Best Beauty Award Winners Under $10

Beauty

Face
Whatever your skin type, these champs will help you achieve complexion perfection.

Best Cleanser
C.O. Bigelow Vitamin Boost Cream Cleanser, $10
Readers raved about this wash, which is packed with nourishing vitamins A, C and E. “I usually have to put on moisturizer right after cleansing, but the rinse left my skin moist and glowing,” one user praised.

Best Depuffing Eye Cream
Bioré Enliven Cooling Eye Gel, $10
Testers gave high marks to this “espresso shot for eyes,” which relies on sugar beets to deflate bags. “It’s like a 10-minute eye lift,” one cheered.

Best Makeup Remover
Clean & Clear Makeup Dissolving Facial Cleansing Wipes, $6
“They thoroughly removed dirt and mascara in one 20-second step-without making my sensitive skin act up,” one voter noted. “You get 25 per pack, so you can’t beat the price!”

Body
Pamper your skin below the neck with these winners that help create an allover glow.

Best Bar Soap
Caress Evenly Gorgeous Exfoliating Beauty Bar, $3
Testers loved this “easy to lather” soap for its buffing brown sugar and karite butter “that softened skin and left a fresh scent.”

Best Body Wash
Burt’s Bees Fabulously Fresh Peppermint & Rosemary Body Wash, $8
“It made my skin feel cool and clean,” one voter said of this 99.24 percent natural sudser.

Best Exfoliating Body Wash
Suave Naturals Apricot Exfoliating Body Wash, $3
Ground coconut sloughs skin while cleansing, so “it saves time,” one grateful multitasker said.

Best Body Scrub
St. Ives Mineral Therapy In-Shower Exfoliating 20 suBody Polish, $7
Powered by fine sugar crystals, this scrub found a sweet spot with testers. “It’s tough enough to target flakiness but still mild enough to use on delicate areas like my chest and hands.”

Best Body Lotion
Johnson’s Body Care 24 Hour Lotion, $4
Full of shea butter and sheen-infusing mica, “it penetrated quickly and left skin soft all day,” one tester said.

Best Foot Lotion
Sally Hansen Salon Hydrating Foot Crème, $8
This aloe-rich lotion’s light scent and greaseless feel wowed voters. “My feet were softer in a day.”

Best Foot Scrub
Avon Foot Works Thermal Exfoliating Scrub, $8
“It smoothed my calluses immediately,” one tester said of the scrub, which heats up when wet.

Best Foot Treatment
Earth Therapeutics Intensive Heel Repair, $8
Mint in this balm “made my tired, achy toes tingle,” a devotee said.

Best Hand Lotion
Sephora by OPI Restorative Hand Moisturizer, $10
This salve creamed the competition with four softening butters (almond, avocado, coconut and shea). “No more rough patches,” a user said.

Best Deodorant
Dove Clinical Protection Anti-Perspirant Deodorant Solid, $8
The aluminum zirconium formula was popular among athletes for its “unstoppable defense” against odor and wetness. “No matter how hard I worked, I stayed dry.”

Makeup
Enhance your already lovely looks with these prettifiers that are sure to play up gorgeous eyes, lips and cheeks.

Best Mattifying Foundation
Rimmel London Stay Matte Clarifying Matte Foundation, $7
Accolades poured in for this blendable base, which controls oil with salicylic acid but doesn’t clog pores and makes skin look “perfect.” “The powdery finish kept my T-zone from getting shiny morning to night.”

Best Concealer
Almay Smart Shade Concealer, $9
Readers cheered for the makeup’s ability to become the color of their skin tone after applying it (rather than having to mix six shades to customize an ideal color). “The creamy lotion was dry to the touch, and it did not get flaky or goopy.”

Best Lip Stain
CoverGirl Outlast Lipstain, $7
Eating an apple or smooching your sweetie is no match for this tint. The water-based color in a felt-tip pen saturates lips for all-day coverage. “I want it in several shades,” one satisfied tester said.

Best Lip Balm
Nivea A Kiss of Moisture Hydrating Lip Care SPF 4, $3
Devotees liked that this shea butter-infused stick “hydrates lips, giving them shine.”

