Best Beauty Buys 2024: Top Products For Ageing Skin

Best Beauty Buys is The Singapore Women’s Weekly’s annual awards to discover the most effective and game-changing skincare, haircare and makeup products for busy women and their families. The products were road-tested by a group of mums, and these are their picks.

Ageing is a natural part of life. While we welcome the wisdom and experiences, we can’t say the same about the physical effects. Wrinkles, fine lines, sagging skin and hyperpigmentation are undoubtedly the top concerns.

The true secret to dealing with ageing skin? Embrace it as part of a life well-lived. A carefully curated skincare routine would go a long way to helping you feel comfortable in your skin, by keeping your skin healthy and dialing down some of the excessive effects of ageing.

Add some of these items to your next beauty haul. They will help you regain some volume and vitality in your face to match your energy. You’ve got this, girl!

1. Best Anti-Ageing Moisturiser: Caudalie Premier Cru The Cream

A cream that targets eight visible signs of ageing in a single tub? You'll want to bookmark this. Improving skin elasticity, firmness, wrinkles, fine lines, dark spots, radiance, hydration, and plumpness all at once, Caudalie's Premier Cru The Cream boasts a rich texture that’s absorbed quickly by the skin. The backbone of this cream is a patented technology that boosts the production of youth proteins and enzymes, for visibly younger-looking skin.

$165 for 50ml

Shop at Sephora | Amazon

2. Best Pampering Anti-Ageing Moisturiser: Dior Prestige La Creme

Dior’s Prestige La Creme works on the skin on three levels. The resulting volume, radiance, and a strengthened skin barrier really does seem to turn back to clock. And as with all Dior beauty products, the cream’s foundation is based on the brand's very own rose cultivar, Rose de Granville, which has amazing skin-repairing properties as it is beautiful to behold.

$230 for 15ml

Shop at Sephora

3. Best Firming Moisturiser: Sulwhasoo The Ultimate S Cream

7 degrees is apparently all it takes to make your face look younger, and this firming moisturiser from Sulwhasoo promises to lift the droop at the eyes, cheek, mouth, and chin by precisely 7 degrees. A concentrated form of ginseng berry is the key to achieving this, visibly revitalising and lifting your skin, and smoothing out wrinkles. This cream is lightweight enough to be used in the morning too.

$320 for 30ml

Shop at Sulwhasoo | Lazada

4. Best Everyday Moisturiser: Filorga Time-Filler 5XP Cream

This intensive cream with a powerful cocktail of ingredients (think peptides, hyaluronic acid, sea fennel, imperata plant extract, and kangaroo flower extract) works to relax expression lines naturally, plump up deep wrinkles, smooth out surface wrinkles, fill out dehydration wrinkles, and smoothen neck wrinkles.

$123 for 50ml

Shop at Amazon | Tangs

5. Best Fragrance-Free Moisturiser: Bioeffect EGF Power Cream

The science-backed nourishing Bioeffect EGF Power Cream works hard to treat signs of ageing like wrinkles, age spots, loss of firmness and density, as well as dehydration. It is powered by the brand's unique barley Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF), a protein found in the skin to keep it hydrated, bouncy, and youthful; barley beta glucan to hydrate and soothe the skin; and niacinamide to strengthen and repair the skin barrier.

$251.20 for 50ml

Shop at Tangs

6. Best Nourishing Moisturiser: Jyunka La Creme

For those who want the smoothening effects of botox but are on the fence about using it, try this velvety cream. It contains great anti-ageing and nourishing ingredients like peptides, jojoba seed oil, and sunflower seed wax; but its star ingredient is paracress extract. Mimicking the effects of botox, it helps to reduce the formation of facial wrinkles and smoothens the face.

$220 for 50ml

Shop at Jyunka | Lazada

7. Best Multitasking Moisturiser For Mature Skin: Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream

Restore volume, moisture and firmness by drenching your skin in a party of peptides, amino acids, and proteins – after all, these are the building blocks of skin. Pygmy water lily extract in this lightweight cream soothes the skin further, leaving it feeling calm, refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to take on any challenges in the day.

