Brand

Augustinus Bader

Augustinus Bader was founded in 2018 around Professor Augustinus Bader's stem cell and wound-healing research at the University of Leipzig, where he developed an amino acid and peptide complex originally aimed at burn treatment. The brand has commercialized that research as 'TFC8' across its skincare line. The science is real, but the proprietary nature of the complex makes independent verification harder than for openly published actives.

In Catalog

8

products reviewed

75/100 Score

No.1

Luxury Body Cream Statement

Augustinus Bader body-care

The Body Cream

Augustinus Bader's Body Cream is one of the better-formulated luxury body creams on the market — fragrance-free, ceramide-supplemented, and sensorially impressive. It's also $165, which is impossible to defend on a pure ingredients-vs-cost basis no matter how thoughtfully the formula is built. The right buyer wants the combination of fragrance-free, luxurious texture, and the brand experience. The wrong buyer expects the price to translate into proportionally dramatic results.

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Editorial Favorite With a Price Tag to Match

Augustinus Bader cleanser

The Cleansing Balm

A beautiful, vegan, editorially blessed oil-cleansing balm that does exactly what a sixty-five-dollar cleanser ought to do — no more, no less. The formula is genuinely nice, but TFC8 in a rinse-off product is more branding than biochemistry. Buy it for the ritual and the aesthetics; don't buy it expecting transformation in ninety seconds.

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Prestige Price, Polite Performance

Augustinus Bader eye-cream

The Eye Cream

A pleasant, fragrance-free, well-built eye cream that costs as much as a small appliance. The formulation deserves credit — niacinamide, ceramides, adenosine, no fragrance — but the price asks you to believe TFC8 is doing something extraordinary that independent evidence hasn't yet demonstrated. Nice cream, impossible price.

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Luxury Skincare Statement Piece

Augustinus Bader moisturizer

The Cream

Augustinus Bader's The Cream is the rare luxury face cream where the science origin story actually holds up — built on a researcher with a real publication record and a complex that grew out of burn-healing work. The formula is well-built, fragrance-free, and sensorially excellent. The price is also $290, which is impossible to defend on ingredient cost alone. The right buyer wants the experience and can afford it; the wrong buyer expects $290 worth of measurable improvement.

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Luxury Multi-Oil Glow

Augustinus Bader oil

The Face Oil

Augustinus Bader's Face Oil is a thoughtfully built seven-oil blend with a fragrance-free profile, linoleic-rich top oils, and a botanical antioxidant supporting cast — one of the more sophisticated multi-oil formulations on the market. It is also $230 for 30ml, which is impossible to defend on ingredient cost alone. The right buyer wants the experience and can afford it; the wrong buyer would be just as happy with a $50 multi-oil from Indie Lee or Kahina.

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Augustinus Bader moisturizer

The Rich Cream

A genuinely luxurious rich cream with a cushiony shea-and-squalane base that delivers real comfort to dry, mature skin — but the $290 price tag reflects Prof. Bader's brand story and TFC8 marketing as much as the ingredients inside. Worth it if the ritual justifies the spend; skip it if you're buying on ingredient value alone.

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Refillable Luxury Serum

Augustinus Bader serum

The Serum

A featherlight, fragrance-free serum with a thoughtful antioxidant cast and the most genuinely sustainable packaging in luxury skincare — but the $290 price for 30ml asks you to pay heavily for the TFC8 narrative. Excellent format, controversial value.

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★★★★★

4.3 (1,900)

$290.00