Do you want to unwind the clock in 2023? Unfortunately, we can’t go back in time, but you can rewind some of your skin’s damage and promote a youthful, glowing appearance. Also, if you want to mix up your skincare routine and make it more anti-aging, we have you covered!
Understanding your skin type and what you need is an essential first step. If your skin appears shiny, or ladies, if you find your makeup slipping off during the day, you’re likely a combination or oily skin type. If your skin feels a bit tight and flakey, you’re likely a dry skin type. If you’re neither, you’re probably normal. Regardless of skin type, anti-aging is an important step in any skincare routine, and there’s no better time to start than the present!
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Short of plastic surgery, there’s plenty you can do to reduce wrinkles and brighten and tighten your skin, and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune, either. There are so many different anti-aging products in this oversaturated market, so we’ve curated the 28 best anti-aging products in 2023 so you don’t have to try them all.
This anti-aging and rejuvenating eye cream is a must for your skincare routine. Wrinkles and fine lines around the eyes are unfortunately inevitable, whether caused by staring at a computer screen all day, sun exposure, or just time. So, if you don't take care of your skin, you'll begin to look wise beyond your years - and not in a good way!
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Blu Atlas is leading the anti-aging revolution, and its eye cream is ahead of the pack. The nutrient-dense formula boasts algae extract, caffeine, and vitamin C, leaving your eyes looking smooth and feeling refreshed. In addition, its ingredients will help to eradicate dark circles and puffy eyes.
The team has made it incredibly easy to determine which products are best for you with a handy quiz on their website that caters to all your skincare needs. Additionally, each product includes a breakdown of key ingredients and their intended use.
The Restorative Eye Stick is made using 98% natural ingredients – think plants, minerals, and fruits – so good! They also have a medical advisory board, so you know there are no hidden nasties, and it will be the finest quality for your eyes.
2. Clarins Beauty Flash Balm
This is Clarins best-selling product, and rightfully so – it firms, strengthens, softens, and promotes radiance from within. It works great as a daily moisturizer, promoting that youthful glow, and can also be used a few times a week as a more intensive overnight mask.
Beauty Flash Balm is packed with goodness, including prickly pear extract to help activate cell renewal, organic oat sugars to smooth and tighten the skin, and acerola seed extract to enhance your skin’s glow. It’s made with 96% naturally-sourced ingredients, too.
Get that fresh-out-the-spa glow every day. Based in France, Clarins is a world leader in skincare, having built its reputation for luxury products over more than 60 years. Did we mention you can also use this go-to as a primer under makeup?
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3. Lumin Ultra-Hydrating Moisturizing Balm
The team at Lumin has created this unreal Ultra-Hydrating Moisturizing Balm to keep your skin feeling and looking as fresh as a daisy. It targets dryness and dullness, two major concerns when it comes to aging, and it does a fantastic job, too. Made with men in mind, it will help with your aging concerns and is suitable for all skin types.
The non-greasy formula is great if you don’t like feeling anything on the skin, and it has a great lineup of key ingredients. Meadowfoam seed oil helps defend against environmental pollutants and boasts many antioxidants. It also has apple and ginger extract, which soothe and smooth fine lines and wrinkles, even out skin tone, and repair sun damage.
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4. Lush Feeling Younger Skin Tint
Lush is a leader in environmentally friendly, vegan, and vegetarian skincare, and its Feeling Younger Skin Tint will help give your skin a healthy and illuminating glow. Dab it bit on your cheekbones and the bridge of your nose, or mix it with your moisturizer to give your face an all-around glow.
In addition to giving your skin a more youthful appearance, this wee gem also contains almond oil, jojoba, and orange flower to brighten and moisturize. This product lets you see immediate results while still working hard to repair for long-term effects – fab!
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5. Aesop Protective Facial Lotion SPF25
Sunscreen is essential to any anti-aging routine – the sun's UVA and UVB rays can seriously damage the skin, especially the delicate and sensitive skin on your face. Premature aging through sun exposure is super common and will reduce your skin's elasticity.
Aesop's Protective Facial lotion is a 25SPF facial sunscreen that hydrates the skin – two birds, one stone. The lightweight and fast-absorbing formula contains green tea, panthenol, and tocopherol and has a sweet scent. Pop it on in the mornings and extend it down to your neckline to protect your skin, and don't forget to reapply it throughout the day.
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6. Kiehl’s Ultimate Strength Hand Salve
Anti-aging isn’t just for the face; your hands have it pretty rough, too. Kiehl’s Ultimate Strength Hand Salve is a heavy-duty hand cream for those whose hands go through some rough stuff during the day or are particularly dry and need some extra love.
