The TOP Skincare Products+Devices of 2025 🏆 AWARDS SHOW
- “It doesn't strip the skin. It has a very gentle scent, a lily gentle scent. And so, it's really, really pleasant to use”▶ 1:24
- “It is one of those that will get rid of everything, but doesn't leave you stripped or tight or dry or anything like that”▶ 1:37
- “I also find it to be really good for a one-and-done cleanse in the morning”▶ 1:41
- “I picked it up over and over all year long as um that kind of cleanser that just is so nice to use because of that gentle scent”▶ 1:57
- “Obviously, everybody isn't gonna like fragrance and um so there is that”▶ 2:05
Dieux$34.00- “I love this cleanser so much because it really does clean the skin really, really well. Like probably one of the best cleansers I've ever used as a one-and-one”▶ 2:23
- “If you just spend a little bit of extra time or if you use it twice, you can get everything off of your skin without using a first cleanse”▶ 2:39
- “It doesn't have a fragrance, so that's really nice, too”▶ 2:47
- “If I'm ever experiencing any kind of sensitivity or my skin's not very happy with me, I do forego most fragrance and try to just go really simple, go fragrance-free”▶ 2:49
- “I just find it to be really gentle on the skin, but super duper effective, never tight or dry”▶ 3:09
- “It comes in this giant bottle that is in aluminum packaging. And the brand goes above and beyond for their recycling aluminum”▶ 3:13
- “I have the same bottle that I've had for at least 6 months. I mean, a little bit does go a long way”▶ 3:32
- “It is a woman-owned brand. It's two women founders and I love to support them”▶ 3:44
Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balmshade · Original- “It is a cleansing balm that you put on dry skin and you really work it around. You can use this as a massage medium. It's perfect for doing lymphatic drainage”▶ 4:18
- “The original has eucalyptus in it, and so it definitely has this spa-like feeling when you're using it”▶ 4:47
- “Both of them are so fantastic. They are just a little bit of restbite at the end of the day”▶ 5:14
- “This is one of those that has been a go-to of mine for years and years and years. And nothing has ever been able to truly knock it off its purge”▶ 5:31
- “It is a ritual of mine to use and often when I am testing out something different, I miss my LMS cleansing balm”
Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balmshade · Fig- “I really never thought that anything could knock the original off of its purge, but the fig is right there”▶ 4:09
- “The fig is a very soft scent. It is not overpowering. It's very pleasant. It is also spa-like, but without that eucalyptus kind of mentholy kind of scent to it. It's more of a floral scent, but not in the perfumey way, in this really gentle kind of like a spa kind of way”▶ 4:57
Prequel$22.99- “The Prequel multi-acid toner to me is potent enough for the body, but it is so super affordable and lots of people who have resilient skin find it to be fantastic for their face as well”▶ 6:36
- “It is huge. It comes from a brand that is developed by a dermatologist and I just think it's one of those products that came out that really kind of rocked the skincare world because it is so good and it is so affordable and it has so many uses”▶ 6:47
- “It's a 15% combination of alpha hydroxy acids and it really does a beautiful job of helping to exfoliate body skin and it also does a really good job of helping to lift off surface pigment”▶ 7:05
- “It is crucial for helping to smooth out the skin, helping with crepey skin. It's going to help to encourage new collagen”▶ 7:24
- “Not only is it an amazing product, but it is so affordably priced that I feel so good recommending it to everyone, whether you like bougie stuff or not. This one is good to try at all price points. It is so stinking good”▶ 7:34
- “If you are trying to alleviate crepey skin, if you are trying to get rid of some of the sunspots on your hands and your arms and your decollete, this is such a fantastic product and it is so incredibly affordable that we can all afford to use it on our body”▶ 10:59
Medik8$35.00- “It's going to disrupt your barrier less. And it's also just going to be more gentle in general, but it's going to do a really, really good job of exfoliating those surface dead cells”▶ 8:27
- “It reveals smoother skin, glowier complexion, and all that stuff, but it does it without any irritation”▶ 8:40
- “The other thing about polyhydroxy acids is they don't make you more sensitive to the sun. So it's really something that I leaned on like over the summer”▶ 10:24
- “I'm finding that I'm getting a lot more glow with a lot less irritation by doing that cycle”▶ 10:09
- “This is still one of my all-time favorite devices. It is handheld microcurrent”▶ 12:15
- “She just added eight more programs to her app. The app is free. The programs are free. And basically what you get is you get walked through various programs with her and she shows you exactly what you're doing, why you're doing it”▶ 12:37
