New York City’s hip acupuncture studio, Wthn is known for their modern approach to Chinese healing practices, but the brand also stocks a variety of TCM beauty tools that you can use at home. If you’re someone who finds themselves tensing up your jaw regularly, you might be interested in Wthn’s face cupping set which aims to help boost blood circulation, collagen and relaxes facial muscles—it’d feel as though the cups are squeezing out all the tension off your face. 

The brand also stocks a variety of other TCM inspired at-home tools such as an acupressure mat set, acupressure ear seed kit, face roller, gua sha tools as well as easy-to-consume TCM tablets made specially to tackle different issues such as managing stress, encouraging digestion and boosting workouts. 

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With Herbivore finally available in Hong Kong, try out some of their best selling products which contain well-known TCM ingredients such as goji berry, red raspberry seed camellia extract and more. The Orchid Youth Preserving Jasmine and Camellia Facial Oil is a good place to start: Made with plant-based and organic ingredients, this product protects you against free radicals while increasing elasticity. Apply a few drops of the oil every morning and night and massage it until the skin fully absorbs the product so that your skin will look plump and youthful all day. 

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Developed in Guerlain’s lab in France and sold across the city in China, Cha Ling is a TCM focused brand that’s backed by luxury group, LVMH. Launched in 2016, the group has been heavily focused on expanding Cha Ling in the Chinese market, using Chinese ingredients, TCM techniques and French cosmetic expertise to attract consumers. 

The products are centred around Chinese pu’er tea from the southern province of Yunnan, a tea known for its anti-ageing properties. Try Cha Ling’s The Cream, a face cream that infuses five-year-old fermented pu’er tea to help battle ageing concerns, brighten skin tone and improve fitness and elasticity. Packaged in a hand-made porcelain jar and painted with fine gold, one jar of this beauty potion doesn’t come cheap at HK$2,600. The brand also stocks around fifty other products, including a sleek gua sha tool, essences, masks, lotions and cleansing oils. 

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Inspired by Asian herbal medicine, Sulwhasoo is a K-beauty centred luxury skincare brand that highlights herbal ingredients such as ginseng and rehmannia glutinosa, two of the fifty fundamental herbs used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Sulwhasoo’s First Care Activating Serum is the brand’s number one bestseller at Sephora and is formulated with five different herbs to hydrate, nourish and soothe uneven skin. 

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001 Skincare London was founded by celebrity facialist, Ada Ooi who has previously treated a number of A-list celebrities and royals such as Kate Middleton, Ellie Goulding and Lady Gaga. Originally from Hong Kong, Ooi grew up watching her pharmacist grandfather prescribing Western medicine with Chinese herbs to patients, influencing her path to creating a Chinese medicine and Western technologies inspired skincare practice and beauty line. 

If you’re not able to get a consultation with Ooi herself, her website stocks an array of skincare kits, tools and products that’ll help you get one step closer to the royal glow. Try the 3-Step Inner Glow Kit which addresses ageing concerns such as dehydration, pigmentation, wrinkles and sensitivity. 

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Wildling specialises in the facial gua sha system, offering four main products that’ll help you achieve a beautiful glow. The brand’s Empress Oil is infused with three main active ingredients: Balm of gilead, resin nutrient complex and sunstone, all of which are harvested by local US farmers who forage wild plants seasonally. To complement the oil, pair it with the Empress gua sha tool made of Bian stone, a cool black amalgamate made of forty plus healing minerals. 

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