Discover the rising stars and beautifying classics

In the age of information overload, how do you steer a path through the beauty jungle to products that really work? Following the recommendations of 700 of the most beauty-savvy women in the UK – all members of Britain’s cosmetics industry insider ‘network’ – is a good place to start. That’s how many beauty bosses, make-up artists, brand founders, creatives and influencers rocked up for the 2018 Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Awards Product Demonstration Evening. The Who’s Who of the beauty world have since cast their votes on hundreds of products across almost 30 categories.

Long recognised as the beauty industry’s ‘Oscars’, the annual event (sponsored this year by M&S and Amazon) showcases new launches and long-cherished brands. Then attendees have weeks to try products before voting online. (No square inch is left unslathered.) Read on and you’ll never be overwhelmed in a beauty hall again.  

Mass market

Best New Bath and Body Product 

Sanctuary Spa Wet Skin Miracle

This revolutionary time-saver speeds up post-shower moisturisation. Apply to wet skin and it works with humidity and water to allow it to absorb faster, locking in the hydration. £8, boots.com

Runner-up Best New Bath and Body Product

The Handmade Soap Company Lavender, Rosemary & Mint Body Lotion

From the winners of this year’s Best New Brand (who’ve done so, so well elsewhere in 2018’s Awards), the gentlest, all-natural body lotion fragranced with whisk-you-to-a-herb-garden essential oils and botanical essences. £5.95 for 300ml

Runner-up Best New Bath and Body Product

Beauty Kitchen Free From All Over Lotion

This year’s Awards reflect the huge surge in interest in all-natural products. Here, a fast-absorbing, super-moisturising, 100% natural body, entirely unfragranced treatment – perfect for sensitive skins (or just add essential oils of choice). £7.99 for 300ml

 

Best New Haircare, Styling or Colouring Product

Batiste Speed It Up Blow Dry Accelerator

Loved for its dry shampoos, Batiste will be adored for this. Simply spritz on to damp hair and dry as normal; the ‘smart technology’ de-frizzing formula turbocharges drying – which will be up to 30 per cent faster than normal. £4.49, boots.com

Runner-up Best New Haircare, Styling or Colouring Product

John Frieda Luxurious Volume Core Restore Advanced Protein Volumiser

Ever-pioneering, John Frieda’s heat-activated volumiser delivers a protein strength complex to power up each strand, reinforcing natural protein chains. So hair doesn’t simply look more volumised – it’s actually rejuvenated, too. £9.99 for 60ml

Runner-up Best New Haircare, Styling or Colouring Product

HASK Charcoal with Citrus Oil Purifying Shampoo

Charcoal is a seriously ‘buzz’ ingredient – brilliant for detoxing, clarifying and cleansing skin and hair. This effective, sulfate-free shampoo – deliciously zestily-scented – uses coconut shell charcoal (and yes, it washes clean out!) £6.99 for 355ml

 

Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product 

Balance Me Flash Cleanse Micellar Water

The natural British brand powers up an effective micellar suits-all-skin-types cleanser with a collagen-boosting peptide complex, brightening bergamot and soothing camomile. £16, marksandspencer.com

Runner-up Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

Burt’s Bees® Skin Nourishment Gentle Foaming Cleanser

From one of the first natural beauty names, a true ‘hero’: their luxurious, foaming cleanser (perfect for those who love the feel of water on their face), enriched with royal jelly. Revitalising, re-energising – but never drying. £13.99 for 141.9ml

Runner-up Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

Yes To Tomatoes Detoxifying Charcoal Micellar Cleansing Water

Yes, please! CEW’s voters loved this complexion-clearing micellar water, with charcoal (that on-trend ingredient again), which sweeps away impurities to leave skin glow-y and cleansed. (The quirky name belies its effectiveness.) £6.99 for 230ml

 

Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

Balance Me Hyaluronic Plumping Mist

An instant drink for skin, this hyaluronic acid penetrates deeply to soothe and plump, while pineapple extract perks up and balances the complexion. £16, marksandspencer.com

