The Best Skincare Launches of 2020

This serum and toner combination is seriously thick all the while still tightening your pores as it seemingly dissolves into your skin. — Jacquelyn Greenfield, Beauty Writer.

I’ve always had oily/combination skin, but found my face drying out a lot while staying home during quarantine. This whipped mask was a huge game changer for me, designed to offer relief to those with dry, sensitive and/or eczema-prone skin. Formulated with anti-inflammatory ingredients like turmeric, madeassoside, soothing colloidal oatmeal, and ginseng root, the thick cream can be used regularly for 20 minutes, or as a moisturizing overnight mask. — Tanisha Pina, Beauty Editor.

I saw overnight results with this essentially magic acne wand, which rids your face of dark spots and scarring. Formulated with advanced brighteners, glycolic acid, and sheer color-correcting tint, you can apply directly to a problem skin area.— Lauren Rearick, Beauty Writer

Yerba mate and guayusa are highly caffeinated extracts that help your skin to look radiant while minimizing pores and smoothing uneven texture. — Jacquelyn Greenfield, Beauty Writer.

This oil-based serum doesn’t feel greasy on the face, and leaves skin looking, and feeling, soft. Its ingredient list is also filled with skincare superstars, including camellia oil and sea buckthorn extract to reduce redness and strengthen the skin’s barrier, as well as vitamin E for brightness. — Lauren Rearick, Beauty Writer.

This gentle, milky cleanser was easily one of my favorite launches of the year for delivering a hydrating, juicy clean without stripping my skin or leaving it feeling tight. In true Moon Juice fashion, the calming cleanser is formulated with adaptogens and hydrating super ingredients like silver ear mushroom and adaptogenic reishi, which helps protect the skin from stressors and reduces signs of inflammation. — Tanisha Pina, Beauty Editor.

There’s just something about face mists that are too good to give up. This cucumber water and peach extract are filled with antioxidants to give that iconic glass looking skin. — Jacquelyn Greenfield, Beauty Writer.

Made of 100% pure squalane, this weightless, stable oil works to boost moisture and replace the naturally occurring sebum in the skin that can leave the skin dry and vulnerable to irritation and damage. — Tanisha Pina, Beauty Editor.

Gentle enough for daily use, this facial cleansing bar, formulated with charcoal, truly lives up to its viral acne-fighting hype. — Lauren Rearick, Beauty Writer.

This new topical is a true skincare one-stop-shop filled with AHAs, hyaluronic acid, and tiger grass to help tighten and hydrate while removing dead skin cells in just two pumps. — Jacquelyn Greenfield, Beauty Writer.

Murad’s oil-free, non-comedogenic water gel is a part of a growing category, focusing on the skin’s microbiome — a group of balanced bacteria that work to protect as a second layer of skin. The water-light gel uses an innovative technology to interrupt communication between the “bad” bacteria that can lead to irritated skin so that they can’t form a group and cause an imbalance. Also included in the formula is refining salicylic acid, soothing ginger root, and sustained release hyaluronic acid, making it one of 2020’s smartest and most effective launches. — Tanisha Pina, Beauty Editor.

Thanks to this balm, the makeup removal process can be easy, smell great, and comes without irritating the skin. When applied to the face, the formula changes its consistency, becoming a milky makeup remover that doesn’t strip the skin of moisture. In fact, with ingredients including papaya seed oil, papaya enzymes, papaya extract, and antioxidant-packed blueberry, your skin should look luminous. — Lauren Rearick, Beauty Writer.

There’s never been a cuter way to get rid of acne. Ever. Cuteness aside, Starface’s collection of pimple patches provide results. The hydrocolloid patches can be applied on top of any zit, and while you wear, the patch goes to work. Created to protect the pimple from outside stressors and potential picking, the patch also soaks up all the inner pimple gunk, leaving you with a blemish that’s reduced in size and redness. — Lauren Rearick, Beauty Writer.

This is the face oil for people who have notoriously hated face oil in the past. Designed for all skin types — including sensitive and acne-prone skin — this formula is infused with 500mg Broad Spectrum CBD, and a soothing blend of vitamins, antioxidants and essential fatty acids. It absorbs quickly into the skin, leaving it soft and glowing without any tacky, sticky feeling. The cute bottle doesn’t hurt either. — Tanisha Pina, Beauty Editor.

A skincare staple that got an oil-free formula makeover, the cleanser lathers up nicely, and feels soft on the skin. — Lauren Rearick, Beauty Writer.

Glossier’s first skincare launch of 2020 was one of its best yet, aiming to deliver a dewy, glowing moisturizer that controls shine and improves the look of pores for oil-prone skin types. Its formulated with a handful of concern-focused, moisture rich ingredients like apple fruit extract to lock in moisture, marine extract to balance shine, niacinamide, and more. It’s super lightweight, ultra-hydrating, and checks off all of the other important (for me) boxes, being fragrance-free, vegan, and oil-free. — Tanisha Pina, Beauty Editor.