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.
How often do you wash your face with a facial cleanser? The general consensus is that you only really need to cleanse twice a day – once in the morning and once at night – unless you’re undergoing activities that leave you heavily soiled. For the mornings, consider a gently, more hydrating face cleanser as you only need to wash off excess sebum and any dirt accumulated while asleep. For the nights, you should go in with a one-two punch of a makeup remover then a face cleanser. The former contains surfactants that can break down long-wearing and waterproof sunscreen and makeup formulas before using a face cleanser to give your face a thorough rinse off of all the sebum, dead skin cells and pollutants gathered from the day. Here are our tried-and-approved face cleansers and makeup removers: