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Looking to freshen up your skin routine? September has lots of new and indulgent options to keep you healthy and glowing. Here are a few of our favorites.
This brand new skincare line combines the power of prescription actives with the premium sensibility and immediate payoff of the best over-the-counter, luxury creams. It’s a whole new level of personalization in prescription skincare, with every formula tailored not only to an individual’s skin concerns, but also to their skin type, skin tone, level of reactivity, hyperpigmentation levels, and lifestyle.
(Cottonball)
Here’s how it works:
- Customers visit Cottonball.com, where they share their skincare issues and current regimen through a skincare questionnaire.
- Responses are then reviewed by a responding clinician to determine the appropriate prescription.
- 48 hours later, the customer receives a custom-compounded prescription treatment formulated specifically for their skin, one that combines carefully selected prescription-strength actives such as retinoids, brightening agents, and skin-supporting compounds. With the formula freshly compounded for each customer, they’re getting the highest possible efficacy out of their treatment.
- Customers can then message the dermatology care team via Cottonball portal for questions as they use their treatment.
Launching September 1, the brand is offering a curated collection of six core products, including:
VX.1 Advanced Anti-Aging & Repair Complex
A comprehensive prescription targeting wrinkles, uneven tone, firmness and hydration, with a rare blend including both tretinoin and bakuchiol, alongside rapamycin, a longevity molecule that helps remove senescent (aka “zombie”) cells.
(Cottonball)
VX.2 Wrinkle-Smoothing & Prevention Complex
Featuring prescription tretinoin alongside Matrixyl 3000, niacinamide, and hydrating actives, this treatment includes custom anti-inflammatories offsets potential irritation, so it’s suitable even for those with sensitive skin.
(Cottonball)
VX.4 Daily Skin-Brightening Formula
This powerful formula combines prescription actives including tretinoin, tranexamic acid, alpha arbutin, and kojic acid to target discoloration and uneven tone.
(Cottonball)
VX.5 Undereye Smoothing & Brightening Balm
A prescription treatment designed to address wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness, this balm leaves undereye skin is rejuvenated: smooth, radiant, and ready to face the day.
(Cottonball)
VX.6 Precision Neck-Sculpting Complex
Extending prescription skincare beyond the face, this treatment targets sagging, wrinkles, and discoloration, delivering firmness and lift for your neck, supple softness for your décolletage, and line-smoothing and tone-evening for both.
(Cottonball)
CX.1 Advanced Dark Spot Treatment
This intensive, 12-week prescription treatment combines hydroquinone, tretinoin, and other targeted actives to help resolve spots caused by age or sun damage, melasma, or hyperpigmentation.
(Cottonball)
Each product ranges in price from $198 to $234 for a two month supply, depending on the formulation.
(Clé de Peau Beauté)
This powerful and restorative recovery cream is inspired by regenerative medicine and designed to bolster skin’s resilience, firmness, and minimize the appearance of wrinkles. It also nourishes the moisture barrier after photofacial treatments for a revitalized, radiant complexion. Powered by Ruby Peptide, it supports skin’s visible resilience and improves the appearance of age-related skin concerns. Skin is soothed with intense moisture, strengthening its natural barrier, and becomes visibly even-toned.
Tested by over 100 women, after 8 weeks 97% felt their skin looked more youthful, 98% said their skin was plumper, firmer, and more elastic, with a more even tone, and 100% said they would like to continue using the cream.
$450 for 50ml
(Clé de Peau Beauté)
The newest addition to Clé de Peau’s detoxifying Synactif collection, this purifying and skin-regenerating body treatment visibly lifts the skin and boosts firmness for a resculpted look. Inspired by detoxifying spa treatments it was developed to transform your body care routine into a sensory ritual, especially when paired with Clé de Peau Beauté’s sculpting massage to stimulate lymphatic flow and drainage.
