Korean skincare products have gained immense popularity over the last 5 years. K-beauty products are renowned for utilising cutting-edge and effective ingredients in luxurious formulas, all at an affordable price point. They’re typically gentle, hydrating, soothing, and focus on maintaining or repairing the skin’s barrier.

There’s a pretty overwhelming number of K-beauty products on the market, with varying price points. This post covers some of the best and affordable K-beauty skincare products for every skin type – all under £15!

Mixsoon Bean Essence

£13.94 for 30ml

The Mixsoon Bean Essence is vegan, fragrance-free, and cruelty-free. Ideal for sensitive, oily, or textured skin, this versatile serum can be used to hydrate or gently exfoliate the skin. As this uses pomegranate enzyme for exfoliation, you can incorporate this essence into your daily skincare routine, and it’ll still be gentle and kind to your skin. With consistent use, this essence will reveal a more radiant, even, and smooth complexion.

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Hyaluronic Toner Fragrance Free

£12.62 for 150ml

The Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Hyaluronic Toner Fragrance Free is vegan, fragrance-free, and cruelty-free. Perfect for all skin types, this thick toner is refreshing, soothing, nourishing, and absorbent. It delivers lasting hydration, fresh-looking skin, and a dewy finish. It features black rice extract, which is excellent for softening and conditioning the skin. Hyaluronic acid and glycerin ensure your skin stays hydrated all day long.

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask

£13.01 for 20g

The Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask is incredible. This overnight lip treatment is thick and somewhat sticky, but by the morning, you’ll have the softest, smoothest, and plumpest lips ever! It’s so worth it. This has saved my dry and sore lips many times from central heating and harsh, cold weather.

Coconut oil, murumuru seed butter, and shea butter deeply nourish lips overnight, while ascorbic acid (vitamin C) firms lips. Unfortunately, Laneige is not cruelty-free, and this lip mask contains fragrance.

Heimish All Clean Balm

£9.90 for 50ml

The Heimish All Clean Balm is one of the best cheap cleansing balms available. This cruelty-free and vegan formula is rich, luxurious, and effortlessly dissolves makeup, skincare, dirt, oil, and grease from your skin. It begins as a creamy balm and emulsifies into an oil when activated with water, leaving no greasy residue. Thanks to mandarin oil, this cleansing balm also smells divine! After using this K-beauty staple, expect soft, smooth, clean, and fresh skin.

COSRX Master Patch Intensive

£11.93 for 90 patches

The COSRX Master Patch Intensive are the perfect spot patches to get rid of any spots overnight! Made from 100% A.D.F hydrocolloid to absorb moisture from acne and effectively reduce acne size, these pimple patches are seriously effective. Tea tree oil soothes and relieves any redness. The result? Pimples are gone by the morning without any irritation. COSRX is cruelty-free.

Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water

£8.46 for 40ml

The Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water is vegan, fragrance-free, and cruelty-free. This hydrating and refreshing toner is safe for sensitive skin and helps regulate excess sebum production. You can slot this essence easily into any skincare routine.

This toner features 80% ginseng, which boosts skin hydration, diminishes rough texture, helps fade uneven skin tone, and helps visibly improve wrinkles by working within the skin to bolster its natural firmness, according to Paula’s Choice. 2% niacinamide reduces the appearance of enlarged pores, regulates excess sebum, brightens the complexion, and improves uneven skin tone.

Purito SEOUL Mighty Bamboo Panthenol Cream

£14.02 for 100ml

The Purito SEOUL Mighty Bamboo Panthenol Cream is cruelty-free, fragrance-free, and vegan. This barrier repair cream is rich, soothing, hydrating, and restorative. It’s suitable for all skin types but is particularly great for drier skin, acne, or those with a damaged skin barrier. Bamboo extract has excellent antioxidant properties and soothes the skin. Panthenol helps skin stay hydrated all day long, while reducing redness.

SKIN 1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule

£13.09 for 55ml

The SKIN 1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule is vegan, fragrance-free, and cruelty-free. This ampoule is perfect for calming sensitive or irritated skin, making it great for people with rosacea. This lightweight and refreshing ampoule reduces redness and hydrates skin. Its watery consistency means it absorbs instantly and plays beautifully with other skincare products. Centella asiatica soothes skin and strengthens the skin’s barrier, while glycerin hydrates.

APLB Glutathione Niacinamide Sheet Mask

£1.95 for 1 mask

The APLB Glutathione Niacinamide Sheet Mask is cruelty-free and fragrance-free. This effective sheet mask offers a myriad of benefits, including brighter, intensely moisturised, and soothed skin in just 20 minutes. This refreshing mask is drenched in liquid so that once you remove it, you can gently massage the excess product into your skin for plump and dewy results.

Niacinamide visibly minimises enlarged pores, tightens lax pores, improves uneven skin tone, softens fine lines and wrinkles, diminishes dullness, and strengthens a weakened surface. Glutathione brightens a dull complexion and helps defend skin against the visible effects of environmental damage.

d’Alba White Truffle First Spray Serum

£13.40 for 50ml

The d’Alba White Truffle First Spray Serum is vegan and cruelty-free. This hydrating mist is the perfect way to top up moisture levels throughout the day. It feels super luxurious, as the mist is ultra-fine but feels refreshing and nourishing. This mist also gives skin a noticeable glow, so it’s great to spritz on top of SPF or as the final step in your makeup routine for visible radiance.

White truffle conditions the skin, sunflower seed oil replenishes and soothes skin, avocado oil provides deep hydration, and soybean oil can help fade stubborn discolouration.

