Dr Dray, dermatologist: 1,321 skincare products reviewed

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All 1321 products Dr Dray has reviewed, grouped by product type. Click a product to see the full guru consensus.

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Sunscreen204 reviews

"I use sunscreen sticks, I like using them around my eyes because they don't run into the eyes, and I found them very convenient. [...] I like that the one you're using is SPF 50, I think I've used that Cetaphil stick before, they have a couple and they're pretty good. Sunscreen sticks in general are prone to under application and skip areas, so it's recommended you do multiple passes and then physically rub it in."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Hawaiian Tropic Sheer Touch Sunscreen

"This has fragrance and doesn't leave a white cast because it's a chemical sunscreen. It's water resistant for 80 minutes, so it would be okay for sweat-based activities or the pool, but you have to make sure you reapply it liberally. I don't personally like using scented sunscreens on my face, but this does have a nice fragrance, I will say that. It's a really good deal here, $12.99, normally $17.99."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Daily Tinted Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40

"Technically it's a hybrid sunscreen because of the octinoxate, but it does not have a heavy cast. It does require a bit of effort to spread on the skin and there's some streakiness as you're putting it on at first, but relative to mineral sunscreens in general [...] the spread is not too bad. [...] I love the tint on this, I got the shade MP200 and it's worked out really well for me. I've worn it in many videos and was able to tolerate it around my eyes with no problem."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Anua Zero Cast Moisturizing Finish Sunscreen SPF 50

"It [...] doesn't have all the filters you might get in a sunscreen [...] bought from Korea, but this formula is amazing. It's super lightweight, very hydrating, not greasy, and doesn't burn or sting around the eyes. It's SPF 50 and water resistant for 80 minutes. [...] It's one of the best facial sunscreens that has come out in the past couple of years in the US market. As far as the aesthetics and performance, it looks great, it's easy to apply, and it doesn't sting for me at least."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Biore UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence SPF 50+ PA++++

"I have used many of those Bioré sunscreens in the past, including the Bioré UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence. [...] They were some of the first Japanese sunscreens I ever tried, and I really really like them. They do have a [...] light lemon citrus fragrance, not strong or headache-inducing, but if you're allergic to fragrance you would want to avoid them. [...] They're a lightweight, watery gel that's a lot more comfortable to use."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Coola Scalp & Hair Mist SPF 30

"One I tested out and tried a few years ago was from Kula, and I thought that one was pretty good. It did have fragrance in it, however, as do all sunscreens marketed for scalp that I came across at the time."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

CeraVe Invisible Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"And this is another zinc oxide sunscreen. It also has titanium dioxide. The cast on this is very impressive for a mineral formula. It's moisturizing, not the least bit greasy or shiny. And it also does not peel at all, which is wonderful. Sometimes mineral sunscreens, they get a little flaky, and when you try and put makeup on over them, they make a mess. Not the case with this whatsoever. It's got ceramides as do all of CeraVe's products."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Vacation Classic Lotion SPF 50

"This is a chemical sunscreen. I have used it. I have reviewed it. Love [...] the scent. It does have that nice sunscreen scent that's classic that everybody enjoys. This is one of their better products. [...] I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. It's one I said I would re-consider using again in the future. [...] I don't think $15.99 is too bad, provided you're not allergic to fragrance. It's like a coconutty banana aroma."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Aveeno Sunscreen SPF 50

"I have not used the American version, but the Japanese one was great. Did have like a citrusy scent."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Aveeno Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"You can get your child a little cute facial mineral sunscreen here. SPF 30. It does have fragrance."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Actinica SPF 50

"They're sunscreens. They have a tinted sunscreen and a non-tinted sunscreen here in the US with DNA repair enzymes. So definitely something of interest, but they're kind of expensive. [...] I don't think it is a must-have. It's not like something that is in the guidelines for treating patients who have a history of non-melanoma skin cancer moving forward. It's not standard of care, but it is a compelling angle."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Abib Quick Sunstick Protection Bar SPF 50+ PA++++

"I got the Abib Quick Sunstick Protection Bar SPF 50+ PA++++ that I discovered last year. I reordered it because the thing I like about that one is it has a really broad, it's a really wide stick and it has this curve that makes it actually really easy to work around your eyes. I love that stick. It glides on the skin really easily. It's not stiff. It doesn't drag on the skin. But make sure you do multiple passes so that you don't skip any areas."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunscreen

"I have loved so far. I think the cast for a zinc oxide sunscreen is pretty doable because it's a richer cream and it's a mineral sunscreen. It is a little bit heavier on the skin. Just a word of warning. Like it feels a little bit like, oh, I've got something on there. But it hasn't done any peeling. And like most mineral sunscreens, it's really easy to tolerate around the eyes. I think it's a great option."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40

"The classic one that everybody talks about is Supergoop Unseen. Those go into hair bearing areas really well. They don't leave that residue and get stuck on the hair."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Daily Facial Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 40

"Also Trader Joe's has a great dupe as well and so if you have a Trader Joe's in your area do look there."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay UV Air Sunscreen Serum SPF 50

"I give it a four out of five star rating. Everything about it I really like. I personally don't mind the shiny plasticky look, but I know many of you detest it. I personally love Niacinamide. I get along really well with it. It does really well with my skin. I actually appreciate benefits using it and I love hyaluronic acid. I really like this formula for me personally, but I do not like the price point. So I would deduct points for that alone. It's logically formulated, high performance."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

"This is a hybrid sunscreen. So if you have a deeper skin tone, there's a bit of a cast to it. And the CeraVe one has a tendency to peel if you put it on too quickly. You have to kind of baby it as you're applying it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Skin Recovery Sunscreen Green Tinted

"I really enjoyed using this. I thought it was very good and it stood out to me as a new zinc oxide sunscreen for the year that didn't suck. I have a hard time with a lot of zinc oxide sunscreens. I find they can be a little laborious to apply. This one was not. And I like that it has that green tint. It's really offering something specific for those of you out there who deal with either rosacea or maybe you have post acne redness and you're looking for some cosmetic camouflage to that."

✓Yay

98%Guru Score

BYOMA Ultra Light Face Fluid SPF 50

"For those of you who are sensitive, it is another chemical sunscreen. This is great because it's fast dry, non-greasy, zero white cast. It has hyaluronic acid and ceramide, so the moisturizing piece of it, even though it's super lightweight, [...] really does also help to address the needs of the skin barrier. [...] A lot of you guys who have rosacea, you don't tolerate heavy stuff on your face, and maybe you can even handle a chemical sunscreen like this. It doesn't burn or sting you, per se."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Cetaphil Redness Relieving Daily Facial Moisturizer SPF 40

"This is a great mineral sunscreen. [...] It uses zinc and titanium dioxide, so it's a great option for anyone who is easily irritated by chemical sunscreens. It also contains soothing ingredients like aloe, caffeine, and licorice that are known to help calm down redness in the skin. It hydrates without feeling greasy on the skin and it doesn't sting around the eyes, which can be a real issue for people when it comes to sunscreen in general."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume UV SPF

"This [...] is excellent for those of you who commute by foot in cold winter conditions and you deal with windburn on your cheeks, your face. [...] You need sun protection and you need some kind of barrier repairing balm if you've got windburn. If you were lucky enough to go on a ski trip, [...] this is awesome for that. [...] I would definitely slather this on. Although, it's not water resistant, so [...] it's not going to stay on with sweat as well."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Olay Daily Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

"It's a facial moisturizer SPF 30 from Olay. I know they love to sell stuff for 10 times more than it's probably worth, but that is a product that they have kept surprisingly affordable. Like, it has resisted inflation. Hybrid sunscreens, they do leave a little bit of a white cast, especially if you have a deeper skin tone, but it's nowhere near as striking as an all mineral formula. This one's around like $5.98 per ounce."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Purito Deep Sea Pure Watery Sunscreen SPF50+ PA++++

"It's fragrance-free. It's the kind of sunscreen that you're putting on in the morning and you're like, 'Oh, okay, wait, I put sunscreen on because it's so moisturizer, right?' Like you're putting it on, and if you didn't know it was sunscreen, you'd just think you were putting moisturizer on. Lightweight sort of gel-like texture. 10 out of 10 would repurchase this. Never peeled for me under any products. Not water resistant though, so it's not one of those for outdoor activities."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Neutrogena Retinol Moisturizer with SPF

"The brands I'm recommending come from companies with a long-standing track record. For example, Neutrogena has high-quality retinol formulations. They not only have retinol, but the retinol is in a stable form."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Vacation Classic Whip SPF 30

"The vacation brand kind of blurs the lines between sunscreen, which is an over-the-counter medication, and this whipped topping in a can. It looks very similar. Meaning for a small child, you run the risk that they see that foam packaging kind of looks like dessert with the marketing materials. Could they accidentally mistake it for whipped topping and ingest a bunch of it?"

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Supergoop Play Body Mousse SPF

"The FDA released warning letters to five companies including Super Goop, Vacation, Colani Sunwear, Ken Care Organics, and Taiso concerning their foam or mousse or whipped sunscreens"

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

BYOMA Ultra Light Face Fluid SPF 30

"I've been trying out the BYOMA Ultra Light Face Fluid SPF 30 and it's pretty nice. It's a real thin, lightweight fluid, chemical sunscreen. There's no white cast with it. It has Xanthan, which is an antioxidant. It also has ceramides and hyaluronic acid. I've been pretty happy with it. [...] I think it'd be one that people would enjoy as like a primer, maybe under makeup. It's pretty good. Also good if you have oily skin and you like a fluid formula."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical Mineral Sunscreen

"I find that some of these mineral sunscreens are so cloyingly matte that it feels like my skin is going to pop off of my skull. I'm looking at you, Australian Gold Botanical."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Sugar Girl Hot Body Screen Shimmer Sunscreen SPF 30

"Hot body screen. This kind of looks like it's super goop inspired. Sugar Girl Shimmer Sunscreen for the body. Chemical sunscreen here. No fragrance."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Suntouchable Invisible Sunscreen SPF 35

"Love the invisible sunscreen from them. Clear colorless chemical sunscreen."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Kopari Shimmer Golden Sunglaze Sheer Body Mist SPF 50

"You really have to be careful with stuff like this because it can be very little SPF that actually ends up on your skin. Hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, they have that. I saw someone I think it was on TikTok pointing out that their product like this was separating out so much and it's not easy to it wouldn't go back in. See how there's like separation up there and it's kind of hard to mix it at least from what she was demoing. [...] Water resistant 40 minutes."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios Melt-in Milk Sunscreen SPF 60

"The La Roche-Posay Anthelios Melt-in Milk Sunscreen has been a long-standing favorite. It's actually marketed for both face and body. It works really well on the face, especially if you're someone who has more oily, acne prone skin. No alcohol in it. It has panthenol, a B vitamin that's very moisturizing. It's got silica to help with kind of oiliness and shine. It also has dimethicone which helps it to be lightweight and breathable."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Bondi Sands SPF 50 Broad Spectrum Sunscreen Lotion

"One of my all-time favorite sunscreens for both face and body is this one from Bondi Sands. I recommend it all the time because it's fragrance-free. It's pretty affordable. It's deeply hydrating. It doesn't burn or sting around the eyes. It's comfortable to wear. It's comfortable to reapply. And it's also moisturizing without being greasy or heavy. It claims to offer 72 hours of hydration. And I believe that it is like a really nice moisturizer."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Skin Aqua Super Moisture Barrier UV Gel SPF50+ PA4+

"This is a Japanese chemical sunscreen with zero white cast and amazing filters, including Tinosorb S and octinoxate. It does have alcohol in it, which terrifies some people, but it's a safe ingredient that helps maintain the formula's stability and creates a gel texture that's fast drying and allows for good evaporation of sweat, which is perfect in humidity. There's zero burning or stinging around the eyes whatsoever."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Cabana Clear Water Gel Serum SPF 50

