Granado · BR-Beauty
Best Granado Products for Combination Skin
4 Granado picks that actually work on combination skin — ranked by editor rating, not by what the brand pushes hardest. Updated 2026.
Brazil's oldest pharmacy brand, 150+ years old. The pink soap is a national heirloom. Broader skincare has revived under new leadership.
Granado
8.2/10 · cleanserSabonete de Argila Rosa
Granado is Brazil's oldest cosmetics brand (1870) and the pink clay bar soap is its pharmacy-counter icon. Brazilian pink kaolin in a traditional cold-pressed bar — it cleanses without stripping, absorbs excess oil, and costs less than a coffee. The brand's 150+ year pharmaceutical heritage means the formula hasn't been reformulated for trends; it was designed for oily tropical skin decades before 'clay cleansing' became an Instagram category. Buy five, keep one in every bathroom.
Granado
7.5/10 · cleanserSabonete Rosa Glicerinado
The 1900 pink-glycerine classic. Cheap, heritage, rose-scented.
Granado
7.4/10 · moisturizerPhebo Hidratante Facial
Rio pharmacy's every-face moisturizer at a São Paulo price. Dependable.
Granado
7/10 · cleanserAntisséptico Traditional Glycerin Soap
Granado's Antisséptico Soap is a Brazilian institution — a glycerin bar soap that has been in continuous production since 1870. That's 155 years. The original formula was created as a medicinal antiseptic soap in Granado's pharmacy in Rio de Janeiro (the brand started as a botica — a Portuguese-style apothecary). The formula is deliberately minimal: saponified palm oils, glycerin for moisture retention, and the signature medicinal-clean fragrance that every Brazilian over 30 recognises from their grandmother's bathroom. There are no active skincare ingredients. There's no clinical claim. This is a soap. But it's the soap that Brazilian dermatologists recommend as a gentle, pH-appropriate cleanser for oily and acne-prone skin — a utilitarian product that does one thing well and has been doing it for over a century. The green packaging with Art Deco lettering is unchanged since the 1920s. This is heritage beauty in its most literal form.