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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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) 

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