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The best Superdrug beauty products for under £15, hand-picked by our editors

Think: £5 face washes that feel like £50 cleansers

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We love a luxury skincare product as much as the next person, but it’s no secret that you can often find something just as good (for a fraction of the price) from the high-street drug store, our equivalent of the French pharmacy. As our Good Housekeeping Institute beauty testers are always telling us, some of those expensive price tags are sometimes more down to the luxe packaging, rather than the formulations.

With that in mind, our editors have shared their top beauty steals from Superdrug, so you can swipe them from the shelves on your next supermarket sweep-style, pre-holiday shopping trip. And they’re all under £15.

1

B. Rosehip Melting Cleansing Balm 65G

Melting Cleansing Balm 65G

For a £5 cleanser that feels indulgent thanks to its luxurious texture, try this buttery balm. It’s enriched with rosehip oil, so it’s full of fatty acids that lock in moisture and – over time – will help reduce the appearance of fine lines.

2

Naturally Radiant Glycolic Acid Mask 50ml

Glycolic Acid Mask 50ml

Glycolic acid is the ideal ingredient for an overnight mask like this, as it’s great at resurfacing your skin while you sleep. The formulation also includes whitonyl, which helps to even out skin tone. Plus, this one smells like kiwi fruit.

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3

Essie Gel Couture Gel-Like Nail Polish

Gel Couture Gel-Like Nail Polish

We all know butter yellow is the colour of the summer, and Essie’s gel-like nail polishes are a great affordable option to help you keep up with the latest lewks.

They chip far less than some other more expensive brands and they’re so pigmented, you sometimes only need one coat. We can’t argue with that for just over a tenner.

4

Studio London U DEW U Bronzing Drops Light-Medium

U DEW U Bronzing Drops Light-Medium

These £5 bronzing drops are a great swap for pricier tanners on the market (if you know, you know), as there isn’t much disparity in terms of ingredients. With added niacinamide, you should notice reduced redness and plumper-looking skin, as well as an obvious summer glow.

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5

Optimum Collagen Night Face Cream 50ml

Night Face Cream 50ml

We could talk for hours about the benefits of collagen-boosting skincare and supplements. Collagen is the most abundant substance in the human body after water, and with our stocks depleting as we get older, anything that can help build it back up is a winner in our book.

This cream contains peptides, which help promote collagen production to give you firmer more supply skin while you snooze. That’s what we call beauty sleep.

6

Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer

UK Approved(Esquire,Red,HB,GH,Country Living,Prima)
Lasting Perfection Concealer

This purse-friendly concealer is such an insider beauty hack – journalists will often nod to this when asked about the cheapest base products to pick up on the high street.

It passed our stringent Good Housekeeping Institute tests with flying colours, too, scoring higher than any other concealer we tested for its staying power. All for under £5 – riddle us that.

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7

Me+ Salicylic Acid & AHA Body Serum

Salicylic Acid & AHA Body Serum

Ever suffered with ‘chicken skin’, those annoying bumps on your arms and legs, also known as Keratosis Pilaris? Well, this resurfacing body serum is for you. AHAs and salicylic acid work to gently slough away rough patches on the surface to reveal firmer, smoother-feeling skin underneath.

8

Maybelline Colossal Volum' Express Mascara 100% Black 10.7ml

UK Approved(Esquire,Red,HB,GH,Country Living,Prima)
Colossal Volum' Express Mascara 100% Black 10.7ml
Now 20% Off

This was crowned the winner in our best mascaras test at The Good Housekeeping Institute, scoring 94/100 and proving it deserves our attention for more than its eye-catching, iconic yellow packaging.

Everyone loved the double-curve wand for preventing clumps, and the collagen-infused formula is likely responsible for leaving lashes looking longer, thicker and more fabulous by the end of the trial.

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9

Naturally Radiant Hot Cloth Cleanser 150ml

Hot Cloth Cleanser 150ml

Nothing feels better at the end of the day than gently wiping off your makeup with a hot cloth and a good cleanser. This one’s enriched with ingredients that gently exfoliate skin as well as decongesting it – keeping your complexion feeling squeaky clean and smooth, too.

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Florence Reeves-White
Senior Beauty Writer

Florence is our Senior Beauty Writer, specialising in expert-tested beauty and grooming reviews — from toothbrushes to the latest skincare launches. She’s committed to sharing recommendations for products that truly work and make people feel confident and healthy. Prior to this she was at Tropic Skincare, where she worked closely with biochemists in the lab, delving into the functions of each fresh, natural ingredient and conveying its efficacy to her audience in easy-to-digest terms. 

With over five years’ experience in beauty and health journalism, Florence has written for ELLE, Women’s Fitness, Sister Magazine, National Geographic Traveller and many more, with a strong sustainability angle thread through much of her work.

When she isn’t packing for a trip away, working out, eating out or reading up on retinol serums, you’ll probably find her experimenting with her film camera and building her portfolio of portraits. Florence’s photography can be found at florencereeves-white.com, her Instagram is @florencereeveswhite and her twitter is @floreadsnwrites

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