Expand your beauty collection with our top Lab picks. (Photo by Mike Garten)

These top-performing products stood out in our rigorous testing – plus, we’re featuring proven GH Seal stars, the latest skin breakthroughs and the hottest skincare picks.

Hero Hydating Night Cream

Caudalie Resveratrol Lift Night Infusion Cream ($76, Sephora): With grapeseed oil and the antioxidant resveratrol (derived from grapevines), this silky Caudalie cream proved to be a powerful hydrator and smoother.

Tester notes: “It didn’t leave my face greasy,” one said. “My skin felt soft when I woke up,” said another.

Lab lowdown: It scored among the highest in our night-cream test for moisturization, increasing skin’s moisture 43 perecnt over six hours. The Lab’s Visia complexion analyzer’s digital imaging showed a 12 percent improvement in skin texture.

Radiance-Boosting Day Cream

L’Oreal Paris Skin Expert Revitalift Bright Reveal Brightening Day Moisturizer with SPF 30 ($20, drugstores): The best of the Lab’s anti-aging day creams test, this L’Oreal lotion delivers the biggest bang for your buck, evening skin tone, reducing UV spots and hydrating parched areas.

Tester notes: The “fast-absorbing” SPF made skin “bright and radiant” and “decreased the look of wrinkles.”

Lab lowdown: Analysis revealed it raised skin’s hydration 28 percent and decreased UV spots by 11 percent in four weeks.

Ultra-Firming Night Cream

L’Oreal Paris Revitalift Volume Filler Night Cream ($25, drugstores): Light in feel (and price!), this gel-like L’Oreal cream received high marks for firming and moisturizing.

Lab lowdown: It led to a 36 percent uptick in skin’s firmness in four weeks, plus a 40 percent rise in moisturization.

Amazing Age-Erasing Serum

Clinique Smart Custom-Repair Serum ($60, clinique.com): Scoring points for softening, firming, brightening, evening skintone and minimizing pores and brown spots, Clinique was the clear winner in the anti-aging serums test.

Tester notes: 100 percent of testers agreed it had a nice texture.

Lab lowdown: The serum was best at boosting firmness (24 percent) and reduced the look of pores and brown spots by 7 percent.

Four-In-One Perfecting Serum

No7 Protect & Perfect Intense Advanced Serum ($30, Walgreens): GH Seal holder No7 was tops for improving texture, firmness, pores and brown spots.

Lab lowdown: The Lab saw a 6 percent lessening of pores and a strong 21 percent jump in firmness.

ON ANOTHER MATTER …

GH Seal Star: Pilot Pen Erasable Markers

Pilot Pen’s Frixion Colors Erasable Marker Pens ($13.50 for a pack of 12 colors, target.com) impressed our engineering and creative teams, acing evaluations for erasability, quality and design. Some standout features:

Innovative eraser: The cap’s rubber end is specially designed to remove ink and doesn’t shed like regular pencil erasers.

Heat-sensitive ink: Because its unique formula reacts to temperature, friction from rubbing with the eraser (which creates warmth) makes it vanish.

Paper saver: Test sheets looked like new in our erasability analysis.

Pointed tip: The sturdy tip holds up under pressure for supersharp lettering and fine lines.

Vibrant assortment: The technology works across a rainbow of colors (12 in all), including black.

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Top-Tested Targeted Treatments

These innovative products can address a variety of common skin concerns.

Mary Kay Timewise Repair Revealing Radiance Facial Peel ($65, marykay.com): This GH Seal-holding glycolic acid peel effectively reduces lines and wrinkles when applied twice per week in the evening, yet “is non-irritating,” the Beauty Lab confirms.

Patchology Powerpatch Dark Spot Corrector ($60, Nordstrom): This unique two-step system includes a pigment-fighting gel for day and nighttime retinol patches to maximize ingredient absorption. The product lightened our testers’ dark spots within two weeks.

BIOEFFECT EGF Serum ($160, bioeffect.com): GH Beauty Lab director Birnur Aral was impressed by this groundbreaking epidermal growth factor serum; independent studies show it reduced wrinkle size and depth.

St. Ives Exfoliate & Nourish Coconut Oil Scrub ($7, drugstores): A new kind of face scrub, this formula contains exfoliating coconut shell powder suspended in coconut and grapeseed oils to slough and soften simultaneously.

Recalls Alert

The following products and vehicles were recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Unless otherwise indicated, discontinue use of the products immediately and return them to the store where purchased for a refund. For more information about the products, call the manufacturer or CPSC’s toll-free hotline, (800) 638-2772. Only some cars or trucks recalled are affected. Contact a dealer for your model to see if it is included in the recall. The dealer will tell you what to do.

PRODUCT/VEHICLE

PROBLEM

Stafford Windsor-style dining chairs, sold exclusively at Cost Plus World Market and World Market stores nationwide and online at www.worldmarket.com from June 2016 through December 2016 for about $100.

The legs on the chairs can break, posing a fall hazard to consumers. Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled chairs and return them to any Cost Plus World Market or World Market store for a free replacement chair. Consumers can contact Cost Plus toll-free at (877) 967-5362 from 7 a.m. to midnight EST daily, or online at

www.worldmarket.com. Click on “Product Recalls” for more information.

2011 Mazda2 and 2010-2011 Mazda3 and

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In the affected vehicles, the seat height adjustment lifter links may break or detach from the seat frame and the seat angle may incline causing the driver to not be able to maintain an appropriate driving position. If the driver cannot maintain an appropriate driving position, there is an increased risk of a crash. Mazda will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the seat lifter links and install a reinforcement bracket to the lifter links, or replace the entire seat adjuster unit for free. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at

(800) 222-5500. Mazda’s number for this recall is 0917B.

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