7 Best Japanese Beauty Products Hall of Fame

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

7 Best Japanese Beauty Products Hall of Fame

Last week, I checked @cosme, a huge cosmetic review site in Japan, and found that they've released best beauty products of 2016 with many categories! Today, I'm going to share seven best Japanese beauty products 2016 Hall of Fame. These seven products have been winning the best beauty awards for many years.

1. Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil (ファンケルマイルドクレンジングオイル)
60ml - 980 yen
120ml - 1,700 yen

Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil

Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil has been selected the best makeup remover award many times. According to Fancl, it has been sold every 5 seconds in Japan. They sold 20 million bottles of Mild Cleansing Oil in three years.

Fancl was founded in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, in 1980. They've making preservative-free skin care products for women who have sensitive skins. This Mild Cleansing Oil is very gentle to your skin; yet, it removes heavy makeup including waterproof mascara and eyeliners at one go without rubbing hard. It also remove dead skin and clogged pores. :)

Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil

How to Remove Makeup with Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil

1. Take 2 pumps onto your dry palm. Gently smooth over dry face and starting from your nose, gently massage onto your dry face in circular motions. (You don't have to rub your skin hard.)

2. Close your eyes and gently smooth over eye area. Then, rinse it off.

You can purchase Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil at some drugstores in Japan such as Matsumotokiyoshi drugstores (マツモトキヨシ) and Kokumin drugstores (コクミン薬局).

2. Curel Intensive Moisture Facial Cream (Curel 潤浸保湿フェイスクリーム）
40g - 2,300 yen

Curel Intensive Moisture Facial Cream

Curel is a skin care brand of Kao, one of the largest cosmetic companies in Japan. Curel products are made for people who have sensitive dry skins. Curel products are sold in some Asian countries, U.S and Canada. However, Japanese Curel products are only available in Asian countries for now. While US Curel has body care products, Japanese Curel has facial skin care products, body care products, shampoo, sunscreen and makeups.

Curel Japan

Curel Intensive Moisture Facial Cream has won best beauty facial cream awards many times for many years. After applying kesyousui (化粧水, Japanese toning water) and nyueki (乳液, creamy facial lotion), apply this cream on your face. This moisturizes your skin very well. This is very gentle to your skin.
You can find Curel products at many drugstores in Japan.

3. Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil (ハーバー高品位スクワラン)
15ml - 1,512 yen
30ml - 2,700 yen
60ml - 4,968 yen

Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil

Haba is a Japanese cosmetic company which was established in Tokyo in 1983. They make skin care products, makeups and supplements. This Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil is highly rated facial moisturizing oil in Japan and has won many beauty awards. It's been 30 years since they released this product, and it has been sold over 14 million bottles so far in Japan.

Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil

Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil is made of high quality refined natural oil. It's preservative-free, so it's perfect for people who have very sensitive skins including newborn babies. You can apply this oil on your face, body, hair and nails.

How to Use (You can use it after applying kesyousui, Japanese toning lotion, on your clean face.)
1. Put one drop of Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil in your palm hand.

2. Rub your hands together and spread the oil over your palms.

3. Gently press the oil into your face.

Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil is one of their high-end skin care products, but you just need only one drop of oil at a time. When you use it twice a day, the smallest bottle (15ml) of oil can last three months. :)

Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil

Haba Squalane Pure Roots Oil can be purchased at some drugstores such as Kokuminn drugstores (コクミン薬局) in Japan. Although their products cannot be found at many drugstores there.

4. Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX (エクセルパウダー＆ペンシルアイブロウ EX)
1,450 yen

Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX

Excel is affordable cosmetic brand of Noevia (ノエビア), a cosmetic manufacture company in Japan. Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX won the best eyebrow product award on @cosme three years in a row in Japan.

Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX

It was also selected as the must-buy Japanese makeup product by Taiwanese beauty magazine.

Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX

One Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX includes eyebrow pencil, eyebrow powder and eyebrow brush. You can make perfect eyebrows with it.