It is formulated with ginger rhizome extract to maintain reduced puffiness, pinus sylvestris cone extract to support your skin’s purification system, energizing caffeine to defend against external/environmental aggressors, alpinia speciosa leaf extract to support elastin, and condensed hyaluronic acid, scutellaria baicalensis root extract, and peptide complex to infuse moisture, while supporting enhanced elasticity, for plump, youthful firmness.
All this an a wonderfully soothing and subtle rose scent.
$400 for 200ml
(Ultra Violette)
Technically, this launched on August 31, but we’ll let that slide because this is definitely a product worth knowing about as it is the first sunscreen in the US market to contain Bemotrizinol (BEMT), the broad-spectrum chemical filter approved by the FDA in June 2026 and the first new sunscreen filter cleared by the FDA in over 25 years.
Compared with older chemical filters, BEMT carries a lighter chemical load, is associated with fewer instances of irritation, and is effective at lower concentrations, leaving more room in the formula for skincare actives and enabling more cosmetically elegant, lightweight textures with no white cast.
“This is such a win for the US consumer,” says says Ava Matthews, co-founder of cult Australian skin protection brand Ultra Violette. “It broadens the range of SPF formats available, allows for more elegant, cosmetically pleasing textures, and supports the kind of robust protection that matters for overall skin health including skin cancers, skin ageing, melasma and pigmentation. I am hopeful that BEMT’s categorization of GRASE is also going to help shift the broader conversation around chemical sunscreens, which are so often unfairly stigmatized despite all their many benefits.”
“We are incredibly proud to be the first to bring our SPF products formulated with Bemotrizinol to Sephora and the wider US market,” adds co-founder Bec Jefferd. “We have developed products using BEMT in our global range for close to 10 years, which is why we’ve been able to move fast not just with the launch of Unblock Screen, but with a pipeline of BEMT-powered products to soon follow, starting with the highly anticipated launch of Fave Screen in January 2027.”
$40 for 50ml. Available now at Ultraviolettespf.com and Sephora.com and in-store at Sephora locations nationwide starting October 2.
5. The Ever-Youth Skin Collection by Dolce&Gabbana Beauty
(Dolce&Gabbana Beauty)
A complete youth-preserving skincare ritual built around the brand’s signature gold peptides and a blend of high-performance active ingredients, the collection helps support collagen production, reinforce skin density, and deliver both immediate radiance and long-term skincare benefits.
The collection includes four distinct products:
The Ever-Youth Gold Peptides Mask
An indulgent golden treat, this brightening and refining face mask has a rich and creamy texture that transforms from ivory to gold upon application. The formula is infused with gold peptides, niacinamide, to even the skin and minimize pores, and argireline, known to improve skin elasticity while minimizing roughness.
(Dolce&Gabbana Beauty)
The Ever-Youth Gold Peptides Serum
This firming and re-volumizing serum has a milky, lightweight texture that envelops the skin in comfort while delivering visible results. The formula is infused with gold peptides and sunflower extract to boost NAD+ in skin cells.
(Dolce&Gabbana Beauty)
The Ever-Youth Gold Peptides Eye Serum
This refining and wrinkle-correcting eye serum was designed with a bespoke heart-shaped cooling applicator and a lightweight pearlescent texture and melts seamlessly onto the delicate eye area. The formula is infused with gold peptides, argireline, to help restore elasticity and minimize expression lines, Primrose Stem Cells, to boost skin suppleness while supporting elasticity, and hyaluronic acid, to support skin hydration and help maintain moisture levels.
(Dolce&Gabbana Beauty)
The Ever-Youth Gold Peptides Cream
A firming and sculpting face cream featuring a rich, balm texture that melts into the skin, the formula is infused with gold peptides, vegan PDRN, to help the natural regeneration process of the skin cells, and geranium extract, to improve skin resilience, bounce, and moisture levels.
(Dolce&Gabbana Beauty)
The collection ranges in price from $110 for the eye serum to $170 for the cream. The entire collection is available exclusively at Bloomingdales starting September 1 and at Dolce&Gabbana boutiques and retailers beginning September 15.
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