Runner-up Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

Burt’s Bees® Complete Nourishment Facial Oil

Another stellar performance by Burt’s Bees – a more-affordable-than-most facial oil, packed with nourishing jojoba, evening primrose oils and rosehip seed extract. Bliss for the senses, too, with its lavender/rose/neroli scent. £24.99 for 15ml

Runner-up Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

Paula’s Choice RESIST C15 Super Booster

Vitamin C is one of the skincare world’s most powerful skin-brightening weapons – here, in a seriously potent 15% concentration, with plumping hyaluronic acid and peptides for a radiant and more even-toned complexion. £45 for 20ml

 

Best New Makeup Product for Face

The Ordinary Colours Serum Foundation

Disruptor beauty brand The Ordinary wowed voters with its lightweight, medium-coverage serum base on several counts: an impressive choice of 21 shades, an SPF15 – and who can argue with the knock-your-socks-off price? £5.70, theordinary.com

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Face

WUNDER2 Perfect Selfie HD Photo Finishing Powder

Ready for your close-up? You will be with this, which claims to ‘replace the need for social media’s flattering filters’. Its secret? Ultra-fine, non-cakey perfecting powders, which create a finish that absorbs camera flashback. £19.95 for 7g

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Face

No7 Lift & Luminate TRIPLE ACTION Serum Foundation

No need to wait for the serum’s age-defying ingredients to get to work; in a flash, the unique blend of optical blurrers and light-reflecting particles in this seamless skin-perfecting foundation roll back the years. £18 for 30ml

 

Best New Makeup Product for Eyes

KIKO MILANO Ultimate Pen Long Wear Eyeliner

Created by make-up pros for real women, this is the easiest liner you’ll ever try. The soft, flexible tip ensures a precise skinny flick or full-on cat-eye. £6.90, kikocosmetics.com

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Eyes

Eylure Eylure x Fleur de Force Brow Define

A collab with leading blogger Fleur de Force, this dual-ended, two-tone crayon – in Light, Medium or Dark – is enriched with coconut oil, to condition brows. Just the easiest-peasiest way to define your arches, too. £12

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Eyes

Max Factor Lash Crown Mascara

Ever found it fiddly to access inner and corner lashes? This soft bristles of this flexible brush make it easy to access the most elusive lashes, reaching right to the roots – always the real secret of creating the illusion of lash ‘length’. £9.99

 

Best New Makeup Product for Lips

Bourjois Rouge Velvet The Lipstick

New-generation polymers and lightweight oils kiss goodbye to any notion that matt lipsticks are drying and ‘tight’. This velvety formula is comfortable on the lips and available in 16 smudge-proof shades. £8.99, boots.com

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Lips

WUNDER2 WUNDERKISS Lip Plumping Gloss

The heating and cooling sensation when you apply this tell you: this is really doing its stuff. In three shades, its ‘Dermaporting Technology’ helps deliver large molecule of collagen and hyaluronic acid, for plumper lips in minutes. £17.95

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Lips

Rimmel London Stay Matte Liquid Lip Colour

Kiss-proof, touch-proof, waterproof, so Rimmel promise – in fact, the stand-out colour of this lightweight matte lipcolour lasts up to 12 hours. No fading, no bleeding – and no large dent in your bank account, either. £5.99

 

Best Classic Beauty Product

Tweezerman Classic Steel Slant Tweezer

The foundation of any brow look – and it’s still all about the brows! – is a great pair of tweezers. This precision pair is a must-have for every make-up bag. £21.95, johnlewis.com

Runner-up Best Classic Beauty Product

Bio Oil® Bio Oil®

Runner-up slot for Bio-Oil in 2018, who’ve scooped ‘gold’ in the past with a legendary product that’s clinically proven to improve the appearance of scars and stretch marks, based around non-greasy, easily absorbed PurCellin Oil™. £8.99 for 60ml

Runner-up Best Classic Beauty Product

Batiste Original Dry Shampoo

The original – and still, CEW’s voters declare, the best. Another previous winner in these ‘Gloss-cars’, it’s great for freshening and revitalising hair – but did you know this is also brilliant for adding volume and texture flat hair, too? £2.99 for 198g

