Here at H&H, we love a beauty product, and have been lucky enough to try many of them – from serums to shampoos, moisturisers to masks. Our Beauty Awards are the culmination of all of those hours spent trying, discussing and recommending the very best beauty products that we have been lucky enough to try. So, without further ado, meet 2025’s beauty awards winners.

Best Facial Mist

Gold: Nooance, Serum Mist Ultra Radiance+

Say hello to glowing skin with Nooance’s award-winning Serum Mist. A refreshing facial mist that hydrates, brightens, and boosts your skin’s radiance. Perfect for an instant glow-up. 

Runner Up: MZ Skin, Anti Pollution Hydrating Mist 

Best Face Mask

Gold : Oskia, Renaissance Mask

The ultimate skincare treat for a glowing complexion. This luxurious enzyme mask gently exfoliates, brightens, and renews your skin, leaving it smoother, softer, and radiant in just 10 minutes!

Runner Up: Sisley Black Rose Cream Mask 

Best Lip Balm 

Gold: Sarah Chapman, Overnight Lip Concentrate 

Wake up to softer, smoother lips! This overnight balm hydrates, repairs, and plumps, leaving your lips refreshed and nourished by morning.

Runner Up: Dr. Jart+ Lip Mask 

Best Eyecare 

Gold: Elemis, Pro Collagen Eye Revive Mask 

Brighten and refresh tired eyes with Elemis Pro-Collagen Eye Revive Mask. This cooling gel mask targets puffiness and dark circles, leaving your eyes feeling revitalized and looking smoother and more youthful. 

Runner Up: 111 Skin, Black Diamond Contour Gel

Best Face Serum 

Gold: The Light Salon, Hydrating Peptide Serum 

 This lightweight formula boosts hydration, plumps, and strengthens the skin, leaving it dewy, smooth, and visibly revitalized. Perfect for a glowing, healthy complexion!

Runner Up: Tatcha, The Essence 

Best Topical Vitamin C

Gold : Khai Skin, The Super C Serum

Brighten and rejuvenate your complexion with Kai Skin Super C Serum. Packed with potent vitamin C, this serum helps to even skin tone, reduce fine lines, and boost radiance for a glowing, youthful look. The perfect skincare boost!  

Runner Up: Oskia, Super C Beauty Capsules 

Best For Soothing Skin 

Gold: de Mamiel, Skin Recovery Concentrate 

The perfect way to Soothe and repair your skin. This calming oil deeply nourishes, restores balance, and helps protect against stress, leaving your skin radiant and refreshed. Perfect for skin in need of a little TLC.

Runner Up: Oskia, Rest Day Cleansing Milk

Best For Anti-Ageing 

Gold: Nooance Paris, Copper Peptides Serum 

This serum will unlock the secret to youthful, radiant skin. Infused with copper peptides, this advanced serum helps stimulate collagen production, reduce signs of aging, and improve skin elasticity. It nourishes, firms, and smooths, leaving your skin looking revitalized, plump, and glowing. 

Runner Up: Charlotte Tillbury, Dark Spot Correcting Radiance Recovery Serum 

Brand Best LED Mask

Gold:  Currentbody, LED Mask Series 2 

The new, improved design of the CurrentBody LED Mask Series 2 offers a more comfortable and secure fit, ensuring better coverage and enhanced results. With its ergonomic shape, it wraps around your face more effectively, delivering targeted light therapy to reduce wrinkles, boost collagen, and even out skin tone. 

Runner Up: BonCharge LED Mask

Best Beauty Retailer

Gold: Found Clean Beauty

Navigating the world of “clean beauty” products can feel like a confusing maze. Found Clean Beauty has taken the legwork out for its savvy customers as it is the UK’s first online retailer of truly clean skincare, haircare, and makeup products, completely free from all known human toxins. It has also become our trustworthy go-to in a world where what’s in products is not always as transparent as it should be.

Runner Up: Cult Beauty

Best Body Care Product

Gold: WholyMe, Relief Balm

This natural, multi-purpose balm is crafted to ease tension, calm sore muscles, and hydrate skin. Infused with healing botanicals like arnica and lavender, it’s the perfect remedy for a stress-free, soothing experience. 

Runner Up: Wild Rose Body Lotion, Neals Yard

Best Overnight Treatment

Gold: Oskia, Bedtime Beauty Boost 

Wake up to radiant skin with Oskia’s Bedtime Beauty Boost. This luxurious night cream nourishes, hydrates, and revitalizes while you sleep, leaving your skin glowing and rejuvenated by morning.