- “My favorite new program is definitely the lymphatic drainage”▶ 13:29
- “It is so fantastic for carving out the face because you move fluid”▶ 13:19
- “If you try using microcurrent, any microcurrent to deppuff your face, you will see that it absolutely works”▶ 13:34
- “It just energizes your skin, helps your skin to look a little bit more luminous. It's good for your skin cells, so you end up with healthier skin”▶ 13:48
CurrentBody$469.99- “It is still my favorite LED mask. I loved it last year when they launched it. It's been like a year and a half. There have been more launches of new LED masks since, and nothing has even come close”▶ 14:02
- “The fit is so incredibly comfortable. It goes submental. It has three different wavelengths”▶ 14:16
- “1072 can help with under eye bags, is great for men because it penetrates a little bit deeper”▶ 14:30
- “Just nobody has been able to come close to that as far as I'm concerned”▶ 14:14
- “It is DNA repair enzymes and it is absolutely beautiful. A lightweight serum lotion kind of but disappears into water, soaks right into your skin”▶ 15:16
- “Three DNA repair enzymes and all kinds of great humectants in there to really help to repair damage and I love it”▶ 15:26
- “I love to use it before LED. It is just that and the current body series 2 are like a match made in heaven for me all of 2025”▶ 15:31
Medik8$135.00Crystal Retinal 24shade · 6- “This is a retinaldehyde that I've been using for years”▶ 15:49
- “The Medik8 Crystal Retinal is just the most elegant. It has the best delivery system of any retinaldehyde I've ever used. It actually works”▶ 16:06
- “It has this graduated, um, stairstep system. So you can start with one if you're very, very sensitive and you need to acclimate to the vitamin... Then you can graduate, you get through that bottle and you can move up to three, and then you can move up to six”▶ 16:14
- “You can really work your way up in strength of retinaldehyde in a very, very elegant way that causes zero irritation because you give your skin time to acclimate to the vitamin”▶ 16:19
- “It keeps my skin happy. It keeps me dosed on vitamin A, and I know that I'm building collagen while I'm not destroying my barrier”▶ 17:23
Medik8$95- “It is one of those products that when you use it, you get a little bit of instant gratification. It does have a lot of hydration in there”▶ 18:20
- “They basically made their proteins even smaller, so they can penetrate through our barrier and do a lot of work a little bit deeper”▶ 18:28
- “You get an immediate kind of plumpness to the outer layers of the skin”▶ 18:42
- “I like anytime I put a product on and I immediately feel like my skin looks better”▶ 19:01
- “I feel like this is one of those products that kind of checks a few boxes because you're getting a lot of hydration, you're getting amazing peptides, you're getting growth factors, and so it just checks a lot of boxes and it's beautiful”▶ 18:20
Dr. Whitney Bowe Beauty$130.00- “I have repurchased. I've gone through before they came out with refills. I purchased it and purchased it again. Gone through an entire refill. One of these bottles is empty. Purchased another refill and I have a bottle. I mean, I don't ever want to be without this stuff. I love it so much”▶ 20:04
- “It's one of those products that you put it on and the very first time I put it on, I was like, 'Okay, it's a lot like the medicate where you put it on and you immediately feel like your skin looks so much better.'”
- “The way that she uses it in her product, it really truly does hydrate your skin so super well”▶ 22:04
- “I've been using it long enough now that truly if I did not have it, I would absolutely miss it”▶ 22:15
- “I use it in the morning now and I just think it's beautiful. It plays so well under makeup. Gives you just kind of this refinement to the skin”▶ 22:26
Maelove$47.95- “It is a staple in my PM routine. It is copper peptides. It is four different peptide complexes”▶ 22:44
- “Anytime I have gone through a bottle and then I don't repurchase it right away because I'm going to test something else out. I absolutely miss it”▶ 23:11
- “It is the thing that actually makes it into my travel, you know, skin care because I love it so much”▶ 23:16
- “I love copper peptides in particular because I know that they can help with collagen formation. They can help with elastin protection”▶ 23:21
- “It's hydrating. It's going to help with scar remodeling”▶ 23:33
- “I've been using it for years, and I just really don't like my skin without it”▶ 23:42
- “I do think that it is worth all of the money that I pay for it. I buy it myself and I love it. I replenish it”▶ 24:11
Prequel$24- “You guys, this is possibly my favorite hydrating serum of 2025. It is so gorgeous. It is so affordable and it uses ectoin and polylutamic acid”▶ 25:07
- “Ectoin is something that's known as an extremalite. And basically, it can form like a hydration bubble around our cells and really help to protect them and hydrate them really, really deeply”▶ 25:21
