Best Beauty Products Checklist

Beauty products for aging women

Good Housekeeping’s recent issue features their favorite picks for skincare, hair and makeup products. GH’s beauty lab scientists evaluated over 1,000 products and published the top 75.

The good news; many can be purchased at your local drugstore and are reasonably priced. To save you time, here are several (for women in Act 2.5) that made the list:

Face, Neck and Eyes

Anti-agers

  • Mary Kay’s Timewise Age Minimize 3D Day Cream – $32
  • Roc’s Retinol Correxion Max Daily Hydrating Cream – $28
  • No7’s Restore and Renew Face and Neck Multi-Action Serum – $44
  • Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Night Moisturizer – $22
  • L’Oreal Paris Age Perfect Eye Renewal – $14
  • No7 laboratories Line Correcting Boost Serum – $42

Cleansers

  • Dermalogica Rapid Reveal Peel – $85
  • Acure Brightening Facial Scrub – $10
  • Cetaphil Daily facial Cleanser – $9
  • Pond’s Cleansing Balm – $10

Makeup

Mascara

  • Maybelline New York Total Temptation – $9
  • LaRoche-Posay Respectissime (waterproof) – $25

Eyeliner

  • Physicians Formula Instaready Glide-on Gel – $6

Foundation   

  • Bare Minerals Original Foundation (Powder) – $29
  • Armani Beauty Luminous Silk – $64

Concealer

  • It Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye – $26
  • Estee Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-place Flawless Wear – $29

Brow-Definer

  • L’Oreal Paris Unbelievable Brow – $17

Lipstick

  • Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Luxe Matte Lip Color – $37
  • YSL Rouge Pur Couture the Slim Matte – $39
  • Chanel Rouge Allure Liquid Powder – $30
  • No7 Stay Perfect – $13

Blush   

  • Covergirl Cheekers Blush – $4
  • Elizabeth Arden Cool Glow Cheek Tint – $27

Body

Wash

  • Olay Fresh Outlast Body Wash Orchid and Black Currant – $5

Lotions

  • Dove DermaSeries Dry Skin Relief – $11
  • Eucerin Advanced Repair – $15
  • Aveeno Skin Relief Hand Cream – $7

Sunscreen   

  • Banana Boat SunComfort SPF 50 – $8
  • Neutrogena Cool Dry Sport Water-Resistant Spray SPF 50 – $50

Bronzer

  • Sally Hansen Air-Brush Legs Illuminator – $10

Hair

Volumizing

  • Garnier Fructis Full and Plush Shampoo and Conditioner – $4 each

Color Protecting

  • Tresemme Keratin Smooth Color Shampoo and Conditioner – $5 each

Hydrating

  • Dove Daily Moisture Shampoo – $4

Hair Color

  • Clairol Nice ‘N Easy color Care – $8

Color Touch-up

  • Clairol Root Touch-up by Nice ‘N Easy – $7

Detangle

  • Garnier Whole Blends, Milk Oat Delicacy – $7

Shaping Mousse

  • Not Your Mother’s Blue Sea Kale and Pure Coconut Water Sea Minerals Weightless Mousse – $10

To learn more about new makeup techniques that will soften the aging process without breaking the bank visit our Makeup Conundrum article.