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#1: Best hydrating cleanser (Editor’s choice) – Nia Wash + Glow Hydrating Foam, $42
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This foam cleanser removes dirt and base makeup, and leaves skin feeling moisturised with extracts of murumuru butter, olive and goji berry fruit.
#2: Best hydrating cleanser (Reader’s choice) – Origins Three Part Harmony Foaming Cream-to-oil Cleanser, $66
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Transforms into a light, foamy wash that makes skin feel soft and smooth, not dry. Its soothing scent is from an essential blend.
#3: Best drugstore hydrating toner (Editor’s choice) – Bioderma Hydrabio Essence Lotion, $41.90, Watsons
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A moisturising lotion that soothes redness and hydrates with apple seed extract and vitamin B3.
The salicylic acid in it also helps to slough off dead skin cells and debris that clog pores and cause breakouts. Your skin will look clearer and more plumped-up after a week of using this.
#4: Best drugstore hydrating toner (Reader’s choice) – Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Lotion, $22.90, Watsons
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This watery lotion has a balancing effect on skin. Oily skin feels less greasy, while dehydrated skin feels moisturised, and redness is reduced.
It contains three types of hyaluronic acid to give your skin a smoother, more supple skin. Have a drier complexion? Feel free to apply more layers of it.
#5: Best department/speciality store hydrating toner (Editor’s choice) – Fresh Rose Deep Hydration Facial Toner, $69
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Its light rose scent comes from rose water, rose flower oil, and rose fruit extract. This watery toner calms, softens and smooths skin.
Its moisturising ingredients hydrate without leaving a sticky residue.
#:6: Best department/speciality store hydrating toner (Reader’s choice) – Orbis Aquaforce Lotion, $27
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This feels like water, and is hydrating and soothing. Its ability to moisturise skin and retain moisture, as well as reduce itching, comes from botanical extract.
#7: Best hydrating serum (Editor’s choice) – Skinceuticals H.A. Intensifier, $159
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Skin feels smoother and more hydrated as this hyaluronic (HA)-based serum not only moisturises with three types of HA, it has ingredients that boost the natural production of HA and prevent its breakdown in the skin.
#8: Best hydrating serum (Reader’s choice) – Clinique Moisture Surge Hydrating Supercharged Concentrate, $79
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This lightweight gel helps dry, scaly skin feel instantly smoother and more plumped-up. It hydrates without feeling tacky on oily complexions and doesn’t irritate sensitive skin.
#9: Best pre-serum (Editor’s choice) – Lancome Advanced Genifique Youth Activating Serum, $130-$220
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Skin feels more supple after first use. It is designed to strengthen the skin barrier, so you get more plumped-up skin that isn’t so easily irritated.
After three months, skin feels firmer and looks more radiant.
#10: Best pre-serum (Reader’s choice) – Kanebo The First Serum, $98
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Not only does it hydrate skin to boost the efficacy of other skincare products that follow, this improves the moisture barrier and regulates sebum production, so oily skin becomes more balanced.
#11: Best drugstore hydrating moisturiser (Editor’s choice) – Physiogel Daily Defence Protective Day Cream Light SPF15, $37.90, Watsons
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It plumps up the skin after one use, and helps sensitive skin look less red. Free of preservatives, perfumes and colorants, this light cream is especially good for normal/combination and sensitive skin. It doesn’t leave a greasy feeling either.
#12: Best drugstore hydrating moisturiser (Reader’s choice) – Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Cream, $35.90, Watsons
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Use a small amount in the day ( it can feel a tad greasy), and as much as you like at night for softer, more supple skin the next morning – even in an air-conditioned room.
#13: Best department/speciality store hydrating cream (Editor’s choice) – Sisley Black Rose Skin Infusion Cream, $240
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When applied, this water-in-oil emulsion breaks down into dew-like micro-water droplets to deliver a refreshing and comforting feel.
Extracts from three types of roses calm and nourish the skin. It can soothe redness in one use, and your skin feels firmer and more radiant in two weeks.
#14: Best department/speciality store hydrating cream (Reader’s choice) – Chanel Hydra Beauty Micro Creme, $136
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It features tiny droplets of hydrating camellia extract suspended in a transparent gel. And it keeps normal to dry skin moisturised all day.
Oily skin may feel a bit greasy after using it in the day; if you use it at night, your skin feels less oily the next day.
#15: Best department/specialty store gel-cream (Editor’s choice) – Su:m 37 Water-full Timeless Water Gel-Cream, $108
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With fermented rose of Jericho that binds moisture to the skin, this makes your skin noticeably smoother, softer and plumper after a week.
#16: Best department/specialty store gel-cream (Reader’s choice) – Shiseido Waso Clear Mega-hydrating Cream, $55
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#17: Best drugstore hydrating moisturiser for sensitive skin (Editor’s choice) – A’kin Calming Day & Night Cream, $48.50, Watsons
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This paraben and sulphate-free cream has a curd-like texture that hydrates the skin without the feeling of stickiness or greasiness. It also has camomile and vitamin E to fight off free radicals.
#18: Best drugstore hydrating moisturiser for sensitive skin (Reader’s choice) – Uriage Eau Thermale Light Water Cream, $34.90, Watsons
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#19: Best drugstore hydrating mask (Editor’s choice) – Vichy Purete Thermal Quenching Mineral Mask, $39
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A refreshing treat after a long, hot day. The five-minute, rinse-off mask has a cooling sensation on the skin that lasts for the full five minutes. This instantly soothes irritated skin while a relaxing scent calms your senses. After rinsing it off, your skin feels soft and smooth.
#20: Best drugstore hydrating mask (Reader’s choice) – Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Mask, $14.90 for a box of four sheets, Watsons
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An intensely moisturising mask that eliminates dry patches, plumps up skin, and gives it radiance. It is free of fragrance, mineral oil and colorants.
#21: Best department/specialty store hydrating mask (Editor’s choice) – Origins Flower Fusion Sheet Mask Rose Hydrating, $5
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Soothing and nourishing, the anti-oxidant rich rose oil in this sheet mask calms, plumps up, and perks up tired skin.
#22: Best department/specialty store hydrating mask (Reader’s choice) – For Beloved Girl Extreme Moisture Mineral Cloud-silk Mask, $16 for a box of three sheets, Sephora
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Get glowing skin that feels more plumped-up, smoother, and more hydrated. Each sheet has ingredients that enable skin to capture and retain water, and strengthen the moisture barrier.
#23: Best drugstore hydrating mist (Editor’s choice) – CNP Laboratory Ampule Mist, $12-$23.80, Guardian
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Made with propolis, this super-fine facial mist feels more emollient than regular ones. The mist is very fine, so you don’t have to worry about it dripping down your face, and you don’t even have to spread it out or pat it in.
One midday application is all you need to relive dryness for the rest of the day. It has a light honey scent, and works perfectly as a toner, makeup primer and setting spray.
#24: Best drugstore hydrating mist (Reader’s choice) – Eucerin Aquaporin Mist Spray, $11.90, Watsons
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This fragrance-free product emerges as a fine mist that refreshes and hydrates with hyaluronic acid and binds moisture to the skin with gluco-glycerol.
#25: Best department/speciality store hydrating mist (Editor’s choice) – Porcelain Soothe Deep Hydrating Lotion, $69
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An alcohol-free toner that doubles up as a mist to hydrate and smooth the complexion with hyaluronic acid, rose extract, jojoba oil and vitamins C and E. It also protects the skin from free radicals.
#26: Best department/specialty store hydrating mist (Reader’s choice) – Sulwhasoo Hydro-aid Moisturising Soothing Mist, $48
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