Best of 2024: Beauty

This 7 piece set contains the brand’s best-selling products and will ensure a streamlined morning beauty routine without compromising on the gorgeous, clean luxury we know and love about Merit products. The kit is also personalized, so you’ll be able to pre-select shades before checkout. The best selling The Minimalist (foundation) and Flush Balm (cheek color) are also known to be dual purpose products which makes this even better value for money.

Vintner’s Daughter products have a cult following, and for good reason. Think results driven no-nonsense skincare. If you’re looking for something extra special for the skincare aficionado on your list, this is sure to delight them. The Signature Set includes the brand's beloved and award winning Active Botanical Serum and Active Treatment Essence, the ultimate toolkit for soft, glowy refined skin.

An elegant hair-care brand rooted in ritual, Crown Affair’s clean, effective formulations and beautiful tools bestow healthy, hydrated hair. While the transformation in your hair and calming of your routine is significant, the brand has a less-is-more ethos: “My entire vision with our products is to be the no makeup makeup of hair,” says Founder Dianna Cohen.

Given the lack of clarity – and regulation – around “clean beauty” and ingredient safety, ILIA founder Sasha Plavsic’s no compromise approach, innovation and commitment to SPF (which increases her powerful formulas’ ability to shield skin from environmental stressors by 200%) takes on even greater meaning. Balanced and fuss-free is always achievable in ILIA’s full range of makeup – starting with this Super Serum Skin Tint.

Founder Laney Crowell may not have been the first with the mission to develop a clean beauty brand with high-performance formulas, but she is one of the most community-driven and fan-focused, often taking inspiration from customers. Her spectacular products are both quality-made and affordable. We particularly love this genius serum, oil, moisturizer and sunscreen all-in-one.

Formulated with Copper Peptides, Zinc Oxide, and a few other complicated skincare superheroes to plump, firm, and support a healthy skin barrier, this clean, tinted gel cream does the job of your moisturizer and your makeup – the stuff of streamlined skincare dreams.

NuFACE was created in 2005 by Carol Cole, a licensed aesthetician practicing since 1985, and her daughters because they realized that their clients needed more frequent microcurrent treatments in between their professionally administered facials. So what exactly is microcurrent therapy? It’s “a low-level current that mimics the body’s natural ionic flow” and can improve muscle tone in the face and neck, aid in lymphatic drainage, and tighten the skin, among several other benefits.

OUI The People founder Karen Young breaks through the male-dominated shaving market with The Single, the exquisite single blade razor that provides a close and painless shave. The brand further delights with its recent foray in bodycare, which includes unique, nourishing products. TQE editors are partial to Sugarcoat Shave Gel to Milk, Hydrating Body Gloss and Hydrating Bikini Sheet Masks, all of which encourage feeling good about our bodies, rather than striving for perfection.

We get it, the thought of fake tan can instill fear in your heart. Memories of late 00s orange complexions and patchy elbows definitely come to mind. However, fake tan has entered a new era thanks to Saltyface. The family-owned Canadian brand is here to take you to the bronze age – seamlessly and naturally, with their minimalist range which blurs the lines between skincare and self tan. The Essential Tanning Set is a great place to start, not to mention a great gift idea. The three piece kit contains Tanning Water for the face, Tanning Foam for the body, and a vegan body brush for foolproof, streakless application.