19 Essential Green Beauty Products

Best Hydrating Oil

Acala Stem Blue Lotus Face Oil

The packaging is chic, the royal-blue glass bottle is beautiful and the oil blend within is a match made for glowing hydrated skin. Unlike many beauty products, there are just two ingredients here: certified organic Australian jojoba and blue lotus oil.

It contains natural vitamins and antioxidants, and is good for most skin types including oily and sensitive.

Best Body Oil

Ashaya Re-Glow Body Oil

This beautiful oil has been formulated with perimenopause in mind… to soothe the senses, smooth the skin and envelop you in a silky cocoon of calm. Containing a relaxing blend of moringa, marula and jojoba oils and a woody scent that mingles rose geranium, clary sage and cedarwood essential oils, it’s the self-care you need, whether you smooth straight on the skin, or sprinkle into a hot bath.

Best Clarifying Mist

Awe Cosmeceuticals Zaakti Tulasi Kapha Tonic

This vitamin-infused, antibacterial tonic helps to manage excess sebum that can cause spots, and its anti-inflammatory and hydrating properties make it ideal for oily skin types. Containing adaptogenic holy basil to reduce stress in the skin, along with vitamin B and zinc, it’s a nice refreshing tonic that can be applied before serums.

Awe Cosmeceuticals is Australian owned and operated. The packaging is 100% recyclable.

Best Moisturising Gel

Aya Skincare Hydrate and Radiate Water Gel

Stunning texture and an uber-hydrating formula is the consensus on this light yet luxuriously moisturising, hyaluronic acid gel. It contains native botanicals, including kangaroo paw extract, to seal in moisture and shield from pollution and pigmentation, redness-reducing properties thanks to sweet cherry blossom and burdock extract, and anti-inflammatory white willow bark and hibiscus extract.

It's free from a long list of nasties, including SLES, synthetic fragrances, petroleum, sulphates, parabens and silicones.

Best Body Milk

By Rosie Jane Calm the F*ck Down Body Milk

This light-as-a-feather body moisturiser is intensely hydrating and beautifully silky, leaving your skin feeling instantly rejuvenated. Containing organic cucumber hydrosol to tone and tighten, nourishing sunflower oil, anti-inflammatory turmeric root and soothing aloe vera, it’s a beautiful, luxe addition to your body care regimen. 

It's free from alcohol, fragrance, parabens, silicons and sulphates. Oh, and vegan and cruelty free too, wrapped up in recyclable packaging.

Best Rich Moisturiser

Clémence Organics Ultimate Face Crème

This face cream is lush in every way. Deeply moisturising, with a rich texture that hugs and absorbs into the skin, it’s ideal for dehydrated types or as a night cream to plump and smooth lines and wrinkles.

Formulated by an Australian naturopath, the cream is every bit as caring as you’d expect: beautiful botanicals, bio-fermented hyaluronic acid and anti-inflammatory organic rose otto essential oil – a bonus for those who experience acne or redness.

Best Dissolving Sheet Mask

Conserving Beauty Thirsty Face Dissolving Sheet Mask

This clever sheet mask is more than just a luxe drink for thirsty skin. It harnesses clever technology to dissolve in water once you’ve used it, leaving zero waste or microplastics – as if by magic. The technology is impressive, but no more so than its velvety and nourishing concoction of hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, vitamin B5 and antioxidants to hydrate and lock in moisture.

Best Sustainable Lip Balm

Ethique Sugarplum Nourishing Lip Balm

This eco-friendly lip balm is everything you can possibly want in a sustainable brand: home-compostable packaging, completely natural formula and super nourishing with a pretty pop of colour. Its creamy texture glides on the lips and invigorates with a hint of peppermint, while cocoa butter, castor seed, moringa and jojoba oils lock in hydration.

Best Cleansing Balm

GunkOff Melting Balm Cleanser

This make-up-dissolving, grime-eliminating, impurity-removing balm melts into the skin as you massage to break down dirt, giving a thorough cleanse and nourishing with safflower and camellia seed oils. Free of nasties and full of hydrators, it’s a caring cleanser in a tube, which also makes it the perfect travel companion. 

Best Refillable Bronzer

Jane Iredale PureBronze Matte Bronzer Refill

This versatile bronzer gives an instantly sun-kissed, effortlessly contoured face. Its lightweight texture blends and builds easily without settling into fine lines. It has some lovely ingredients, including skin-calming pine bark extract, antioxidant pomegranate seed oil and sunflower seed oil to aid hydration. We love the refillable aspect, too – simply buy the compact separately and refill it forever!