"This was a dream, quick dry, not the least bit greasy, clear, colorless, zero white cast, and no burning or stinging around the eyes. It's not water resistant, but it's an excellent base for makeup and an excellent daily facial sunscreen for days when I'm not doing pool or water based activities or generating a lot of sweat, [...] and this type of formulation goes on really well over hair bearing areas like the brows and facial hair."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Kiehl's Autotone Skin Discoloration Treatment SPF 30

"It's a chemical sunscreen that comes out kind of peachy in coloration but goes on with no white cast or chalkiness. I love that it's fragrance-free, in contrast to the La Roche-Posay version of this, which has a strong fragrance that I find offensive and that lingers. But this one is even more expensive than the La Roche-Posay version, which I find annoying, and it does not need to be as expensive as it is."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

The Ordinary Sunscreen

"The Ordinary's newest sunscreen is super dewy and shiny, and if a sunscreen is like that, I won't use it. [...] What a flop."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Black Girl Sunscreen Moisturizing Sunscreen Lotion SPF 30

"This one's really good and it's still $9.99, which is great. It's water resistant and works really well on the face and the body. This is an underrated sunscreen."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Aveeno Baby Sunscreen

"I've always recommended the [Aveeno] Baby Sunscreen. It actually doesn't have [octyl salicylate] in it, though I don't think that's a problematic ingredient, since I have plenty of other sunscreens I recommend that do contain it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Klairs All Day Airy Sunscreen

"Today I'm coming in with the Klairs All Day Airy Sunscreen. I've really been enjoying this a lot. It's a lightweight chemical sunscreen. [...] It's still wet, don't judge a wet sunscreen. Some people do that, they'll be like, oh my god, that's so shiny. Let it dry a bit, [...] let it breathe, relax itself."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

MERIT Uniform Tinted Mineral Sunscreen Broadspectrum SPF 45

"And I think if you have a deeper skin tone and you go for their deeper shades, I think you're gonna run into that same issue where it looks more like chalky paint. [...] For $38, I think that's pretty steep for this amount of headache. This is a high maintenance sunscreen to work with [...] because it just looks bad. I'm getting spoiled by chemical sunscreens and I do like many mineral sunscreens, but this I don't have the patience for and neither do most people. So, I say it's a pass."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

The Ordinary Mineral UV Filters SPF 30

"I don't know how it is that The Ordinary managed to mess it up because they took a chemical sunscreen and somehow made it just as uncomfortable to wear as the mineral counterparts. This UV Filters SPF 45 Serum, because this thing is so oily. As a matter of fact, many mineral sunscreens feel more comfortable than this. It's so oily. It's like, did I just put cleansing balm all over my face? When you put it on, there's no white cast. [...] Great. We expect that with a chemical sunscreen."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Nivea UV Super Water Gel SPF 50 PA+++

"And that's the Nivea UV Super Water Gel SPF 50, PA3+. This has Juveninal T150, Juvenile A+, and Octinoxade. It does have alcohol. Don't be scared. This I love because it's fast drying, not the least bit greasy. [...] Doesn't peel. And I love that it comes in this pump bottle. The pump bottle is so convenient for reapplication purposes. It makes reapplying easy. And like I said, it's got alcohol in it, but it's not drying. It doesn't burn. It doesn't sting."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Curology Everyday Sunscreen

"The sunscreen has poly glutamic acid, really hydrating. It also helps reduce water loss."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Smart Care Mineral Enhanced Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50

"This is a mineral sunscreen and it's fragrance-free. [...] But then when you look at the inactive ingredients, it has chemical sunscreen filters. Octinoxate, homosalate, ethylhexyl dimethyl PABA. So it's a hybrid sunscreen. That's odd. It's really odd."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Mela B3 UV Daily Moisturizer SPF 30

"La Roche-Posay chooses to tell us that their product has 5% niacinamide but doesn't tell us anything about the percentage of melisil. La Roche-Posay as a brand, it's got to have thermal spring water so that's going to be a key difference. [...] Thermal spring water in La Roche-Posay, is that going to transform your life? It may offer some soothing property but it's a bit of a reach. I hated the fact that this had strong fragrance in it albeit it doesn't linger too much."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Vanicream Sunscreen SPF 30

"They're coming back with some of their zinc oxide sunscreens that have been MIA. Oh my gosh, I was so excited to see this."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Neutrogena Sport Face Oil-Free Sunscreen SPF 70

"This right here is what set me off about the whole sunscreen oils. I reviewed this for you all last year. This is the oiliest, shiniest mess. I don't understand the appeal of the sunscreen oils. This fun for a pool party but on the face burns the eyes like none other."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Abib Airy SunStick Smoothing Bar SPF 50+

"The Abib Airy SunStick is a chemical sunscreen stick and [...] reapplying with this has been a dream and it doesn't burn or sting. The thing I always caution about with sticks is they are prone to skip areas and under application so you need to do multiple passes over a given area. With [...] this particular sunscreen you do have to be careful and do multiple passes, but I love the overall shape of the applicator."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Blue Lizard Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is still one of my favorite drugstore facial sunscreens as protection plus vitamins water resistant 80 minutes. It's a mineral sunscreen fragrance-free water resistant in 80 minutes."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Cocokind SPF 30 Sunscreen

"Love the finish, very lightweight. It does make you dewy glowy and that lasts pretty persistent, it's got this bouncy radiant glow. If you're one of those who is a diehard matte, like you want it to be like almost like you got powder on, pass on this. If you like a little dew, a little hydration, a little glow, yeah this is great. No white cast. It is a chemical sunscreen."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Clear Broad-Spectrum SPF 46

"One of my favorites from EltaMD is UV Clear. It is a hybrid sunscreen with zinc and also some chemical filters, so it's less likely to sting than an all chemical sunscreen but not as likely to leave a white cast as an all mineral sunscreen. The EltaMD UV Clear finish is [...] pretty matte, which makes it a great option for really oily skin. EltaMD UV Clear has niacinamide, which is great for redness, helps with the moisture barrier, and helps with hyperpigmentation."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Skin Recovery SPF 50

"I've been really impressed with these. I love the finish, they're very moisturizing, they're very hydrating, pleasant to wear all day, and I've seen myself in numerous videos now and I can't tell I'm wearing a mineral sunscreen. I don't get that white chalky buildup and little lines under my eyes or around my eyes like I do with other zinc oxide sunscreens. I've been editing my videos while wearing them and it's like I can't tell that I have these mineral sunscreens on, so I really enjoyed them."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Sport SPF 50

"Their UV Sport is excellent. [...] These are really easy to tolerate around eyelid skin as well. A lot of people with chemical sunscreens sold in the US, they try and put them under their eyes to their eyelids, they get a lot of burning and stinging, that's not the case with these mineral sunscreens. But they don't settle in the little eyelid creases either. You don't get that white chalky build up and little lines under your eyes or around your eyes for a zinc oxide sunscreen."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

e.l.f. Suntouchable Whoa Glow SPF 30

"I'm a huge fan of elf's Whoa Glow, the tinted sunscreen."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunscreen SPF 70

"This is also new from Neutrogena, the ultra sheer face liquid sunscreen SPF 70, mineral sunscreen."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 50

"Because of the zinc oxide there is a bit of a white cast, but [...] hybrid sunscreens with zinc plus some chemical filters tend to leave even less cast than strictly mineral sunscreens. If you have a deeper skin tone but you like zinc oxide sunscreens, try a hybrid sunscreen like this one. This formula is nice and lightweight for a sunscreen that has zinc oxide in it, which is one of the reasons I prefer hybrid sunscreens over mineral sunscreens that [...] tend to be a lot thicker and heavier."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

iUNIK Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++

"This is iUNIK Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen, an SPF 50 PA++++ Korean sunscreen. I've finished my third or fourth tube of this over the years. It [...] has compounds from centella which are anti-inflammatory and soothing, and it also has niacinamide, which is really good for the moisture barrier and combating oxidative stress, but also for hyperpigmentation because it limits the spread of pigment packets from the pigment-producing cells to neighboring keratinocytes."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Tinted Mineral Sunscreen

"I've been using the original one off and on for years now and I love the tint but it can be a little on the orange side. CeraVe was one of the earliest available tinted mineral sunscreens that you could buy at the drugstore. [...] The original shade was always a little orangey, [...] but I do feel as though it does look a little less orangey now."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

CeraVe Ultra Light Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

"It builds itself as having a matte finish. [...] I would say it's more demi matte, but it's definitely not super shiny or super oily or greasy. This is a chemical sunscreen, so while [...] some people don't get along with [...] chemical sunscreens and they burn or sting, [...] for me personally this causes no issues around my eyes. It doesn't burn, it doesn't sting. It's lovely."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Moisturizing Face Serum SPF 60

"I have repurchased it so many times. It's a chemical sunscreen and there's no white cast. It has a lightweight fluid consistency and it is water resistant, which is great if you're doing water-based activities or a sport outdoors where you're sweating a lot. It's also really good for humidity and for keeping the product in place a little more, so it's less likely to run into your eyes. While it's a chemical sunscreen, for me personally it does not aggravate my eyes."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

ThinkSport Sunscreen SPF 50

"This Think Sport SPF 50 zinc sunscreen, [...] I have tried before, it's pretty casty. It's $15.49 and they also make it in a spray version, but with sprays you do want to do multiple passes and then physically rub it in to get that protective layer."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Prequel Sun Barrier Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 50

"The Prequel Sun Barrier Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 50 was a little clumpy for me, if I recall correctly. It pilled a bit, but it wasn't too bad in terms of the cast."

~Mixed

55%Guru Score

Tula Radiant Skin Brightening Serum Skin Tint SPF 30

"I haven't really been super impressed by Tula. I think I was put off with them because [...] I saw an ad somebody did with them and it looked like they were using a filter or I know what it was, the individual doing the ad made it seem as though like her acne cleared by using Tula products but come to find out she had also been on Accutane. I just felt like it was very misleading because we all know that the isotretinoin is doing the heavy lifting."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Eucerin Sun Advanced Radiant Tone Daily Face Lotion SPF 30 Dark Spot Corrector

"These products were horrible. When I say they're horrible, I'm specifically talking about the fragrance. I try and hold off on ranting about fragrance in my reviews because I know some people are perfectly fine with it, but it's a common allergy and irritant. Not everyone is bothered by it, and people come to these videos wanting information on the products, so they don't just want to hear me complain about the strong scent. But when I tell you, it was intense."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Anessa Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk

"It has a really nice finish to it. It's a hybrid sunscreen so it has zinc, it has titanium dioxide, but it also has octinoxate, octisalate, avobenzone, avobenzone, homosalate, and oxybenzone. The cast to this is significantly less than the other hybrid sunscreen, Sun Cut. [...] This one the cast is significantly less and it goes on really easily, it's really comfortable. I was reading this is really interesting, it has this Auto Repair technology. [...] What this is, is great in a humid climate."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Daily Tinted

"My sunscreen is the tinted EltaMD UV Daily SPF 40"

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Vacation Chardonnay Glow Oil SPF 30

"These are sunscreen oils, which in theory should work just the same as any other sunscreen, right? They have to prove that they protect the skin, and they have to go through the testing to be broad spectrum. However, I really do question the longevity of these products on the skin, because they are super oily and super greasy."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Vacation Super Spritz SPF 50 Face Mist

"I only bought the SPF 50 face mist. [...] This is another one that caused me tremendous irritation to my eyes, not just the watery eye thing but it actively dried out the skin around my eyes. Now part of the appeal of a face mist like this is that it's going to be something that you use throughout the day to touch up your sunscreen, probably like over your makeup or whatever, that's why a lot of people like mist sprays."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Pipette Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"I tried this Pipet SPF 50 mineral sunscreen a few years ago and the cast isn't too bad for a zinc oxide sunscreen but it's definitely there and it is a pretty emollient finish from what I recall. Just be aware of that. It's not water resistant."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Sun Bum Premium Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 70