$105 for 50ml

Shop at Sephora

8. Best Serum For Fine Lines: Tatcha The Silk Serum

We get it, retinols are not for everyone. Try this silky serum that’s packed with two retinol alternatives: cranberry extract to plump up and support the skin barrier, sea fennel to encourage skin turnover and improve its texture. You’ll get the rejuvenating and resurfacing effects of retinol, minus the irritation. 

$166 for 30g

Shop at Sephora

9. Best Serum For Wrinkles: Dr Dennis Gross DermInfusions Fill + Repair Serum

Bottled in a glossy, gold vial is this highly effective doctor-formulated serum that immediately fills facial lines and plumps your face up. Concocted with hyaluronic acid, peptides, niacinamide and ectoin (an amino acid), this serum is designed to fill in fine lines and plump up crepey skin, while restoring the skin’s moisture barrier.

$123 for 30ml

Shop at Sephora

10. Best All-Rounded Serum: Clarins Double Serum

This oil and water serum contains 21 active plant extracts, including its newest star ingredient, turmeric, to maintain the five vital functions that keep skin looking youthful: hydration, nutrition, oxygenation, regeneration and protection. A rotating push button dispenses a perfect amount to keep your face firm, radiant and smooth.

$190 for 50ml

Shop at Lazada | Clarins

11. Best Lightweight Serum: Filorga NCEF-Shot

The power-packed Filorga NCEF-Shot serum is infused with a whopping 50 ingredients all specially selected to encourage cellular rejuvenation for firmer, plumper skin. Lightweight, fast-absorbing and gentle, it fills out fine lines and wrinkles even on sensitive skin, and bestows a luminescent radiance that only comes with healthy, happy skin.

$156 for 15ml

Shop at Amazon | Lazada

12. Best Nourishing Serum For Mature Skin: Bioeffect EGF Power Serum

This intensive eye serum contains 12 handpicked ingredients, including Bioeffect’s signature barley EGF complex and hyaluronic acid, that work together to tackle specific concerns of ageing like dryness, UV-induced pigmentation, wrinkles, thinning, and sagging skin.

$314 for 15ml

Shop at Tangs | Amazon

13. Best Firming Device For Face And Body: Est.Lab VitaLift A+ SmartSculpt Buddy

Give tired skin a boost with a facial workout. This device offers both electrical muscle stimulation that uses microcurrents to refine connective tissue, improve collagen production, and boost blood circulation; and sonic vibration therapy to detox skin, reduce water retention, and relax stiff muscles. 

$298

Shop at Est.Lab | Lazada

14. Best Multipurpose Cleansing Device: Iren Shizen Skin Genie Pro Cleansing Brush + LED Light Therapy

This waterproof, multifunctional cleansing device comes with clinical-grade microcurrent and LED light therapy. Soft silicone bristles on one side give a thorough cleanse with a gentle massage to improve blood circulation. Flip the brush over to utilise anti-ageing LED light therapy to tighten, rejuvenate and smoothen skin.

$168

Shop at Takashimaya

15. Best Skin-Tightening Device: Amiro R3 Turbo RF Skin Tightening Device

Here’s a device to straighten out wrinkles everywhere, plump out those cheeks, and reinstate the youthful bounciness of your skin. Choose from different modes that target specific concerns like eye care, contouring, and full-on anti-ageing – for varying combinations of gentle microcurrents and LED lights to work their magic on your skin. There are also accessories for eye care and jawline sculpting.

$527

Shop at Amiro Beauty | Lazada

16. Best Rejuvenating Eye Patches: Augustinus Bader The Eye Patches

Put some life back into your eyes with these soothing eye patches that hydrate, brighten and plump up the eye area. Each pair of patches offers a nourishing dose of hyaluronic acid to moisturise; niacinamide and fermented polysaccharide to repair the skin barrier; allantoin and green tea extract to soften and soothe the skin; and vitamins B5 and E to deeply condition the skin and protect it from external stressors.