- “Poly glutamic acid is a hctant that is even more hydrating than the beloved hyrolonic acid”▶ 26:01
- “You put it together in a super duper silky affordable serum and it is literally amazing that the packaging looks so high-end, feels high-end, is beautiful and you get this amazing serum”▶ 26:25
- “It's definitely one of the best serums that I've ever tried regardless of price point and it is super duper affordable”▶ 26:40
- “I feel like it feels like a high-end product. It was innovative with the ectoin and then you have the poly glutamic acid. The packaging is absolutely beautiful. The price point can't be beat”▶ 26:01
- “This little under $30 gem is 100% right neck andneck with any of them. Any of them. And I've tried them all”▶ 33:31
Skinfix$69- “It is one of the moisturizers that I like to use at night. I only have a few and it is one of them”▶ 26:53
- “It is kind of a rich balm... And it is a rich cream that beautifully locks in hydration and moisture and is a little bit of an occlusive, but it also is very fortifying and hydrating with that ectoin”▶ 27:14
- “It has so many beautiful ingredients and another one that is on the affordable side and packs a punch. And the ingredient deck is truly beautiful”▶ 27:24
- “It is bakuchiol and it's bakuchiol in a percentage that is studied to actually help our skin get thicker”▶ 28:26
- “Bakuchiol is a plant-based antioxidant that has some effects on the skin that mimic vitamin A. It is not a vitamin A alternative in my personal opinion, but it mimics some of the things that you can get from vitamin A in a really, really gentle way”▶ 28:32
- “It's also super protective and it can be very, very calming to the skin”▶ 28:50
- “There's also a bunch of seaweed extracts in there that are crazy hydrating to the skin”▶ 28:55
- “It also has ceramides, three ceramides. Those are going to help your barrier function”
- “This is one of those creams that is just like mindblowingly good as far as the ingredient deck”
- “The only caveat that I will say is that it has a fragrance. And so I do know that there are going to be people out there who don't care for that. It's kind of a lavender fragrance”▶ 29:39
- “In this it's so gentle and so pleasant. It's not overpowering. It's not like knock you in the face lavender that I actually really like it”▶ 30:17
- “If you don't mind fragrance in your skincare, holy moly, the ingredient deck, the way it's super duper silky, really nice and hydrating, and I definitely do know that that ingredient deck is going to help to thicken skin”
- “It isn't super thick. It's actually kind of a midweight almost like a lotion, but what it has in it is a bunch of nourishing oils”▶ 31:17
- “It has DNA repair enzymes in there and then it has hctants and it has emollient has all of the stuff that is really great for moisturizing your skin, especially at night”▶ 31:25
- “It is definitely a nighttime moisturizer for me”
- “I feel like it's the underdog of the brand. I feel like it's one of those that doesn't get talked about very much”▶ 32:13
- “It layers so beautifully over any kind of retinoid”▶ 32:26
- “Combining up your retinoids with your DNA repair enzymes is absolutely match made in heaven for repairing DNA damage of course, but then also helping to encourage your um skin turnover to speed up and encourage new cells and collagen”▶ 32:33
Regelica$72.00- “It has vitamin C, it has all these hctants, it is an essence form, which I'm always attracted to, and it has a DNA repair enzyme in it”▶ 34:55
- “It has microcus lysate in there, and that is a DNA repair enzyme that does not require light to repair some of our DNA damage”▶ 35:00
- “You can really boost the immunity of your skin”▶ 35:17
- “This particular serum from Regelica is absolutely beautiful. It comes in a really large size, so you can use it on your arms, you can use it on your deck”▶ 35:53
- “I just love it. I think it is absolutely fantastic and it's definitely one of my favorites from 2025”▶ 36:11
- “Vitamin C, hydration, DNA repair enzymes. I mean, honestly, it's like they got the memo and they understood the brief and they got the assignment. All of the things all at once. It's so so good”▶ 38:22
- “The platinum lotion though has also additional ingredients in it that help to brighten the skin that help with hyperpigmentation”▶ 36:48
- “That was the first of the Hyalogy that really um stole my heart basically and I would say that that is probably the best of the nominees of the Forll'ed group”▶ 36:58
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VIOLETTE_FR$64.00- “It is basically like liquid skin care. It is a milky liquid mist”▶ 37:16
- “This one in particular is so beautiful. It uses birch sap which is really helpful for healing the skin, soothing the skin, hydrating the heck out of the skin”▶ 37:27
- “The ingredient deck in here is definitely all about super saturating and hydrating your skin and providing a glow”▶ 37:35