"SPF 70 technically isn't much different than SPF 50 but in real world use conditions the way people actually apply sunscreen higher SPF ends up being better in the long run. I tried this out and it is super emollient. The fragrance in this isn't too strong it doesn't linger, but man it leaves your skin feeling really oily for a long time."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost SPF 50 Fragrance-Free Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizer

"This is SPF 50, fragrance-free, and it's a nice lightweight hydrating gel. It has hyaluronic acid, which is good for improving moisture content in your skin, and ultimately that helps support better barrier turnover, smoother skin, and diminishes the appearance of fine lines. This is a chemical sunscreen, so no white cast. It's easy to tolerate around the eyes and it works well under makeup. This is a great option if you have oily skin and you don't want something that is greasy."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

L'Oreal Bright Reveal Daily SPF 50

"I really wish that the serum from this brand, which I also reviewed, I wish they had made that fragrance-free because it did not care for the strong fragrance in that serum. It's really easy to apply and it's just a nice lightweight finish. [...] It does have alcohol denaturant in it which allows it to be kind of this fluid quick dry formula, but some people find that alcohol denaturant is a touch drying. I didn't find that to be the case with this, but I'm just pointing it out."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Eucerin Advanced Hydration Plus Hyaluronic Acid Sunscreen SPF 50

"The Eucerin one has U compounds [...] from licorice root, which is anti-inflammatory and good for eczema-prone skin. It's a little bit more deeply hydrating and emollient, so you might find it a touch shiny. That being said, I happen to think it's a great option as a daily body moisturizer as well, so that's another really fantastic and affordable option."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Olay Invisible Sunscreen SPF 35

"This SPF 35 matte finish, there promising is it. I also kind of like this less is more verbiage that they're going with these days on their packaging. [...] This is a chemical."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Olay Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"What is Olay thinking here? We have 1.7 oz of zinc oxide SPF 30 fragrance free sunscreen and they want $42 for this. No thank you. There are much less expensive options."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Daily

"There is no shine with these sunscreens. They're a lightweight lotion formula though so they're moisturizing. They don't have alcohol denaturant like many gel sunscreens that I recommend for oily skin types but in contrast to a lot of lotion cream formulas they're not shiny. [...] UV Daily on the other hand does not have niacinamide so that might help you out if you're sensitive to that ingredient."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Glow Broad-Spectrum SPF 36

"I highly suggest EltaMD UV Glow. I love this. I didn't know they had a shade lighter than Sunbeam for some reason. I thought Sunbeam was the lightest shade. This is the one I use. It has niacinamide which is helpful for redness. It has a nice tint, blends in well, zero white cast. It is an organic, AKA chemical sunscreen. Yeah, really a great option. I really like this. I am currently almost finished with my second tube of it. It's nice because it's water resistant."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Olay Complete SPF 15 Moisturizer

"I don't recommend SPF 15. It's better to go higher, to 30. Technically, if you applied it to all surfaces at sufficient density, SPF 15 would be adequate, but I wouldn't rely on it for something like a day at the beach, because it's not water resistant and people tend to underapply, so it's probably not going to be enough. Niacinamide is good for redness and dark spots, and a moisture barrier helps with oxidative stress, so I imagine this is a good facial moisturizer for everyday use."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Neutrogena Beach Defense Sunscreen Lotion SPF 60 Plus

"Costco also has Neutrogena Beach Defense SPF 60 Plus, um this is a great one also with fragrance. This one you get an eight and a half ounce can so you get eight and a half total body applications worth, because that one total body application is an ounce, so if it's a cream that's roughly a shot glass worth of product, um a dollar a 13 per unit $17.49, this is a good deal."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunscreen Spray

"Neutrogena has their spray sunscreen out and their sticks now. These are actually really good. They do have fragrance."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Good Molecules Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"Good Molecules has a newer, new to me at least, Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30. It's zinc oxide, probably going to leave a white cast, but it has ethyl ferulate which is an antioxidant."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Eucerin Sensitive Mineral Face Sunscreen SPF 35

"I really like this Eucerin Sensitive Mineral Face SPF 35. It's a dewy finish. It has licorice root extract in it, which is good for redness and it's an antioxidant, also good for hyperpigmentation. It does not have niacinamide in it either, which I'm pointing that out because I know some of you guys are sensitive to niacinamide."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Olay Dewy Glow Sunscreen Stick with Vitamin C SPF50

"It's like for makeup, not sunscreen. It kind of looks like that, right? This one is SPF 50 and has Tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, which is a stable form of vitamin C. It's interesting, but you've got to do multiple passes with a sunscreen stick. This one's fragrance free. It looks really promising, though. I'm excited about it for $20."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Iris and Romeo Weekend Skin SPF50+ with Vitamin C and Glow

"This is a sunscreen that I want to feature it's from Iris and Romeo I bought it several months ago but it's nice and hydrating"

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Isntree Onion Newpair Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++

"I love Isntree sunscreens. It is a technically a hybrid sunscreen so it has organic, commonly referred to as chemical sunscreen active ingredients, and it also has titanium dioxide which is an inorganic, otherwise known as mineral active sunscreen ingredient. The purple color helps neutralize discoloration."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating Tint Lotion SPF 30 Fragrance-Free

"Neutrogena has a fragrance-free version of the old gel cream now. This one has natural moisturizing factors and ceramides and it's a thicker consistency. This is a great lightweight facial moisturizer for oily or dry skin."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

NYX Blur Screen Sunscreen SPF 30 Primer

"NYX has a sunscreen primer SPF 30 blurring primer. [...] Is it tinted organic sunscreen, AKA chemical? Hm, interesting. They have the ingredients behind the sticker which I don't want to peel off for fear of ruining it for someone else."

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Collagen Glow 100% Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+

"I bought this a while ago and the Naked Sundays mineral sunscreen was pretty casty, and a little on the dry side if I remember correctly."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Glow Balm Mineral Peptide Stick SPF 50

"They also have a stick, [...] SPF 50 stick. This is an organic, aka chemical sunscreen, so it shouldn't leave a cast. You do want to do multiple passes and then physically rub it in with your hands."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Blue Lizard Sport SPF 50 Water Resistant Sunscreen

"Blue Lizard Sport SPF 50 Water Resistant Sunscreen is pretty good. It's a hybrid sunscreen, meaning it has inorganic, aka zinc and titanium dioxide, as well as organic, aka chemical, octyl salate ingredients for sun protection. No fragrance, slight cast but not as heavy a cast as an all mineral sunscreen. A little shiny. It's $15."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Banana Boat Protection Plus Vitamins Sunscreen SPF 50

"This one's really good by Banana Boat, the Protection Plus Vitamins SPF 50."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios UV Correct Daily Lotion SPF 70

"This is La Roche-Posay's SPF 70 Anthelios UV Correct Daily Lotion sunscreen. I've been using this off and on. It is an organic sunscreen with avobenzone, which is good for redness and hyperpigmentation. It's not water resistant and the finish is a little shiny. I have gotten some peeling with this, which is when the sunscreen kind of comes up in little balls, including when I just put it on a bare face with no product underneath."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Coppertone Every Tone Invisible Finish Face Sunscreen SPF 50

"Coppertone came out with Invisible Finish Face in their Every Tone line. So I tried the body one on my face and man did it burn my eyes. I wonder if the facial formula, which is water resistant for 40 minutes, is better for around the eyes than the body one was, because the body one was one of those where it ends up making you have blurry vision, watery eyes, burny eyes. You know what I'm talking about if you've ever experienced that, it's quite quite horrific."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay SPF 50 Face and Body Kids Sunscreen

"This little La Roche-Posay SPF 50 Face and Body Kids Sunscreen is actually a really good option from them. It's a little heavy in comparison to their melt-in milk, but if you're going to be doing sport or water-based activities, you're definitely going to want to choose a water resistant sunscreen, and in that case this is a good recommendation."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Sheer Sunscreen SPF 30

"I need to finish this CeraVe Hydrating Sheer Sunscreen that I have going on. This is okay."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Coppertone Sport Sunscreen Lotion

"The Sport Sunscreen Lotion, $5.99, no white cast, very moisturizing, but it does kind of burn around the eyes. It's a great body sunscreen, but on the face it definitely burns in the eyes."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Sun Bum Face Mist SPF 45

"The deal with these mists is they're kind of spotty [...] in terms of the adequacy of the coverage and you actually have to spray them into your hand and then rub them in. When I tell people that [...] they're under the impression that they can just mist these on their face and they don't have to touch their face but unfortunately you do have to rub them in. Make sure you don't inhale when you use them."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Avène Very High Protection Unifying Tinted Fluid SPF 50

"The tints not too orangy. The nice thing about the tinted mineral sunscreens is the tint may offer some additional protection against visible light which contributes to hyperpigmentation. Now this product is quite underrated although here at Walgreens it's super expensive, but it's a really good product."

✓Yay

63%Guru Score

Avène Mineral Multi-Defense Sunscreen Fluid SPF 50

"They have a mineral sunscreen that is a nice option. [...] The solar UV SPF 50 is a nice lightweight fluid mineral sunscreen but it does leave a white cast."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Avène Sunscreen Non-Tinted Lotion SPF 50

"$50 yikes that's expensive for a zinc oxide face and body sunscreen but um I'm sure it's very good for sensitive skin"

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Matte Sun Stick SPF 50

"Avobenzone, which is excellent for UVA protection, and it has Octinoxate and Avobenzone T150. There's no white cast with this. It has Centella, which is anti-inflammatory, turmeric root extract also is anti-inflammatory, hyaluronic acid and glycerin are hydrating, and panthenol is very moisturizing. [...] These sunscreen sticks are kind of handy for using as an SPF lip balm. I ended up using this one up as my SPF lip balm, using it a lot on my lips."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Renew Day Cream SPF 30

"This is a really nice drugstore facial moisturizer with sunscreen. It's a great one to consider this winter season for keeping your skin protected and moisturized."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"I'm going to come in with the CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30 today. [...] I don't like the packaging, I wish it were in a pump because when I squeeze the tube I feel like it's going to shoot out all over the place. [...] This one has a hint of a sunscreen smell that is very similar to Coppertone sunscreens. [...] This is a hybrid sunscreen so you get a little bit of a cast but honestly it's not bad."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

IOPE UV Shield Sun Ample

"I'm so excited about this sunscreen because I love this brand iope or at least everything from them that I've tried"

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Isntree Yam Root Milk Tone Up Suncream SPF50+ PA4+

"If you like tone up sunscreens try this one, it does not disappoint in my opinion. It's a tinted mineral sunscreen with zinc and titanium dioxide, it's fragrance-free and it has the peachy tint that is typical for a tone up sunscreen. It's moisturizing but it's not shiny or greasy. It has niacinamide which can help with tackling dark spots as well as redness and dry skin. Oat extract and root extract make this a very hydrating formula in my opinion."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Eucerin Oil Control Dry Touch SPF 50+

"I'd be interested to give this a try oh they put fragrance in it I wonder why they did that that's a bummer"

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

MD Solar Sciences Mineral Tinted Cream SPF 30

"A mineral version of this, in my experience it's really silicon rich like this but it's mineral and tinted. This the MD Solar Sciences tinted mineral cream, so right here as I'm sitting in the car there are a few things going on that can aggravate melasma. First of all the UV, of course you can get UV tinted films for your car that cut down on that, but the UVA rays come through and that can aggravate melasma."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Youth Extending Daily Hydrating Fluid SPF 50

"One of my favorite sunscreens from Paula's Choice, the Resist Youth Extending SPF 50. This is an organic sunscreen, chemical sunscreen, there's no cast, it's a really nice hydrating formula. It has antioxidants in it from pomegranate and green tea which may help diminish or lessen the burden of oxidative stress upon exposure to environmental stressors."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Undefined Beauty RNR Sun Serum SPF 50

