BEAUTY BIBLE AWARDS 2023

Ta-dah! Welcome to the Beauty Bible Awards 2023 the definitive guide to the best of beauty – our 27th year of sharing the results of our trials with real women, trialling real products, in real life.

Categorised over the following pages, you’ll find the best skincare, bodycare, haircare, suncare and make-up products, together with a much-expanded section for beauty devices and accessories, from facial cleansing brushes and massage tools to silk pillowcases. These are often an investment, and we know women want to know whether they’re worth the price-tag.

Beauty Bible has from Day One set out to help you take a short-cut through the beauty jungle – by testing real products on real women, just as you'd use them in real life. We do it because we want you to save money AND save precious resources, rather than shop in a hit-and-miss way that means products end up languishing on your shelf or in your make-up kit. To us, this matters even more than ever – and we know many of you feel the same.

Since we launched our first book, The Beauty Bible, in 1996, we've now had 34,000+ women taking part in our trials – the biggest-ever independent survey of beauty products ever carried out in the world, with products submitted both from household name brands and from new, independent names. 

Our trials are incredibly in-depth. With age-defying products or bodycare treatments which set out to deliver real results, we asked testers to try them on one half of the body/face, to observe improvements. (Testers take this so seriously, they really do that!) As well as the scores, which tend to be very consistent, testers’ in-depth comments also tell you much, much more you need to know to shape your decision to buy a product or not. 

Every single product here was trialled by 10 real women, in some cases over the months required to observe improvements. And observe them, they did.

This isn't about taking one journalist or one influencer's word for it. These are women just like you. For fun, we totted up the number of words we (Jo and Sarah) wrote, for 2023 – and it comes to nearly 240,000 – the equivalent of THREE books!

So, we now invite you to discover the most effective products out there…