While travel might be at an all-time high right now, not all of us are blessed and fortunate enough to be able to afford a vacation.
But, if you’re like us, who yearn to travel just to get our hands on exclusive beauty products, you’re in luck!
Thanks to online shopping platforms like Shopee, Lazada, and even e-stores of official beauty retailers like Sephora, we can now obtain many of these products at the tap of a screen—here in this little red dot!
Today, we give you 38 Japanese beauty products you can get online; spanning three categories: skincare, makeup & sunscreen, as well as body care & haircare.
Skincare
1. Albion Skin Conditioner Essential
This Japanese toner calms, brightens the tone, and smoothens the appearance of irritated skin. Infused with Job’s Tears, it also aids in ridding, and preventing the further development of pimples.
It retails for S$205.20.
2. Boscia MakeUp-BreakUp Cool Cleansing Oil
Boscia was created by Japan-based Fancl, and remains a popular brand today thanks to the clean and natural formulas it adopts in its products.
Powered by nanotechnology, this cleansing oil removes makeup, brightens complexion, purifies pores, hydrates skin, and offer anti-aging properties.
It retails for S$59.
3. Clé de Peau Beauté Protective Fortifying Emulsion
Designed for all skin types, this is a daytime moisturiser that provides all-day hydration while reviving your skin’s natural resilience.
It leaves your skin feeling smooth, and can double up as a primer for your foundation to improve its longevity and appearance.
It retails for S$200.
4. Kao Curel Instant Foaming Face Wash Moist Care/Sebum Care
PH balanced for sensitive skin, this gentle cleanser does a thorough job of stripping dirt and impurities off your skin.
It claims to protect your skin’s natural ceramide, and leaves your face feeling supple and dewy afterwards.
It retails for S$16.50.
5. Cure Natural Aqua Gel
With its high water content, this gentle peel gel exfoliates your skin and removes dead skin cells, and simultaneously injects a generous amount of hydration right into your dermis, leaving your skin feeling soft and smooth.
It retails for S$29.90.
6. Decorté Liposome Advanced Repair Serum
Incorporated with multilamellar bio-liposomes, a single pump of this serum treats your skin with a high concentration of moisture, creating a protective effect of a second skin.
Some benefits of this product include refined and improved texture, and reduced appearance of pores and fine lines.
It retails for S$197.
7. DHC Deep Cleansing Oil
If you are in need of a powerful makeup remover, consider this. It dissolves all traces of dirt and makeup completely—including waterproof makeup!
Additionally, it claims to nourish your complexion with antioxidant-rich olive oil which leaves your skin feeling soft and supple.
It retails for S$47.52.
8. D Program Acne Care Emulsion
D Program is a brand housed under parent company Shiseido. If you’ve got acne-prone skin, this could be the moisturiser for you.
Concocted with soothing Allantoin, it prevents inflammation and keeps your skin moisturised for up to eight hours long.
It retails for S$47.50.
9. Dr. Ci: Labo Aqua Collagen Gel
With a blend of five different types of collagen, this cream regulates the flow of positive ions in, and out of the skin, and activates your skin’s ability to produce collagen naturally.
It also helps to lock moisture in your skin, while transporting anti-aging ingredients deep into the skin.
It retails for S$151.20.
10. FANCL Enrich Emulsion
This daily moisturiser is both lightweight and powerful—preventing dryness by driving moisture deep into the skin’s surface.
It comes in two variants: ‘moisturising’, for normal-to-dry skin, and ‘refreshing’, combination-oily skin.
It retails for S$41.04.
11. Hada Labo Deep Clean & Pore Refining Face Wash
If you’ve got oily skin, you might want to opt for this deep cleansing face wash, which fights the over-secretion of sebum.
The secret to its oil control property is bentonite clay, which comes packed with minerals to absorb oil, dirt and impurities.
It retails for S$7.95.
12. IRÉN Skin Japan Customised Serum
Mix and match IRÉN Skin’s serums to treat a myriad of skin concerns. Each box comes with three serums: one for anti-ageing, another for whitening, and the last, soothing.
It retails for S$147.
