Smooth this primer over clean lips (be sure to include the skin around your mouth), and you get antiaging benefits, sun protection, and a plumper pout. Sodium hyaluronate and glycerin help hydrate lips, a triple ceramide complex gently exfoliates, and argireline softens fine lines.

Best For: Dry, chapped lips and fine lines around the mouth

Best Moisturizer
Patricia Wexler MD Dermatology Universal Anti-Aging Moisturizer SPF 30 ($39.50)

There’s no need for three separate products; this rich facial cream packs sunscreen, moisturizer, and antiaging ingredients like matryxil and argeriline. Use it on your face and neck.

Best For: Dry or mature skin

Best Body Lotion
Vaseline Intensive Care Renewal Age Redefining Body Lotion ($3.99)

This daily body lotion has a potent mix of antiaging ingredients—collagen, proretinol, UV protection, and a hefty dose of alpha hydroxy acids—that have been proven to fight age spots, wrinkles, dryness, and dullness.

Best For: Dry or mature skin

Best Sunblock
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunblock SPF 55 ($9.49)

Lots of sunscreens promise they won’t feel greasy or oily, but this one really delivers. Micronized silica powder absorbs excess sunscreen oil, so it dries almost instantly. Helioplex technology stabilizes the potent UVA ingredient avobenzone, so it lasts extra long when exposed to sunlight. And it has oxybenzone, a powerful UVB sunscreen.

Best For: All skin types

Best Foot Cream
Feet by OPI Double Coverage ($12.95)

Your feet won’t slide across the floor or feel clammy in your shoes after applying this fast-drying foot cream (thanks to its star ingredient, cotton powder). Shea butter and silicone create a silky layer without feeling tacky, while peppermint protects against odor.

Best For: Dry or callused feet

Best Eye Cream
Prescriptives Intensive Rebuilding Eye Cream ($65)

Pat this cream on clean skin twice a day, and after a month the skin around the eye area will look plumped and smoother. Ingredients include caffeine to decrease inflammation and hyaluronic acid to bind moisture. It also has hexapeptides, proteins that boost the production of collagen and elastin.

Best For: All skin types

Best Facial Cleanser
Aveeno Ultra-Calming Foaming Cleanser ($6.99)

Too often, gentle cleansers are so gentle you don’t feel like your face is getting clean. But this unscented, soap-free foam lifts away dirt and makeup while also treating irritation in dry, sensitive skin with feverfew, a natural calming agent.

Best For: Normal to dry skin

Best Hand Treatment
Carol’s Daughter Lemon Ginger Mint Manicure in a Jar ($10)

The natural butters and oils in this cream are mixed with sea salt to exfoliate dead skin from hands and cuticles while buffing nails at the same time. Beeswax seals in moisture, and peppermint oil leaves a clean, tingly feeling.

Best For: Rough, dry hands

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Rather than add another coat to lashes at the end of the day, try this clear, water-based formula designed to thicken, lengthen, hydrate, and declump tired lashes. You can also use it as a base coat. It’s infused with triethanolamine, which helps maintain pH balance, and PVP, an anti-bacterial agent to fight germs in your mascara bottle.

Best For: Sparse lashes, or for the end-of-day mascara blues

Best Concealer
Good Skin All Right Anti-Acne Concealer ($15)

This concealer moonlights as a blemish-fighter, so you’re treating the problem at the same time you’re covering it up. Salicylic acid helps exfoliate, minimize inflammation and redness, and decrease acne-causing bacteria.

Best For: All skin types except the very sensitive

Best Foundation
Almay Smart Shade Makeup ($13.99)

This speckled cream blends on contact into a perfect shade for your skin. It’s loaded with moisturizing ingredients like vitamin E and grapeseed extract, plus top-rated sun blockers like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide.

Best For: Skin tones from pale to olive (comes in light, light/medium, and medium)

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Lather up with this volumizing shampoo, and your hair immediately feels different—like there’s actually more of it. (Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean it’s bushy.) Fructose and glucose coat hair shafts to give them more volume, while vitamins B3 and B6 strengthen strands and lock in moisture.

Best For: Lifeless hair in need of body and bounce

Best Styling Product
PureOlogy DryShine Style ($20)

Smooth this gold-flecked pomade through damp or dry strands, and you get just enough control to keep hair in place without any sticky residue. It also has heliogenol, a UV-protecting sunflower-seed extract, that prevents color-treated hair from fading in sunlight.

