The Prime Day Beauty Deals Worth Grabbing: 14 Empties on Sale Right Now
Prime Day runs through Friday this year, June 26, and the beauty section is one of the bigger markdowns in it. I keep one rule for a sale like this: the only thing worth buying is something I was already going to repurchase. A few dollars off a serum I finish every couple of months is money saved. Paying even a little for something that sounds intriguing and then dies half-used in a drawer is just a slower way to lose it.
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So this isn’t everything that’s discounted. We pulled the products people use up and rebuy, the ones that keep turning up on empties shelves, and checked which are marked down right now. They run across skincare, makeup, hair, and a couple of bathroom-cabinet staples. We compared each markdown against the regular price and cut anything where the deal came to a dollar or two. Fourteen are below, grouped by where they sit in a routine.
Prices are what we saw the morning of June 23 and can move during the sale, including the three daily deal drops. The button on each pick shows the current price.
Skincare
The deepest beauty cut in the sale: Medicube Zero Pore Pad 2.0
If you grab one thing here on price alone, it’s probably this. The Zero Pore Pad is a two-sided exfoliating toner pad, textured on one side to sweep away flakes and smooth on the other to press in the salicylic, glycolic, and lactic acid that does the work on clogged pores and rough texture.
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Our BEEs file these under convenience, a real chemical exfoliant you don’t have to think about layering in. The one caution they pass along is frequency. Used every night, the acids can leave skin tight and pink, so most settle on two or three evenings a week and only bump it up if their skin stays calm.
It normally runs about $31 for a jar of 70, and right now it’s close to half that, the lowest I’ve seen it go. Skincare TikTok picked these up early. They do a chemical exfoliant’s job without you having to build a routine around one. One reviewer kept it honest: “I wouldn’t say pores can completely disappear,” even as she watched hers blur to almost invisible.
Prime Day price: about $15 (reg. $31)
Around half off, the steepest markdown on this list.
A dual-textured exfoliating pad that sweeps away flakes and presses in a salicylic-glycolic-lactic acid blend in one swipe, normally about $31 for a jar of 70. Best for clogged pores and rough texture; sensitive skin should start at two or three nights a week. The lowest price we’ve tracked on it.
The overnight lip mask people rebuy on repeat: Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask
People go through this little pot and rebuy it as reliably as anything in skincare. You wear it to bed, it sits overnight with hyaluronic acid and a slip of murumuru and shea butter, and you wake up without the cracked, peeling lips that show up the second the heat or the AC kicks on. It’s normally around $24 and down by roughly a third for Prime Day. One jar lasts months, since a grain-of-rice amount is the whole application, and that’s why people forgive the price and keep buying the Berry one. It doesn’t land for everyone, though. One commenter had the opposite result: “When I wake up there is no product left to wash off and my lips feel more dry (and actually sore) than when I started using it.”
Prime Day price: about $16 (reg. $24)
The overnight lip treatment people rebuy on repeat.
A leave-on lip mask with hyaluronic acid and shea and murumuru butters that you wear to bed and wake up to softer lips, normally around $24. A grain-of-rice amount is the whole application, so one Berry jar lasts months. Down by roughly a third for the sale.
The affordable vitamin C with a cult following: Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Serum
This is the serum the internet reaches for when it can’t justify SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic, which runs over $160. Timeless uses the same well-studied trio, vitamin C with vitamin E and ferulic acid, a combination research has long shown works better together than C on its own for brightening and softening the look of sun exposure over time. It comes in a small amber bottle and oxidizes if you let it sit too long, which is why one longtime user keeps a backup in the fridge and reports that “the bottle in the fridge never turns brown.” It’s at what sellers are calling its lowest price ever for the sale, normally around $26. SkinCeuticals’ patent on that formula expired in 2025, so the dupes are fully legal now, and this is the one people finish.
Prime Day price: about $17 (reg. $26)
The affordable vitamin C with a cult following.
A 20% vitamin C serum with vitamin E and ferulic acid, the same well-studied trio in the $160-plus SkinCeuticals everyone compares it to, for normally around $26. It oxidizes if it sits too long, so keep it somewhere dark and buy it when you’ll use it. Sellers are calling this its lowest price yet.
