask feels like you're treating your skin to a legit dessert due to this airy, whipped texture — but the effects on your skin are even better, because marshmallow root extract and olive leaf extract deliver a surge of hydration, smooth uneven skin tone and discoloration for uncover the ~glow~ from deep within.
7. Avarelle Hydrocolloid Acne Patches are almost undetectable and infused with redness-fighting cica, zit-fighting tea tree, and skin-calming calendula oil to stop blemishes from overextending their invitation on your face — just clean the blemish, pop on a patch, and watch the patch absorb pus and deflate the sucker in just a few hours.
8. Garnier SkinActive Micellar Cleansing Water removes any and all makeup — even waterproof mascara, with enough effort — with a few gentle swipes, so you can be lazy and responsible at the same darn time! Well, you should still properly wash your face when you have the time, but this works brilliantly and effectively in a pinch!
9. Thayers Alcohol-Free Rose Petal Witch Hazel keeps oily T-zones and pimples in check, and generally washes out every last bit of pore-clogging dirt from your face — so you are only left with a clean, refreshed face ready for all the moisture-loving essences, serums, and lotions your skin can take!
10. Innisfree Tangerine Brightening & Pore-Refining Cleanser does the legwork in terms of helping exfoliate (very gently, via melting papain-infused capsules), brighten (hello, tangerine peel extract), and purifying your face (hi, kaolin clay).
11. Aztec Secret Indian Healing Clay is a powder-to-paste mask you create by mixing with equal parts of raw apple cider vinegar and/or water — it's basically magical, pimple-healing face sauce with an average 4.4 star rating across over 17,000 AMAZON REVIEWS. ✨
12. Jack Black Intense Therapy Lip Balm keeps your lips buttery soft — no matter how harsh the elements are — and protected with SPF 25, because your pout is subject to sun damage too, ok!
13. CeraVe Moisturizing Cream is a reliable household staple everyone should pretty much stock up on as cold weather approaches, since it helps relieve dry, flaky skin with the help of ceramides to boost your skin's natural barrier and hyaluronic acid to boost your skin's water content. And it's even National Eczema Association–approved!
14. Nip + Fab Glycolic Fix Daily Cleansing Pads tackle breakouts with just a few swipes of their resurfacing abilities, made up of 2.8% glycolic acid, hyaluronic acid, and witch hazel. Exfoliating has never felt easier — both on your skin *and* on your wallet.
15. Cosrx Aloe Soothing Sun Cream fortifies your skin with SPF 50, doesn't dry you out, doesn't feel greasy, soothes irritated skin (I see you, aloe), and sits super well under makeup.
16. Simple Foaming Facial Cleanser is a godsend for sensitive skin because, as the brand name suggests, it doesn't contain harsh ingredients or fluffy scents that cause major irritation — just a ~simple~ clean.
17. Nature Republic Soothing Aloe Vera Gel serves up clear healing goop that relieves any sunburn, rash, itch, scar, or any other "uh-oh" you can imagine — be it your face or body. It's also a super soothing moisturizer, so this tub of aloe vera is basically your multitasking skincare savior.
18. The Inkey List Retinol Serum manages to pack powerful retinol (specifically RetiStar stabilised Retinol 1% and Granactive Retinoid 0.5%) that's released slowly over time, so you experience less irritation (s/o to hydrating squalane for the helping hand), but a more radiant, smoother complexion over time. All of this for a price tag that rings pretty at $10 a pop — sign me up!
19. Elizavecca Milky Piggy Carbonated Bubble Clay Mask temporarily transforms you into a lovable foam creature made up of carbonated water, mud, and charcoal for a satisfying deep clean — bye, dirty pores!!
20. Mario Badescu Facial Sprays are the perfect pick-me-up to toss in your purse or keep at your office desk for a quick spritz of aloe-and-herb-infused hydration. Afternoon slump? Don't know her.
21. SheaMoisture African Black Soap might just be the gentle yet effective cure you've been waiting for to target hormonal acne, eczema, broken capillaries, and all-around sensitive skin — it contains raw shea butter for lots of moisture, while organic oats and aloe deep clean your skin and leave it ready for your other skincare products and/or makeup.
22. Sweet Chef Serum Shots basically transform you into a bona fide skincare mixologist à la the popular K-beauty ~double serum~ method to better target specific skin issues that aren't one-product-fits-all — so, for instance, combining a drop of Beet + Vitamin A (smoothes and refines pores) and Ginger + Vitamin C (reduces hyperpigmentation and helps even skin tone) each is the perfect recipe for ~glass skin~.
23. Bio-Oil Multiuse Skincare Oil remedies scars, stretch marks, uneven skin tone, and dehydrated skin like no other product — it really does it all, and the quick-absorbing formula doesn't feel like you're even applying oil on your bod.
24. Kose Speedy Cleansing Oil understands that you want to crawl into bed ASAP, but also knows you don't want to clog your pores or smear your pillow with makeup and sebum — all you have to do is massage this gentle oil in (how relaxing!) and watch your stubborn makeup melt away.
25. Dr. G Brightening Peeling Gel instantly (and safely!) removes oodles of gunk and dead skin so *all* of your skincare products penetrate deeper into your skin and do their jobs more efficiently. It might look a little unsettling, but it's so worth it.
26. Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel drenches your skin in hydration so your skin stays soft and taut — even underneath a big ol' glob of foundation — instead of dry and flaky.
27. Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque leaves your skin feeling tingly and clean, while also drying up pimples, shrinking enlarged pores, and generally leaving you feeling relaxed as hell.
28. Ultra Sexy Lip Scrub is your inexpensive ticket to the destination of soft, supple, and touchable lips — so soft that you might not be able to stop touching them, and your partner from kissing them. Coconut and sugar exfoliate, while avocado, jojoba, and sweet almond oils lock in long-lasting hydration.
29. Acure The Essentials Argan Oil is the truth when it comes to attaining supple skin on the cheap — it easily gives you the same, if not better, results as expensive serums and night oils. #liquidgold
30. Mario Badescu Drying Lotion stops unwelcome acne and whiteheads before they even have a chance to grow with just a tiny dab of pink magic — aka, salicylic acid, calamine, and other quick-drying ingredients.
31. Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Moisturizer uses its key player, Retinol SA, to give your skin the power of smoothing out its own wrinkles and diminishing the appearance of age spots — no need to shell out for super pricey retinol products when ya' got this.
32. Cosrx Two in One Poreless Power Liquid employs willow bark water 88% and betaine salicylate 0.1% to tighten up any enlargered pores, so once they've been cleared and blackheads have been removed, new ones won't *gasp* pop back up! And it cools your skin's temperature. It's practically a mini facial in a bottle.
33. Aveeno Absolutely Ageless Restorative Night Cream with Antioxidant-Rich Blackberry works overtime to strengthen your skin's natural moisture barrier, and improves overall elasticity/firmness — plus, it's non-greasy, hypoallergenic, and non-comedogenic (no chances of clogged pores, yay!).
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