13. Lululun Sheet Masks
With two lines—’pure’ and ‘precious’, each offering three variants, these masks aim to rectify the chemical balance, tonal clarity, or moisture level of your skin.
What’s great is that they come in resealable packs, so you can ensure that the rest of your masks stay clean, and don’t dry out.
Its retail price starts at S$9.90.
14. Wafood Made Sake Kasu Sake Lees Mask Pack
Housed in an adorable Ribena-pouch like packaging, this wash off mask is perfect for those with dry and dull skin.
It’s infused with extracts from cucumber, rice bran, yuzu, and sake to moisturise and brighten your skin.
It retails for S$27.90.
15. Rohto Melano CC Intensive Anti-Spot Essence
A bestseller, this skin brightening essence is formulated with vitamin C to improve dullness, and even out skin tone.
It also combats acne, and suppresses the production of melanin, which contributes to sun spots, freckles, and other pigmentation spots.
It retails for S$17.90.
16. Saborino Morning Facial Sheet Mask
These crowd-favourite sheet masks are a triple-threat; they cleanse, moisturise, and prime your skin for makeup application. With each pack carrying 28 to 32 sheets, one would be able to last you a whole month, giving you an absolute bang for your buck.
The retail price starts at S$21.90.
17. Softymo Cleansing Foam
Don’t you just hate it when cleansers strip away every last drop of moisture in your skin, leaving it squeaky clean (in a really artificial manner)? Well, this foam cleanser is the answer to your problem.
Containing hyaluronic acid, collagen, or whitening properties, this product removes dirt, while retaining and pumping extra moisture into your skin.
It retails for S$11.
18. Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream
Suitable for dry and normal skin, this cream hydrates and nourish your skin with antioxidants extracted from Japanese purple rice.
It is blended with a variety of Japanese anti-ageing superfoods such as green tea, rice, and algae, to give the skin a healthy and youthful glow.
It retails for S$118.
19. THREE Purifying Clay Mask
With a whopping 92% of its ingredients derived from natural sources, this clay mask draws impurities and excess sebum out, from the depths of your pores, repels dead skin cells off the surface of the skin, and promotes moisture within the skin.
It retails for S$86.
20. Utena Premium Puresa Golden Jelly Mask
One of Japan’s bestselling golden jelly masks, these come packed with highly concentrated golden jelly collagen to deliver moisture deep into your skin.
It is packed with active ingredients like hyaluronic acid, ceramides, squalene, amino acids, and more.
It retails for S$16.90.
Makeup & sunscreen
21. Allie Extra UV Gel SPF 50+ PA +++
This UV gel not only creates a veil that protects your skin against UV rays, it also contains a blend of hyaluronic acid and collagen that combats dry skin.
Suitable for use on both face and body, it is water and sweat resistant, allowing for less touch ups across the day.
The retail price starts at S$35.90.
22. Anessa Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk SPF 50+ PA +++
Suitable for all skin types, this sunscreen is resistant to sweat, water, and even heat, and the humidity.
With 50% beauty skincare ingredients, it also prevents ageing caused by sun exposure, ensuring you maintain a radiant glow.
It retails for S$42.50.
23. Astalift D-UV Clear White Solution SPF 50+ PA ++++
This sunscreen offers broad-spectrum coverage—which means it protects your skin from more types of UV rays compared to other sunscreens.
It also doubles as both a beauty essence and makeup base to keep your mug looking on point day long.
It retails for S$72.
24. Bioré UV Perfect Face Milk SPF 50+ PA ++++
On top of being water resistant, this sunscreen also regulates shine, with its infused sebum absorbing powder.
Formulated with hyaluronic acid, it also doubles as a moisturising makeup base so you don’t have to reach for a primer.
It retails for S$16.55.
25. Canmake Tokyo Mermaid Skin Gel UV
Lauded as one of the best SPF makeup primers, you can use it on its own as a sunscreen or under your makeup as a base, or primer.
It retails for S$19.10.
26. Cezanne Lasting Lip Colour
One of Cezanne’s bestsellers include their Lasting Lip Colour lipsticks which are creamy and highly pigmented.
While it leaves a matte finish, it is highly balmy, and protects your lips from chapping.
It retails for S$10.60.
