L'Officiel Beauty Awards 2021: Best Toners
Never neglect the use of a toner in your routine. Toners remove any excess traces of dirt, grime, or impurities leftover on your pores post-cleansing. In this category, we deliver our top picks of clarifying, hydrating, soothing, lifting, brightening, and calming products to prep your skin for the layering of more to come.
Clarifying: Lancôme Clarifique Dual Essence
This lightweight toner contains a precise blend of vitamin C, salicylic acid, and beech bud extract that exfoliates and refines your skin, leaving it feeling smoother without a sticky after-feel.
Hydrating: d program Moist Care Lotion
Formulated to soothe, repair, and protect, this unscented toner absorbs quickly into the skin to improve dryness from within.“Keeps skin feeling hydrated and balanced throughout the day,” says Nurul Suhaila.
Soothing: ETUDE Soon Jung Cica Relief Toner
Formulated with sensitive skin in mind, this gentle toner contains ETUDE’s Advanced CicaTM formulation to hydrate and strengthen your skin’s barrier.“It reduced irritation and redness on my skin very quickly. I used this after using an exfoliating acid and my face was tingling and slightly red.This calmed it down and left my skin feeling moisturised,” says Dr Rachel Ho.
Brightening: Fenty Skin Fat Water Pore-refining Toner Serum
This multitasking product works as both a toner and a serum. It comes packed with powerful ingredients like niacinamide, Barbados cherry, and witch hazel water to tackle uneven dark spots and brighten skin without aggravating it.
Lifting: d program Vital Act Lotion
Ideal for mature sensitive skin, this toner uses yeast extract complex and dipotassium glycyrrhizate to defend your skin from visible signs of ageing and tackle fine lines and wrinkles.
Calming: Straits Skincare Soothing Plantain Toner
This toner contains Peranakan skincare secrets in a bottle.This paraben-free, soap-free, sulphate-free, and dye-free formulation uses hyaluronic acid, witch hazel extract and chamomile flower extract to retain moisture, soothe and refine your skin.