9 Best Tried and True Japanese Body Creams in 2022 (Beauty Expert-Reviewed)

Jill Stuart Body Cream offers a smooth texture that feels as if it melts across your skin as it warms up from your body heat.

While it doesn't have a lot of oil in it, it does have plenty of ingredients that help maintain healthy skin, such as blackcurrant fruit extract, tocopherol, and madonna lily root extract. In our moisturization test, we found that our testers only lost 10.8% moisture after three hours since application.

The cream itself has a nice elasticity to it and spread easily. Additionally, in the stickiness test, our testers only found six beads on their hands, making it one of the least sticky creams! 

BbyE's Mama Butter Face & Body Cream can be used on the entire body, including your face, lips, and hair.

Featuring organic shea butter, this product is incredibly moisturizing! The only drawback though, is that shea butter tends to oxidize easily, so we recommend using this body cream quickly. 

In our moisturization test, our testers still had +18.6% moisture in their skin after three hours, making this product incredibly moisturizing.

Moreover, the cream itself was almost solid, making it difficult to take out of the jar, as well as spread. In the stickiness test, our testers had an acceptable 13 beads left on their hands.

The product is also nearly free of any scents, making it usable in any situation. If you're looking for a highly moisturizing body cream, this is a great choice.

This body cream was formulated for dry and sensitive skin. It contains seven natural ceramides, which fortify your skin’s barrier and maintain moisture levels.

In our moisturization test, our testers lost 5.6% moisture after three hours. However, this product scored highly in the stickiness test, with only two beads remaining on our testers' hands. 

Finally, while this product is almost totally scentless, our testers commented that it has a very faint fresh fragrance, making it ideal for use outside or at the office.

Kracie's Aroma Resort Body Cream is made with plant-based butter, which helps lock in moisture.

Moreover, it also features glycerin and sorbitol, which are highly moisturizing, water-soluble ingredients. Unfortunately, our testers lost 12.4% moisture in the moisturization test, regardless of these ingredients.

While the texture was a bit on the firmer side and slightly more difficult to spread, it wasn't as sticky as expected. Finally, our testers loved the scent, commenting that its fresh, floral, citrus scent works with any age range.

Kao's Curél Cream contains allantoin, a gentle, moisturizing pseudo-ceramide that helps maintain smooth skin. It's gentle enough that it can be used on infants.

This cream's soft, plump texture and spreadability earned it high marks from our testers, but it also took a second to get absorbed. However, after three hours, our testers lost 14.4% moisture in comparison to immediately after applying the body cream.

While the cream does have a medicinal scent, it's hardly noticeable. Finally, with only nine beads sticking to our testers' hands, it got high marks in our stickiness test!

Her lip to's Sensual Rich Body Cream's Nude Pearl scent was highly popular among our testers in their twenties, commenting that it has the perfect balance of sweetness and freshness.

The body cream has a moist texture that blends well, and isn't too sticky, with only 12 beads sticking to our testers' hands.

This cream not only contains squalane, an oil that's gentle on the skin, but also many other moisturizing ingredients that help keep the skin moisturized and maintain a protective barrier around the skin.

Regardless of its ingredients, though, our testers lost a fair amount of moisture after 3 hours, resulting in poor scores in the moisturization test.

WHOMEE's Moist Body Cream is paraben and alcohol-free, making it gentle enough to use on children.

Being easy to spread and absorb, its very faint scent, as well as with only 11 beads sticking to our testers' hands, it was one of the more versatile body creams we tested.

While it has a high oil content and high amounts of glycerine and ceramides, it was unable to keep our testers' hands moisturized after three hours, resulting in a lower score.

Dr. Phil Cosmetics X-Barrier Repair Body Cream not only protects the skin against dryness but also from dirt and dust.

The body cream is made with 2K glycyrrhizinate acid, which helps maintain healthy skin, as well as ester oil, which is known for its hydrating and high absorption qualities. Unfortunately, in our moisturizing test, after three hours our testers lost over 20% moisture.

The texture itself is watery and not sticky at all, nor does it have a particularly strong scent, making it a body cream that can be used whenever.

As it says in the name, Muji's Body Cream With 3 Types of Plant Oil is made with three kinds of natural moisturizing plant-based oils, in addition to glycerin and ester oil.

Unfortunately, this body cream didn't get the job done in terms of moisturizing, with our testers losing a large amount of moisture after three hours. On the bright side, though, its moist texture means it spreads and is absorbed well. 

Another positive was that it also proved to be on the not-so-sticky side, with nine beads on our testers' hands, earning it a high score. Our testers were also fond of its faint, fresh fragrance.