"Undefined Beauty has a sunscreen that's tinted that I really like I've been raving about for a few years, the RNR Sun Serum. They also recently came out with an organic non-tinted sunscreen that I've been trying out and I really like. It's like nice and amoyan."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Eucerin Age Defense Plus Hyaluronic Acid SPF 50 Face Lotion

"This product, the Age Defense with hyaluronic acid by Eucerin, this is a chemical sunscreen. There's no cast with this one. I have used it and really like it. It has hyaluronic acid in it so it's very hydrating, but it also has compounds from licorice root which are anti-inflammatory, has antioxidants which may help ward against oxidative stress upon exposure to UV as well as other environmental stressors like pollution and infrared radiation that can lead to even more damage to your skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bubble Plus One Tinted Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 40

"I tried their tinted sunscreen [...] and that one wasn't bad but it was not like at the level of a lot of other tinted sunscreens."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Undefined Beauty RNR Mineral Sunscreen

"Undefined Beauty has a new sunscreen that is a chemical sunscreen, also known as organic sunscreen. I haven't tried it yet, so I need to try it."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Supergoop Glow Screen Sunscreen SPF 40

"I tried out the Supergoop Glow Screen, it's an organic sunscreen, chemical free. There's no white cast, it's tinted, it's not water resistant. It didn't burn around my eyes. The finish was okay, a little shiny, and the tint is very shimmery so it kind of gives you that glittery bronze look, which is okay. You may really like that, but personally for me it just was not my favorite."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Supergoop Play Everyday Lotion SPF 50

"It's not my favorite. It's an organic sunscreen with [...] no cast, but it has citrus oils, which in my opinion are not great additions to sunscreen because they can be irritating. That's not my preference, and it's not a sunscreen I would ever choose myself."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Supergoop Glow Stick SPF 50

"It's also an organic sunscreen that is not water resistant, it doesn't leave a cast. [...] Sunscreen sticks can be convenient, especially for applying around the eyes since they don't have any water, so they're less likely to seep in your eyes, however sunscreen sticks are very prone to skip areas and under application. If you love the Glow Stick and you like the idea of having this stick on hand, then this is a pretty good deal."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Cetaphil Sheer Mineral Face Liquid Sunscreen SPF 50

"Cetaphil's Sheer Mineral Face Liquid Sunscreen is an SPF 50 water resistant mineral sunscreen. It does leave a white cast but it's not super pasty, so if you have a paler skin type you may find that this is just fine for you. It's zinc oxide as the active sunscreen ingredient and it's a wonderful base for makeup. It has a demi matte finish, it's not overly shiny in my opinion but it's very easy to tolerate around the eyes. It's free of fragrance as well with a nice fluid consistency."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Moist Sun Serum SPF 50+ PA++++

"This isn't bad but I don't like fragrance in my sunscreens. I can definitely smell the aroma to this."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Colorescience Total Control Sunscreen SPF 50

"I love using this all over the face as an all over face sunscreen. It's the Colorescience Total Control Sunscreen SPF 50, but I also like using it just as like a BB cream. It provides pretty good cosmetic coverage, so I like to use that. I don't use like Foundation or anything."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bliss Block Star Daily Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"I've heard good things about this Bliss Block Star invisible daily SPF 30. This is the kind of thing though that you use as an everyday moisturizer. [...] It has iron oxides which can offer some protection against visible light. It does have fragrance though, lavender oil, rose fruit oil, so be aware."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical Tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This particular sunscreen aggravates my skin. It's too matte for me and it aggravates my skin. I have eczema and it triggers eczema flares, I get irritation from it, I cannot use it. Part of me also thinks it may be related to the kakadu plum in the formula, I'm not entirely sure, but I've tried it numerous times over the years and it does not work for me."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Sun Bum Mineral Tinted Face Sunscreen SPF 30

"It's not too orange and it doesn't lean too red, and it doesn't give you that chalky look that some tinted sunscreens can. It's actually a very good blendable formula that works out well for a lot of skin tones despite only offering one shade. No fragrance, no niacinamide, it's moisturizing, and it has almost a whipped consistency. This one is only water resistant up to 40 minutes, unlike the others I've mentioned which are water resistant up to 80 minutes."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

MD Solar Sciences Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen

"This is one that's newer to the drugstore but one I've loved for years and years. It will leave a white cast for some skin types, but it's a very good formula if you have dry or very sensitive skin, and the cast isn't bad. I love wearing this, it's one of my favorite mineral sunscreen brands, but a lot of people complain that they don't like the feel [...] because it takes some time to dry down and leaves your skin feeling wet for a bit, so you have to be patient with it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Olay Sensitive Mineral Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen

"The Olay sensitive SPF 30 has gone up in price, [...] it used to be like twelve bucks and now it's like fifteen here at Walmart, which is probably the least expensive. It's a hybrid sunscreen, the cast is not bad and it's very moisturizing. It's just a good everyday moisturizer with sunscreen, and it has tea leaf extract and niacinamide, so antioxidants that may help minimize oxidative stress."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Thank You Farmer Sun Project Skin Relief Sun Cream SPF50+ PA++++

"This Thank You Farmer sunscreen, it's not my Holy Grail Korean sunscreen by any means, but I like it, I've been enjoying it. Unlike some American sunscreens, zero burning eyes with this. I [...] put it all around my eyes and [...] I don't even feel like I have sunscreen on."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

MD Solar Sciences Mineral Crème SPF 50

"Another sunscreen duo that I love, the MDSolarSciences Mineral Crème SPF 50, this is a favorite for me personally. It's a water resistant sunscreen with a nice pore blurring effect, it's got a lot of slip to it, very silicone heavy, which a lot of people don't like, but if you like that smooth, slip, pore blurring cushion effect from your sunscreen you're going to like this a lot."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Eucerin Sensitive Tinted Mineral Face Sunscreen SPF 35

"I've really been loving the new Eucerin tinted zinc oxide sunscreen that I reviewed for you guys, [...] that's another new to the drugstore tinted sunscreen option that is not disappointing whatsoever."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Skin1004 Highly Seeker Sunscreen

"Now this is one I really love, this is a Skin1004 SPF50 sunscreen. This one's not water resistant either, this is a chemical sunscreen. It [...] also has centella asiatica extract in it, which has antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds, may be helpful for the skin barrier, and it also has tea leaf extract."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protector Lotion SPF 50

"Over the years I've tried this numerous times via samples, and it does not do it for me. It's a chemical sunscreen, it has fragrance, and I like to avoid fragrance in sunscreens in particular. [...] It is tinted, but the tint is not going to work out so well for everyone, it's kind of a peachy pink tint that ends up blending in pretty much sheer. It also has some antioxidants in it."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Clinique Moisture Surge Broad Spectrum SPF 25 Tinted Moisturizer

"If you have very sensitive skin, heavy moisturizers can sometimes make you feel flushed and overheated, and that's how this one was for me. If you have rosacea you may already be sensitive to chemical sunscreens and they may make you flush, so I would say pass on this."

✕Nay

58%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream Illumination SPF 50

"I've heard from a lot of you that these CC creams from IT Cosmetics end up aggravating rosacea and sensitive skin, so I say skip these. This new version does have snail filtrate in it, which [...] in my opinion is a good ingredient, rich in humectants and shown to be beneficial for healing radiation dermatitis, but I'd still skip this one."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Coppertone Glow Shimmer Sunscreen SPF 50

"Coppertone has this tinted chemical sunscreen that's very glowy and glittery, I actually like it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"Their Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 is a casting sunscreen, there is a cast to that. It's not as bad as some, but it's going to leave a white cast, FYI."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Luminous

"It's not greasy and it doesn't pill, but it's one of those mineral sunscreens that's a bit on the drying side, and it obviously leaves a white cast, honestly a striking white cast on the skin. I don't think it's that wildly different from any other mineral sunscreen to justify the 36 dollar price point. [...] I love many EltaMD sunscreens and was really excited to see this tinted version, but it's just not their typical work."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Naturium Dew Glow Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50

"This is a really good sunscreen, I just wish it were not so expensive. [...] It's an SPF 50 tinted mineral sunscreen, this has got to be one of my favorite drugstore tinted sunscreens, although I only ever find it in Target. [...] This is really good though, I have to say, [...] I love it, I just, like I said, it's kind of expensive."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Ageless Tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"The sunscreen itself I actually really like, with two main criticisms. This is the tinted version, [...] a very thin, liquid consistency, and on the central part of my face I don't really notice an orangey cast, but if you look carefully out towards the hairline you can see some orange hue, [...] which I don't care for. It also has a fragrance, it doesn't linger and it's not off-putting, but I prefer not to have fragrance in my skincare products."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVMune 400 Invisible Fluid SPF 50+

"I do have one of the fluid versions, the fragrance free one, but I haven't really tried it too much. The few times I have used it, it's nice, it has a more lightweight finish to it, and it's pretty moisturizing without being greasy at all. Like the cream, it doesn't burn or sting around the eyes."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Avène Sunscreen Compact SPF 50

"The Avène high protection compact comes in two shades, [...] it's a tinted mineral compact, the consistency is very creamy, and it was actually used in one of the studies showing the benefits of iron oxides for improving the rate of clearance of hyperpigmentation. [...] It's a very effective sunscreen, it's moisturizing, and it's not greasy."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

MD Solar Sciences BB Cream SPF 50

"MD Solar Science is now sold at CVS, that's exciting. I really like these tinted sunscreens, the BB cream especially, but I highly suggest waiting for a sale, either at Skinstore or on MD Solar Science's own website, since they frequently have sales around the holidays."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Verdio UV Moisture Gel SPF 50

"Today I'm leaning into the Verdio UV Moisture Gel. I'm loving this pump bottle, and it's SPF 50, PA plus plus plus plus."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Alastin HydraTint Pro Mineral Sunscreen SPF 36

"The Elastin Hydra Tint sunscreen was not a win for me whatsoever. It's [...] sixty dollars for an SPF 36 sunscreen, water resistant forty minutes, a daily facial moisturizer with a tint. The tint was orange for me, very orange. The product peeled no matter what I did and I got a lot of pilling. I do not see that [...] the price point justifies the [...] product. [...] It was an epic fail for me."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

EVY Technology Technology Face Mousse SPF50

"This is really popular, the Evy sunscreen mousse. You take a golf ball size amount, it's a foam, you work it up in your hands and spread it on. I used it on my face a couple of times and didn't like the way that it looked, but I rather enjoyed using this on the body because I like the foam as opposed to a cream. [...] It was nicer, more fast absorbing, not as heavy or greasy. I thought it was a great option for the sweaty environment we're in here all the time, very breathable."

