Best Skincare of 2025 | Dermatologist-Approved Products I Recommend to Patients (Beyond My Brand)
Peter Thomas Roth$35.00- “This one is one of my favorite exfoliants because it has glycolic acid at 30% in every single individual swab”▶ 1:32
- “It is very, very strong”
- “It is also not a chemical peel for those of you who are beginners or who are very very sensitive”▶ 1:47
- “This is one that mimics an in-office chemical peel and is probably the closest thing you're going to get to at home because at 30% you are going to get smoother results”▶ 1:53
- “You're going to get brightening but it can be quite aggressive”▶ 2:03
- “Make sure you have Vaseline and Aquaphor nearby”▶ 2:06
- “The Clarins double serum is a very interesting dual-phase serum that has two chambers, a water soluble chamber and an oil soluble chamber”▶ 2:45
- “You're going to get double the benefit of this oil and water serum texture”▶ 3:08
- “It is especially great for the neck or areas where your skin has lost firmness”▶ 3:12
- “You will start to feel firmer over time”▶ 3:16
- “It is extremely nourishing without feeling greasy or overpowering”▶ 3:25
- “It also helps to neutralize environmental and lifestyle aggressors as well, which improves your overall skin glow”▶ 3:27
- “I am obsessed with it. I've been obsessed with it from day one”▶ 3:37
- “It has a light scent to it and that's really what drew me in”▶ 3:40
- “As I've gotten older, I really do like that firming effect”▶ 3:42
Dr. Idriss$32.95Major Fade Disco Block SPF 50shade · SPF 50- “At SPF 50, this is a real powerhouse of a sunscreen that not only protects but also helps with the look of discoloration”▶ 3:53
- “It is a sunscreen that protects and it has cosmetic benefits to it”▶ 4:01
- “It has an ingredient called hex resourcenol in addition to the sunscreen filters that are going to protect while helping to reverse the look of brown spots”▶ 4:06
- “It is very creamy. It is rich. It is hydrating. It is perfect for dry weather”▶ 4:17
- “It's also bonus formulated with ceramides which is also going to help your skin barrier this winter”▶ 4:26
- “The SPF 50 major fade disco block is it”▶ 3:48
INNBEAUTY PROJECT$50.00- “This has a very unique reverse emulsion formula where the water is basically encased in oil”▶ 4:49
- “When you apply this formula onto your skin, you're going to get that instant dewy, hydrated look”▶ 4:58
- “It offers anti-aging benefits as well because of the peptides and the bioreetinol in it, which is going to help to firm your skin and give your skin some bounce that it has lost”▶ 5:05
- “You're going to hydrate, you're going to help with firmness, and you're going to help with the overall barrier health and skin bounce of your skin”▶ 5:11
No7$29.99- “This is not another basic eye cream that is just a hydrating moisturizer. It is a retinol eye cream”▶ 5:24
- “It is perfect for the sensitive skin around your eyes”▶ 5:35
- “It is powered with a retinol to give you that benefit of helping to plump up your collagen over time to smoothen your skin to help to minimize the look of fine lines and wrinkles”▶ 5:37
- “Plus, it is affordable. I love this eye cream because it is affordable”▶ 5:50
- “I will use it as well on my neck where it is notoriously more sensitive than my face and you want to go gentler and lighter on the neck”▶ 5:56
- “I will even use it around my mouth area, which I like to refer to as the kiss of death because when I use a regular retinol or a prescription around this area, I will always shed like a snake unless I use a retinol eye cream which is formulated for more delicate skin”▶ 6:04
- “Because it's more affordable, you don't feel as guilty using it in those three areas”▶ 6:25
Kiehl's$45.00- “offers deep hydration locking in moisture because of its rich squaline based hydration”▶ 6:36
- “It feels like icing for your face”▶ 6:42
- “It is going to absolutely keep you in colder months more protected, more hydrated and it is perfect for dry stressed skin”▶ 6:44
- “It is going to help to strengthen your skin barrier in the long run especially as it minimizes your the overall look of inflammation on your skin”▶ 6:53
