Best Beauty Buys 2023: Face Masks And Oils
Make your beauty routine even more efficient and effective with these tried-and-true products
By guoxiongho -
Best Beauty Buys is The Singapore Women’s Weekly’s annual round up of the best and most effective products currently on the shelves. This year, we spotlight the skincare and makeup needs of busy mums who juggle children and demanding jobs who want to look and feel good doing it. The products were road-tested by a group of such multi-tasking women, and these are their picks.
Skincare is self-care. In the perfect world, we have the time to unwind with a relaxing facial at the salon. In reality, we are all time-strapped and are looking to claw back some time for ourselves and loved ones while not compromising on the efficacy of our beauty routine.
Here's where face masks and oils come in. The former provides a flood of benefits much like a serum does but in a more elevated and pampering manner. Besides providing a hit of moisture, the application of facial oils also provides a much more luxurious skincare experience that we can supplement with a quick facial massage. So even if you only have five minutes to self-care with skincare, add these face masks and oils to make the experience better while reaping greater skincare benefits.
Best Luxurious Face Mask: The History of Whoo Cheonyuldan Ultimate Regenerating Overnight Mask, $284
The History of Whoo employs a concoction of proprietary formulas and ingredients such as the BuYiWeiQiDan (extracted from cinnamon, dried ginger and astragalus), HwaYul Seokgok Complex and Royal CheonChoHwa to hydrate, balance, detox and firm.
Belif’s clear gel-type sleeping mask is formulated with the Clear Relaxing Complex to cool skin upon contact and form a coating that soothes and protects the skin overnight. Besides the brand’s Napiers Aqua and Original Formula, the mask also contains agave and squalane to hydrate and moisturise.
As the name suggests, the Dr.Jart+ mask provides the potency of an ampoule in a sleep mask form. The watery-gel texture contains a calming blend of centella asiatica complex, various plant extracts, Jartbiome ferment and vitamin B5, panthenol.
The Dior serum captures 20 years of research with the 10,000 micro-pearls containing the active compounds of the Rose de Granville flower that combats multiple signs of ageing. There are 22 micro-nutrients contained within the vital sap of the rose used in the serum too.
Besides the signature marula oil, Drunk Elephant has also added vegan retinol and ceramides into this face oil. The former targets lines and hyperpigmentation while the latter strengthens the skin barrier and boosts elasticity.
Best Repairing Face Oil: PSA Midnight Courage Rosehip & Bakuchiol Retinol Night Oil, $72
The reparative PSA face oil employs a blend of 2 percent Retinoid Complex, bakuchiol, coenzyme Q10 and omega-rich oils from baobab, rosehip and pomegranate to combat dullness, dehydration and premature ageing.
The main active ingredient powering L’Occitane’s facial oil is the Immortelle Essential Oil harvested from Corsica. The essential oil has antioxidative properties that work as an alternative to retinol to deal with the loss of firmness and the appearance of wrinkles.