 

Best New Brand

The Handmade Soap Company

This County Meath-based brand began as a kitchen table start-up. Things grew but always in keeping with its mission: 99.7 per cent natural ingredients are scented with mood-shifting essential oils. ‘There are no SLSs, parabens, petrochemicals or rush hours here,’ it says. Clockwise from left: Grapefruit & Irish Moss Soap, £6.95; Grapefruit & May Chang Candle, £15.95, and Lavender, Rosemary, Thyme & Mint Hand Wash, £12.95; thehandmadesoapcompany.com

Runner-up Best New Brand

YourGoodSkin

Heard of crowdsourcing? Innovatively, this brand, targeting skin imbalance and promising visibly healthier skin in 28 days, was co-created by scientists, dermatologists – plus an entire community of thousands of real women. £3.99 – £16.99

Runner-up Best New Brand

Brushworks

As we all know: great make-up isn’t just about the products we apply – it’s about the tools we use. That’s brushworks’ speciality – and their

HD Miracle Silicone Sponges, Oval Brushes and Tweezers get CEW’s vote. £4.95-£19.95

Prestige

Best New Bath and Body Product 

ELEMIS LIFE ELIXIRS Fortitude Bath & Shower Elixir

From one of the UK’s most-loved beauty names, this is an ‘empowering’ blend of 19 essential oils (including amaranth and bacuri), designed to help us feel more grounded and confident in an uncertain world. £55, elemis.com

Runner-up Best New Bath and Body Product

NUXE Rêve de Miel® Deliciously Nourishing Body Scrub

Basically, a body makeover in one, suspending finely-ground rice grains and melting white sugar crystals in a luscious balm-into-oil scrub that transforms to become a skin-quenching, moisturising, heaven-scented lotion. £19.50 for 175ml

Runner-up Best New Bath and Body Product 

Molton Brown Rosa Absolute Sumptuous Bathing Oil

The next best thing to bathing in pure rose petals – or actually, even better, since this bathing elixir is enriched not only with Italian rose essences but nourishing argan oils, to leave skin silky, supple (and smelling like heaven). £39 for 200ml

 

Best New Haircare, Styling, Colouring Product

Living Proof Perfect Hair Day (PhD) Dry Shampoo

Removes odour? Tick. Makes hair look, feel and smell clean? Tick. Avoids visible residue? Tick. But what the CEW voters also loved was the way this dry shampoo delivers a time-released, fresh scent throughout the day. £23, livingproof.co.uk

Runner-up Best New Haircare, Styling, Colouring Product

Percy & Reed Perfectly Perfecting Wonder Wash Shampoo

Forget having to match your shampoo to your hairtype – this ingenious formula adjusts to your hair’s colour, type and health, cleansing gently without SLS/SLES to remove pollution and residue from styling products. £18 for 250 ml

Runner-up Best New Haircare, Styling, Colouring Product

Color Wow Dream Coat

Think of Dream Coat as a raincoat for your hair – a weatherproofing wonder product that coats each strand in an invisible, impervious ‘jacket’. Activated with your blow-dryer, Dream Coat makes water/humidity bounce right off. £22 for 200ml

 

Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream SPF30

The best way to prevent wrinkles? Daily sunscreen. Great news, then, that Pro-Collagen Marine Cream (winner of almost too many CEW Awards to count) now offers a micronised SPF in that iconic age-defying wonder cream. £82, elemis.com

Runner-up Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

This Works evening detox spray-on exfoliant

We love a product that gets to work while we slumber, right? This innovative brightener resurfaces congested skin (with salicylic acid), while witch hazel combats free radicals from pollution – so you wake up looking revitalised. £28 for 60ml

Runner-up Best New Everyday Facial Skincare Product

REN Skincare Keep Young And Beautiful™ Instant Brightening Beauty Shot Eye Lift

Say farewell to dark circles and puffiness – those annoying (and widespread) beauty woes – with a light gel serum that lifts and tightens, while also reducing the appearance of crow’s feet and fine lines. An eyelift, indeed. £30 for 15ml

