The 23 Best Tatcha Products Worth Your Money

Tatcha is one of the few skin-care brands I’d follow into the dark if it told me my face would come out brighter and smoother. And its cleanser checks all my highly specific requirements: It has a subtle smell, washes off easily, and doesn’t strip my already dry skin. I find it similar to the brand’s Rice Polish since it has microfine rice particles, but I love that it comes as an all-in-one cleanser so I don't have to add an extra step to my skin-care routine to exfoliate. The product lathers into a creamy foam, which is nice for a deep cleanse. There's a subtle lemongrass-y scent that lingers, which I didn’t love at first, but I got used to it after a while. —Talia Abbas, commerce editor

If you don’t know which Tatcha skin-care product to try first, start here, with the brand’s O.G. moisturizer that contains a blend of Japanese botanicals, along with green tea, rice, and algae. It’s so good it sold out over and over when it first launched and immediately became one of Sephora’s best-selling moisturizers. The water-based texture is light and refreshing but still coats your skin in a veil of moisture. The price might seem steep if you’re new to the world of luxury skin care, but this jar lasts at least three months and is better than many that are double the price. It's truly worth it. —Lindsay Schallon, contributor

Consider this The Water Cream’s richer, thicker sister. This heavy moisturizer is packed with purple rice bran, which does way more than lend the contents a charming lilac hue. The ingredient is rich in anthocyanin, an antioxidant that helps your complexion recover from stress and pollution. Other botanical extracts, such as algae, thyme, and marjoram, are added to intensely hydrate, reinforce your skin barrier, and retain more water. Apparently when you mix this up—and sprinkle in whatever magic Tatcha adds at the end—you get the first moisturizer that has ever made an instant, dramatically noticeable change in my complexion. —Sarah Wu, contributor

Just because I always apply sunscreen on my face doesn’t mean I actually like doing it. So many formulas take forever to blend in and don’t smell that great either. This sunscreen solves all of that and more. It provides SPF 35, calms skin thanks to loquat leaf extract, and gives you the look of a poreless finish. It’s also cruelty-free and formulated without parabens and sulfates. It’s so perfect that I don’t even need to use foundation or a tinted moisturizer with it. —Jessica Radloff, West Coast editor

Whenever you read that Meghan Markle is a fan of Tatcha, this is the product they’re talking about—the gentlest exfoliator you’ll ever use in your life. You pour a quarter-size pile of the enzyme powder into the palm of your hand, then sprinkle on warm water to create a cream foam, meaning you can control the texture and consistency. I smother it on for about a minute, followed by a rinse with warm water and my face wash. After I used it for a week, my skin was softer with less redness. How? The rice polish exfoliates but doesn’t strip your skin of natural oils, so my face stays baby-soft. —Halie LeSavage, contributor

I’ve been waiting for Tatcha to come out with a hydrating serum for years, and now that it’s finally here, it doesn’t disappoint. First of all, I love the consistency. It’s more of a milky lotion than a serum, but that doesn’t mean it sits on your skin. My face drinks it up, along with the hydrating H.A., gently exfoliating lactic acid, and moisturizing squalane in the formula. I never want my bottle to end. —L.S.

If you want a moisturizer that hydrates on top of firming and targeting fine lines, you need the big guns, and that’s Tatcha’s The Silk Cream. It’s made with liquid silk proteins and a Japanese antiaging complex to help firm your skin as well as plump it. Its consistency is somewhere in the middle of The Water Cream and The Dewy Cream—still a lightweight gel-cream, but not as heavy as the thicker Dewy. You’ll pay almost double for this moisturizer’s antiaging properties, but you won’t regret it. —L.S.

P.S. This is a Quick Shop product—you don’t have to leave Glamour to buy it.

Tatcha calls this Glamour Beauty Award–winning product a serum in cream treatment, and that description is spot-on. It has a luscious yet light texture that melts into a silky-smooth serum upon application. It leaves my skin cocooned with moisture and feels instantly soothing. The results in the morning look just as good as the cream feels going on. Both active pimples and lingering pigmentation look less red, and bumps are noticeably decreased. Acne aside, my skin is just better—dewy and juicy, like a woman who gets eight full hours of sleep and chugs water, not coffee. —B.C.

I totally get the cult of Tatcha after using its entry in the face-mist field, a category I generally find to be meh. On a bare, just-cleansed face, it feels as though it packs almost as much hydration as my usual moisturizer—which can be credited to the hyaluronic acid, humectants, and botanical oils in the formula. I immediately feel like they’re soaked into my skin, and I’m left with a cushiony, dewy glow. —Brionna Jimerson, contributor

While I’m always hesitant to judge a product’s worth by how often it’s out of stock (you never know how many were released to start), I would gladly attest to the greatness of the brand’s thrice-sold-out primer. Yup, primer: the thing that everyone looks at and thinks, Really? Until now. While most primers prove to be pretty worthless, this one can somehow make a $10 foundation look like a $70 one. The tiniest bit goes a long, long way, so it more than makes up for its cost. —L.S.