Best For: Light-to-medium hold

Best Conditioner
Burt’s Bees Grapefruit & Sugar Beet Conditioner ($7.99)

You’ll be able to run a comb through even the kinkiest of tresses after using this lightweight conditioner. Essential oils, including lemon, lime, and tangerine, are to thank for the unmistakable shine that looks glossy but not greasy.

Best For: Dry or damaged hair

1. Lip color: Cargo blu_ray Lip Gloss. Televisions aren’t the only thing going high-def these days. This quad of neutral-colored lip glosses contains “diffusers which reflect light, making the lips appear less wrinkly by smoothing and softening lines,” judge Lisa M. Donofrio says. “Plus, the glosses include hyaluronic acid, which draws water to the lips’ surface, resulting in a plumping effect.” ($29)

2. Mascara: Beauty Benefits Beyond Nourishing Mascara. Think of this as conditioner for your lashes, judge Grace H. Pak says. It contains panthenol to moisturize and soy protein to strengthen your lashes. Another perk: This formula is light on polymers (fibers that can weigh lashes down), so your lashes appear glossy and pliable, rather than stiff and clumpy. ($5.99)

  3. Concealer: Estée Lauder Resilience Life Extreme Ultra Firming Concealer SPF 15. Who knew a concealer could offer so many good-for-you benefits? Sure, it does the traditional job of camouflaging fine lines, discoloration, and under-eye circles. But it also boosts collagen production, and firms and hydrates, while providing a shield against sun exposure. ($19.50)

4. Makeup primer: Dr. Brandt Pores No More. Not only does this primer minimize pores and leave you with flawless-looking skin, but it’s also loaded with tea tree oil, flaxseed oil, and a salicylic-acid derivative, which all help control breakouts and soothe skin, judge Pak says. ($45)

  5. Foundation: Lancôme Color Ideal Precise Match Skin Perfecting Makeup SPF 15. This great base, “is more like a complexion enhancer than a camouflaging agent,” judge Pak says. It contains vitamin E and provitamin B5 to condition skin, glycerin to keep your face hydrated throughout the day, and SPF 15 to protect against harmful rays. ($37) 

1. Self-tanner: Clinique Touch of Bronze Moisturizing Body Lotion. Many self-tanners are drying, but this one actually makes your skin hydrated and soft. “It contains glycerin, sodium hyalutonate, and sacaride isomerate, all of which help lock in moisture, leaving the skin more supple,” judge Tsao says. It’s also chock-full of protective antioxidants like aloe and vitamin E. ($18.50)

2. Nail product: OPI Avoplex Cuticle Oil to Go. This supermoisturizing serum replenishes dry skin with vitamin E, avocado, sunflower, sesame, and kukui nut oils—all without making you feel greasy. Our judges loved the easy-to-apply, portable tube—just give a little squeeze and the product flows between brush bristles for even distribution. ($7.50)

  3. Bronzer: Physicians Formula Organic Wear 100% Natural Origin Bronzer. This dual-tone palette, packed with 100 percent all-natural ingredients, wicks away oil while also moisturizing, judge Tsao says. Rice silk, cornstarch, and jojoba oil protect the skin against environmental assaults, while leaving it with a natural, sun-kissed appearance. Available in six shades, making this winner great for a range of skin tones. ($13.95)

  4. Body sunscreen: Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Body Mist Sunblock SPF 70. Before you step into the sun, protect yourself with this quick-absorbing (and odorless!) sunblock. With a cover-all-your-bases SPF 70, this water- and sweatproof UVA-UVB formula is noncomedogenic, oil-free (essential if you’re acne-prone), and PABA-free (key if you’re allergic), judge Tsao says. Plus, the spray bottle makes full-body coverage a breeze. ($9.99)

5. Body moisturizer: Lubriderm Intense Skin Repair Body Lotion with Itch Relief. Slather on this nongreasy fragrance-free lotion to combat dry skin caused by environmental stressors. (Think sun, wind, etc.) Glycerin binds water to the skin for long-lasting moisture, while oat extracts and shea butter help to calm any dry, itchy, or irritated patches. ($6.99)

  6. Hand care: RoC Retinol Correxion Hand Repair SPF 15. The retinol in this nongreasy moisturizing cream fades age spots and improves hand texture. SPF 15 protects against future sun damage, judge Lisa M. Donofrio says. ($14.99)

