Singaporean Beauty Brands The World Needs to Keep an Eye On
Jet-set vicariously through these Singaporean beauty finds.
The fun thing about visiting Singapore was discovering the newest and best experiences to try locally. But while travelling isn’t something we can do now, we still can experience the best the Lion City has to offer, at least for something we can discover safely from our own homes: their homegrown beauty. They’re known for the most premium and technologically-advanced of standards, so their skincare and makeup formulas shouldn’t be any different. Reimagine the Singapore experience by shopping these top beauty picks below.
Your ultra-light and ultra-luxe “first line of defense against city living,” this anti-oxidant and protecting serum works for Singaporeans but also works as well for Philippine city-dwellers. We’re familiar with smog, dust, and smoke, the effects of which this anti-pollution helps reduce with peach juice, kudzu root, and argan oil. Different sorts of pollution we’re exposed to can cause premature aging and stress on our skin, so this serum fights to prevent those effects by strengthening the skin barrier and keeping the skin healthy for longer.
Wherever you are in the world, screen time is significantly rising all the while our sleep time consistently gets reduced. Something you can use to help keep the eye area feel and look fresher and more youthful is this peptides-and-omega-packed eye cream that aims to hydrate and de-puff the delicate skin around your lids with an added boost of hyaluronic acid for maximum hydration around the eyes, squalene for improving elasticity, and 1% bakuchiol that helps significantly improve skin tone and radiance.
“Mochi skin” is what the beauty world calls complexion that is supple, plump, free of fine lines, and is bouncy yet firm—just like the delicacy of the same name. This award-winning Multi Targeted Elixir from Re:Erth claims to give you “mochi skin” in a bottle, with a lightweight formula that absorbs in 10 seconds. This vegan, cruelty-free, non-comedogenic, oil-free formula uses Japanese spring turmeric as the main active to help brighten, even skin tone, and lighten pigmentation, as it is an active that supposedly inhibits tyrosinase activity, eventually reducing overproduction of melanin that causes unevenness, hyperpigmentation, and dark spots in the skin.
If you prefer a one-step do-it-all, this concentrated serum from BSkin is your best bet for skin renewal. It contains a straightforward active: a high concentration of stabilized L-Ascorbic Acid that helps stimulate cell repair, offers antioxidant protection, and boosts dull skin. Because the Vitamin C active is more stabilized, it is also less likely to cause itching, irritation, redness, and breakouts as more unstable formulations with the same ingredient are prone to.
Simple and sensitive-skin friendly, Skin Bae’s Holy Grail Soothing Cleanser is your gentle everyday wash. It’s rich, creamy, and comforting, containing milk thistle which is known to have anti-inflammatory properties and to reduce redness. This natural, cruelty-free, paraben-free daily skin product also brightens and softens the skin with a aloe and rose hip extracts.
The skincare spa-slash-label was initially founded as a facial bar in 2014, aiming to provide organic and natural facial and body treatments in Singapore. Two years later, the KewOrganics skincare line was launched, a “seriously” water-based, minimalist and high-performance organic skincare label, said to be the first in Singapore and the world. Get a sampling of their simple approach to skincare with a super-hydrating cleansing bar that revitalizes dull skin while refining face texture.
