Best of 2024: Top-Rated Essentials for a Brilliant New Year

The new year will be here sooner than we know it and if you’re one to make resolutions, consider adding “Maintain visibly healthy, hydrated and smooth skin” to the top of your list. After all, who wouldn’t want to kick off 2025 with a dewy glow?

To get you started, we’ve curated a handful of our top-rated skincare products of 2024. With each, Perricone MD Director of Education, Rosalba Martone, shares a practical tip to help you truly maximize each one’s benefits.

Cold Plasma Plus+ The Intensive Gel Mask

Rosalba’s Recommendation: “Use after a day outdoors — whether post-sun, skiing, snowboarding or the like — to replenish and nourish skin while taking down visible redness from the sun, cold and/or wind.” 

Powered by peptides, omegas and phospholipids, this cooling gel mask is a must-have for all skin types. It delivers intense moisture for an instant radiance boost while simultaneously improving uneven texture and tone, wrinkles and loss of firmness. The result is an immediately hydrated, soft, smooth and supple complexion.

High Potency Intensive Smoothing Serum

Rosalba’s Recommendation: “Dab this under your eyes, then apply eye cream for instantly visible smoothing benefits — especially before you put on concealer.”

Featuring a high concentration of niacinamide, this skin-smoothing serum minimizes the look of imperfections, including rough, uneven texture, enlarged pores and crepiness. In doing so, it instantly softens skin for a visibly refined complexion. Bonus: it’s packed with DMAE and ceramides for intensive firming and moisture barrier support, too.

High Potency Retinol Recovery Overnight Moisturizer

Rosalba’s Recommendation: “Maximize the smoothing benefits by applying this atop The Intensive Smoothing Serum before bed to wake up to ultra-soft, supple skin.”

This retinol night cream is rich and ultra-nourishing, working wonders to replenish moisture and visibly reduce wrinkles as you sleep. Featuring a unique triple retinol blend of highly stable encapsulated retinol, retinol ester and phyto-retinol, it helps deliver the look of collagen-rich skin. Also formulated with firming DMAE and a hydrating vegetable triglyceride complex, it’s a must-have for achieving a firm, smooth and rested complexion overnight.

No Makeup Blush Balm

Rosalba’s Recommendation: “For a quick ‘pick-me-up,’ apply a swipe of the blush balm across the eyelids and lips for a natural, monochromatic look that makes you look and feel more polished.”

Naturally, to complete your no makeup makeup look, we had to mix in our buildable and blendable blush balm. It’s in a convenient, easy-to-use stick format so you can glide on a swipe of natural-looking color wherever you go. Made of skin-improving ingredients like brightening Vitamin C Ester, nourishing ceramides and smoothing camellia flower seed oil, it visibly improves dullness and discoloration over time while providing an instant hint of tint with a radiant finish.

 Unbox all 4 essentials for just $75 ($328 value) when you subscribe to December’s Skincare Edit, a Perricone MD monthly beauty box subscription featuring a special curation of new must-haves and existing customer favorites.