How We Tested 9,000 Products for Our Best of Beauty Awards

How We Tested 9,000 Products for Our Best of Beauty Awards

Our team puts a lot of work into finding each year’s most elite beauty products. After considerable prep work, we quickly embark on months of spritzing, swatching, and sniffing. The testing period is then followed by several weeks of debating and, at long last,...
The 46 Best Body Care Products of 2023

The 46 Best Body Care Products of 2023

The beauty team at Allure considered many, many factors when picking the Body Care winners of our 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards. Our desire for perfect skin doesn’t end at the collarbone. And yet, so many of the products we slather on our bodies seem...
The 34 Best Clean Beauty Products of 2023

The 34 Best Clean Beauty Products of 2023

The world of clean beauty can be a confusing — and even misleading — one to wade into. Long before Allure created the Clean Beauty seal as part of our annual Allure Best of Beauty Awards, we’d already witnessed countless marketing ploys, greenwashing attempts,...
The 8 Best Sensitive Skin Products of 2023

The 8 Best Sensitive Skin Products of 2023

There’s a very good chance (say, 50%) that you believe you have sensitive skin, and a very low chance (say, 5%) that you actually do. That’s because only a sliver of the population actually has a chronic skin condition, like eczema or rosacea — the real...
The 28 Most Worth-It Beauty Splurges of 2023

The 28 Most Worth-It Beauty Splurges of 2023

A “splurge” is a highly relative concept. After we spritzed, swiped, and swatched luxury beauty products for the Splurges category of our 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards, we discussed this relativism at length. For most of us on planet Earth, this...