 

Best New Skincare Treatment Product

Charlotte Tilbury Revolutionary Instant Magic Facial Dry Sheet Mask

It’s another great year for the make-up dynamo – creator of equally impressive skincare. Press and massage this much Instagrammed sheet mask on to the face to infuse it with clinically proven skin-saving ingredients. £18, charlottetilbury.com

Runner-up Best New Skincare Treatment Product

GLAMGLOW DREAMDUO Overnight Transforming Treatment

Famed for their masks, GLAMGLOW now offer this ‘overnight sensation’: a seriously skin-plumping treat that works its magic while you zzzz, ensuring you wake up make-up ready, with glowing ‘Hollywood’ skin. £42 for 40ml

Runner-up Best New Skincare Treatment Product

ELEMIS Peptide4 Night Recovery Cream-Oil

What’s a ‘cream-oil’? Think: a skin-meltingly luscious treat that combines the nourishment and protection of an oil, with all the hydration of a moisturiser, fuelled by a ‘superbotanical’ with 10 times more vitamin E than any other oil. £49 for 30ml

 

Best New Makeup Product for Face 

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Beauty Light Wand

Inspired by the lighting tricks of Hollywood – and social media’s flawless filters – this rose-gold highlighter boosts and brightens with soft-focus pearls to deliver a luminous complexion. £29, charlottetilbury.com

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Face

Hourglass Cosmetics: Vanish™ Seamless Finish Foundation Stick

Foundation technology advances apace – harnessed here by cult brand Hourglass in a foundation stick that offers the coverage of a concealer, the fluidity of a liquid base, with the seamless, weightless finish of a powder. £42 for 7.2g

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Face 

Fenty Beauty PRO FILT’R SOFT MATTE LONGWEAR FOUNDATION

Congrats to Rihanna, who has another hit on her hands with her Fenty Beauty range – designed to be inclusive, and here offering no less than 40 shades with a beautifully buildable, shine-free finish that minimises pores, too. £26 for 32ml

 

Best New Makeup Product for Eyes

Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colour Matte

With six new shades, the make-up artist’s cult favourite eyeshadow now offers a luxe matt finish perfect for smudging, blending or defining – delivering that coveted smoky eye via one simple stick. £23, spacenk.com

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Eyes

STILA Magnificent Metals Glitter & Glow Eye Shadow

Think of these as jewels for the eyes: a showstopping mix of glitter and pearl. The water-infused formula glides on like a dream, then dries down swiftly – so that the sparkle stays in place on your lids till the last dance is over. £23

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Eyes

Benefit Cosmetics: Foolproof Brow Powder

From a vast range of Benefit brow options (in a wide range of shades), this was the product that most wowed CEW’s voters – a velvety-smooth powder that adheres to hair and skin, for that perfect arch. Foolproof, for sure. £20

 

Best New Makeup Product for Lips

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Lips

In 2017, Charlotte Tilbury’s Hot Lips sashayed home with a trophy in this category. Now it’s the turn of her soft-focus matt contouring lipstick: the ten shades glide on like a gloss, nurture like a cream and feel weightless. £24, charlottetilbury.com

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Lips

Hourglass Cosmetics Confession Ultra Slim High Intensity Refillable Lipstick

Refillable cosmetics are the coming thing, in a packaging-conscious world – and cult brand Hourglass are ahead of the curve with this luxurious option, which promises long-wearing creamy colour that won’t smudge or feather. £28

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Lips 

diego dalla palma Geisha Matt Liquid Lipstick

Matte lipsticks scored highly with the 2018 voters – here, a liquid option with a fabulously creamy feel that delivers a non-powdery, long-lasting, opaque finish. Your big challenge? Deciding which of eight shades to go for. £15.50

Runner-up Best New Makeup Product for Lips 

Ciaté London: Glitter Flip

Get out that Abba album. Pull on some sequins. And get set to party with this innovative metallic lipstick, with its extreme, multi-dimensional finish. Yet the seven fearless, long-lasting 3D shades are (surprisingly) as comfy as slippers. £17