Now, they have eight different colors. The most popular one in Japan is PD01 Natural Brown. The second most popular color is PD02 Caramel Brown, and the third one is PD07 Mocha Brown.

Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX

Excel products can be purchased at many drugstores in Japan such as Matsumotokiyoshi drugstores (マツモトキヨシ) and Kokumin drugstores (コクミン薬局). You can probably find them at some department stores such as Loft, Plaza and Tokyuhands (東急ハンズ) as well.

5. Daiso Japan Reusable Silicon Mask Cover (ザ・ダイソーシリコーン潤マスクフェイスマスク用)
100 yen

Daiso Japan Reusable Silicon Mask Cover

Daiso Japan Reusable Silicon Mask Cover is the must-buy item of Daiso. As I mentioned in my previous entry, Top 3 Daiso Beauty Products, it is very popular and often sold out at Daiso in Japan! Daiso Japan Reusable Silicon Mask Cover won the best beauty tool award on @cosme three years in a row in Japan.

I also purchased two Reusable Silicon Mask Covers at Daiso, and I really love them. I always use it when I use a facial mask sheet. The silicon mask really can keep still on my face, so I can blow dry my hair at the same time. You can check out my previous entry, Daiso Japan Reusable Silicon Mask Cover Review.

Daiso Japan Reusable Silicon Mask Covers

You can use it over a facial mask sheet. It prevents moisture evaporation from the mask

You can also wear on your bare face while soaking a bathtub, so you can get the same result as facial steam.

You can find Daiso Japan Reusable Silicon Mask Cover only at Daiso branches.

6. MTG ReFa CARAT
23,800 yen

MTG ReFa CARAT

MTG is a beauty appliance manufacture company which was established in Nagoya prefecture, Japan in 1996. They first released MTG ReFa series, high quality beauty rollers, in 2009. Since then, it has been very popular for women in Japan and has won many beauty awards there. Indeed, over five millions of MTG Refa Carat have been sold so far.

MTG ReFa is inspired by professional estheticians' hands. MTG created their famous beauty rollers to allow us to do superior beauty massages at home on a daily basis.

MTG ReFa CARAT

MTG ReFa products has a built-in solar panel to capture light and generate microcurrent, which is used as beauty treatments at professional beauty salon. Many Japanese women reviews that they've noticed that it tightens your face and body and reduces wrinkles. Some people reviews that their face is brighter now because it increases blood circulation.

MTG ReFa CARAT

You can use MTG ReFa while you are watching TV or whenever you like. It is waterproof roller, so you can also massage your face and body while you are soaking in a bathtub. Some Japanese people review that they use it for one minute right before makeup every morning, so it slims down your face and makeups look better on your face. :)

MTG ReFa CARAT

Many women in Japan review that they purchased MTG ReFa online. Because it's extremely popular high-end product, keep in mind that there are always some fake products online. Its retail price is 23,800yen (without tax), which is equivalent to about $230 (it depends on yen-dollar rate.). If you find very inexpensive one, I think it's not a bargain. It's more likely to be phony. Be sure to purchase it from trusted sellers or official stores. Nonetheless, it's also pretty hard to find MTG ReFa at stores in Japan. They only sell this product at few stores such as Lumine Est Shinjuku (ルミネエスト新宿店), Shibuya Marui (渋谷マルイ), Tsutaya Ebisubashi and etc. If you are planning on traveling Japan, you can purchase it at airport duty free shops. You can find it at Haneda, Narita, Kansai International Airports.

7. Kao Laurier F (ロリエエフしあわせ素肌）

Kao Laurier F

As I mentioned in my previous entry, most women prefer to use pads rather than tampons in Japan. That's why many Japanese manufacture companies have tried to improve sanitary pads. Laurier is sanitary product brand of Kao, which is one of the largest Japanese cosmetic companies. (By the way, Kao makes Japanese Curel I mention above.) Their Laurier F series is highly rated sanitary pads on @cosme and won the best sanitary product awards three years in a row.