Drunk Elephant

Drunk Elephant is a US skincare brand known for short ingredient lists and a focus on what it leaves out. Its formulas avoid essential oils, drying alcohols, silicones, chemical screens, fragrance, and SLS, which the brand groups as the Suspicious 6. The idea is that skin tolerates a simpler formula better, so products in the range tend to suit people whose skin reacts to heavier or more perfumed creams. In our grid you will see this across the board, from the Protini Polypeptide Cream to the Wonderwild butter and the body and hair items.

The two face creams we stock sit at the centre of the line. Protini Polypeptide Cream is a peptide moisturiser meant for daily use that aims to firm and improve skin tone over time, and it comes in both the standard 50ml jar and a 100ml jumbo size. Wonderwild Miracle Butter is the richer option, a thicker balm-style moisturiser for skin that wants more cushion. If your skin runs normal to dry, start with one of these as your core moisturiser and add the rest around it.

Citango Eye Cream is the eye-area product in the range, a 15ml cream made for the thinner skin around the eyes where a face moisturiser can feel heavy. Treat it as a separate step rather than a swap for your main cream. A little goes a long way at 15ml, so it tends to last well even with daily morning and evening use.

Drunk Elephant makes its cleansing and exfoliating steps as solid bars rather than tubes. The Juju Bar is an exfoliating bar that uses a mild physical polish, and the Piki Bar is a cleansing bar, both around 120g. Bars like these stretch further than a pump cleanser and travel well since there is no liquid to leak. If you are new to the brand, a bar plus the Protini cream is a tidy two-step entry into the range.

The range reaches past the face. Sealy Body Lotion is a 240ml body moisturiser that carries the same clean-formula approach down to the rest of your skin, and the Marula Tangle Spray is a 120ml leave-in for hair that helps comb-through and tames knots. These let you keep one consistent ingredient philosophy from face to body to hair if that matters to you, rather than mixing in heavily fragranced body or hair products.

Drunk Elephant calls its layering approach smoothie-style: you can mix a drop of a serum or oil into your moisturiser in your palm instead of applying everything in strict order. A simple routine from our grid is to cleanse with the Piki Bar, treat the eye area with Citango, then seal with Protini or Wonderwild. Add the body lotion and hair spray as separate steps. Keep the count low at first so you can tell which product is doing what for your skin.

Several items come in more than one size. Protini ships as a 50ml jar and a 100ml jumbo, so once you know you like it the larger jar usually works out cheaper per ml for daily use. The 15ml Citango eye cream and the solid bars are smaller-footprint products that suit testing the range or packing for travel. Start with the standard sizes, then size up on the one or two products you reach for every day.

Because the formulas drop fragrance, essential oils, and drying alcohols, the line tends to appeal to people with sensitive or reactive skin and to anyone who prefers a short, readable ingredient list. The face creams lean normal-to-dry, the bars work for most skin types, and the body and hair items round out a full clean-beauty routine. Read each product page for the full ingredient list before you build a routine around a specific concern.