Simply put, it's our job to find the best beauty products out there for you. From the newest serum to the hottest lipstick color to the dry shampoo that will change your life, we will find it, test it, and let you know what we think. We're not complaining—it's a pretty fun gig, and we'll volunteer to be beauty guinea pigs any day.
But one of the cool things to come out of this is finding out what products you're loving and buying. It helps us figure out what you want to learn more about and what you're into so we can bring even more personalized recs to you.
Because we share a lot of our favorites with you every single day, we recognize it might be hard to keep up. So we've decided to put together a handy weekly list of what we love and what you love. Consider this a CliffsNotes, one-stop shop of what's really trending and worth adding to your cart at this very moment.
This week, we're exploring the best body products that will moisturize, smooth, exfoliate, and firm the skin. Do you have a product that we missed? We'd love to know. Send us a DM.
Hydrating and Moisturizing Products
Want to know a little secret? This oil is absolutely beloved by chic French women, so you know it has to be good. It has the most delicious, subtle scent and can be used on your body, face, and hair. And apparently it sells every single minute in France.
To really lock moisture in, try this cream which provides 24 hours of hydration. The rich formula doesn't leave a greasy finish, either. Plus, it was recently recommended to me by my own dermatologist to fix my dry skin.
I think you can call this body oil a cult favorite now—so many editors, readers, and beauty insiders love it. It's infused with seaweed for antioxidant hydration that also helps improve sagging skin and stretch marks.
Dry, cracked skin doesn't stand a chance with this extra rich cream. It's enriched with essential fatty acids, vitamin E, organic pansy, and organic calendula flower extract to moisturize, soften, and calm irritation.
This cream is the perfect fix for super-dry skin and/or eczema. One of the key ingredients is colloidal oatmeal, which can protect the skin and relieve irritation.
Made with five (yes, five) forms of hyaluronic acid, this body moisturizer strengthens and penetrates deeply into the skin. Other ingredients include niacinamide, B-glucan, antioxidants, peptides, purified oat extract, and argan, grapeseed, and avocado oils.
Mutha's body butter is all-natural with shea butter, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins A, C, D, and E, mango butter, and organic avocado oil. It's such a luxurious experience applying it, too.
Exfoliating and Smoothing Products
You don't have to use a harsh body scrub to exfoliate and smooth the skin. This lotion treatment features 2% BHA to slough off dead skin and unclog pores.
A bodywash can be exfoliating, too—and this one is a highly rated winner. It's infused with salicylic acid to remove dead skin cells and smooth skin. And it doesn't leave your skin super dry thanks to hyaluronic acid and niacinamide.
Use this gentle body exfoliator weekly to preserve your skin's softness. The formula is both a chemical and physical exfoliant with pumice; bamboo charcoal; and trio of glycolic, lactic, and salicylic acids.
Dr. Dennis Gross's Alpha Beta peel pads are so popular and effective—you'll be happy to know they come in bodycare versions, too. These target ingrown hairs, keratosis pilaris, dry skin, body blemishes, and uneven skin tone.
Speaking of keratosis pilaris, if you're dealing with it you'll want to keep this scrub on hand. It's designed to address the bumps caused by KP and "strawberry skin.” The formula includes 10% AHAs and pumice.
Exfoliating and hydrating? Sign us up. Skinfix's cream features an AHA blend, willow bark extract to smooth rough skin, shea butter, jojoba oil, glycerin, and bisabolol to moisturize and calm.
Glytone's bodywash contains 8.8% glycolic acid to slough off dead skin cells and resurface. Your skin will look glowier and feel smoother after using it.
Firming Products
Gel creams can feel so lightweight and refreshing, so if you don't like heavy products, this one's a good fit. The firming formula is enriched with CoQ10, L-Carnitine, and lotus extract.
This body lotion's firming ingredient is a natural retinol alternative complex, which also boosts collagen. It's also formulated with a blend of antioxidants, CoQ10, and alpha lipoic acid to improve the appearance of wrinkles.
Not only does this treatment oil firm and tone the skin, but it also reduces the appearances of stretch marks.
This best-selling drugstore firming is so effective at toning and moisturizing the skin, plus improving the look of scars and stretch marks. Ingredients include Q10, vitamin E, cocoa butter, raw shea butter, and elastin.
You can use this SkinCeuticals product twice a day on areas of the body that need some firming, like the stomach, butt, knees, and thighs. It's formulated with 2.5% tri-peptide to promote smooth skin, 5% yeast extract to brighten, and 2% hydrolyzed rice protein to firm.
Retinol and ferulic acid pair up in this moisturizer to improve wrinkles and repair damaged skin. It targets fine lines, dark spots, uneven skin tone, and a decrease in elasticity.
This luxe firming cream is made with 97% natural ingredients to smooth, tone, and firm the skin. Some of those ingredients include organic grape water, iris extract, and organic shea butter.
