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Best credit card to use at Benefit Cosmetics.

Online ShoppingDepartment Store

Benefit Cosmetics is a San Francisco founded beauty brand known for brow products, mascara, and a playful, pink-branded retail presence, sold through its own boutiques, website, and major beauty retailers like Sephora and Ulta. The brand has been owned by LVMH since the early 1990s and remains one of the more recognizable names in prestige drugstore-adjacent makeup. There's no Benefit Cosmetics co-brand credit card, so a card that bonuses department store or general online shopping purchases is the better lever, and buying through a department store account can sometimes stack with that retailer's own loyalty program.

Picks without a tag earn at Benefit Cosmetics both in-store and online. Watch for theOnline onlytag — those bonuses only apply on benefitcosmetics.com.

  1. #1
    U.S. Bank
    5% on department stores if you select it as a bonus category (up to $2,000/quarter, then 1%)
    Choose 2 categories each quarter, up to $2,000 combined
    5%
  2. #2
    American Express
    3% on online shopping (up to $6,000/year, then 1%)
    U.S. online retail purchases
    3%
  3. #3
    Robinhood
    3% flat-rate cashback
    3%
  4. #4
    American Express
    2% flat-rate cashback
    2%
  5. #5
    Citi
    2% flat-rate cashback
    1% when you buy, 1% when you pay
    2%
  6. #6
    First Electronic Bank
    2% flat-rate cashback
    Up to 4% with higher crypto balances on Coinbase; requires Coinbase One membership
    2%
  7. #7
    Elan Financial Services
    2% flat-rate cashback
    When deposited into an eligible Fidelity account
    2%
  8. #8
    American Express
    2% flat-rate cashback
    Unlimited 2% cash back on eligible purchases
    2%
  9. #9
    Navy Federal
    2% flat-rate cashback
    Issued on the cashRewards application when approved for a credit limit of $5,000 or more; lower limits receive cashRewards at 1.5%
    2%
  10. #10
    PNC
    2% flat-rate cashback
    2%
  11. #11
    U.S. Bank
    2% flat-rate cashback
    2%
  12. #12
    Wells Fargo
    2% flat-rate cashback
    2%
  13. #13
    Wells Fargo
    2% flat-rate cashback
    2%

Last updated July 9, 2026