 

Best New Women’s Fragrance

Elie Saab Girl of Now

Glamorous, sophisticated, sparkling: the Lebanon-born designer’s creation dazzles with pear and mandarin, magnolia and orange flower absolute, made utterly addictive with a base of tonka, roasted pistachio and almond milk. £38, debenhams.com

Runner-up Best New Women’s Fragrance

NUXE Sun Delicious Fragrant Water

A tropical getaway in a bottle: deliciously bright notes of sweet orange and petitgrain in this ‘fragrant water’ give away to soft coconut and exotic tiaré flowers, with vanilla and musk helping to brighten even the dullest day. £26.50 for 100ml

Runner-up Best New Women’s Fragrance

Molton Brown Russian Leather Eau de Toilette

For Russian Leather’s launch, innovative scented tattoos allowed perfume-lovers to try this fragrance in an unexpected way – and thus to fall for the outdoorsy blend of Siberian pine oil, leather, cade and birch. £39 for 50 ml

Runner-up Best New Women’s Fragrance

Malin+Goetz: Dark Rum Eau de Parfum

The ‘single note’ names on the graphic bottles for Malin+Goetz’s fragrances belie the complexity of the scents – here, a modern interpretation of traditional Bay Rum, shareable by men and women. Warm, sensual, addictive. £125 for 100ml

 

Best New Men’s Fragrance 

Molton Brown Coastal Cypress and Sea Fennel

As bracing as a walk on a windswept clifftop, this sea-soaked masculine masterpiece offers a gust of salt-sprayed cypress, zesty bergamot and a fig leaf accord, grounded with earthy cedarwood and nuzzle-me musk. £45, moltonbrown.co.uk

Runner-up Best New Men’s Fragrance

Coach For Men Eau de Toilette

Energetic, confident – and seriously cool – Coach’s energetic top notes (Nashi pear and cardamom) mellow to a base of earthy, woody and green vetiver, layered over suede and ambergris. Seriously nuzzleable, CEW voters declare. £29 for 40ml

Runner-up Best New Men’s Fragrance

Paco Rabanne Pure XS

A new, fresh-Oriental member of the blockbuster Paco Rabanne XS family, which magnetises with a pair of clever accords: aromatic green sap/white thyme/ginger, daringly contrasted with warm cinnamon, vanilla and myrrh. £66.50 for 100ml

 

Best Classic Beauty Product

Aromatherapy Associates Revive Morning Bath & Shower Oil

So much better for you than kicking off the day with a double espresso. Pink grapefruit, rosemary and juniper make for a gloriously aromatic wake-up call after a long flight, a long night – or anytime you’re feeling sluggish. £48, aromatherapyassociates.com

Runner-up Best Classic Beauty Product

ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm

This giant tub of make-up melting, botanical cleanser has won countless fans since its launch – already a multi-award-winner and a beauty eds’ favourite, for its power to make a clean sweep of make-up, grime and daily pollutants. £41 for 105g

Runner-up Best Classic Beauty Product

Sarah Chapman Skinesis Overnight Facial

Superfacialist-to-the-stars (and to soon-to-be-royalty), Sarah Chapman’s skincare puts her signature glow within reach of all of us, with this cocktail of vitamins, peptides, antioxidants and omega oils offering an at-home ‘facial’. £49 for 15ml

 

Best New Brand

Fenty Beauty

Fenty Beauty (FYI it’s Rihanna’s surname) was created when the singer/actress/songwriter spotted a void for products that worked across all skin types and skin tones. The clever formulations, genius packaging (several products ‘click’ together with magnets) and fabulous, universal shades have made Fenty another massive hit for Rihanna. Clockwise from above left: Stunna Lip Paint, £19; Match Stix Shimmer Skinstick, £21, and Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter Duo, £26, harveynichols.com