~Mixed

85%Guru Score

Garnier Ambre Solaire Super UV SPF 50

"I really like the Garnier Ambre Solaire Super UV sunscreen."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream SPF 50+

"Here's their CC cream. I don't recommend this product because it's got a lot of fragrance and essential oils in it, orange peel oil, bergamot fruit oil, though it does look good on the skin. [...] It's ironic because this line was originally kind of marketed as being for people with rosacea, and those ingredients can be pretty irritating for people with rosacea. I have used this in the past, [...] some of my first videos on this channel are of me using this product."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Tula Protect + Glow Daily Facial Sunscreen Gel SPF 30

"Tula has an SPF 30 sunscreen, a chemical sunscreen that shouldn't leave a cast, but it has a bunch of citrus extract in it, similar to the IT Cosmetics CC cream, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend that."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Neutrogena Sheer Zinc Mineral Sunscreen

"Walgreens has a generic for Neutrogena's Sheer Zinc Mineral Sunscreen, but this leaves a pretty intense white cast, it's actually very notable. [...] If you have oily skin I don't think you're going to care for that."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Coppertone Sport Sunscreen Spray SPF 30

"This Coppertone 30 spray I would skip, because it's difficult to get enough sunscreen on the skin in these sprays, they're susceptible to under application. [...] Practically speaking they're not that great of a value."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Actinica Ultralight Emulsion SPF 50

"I really like these Isdin ones, I gosh I wish they didn't have fragrance, but so far it's not been a problem for me with these, and these are beautiful on the skin. [...] I've gotten a lot of comments from you guys over the years that these are like your holy grail sunscreens, and I definitely can appreciate why that is."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals Physical Fusion UV Defense SPF 50

"This SkinCeuticals Physical Fusion SPF 50 water resistant lightweight fluid is good, it's one not to sleep on. [...] The tint is kind of similar to the Sun Bum one but the consistency is a liquid, it's got really good spread on the skin, no cast for me. It's even thinner in consistency than the Colorescience Sunforgettable Mineral Face Shield, it spreads very quickly on the skin, and it doesn't do any kind of peeling."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Eucerin Mineral Body Sunscreen

"The Eucerin mineral sunscreen is another great body sunscreen."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Nivea UV Deep Protect and Care Essence SPF 50+

"So far it's pretty easy around the eyes and I really like the finish, though it's a little shiny at first, that'll probably dry down a bit. It's wearing pretty well after an hour and a half, and it is water resistant. [...] I wish it didn't have this fragrance, because the fragrance definitely does linger, though it's not headache inducing and I've not had any issues with it causing blurry eyes."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Restore Tinted Sunscreen

"Yesterday I wore the EltaMD UV Restore Tinted and [...] after my run [...] my forehead was a little bit itchy and felt a little tight. [...] I don't feel as though it is as moisturizing as the COTZ, though I do like it too and I've gone through more than one tube of it."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Hello Sunday One Serum SPF 45

"This is pretty good though, if you are looking for a nice daily moisturizer that has sunscreen, I would suggest this, it's great, it doesn't peel and I think cosmetics will go on over it just fine. The one thing I will point out is the product suggests adding drops of it to your moisturizer for added SPF, that is misleading, I would not dilute out your sunscreen into your moisturizer, it will impact how the product protects you, so I would not suggest doing that."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Black Girl Sunscreen Make It Matte Sunscreen Gel SPF 45

"Black Girl Sunscreen came out with a hybrid sunscreen and their sunscreens are really, I really like them. This one has got zinc and then it's got some chemical filters in it to protect against UVB. The Make It Matte gel is really nice, it has a nice kind of pore blurring effect, colorless, zero cast, all chemical sunscreen."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Tatcha Silk Sunscreen SPF 50 Weightless Mineral Sunscreen

"If you have a deeper skin tone I think this is going to show up as a very sheer white veil on the skin. It does have niacinamide in it, which a lot of you have issue with. It's sixty dollars for 1.7 ounces. [...] This is not one I would buy myself or go out of my way to repurchase. I definitely would not buy the Tatcha one for the price, [...] I didn't think this was worth it. I would much rather get the EltaMD UV Restore, I think that's a better option."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Garnier Super UV Sunscreen

"I got this amazing sunscreen from Garnier, sent by a viewer in Germany. I believe it has Tinosorb in it. [...] It's a chemical sunscreen, so there's not going to be a white cast with a sunscreen like this, oh that's nice. It does have a hint of an alcohol smell, which is not a bad thing to have in sunscreens, but overall it does feel pretty moisturizing, so I look forward to using that."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Physical Broad-Spectrum SPF 41

"It's actually present in one of my favorite sunscreens, the EltaMD UV Physical Tinted Mineral Sunscreen. I love that bad boy, and honestly that is a sunscreen I've been using off and on for many years."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Natural Sun Cream SPF 50+ PA++++

"This is a Korean brand mineral sunscreen that does leave a white cast but it's not too bad. If you have a medium to pale skin tone it's doable, but if you have a deeper skin tone I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't leave a cast. [...] The consistency is very hydrating but not greasy. I really enjoyed it and I prefer this one to that Coco Kind one for sure."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Coppertone Tinted Body Sunscreen

"It's not perfect because it has shimmer in it which [...] can be irritating, [...] but personally I've used this one a lot for like running outside and it's really good on the body. It has that kind of quick drying effect that helps keep you from getting overheated."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Vanicream Broad Spectrum SPF 50

"I would definitely encourage you to check out the Vanicream SPF 50 Plus instead of that other one. It's a mineral sunscreen but a lot less expensive. It's water resistant. It is [...] shiny and [...] does leave a cast like the other one, but it's much more affordable."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen

"I also like the mineral one. The cast on this is pretty mild for an SPF 50 mineral sunscreen and it's water resistant."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Force Shield Super Light Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 30

"I really enjoy this mineral sunscreen because it's one of those moisturizing sunscreens that doesn't really feel like sunscreen. [...] It spreads on the skin really well, [...] it's fast absorbing, it's not greasy, and it's actually very moisturizing without leaving the skin feeling dry. It has a green tint that helps camouflage redness, and for a mineral sunscreen there's very little cast."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Broad Spectrum SPF 45 Untinted Sunscreen

"I've been using this for a long time and it's a long-standing favorite of mine. It's very lightweight, not greasy, not shiny, and they also make a tinted version which is also a favorite. The only thing is it has an odd odor kind of like a plastic pool float, but that odor fades very quickly after you put it on. It's [...] not water resistant though, so if you're going to be participating in sports or doing water-based activities or it's really humid, then I wouldn't suggest wearing this."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Ultrasun Anti-Aging Face Fluid SPF 50

"I got this on a European website and I love this product. It's water resistant with really good chemical filters like Tennis orb M and Tennis orb S, which aren't approved in the States, [...] along with Juvenal and other filters that give you nice UVA and [...] UVB protection. However, this one has a more noticeable white cast than some other hybrid sunscreens because of the [...] titanium dioxide, so if you have a deeper skin tone you may not get along well with it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Canabo Extra UV Gel Lasting Primer SPF 50 PA4 Pluses

"This formula I adore it. It's water resistant and shiny but not greasy, with an almost [...] plasticky look which I kind of like. [...] I discovered these Aly sunscreens a few years ago on YesStyle and [...] I keep going back to them, they're that good. If you have oily skin, especially if you live somewhere humid, these Aly sunscreens [...] absorb well, are quick-drying with a gel-type vehicle, and don't slow down the rate of sweat evaporation."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Cocokind Daily SPF 32 Mineral Facial Sunscreen

"I actually really like the sunscreen. It is a mineral sunscreen with zinc oxide which gives broad spectrum protection against UVB and UVA. [...] It has sunflower seed oil and shea butter and licorice root which can help reduce redness and is helpful for hyperpigmentation. There is a cast since it's a mineral sunscreen [...] but it's actually pretty mild."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Innisfree Daily UV Defense SPF 36 Sunscreen

"It has fragrance and citrus oil in it, which is not a good idea in sunscreens because citrus oils are irritating and when combined with UV you risk a photoreaction. It wasn't a bad formula [...] consistency-wise and it's pretty moisturizing, but the fragrance can cause irritation. The chemical ingredients aren't anything unique you can't find in any other American chemical sunscreen. I ended up using this as a hand cream, and it smells like Sweethearts."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Radiance Whipped Day Cream Broad Spectrum SPF 30

"I did try their Healthy Radiance Sunscreen and it burned my eyes - it's one of those that gets into the eyes and causes blurry vision."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Murad City Skin Age Defense Broad Spectrum SPF 50

"This is a mineral sunscreen with zinc and titanium dioxide and it's also tinted, but the tint is very light so if you have a deeper skin tone this is going to leave a cast on your skin. It's not water resistant but the formulation overall looks really good on paler skin tones. It's not greasy and doesn't have any shine to it."

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

Purito Daily Go-To Sunscreen SPF 50

"I don't have much confidence in this as a sunscreen because of the brand's prior scandal where their sunscreen had a substantially lower SPF than claimed, and I'm not confident the new manufacturer has expertise in sunscreen formulation. It is very moisturizing with no white cast, but it's more of an everyday moisturizer that happens to have some sunscreen ingredients—good for someone staying indoors—but I wouldn't recommend using it as your sunscreen."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Altruist Face Fluid Sunscreen SPF 50

"Altruist came out with a facial moisturizer that has shea butter and urea in it, and it's very good, I highly recommend it. [...] It's free of fragrance, and this brand gives a portion of their proceeds to a charity that supports people living with albinism. [...] Everything this brand has made has been top-notch. [...] It's lightweight, and the consistency is not heavy or greasy, though if you have very sensitive skin, the urea might sting a little bit."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Cetaphil Daily Oil-Free Facial Moisturizer with SPF 35

"I'm using the Cetaphil Daily Facial Moisturizer SPF 35, which is a chemical sunscreen with no cast, and I really love it because it's very moisturizing."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Neutrogena Collagen Bank SPF 30 Facial Moisturizer

"A couple of years ago I discovered their collagen bank SPF 30 moisturizer and it remains one of my all-time favorites. People get hung up on collagen peptides and things, but no, they're not going to replace collagen, but they're very moisturizing. They have this micropeptide and they actually have some research, albeit it's industry research with human volunteers, not just cells in a dish, [...] showing objectively a reduction in wrinkles."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Hyalu-Cica Water-Fit Sun Serum SPF 50+ PA++++

"This one is honestly very similar to the Round Lab one, only with some different ingredients. It's got Centella asiatica combined with hyaluronic acid for additional hydration, niacinamide, and rice extract for additional moisturizing properties. It has excellent broad spectrum coverage from its filters. It's so hydrating, it doesn't sting, it doesn't burn, you can put it all around your eyes and it's not going to irritate them in the least, zero white cast."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50

"So I went back to the Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen, and this one [...] comes up in like 90% of these videos because I just love it so much. It gives broad spectrum UV protection that does not feel miserable to put on the skin. This is a richer texture, if you're someone who tends to have drier skin and you want something a little richer but still not oppressive or heavy, this one is great."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++ (Korean formula)

"This is one I've probably recommended in numerous videos over the years time after time, and it's one I've repurchased numerous times. It really performs quite well. What I like about this is the texture, there's no greasy feel to it, it doesn't take a lot of effort to get a good layer on the skin, and once it dries down you can put makeup on over it with no worries. [...] It does not burn on the face when you apply it, nor does it sting around the eyes."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVMune 400 SPF 50+

"I have loved so much. It's my new favorite La Roche-Posay sunscreen for the face. I also love the UVMune Sunscreen Milk, but I like the aesthetics of this a touch better. The UVMune Sunscreen Milk, however, is a little bit more what you would might describe as semi matte, demi matte. It's got a glow to it for sure, but it's not as shiny as that one is. You know, sunscreen often does make the face look shiny because it's providing this reflective surface as that film has formed."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Avène Intense Protect SPF 50+ Sunscreen

"Triazorb actually has been developed to protect against longer wavelength UVA, which damages the skin deeper, and to protect against visible light, the blue light. And so if you've got hyperpigmentation and you have access to this sunscreen, I would suggest considering it because not only will it effectively protect you from the ultraviolet radiation, but the visible light protection can be a game changer for the dark discoloration."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios UV Pro Sport SPF 50

"This one I really like the UV Pro Sport. Great for water-based activity, sweat. I mean La Roche-Posay has some amazing options in general."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Restore Broad-Spectrum SPF 40

"In which case, if you're looking for a mineral niacinamide-free sunscreen, I would suggest the EltaMD UV Restore SPF 40. It comes in either a non-tinted or a formula with a green tint to offer color correction for redness, which is really great because a lot of people who struggle with redness, maybe rosacea, they find that a lot of sunscreens that are marketed to them have niacinamide because it's good for redness, but maybe that's the ingredient that aggravates your rosacea."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Bondi Sands SPF 50 Fragrance Free Sunscreen Lotion

"The one I really like is by Bondi Sands. The fragrance-free body lotion is exactly the same as the facial formula."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50