Their super-thick formula will coat your hands, leaving them soft and protected with a second-skin-like layer. Its key ingredients include eucalyptus, avocado, and sesame seed oils, which protect and smell great. You can pop this on overnight as a mask or apply it in the morning. You can reapply throughout the day if your skin requires serious TLC – think of it like a glove.
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7. Lancome Advanced Genifique Face Serum
Lancome's Advanced Genifique Face Serum is one of the leaders in the market – these guys know anti-aging. Serum is applied before moisturizing and after cleansing to deliver all its goodness to the skin. It penetrates deeper than a moisturizer, which is why it goes on first.
One of the key ingredients is hyaluronic acid, which plumps the skin and can hold 1000 times its weight in water - that's some serious hydration. It also contains vitamin Cg, which will boost that much-desired radiance. Advanced Genifique works hard to boost your skin's recovery, leaving you brighter and tighter in all the right places.
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8. Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser
Keeping your skin cleansed is the foundation of any skincare regime, but if your goal is anti-aging, you want to be using a hydrating cleanser to keep that moisture locked in. Enter Cetaphil’s Gentle Skin Cleanser – this creamy formula is perfect for sensitive skin and retaining moisture. In addition, it will remove dirt and draw out impurities while leaving behind continuous hydration.
This product is suitable for all skin types and is free of anything that may irritate, including fragrance, oil, and parabens. It’s also hypoallergenic and has glycerin to hydrate, vitamin B5 to restore, and vitamin E to soothe.
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9. Drunk Elephant C-Firma Fresh Day Serum
Vitamin C is a holy-grail ingredient when it comes to the best anti-aging products – something you should definitely be looking out for. It helps to prevent your skin from aging and supports collagen development. It’ll also brighten and limit the effects of nasty free radicals – the stuff that breaks down collagen.
Drunk Elephant has the answer with their C-Firma Fresh Day Serum, which is packed with 15% vitamin C. It’ll suit any skin type and works to improve fine lines and wrinkles, dullness, uneven skin texture, and elasticity. In addition, drunk Elephant has a pretty strong focus on skin-friendly pH levels, so it's excellent for more sensitive types. Pop it on each morning before sunscreen and love the results.
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10. Dose & Co. Beauty Collagen
Collagen is another major player when it comes to your skin’s elasticity, hydration, and health. You should definitely keep an eye out for it in products you pop on the skin, but you can also take it as a supplement to repair skin from within. Great for hair and nails, too, Dose & Co’s Beauty Collagen is designed to be mixed with water and drunk to give you that glow.
On top of that all-important collagen, the formula also has vitamin C. This one isn’t suited for our veggie friends as it does contain animal products, but Dose & Co. also offers a vegan range. If you’re unsure where to start, their website is super informative and can help you choose the right product for your needs.
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11. Sukin Purely Ageless Pro Intensive Revitalising Overnight Mask
If you’re a bit short on time or want a less intensive anti-aging routine, this overnight facemask will do you quite nicely. Simply apply at night after cleansing from your forehead down your neckline, then let it get to work. It will plump, firm, smoothen, and even out your skin tone as you rest.
The golden ingredient here is bakuchiol, a natural alternative to retinol, so great on sensitive skin. It also boasts hyaluronic acid and Australian kangaroo paw flower extract. Made in Australia, Sukin use natural ingredients, is a cruelty-free brand, and is sustainably conscious in all they do.
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12. Bulldog Skincare For Men Age Defence Moisturiser
This budget-friendly moisturizer for men really outperforms any others in its category. Free from all that gross stuff, it’s an eco-friendly alternative. The Age Defense Moisturiser will work well with any good facial cleanser.
It will help to get rid of annoying wrinkles and keep your skin moisturized as well as smooth its appearance – recommended for use morning and night. Bulldog’s website is helpful if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed – allowing you to pop in your skin concerns and discover what’s best suited for you.
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13. Me Today Botanical Miracle Facial Oil
A miracle in a bottle – how nice! One of Me Today’s best sellers, this face oil is packed with everything you need to moisturize and reverse the clock. It is bursting with nine essential oils, including chia seed, which is full of antioxidants and will calm irritation and redness, and grape seed oil, which contains loads of vitamin E and will protect against nasties in the air.
A budget-friendly option, the Me Today Botanical Miracle Facial Oil is a reprieve for your face. Their website also offers a handy skin quiz, in case you’re feeling a little overwhelmed at the products on offer, in addition to a range of vitamins to help your skin from the inside out.
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14. Clinique Anti-Age Moisturizer
Just like the name suggests, this moisturizer from Clinique, specifically designed for men, will help with your aging woes. This hydrating and revitalizing fast-absorbing formula will combat fine lines and wrinkles and works against dullness. In addition, it’s oil-free, will work well with more oily skin, and is parabens, phthalates, and fragrance-free.