Runner-up Best New Brand

Hair By Sam McKnight

Sam McKnight is a legend in the hair world – a session and catwalk stylist who’s brought his creativity to countless shows and shoots, from Chanel to Burberry, all the global Vogues, and Harper’s Bazaar. With an innate understanding that women want ease, speed – and great-scented products – Sam worked with perfumer Lyn Harris on a signature fragrance for his capsule quartet of effective, quick-fix styling products. £19-£25

Runner-up Best New Brand

SKIN LAUNDRY

Skin Laundry’s at-home products set out to recreate the effects of their salon treatments, which combine laser and light for astonishing results in just 15 minutes, with no downtime. Fresh and clean, the formulas are ‘free from ingredients harmful to people or the environment’ – perfect for between-treatment maintenance or for the many of us who don’t live near their locations in London, Leeds and Bristol. £10-£150 

Mass Market & Prestige 

 Best New Men’s Grooming Product

The Handmade Soap Company Men’s Basil, Lime & Sweet Orange Body Wash

From the artisan soap-maker that also scooped Best New Brand, an uplifting, zestily scented multitasker for hair and body – a wow with both the grooming-obsessed and those chaps with a more minimalist regime. £14.95, thehandmadesoapcompany.com

Runner-up Best New Men’s Grooming Product

Tweezerman Nose Hair Trimmer

Putting the ‘man’ in Tweezerman, definitely not the most glamorous contender in 2018’s CEW Awards – but when you need it, you need it… Safe, painless, ‘no-nick’, this works on ears, too – and comes with its own cleansing brush (!) £18

Runner-up Best New Men’s Grooming Product

Dermot O’Leary 24.hr Grooming for Men for M&S Beauty All in One Day Cream

The much-loved TV presenter’s skincare and fragrance collection is a real revelation – earning praise, here, for the kind of product any man can get his head round, designed to fight fatigue, smooth lines and soften stubble. £15 for 50ml

 

Best New Self Tan or Suncare Product 

This Works Perfect Legs Skin Protector SPF30

Perfect Legs has long been a go-to for beauty editors faced with a ‘bare legs SOS’ – a serum-style instant leg tint that takes you from pale to sun-kissed in a flash. How to improve on perfection? This Works just added an SPF30. £40, thisworks.com

Runner-up Best New Self Tan or Suncare Product

Tan-Luxe The Sleep Oil

While you slumber, this luxurious blend of raspberry seed, kendi, argan, marula, jojoba and apricot oils – combined with EcoCert organic tanning actives and three skin-boosting complex – delivers the most natural-looking of glows. £34 for 20ml

Runner-up Best New Self Tan or Suncare Product

St Tropez Self Tan Express Face Sheet Mask

Tapping into the huge trend for sheet masks, a revolutionary global first. Infused with tanning serum and skin-plumping hyaluronic, it offers customised ‘glow’ – five minutes for light-sunkissed, 10 for medium, 15 for a deep tan. £15 for 18.4g

 

Best New Hand, Foot & Nail Care Product

Bare Feet by Margaret Dabbs Crack Sealer for Happy Feet

Renowned podiatrist Margaret Dabbs makes history of cracked heels with a transparent barrier to prevent them from deepening. £9.50, marksandspencer.com

Runner-up Best New Hand, Foot and Nail Care Product

Essie Treat, Love & Colour

Offering a one-two punch of strength and colour, this one-step polish blends nourishing camellia extract into sheer and cream shades of polish, promising stronger nails in just a week: 60% less peeling, 35% less breakage. £8.99 for 13.5ml

Runner-up Best New Hand, Foot and Nail Care Product  

Dabbs London Nail Polish Remover Pot

This couldn’t be easier to use: a spill-proof nail polish pot into which you dip and swirl nails, turning a chore into a positive pleasure with its rose oil-scented formula, boosted by nourishing vitamin E and argan oil. £12 for 60ml

 

Best British Brand

Charlotte Tilbury

Now the world’s most famous make-up artist, Charlotte first scooped Best British Brand in 2016, three years after launching a signature range based on the secrets she’d previously shared with only her red-carpet clients. ‘Easy to choose, easy to use’ is Charlotte’s mantra. Clockwise from above left: Matte Revolution Lipstick, £24; The Feline Flick Pen, £22, and Charlotte’s Magic Cream, £70, charlottetilbury.com

Runner-up Best British Brand 

Aromatherapy Associates

Last year’s category winner (they’ve also scooped two other CEW Awards in 2018), Aromatherapy Associates pioneered wellness beauty 30 years ago. Adored by beauty editors, they remain true to the founders’ vision – to share the power of essential oils and their incredible effects at a therapeutic level.’