Runner Up: Fab Skincare, No.4 Rejuvenate & Restore Collagen Mask

Best Makeup Brand 

Gold: Merit 

We love Merit for its clean, minimalist approach makeup designed  to enhance your natural beauty with effortless, high-performance products. Focusing on simplicity, their collection offers easy-to-use essentials for a fresh, glowing look, all while being cruelty-free and formulated with skin-loving ingredients. Perfect for those who want a polished yet pared-back routine.

Runner Up: et al. 

Best Natural Beauty Brand

Gold: Dr Hauschka

Pioneers in natural beauty, the first Hauschka skincare products were launched in 1967. Since then we remain undeniably impressed with all their innovation and commitment to natural skincare and sustainability.

Runner Up: LeLive

Best SPF Brand

Gold: Saltee

Saltee suncare smells so good that a mere whiff of it can transport me back to sitting by the pool in Provence in mere seconds. Plus it’s safe for the oceans and cruelty free.

Runner Up: Gaia Skincare SPF 50+ Daily Moisturiser

Best Cleanser

Gold: Tropic Skincare Smoothing Cleanser

Any product that has sufficient studies to back up the claim that it can increase your skin hydration by 50% after just one use has got my head well and truly turned! Tropic’s Smoothing Cleanser can do just that – plus it smells divine, removes make-up proficiently, fights free-radicals and contains green tea for an extra dose of antioxidant power. We love. 

Runner Up: InLight Beauty Face Cleanser

Best Facial Oil

Gold: Lelive African Gold Glow + Restore Oil Elixir

Ultra nourishing – and especially brilliant for dry or normal skin, this Glow + Restore oil is packed full of effective ingredients such as bakuchiol, a natural retinol, baobab and mongogo to hydrate and restore, and peptides to help stimulate collagen and improve fine lines.

Runner Up: De Mamiel Seasonal Oils

Best Day Cream 

Gold: REN Evercalm Global Protection Day Cream

There is a reason that this is REN’s number one bestselling product – it really is genius wrapped up in a very demure, very sustainable, package. I have used it for years and it is the only thing that doesn’t make me break out in spots. It also has the added bonus of being proven to protect skin against air pollution and is sensitive enough to be used on very dry or eczema prone skin too. 

Runner Up: VEDIC LAB Energizing Day Cream SPF 20+

Best Retinol 

Gold: Environ Retinol Serum

Great for smoothing out skin tone, blemishes and reducing the appearance of wrinkles, this Retinol Serum from Environ uses a tri-retinoid complex formula to create overall more resilient, healthier looking skin.

Runner Up: Spa Ceylon Skin Smooth Bakuchiol – Retinol Alternative Age Refining Nourishing Facial Cream

Best Blemish Buster

Gold: Plenaire Violet Paste Overnight Blemish Solution

The cream I wish I had had growing up! Move over Sudocrem – as there is a new, much more effective, kid on the block. Inspired by a 70-year-old French beauty recipe, this violet-tinted “vanishing” paste helps reduce blemishes overnight by drawing out excess oil and calming inflammation and redness. Plus, one pot goes an awful long way.

Runner Up: Isoclean Hypochlorus Spray

Best for Menopausal Skin 

Gold: InLight Beauty

Products like the InLight Night Balm and Line Softener Intensive are just a couple of the many products formulated for mature or menopausal skin. All products are 100% organic, water and synthetic free, handcrafted in Cornwall and packed full of powerful botanical ingredients.

Runner Up: Dr Hauschka

Best Bath Brand 

Gold: REN 

I have long been a fan of the Moroccan Rose Bath Oil by Ren – in my view nothing can top it when it comes to transitioning from work/ kids to evening time. The Sesame Oil helps strengthen the skin’s natural moisture barrier, whilst the Damask Rose Petals help to uplift and revitalise the senses, leaving skin smelling delicious and ready for a relaxing evening.

Runner Up: Aromatherapy Associates

Best Haircare Product 

Gold: Spa Ceylon Aloe Vera Watergrass – Haircare Discovery Set

Suffice to say that there is a whole category on Spa Ceylon’s website dedicated to Hair Wellness, which in itself shows their comitment to the haircare category. The Discovery Set will ensure that hair that feels brittle or weak can get well on its way to the glossy locks status it should be with ingredients such as Vitamin-rich Virgin Coconut & Aloe Vera to help reinforce, strengthen and fortify scalp and hair and restore balance.  

Runner Up: Aveda Botanical Repair

Best Newcomer 

Gold: LeLive

Drawing upon African botanicals, LeLive is clean, eco-conscious, high-performance skincare brand. Recently launched, they Lelive believes strongly in the power of diversity and community is at the heart of this brand. Not only are we seriously impressed by the effectiveness of the products but the messaging and the purpose behind each and every one goes far beyond skin-deep results.

Runner Up: Vedic Lab