What makes it work? Hexapeptide-8, which will strengthen your skin’s cells, vitamin E to hydrate and soothe, and caffeine to wake that skin up and promote circulation. Clinique has been working on skincare since 1968, so you can trust they’ve put in the hard work to perfect the formula.
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15. Aesop Mandarin Facial Hydrating Cream
Aesop’s been creating sustainable skincare since 1987 and has a strong sustainability focus. Their Mandarin Facial Hydrating Cream is excellent for normal to oily skin types, so if you’ve got dry skin, you can skip this one.
This product has a fresh, lightweight formula, so your skin won’t be left feeling greasy or heavy. Packed full of citrus fruits, we love the smell of this one – expect notes of mandarin, lemon rind, and tangerine. It is a perfectly refreshing formula for those that like feeling like there’s nothing on their face.
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It’ll cool the skin while toning and balancing – a refreshing way to end a warm day. Use this one morning and night after cleansing and toning to have your skin looking and feeling its best.
16. The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution
Toning is definitely something that is often forgotten about or skipped in a skincare routine, but it makes such a difference. It helps to restore the pH balance in your skin, helping with oiliness.
The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution is water-based, meaning extra hydration and no alcohol to dry out your face. It focuses on dullness and texture issues and contains Tasmanian pepper berries to prevent irritation. Toners are not needed daily, so we recommend every other night after cleansing and before adding all those other fab anti-aging products.
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17. Bondi Sands Sport SPF 50+ Aerosol Mist
While we've discussed facial sunscreen, what about the rest of your body? While we all love a tan, protecting your skin from damaging UVA and UVB rays is crucial. So use a fake tan instead and save your skin. Bondi Sands has developed an excellent formula with their Sport SPF 50+ sunscreen, which comes in a convenient spray can.
It's water-resistant, lightweight, and designed specifically for sport; however, it will serve as a nice non-greasy formula no matter what you're up to. If the spray aerosol isn't your vibe, it also comes in a lotion, which will go a bit further than the mist.
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18. Trilogy Active Enzyme Cleansing Cream
Trilogy's Active Enzyme Cleansing Cream is jam-packed with active ingredients and designed with anti-aging in mind. It provides triple-acting benefits - smoothing, brightening, and refining the skin. You can also leave it on your face for 3-5 minutes for a deeper clean.
The cleanser is certified natural, vegan-friendly, made in New Zealand, and 98.6% of its ingredients are of natural origin. Some of the key ingredients include antioxidant-rich vitamin E, brightening mulberry, and purifying bromelain from pineapple. The velvety texture gently exfoliates, leaving you feeling clean, fresh, and renewed.
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19. Paula’s Choice Hyaluronic Acid + Peptide Lip Booster
Sometimes your pout can give away your age! In addition to using an SPF lip balm daily, you can add this Paula’s Choice Hyaluronic Acid + Peptide Lip Booster to your routine. The key ingredients listed in the name work hard to smooth fine lines, firm, and hydrate.
The metal applicator gives a burst of coolness and helps the product glide on your lips easily. It also helps to add volume to the lips and works as a preventative for future aging, not just restoring past damage. The perfect addition to your handbag or pocket, it won’t take up too much room and can be applied throughout the day or just before bed once daily.
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20. Murad Rapid Collagen Infusion
If you’re looking for a quick fix, this fast-acting infusion is designed to be used between cleansing and moisturizing – results can be seen in just a couple of hours. Suitable for all skin types, the Murad Rapid Collagen Infusion plumps, re-volumizes, and restores.
It works by infusing the surface of your skin with collagen amino acids, which promote hydration. It was developed by dermatologists and is free from parabens, sulfates, and phthalates. Kudos all around for a product that acts instantly as well as longer-term.
21. Shiseido Ultimune Power Infusing Serum
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Japanese brand Shiseido is well-known for its luxurious skincare and makeup. The Ultimune Power Infusing Serum is their top-of-the-line product and is pretty powerful. It boosts hydration and radiance, visibly reduces signs of aging, and is dermatologist-tested.
Some key players here are fermented roselle extract to increase your skin's capacity to hold water; heartleaf extract, an ancient Eastern herb that soothes, detoxifies, and protects; and reishi mushroom for antioxidant goodness. In addition, Shiseido promotes refilling products rather than creating more waste by repurchasing, so if you're environmentally-minded, this could be great.
22. Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Concentrated Recovery PowerFoil Mask
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If you're new to the anti-aging journey and seeking to combat those initial signs, this Estee Lauder mask may be for you. It's a sheet mask, as opposed to a wash-off one, and it comes in two parts to apply seamlessly to your face, unlike others in the market.
Recommended once a week, this super-rich formula delivers a double dose of Estee Lauder's moisture magnet, leaving your skin hydrated as ever. After removing the mask, be sure to rub any excess product into your skin to reap its full benefits. Then, simply head to bed and let the mask work its magic.
