When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more There are plenty of luxury skincare brands on the market with big price tags and worthwhile ingredients. Stylish tubs of Auguatinus Bader Eye Cream go for $205, and there's a $310 Clé de Peau Beauté face mask made with precious 24-karat gold.
But if you know where to look, you can find skincare products that perform on par with luxury picks. But, if you know where to look, you can find skincare products that perform on par with luxury picks. Companies like Maelove , a startup founded by MIT grads, use many of the same ingredients and cosmetics labs as high-end brands but sell products for a fraction of the cost, like a skincare version of Italic .
Formulas are based more firmly on exhaustive research than the farm-to-face movement, and each product in the line is listed under $30, except for the Love 31 face oil and the Moonlight Retinal Super Serum . What's better, though, is the quality for the price. I test many skincare products — both luxury and drugstore — for my job at Insider Reviews, and if I could only recommend one skincare brand to my friends and family, this would probably be it.
The products work well, they're not expensive, and the startup rarely disappoints. Some of my favorites are the cult-favorite Glow Maker Serum (a much more affordable alternative to the pricey Skinceuticals C E Ferulic ) and the gentle yet efficacious Night Renewer Cream . Like discoveri.
