Beautytap Awards 2025: Top Editor’s Picks For Facial Skincare Products

Beauty innovation flourished in 2025 with extraordinary products spanning cutting-edge technology, iconic brand masterpieces, and physician-developed breakthroughs.

Beautytap’s highly discerning Editorial Team tested, assessed, and curated this collection to showcase exceptional formulations and new must-have skincare, makeup, fragrance, and haircare essentials.​

From Hollywood studios to French vineyards, New Zealand shores to Vermont farms, these editor-approved choices earned their recognition through impressive results and ingredient integrity. Whether harnessing LED therapy, ancient botanicals, biomimetic peptides, or time-honored ingredients reimagined for modern skincare, each offers powerful benefits worth celebrating.

Face Cream – Dr. Diamond's Metacine HYDR/O Bioactive Barrier Moisturizer

Science meets sophistication in Dr. Diamond's Metacine HYDR/O Bioactive Barrier Moisturizer. Created by Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Diamond who is sought after by Hollywood's elite, this advanced formulation brings transformative skin treatments to daily routines. A patent-pending Bioactive Hydrolipid Fusion bolsters your derma’s defense system by fusing water with skin-identical lipids, ceramides, and cholesterol for sustained hydration. The sumptuous cream repairs, balances, locks in moisture, and protects against environmental aggressors. The result? Fortified, calm skin that radiates from within.

Face Serum – Barrier Repairing Hydra-Serum by Sweet Chemistry

Transform skin with Sweet Chemistry's Barrier Repairing Hydra-Serum. This revolutionary brand and co-founder/chemist Alec Batis are shaking up the skincare industry thanks to their clean formulas featuring the proprietary and regenerative Matrikynes® peptides, naturally derived from upcycled bovine bone. Along with their uncompromising transparency, this is truly efficacious, science-backed skincare. And the savvy bottle prevents oxidation to preserve potency.

Face Cleanser – Tata Harper Regenerative Cleanser

Tata Harper’s Regenerating Cleanser is a complexion-perfecting multitasker. This Beautytap favorite (4.8 stars, 198 reviews) uses apricot microspheres and pomegranate enzymes to buff away dullness and refine texture while white willow bark naturally exfoliates. Lovingly crafted in Vermont with farm-to-face ingredients—pink clay draws out impurities, olive oil liquid crystals moisturize, aloe soothes, and high-performance botanicals tighten and brighten—the refreshing lather rinses clean without stripping. It’s a mini facial in every wash.

Face Mask – Linda Ross Colostrum Mask

Unveil a Hollywood skincare secret with Linda Ross Colostrum Mask created by the esteemed Beverly Hills based celebrity facialist. This three-ingredient formula harnesses colostrum—nature's nutrient-dense superfood—to saturate skin with regenerative growth factors, protective antibodies, and fortifying proteins that spark cellular renewal and revive lackluster complexions. Hand-crafted in small batches, the innovative mask improves elasticity and collagen while calming inflammation. True to Ross's philosophy of quality over quantity, camera-ready skin emerges pronto with a youthful glow.

K-Beauty Skincare – Well, Everything!

Want your skincare to deliver results without breaking the bank? So do we, which is why we love K-beauty so much. Innovative products that amp up our skin’s glow while making it look hydrated and firm always top our list, like the Anua Rice 70 Glow Collagen Mask. It’s fun to wear and actually changes from opaque to transparent as the essence absorbs into the skin, so we know when to remove it.

In K-beauty, glowy doesn’t mean greasy, and Femmue’s Ideal Camellia Signature Cream makes the most of K-beauty ingredient faves, like green tea, shea butter, and antioxidant-rich camellia seed oil. It’s perfect for mature skin or when rejuvenating after spending a day on the snowy, windy slopes.

And don’t forget about one of the buzziest ingredients in K-beauty today: PDRN. We love the juicy jelly texture of Abib’s PDRN Collagen Overnight Mask. Use it in place of your normal night-time moisturizer. You won’t feel the least bit sticky if you use the cute little silicone spatula that’s included. Less really is more here – making it a great value – and if your skin is prone to redness or irritation, you’ll be surprised at how calm and even it looks the next morning. Bonus: It’s fabulous as a quick fix for chapped hands in winter. Apply, chill out for 10 minutes, then rinse it off.

Pimple Patches – Peace Out Early Stage Acne Dots

Nothing ruins a good day like a pimple. We don’t have time to outwait blemishes, and Peace Out has elevated our expectations of what hydrocolloidal patches can and should do. The Early Stage Acne Dots go straight to work on burgeoning blemishes by opening clogged pores and absorbing pus and oil. They also keep our grimy mitts from further worsening those zits.

These next-level skin wonders send salicylic acid into pimples to break up the gunk below the surface, and then dark-spot-lightening niacinamide goes to work to keep redness at bay. What makes these little babies so special is their tiny but mighty microneedles that help deliver those active ingredients where you need them most.

Peel-Off Mask – COSRX PDRN Exosome Skinplaning Glaze Mask

Imagine if your favorite minimalist brand created an inexpensive product marrying two of the buzziest ingredients in skincare? You’d buy it in an instant, right? COSRX has gone and done just that. Recently, we discussed both COSRX and PDRN products in a detailed K-beauty article, and the COSRX PDRN Exosome Skinplaning Glaze Mask earns a spot on our “best of” list for 2025. Why? Because it delivers true glazed skin results in one usage.

The peel-off mask goes on white and turns transparent with a hint of iridescence when fully dry. As the film dries, it locks in moisture – so much so that the brand even recommends wearing it overnight as you sleep! Think of the top two ingredients as you and your BFF. One just makes the other better.

Exosomes help deliver hydration to boost skin’s barrier function while soothing irritation. PDRN builds on the effect of the exosomes by calming redness and amplifying the renewal process. And those ingredients are further supported by hyaluronic acid, peptides, collagen, niacinamide, and glutathione. In short, it’s a 20–40 minute one-product treatment that’ll get your glow on in a flash.

LED Face Mask – TheraFace Mask Glo

Future-proof your radiance. TheraFace Mask Glo by Therabody delivers spa-grade results in just 12 minutes a day. This cordless marvel harnesses 504 medical-grade LED lights to reduce fine lines, firm sagging skin, and boost clarity in as little as eight weeks. The comfy full-face design transmits therapeutic red, blue, and infrared wavelengths while built-in VibraWave technology gives a relaxing scalp massage. "It's like I’m getting a professional treatment anywhere, anytime," raves Kendall Jenner. Slip it on for a stunning complexion—no appointments required.

Multi-Functional at Home Face Tool – Metamorphosis MorphoGlow

Renew and reveal your best skin with Metamorphosis MorphoGlow. This 5-in-1 butterfly-shaped tool unites ancient Gua Sha technique with red and near-infrared LED light therapy, microcurrent, therapeutic warmth, and sonic vibration—all in one graceful ritual. Petite yet powerful, it nestles comfortably in your palm while working at a cellular level to increase circulation, stimulate collagen production, sculpt facial contours, diminish puffiness, and maximize serum absorption. Witness visible transformation in just 10 minutes a day.

Thank you to Tracy Teel and Danica Farley for their contributions to this editorial.