"It's expensive for what it is. [...] They also sent me a sunscreen last year [...] that was horrible. A lot of people liked it, but it was just so matte. It felt like I had put calamine lotion all over my face. Did not like that at all."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Air-Fit Suncream Plus SPF 50+ PA++++

"This is the Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Air-Fit Suncream Plus SPF 50+ PA++++. I'm almost finished with it, actually."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Face Moisturizer SPF 30

"You get a travel sample of the Toleriane facial moisturizer, which is great. It has niacinamide. It's very hydrating, soothing."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Eucerin Daily Protection Face Lotion SPF 30

"It's a hybrid sunscreen and it does have a little bit of a tendency to peel. If you apply it really quickly, you're not careful with taking your time to rub it in. It can peel, especially if you put it on over oilier products, but I really like it. It doesn't really leave a striking white cast. Again, it's hybrid, so there is zinc in there. It's not like an all mineral formula. It's pretty no-nonsense fragrance-free formula. It's another one that's great for days when you're mostly indoors."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Pure Screen Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid

"I think unfortunately Neutrogena is discontinuing these pure screens. I'm hoping that they come out with them again and rename them and basically put them in a better bottle. That's what I'm hoping for because I love these. They're [...] water resistant if I remember correctly. They have I want to say five shades altogether. They're really good. Really, really good."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++ (Korean formula)

"The Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Rice Probiotics is one that I discovered a couple of years ago and continues to be a go-to. It's one of those where you're like, oh wait, I'm putting sunscreen on, didn't even notice because there's no burning, there's no stinging, it's not irritating. It doesn't have the sunscreen smell and it's fragrance-free. It has a great combo of filters offering broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

APLB Glutathione Niacinamide Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++

"I'm on my second bottle at this point. It has niacinamide but it also has glutathione, so two antioxidants good for defending against free radicals and oxidative stress so that the skin barrier can get back on track. This formula is a bit more lightweight but also very hydrating and very moisturizing, really good for dry skin sensitivity. It has hyaluronic acid which helps with moisture retention and it has beta glucan, a humectant, so really wonderful hydrating, more lightweight formula."

✓Yay

Notverified

La Roche-Posay Anthelios Melt-in Milk Sunscreen SPF 100

"I like a sunscreen especially in the humid hot months. [...] It's a chemical sunscreen so there's no white cast with it. I love wearing it both on my face and on my body. I find it's moisturizing while also being non-greasy, fast drying, it doesn't make you look overly shiny. It's water resistant up to 80 minutes so it's excellent for humidity. [...] In my opinion this is one of La Roche-Posay's best sunscreens."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Peom Water Barrier Sun Cream SPF 50 PA4+

"I discovered the Peom Water Barrier Sun Cream, it's an SPF 50 chemical sunscreen that's super lightweight, hydrating, and excellent for really any skin type, but if you're looking for something that will accommodate the needs of dry skin, be moisturizing but not too greasy, this is it. There are no drying alcohols in this formula. Juvenal T150, mexal SX, juvenil A+, and tenis orb S are the active sunscreen ingredients, but it's got way more than just sun protection."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sun Stick

"I really like this product a lot actually, this is great. First of all I love how cute the packaging is. This is a chemical sunscreen. I like using this as an SPF lip balm, it works really well. [...] With sunscreen sticks you need to be careful because they're prone to skip areas, so I don't rely on a sunscreen stick as my body sunscreen if I was going to be out at the beach, but they are really handy for applying around your eyes or your lips."

✓Yay

Notverified

Isntree Purple Protector Sunscreen SPF 40

"I have found in using it it's very lightweight, it doesn't leave a white cast, but it does have titanium dioxide in it so if you have a medium to deep skin tone you might get a bit of a white cast with it. It has avobenzone, homosalate, and octocrylene. It also has niacinamide which is going to be good for redness and dark spots, so if you have discoloration that you're looking to protect, improve upon, and camouflage, this would be a great option."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Universal Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46

"I also suggest a hybrid sunscreen from Dermatology, and this is a great everyday facial moisturizer and it has niacinamide in it which is good for the redness of rosacea and also helps to address the moisture barrier and calm down inflammation."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Canmake Mermaid Skin Gel UV Sunscreen SPF50 Clear

"I cannot go without sharing with you guys the Canmake Mermaid Skin Gel UV Sunscreen SPF50 Clear, this is one of my all-time favorite sunscreens. It's actually a hybrid sunscreen, meaning it has sunscreen active ingredients that are considered chemical, or organic, as well as those that are considered mineral, or inorganic metal oxides. It has zinc, it has titanium dioxide, it has Tinosorb S, it has octinoxate and Avobenzone Plus."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Kosas DreamBeam Silicone-Free Mineral Sunscreen SPF 40

"The tint on this product is much deeper in comparison to the Iris and Romeo one, so it may not work out well if you have a paler skin type, but for me personally it's almost a little bit too deep in that it gives the look that I maybe have a light coating of sunless tanner on my face. In contrast to the Iris and Romeo one, this one is water resistant, so it's a good option if you're going to be outdoors for a prolonged period of time doing activities where maybe you work up a sweat."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Watery Sun Gel SPF 50+ PA++++

"The Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Watery Sun Gel is one of my all-time favorite sunscreens. I've used it so many times before and bought it myself multiple times."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50

"The Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex is one that I've had cleansers fail to remove, and they should take it off, but I mean it's a testament to how good that sunscreen is in terms of staying on the skin. That's [...] great, you want it to stay on the skin until you don't."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Pure Mineral Relief Daily Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++

"I think pretty much any skin type should get along well with this. That being said, no one person's skin is exactly like another, so predicting these things is basically impossible to say for sure if it's going to work out for you or not. But for me, this was a standout best of 2023 Korean skincare product that I highly recommend checking out, especially if you like mineral sunscreens."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Force Shield SPF 30 Sunscreen

"Hero Cosmetics also has skin care products I've shared with you guys in the past how much I love their sunscreen it's really good"

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Skin Aqua UV Super Moisture Milk

"As it spreads on the skin surface it's almost giving a smoothing down of any sort of dry rough texture that you may have. It wears very nicely under makeup. It does not burn or sting around the eyes. It is a hybrid sunscreen with active ingredients from mineral and active ingredients from chemical. This is one of my favorite Japanese sunscreens. It's very, very nice and free of fragrance. I just wish it came in a bigger bottle because I go through this in like a couple of weeks."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Airy Sun Stick SPF 50 PA++++

"This is the Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Airy Sun Stick. What I really like about this is the shape of the applicator, you have a narrow end which is good for reapplying around the eyes and a wider part to reduce the risk of skip areas as you're spreading over larger areas. This is free of fragrance, it's super moisturizing, it has antioxidants including niacinamide and astaxanthin, and ceramides and hyaluronic acid for the moisture barrier."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Skin1004 Tone Brightening Tone-Up Sunscreen SPF 50+

"But the tint comes from iron oxides [...] and ends up making it [...] a bit casty, to be frank. For that reason I think this sunscreen works best for people who have a paler skin type, [...] in terms of avoiding the appearance of a white cast. [...] If you have a deeper skin tone, I do think you'd be better off with the Hyalu-Cica one, that one leaves zero white cast."

~Mixed

57%Guru Score

Hada Labo UV White Gel SPF 50 PA++++

"This is one that I've had as a favorite for many years now, it's the Hada Labo UV White Gel. I've been getting this in a jar the past couple of times, but it used to be one that I would get in a tube, and [...] I prefer the tube to this jar packaging, but the formula I love, love, love."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Sunplay Clear Water SPF50+ PA4+

"This product I adored. It's a super lightweight fluid, a color correcting formula with ultramarine pigments, and it spreads on the skin very easily without peeling. It's a fantastic base for makeup and it's easy to tolerate around the eyes, [...] it doesn't cause burning or stinging there. [...] It's an SPF 50 PA4+ sunscreen with hyaluronic acid, [...] licorice root, panthenol, and [...] magnesium ascorbyl phosphate."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Moisturizers181 reviews

Illiyoon Ceramide Ato Concentrate Lotion

"Illiyoon is a Korean brand that I absolutely adore. Their ceramide ato lotion is one of the first Korean body products I ever tried, and I absolutely adore this lotion. It has ceramides, you get quite a bit of product, and you can use it on the face. It is a little thick, and some people with oily skin may not care for that, but I use it on my face, no problem. It's a fragrance-free formula, and the pump [...] made its way down to the bottom pretty well so I finished it."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream

"Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream is really a great value here, $15.99, normally $19.99. These do have niacinamide. It's a good option, and there's also a lotion version which is a little more lightweight."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream

"I reviewed and liked the La Roche-Posay Lipikar. I believe it's 10% urea."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Eucerin Roughness Relief Lotion

"Eucerin is kind of the first thing that always comes to my mind when I'm thinking about urea lotions that are good because they are. I've used many of them. They're great and I've recommended them over the years. Eucerin Roughness Relief, they also have the Eucerin Intensive, Eucerin Advanced Repair. Any of those you can use these on the face."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Ponds Cold Cream

"Ponds Cold Cream is like the original cleansing balm. It works well, it helps to remove makeup and simultaneously moisturize the skin. It can be used for double cleansing. Some people use it as a moisturizer, left it on the face, and it works quite well. They make a fragrance-free one."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Epiduo Epiduo Gel

"We now have adapalene 0.1% plus benzoyl peroxide 2.5% in one combined gel marketed as Epiduo, and that's a great addition to the over-the-counter available armamentarium for patients with acne. Before this, you would have to go pursuing the Epiduo dupe, where you'd buy an over-the-counter adapalene gel [...] and then go find a benzoyl peroxide leave-on product and wonder how to layer them."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Face Topical Supplement

"I think OneSkin Face Lotion is a hundred dollar niacinamide containing lotion for the face. What is there about that that is any different from any of the thousands of niacinamide containing moisturizers on the market that you can get for twenty bucks, fifteen bucks, five bucks, at any drugstore or Target? I just think it's all marketing essentially. I would not go for that."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Elidel Pimecrolimus Cream

"Most dermatologists will consider a topical medication known as a calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus or pimecrolimus, with brand names like Protopic and Elidel. These are a lot more precise and specific as to how they reduce inflammation to heal the skin compared to steroids, and are considered steroid sparing without those concerning side effects that one can develop with topical steroids, especially to the eyelid area."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Aveeno Therapy Rescue Relief Gel Cream with Colloidal Oatmeal

"I also like Aveeno makes an eczema therapy gel, I think it's called, that is really comfortable on the skin. That's a great option."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Prequel Half & Half Peptides & Ceramides Fluid Moisturizer

"Overall, I have enjoyed this product. It's very pleasant, lightweight, hydrating and moisturizing. It plays well under sunscreen and layers well under other things. It's a fragrance-free liquid moisturizer, essentially a milky toner marketed as a fluid moisturizer, formulated with glycerin, squalane, sodium PCA and amino acids, a ceramide blend, rice protein and peptides, which together support hydration and the skin barrier. It's basically suitable for any skin type."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Dynasty Cream

"The Beauty of Joseon Dynasty Cream is on sale. Normally, this is $36.99 for the tube. This is another excellent Korean brand, but right now you can get this $28.99. This has rice bran water in it, which is hydrating, soothing, and has compounds in it that can help with skin brightening, ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamides. Kind of like a Korean elevated version of CeraVe."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Soothing Cream

"No animal derived ingredients. Also contains ceramides which are good for the moisture barrier. A word of warning, this does have peppermint leaf extract, so if you have rosacea, that might be a potential trigger for a flare up. Pretty good value. I am a big fan of this brand. I pretty much loved everything from them I've used. And I just finished their new Tika line in its entirety, emptied the bottles, and was very happy with those three products: a toner, an ampule, and a cream."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5

"La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 is great. It's dimethicone based skin protectant."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Lactin Daily 12% Lotion (Ammonium Lactate)