Using vitamin C is tricky if your skin is irritable or dry, but it’s also really essential. And this is the only vitamin C product I’ve used that doesn’t give me those weird, slightly raised red irritation bumps that turn into pimples if your skin is dry. Instead, this gorgeous purple mask leaves behind an even texture and that lit-from-within glow that’s hard to get on drier-skin types. —Amber Rambharose, contributor

This cleansing oil is a great makeup remover: It melts off even the most stubborn of waterproof mascara with one pump, rinses easily, and doesn’t leave a layer of residue on my skin afterward. —Khaliha Hawkins, contributor

I have what I call eczema-adjacent skin. I struggled with eczema a lot as a little kid and thankfully have seemed to grow out of the worst of it, but my skin is still easily irritated and itchy, especially during the winter. This cream has Japanese indigo, which helps sooth my angry skin and stops itchiness in its tracks. It feels silky and deeply hydrating, without being greasy or heavy. I love the luxe packaging, and the spa-like scent calms my mind while the cream works on my body. —B.C.

My most recent beauty obsession is face oils. After years of battling my oily, blemish-prone skin, I was highly skeptical of putting oil on my face, you know, intentionally, but oils actually work to beautifully balance skin. The trick is finding the right formula that’s not so light it vanishes but also doesn’t leave you greasy. Tatcha’s Gold Camilla Beauty Oil hits the sweet spot, keeping my skin moisturized all day, and it smells lovely. —Macaela MacKenzie, contributor

If you have oily skin, this Beauty Award winner be your new best friend. Tatcha’s Tonic contains fruit-derived acids (AHAs), which gently exfoliate and resurface the skin by helping shed the dead cells that mix with your natural oils and clog up your pores. The addition of niacinamide helps with redness and inflammation, while hyaluronic acid hydrates so that the acids don’t dry out your skin. —Tamara Lazic, MD, dermatologist

I know it seems like a lot for a lip balm, but it's up there with some of the best I've ever tried—and as someone who has chronically dry lips thanks to accutane, you can trust me on that. It has a thick jelly texture that cocoons my lips in moisture, and a little goes a long way, so the price feels fairly reasonable. It's shiny and gorgeous, and thanks to the camellia-seed and squalene oils in the formula, my lips are softer than ever. —B.C.

I have acne-prone yet very sensitive skin, so I have to walk a careful line when it comes to clay masks. This one gets it right. The mask gently warms to open pores, while Japanese clay sucks out the oils and gunk. It also has Konjac powder to gently buff away impurities and dead skin. One use left my skin feeling smoother and cleaner, but not dry, stripped, or irritated. I found my new ritual. —B.C.

I take a skin-first approach with my beauty routine, and over the years I’ve developed a soft spot for SPF-infused products. Not all skin-care products make it onto my top shelf for daily use, but the Tatcha Silk Sunscreen immediately did. What stood out to me when I first applied the product was the color—it has a beige shade to it, almost as if it were a tinted moisturizer—and a supremely lightweight texture. The product goes on sheer, though, absorbs quickly, and leaves zero white cast on skin, making it blendable for even deeper skin tones. In addition to the smooth application, you get this kind of lit-from-within glow that’s unlike any other SPF product I’ve tried, which normally just sits on top of skin because of a thicker, creamier texture. My skin also feels super hydrated the thanks to the addition of calming niacinamide and hyaluronic acid, which is what gives skin that dewy look. —T.A.

Your eyes may be the window to your soul, but they’re also the first place to show signs of aging. That’s why I’ve been using eye cream since I was a teenager. But as you get older, you need different formulas, especially if you wear makeup. The key is an eye cream that will help act as a barrier so concealer and foundation won’t settle into fine lines, but will also still hydrate. I’ve found that with Tatcha’s Silk Peony, which has a unique melting texture to smooth and blur the look of fine lines and wrinkles. It contains 30% Hadasei-3, which is the brand's signature trio of pure Japanese superfoods, including Uji Green Tea (to detoxify), Okinawa maluku algae (to help retain moisture), and protein-rich Akita rice to nourish and go on smoothly. And as with all Tatcha products, it’s cruelty-free and formulated without sulfates, parabens, and synthetic fragrances. —J.R.

P.S. This is a Quick Shop product—you don’t have to leave Glamour to buy it.

The Tatcha Serum Stick is my hero primer for dewy skin that helps make my makeup last all day. I apply it as my last step before I use foundation. I glide it along my face, targeting under my eyes and around my nasolabial folds and mouth before I press it in with my fingers. It’s instantly hydrating and not sticky, but most important, it helps with dryness, isn’t irritating, and keeps my makeup looking fresh. —J.R.

As someone with oily skin, I take my setting powders very seriously, and Tatcha's Silk Powder has become a new staple in my makeup bag. The powder is very fine and helps blur imperfections and pores for a IRL filter effect. When I do a full face, I like to pile on the powder to lock in my makeup, keep oil at bay, and prevent transfer to my face mask. No matter how much I apply, my skin still looks natural and smooth—never cakey and clogged. —Ariana Yaptangco, senior beauty editor