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23. Skyn Iceland Hydro Cool Firming Eye Gels
De-puff and firm those under-eye bags with these Hydro Cool Firming Eye Gels. Stick the eye gels on for about ten minutes at the end of a busy week as you Netflix and chill – a perfect way to unwind. These work so well as the active ingredient is hydrolyzed extensin, which plumps, hydrates, tones, and firms the fine skin under the eyes.
It also contains a blend of Icelandic glacial water for hydration and acetyl hexapeptide-8 to reduce those wrinkles. It's also free from animal products, parabens, silicones, and fragrances – how lovely!
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24. Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Ultra Gentle Daily Peel
Suitable for sensitive skin, the Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Ultra Gentle Daily Peel is a two-step exfoliating treatment. Step one is all about cleansing the skin and lifting away dead skin cells, with camomile to soothe.
Step two is where the anti-aging comes into it, packed with retinol to smooth lines and increase elasticity. Just like the doctor ordered, this skincare brand focuses on science-based products, which they’ve been developing for 25 years.
25. Nécessaire Neck Serum Fragrance Free
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So much skincare is focused on the face, but the neck and the back of the hands often age the fastest, and the neck is often neglected when it comes to anti-aging. So one of the best anti-aging products in 2023 has to be this Neck Serum by Nécessaire – designed specifically for that delicate area.
This multi-peptide treatment supports the skin’s natural collagen production. In addition, it targets neck aging and tech-neck – strain and aging on the neck caused by technology use. Pop on before bed and wake up lifted and firmed.
26. Elizabeth Arden Hyaluronic Acid Ceramide Capsules Hydra-Plumping Serum
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These lightweight serum capsules are great for measuring out the perfect amount of product – not too much and not too little. They combine hyaluronic acid and ceramide to rejuvenate your face and neck. It does all the good things – plumps, firms, and hydrates.
Elizabeth Ardern of New York has been creating skincare products since 1910, so they’ve got it down to a fine art at this point.
27. Dr. Barbara Sturm Hydrating Face Mist
Keep it simple with this hydrating mist from Dr. Barbara Strum. Give yourself a spritz or keep it on your desk for a wee boost during a busy day at work. In addition to hyaluronic acid, lemon, aloe vera, and broccoli extract, this mist also boasts purslane, an anti-aging powerhouse.
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Depending on how dry your skin is, you can use this once or multiple times a day.
28. Juice Beauty Stem Cellular Anti-Wrinkle Overnight Cream
Another of the best anti-aging products is the Juice Beauty Stem Cellular Anti-Wrinkle Overnight Cream. This overnight intensive cream will have you waking up with a plump, youthful complexion in no time.
Vitamin C and hyaluronic acid are the stars of the show here, both of which are well-known for their anti-aging properties. There’s also panthenol, which reduces inflammation and promotes the healing of wounds.
Why Men Should Use Anti-Aging Products
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Everyone should use anti-aging products to help keep their skin's appearance youthful and fresh. Men's skin is often out in the elements and may be exposed to harsh environments through work or other activities. With that in mind, men need to take care of their skin with anti-aging products to help protect and preserve their skin.
There are anti-aging products designed specifically for men to fight common skin concerns, reduce lines, and increase firmness and smoothness. That said, don't shy away from more feminine-looking products – they may be more delicate on the skin, especially if yours is a little more sensitive.
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If you're feeling overwhelmed – don't worry, we get it – try to start off with a simple anti-aging moisturizer, and don't forget to incorporate sunscreen into your daily routine as UVA and UVB rays cause the skin to age pretty dramatically.
Frequently Asked Questions
I’m Only Young, Do I Still Need Anti-Aging Products?
The short answer is yes – anti-aging products will benefit anyone, regardless of age. Some products are designed specifically to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while others help to retain moisture and skin elasticity. So it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to rewind the clock or hold on to what you have; anti-aging products can benefit all.
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What Is Best to Prevent Aging?
Moisturiser is your best friend when it comes to aging, whether you need preventative or regenerative measures. We recommend you start looking after your skin as early as possible to prevent damage and reduce dryness – as we age, our skin naturally loses moisture.
In addition to moisturizer, it's important to protect your skin from those harsh UV rays – slip, slop, and slap on sunscreen wherever possible. In addition to sunscreen, use SPF lip balm – your lips will thank you for it.
What Slows down Skin Aging?
Unfortunately, aging is just one of the facts of life; you can, however, work to slow it down and even reverse some of the signs by using the right anti-aging products and looking after your skin. A little exercise and a well-balanced diet will do you a world of wonder when it comes to a lovely complexion.
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Vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, collagen, and ceramide are good ingredients to look out for when searching for anti-aging skin products. Don’t just focus on the face and eyes either; remember the neck, hands, and lips when you’re doing your daily routine.