"This is why lactic acid or ammonium lactate, the salt of lactic acid is a go-to recommendation for dry skin conditions like keratosis pilaris, ichthyosis vulgaris, just very dry skin. In fact, it's one of my top recommended products on my channel across my social media is an ammonium lactate lotion and Lactin."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

The Ordinary Rice Lipids + Ectoin Micro Emulsion

"I went through it very quickly. This is one that I hate to say it, I probably at some point will repurchase again. [...] It's not as rich and luxe and wow factor as some alternatives, but ectoin is great. It's an extremely light antioxidant. It's hydrating. [...] That remains like one of the top ectoin products that I have used."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Aveeno Restorative Skin Therapy Oat Repairing Cream

"[Aveeno] has some really great great offerings."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel Cream

"I adore them. Yeah, that's one of my favorite moisturizers. [...] When I first started using the Hydroboost gel cream, I was using it with another occlusive on top and I found that it kind of gave a little bit of a nice plumping action because I would use like the tiniest amount of that. But later on I switched to just using it as it is intended as a facial moisturizer and I was like, yeah, I think I like this way better. Facial moisturizers have occlusives in them."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Heimish All Clean Balm Mandarin Orange Limited Edition

"I just got into and finished up the Heimish All Clean Balm Mandarin. And I loved this. So Heimish All Clean Balms are cleansing balms, which are wonderful for breaking up makeup and helping to take it off. This one obviously has fragrance in it. The fragrance wasn't bad. It was just like a nice light citrus aroma. There's not a whole lot to say about this other than it's a very effective, pleasant to use cleansing balm."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Clinique Moisture Surge 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator

"Clinique Moisture Surge is actually a really good facial moisturizer. I love the texture on this. It has caffeine, an antioxidant that's good for temporary redness reduction. This product also has urea, which is really good for hydrating. And it's a nice hyaluronic acid containing moisturizer, sort of the thick gel cream consistency but very lightweight on the skin. $54.99 for 4.2 oz."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL 0.1% Intensive Cream (reformulated)

"I honestly don't find it irritating at all. [...] The facial product [...] is a little thinner than the eye cream, so it's more likely to run into your eye, [...] which you obviously don't want. [...] I suggest avoiding getting it within a millimeter of the lash line to reduce the chance it gets in your eye. That goes for any product you put around your eye. Sure, you can, but just be aware it can be super irritating there."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Night Cream

"I am a big fan of the CeraVe Skin Renewing Night Cream. This has niacinamide. It also has of course ceramides in it which are good for the moisture barrier. It has some peptides in it which also may help with moisture retention. It's a very nice rich night cream."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

I'm From Rice Bran Cream

"The I'm From rice cream is really nice. Rice is very moisturizing."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Tatcha Dewy Skin Cream

"I love the Tatcha Dewy Skin Cream, but it's so expensive."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Eucerin Radiant Tone Dark Spot Correcting Cream

"Let me tell you that thamodol containing line from Eucerin, they need to eliminate that fragrance. I know I'm not the only one because I get a lot of comments from you guys saying how headache inducing."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Urban Skin Rx HyperCorrect Intense Fading Cream

"It does not increase sun sensitivity. And with consistent use, it can help to fade sunspots on the backs of your hands. It takes about six weeks to start seeing much of an improvement, but you start seeing optimal results around 8 to 12 weeks. It can be pricey, but there are a variety of different brands that have their own version of it. For example, Urban Skin RX has one that you might consider."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream

"Another gateway into Korean skincare. I want to say I tried that first along with some Purito stuff and I was like, Wow, I get the hype."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Eucerin Intensive Repair Lotion

"The Eucerin Intensive Repair Lotion right now is like the least expensive I've ever seen it. [...] This moisturizer has become a holy grail for a lot of you because anytime I mention it, I get comments, 'Oh my gosh, I use that. That's my go-to.' It can be used on the face, the rest of the body. It has lactic acid, but also has urea in it, and it has ceramides. This is a great head-to-toe, cold weather product, and it also can help in improving the visible signs of sun damage."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Abib Ectoin Panthenol Moisturizing Cream 11% Moisture Barrier Tube

"I did in fact finish the Abib Ectoin Panthenol 11% Moisturizer that I reviewed for you guys in my ectoin video. This was likewise wonderful. It's a richer cream and it's great for areas of the face or body where you've developed irritation. You really want to take advantage of some rich moisturizing, but you want to also work in the ectoin angle. This would be a great one to consider. And it's pretty cost effective, fragrance-free. No complaints. I would definitely repurchase that one."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Bubble Slam Dunk Hydrating Moisturizer

"Bubble has a tricked out glitterified version of their Slam Dunk moisturizer. That's cute for the holidays. I like that for tween and teens."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

La Mer Crème de la Mer Moisturizing Cream

"In 2025, they want you to pay $390 for 2 oz. Like, even if we were not pinching pennies, are people really just throwing that kind of cash around on a cream?"

✕Nay

47%Guru Score

RoC Multi Correxion Hydration Plus Moisturizer

"In contrast to the La Mer, it's fragrance-free, so you don't have to deal with the scent. [...] It feels very similar, if not identical, going on the skin. It hydrates and moisturizes the skin the same, if not arguably a bit better in my personal experience using it. [...] When we're talking about performance and what the ingredients are offering, I would say this one from Roc is the closest to La Mer. I have tried it out and used it regularly and consistently."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anua 3 Ceramide Panthenol Moisture Barrier Cream

"It's rich. It's thick. It has a very elegant, sophisticated texture. It feels nourishing and calming. A downside to this product is that it is a richer texture, so one of those to lean into as the final step in your nighttime skincare routine. It can feel a bit rich, however, under makeup or under sunscreen. It might lead to sunscreen peeling. And if you don't like heavier products on your face or you find that they make you get a little flushed easily, then this would be one to stay away from."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Prequel Advanced Relief 10% Urea Moisturizing Milk

"This 10% pure urea from Prequel I really like because urea is very hydrating and gently exfoliates. This would be a great option for the winter months. You can use it on the face. It has niacinamide which is also good for the moisture barrier along with redness, dark spots and also good for oily acne prone skin."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Aveeno Baby Daily Moisture Lotion

"This is good as a body wash for adults or any anyone. Um, and the daily moisture lotion is really good. Fragrance-free colloidal oatmeal. Um, you can use it on the face, too. This is actually a good value."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Skin1004 Probio-Cica Rich Cream

"This is a holy grail favorite from Skin1004, their Madagascar Centella Probio-Cica Rich Cream. This is so rich, so glossy. This has a completely different texture than anything we've talked about here. It's not sticky. [...] It's got a little bit of slipperiness to it. It really just envelops your skin in this cloak of glossiness. [...] This cream is really excellent, very rich. Again, excellent eye cream."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Physiogel Calming Relief Redness Relieving Facial Cream

"Physio Gel, their calming relief, redness relieving facial cream. I had tried this out a while ago and really liked it. I repurchased it. It has squalane. It's a rich cream, but it's not heavy or greasy. Really liked this a lot. Fragrance-free. It has the eczema seal of approval on it. It's another excellent moisturizer for sensitive skin. Highly recommend it."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Peach Slices Super Fade Discoloration Moisturizer

"It's fragrance-free, lightweight, works well as a moisturizer. Layers under sunscreen fine. If you want a little something something extra and you're trying to do niacinamide twice a day and your sunscreen maybe doesn't have niacinamide, it works well at night. You can put tretinoin on over it or put this on over your tretinoin. Whichever way you want to layer that stack, it's pretty compatible with layering. Really enjoyed it. Peach Slices is a brand that often impresses me."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion with Urea

"Use a moisturizer that has niacinamide in it. Niacinamide helps to address hyperpigmentation. It's also great for the moisture barrier, cutting down on irritation in the long run. La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion has niacinamide. It's a great option. And yeah, you can put moisturizer under your arm. In fact, after you shave, when you get out of the shower, if it's a night you're not putting on antiperspirant, go ahead and apply some lotion."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Eucerin Skin Calming Itch Soothing Cream

"Skin Calming Itch Soothing Cream is also really good with colloidal oatmeal. This is great if you have eczema. Very rich. I also like the hydrogel formulation. It's a little bit more lightweight, not as greasy feeling on the skin."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream

"It makes it pleasant to apply, doesn't actively sign your face. This is great on the heels, and [...] that's really where it's going to perform the best, honestly. I've also used it on my hands a fair amount. A little greasy, but good for dry hands. The scent here is kind of pleasant and doesn't really linger or anything."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Ambi Skincare Fade Cream with Hydroquinone

"Ambi used to be notorious for their hydroquinone that is no longer able to be sold over the counter without a prescription. So we now have a few other new products. [...] They have this fade cream with 5% niacinamide, which is good for hyperpigmentation and licorice root, but it has a really strong fragrance. That's kind of like what they were left with once hydroquinone was removed from being able to be sold over the counter."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Curel Intensive Moisture Care Moisture Facial Milk

"They have the Curel Intensive Moisture Care Moisture Facial Milk. I believe I tried this a while ago. I can't remember what I thought about it, but it's interesting to see."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

BYOMA Moisturizing Gel Cream

"It has tea leaf extract, which may offer some antioxidants, panthenol, the moisturizing B vitamin, and glycerin, a humectant. If you're looking for a fragrance-free facial moisturizer that won't feel greasy or heavy, but gets the job done for moisturizing the skin, there's nothing wrong with this. It's a great option. This is a particularly good facial moisturizer, I would say for someone maybe in their late teens, 20s, 30s."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream

"This product is probably one of my favorites from them. The Protini Polypeptide Cream. It's really nice. This is looking attractive with vitamin E and beta size sterile squalane omega 9. Pretty substantial jar here. I'd be excited to give that a try."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion

"The Daily Moisturizing Lotion is amazing. You can use this on the face. [...] You get the two 18oz bottles plus a little 8 oz travel size which you could throw in your travel bag, use it as a face and body moisturizer for hotels. It's formulated with ceramides and is fragrance-free."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Rhode Barrier Butter Intensive Moisture Balm

"Their newer barrier butter with poly glutamic acid is so good. It's so good."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Cream

"SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream, it's pretty good but it's really expensive."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Adapylene 0.1% Gel

"[Adapalene] different gel or you know any of the other brands that sell [Adapalene] 0.1% over the counter without a prescription, is this going to work? We don't know. No one's really looked. But [Adapalene] is a retinoid similar to the others so it might help shrink them. No promises, no guarantees, and you likely have to use it for a long time to make a dent in the seborrheic keratosis."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream

"That's one of the first Korean skin care products I started using regularly and being like, wow, this is where it's at. Love that."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea

"Both 5% and [...] 10% urea are great for hydrating dry skin. [...] This one is a little spicy, urea can burn, sting, tingle a bit, especially if you [...] have atopic dermatitis and you're in the early stages of a flare-up where things are a little raw and rashy. Sometimes that sting, that tingle is uncomfortable, but sometimes it kind of tricks the little itch nerves and you get some relief from itch."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Centella 5% Niacinamide Radiance Gel Cream

"Like the name implies, it has 5% niacinamide, a reasonable percentage strength for achieving things like improving dark spots, redness, the moisture barrier, anti-aging, skin yellowing. Also has compounds from Centella. Centella's botanic extracts do have anti-inflammatory properties, soothing. I really like the texture of this. It was a nice lightweight gel cream, but very hydrating. Great. No complaints about this. Fragrance-free."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Curology Gel Cream Moisturizer

"They have a Gel Cream Moisturizer with ectoin peptides. These actually look compelling."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Eye Repair Cream

"For me personally, this was one I would never waste my time on again because [...] it did nothing and was just having to dispense from another bottle. If [...] you're caffeine sensitive to topical caffeine, I still say just use your regular moisturizer. We're starting to split hairs here on what that's really offering."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

