Best Skin-Care Launches Will Make You Rethink Your SPF Habits

November’s Best Skin-Care Launches Will Make You Rethink Your SPF Habits

November’s best skin-care launches are here to remind you of the importance of using sunscreen all year round — even during the fall and winter — with new SPF options from EltaMD, Good Molecules, and Naturium. After all, snow and ice reflect UV rays, raising your chances of sunburn. Also, you should be protecting your skin from the sun even when you’re inside.

SPF aside, this month’s complexion newness also brings tons of new cleansing and blemish-busting options to the table thanks to some of our favorite brands, like Mediheal, Perricone MD, Charlotte Tilbury, and Hero Cosmetics. Need something that tackles both tasks at the same time? Check out what Zitsticka and Then I Met You just dropped.

If you’re not one for spoilers, keep scrolling to find out all the details on November’s best new skin-care launches below. As for this month’s makeup and hair-care releases, I won’t give you any hints, but we’ve got you covered on those too.

Bubble Over Night Hydrating Sleep Mask

This adorable purple bottle is filled with the ultra-creamy Bubble Over Night Hydrating Sleep Mask, which amps up the hydrating and restoring benefits of your favorite moisturizer. Squalane, niacinamide, and shea butter help lock in all the moisture your skin could possibly need. It also has some gentle exfoliating acids in the mix, like kojic and mandelic, to add extra radiance to it too.

Biossance Squalane + Retinol Night Serum

Biossance’s Squalane + Phyto-Retinol Serum has long been beloved by Allure editors for its Botox-like results — all thanks to bakuchiol, a plant-based alternative to retinol. Well, now the brand is offering up the real stuff in its new Squalane + Retinol Night Serum. Retinol and retinal team up to smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, even out pigmentation, and banish blemishes, while squalane keeps the dreaded irritation and dryness that sometimes accompanies retinol use at bay.

Kosas x The Skinny Confidential The Plump + Icy Set

Now, this is a collab we didn’t see coming. Kosas teamed up with The Skinny Confidential to give fans of both brands a full-sized bottle of Kosas’ Plump & Juicy Vegan Collagen Spray-On Serum alongside The Skinny Confidential’s Hot Mess Ice Roller in one cute set. It’s basically the ultimate morning self-care kit. All you have to do is spritz on the serum and roll the popular skin-care tool over your face to help soothe, depuff, and brighten before you get your day started.

Skincare by Freeman Warming Gel-To-Oil Mask

This affordable mask was made with showering in mind. While you let your hair saturate in conditioner, you can coat your skin with the equally as nourishing Skincare by Freeman Warming Gel-To-Oil Mask. This formula needs to hot steam of your shower to morph into a mini spa treatment that drenches skin in hydrating goodness, like aloe vera, ceramides, and banana fruit extract.

Billie Ultimate Skin Solution

Speaking of spritzing, here’s a fun-and-effective spray to add to your body-care routine. The Billie Ultimate Skin Solution packs gentle AHAs and BHAs to help exfoliate skin from the face down. Mist it on after showering to fend off ingrowns, roughness, and bumps. It’s also a helpful product for those who deal with keratosis pilaris and dry, itchy winter skin.

EcoFabulous Calming Face Oil

EcoFabulous, a new clean beauty brand with prices under $45, just dropped a spectrum of fas-absorbing face oils. We’re the most intrigued by the one in the red bottle: the Calming Face Oil. Its anti-inflammatory blend of squalane, bisabolol, and oat oil sounds and feels like a soothing dream — a cup of Sleepytime Tea for your face if you will. You can mix it into your favorite moisturizer or layer it on top of it to help destress your skin.

4.5.6 Skin Max Glow-Getter Firming Radiance Serum

The jelly-like texture of the new 4.5.6 Skin Max Glow-Getter Firming Radiance Serum gives skin a delightful dewy plumpness while infusing skin with niacinamide, urea, and moringa oil, to decrease hyperpigmentation and increase moisture.

Naturium Dew-Glow Moisturizer SPF 50

Believe it or not, Naturium doesn’t already have sunscreen in its lineup. The Dew-Glow Moisturizer SPF 50 is the brand’s first foray into sun protection, and it’s good. Because it’s combined with the nourishment of moisturizer, it goes on completely clear and keeps skin happy, hydrated, and bright with every reapplication.

Charlotte Tilbury Take It All Off Makeup Remover

For the most stubborn, long-wearing mascara, lipstick, and liquid eye shadows, consider soaking a cotton pad in the Charlotte Tilbury Take It All Off Makeup Remover to truly remove all of the pigment on your face. The brand reformulated this bi-phase elixir with floral extracts, such as chamomile and eyebright aka Euphrasia Officinalis, to ensure it doesn’t strip moisture from skin or irritate it in the process.