Best Hydrating Eye Oil

Jurlique Herbal Recovery Eye Oil Roll-On

From its green, glass packaging to the silky oil within, this beautiful product makes it easy to care for your delicate under-eye area. The cooling rollerball massages, leaving skin looking hydrated and with fewer lines. The oil packs a list of nourishing botanicals, including stress-reducing holy basil, iris root, echinacea and black elderflower, along with jojoba, avocado and sunflower seed oils to soften and smooth.

The product is free from silicones, petrolatum, mineral oil, paraffin wax, pegs, parabens, formaldehyde donors, artificial colours and artificial fragrances.

Jurlique has impressive eco credentials, including being zero waste since 2016.

Best Hydrating Mask

Jurlique Nutri-Define Cream Mask

Is your skin asking for a deeply nourishing, lifting, plumping treat? You can’t go past this rich mask made from 99% natural origin ingredients. With farm-grown botanicals and an incredibly lush, creamy texture, it’s packed with antioxidants and moisturisers that leave your skin feeling incredible. “This is my go-to for when my skin needs some TLC,” says Prevention Australia Cecily-Anna Bennett. “It’s so soothing and my face always feels brighter and firmer after use.”

Best Sustainable Mascara

Lashes of Change Customisable Mascara

This clever, sustainable, customisable mascara means you can tailor your brush and formula to your exact preference and lash type. Choose from five brushes (or have several and interchange – they’re easy to click in and out), then pick your preferred hue and formula. It’s packaged in a sleek gold, refillable case and the formula itself is beautiful: vegan, free of toxins and enriched with argan oil for lengthened, nourished lashes.

Best Barrier Cream

Skin Friend Australia Wonder Zinc

Dry or itchy? Red or bumpy? Rough or sensitive? Or perhaps you need an extra hit of skin-protecting hydration? This treatment cream does it all – smoothing, soothing and protecting the skin with a clear-zinc formulation containing Kakadu plum and antioxidants from elderberry to aid protection and healing.

We love Skin Friend’s values, too – minimalist and recyclable packaging and vegan-friendly products.

Best Self-Tanner

Sontse Golden Hour Self-Tan Mousse

There’s a reason this multi-award winning, velvety, rose-scented tanning mousse has been lavished with praise and why we were compelled to add to the accolades. It delivers a natural-looking, streak-free glow as well as a host of skincare benefits; it’s infused with mandarin peel and coconut oil alongside vitamin E, vitamin B5 and Kakadu plum. Smoothing, hydrating and easy to use, it’s everything you want in a sunless tanning product. It's vegan, cruelty free and toxic free.

Best Highlighter

Sunset Daze Liquid Rays

This natural formula is sun-kissed skin in a bottle. Apply under make-up as a glowy base, add to the high points of the face as a highlighter or mix into your moisturiser and sweep across your décolletage for a sophisticated gleam. These clever bronzing drops are golden hour in skincare form, with a good range of hues and skin-loving ingredients such as avocado and kiwi extract, blue light protection and antioxidants.

All Sunset Daze products are fragrance free, vegan, cruelty-free, natural and made in Australia.

Best Hydrating Blush

The Kind Collective Glow Up Stick

This is such a unique product – a pigmented blush stick with a jelly-like texture that applies sheer and adapts to your skin for a natural rosy glow. It’s made with shea butter and coconut oil to keep skin hydrated, is buildable, beautiful and lasts for ages. “I was impressed by the feel of this on the skin and how pretty and natural it looks,” says Bennett.

It uses vegan ingredients, is not tested on animals and SLES and paraben free. The company is B Corp Certified, meaning it meets high standards of environmental and social performance, accountability and transparency. 

Best Natural Deodorant

Totem Eco Natural Deodorant Kakadu Rose

Non-toxic, ethical and sustainable is an excellent start for this fresh, floral deodorant containing Kakadu plum, with a creamy texture that nourishes and protects your underarms. It has good odour control and lovely ingredients, including jojoba esters, rose geranium and macadamia oils, alongside kaolin clay and tapioca starch, to keep you feeling clean and dry. 

Best Antioxidant Oil

Vitis V Face Toniq

With its beautiful, sustainable packaging and nutrient-rich formula, this glow-boosting face oil embodies the luxury of raw, natural ingredients. Containing cold-pressed, unfermented grapeseed oil and white grapeseed extract, made in small batches from Aussie grape seeds, it’s packed with natural antioxidants to help boost skin function.

For even more green beauty products, see the full list of Prevention Australia Beauty Award Winners 2024.