They’re also relatively accessible through Nordstrom and elsewhere, and none of them require you to charter a jet to Paris.
But in the end, just 18 products survived, rounding out this year’s list of what editors and contributors feel are the best-of-the-best skincare, hair care, and body care products that got us through a long, hard year.Īll of our Grooming Award-winning products are effective, of course, but they also share a certain economy (because if 13 months of coronavirus lockdown taught us anything, it’s that money sure doesn’t grow inside the house). With picks in hand, these grooming experts entered into a March Madness-like playoff bracket, wheedling their picks against others in a no-holds-barred, winner-take-all struggle for inclusion. Any wobble in quality or mediocr e results when tested? Into the rubbish bin of editorial excess. For more than six months, they squeezed, daubed, and scrubbed their way through a cornucopia of more than 700 products. For the 2022 edition, we tapped four of our most experienced writers and six grooming influencers. Anyone who thinks skincare is light work hasn’t been inside The Manual when approaching our fourth annual Grooming Awards.