The most-repurchased exfoliant in skincare: Paula’s Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant
This is the bottle people name first when you ask what they’ve repurchased the most. It’s a leave-on liquid with 2% salicylic acid, the ingredient that gets inside pores and clears what turns into blackheads and the small bumps along the jaw and forehead. The texture is plain and water-thin, no fragrance, and it goes on with a cotton pad or clean fingers a few nights a week. The big 4-ounce bottle is normally about $37 and it’s down to one of its better prices of the year.
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The BEEs are near-unanimous that this is the one chemical exfoliant they’d keep if they had to cut the rest. The honest caveat is that it does nothing dramatic on day one. The people who quit at two weeks miss the point, because the smoother skin and the cleared-out pores show up closer to the month mark, and that’s when the repurchasing starts.
Used as a spot treatment, one user swore by it on a breakout: “I tried it last night on 3 juicy zits (starting my period) and holy crap they almost completely disappeared overnight.” It isn’t universal, though. Another thought she was purging and wasn’t: “it just kept getting worse and worse. now i have tons of lil bumps all over my face.” Most people who push past the first few weeks come out smoother.
Prime Day price: about $28 (reg. $37)
The most-repurchased exfoliant in skincare.
A fragrance-free leave-on liquid with 2% salicylic acid that clears the gunk behind blackheads and small bumps, used a few nights a week with a cotton pad. The big 4-ounce bottle is normally about $37 and it’s at one of its better prices of the year. Give it a month before you judge it. Certified cruelty-free (PETA).
The drugstore eye cream worth a restock: CeraVe Eye Repair Cream
Eye creams are easy to be cynical about, and this is the one I’d defend. It’s a small tube with ceramides and a little niacinamide that keep the thin skin under your eyes comfortable and a bit less crepey, plus a marine and hyaluronic complex that takes some of the morning puff down. It won’t erase a dark circle or fill a deep line.
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The BEEs are clear-eyed about what this does and doesn’t do. Nobody’s claiming it erased a dark circle. What keeps it in the rotation is how comfortable it feels under makeup and a tube that lasts close to forever, and at this price more than one keeps a backup in the drawer.
What it does do is sit nicely under concealer instead of pilling, which is the CeraVe-develops-with-dermatologists part paying off. The eye area is sensitive territory, so patch test first; one commenter found that “within 2 days, the eye cream irritated and dried out my eye area.” It’s normally about $20 and down around 40% right now.
Prime Day price: about $13 (reg. $20)
The drugstore eye cream worth a restock.
A small tube with ceramides, niacinamide, and a marine-and-hyaluronic complex that keeps the under-eye comfortable and takes a little morning puff down, normally about $20. It won’t fill a deep line, but it sits well under concealer instead of pilling. Down around 40% right now.
The sensitive-skin cleanser dermatologists keep naming: La Roche-Posay Toleriane Foaming Cleanser
Spending a discount on a cleanser isn’t exciting, but you go through it twice a day until it’s gone, so it adds up. Toleriane is the gentle foaming one with niacinamide and ceramides that dermatologists hand to people whose skin reacts to everything. It takes off oil and sunscreen without the tight, squeaky feeling that means a cleanser stripped too much. One longtime reviewer says “it’ll even remove make-up at the end of the day without leaving you red, raw, and sore.” Around $20 normally, a little under that for the sale. Not a deep cut, but a staple you’ll restock at any price.
Prime Day price: about $14 (reg. $20)
The sensitive-skin cleanser dermatologists keep naming.
A gentle foaming cleanser with niacinamide and ceramides that takes off oil and sunscreen without the tight, stripped feeling, normally around $20. Not a deep cut for the sale, but a twice-a-day staple you’ll use until it’s gone. The kind of unglamorous buy a discount is made for.
Makeup
On Amazon for the first time, and already discounted: Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick
Charlotte Tilbury is doing its first Prime Day ever, which is the real news here, because this is a brand that almost never turns up on Amazon at a discount. Matte Revolution is the lipstick that made Pillow Talk a household word, a my-lips-but-better nude-pink that flattered enough faces to launch a whole franchise. It doesn’t read the same on every lip, though.
