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Perhaps the most difficult and most gratifying category to test for our annual Best of Beauty Awards is skin care. Results aren't instantaneous. Sometimes it takes weeks, even months, to figure out if a moisturizer is actually strengthening your skin barrier, or if that vitamin C serum really does diminish dark spots. But that's why we do this. Now more than ever, we want to get great results for ourselves, but especially for you.