7. Exfoliating body product: Zia Natural Skincare Bamboo Exfoliant. Green beauty gets high tech: Infused with bamboo—a renewable resource—this paraban-free exfoliant sloughs off dead skin, while yucca extract hydrates and rice bran revives your skin’s natural luster. ($24.95)

  8. Foot care: Vaseline Intensive Rescue Healing Foot Cream. Give dry soles the boot with this exfoliating alpha hydroxy acid–rich cream that smoothes and softens rough feet. “The hypoallergenic blend also contains emollient properties like glycerin to curtail moisture loss,” judge Donofrio says. ($3.99)

9. Body wash: Burt’s Bees Naturally Nourishing Milk & Shea Butter Body Wash. Hot showers can be a nightmare for our skin because they strip away protective lipids. This shower wash uses shea butter and safflower emollients to lock in moisture, leaving skin soft and healthy, judge Sandra S. Tsao says. ($8 ) 

1. Shampoo: 365 Everyday Value Shampoo from Whole Foods Market. Worth a trip to Whole Foods, this shampoo (which comes in three scents, as well as fragrance-free) cleanses without stripping the scalp. It’s free of parabans, artificial fragrances, and genetically engineered ingredients. ($1.99)

2. Hairstyling product: Dove Intense Damage Therapy Heat Shield Spray. Flat irons, curling irons, and blow-dryers, oh my! Dry and damaged hair gets help from this conditioning spray. How it works: Silicone droplets coat the hair and absorb the heat, so your hair doesn’t have to. ($3.78 )

  3. Deep-conditioning treatment: Garnier Fructis Strength & Repair Instant Melting Masque. This creamy conditioner with a subtle apple aroma uses moisture-carrying lipid molecules (known as ceramides) to repair damage caused by harsh chemical treatments and overuse of styling products, judge Sandra S. Tsao says. Its moisturizing avocado and apricot oils help make dry hair healthy again. ($3.99)

4. Hair conditioner: Biolage Cooling Mint Conditioner. A must-have if you’re prone to breakouts around your hairline. Glycerin controls oil production while a combination of green tea, mallow root, and aqua oils protect against self-imposed stresses like your high-watt blow-dryer. ($14) 

Ten years ago, we noticed more and more products promising health and beauty, so we put together a panel of dermatologists to select the best. A decade later, the bar is still being raised, as you can tell by our 2008 beauty winners. You don’t have to go far to find these favorites; most are at drugstores and department stores nationwide.

Lisa M. Donofrio, MD, an associate clinical professor of dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine, was glad to see diversity in the products on the shelves. “Companies are really starting to take into consideration a wider range of ethnicities and age groups,” Donofrio says.

Grace H. Pak, MD, a board-certified cosmetic dermatologist with a private practice in New York City, was excited by the increasing number of green products. Beauty companies “are all using botanical ingredients and more recycled material for packaging,” Pak says.

Sandra S. Tsao, MD, an associate program director for procedural dermatology at Harvard Medical School, was impressed with the reduction of potential allergens in products. “This makes more products accessible to even the most sensitive individuals,” Tsao says.

By Rozalynn S. Frazier and Colleen Sullivan

Surprising New Ways to Use Salt

Skin Softener
Got winter-weary skin? Make this simple body scrub, courtesy of Miiamo, a destination spa in Sedona, Arizona. Blend 1/2 cup sea salt, 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil, and 4–5 drops of lavender oil. Apply with
smooth strokes and rinse.

Sinus remedy
Stuffy? Mix 1/2 cup warm water with 1/2 teaspoon noniodized salt, says Diane Heatley, MD, of the American Academy of Otolaryngology. Using a neti pot, pour the mixture into one nostril; it’ll flow out he other. Repeat on other side.

Stain Buster
To remove coffee-mug stains and shine dingy wooden cutting boards, sprinkle them with kosher salt (a natural abrasive) and scrub with a sponge, says Bruce Mattel, associate dean for culinary arts at the Culinary Institute of America.

Drink Cooler
Mattel’s suggestion for chilling champagne in a flash: Place bottles in an ice bucket with a layer of ice at the base, followed by a layer of coarse or table salt. Repeat layers until full, then add cold
water. Salt speeds the drop in water temperature.