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Our BEEs call this the Charlotte Tilbury product they’d hand a newcomer first. The formula stays comfortable where a lot of mattes go dry by lunch, and even at full price they count it worth it. Seeing it turn up on Amazon at a discount is the part they didn’t expect.
One commenter with fair skin and yellow undertones found “pillow talk is too orange on my lips.” For a matte, the formula is comfortable, with enough slip that it doesn’t drag or settle into lip lines the way a true flat matte can. It’s $37 at the counter and around 30% off for the sale. If Pillow Talk has been sitting on your someday list, this is the rare moment it’s marked down.
Prime Day price: about $26 (reg. $37)
On Amazon for the first time, and already discounted.
The lipstick that made Pillow Talk a household word, a my-lips-but-better nude-pink with enough slip that it doesn’t drag like a true flat matte. It’s $37 at the counter and around 30% off for Charlotte Tilbury’s first-ever Prime Day. The original can read light on deeper tones, where Pillow Talk Medium and Deep step in.
The under-eye concealer with a cult sponge tip: Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser
The twist-up sponge applicator on this one has a borderline devoted following, and the concealer itself is a good medium-coverage formula that brightens the under-eye without the cakey, sitting-on-top look that ages the area. It’s already a drugstore price, normally around $13, and a few dollars under that for the sale, which makes stocking up on your shade the obvious move. The trick most people learn eventually is to let it sit for a few seconds before blending so it doesn’t grab. It isn’t flawless: one reviewer with oily skin found “it does oxidize a bit” and that the thin texture means “one needs to touch up with powder” to keep it from creasing.
Prime Day price: about $10 (reg. $13)
The under-eye concealer with a cult sponge tip.
A medium-coverage concealer with a twist-up sponge applicator that brightens the under-eye without the cakey look, already a drugstore price at about $13 and a few dollars under that now. Let it sit a few seconds before blending so it doesn’t grab. A cheap, easy shade to stock up on.
The everyday base in 40-plus shades: L’Oréal True Match Super-Blendable Foundation
True Match is the base you reach for on a regular Tuesday, not the one you save for an event. It’s a medium-coverage formula in a famously deep shade range, the reliable, no-surprises kind that’s been in drugstore carts for years. It’s normally about $14 and down to roughly $10 for Prime Day. It matches, it wears through the day, and it costs less than lunch, which is all most people want from an everyday foundation. It isn’t a fit for every skin, though. One reviewer with dry skin still found “the foundation breaks down in places and slides off my face in oily little patches,” so shaking it well and letting it set before you go matters.
Prime Day price: about $10 (reg. $14)
The everyday base in a famously deep shade range.
A medium-coverage foundation built for a regular Tuesday, not a special occasion, in 40-plus shades that have kept it in drugstore carts for years. Normally about $14 and down to roughly $10 for the sale. It matches, it wears, and it costs less than lunch.
Hair
The blowout brush that won’t quit: Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus
This is the under-$40-right-now tool that’s talked people out of a $600 Dyson more times than the brand would probably like to admit. It’s an oval hot-air brush that dries and volumizes in one pass, giving a soft, bouncy blowout with a fraction of the arm work of a round brush and a separate dryer.
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Our BEEs reach for this on the mornings they want to look done without the effort, and the consensus is that it flatters fine-to-medium hair best. Thick or very long hair takes longer and may want a separate dryer first. The other tip they repeat is to start on damp, not soaking, hair so the brush isn’t fighting the water.
It’s normally around $66 and down about 40% for the sale, which sellers are flagging as its lowest price yet. It’s bulky to store and it’s not a salon finish, but for a ten-minute blow-dry at home, very little touches it. One reviewer’s warning is worth heeding: “the bristles can get quite hot,” so keep them moving and off your scalp.
Prime Day price: about $40 (reg. $66)
The blowout brush that talks people out of a $600 dryer.
An oval hot-air brush that dries and volumizes in one pass for a soft, bouncy blowout with a fraction of the arm work, normally around $66. It’s bulky to store and it isn’t a salon finish, but at about 40% off (sellers say its lowest yet) it’s hard to argue with. Best on fine-to-medium hair.
