Being more mindful with your purchases can come in multiple forms, and that includes makeup products that allow you to dabble with makeup without damaging your skin and, in fact, can act like another layer or form of skincare in your routine.
Makeup for some people can leave their skin with breakouts, clogged pores, dryness and irritation. In 2025, some large brands have evolved to leave old practices behind and encourage new makeup products that don’t have to act like an enemy to your skin health.
If you are wondering which brands you reach for that double up as effective beauty products and are good for the skin, here are 8 options for you.
Kosa Foundation
They currently offer a ‘Revealer Skin Improving SP5 25’ foundation, which was curated not only for UV protection but also as a solution for acne-prone skin, as they have ensured their foundation is comedogenic-free, which is the substance that contributes to clogging pores while preventing your pores’ natural shedding and so forth. Therefore, it is a non-negotiable for those who suffer from clogged pores and spots.
Key ingredients that also contribute to skin health include hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, peptides, squalane, vitamin B5, arnica, caffeine, mineral reef-safe SPF and artemisia flower extract.
Refy Beauty Lip Buff
Like we prep our skin with gentle exfoliants like toner, we should do the same for our lips, especially when applying an array of products on them, from lip liner to lip glosses and oils. The Refy Lip Buff’s purpose is to remove dead skin cells from the lips safely and then to apply and buff in a natural plumping plant agent, including aloe vera extract to lock in moisture and amino acids to repair.
This provides a clean, hydrated and optimal place for your lip products or just as a daily routine to encourage lip health.
Tower 28 Cream Bronzer
When you are looking for creams for the face, you could say they are one of the most important steps in makeup application, as they are in the most direct contact with your skin. Tower 28 produced the Bronzino Illuminating Cream Bronzer. This is a blendable bronzing product that is made out of 100% mineral pigment. They have included ingredients such as mango butter, green tea extract and castor seed oil, which are all ingredients that are well known for being amazing for the skin.
Rhode Cream Blush
Blush is such a popular and well-loved makeup product at the moment, and for there to be a product available that is great for the skin, it has to be mentioned today. Rhode has created a pocket blush in the colour ‘Piggy’; they have curated a cream blush that isn’t easily moveable and is non-oily, which is a great, versatile cream product. Its ingredients include tamanu oil, peptides and glycerin, all of which hydrate the skin without clogging pores.
Tamanu oil is a natural antioxidant that is useful in soothing the skin while being antibacterial, which means it’s a great oil for those battling with spots and acne. Peptides are known for being hydrating and great for natural, glowy skin.
Kjaer Weis Brow Gel
An eyebrow serum that doubles up as a tinted gel is the perfect duo that we all need. Kjaer Weis has curated a product that uses natural ingredients to nourish the brows while defining them with both a tint and gel to keep them in place. Ingredients include rice flour, lavender water, coconut oil and chestnut extract; these ingredients all work together to produce the brows but also to promote hair growth over time.
Ilia Lipstick
Lipstick is not something a lot of us like to wear and is more of a tinted lip gloss, and I believe it’s because lipstick can leave you feeling dry and uncomfortable after a while. That is because most lipsticks are made with the aim of hydrating the lips due to their matte-like tendencies.
Ilia has realised this and has created a matte colour-block high-impact lipstick that, in fact, nourishes the lips. Ingredients include mango seed butter, apricot seed and castor seed oil. This combination of fruit and plant seeds, and oils all come together to help lock in moisture rather than remove it, which soothes the lips while boosting elasticity.
Kosas Setting Powder
We can’t have a makeup list without including one powder, and there are ways to suggest that powders can provide more benefits than you think. It’s common knowledge that powders can dry the skin, therefore being a dry-skinned individual’s worst nightmare, while an oilier person’s delight.
Every single skin type can benefit from a healthy and nourishing powder that does more than create a matte surface. Kosas Cloud setting powder includes Chinese peony, bamboo stem, passion fruit extract, hyaluronic acid, and algae extract.
This interesting array of products includes factors to absorb excess oil but also hydrating elements to ensure that while oil is removed, it’s not to a damaging effect, and in fact, over time, this powder is said to reduce the look of pores and fine lines.
