10 Leading Skincare Brands In Foreign Pharmacies - Part 5

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Australia’s🇦🇺 skincare brands focus on clean, natural, gentle ingredients along with sun protection. Australians live closer to the sun and receive up to 15% more solar UV rays than Europeans. Daily sunscreen use is vital to prevent skin cancer.

Below are 5 Top Australian Skincare Brands found in Aussie pharmacies:

1) Go-To Skincare is known for its simple, effective,

 skincare to nourish and protect the skin. 

2) Alpha-H is famous for its Liquid Gold, a powerful glycolic acid exfoliating treatment.

3) Ultra Violette is a leader in SPF sun protection for the face and body.

4) Lanolips uses sustainable, natural lanolin to make super-hydrating lip, hand, and body balms, such as its popular 101 Ointment.

5) Frank Body gained cult status with its coffee scrubs and has a full range of uncomplicated, natural body and skincare products that use coffee as a main ingredient.

Other key brands include: Naked Sundays, QV Skincare, Bondi Sands, Grown Alchemist, and Rationale.

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The skincare of Ireland🇮🇪 centers on local organic seaweed, botanicals, and sustainable practices. Products are developed to treat sensitive skin, anti-aging, and natural wellness.

Ireland’s 5 Top Skincare Brands popular with locals are:

1) Pestle & Mortar (Co. Kildare) goes by the names Codex Beauty and Bia. Natural extracts and active ingredients go into making its skincare.

2) Collection (Co. Cork) formulates organic, scientifically backed hydration for sensitive skin.

3) Green Angel (Co. Dublin) contains organic seaweed harvested from the west coast of Ireland.

4) Kinvara Skincare makes vegan and plant-based, natural products.

5) Seabody is a luxury skincare brand that uses sustainably sourced seaweed from the Atlantic coastline.

Other key brands include: Ground Wellbeing, Dublin Herbalists, Nunaia Beauty, and Skingredients.

With Ireland, our 10th featured country, we complete our series of 50 top skincare brands used by the natives of each country. Whose skincare would you most like to try?

Update: As an afterthought, I wrote an extra blog for my international readers who wish to know what leading skincare brands they’d find in US drugstores. Publishing on Monday!

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10 Leading Skincare Brands In Foreign Pharmacies - Part 2

In Germany🇩🇪 skincare brands balance science, botanicals, and luxury. 5 Top Brands found in German pharmacies, favored by the locals, include:

1) Augustinus Barder, a beauty luxury label that uses patented stem-cell technology (TFC8) to repair cell tissue.

2) Dr. Barbara Sturm, a beauty line 

famous for its anti-inflammatory ingredients and "vampire facials.”

3) Babor, a professional brand that pioneered sealed glass capsules of concentrated active ingredients to treat specific skin issues.

4) Weleda, established in 1921, is famous worldwide for its nourishing Skin Food cream.

5) Dr. Hauschka is a pioneer of natural, holistic beauty sourced from plants and herbs.

Other key brands include Balea, No Cosmetics, and Isana. Beiersdorf AG, a Hamburg company, created ♥Nivea cream in the blue tin in 1911♥ and turned it into a centuries-old global brand. If not in a tin, it’s not the original formula. Note: The Nivea cream sold in the USA is not the same cream that is sold in German pharmacies.

France🇫🇷  commonly infuses its skincare with thermal spring water, antioxidant-rich grapes, and botanicals to nourish and pamper the skin. The French like to cultivate an elegant image.

5 Top French Skincare Brands widely used in France are:

1) LaRoche-Posay formulates its skincare for sensitive skin using mineral-rich thermal spring water. Its Cicapliast Baume B5 is a cult favorite.

2) Bioderma aims to infuse the skin with micellar water (Sensibio H20).

3) Avène specializes in thermal spring water to soothe hyper-sensitive and dry skin.

4) Caudalie uses grape-seed antioxidants in its anti-aging skincare products. The retailer's Beauty Elixir is popular.

5) Nuxe combines botanicals with luxury. Huile Prodigieuse is its famous nourishing oil for the face, body, and hair.

Other key brands are Embrolisse (its Lait-Crème Concentrate is a cult favorite), Vichy,  and A313.

Part 3 of our 5 part series will be published next Thursday. Can you guess the other countries (10 in total) to be featured?

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10 Leading Skincare Brands In Foreign Pharmacies - Part 1

Browsing in international pharmacies is fun! Let’s begin a series of 5 blogs, each blog featuring 2 countries, listing the 5 leading or top brands of skincare that are popular with the locals in that country:

Great Britain🇬🇧 likes to blend botanicals with science in its formulas. The UK beauty industry centers on high-performance and anti-aging ingredients. 

5 Top British Brands are:

1) Elemis is a leader in luxury skincare. The Liberty Beauty Calendar always includes its items. Best sellers are its cleansing balms and anti-aging serums.

2) Medik8 is a science-led skincare line for anti-aging items. It is known for its Vitamin C lotions and sunscreen for day and Vitamin A potions at night.

3) Pai Skincare targets sensitive and acne-prone skin with remedies.

4) Osia is a luxury brand offering formulas that support the cellular health of the skin.

5) BYOMA is an affordable brand containing ceramides to moisturize and protect the skin barrier.

Other key bands include UpCircle, Ren Clean Skincare, and Evolve Beauty.

Canada🇨🇦 is known for its high-quality ingredients and innovations in skincare.

♥The Ordinary, called the disruptor in the beauty industry for its science-based, affordable skincare, was founded in Toronto, Canada, in 2016 by Brandon Truaxe, so I’m placing it before Canada's list as an extra, though I didn’t see it listed in any of my research! Due to its low price point, it’s widely used in the USA, and I bet in Canada too.♥

Five of Canada’s Top Skincare Brands used by Canadians follow:

1) Skinfix is known for its barrier-repairing moisturizers and lotions.

2) Three Ships Beauty offers plant-based skincare with 100% clean ingredients found in nature.

3) Reversa treats anti-aging with ingredients like glycolic acid at prices that won’t empty a wallet.

4) Province Apothecary uses certified organic ingredients in its entire line for a clean beauty routine.

5) Sahajan combines traditional Ayurvedic practices with modern science in its skincare.

Other key brands include Graydon Skincare, Nudestix, and Rocky Mountain Soup.

After you are introduced to 50 new skincare brands found in foreign pharmacies, you'll be familiar with them should they land in the aisles at T.J. Maxx, which, due to its amazing buyers, often happens.

Stay tuned for Parts 2 - 5 of our series on THE SAVVY SHOPPER.

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