Here’s how to get your hands on Aquaphor (AKA Beyoncé’s fave bargain buy) in Australia

Zendaya, Sabrina Carpenter & Khloé Kardashian are also fans

Beauty Crew Editor / February 05 2025

If you had to guess the standout product from Beyoncé’s evening skin care routine, you’d probably assume it was something pretty pricey, huh?

That’s fair; people don’t generally put ‘Queen’ in front of your name unless you’re one of the world’s finest. And the finest people usually have a taste for the finer things in life, right? Well, not necessarily — or not always when it comes to skin care, that is.

In fact, there’s one particular budget beauty buy that a lot of celebs (Bey herself included) rely on to keep their radiance and hydration levels topped up all the time: Aquaphor.

What is Aquaphor?

Essentially, it’s almost like the American version of Vaseline. Yes, we know your mind probably went straight to Puberty Blues, but let's stay focused in the name of stellar skin, shall we?

Basically, Aquaphor (like Vaseline) is an all-purpose petroleum jelly ointment that’s recommended by dermatologists for healing and hydrating irritated or dry skin. But in the case of Aquaphor, its reputation in Hollywood is as glowing as it's effects on the skin.

Celebrity fans of Aquaphor

Beyoncé smears the stuff all over her skin before bed: results < reputation, right?

“I go to bed looking totally greasy,” she shared with ELLE. “It’s not all glamour all the time."

That’s the takeaway here: While she may not look particularly glam heading to bed coated in petroleum jelly, the glow levels she gives off after slugging  are definitely glamorous. 

Another big Aquaphor fan? Zendaya. She even recently named it as one of her desert island beauty essentials. “I carry it on me at all times,” she spilled to Glamour. FYI, she uses it for both hydrating and highlighting purposes  clever.

Sabrina Carpenter featured a tube of the stuff in a 'get ready with me' on TikTok, shouted out the lip care product in an interview with Glamour, and wore several Aquaphor products to the 2025 Grammy Awards

"I love a classic Aquaphor, I can’t lie," she told Glamour. "It’s sitting next to me in my room at all times. I love how it feels: It’s super moisturising, it’s not sticky, it’s kind of the perfect lip product."

Khloé Kardashian has also sung Aquaphor's praises: "I think Aquaphor is great," she confessed on her episode of Hot Ones. "I wear Aquaphor around my eyes every night. I think it helps with wrinkles and all that. [It's] really inexpensive and easy."

That's still not all the endorsements it has, either, a ton of other famous faces — from Charlize Theron and Lucy Liu to Nicole Kidman and Jessica Simpson — have also professed their undying love for the same skin protectant.

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Where to buy Aquaphor in Australia

While all our favourite stateside skin-spirations are busy singing its praises, the truth of the matter is that it’s not always so easy for us Aussies to get our hot little hands on it. Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury of being able to find it on the shelves of our local pharmacies and supermarkets the way they do.

However, you can get it in Aus — if you know where to go.

iHerb is the place to be for all of your Aquaphor needs it stocks the stuff in every form  from tiny tubes ($17.24 from iHerb) to huge tubs ($55.65 from iHerb), so you can load up on Aquaphor for your tiniest handbag, as well as, a solid year’s supply.

Now that you’ve got direct access to the A-list’s favourite bargain beauty buy, the world is basically your oyster…

Main image credit: Getty Images

Aquaphor isn't the only celeb-approved steal in the game, either. Doechii wore this affordable skin care brand to the Grammys.

Delaney began her career in the Australian beauty media industry in 2015, landing amidst the glossy world of women’s lifestyle magazines (or more literally, in their beauty cupboards). Since then, she has gone on to write across a multitude of beloved Australian media brands, including OK!, NW, InStyle, and Harper’s BAZAAR. She’s covered every side of beauty content, from directing beauty editorial shoots to rounding up the best glossy serums for golden hour skin. Having spent nearly a decade immersed in the beauty realm, Delaney’s knowledge of beauty is as extensive as her collection of tinted lip oils (read: extremely extensive). Delaney is currently the Digital Managing Editor of BEAUTYcrew, and her beauty wisdom also appears across beautyheaven, ELLE and Marie Claire. She enjoys channelling her personal hobby (testing beauty products) into her professional work (talking about testing beauty products), and considers perfecting the art of a cat eye in a moving car her life’s greatest accomplishment.