The anti-frizz spray that survives humidity: Color Wow Dream Coat Supernatural Spray
You spray it on damp hair, blow-dry it through, and it leaves a glassy, frizz-proof finish that holds up in real humidity, which is why it goes viral every summer. The effect lasts a few washes, so one bottle stretches further than the size suggests. It’s normally about $30 and around a third off for the sale. The learning curve is real: you have to dry it in fully for it to work, and skipping that step is the only reason anyone decides it did nothing. Done right, one commenter put a number on it: “My hair has been in humidity and stayed straight for 4 days.”
Prime Day price: about $20 (reg. $30)
The anti-frizz spray that survives real humidity.
You spray it on damp hair, blow it dry, and it leaves a glassy, frizz-proof finish that holds for a few washes, normally about $30. You have to dry it in fully for it to work, which is the only reason anyone says it did nothing. Around a third off for the sale.
The dry shampoo that skips the chalky cast: amika Perk Up
Dry shampoo lives or dies on whether it leaves you gray at the roots, and this is one of the rare ones that absorbs oil and buys a day or two between washes without the powdery film. It’s normally around $29 and marked down by about a third now. It’s a staple-cabinet restock more than a thrill, which is exactly what a sale is good for. Not everyone thinks it’s worth the markup; one reviewer felt it had “the same grease-eliminating power as Batiste,” which costs far less.
Prime Day price: about $20 (reg. $29)
The dry shampoo that skips the chalky cast.
One of the rare dry shampoos that absorbs oil and buys a day or two between washes without leaving a gray, powdery film at the roots, normally around $29. Marked down about a third now. More of a staple-cabinet restock than a thrill, which is exactly what a sale is good for. Certified cruelty-free (PETA).
Body and Teeth
The body cream people smell across a room: Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream
This is the famous one. Cheirosa 62 is the scent, that warm pistachio and salted-caramel thing that gets strangers asking what you’re wearing, and the cream itself is a fast-absorbing whip with caffeine and guarana that leaves skin soft without a greasy film.
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Our BEEs are split clean down the middle, and the split is entirely about the scent. One camp keeps the big jar going year-round and counts the smell as the whole point. The other finds it too sweet and heavy for daily wear. Almost everyone agrees the texture is excellent, so if the scent works for you, this is an easy yes.
It rarely goes on sale, so the 20% off is most of the reason to grab it now rather than later. The scent is the love-it-or-leave-it part, and it’s a lot, on purpose. Not everyone is charmed; one commenter was blunt: “this cream smells terrible to me. Like medicine.”
Prime Day price: about $38 (reg. $48)
The body cream people smell across a room.
A fast-absorbing whipped cream with caffeine and guarana that leaves skin soft without a greasy film, carrying the famous Cheirosa 62 scent (warm pistachio and salted caramel). Normally about $48 and it rarely goes on sale, so the 20% off is most of the reason to grab it now. The scent is a lot, on purpose. Certified cruelty-free (PETA).
The at-home whitening kit you finish and rebuy: Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects
Whitestrips get used up. You finish a kit over a couple of weeks and buy another before a wedding or a reunion, so a quarter off is a discount you’ll put to use. Professional Effects is the middle-of-the-range kit with 22 treatments, enough for a full course with some left over, and the level most people land on for visible results without the sensitivity the strongest kits can bring. Normally about $46, down to its better pricing for the sale. Sensitivity is the main complaint; one reviewer’s “teeth began to feel sensitive” during a session, the same feeling she got from a professional whitening. Follow the timing on the box and space the treatments out; leaving them on longer doesn’t whiten faster, it just makes your teeth zing.
Prime Day price: about $35 (reg. $46)
The at-home whitening kit you finish and rebuy.
The middle-of-the-range kit with 22 treatments, enough for a full course with some to spare, and the level most people land on for visible results without the zing of the strongest ones. Normally about $46 and down to its better pricing for the sale. Follow the timing on the box; longer doesn’t mean whiter.
Whatever ends up in the cart, the sale runs through Friday, June 26, and the popular things tend to sell out before it ends.
A cruelty-free mark means the brand is certified by PETA, Leaping Bunny, or both at the time of writing. A missing mark doesn’t mean a brand tests on animals; it just means the brand isn’t certified by these programs.
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