Pictured from top clockwise: Innisfree Vitamin C Green Tea Enzyme Brightening Serum, Clinique Even Better Brighter Essence Lotion, Tatcha The Water Cream, Sioris Cleanse Me Softly Milk Cleanser, Melixir Vegan Balancing Toner

We have been sleeping on green tea skincare thanks to ingredients ending in -mides, -cics, and -ones, but newer formulas are brewed with more antioxidative powers and steeped with non-sensitising actives for immediate brightness and calm.

Continue scrolling down for some of our new grails.

If you need a fresh start to a skincare routine that focuses on brightening, the Clinique Even Better™ Brighter Essence Lotion contains a CL302 Brightening Complex™ that exfoliates and hydrates at the same time while green tea extract prevents sensitisation . Shop it here.

What’s more frustrating than fading a dark spot? Fading a dark spot that has yet to rear its ugly head. The Innisfree Vitamin C Green Tea Enzyme Brightening Serum contains both vitamin C and Jeju green tea enzyme that rids the skin of dark spots both within and on top of the epidermis. Shop it here.

Mario Badescu’s Facial Spray with aloe, cucumber, and green tea has been the stuff of legends and for one good reason: its calming blend of botanicals instantly turns angry-looking skin into one that looks like it’s been pampered to perfection at the White Lotus. Shop it here. 

In case you still have an intolerance towards using a toner, perhaps the pH-balancing properties of the Melixir Vegan Balancing Toner courtesy of its botanical blend might convince you to start using one. Read stronger, healthier, and brighter skin with just one swipe. Shop it here. 

If you close your eyes and take a deep breath of the Sioris Cleanse Me Soft Milk Cleanser’s citrusy scent, it might have the ability to melt stress away. Apply, inhale, massage, and next, let its combination of plant-derived ingredients like green tea melt your makeup next. Shop it here. 

Tatcha’s The Water Cream does all the good stuff from minimising excess oil production to soothing the skin courtesy of ingredients like green tea and red algae but it stops short as one thing: giving you the good looks of the brand’s #1 fan Simu Liu.  Shop it here. 

Photography Daryl Tan
Styling Manfred Lu

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