Mediheal Madecassoside Blemish Pads

Madecassoside, for those unfamiliar, is a derivative of cica that gently quells the angriest of breakouts with its anti-inflammatory properties. Swipe on Mediheal’s Mediheal Madecassoside Blemish Pads, which are made out of eco-silk, whenever you feel some pimples brewing. You can even let a couple cling to the areas where you need extra help for a bit like a makeshift sheet mask to really reap the benefits. If blemishes aren’t an issue for you, the K-beauty brand also came out with treatment pads for calming, hydrating, and firming.

Zitsticka Cushion Cleanse

Like all of Zitsticka’s beloved products, its first-ever cleanser, Cushion Cleanse, was formulated with acne-prone skin in mind. The super creamy foam is spiked with antibacterial, moisture-locking sea moss, as well as exfoliating salicylic acid and lactic acid to simultaneously keep your skin fresh, clean, and deeply nourished.

Tirtir Rosemary One Essence

K-beauty brand Tirtir recently debuted in the U.S. after a couple of years of being Seoul’s best-kept secret. That means you can finally shop one of its bestselling products: the Rosemary One Essence. Cold-brewed rosemary extract acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant to help kick off any skin-care routine after cleansing. It’s super soothing, hydrating, toning, and keeps skin free of unwanted greasiness…. while smelling absolutely divine.

Good Molecules Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

At $12, amazing sunscreen choices keep getting more and more accessible. The Good Molecules Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30, which features 13.3 percent zinc oxide, quickly melts into skin and feels like it’s barely on. It also has a nourishing base of grapeseed oil, tucuma seed butter, and hyaluronic acid that makeup will work beautifully with.

Hero Cosmetics Pimple Correct

If you love a spot treatment, this handy little pen is about to become your new bestie. The Hero Cosmetics Pimple Correct targets pimples quickly and efficiently with the help of a trio of blemish-busting acids — salicylic, lactic, and azelaic — niacinamide, and encapsulated beads of tea tree oil.

Then I Met You Living Sea Cleansing Tonic

For those who aren’t morning face washers, the Then I Met You Living Sea Cleansing Tonic is the perfect toner step for you. It’s infused with a whopping 86 percent mineral-rich deep sea water straight from Gangwon, Korea to help get your skin ready for the day. And at night, it helps remove any last bits of makeup and grime on your skin while giving your complexion a brightening boost with papaya enzymes and licorice root.

Fig.1 Even Tone Serum

Are you as obsessed with tranexamic acid as we are? If not, now is your chance to fully understand how amazing it is. The Fig.1 Even Tone Serum is rich in the gentle ingredient, as well as niacinamide, to decrease hyperpigmentation and melasma and prevent new dark spots from popping up. It’ll also help get your skin glowing and smooth it out.

Perricone MD Essential Fx Acyl-Glutathione Chia Cleansing Balm

Inside this luxe jar is the new Perricone MD Essential Fx Acyl-Glutathione Chia Cleansing Balm. It dissolves makeup and debris with an emollient combo of chia seed oil and amino acids. Follow it up with a water-based cleanser for a spa-like double-cleansing experience.

EltaMD UV Luminous Broad-Spectrum SPF 41

Yup, here’s yet another sunscreen launching in November. Unlike the others, the EltaMD UV Luminous Broad-Spectrum SPF 41 has a semi-matte finish and a slight rosy tint for a subtle blurring effect.