$192 for 6 pairs 

Shop at Sephora

17. Best Gentle Eye Cream: Browhaus Wide Focus

Reclaim some of your wide-eyed youthfulness with this gentle eye cream from Browhaus. With hogweed root extract, a popular herbal plant in Ayurvedic medicine to retain collagen and elastin fibres to lift hooded lids; soy-based compounds to brighten dark eye circles; and olive squalane to plump out wrinkles, this lightweight cream is one for your shelf, especially if you have a sensitive eye area.

$160 for 20ml

Shop at Beauty Emporium

18. Best Pampering Eye Mask: Mtm Labo Custom-Blended Eye Mask

For a luxurious age-defying eye treatment, try Mtm Labo’s Custom-Blended Eye Mask. It comprises a rich essence with various herbal extracts to banish wrinkles, hydrate, and improve the elasticity of the eye area; as well as collagen pads soaked with alpha-arbutin and licorice root extract to brighten dark eye circles.

$358 for 20ml and 12 pairs of collagen pads

Shop at Mtm Labo | Lazada

19. Best Retinol Cream For Mature Skin: Shiseido Vital Perfection Intensive WrinkleSpot Treatment

Retinol fans, this one's for you. Delivering a pure dose of the potent ingredient in this sleek golden tube, this cream significantly diminishes the appearance of wrinkles, smile lines, and dark spots. Use it as the last step of your skincare routine for smoother, firmer and brighter skin.

$180 for 20ml

Shop at Sephora | Lazada

20. Best Long-Lasting Moisturiser: SK-II Skinpower Advanced Cream

This latest cream in the brand’s Skinpower range is supercharged with Pitera, a complex derived from fermented yeast that slows down ageing by targeting the ageing trigger cells in the skin; kinren, also known as garden nasturtium extract to reduce skin damage; and peony root extract to increase elasticity and plump up the skin.

$283 for 80g

Shop at Sephora | Lazada

21. Best Anti-Ageing Eye Cream: Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharged Gel-Creme

If you want an eye cream that brightens every dark circle around your eyes, the Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharged Gel-Creme by Estee Lauder is it. This lightweight cream offers protection from environmental pollution and free radicals, keeping your eye area bright and hydrated with the help of vitamin E, peptides, and sodium hyaluronate.

$128 for 15ml

Shop at Sephora | Lazada

22. Best Anti-Ageing Serum: Paula's Choice Resist Triple Active Total Repair Serum

Target dark spots, wrinkles, and saggy skin with Paula Choice’s Triple Active Total Repair Serum. It contains three active ingredients to target three specific effects of ageing: hexylresorcinol to lighten dark spots, retinoid to smoothen wrinkles, and niacinamide to even out skin tone.

$75 for 30ml

Shop at Paula's Choice

23. Best Lightweight Serum For Under-Eye: Mtm Labo Custom-Blended Realize Eye Primo

For every eye concern that you may have, there is a Mtm Labo eye serum for it. This series of five custom-blended serums takes targeted eye care to a whole new level. Glycation (the formation of criss-crossing wrinkles), dark eye circles, dull skin, loss of firmness, and fine lines are addressed by a different serum, each one made with a tailored blend of herbal extracts, proteins and vitamins.

$428 for 5ml x 6 bottles

Shop at Mtm Labo

24. Best Scented Body Cream For Mature Skin: Sol de Janeiro Beija Flor Elasti-Cream

Ageing doesn’t just take place on your face, it happens all over your body too. Add this collagen-boosting and firming body cream that is enriched with plant collagen and retinol alternative cacay oil to your nightly ritual, to plump up your skin. It’s exactly what you’d imagine youth to smell like: fruity and oh-so-fresh. Slather it on and recapture some of the energy of your younger days. 

$77 for 240ml

Shop at Sephora

25. Best Anti-Cellulite Cream: Clarins Body Fit

As if wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, and saggy skin aren’t enough, we have to deal with the appearance of cellulite too. Thankfully, the Clarins Body Fit anti-cellulite cream, which contains quince leaf extract to improve blood circulation and improve skin tone, does a great job at reducing the tell-tale orange peel dimpling of cellulite, further firming and refining your body’s contours while you massage it deep into your skin.

$177 for 400ml

Shop at Clarins | Lazada

Prices are accurate at time of publication.

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