Good for you, body care comes in all shapes and sizes, but one brand with a strong following is a standout in spas and salons. Discover VOESH, rooted in K-Beauty science, made to nourish your skin and your soul, by editor Trudi Brewer.
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What is VOESH?
Founded by New York-based Vera Oh and Joseph Choi in 2013, VOESH (a combination of the founders' names) is spa-quality skincare that meets the everyday needs of body care. Rooted in K-beauty science and featuring potent botanicals that offer a slew of skincare benefits, it helps you turn your body routine into a sensorial experience. It was their introduction of clean cosmetics that drew attention to the brand, featuring organic ingredients such as avocado oil, green tea, watermelon extract, and oatmeal powder. At the same time, it excludes over 1,680 harmful fillers, toxins, and carcinogens often present in beauty formulations. But it was the hallmark products: Pedi in a Box, the Collagen Gloves and Collagen Socks, that cemented the brand on the beauty map, for its 100 per cent vegan, clean, potent formulas and transparent ingredient practices.
Today, the collection has expanded from a cute Gua Sha Cleansing Bar to clever Vitamin Charged Shower Filters, Smooth’d Body Refining Roller Crème, to a new range of travel-friendly Hand and Body Balms, and Body Wash with sugar crystals in a range of gorgeous scents, including Fig & Amber, Black Tea & Rose, Hinoki & Lavanda and Neroli & Patchouli.
Like all K-beauty-focused skin care, the formulas prioritise lightweight textures and active ingredients to treat the skin below your neck with the same care you give your face.
Read on to discover my picks from the new collection.
VOESH Exfoliating Body Wash, Hinoki & Lavanda, $79.
This dreamy body wash does more than cleanse the skin; it exfoliates, too. Stacked with pure sugar crystals, plant-derived AHAs (alpha hydroxy acids), and botanical oils like coconut, Moringa, olive, jojoba, macadamia, and sweet almond, it helps scrub away dry skin while nourishing. Adding sugar crystals means the skin is well buffed, smooth, and ready for moisturiser to penetrate quickly. At the same time, the hinoki scent (Japanese cypress) and Lavandula (English lavender) fill your bathroom with a gorgeous scent and calm the senses.
Not all body balms are created equal. Case in point with the lavish texture of this one. Its buttery-rich consistency is a welcome relief for dry skin, leaving no greasy residue. It’s made with a blend of skin-loving plant-based botanicals, including turmeric extract, mango seed butter, shea butter, virgin olive oil, and a vegan squalane. This clean cosmetic locks moisture deep into the skin, keeping it hydrated for hours. When we say it’s perfect for dry skin, we mean it.
VOESH Hand Balm, Fig & Amber 30ml,$35, 75ml, $49
A great handbag, or travel-size tube, the sweet notes of fig and creamy amber are subtle but make you want to keep smelling your hands. The featherlight texture sinks into the skin in seconds, delivering hands and cuticles a much-needed dose of moisture. Made with the same plant botanicals as the body butter, in four different fragrances, it’s a perfect on-the-go tube in a pretty shade of pink.
The new VOESH body collection comes in four fragrances, Fig & Amber, Hinoki & Lavanda, Neroli & Patchouli, and Black Tea & Rose.
The top-selling VOESH Products
Each VOESH product is carefully curated to address your skin's needs with innovative everyday beauty solutions. For your feet, Pedi Moments is a compact box with everything you need for a DIY pedicure. Including a salt soak to detoxify and deodorise the feet, a sugar scrub to gently exfoliate dry skin, a mud mask to cleanse pores and smooth, and massage butter to soften and hydrate cracked heels. The Gua Sha Cleansing Bar is your daily lymphatic body massage and cleanser-in-one. The shape helps relieve muscle tension while cleansing and reviving the skin with 97 per cent natural-origin ingredients, like niacinamide, rosemary oil, and detoxifying charcoal powder. The most popular Shower Filter is the Vitamin C-charged option. Designed to remove residual chlorine and other impurities from water, it's stacked with colloidal oatmeal powder and soothes your skin as you wash. There are five scents, and each spa-like shower filter lasts for up to 110 uses, depending on the length of your showers. Finally, a gadget that massages and refines dimply, dry skin, The Smooth’d Body Refining Roller Creme. Turn the tube on, dispense the cream, and roll it over your skin to massage it in. Infused with caffeine and hyaluronic acid, it was created to give the skin on your body a renewed look of firmness.
VOESH Vitamin C Shower Filter in Citrus Crush, $79. VOESH Gua Sha Cleansing Bar, $48. VOESH Pedi Moments, in Jasmine Soothe Duo, $38. VOESH Smooth’d Body Refining Roller Crème, $74.
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