- “I love the actual mister on the product so much. It's just this fine mist that feels so luxurious”▶ 37:45
- “I have it in the full size that I've repurchased. Then I have it in the travel size cuz I love to take it with me”▶ 37:50
- “It is a great refresher if you ever feel like you are extra dry in the middle of the day. It is one of those that you can mist on and you immediately your skin feels more comfortable”▶ 37:59
- “It is a dry skinned person's dream as far as I'm concerned. It is so beautiful”▶ 38:09
Photozyme$48.00- “Photozyme serum 4 was created with Photozyme and me and it was specially made for micro needling and I use it in my micro needling course”▶ 39:18
- “What's really important and what makes it special is what's not in it”▶ 40:20
- “You just need that some sterile saline spray and you have the perfect cocktail for micro needling on a monthly basis”▶ 40:29
- “I think it's perfect. It's perfection for micro needling”▶ 40:43
- “This is a vitamin C that is L-ascorbic acid that I actually can't use on my face. I'm just one of those people that's really, really sensitive to L-ascorbic acid on my face, but on my body, no problem whatsoever”▶ 40:59
- “I use it on my arms, the back of my hands. I use it on my décolleté. I use it on my shoulders even cuz I have some sun damage”▶ 41:35
- “I want the real deal, but using a little 1 oz or something like that just seemed like not a very good idea. Didn't seem efficient. It didn't seem cost effective or anything. So, the 4oz Timeless definitely was a favorite in 2025”▶ 41:50
- “I have seen such great strides in results in my body skin”▶ 42:38
- “I definitely look way less spotted, but it's not just like the spots went away. My skin just looks a lot nicer on my body”▶ 42:53
- “I do chalk that up quite a bit to using straight vitamin C on my body skin every morning. I love it”▶ 43:04
- “This is a retinoid and I absolutely love it because it is affordable. It's over-the-counter. It used to be a prescription, but now it's over the counter”▶ 44:49
- “Using just a tiny tiny tiny bit on the back of the hands and up the forearms and then on the décolleté is something that is going to help to encourage new healthy cells and it's going to help to speed up skin turnover”▶ 44:57
- “It's a pigment inhibitor. So, it's going to help with regulating that pigment at where it is being generated so that we have less spots going forward”▶ 45:24
- “You just have to be a little bit patient and you have to be consistent”▶ 45:31
- “It honestly was such a fantastic launch. I was fortunate enough to get to try out the prototype before they had the finished product. And it has a thousand LEDs on it”▶ 46:50
- “It's almost like a blanket or like a wrap you can use. You can lay under it. You can lay on it. Of course, you can wrap it around you. It's so versatile. You can hang it from the wall and stand in front of it”▶ 47:00
- “It obviously has the studied um wavelengths that we want. It's got the 600's and the 800s that we want. And it's just beautiful. I absolutely love it”▶ 47:14
- “To be able to wrap LED around you like a shaw is absolutely incredible”▶ 47:08
- “I just think that they are a group of women and a few men in there, but a group of women who are absolute wizards that do tons of market research”▶ 47:52
- “I love it because it is so incredibly versatile. It can sit on the stand so you can have a traditional panel, but it also comes off and then it's flexible kind of like saluma or one of those”▶ 48:23
- “You can use it in so many ways because it will bend and then hold that shape”▶ 48:36
- “It of course has the different wavelengths that you want. It's got the 600s and the 800s, but then it also has that 1072, which is a little bit of that deeper wavelength that is going to help to penetrate”▶ 48:39
- “especially good for men, especially good for cold sores, especially good for eye bags”▶ 48:53
- “I just think that it was a very innovative launch from the brand”▶ 49:05
Dr. Rajani$425- “You put it in your mouth, it will treat your gums, which is incredible”▶ 49:40
- “I know how important oral health is for my heart”▶ 49:43
- “You can also use it to whiten your teeth if you um wanted to do that”▶ 50:01
- “It has the external LED at the same time to either treat your lips or treat around your lips or both”▶ 50:06
- “This device actually can be used to pre-treat, treat, and help to mitigate the length of time a cold sore sticks around or to help for the cold sore never to happen in the first place”▶ 50:16
- “It is one of those multifaceted devices”▶ 50:30
- “He knocked it out of the park with this particular device”▶ 50:52
- “In 2025, Biologique Recherche retired their iconic P50, which is an exfoliating lotion with phenol in it”▶ 51:37
- “While it still is a favorite of mine because I stocked up a ton, I recognize that it is gone now”▶ 51:49
- “I'm definitely going to miss the good old P50 1970 because man, it definitely gives a glow like nobody's business”▶ 52:23
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