27. Dolly Wink Gel Eyeliner
An ultra-waterproof eyeliner, this product has a 1.5 mm slim tip and a non-retractable gel core that guarantees you smooth, sharp, and crisp lines.
With hydrating and nourishing squalane, chamomile, jojoba seed oil, and macadamia seed oil, you need not worry about your lids burning or getting irritated from its formula.
It retails for S$20.50.
28. Ettusais Natural Powder Brow Liner
Wear natural-looking, and long-lasting eyebrows using this sweat and water-resistant, smudge-proof brow liner.
Its fine tip makes it especially easy to draw hair-like strokes, and its blendable formula allows for shading, and the creation of gradients.
It retails for S$34.02.
29. Isehan Kiss Me Heroine Make Volume & Curl Mascara
This waterproof mascara will give you the most voluminous and dramatic set of eyelashes. Its ultra black formula, paired with a dense and short brush applicator—ideal for catching shorter asian lashes—will give you the ultimate fluttery and flirty lash look.
It retails for S$28.43.
30. K-Palette 1 Day Tattoo Real Lasting Eyeliner
Rated as one of Japan’s top selling eyeliners, it offers 24-hours of waterproof wear. Available in four shades, its intensely pigmented formula ensures your cat-eye stays intact and budge-proof.
It retails for S$20.90.
31. Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation
Finding a foundation that fairs and is gentle on sensitive skin can be a real challenge. But, Koh Gen Do to the rescue! With no added parabens, sulfates, and phthalates, this medium coverage foundation flaunts a natural, luminous finish.
It retails for S$100.33.
32. SANA Super Quick Melty Gel Eyeliner
Here’s another high precision eyeliner for you. This one’s got a 2 mm gel tip that lends a smooth, creamy, chocolatey glide.
Waterproof and smudge-free, this pen liner’s formula is infused with macadamia nut oil, shea butter, and panthenol, to ensure your delicate lids stay hydrated and moisturised. This prevents unnecessary sebum production which may lift your liner off.
It retails for S$22.90.
33. Shiseido Synchro Skin Radiant Lifting Foundation
This medium coverage foundation is easily buildable and highly blendable, allowing you to wear it however you want, depending on the occasion! It uses an innovative light-adjusting technology to leave you with a natural-looking, luminous glow.
With a total of 20 different shades, this weightless foundation is one you definitely want in your makeup pouch, stat.
It retails for S$80.
34. Shu Uemura Hard Formula Eyebrow Pencil
Shu Uemura stans have sworn by this product for a long, long time. How do we know? This pencil has been in the market for more than 30 years now, without a single modification to its formula, and has seen an unwavering demand, since its birth.
It draws on fairly sheer initially, but really pops when in contact with your skin’s natural oils, creating a really natural shading underneath your brow hair, and enhancing the appearance of its thickness.
It retails for S$40.
35. Skin Aqua Tone Up UV Essence
With its brightening property, this sunscreen doubles-up as a primer, or even a sheer base. And, you’d be glad to know that users have shared that this dries down to a semi-matte consistency almost immediately. Say bye-bye to tacky and oily sunscreens!
Packed rich with hyaluronic acid and vitamin C, it keeps your skin plump and moisturised all day.
It retails for S$21.49.
Bodycare, haircare & tools
36. Kaminomoto Super Strength Hair Serum
Stress getting to you? Hair thinning as a result, and stressing you even further? Fret no more. This hair serum fixes that.
It uses hinokitiol—which has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-fungal and anti-melanogenic properties—to keep your hair healthy and strong, and stimulates blood circulation and cells rejuvenation.
It retails for S$19.90.
37. Lishan Horse Oil Skin Cream
Extracted from horse fat and Hokkaido-sourced horse placenta, this cream contains essential fatty, and amino acids which boast anti-inflammatory properties to help repair broken, damaged, and irritated skin.
It retails for S$17.28.
38. Tsubaki Premium Shampoo & Conditioner
This crowd-favourite shampoo repairs the cell membrane complex of your hair, with the help of easily-permeable, nourishing ingredients like royal jelly, soybean protein, camellia oil, and squalene, leaving you with flawless tresses, free of split-ends, tangles, and frizz.
It retails for S$11.90.