Best Powder Eyeshadow
Neutrogena Nourishing Eye Quad, $10
This hybrid is half cream base, half color and full-on beautiful, readers swooned. It houses two shades with “goofproof instructions” so you know what to swipe where.

Best Brow Shaper
Revlon ColorStay Brow Enhancer, $9
Fans were hooked on this defining pen for its two ends (one tinted wax, one highlighter). “The thick formula hangs on.”

Best Eco-Friendly Mascara
Physicians Formula Organic Wear Mascara, $10
This paraben-free mascara “lifts lashes without clumping,” one reviewer reported.

Best Lengthening Mascara
Maybelline New York Lash Stiletto Mascara, $9
“Two coats made my lashes appear longer than usual but not outrageously fake,” one tester said.

Best Nail Polish
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Nail Color, $5
Voters dubbed this lacquer the quickest drying. “I could text again after two minutes.”

Hair
Curly? Straight? Fine? Every type and texture will find strand solutions here.

Best All-Around Shampoo
Herbal Essences Hydralicious Featherweight Shampoo, $3
Clear some real estate in your shower: “This shampoo rocks!” one tester declared. “It smells awesome, and my hair felt cleaner and silkier.” Added another, “It’s a quality rinse that I can afford during these lean times.”

Best Smoothing Shampoo
Pantene Pro-V Nature Fusion Smooth Vitality Shampoo, $4
With blends of avocado and bamboo, this sudser garnered high praise for taming unruly hair. “It calmed down my crazy style without needing an extra rinse. I’ve already bought another bottle!” one gushed.

Best All-Around Conditioner
Garnier Fructis Sleek & Shine Instant Melting Conditioner, $4
Frizz-prone fans were pleased by this hydrator’s smoothing abilities, which come via avocado oil. “It was a breeze to work through my hair, it smelled great-like apple juice-and it left my style without snarls,” one said. “I noticed a big difference in how well my hair behaved.”

Best Volumizing Conditioner
Esencía by Samy Volumizing Conditioner, $8
This fortifier drew kudos for elevating droopy roots to beauty-contestant-like heights (in a good way!), thanks to lifting wheat proteins. “It made my hair look thicker and unknotted,” one reader said. “The citrus smell got me going in the A.M.”

Best Antidandruff Conditioner
Head & Shoulders Ocean Lift Conditioner, $5
With fleck-zapping pyrithione zinc, this “lightweight” deflaker fends off scalp dryness and infuses strands with volume. “I noticed less dandruff right away, and it wasn’t a drag on my baby-fine style.”

Best Detangler
John Frieda Root Awakening Detangling Spray, $7
Want to knock out kinks? Readers said they “didn’t hit any snags while combing out long hair” with this vitamin-enriched leave-in mist.

Best Haircolor
Clairol Natural Instincts Champagne Indulgence Collection, $9
This kit, with a no-ammonia dye, soothing aloe and vitamins C and E, earned props for leaving hair “beautiful and healthy-feeling.” Another user raved, “It’s like a spa treatment for hair-it covers grays and deep-conditions.”

Best Texturizer
David Babaii for WildAid Volcanic Ash Sculpting Clay, $10
Mold your strands into place with this paraben-free, “nonsticky” product, which one reviewer described as “a silky cream that, to my amazement, kept curls controlled for two days without a hint of frizz or stiffness!” It contains real volcanic ash (which volumizes) and mango (to add sheen).

Best Heat Protectant
Dove Heat Defense Therapy Mist, $4
Like armor for your hair, this spray uses silicone to prevent heat damage. “It didn’t pancake strands or feel stiff or heavy. Plus, my look had no static all day-something it never does!” one tester bragged.

Best Mousse
Tresemmé 24 Hour Body Foaming Mousse, $5
With a blend of humidity-resistant polymers, the volumizer “kept my hair from falling flat, whether I wore it straight or curly,” one said. Adds another, “It gave me soft hold even when I did an updo.” Also nice: “Its easy-to-work-with texture didn’t leave my strands tacky.”

Best Gel
Aussie Opposites Attract Spray Gel, $3
A good gel controls without making hair crunchy, and this one delivers. “It kept my flyaways at bay but wasn’t gunky,” one voter found. Another complimented: “I love how the spray bottle works-you don’t have to get your hands icky.

By Eleanor Langston, Self.com