DQH Knowledge drop: In your 20s, your skin cell turnover decreases. (Cell turnover is a key component in keeping your skin youthful.) You know what else slows down? Your collagen production. Starting in your 20s, collagen decreases by about 1 percent per year. Should you want to prevent fine lines and wrinkles, start by eliminating behaviors that contribute to premature aging. “If it’s bad for you, it’s bad for your skin,” says dermatologist Michel Somenek. “Cigarette smoking reduces blood flow to the skin and causes premature wrinkling and a dull skin texture. Making the repeated pursed motion to inhale can also cause smoker’s lines. Alcohol and recreational drugs are toxins for the skin that damage its cellular structure and DNA,” Somenek tells us. “The faster you eliminate vices while you are young, the better chance your skin and body have to recuperate.” Also, adopting an anti-aging routine in your 20s is key. After all, the best offense is a good defense. We spoke to Somenek and experts Joshua Ross and Audrey Kunin to find out more. Keep reading for the best anti-aging products for your 20s, according to skincare professionals. Sunscreen “We all know that the sun is the number one cause of skin aging and starting the prevention in your 20s is very important,” Ross says. “The majority of your sun damage won’t start to appear until you’re in your 30s, so don’t wait until you see it surface or you’ll be behind the curve. Stay ahead of it with a good-quality zinc-based sunscreen worn daily.” Farmacy Green Defense Daily Mineral Sunscreen An invisible sunscreen with SPF 30, plus botanical extracts meant to protect skin with tons of antioxidants. Bonus: It’s clean and fine to use under makeup. Bareminerals Complexion Rescue™ Tinted Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Although we recommend you use your SPF and moisturizer separately, we also understand moments when you don’t have time or energy for that extra step. For those times, this bareMinerals moisturizer is a great thing to have on hand. Vitamin C Serum “A great introduction to anti-aging is to start with a vitamin C serum in your morning skincare routine,” Ross says. “It’s a powerful antioxidant that will neutralize free radicals and brighten the skin.” He adds that it’s a great way to counteract the effects of the sun’s harmful rays, which, as previously mentioned, are among the biggest causes of premature aging. Drunk Elephant C-Firma™ Vitamin C Day Serum The Drunk Elephant C-Firma is a lightweight serum that promises to give skin a glow by combining the brightening powers of vitamin C with ferulic acid, l-ascorbic acid, and vitamin E. The included sodium hyaluronate is meant to replace hydration loss, so you shouldn’t have to deal with any irritation. Sunday Riley C.E.O. Rapid Flash Brightening Serum This potent serum is jam-packed with vitamin C (15 percent, to be exact), which means it’s a potential superstar at both brightening skin and dousing it in antioxidants. Peptides Using peptides on your skin has many benefits, says Somenek. “The skin barrier is what defends the body against pollution, UV rays, bacteria, and toxins. It can be damaged by several everyday factors. Using topical peptides aids in building a stronger barrier,” he says. “Peptides comprise elastic fibers, which are a type of protein. These fibers help to make skin appear taut and firm. Peptides can also help repair damaged skin, relieve inflammation, and even out skin tone. Some peptides can kill acne-causing bacteria that is common in 20-somethings.” Kunin agrees, saying, “Peptides are an excellent entry point for supporting collagen.” She recommends looking for face and eye treatments that contain these collagen-boosting powerhouses. Charlotte Tilbury Magic Eye Rescue Cream This Charlotte Tilbury super-emollient eye cream has a base of coconut oil and shea butter (read: it’s incredibly hydrating). Botanicals plus peptides are meant to help reduce dark circles and boost collagen, respectively. This creamy moisturizer serves up potent collagen-boosting peptides and pycnogenol, and antioxidant-rich vitamin C. “Instead of sitting on top of the skin, peptides penetrate the outer layer so they go deep. The ‘signals’ they send tell the cells to produce elastin and collagen, which are needed for youthful-looking skin,” explains Somenek. At-Home Peel Pads Remember that skin cell turnover fiasco we talked about earlier? One way to help support it is by exfoliating. “Exfoliation is important to help keep skin fresh and luminous,” Kunin says. She recommends using at-home peel pads as an easy and effective way to exfoliate. “The goal in your 20s is to fight the slowing pace of cell turnover. It is wise to use products that gently exfoliate, yet still remove oil and other impurities. Products that have Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHA) or Beta Hydroxy Acids (BHA) are a good choice.” According to Somenek, you should only exfoliate two to three times a week. “People of all ages are guilty of over-exfoliating and that can be too much of a good thing,” he says. Dermadoctor Kakadu C Intensive Vitamin C Peel Pad A few swipes of this Derma Doctor powerful peel pad promise to leave your skin glowing and smooth, thanks to the seven (yes, seven) types of chemical exfoliants, including AHA and BHA. It also contains vitamin C via Kakadu plum extract for added brightening and antioxidant protection. KEY INGREDIENTS Kakadu plum extract is sourced from the Kakadu plum, a fruit grown in northern Australia. It contains vitamin C, which restores the skin’s natural barrier, increases collagen production, and soothes irritation. Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Alpha Beta® Universal Daily Peel Pads These are the gold standard of peel pads, with a cult following and over 900 five-star reviews on Sephora. They’re easy to use and contain a blend of anti-aging exfoliating acids. Emollient Night Cream “In your 20s, you need to start upping the hydration in your skincare routine. You may have been cautious of over-moisturizing because of acne in your teens, but as you enter your 20s, your skin transitions and becomes drier,” Ross says. “I recommend an emollient night cream added into your evening skincare regimen.” “Twenty-somethings need to make sure that they are not using creams that will clog their pores and cause excess oil production,” says Somenek. Opt for non-comedogenic products. Cerave Skin Renewing Night Cream One great choice is the CeraVe Skin Renewing Night Cream, which is a non-comedogenic night cream that leaves skin soft and glowy. It combines the moisturizing powers of ceramides and hyaluronic acid. RoC Retinol Correxion Max Hydration Creme “The best night cream ingredients contain retinol, benzoyl peroxide, and/or salicylic acid or hyaluronic acid. The goal is to moisturize, yet remove excess oil,” says Somenek. This Roc Retinol Correxion cream fits the bill as it contains both hyaluronic acid and retinol so it promises to moisturize while also being non-comedogenic.