A delight for the senses, always – and were their creations ever more welcome, in a volatile world? £18-£115

Runner-up Best British Brand 

ELEMIS

‘Your skin, your body and your wellness lie at the heart of ELEMIS,’ promise this much-loved beauty name, which offers sense-soothing, nurturing – but always highly effective – products for skin, body and soul. The ELEMIS signature? Taking powerful biological actives ‘from above and below the earth’s surface’, they create products which offer transformative and proven results. £10-£105

 

Best New Beauty Tool or Accessory

Tangle Teezer Back-Combing Hairbrush

Having made history of all the niggly knots in our hair, Tangle Teezer launched this new generation hairbrush – the best way to add long-lasting va-va-volume without matting or damaging your ’do. £10, boots.com

Runner-up Best New Beauty Tool or Accessory

The Konjac Sponge Company Unicorn Konjac Sponge & Hook

Unicorns are just so on-trend. So: what’s not to love about a hook in the shape of one of those mythical beasts on which to hang your 100% plant fibre, effective-but-gently cleansing sponge, when not in active use? £10.99

Runner-up Best New Beauty Tool or Accessory

Eylure Most Wanted

False lashes have gone from mere lash-boosters to conversation pieces – as demonstrated here by Eylure’s sumptuous, silk effect collection of hand-crafted styles: Lust List, I <3 This, Gimme Gimme and #feedtheneed. £11.95

 

Best New Wellbeing Product

Aromatherapy Associates De-Stress Frankincense Pure Essential Oil

Feeling panicked or overwhelmed? Frankincense oil aids focus and relaxation and induces deeper, slower breathing. Just to add to the feel-good factor, AA’s oil is now ethically sourced. £30, aromatherapyassociates.com

Runner Up Best New Wellbeing Product

This Works stress check breathe in

Every handbag needs this, CEW’s voters declare: a 100% natural blend of eucalyptus, frankincense and lavender to combat stress. Brilliant rolled onto the palms of hands, which you cup to your face, then breathe five times. £16 for 8ml

Runner Up Best New Wellbeing Product

ELEMIS LIFE ELIXIRS Calm Perfume Oil

In an uncertain world, has a product like this ever been more needed…? In Elemis’s collection of new mood-shifting oils, bath treats and candles, a blend of rosewood, clary sage and lavandin restores quiet and lifts spirits again. £28 for 8.5ml

 

ECO 

CEW/Givaudan Eco Beauty Award

Neal’s Yard Frankincense Intense Lift Duo

Neal’s Yard impressed the team of expert judges with this top-of-the-range, age-defying duo, which demonstrates the trailblazing commitment to sustainability of a company which helped to pioneer natural beauty more than 30 years ago. Juliet Fairclough, sustainability manager of fragrance experts Givaudan, noted Neal’s Yard’s attention to detail from its ‘green’ factory in Somerset, its recycled bottles and sustainable sourcing of frankincense for this duo. Frankincense Intense Lift Cream, £65, and Frankincense Intense Lift Serum, £75, nealsyardremedies.com

The Eco Beauty Award sponsored by Givaudan

Sana Jardin

Founded by former social worker Amy Christiansen Si-Ahmed, Sana Jardin has put sustainability on the luxury fragrance agenda with a collection of creations by one of the world’s top perfumers, Carlos Benaïmd. Packaging is recycled and the women who harvest the ingredients in Morocco can reuse the waste from production to build their own business, making candles and orange blossom water. From above left: Savage Jasmine, Berber Blonde and Tiger By Her Side eau de parfum, each £180 for 100ml, harrods.com

 

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