5 Korean Skincare Brands to Try Out
Korean skincare has taken the world by storm! There are many different ones offering products with natural ingredients that you can feel good about using! These brands have products that help clear up breakouts, open pores, and reduce skin oils, leaving your skin feeling nourished, healthy, and clean. Here’s a list of the best Korean skincare brands to try out!
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skinfood
Skinfood is a Korean skincare brand founded in 1957 that uses high quality food ingredients to create nourishing skincare products that lead to healthier skin. Their motto is to “Treat your skin with food.” The brand sells a wide selection of products, from emulsions, face masks, and toners to face washes, serums, and essences.
Notable products include the Peach Sake Emulsion—a lightweight cream with a silky, soft texture that moisturizes without feeling sticky, and is meant for people with oily skin—the Black Sugar Strawberry Mask—a mask that is rich in minerals and focuses on leaving your skin feeling fresh and clean with a pleasant strawberry scent—and the Egg White Perfect Pore Cleansing Oil, which removes makeup and cleans pores.
If you’re looking for a skincare brand that uses natural ingredients, Skinfood is the brand for you!
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innisfree
Innisfree is a nature-powered, clean, and cruelty-free Korean skincare brand. They offer affordable skincare products that use sustainably sourced ingredients and are focused on providing earth-friendly skincare. The green tea harvested from Jeju Island is the "heart and soul” of the brand and led to the creation of popular products such as the Green Tea Hyaluronic Acid Serum. The brand has sourced ingredients from 15 islands, with ingredients such as bija and cherry blossom.
Best-selling items consist of the Super Volcanic Pore Clay Mask—a mask that exfoliates the skin and minimizes pores—the Daily UV Defense Sunscreen—a sunscreen that has no white cast and is made with green tea and sunflower seed oil to protect skin from UVA and UVB rays while giving the skin a natural glow—and the Cherry Blossom Glow Jelly Cream, which brightens and soothes skin, leaving it with a dewy finish.
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glow recipe
Glow Recipe is a fruit-forward skincare brand that believes in sustainability, inclusivity, and individuality. Each product is made with high quality ingredients such as antioxidant-rich fruit oils. All products are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free, and offer complete transparency with the ingredients in them. The products are also free of animal by-products, colorants, and environmental hazards. In addition to this, the brand is focused on sustainability efforts. They are carbon-neutral certified, offer eco-conscious packaging, and use eco-conscious sourcing of ingredients.
Best-sellers include the award-winning Watermelon Glow PHA+BHA Pore-Tight Toner—a toner that hydrates the skin, tightens pores, and leaves the skin plump and ready to absorb other skincare products—the Plum Plump Hyaluronic Cream—a cream that balances and plumps the skin with lasting hydration that leaves the skin looking dewy—and the Blueberry Bounce Gentle Cleanser that removes makeup and cleanses and hydrates the skin, while also helping to remove blemishes and breakouts over time.
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laneige
Laneige is a skincare brand that has been around since the ’90s. They created the first cream toner and have focused on researching how skin can retain moisture during sleep. The brand has studied Water Science and Sleep Care to create products such as their Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Cream Moisturizer that offers hydration for up to 100 hours.
Best-sellers include the Water Sleeping Mask—a gel mask that is left on overnight and is quickly absorbed by the skin to leave the skin hydrated, brightened, and softened, and is meant for dry to normal skin types—the Cream Skin Toner & Moisturizer—a moisturizer that uses ceramide and peptide to nourish and hydrate the skin and is meant for dry, normal, and sensitive skin types—and the Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Cleansing Foam, which gently cleanses the skin and is for skin of all types—oily, dry, combination, and normal.
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peach & lily/Peach Slices
Peach Slices is a clean skincare brand by Peach & Lily. The brand uses clean, natural ingredients such as honey and yuzu in their products. The brand Peach & Lily was created for people with sensitive skin. They make products free of retinol, acids, Vitamin C, and other ingredients that are too harsh for sensitive skin. The brand is non-toxic, vegan, gluten-free, and fragrance-free.
Notable Peach & Lily products include the Super Oasis Concentrated Serum—a serum that offers up to 100 hours of hydration—the Matcha Pudding Antioxidant Cream that nourishes the skin with antioxidants, and the Super Reboot Resurfacing Mask that exfoliates and textualizes the skin.
Notable Peach Slices products include the Acne Spot Dots that help blemishes disappear faster, the Nose Pore Patches that tighten pores and remove blackheads, and the Acne System line that consists of a cleanser, exfoliating toner, oil-free moisturizer, and acne spot dots. It’s the first clean, Korean beauty acne line and is for all skin types.
conclusion
These Korean skincare brands offer products with carefully sourced, clean, and natural ingredients that you can feel good about putting on your skin. They avoid harsh chemicals that can leave your skin dry and irritated, and instead focus on nourishing and hydrating the skin. These brands have products for all skin types, so whether you have dry, oily, combination, normal, or sensitive skin, you can test out these brands! Start feeding your skin healthy ingredients by trying out one of these awesome Korean skincare brands!