AXIS-Y Vegan Collagen Eye Serum

£11.08 for 10ml

The AXIS-Y Vegan Collagen Eye Serum is fragrance-free, cruelty-free, and vegan. The silver rollerball applicator feels cooling and soothing. If you ever have puffy or tired eyes, this serum provides quick relief. It’s great for all skin types and is refreshing for morning skincare routines.

Vegan collagen provides excellent hydration and improves skin elasticity. Hyaluronic acid and jojoba seed deeply nourish the skin. While grape extract soothes skin and fig extract helps prevent hydration loss in skin.

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

£14.64 for 100ml

The COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence is probably the most famous K-beauty snail mucin product on the market. This cruelty-free and fragrance-free essence features up to 96% snail secretion filtrate, a powerful ingredient that fights multiple signs of ageing. Beyond this essence’s iconic gloopy consistency, it can improve uneven skin tone, hydrate, fade dark spots and scars, and soothe redness and irritation.

iUNIK Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen

£11.46 for 60ml

The iUNIK Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen is one of the few high-quality and effective SPFs under the £15 mark. This affordable K-beauty staple is cruelty-free and fragrance-free. This chemical sunscreen offers SPF50 broad-spectrum protection. It’s lightweight, non-sticky, leaves no white cast, doesn’t pill, and leaves a natural matte finish. For a sunscreen, this is also surprisingly hydrating and soothing, so oilier skin types can get away with not using a moisturiser and just using this SPF.

Centella asiatica soothes skin and strengthens the skin’s barrier, while niacinamide reduces the appearance of enlarged pores, regulates excess sebum, brightens the complexion, and improves uneven skin tone.

FULLY Green Tomato Clay Pack Cleanser

£13.09 for 120ml

The FULLY Green Tomato Clay Pack Cleanser is vegan and fragrance-free. This innovative 2-in-1 skincare product is both a cleanser and a clay mask. Tomato extract provides significant antioxidant properties, while kaolin clay and bentonite help reduce excess oiliness throughout the day. To offset any dryness or abrasiveness from these 2 clays, this cleanser/mask features soothing centella asiatica and ceramide NP to soothe and restore skin.

As a cleanser, this clay formula gently exfoliates and cleanses to reveal fresh and smooth skin. It also helps regulate sebum production.

As a clay mask, apply a thick layer to dry skin, leave it for 5 minutes, and rinse off. This helps control excess sebum production, reduces oily skin throughout the day, and leaves skin soft and smooth.

Some by Mi Miracle Toner

£6.30 for 30ml

The Some by Mi Miracle Toner features AHA, BHA, and PHA to exfoliate on multiple levels to reveal a smoother, more even, and radiant complexion. With consistent use, this multipurpose toner can reduce the number of pimples and blackheads you get. Although this is marketed towards all skin types, this toner contains 3 exfoliating acids, so it’s best to use this once or twice a week to avoid any potential irritation or damage to your skin’s barrier.

Citric acid (AHA) gently exfoliates and removes dead skin cells. Salicylic acid (BHA) unclogs pores and prevents or gets rid of blackheads and breakouts. Lactobionic acid (PHA) is chemically similar to glycolic acid (an AHA), but the slower penetration of this acid on the skin means gentler exfoliation with less potential for irritation.

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Cleansing Oil

£14.87 for 150ml

The Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Cleansing Oil is vegan, cruelty-free, and fragrance-free. This affordable K-beauty cleansing oil quickly and easily removes makeup, SPF, dirt, oil, and grease, revealing a soft, clean, and hydrated complexion. It’s non-stripping, gentle, and nourishing, while ensuring skin is fresh and pores aren’t clogged.

Black rice extract softens and conditions the skin, while sunflower seed oil and jojoba oil deeply nourish the skin. Despite being so moisturising, this cleanser never feels sticky or greasy after use.

Mixsoon Soybean Milk Pad

£14.09 for 30 toner pads

The Mixsoon Soybean Milk Pad is fragrance-free and cruelty-free. These toner pads are ultra-moisturising, refreshing, and soothing, providing long-lasting hydration. They’re great for strengthening and repairing the skin’s barrier, thanks to ceramide NP, which also helps soothe irritation and enhance skin elasticity.

Apply these toner pads for 10 minutes and massage in any excess product. The result? Protected, healthy, and dewy skin.

Beauty of Joseon Glow Serum

£12.24 for 30ml

The Beauty of Joseon Glow Serum is cruelty-free and fragrance-free. This serum makes skin more radiant and has an addictive honey-like texture. Despite the thick consistency, the serum absorbs into the skin and doesn’t remain sticky or tacky. Instead, after using this serum, skin is noticeably glowier, hydrated, and soothed. 60% propolis soothes skin, while 2% niacinamide improves uneven/dull skin tone.

COSRX Full Fit Propolis Synergy Toner

£14.33 for 150ml

The COSRX Full Fit Propolis Synergy Toner is fragrance-free and cruelty-free. This toner is a cheat code to dewy, supple, plump, and fresh-looking skin. Despite the gloopy texture, this toner absorbs instantly and doesn’t pill. It never feels greasy or sticky either. It’s ideal for those with dull or dehydrated skin, but it’s suitable for all skin types and those looking for a radiant, hydrated complexion.

72% propolis can aid in skin regeneration, while glycerin and hyaluronic acid hydrate the skin. Honey extract soothes the skin, and betaine balances the skin’s hydration.