Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream Dupe Found At Last

Published on December 24, 2019

By Terry

Last updated April 20, 2023. The search for a Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream dupe is still super popular, two years after we originally wrote about it. It is still one of the most searched for products in our SKINSKOOL comparison tool. Every day, hundreds of people are searching for a dupe for Charlotte Tilbury’s Magic Cream. Fans of this product and perhaps Charlotte Tilbury herself, the celebrity makeup artist, are not shy about calling the cream’s effects - real magic. While that may be so, these magic effects don’t come cheap. At $100 for 50ml, it’s a top end prestige moisturizer and it’s no wonder everyone is searching for Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream dupes. This is exactly the type of research question Skincare Compare was developed to solve. Let’s jump right in.

The Magic Cream ingredients are: Water (Aqua), Homosalate , Glyceryl Stearate SE, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Octocrylene, Cetyl Alcohol, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethicone, Phenoxyethanol, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Steareth-21, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Carbomer, Dimethiconol, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Chlorphenesin, Caprylyl Glycol, Xanthan Gum, Hydrolyzed Viola Tricolor Extract, Allantoin, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Disodium EDTA, Tocopheryl Acetate, Camellia Oleifera Seed Oil, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Rosa Damascena Flower Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Michelia Alba Leaf Oil, Sodium Lactate, Coco-Glucoside, PEG-8, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopherol, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Plumeria Rubra Flower Extract, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Nicotiana Sylvestris Leaf Cell Culture, Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol

In analyzing this particular Charlotte Tilbury dupe, Skincare Compare has identified the highest match to be Chantecaille Bio Lifting Cream+ with an 85% Match Score. However, Chantecaille is an even more expensive brand than CT so that isn’t the most satisfying price wise. A popular Charlotte Tilbury dupe most of the time should also be more affordable. That is, unless people are looking for a dupe because they don't like the Charlotte Tilbury brand or positioning, then perhaps a Charlotte Tilbury dupe that is more expensive would also satisfy. But we are going with the average case here. And on average, people want to find a similar alternative that is less expensive.

Now a more affordable alternative

So let's move further on in the Charlotte Tilbury dupe analysis. The product with the highest match score that also represents monetary savings is, aka what we would call the best dupe for Tilbury’s Magic Cream, is Paula’s Choice Skin Recovery Replenishing Moisturizer with an 80% Match Score.

The ingredients of the dupe are: Water, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Butylene Glycol, Glycereth-26, Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Cyclopentasiloxane, Stearic Acid, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate (thickeners), Glycerin, Cyclohexasiloxane, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopheryl Linoleate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Sodium PCA, Panthenol, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Tetradibutyl Pentaerithrityl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Saccharide Isomerate, Sodium Chondroitin Sulfate, Hydroxypropyl Guar, Propylene Glycol, Allantoin, Rosa Canina (Dog Rose) Fruit Oil, Dimethicone, Simethicone, Polysorbate 20, Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose, Carbomer, Sodium Citrate, Triethanolamine, Trisodium EDTA, Batyl Alcohol, Benzoic Acid, Chlorphenesin, Sorbic Acid, Phenoxyethanol

Both products contain similar emollients, humectants, peptides, antioxidants and vitamins and aloe and other botanicals. All that is left to do is to give the dupe a try! And we did just that...

Real life testing

Find out what happened when we did a blind beauty test and pit the Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream up against it’s highest and most affordable dupe, Paula’s Choice Skin Recovery Replenishing Moisturizer.

If you’d like to find your own amazing affordable dupe, head on over to SKINSKOOL and search over 34,000 products on the market using the Skincare Compare dupe finder. It's what we used to find an almost identical Sunday Riley Juno Oil dupe.

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Terry

Co-Founder of SKINSKOOL, the world’s first & only IP-protected, tech-driven beauty marketplace dedicated to empowering consumer discovery, comparison and purchasing based on objective ingredient and pricing information.