- “this is a great option for you if you're looking for something really rich, really olusive without any sort of white cast”▶ 7:12
I Dew Care$15.99- “My volume that day was va vooming, but my hair was dirty af. And the reason my hair was va vooming was because of this dry shampoo”▶ 7:26
- “I love this stuff. I'm absolutely obsessed”▶ 7:43
- “It gets better as the days go by”▶ 7:46
- “It helps to not only dry absorb the oil and dry you out, but it does help to create volume”▶ 7:59
- “The bigger, biggest red flag is that it can get a little bit drying over the course of a few days”▶ 8:01
- “It's a tap on powder and so it's not aerosolized and so you're not inhaling all of this stuff”▶ 8:22
Living Proof$42.00- “This helps to cleanse and refine your scalp surface”▶ 8:34
- “If you're going to be using dry shampoo, you want to make sure you're getting rid of that buildup and that crud on your scalp”▶ 8:39
- “Exfoliating your scalp once a week is a great thing to do”▶ 8:43
- “This is very, very smooth. It's a blend of multiple chemical exfoliants, including salicylic acid, as well as BHAs and PHAs that are going to lift off the dead cells on the surface of your scalp”▶ 8:53
- “It's going to help to reduce buildup and control excess oil”▶ 9:04
- “The applicator, which is like that pointy blue product right there, makes it very easy to apply”▶ 9:08
- “It's something that has been a staple in my hair care routine now for over a year”▶ 9:17
Nécessaire$62.00- “This is a leave on body exfoliation serum that has zero beads in it. It is not aggressive”▶ 9:24
- “It is going to keep your skin looking smoother longer”▶ 9:32
- “Great if you have keratosis pilaris, strawberry skin, ingrown hairs”▶ 9:40
- “If you're somebody who's constantly prone to ingrown hairs and if you're shaving, this is a great one to use. Minimize those ingrown hairs over the long run”▶ 9:42
- “It is not sticky and is effective”
- “This one is very effective and it's not sticky”▶ 10:07
ISDIN$42.00- “At the sweet spot of 10%, urea can not only do its job of being a keratolytic, which means it's going to slough off those rough surface areas of skin on your body”▶ 10:21
- “At 10% it is also going to pull in water and act like a humectant. So it's the perfect blend of hydrating and softening and smoothing your skin in one”▶ 10:40
- “This hydrating moisturizer is beautiful. I absolutely love it”▶ 10:48
- “It hydrates my skin. It leaves me feeling supple and soft and it does have a fast dry down”▶ 10:54
- “I like fragrance. Don't sue me, but it is something that I love to use because it makes me feel better”▶ 11:01
NOW Foods$14.99- “We are all most likely vitamin D deficient, especially live in the northern hemisphere”▶ 12:24
- “Vitamin D supplements are very important to help with bone, immune, brain, and mood health”▶ 12:39
- “It helps to absorb calcium into your body, but once it absorbs that calcium, it doesn't really direct it. So, taking vitamin K2 is important because it's going to direct that calcium into your bones and teeth where that calcium truly belongs”▶ 12:45
- “These two work synergistically very well together to support healthy bones”▶ 12:59
- “As women, we tend to lose our bone density starting in our late 30s, 40s. Hence why we age faster in our face because our bone density thins out. So, we want to make sure that we are keeping our bone density strong”▶ 13:03
Dr. Idriss$44- “The barrierbased lip basing duo, which is not a typical lip balm. It's a lip treatment with step one being the lip peel that is going to remove the dry, dead skin cells on your lips”▶ 13:39
- “The lip peel is going to help to smoothen your lips and get rid of the flaking and the peeling and the rough texture of your lips”▶ 13:55
- “This lip base offers that long lasting hydration with soothing benefits as well”▶ 14:10
- “I use this at night followed by this and I use this throughout the day”▶ 14:16
- “This winter, it is December, it has been arctic in New York City, I have yet to experience a cracked or chapped or bloody lip, which in my world for the past 40 years has been a never”▶ 14:19
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