L'Oreal Age Perfect Cell Renewal Midnight Cream

"I don't really get the hype behind the L'Oreal Age Perfect Cell Renewal Midnight Cream. It was kind of semi viral on TikTok, which doesn't say a whole lot. L'Oreal makes great moisturizers, and L'Oreal brands like CeraVe and La Roche-Posay are ones I love, but this is sort of a scented, more expensive version of many of their other parent branded moisturizers. [...] You can get two jars for 40 bucks, not too bad I guess if you really like it and aren't bothered by the fragrance."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Mederma Advanced Scar Gel with Allantoin

"You'd be much better off with just the plain medical grade silicone"

✕Nay

51%Guru Score

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream (2025 reformulation)

"I also recently hit bottom on the aura ad barrier 365 cream with a little the little beads of ceramides throughout that dissolve on your face"

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Eucerin Baby Eczema Relief Cream

"I really like the Eucerin Baby Eczema Relief Cream, it's quite good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Prosacea Sulfur Gel

"There is a Sulfur Gel that you can buy over the counter without a prescription, Prosacea, meant for people with rosacea but certainly can be helpful for facial seborrheic dermatitis as well."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Posthelios Gel

"Around my eyes, the La Roche-Posay Posthelios Gel, my eyelids are so happy with this. Since I've been using this, I just feel like my eyelids are so strong and nothing can dry them out. Because not only do my eyelids get dry if I happen to have like salicylic acid make its way there or sometimes even tretinoin creeps in, but just the seasonal pollen, the allergens and stuff will get my eyes itchy. I'll start rubbing and that really irritates my eyelids and can dry them out a lot."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Aquaphor Healing Cream 3-in-1 Diaper Rash Cream

"I recommend a fair amount the Aquaphor diaper rash cream fragrance free. Aquaphor healing ointment or the Up and Up version which in my opinion is not that inexpensive at $5.49. [...] If you want the least expensive version of Aquaphor, go with the Amazon basic one, it's really inexpensive for a giant tub of it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Isntree Onion New Pair Gel Cream

"I love the sunscreen in this line. Onion bulb extract may be anti-inflammatory. It's got niacinamide good for dark spots hyperpigmentation. The moisture barrier, panthenol is very moisturizing and it's also got hyaluronic acid sodium escorial phosphates, a stable form of vitamin C, tranexamic acid good for post acne redness. [...] Kind of got a little bit of a purplish hue, nice light gel cream, no fragrance."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

CeraVe Ultra-Light Moisturizing Gel

"I adore this. It's a skin protectant and it really does help keep my eyelids from getting dry and irritated by the salicylic acid in these products, because normally when I use salicylic acid it'll catch up to me and I'll get dry eyelids."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Ultimate Solution 5 Multitasking Moisturizer

"Honestly, I do believe that this product has the potential to firm, brighten, exfoliate, moisturize and soothe. It also has collagen, which is very hydrating."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Aveeno Eczema Therapy Daily Moisturizing Cream

"Two bits free of fragrance, it's got colloidal oats which are hydrating, soothing and help protect my already impaired skin barrier, this is fantastic. It's rich, it's thick, glides on the skin without feeling greasy, oily or heavy, and I successfully am able to use this on my face around my eyes. It's wonderful, really really great. My main complaint is the bottle."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Minimalist Sepicalm Moisturizer with Oat Extract

"I really like the texture of it. Waking up this morning my face after wearing this overnight felt moisturized and hydrated. It seems like it's going to be a good moisturizer. It has oat in it which is great, it also has shea butter, a very popular ingredient, a variety of amino acids which are good for the moisture barrier, and it has a really nice emulsion in my opinion."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Strivectin TL Advanced Tightening Neck Cream Plus

"StriVectin is back with their Alpha 3 peptide neck cream allegedly is going to lift the skin of the neck, but it's not like if you have saggy skin on the neck it's not going to be addressed by any sort of neck cream like this. [...] Just applying a moisturizer really does do quite a bit for the appearance of the skin surface, but you don't need to drop $67.99 on it."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Eucerin Skin Balance Facial Day Cream

"The day cream has licorice fruit in it and the night cream does not. Licorice fruit is helpful for like redness and dark spots and irritation but there's nothing about it that says that you can't use this at night. So if you get along with licorice fruit get the day cream one, if you don't get the night cream one. It can be used one to two times a day whichever one you choose you don't have to get both of them."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Bubble Level Up Balancing Gel Moisturizer

"Level Up Balancing Gel Moisturizer people with oily acne prone skin tend to prefer these gel formulas it's kind of like a lightweight gel cream it has hemp seed oil which has antioxidants and is anti-inflammatory this one does have niacinamide so if you're sensitive avoid it but that being said niacinamide tends to go over well for people who have oily acne prone skin because it's an antioxidant it's anti-inflammatory it seems to be really helpful for oily acne prone skin as well as anti-aging moisture barrier dry skin and redness"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Bubble Cloud Surf Water Cream Moisturizer

"I've tried some of their products and they're actually pretty good. I haven't had an issue with any of them. They've got a nice lightweight moisturizer here, the Cloud Surf Water Cream, and it does not have niacinamide if you are sensitive, which I know many are."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Vanicream Moisturizing Lotion

"The Moisturizing Lotion, this pairing right here with a gentle cleanser, I think meets the needs of a wide variety of people. [...] Men, women, children. [...] A moisturizer [...] can really just rejuvenate the appearance of your skin quite a bit and it can improve barrier turnover. It can have a lot of benefits."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

CeraVe Oil Control Gel Creme

"The texture is a bit different, the product spreads easily on the skin. [...] For me personally, this is a new experience with a CeraVe product, I've never had this issue before, but [...] this actually caused me some discomfort applying it. [...] I feel a little tingle and a little bit of warmth, especially on my cheeks, which is an area where you have a high density of blood vessels. [...] It's uncomfortable, almost like the beginnings of wanting to itch."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Olay Niacinamide Moisturizer

"It is fragrance-free and it's kind of giving me the vibes of one of my all-time favorite Olay products. [...] What is this, vitamin B3, vitamin E, and camine? So nothing super innovative here, standard ingredients in many of their formulas. Fragrance-free niacinamide is wonderful, [...] provided you tolerate it. This would be one to try out."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Fresh Black Tea Advanced Age Renewal Cream

"It has tea extract, green tea, black tea rich in polyphenols, which may help cut down on oxidative stress that contributes to the aging process. You can attribute the anti-wrinkle aspect to the tea. It also has ceramides, which are good for the moisture barrier, and with age production of ceramides declines, which is part of the reason why we're more inclined to develop dry skin. It does have fragrance. It may hydrate and plump the top layers of the skin, delivering antioxidants."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

CeraVe Itch Relief Moisturizing Lotion

"CeraVe Itch Relief Moisturizing Lotion [...] is really good. I often recommend this for itchy rashes. Put it in the refrigerator and then apply it to the skin, chill it really helps whether it be a itchy bug bite or heat rash. This is really good for heat rash actually because it's nice and lightweight and hydrating and soothing. Unfortunately, that is really expensive at $26.99."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Benadryl Topical Cream

"Benadryl cream is completely useless. Topical diphenhydramine, don't waste your money on that."

✕Nay

51%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Nourish Oil-Free Antioxidant Facial Moisturizer

"This facial moisturizer is pretty decent too"

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pure Skin Moisturizer

"I like that it's fragrance-free. It also has ceramides which can help with your skin barrier, they're lipids that are naturally part of your skin barrier and when applied to the skin can help improve barrier function. It has hyaluronic acid, a humectant, and also oat which has anti-inflammatory compounds. It's moisturizing. This particular moisturizer I have used, it goes on a little streaky but it's otherwise great."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

CeraVe Itch Relief Moisturizing Cream

"CeraVe has an itch relief cream and lotion with pramoxine in it much less expensive compared to this."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Walgreens Silicone Scar Gel

"There's the Walgreens brand scar gel. Definitely can work. The sooner you start using it and the more consistently you use it the better."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

FutureWise Slug Bomb

"This is fragrance free. [...] It's a good option for dry skin but some people with acne-prone skin or rosacea find it aggravates their skin. This has hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is anti-inflammatory, so it's capitalizing off of using an occlusive. But you have to ask yourself would you rather pay $24.49 for their Slug Bomb or $ [...] 4.99 or the drugstore version at $2.99 or whatever for just plain petroleum jelly."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Medicube Collagen Jelly Cream

"It's sticky and tacky. I didn't really find it to be amazing as far as a moisturizer. [...] I didn't see a noticeable difference using the collagen jelly with or without the device. The texture may appeal to people, but I have reservations about this product for a few reasons. There's fragrance in it, and fragrance is a common allergen in skincare products and it can be irritating."

✕Nay

49%Guru Score

CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"CeraVe's PM facial moisturizer is a great option. Niacinamide is really a versatile anti-aging ingredient."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream

"The Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream [...] is a really good rich facial moisturizer. It has avocado seed oil in it as well as hyaluronic acid."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dove Advanced Care with 1/4 Moisturizers Anti-Perspirant

"If I'm going for an antiperspirant with fragrance, I mean go big or go home, right? This is the best scented one. It's Dove Advanced Care with 1/4 Moisturizers. [...] The scent [...] is really nice, it's sophisticated, it's not just like a ooh body wash, you know what I mean? It's nice. I really like it. It smells even better on."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Renew Purified Peptides Night Cream

"I finished the Cetaphil Healthy Renew night cream love that I have a backup it's like a really nice rich facial moisturizer"

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Mison Phyto Plump Collagen Night Cream

"This is a night cream. [...] Collagen and moisturizers act as a humectant to help improve water content in skin's outermost layer. Licorice root is going to be anti-inflammatory, and I'm not seeing fragrance. [...] The texture looks really rich."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Aveeno Tone & Texture Gentle Renewing Night Cream

"It also has shea butter in it, and it has oat kernel flour, which is hydrating, anti-inflammatory, and also helps as a barrier-supporting ingredient. I really like the texture of this. It was almost kind of glossy and silky, but also very rich at the same time. They make this in a lotion as well. The lotion is more lightweight but is equally as good. They're both fragrance-free. Okay, I finished this up actually this morning."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Centella Asiatica Vital Miracle Healing Multi Balm

"It seems to be okay and obviously has anti-inflammatory compounds. This also has shea butter, it has Bol which is anti-inflammatory, it has sea buckthorn extract which is anti-inflammatory, it has vanilla fruit oil which may impart an aroma to it. I did not detect otherwise it doesn't have any other fragrance. It's kind of a little stiff, it feels a little stiff applying it if I'm being honest, might be helpful though for reducing chafing."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Face Cream Fragrance Free

"I really love their Holy Hydration! Face Cream fragrance-free that's a great option for just a basic facial moisturizer $13"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Dermallergo Moisturizing Cream

"I find that they both go on well. [...] This line is free of parabens, which may be suitable for people who have very sensitive skin. [...] Parabens are preservatives that [...] are pretty low risk of allergy, but some people are sensitive to them. [...] The products overall I don't have anything negative to say about them. I like them, they're great basic moisturizers. I think they are a good option if you have very sensitive skin. But the elephant in the room with these is the price point."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Eucerin Original Healing Cream

"This is really good. The pure moisture and then the healing sensitive of these two are really good, and the Eucerin Original Healing Cream is excellent."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Gold Bond Ultimate Healing Cream

"The Gold Bond version is actually pretty decent, not my favorite Gold Bond moisturizer and not just because it has fragrance, but they have so many other much better options. But this one isn't too bad. It has hydrolyzed elastin and hydrolyzed collagen which are hydrating, and it has magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, a stable form of vitamin C that may help reduce oxidative stress at the skin surface."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream

"The Ultra Repair Cream is excellent. It's [...] really good, it's nice and thick."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Face Moisturizer

"The Ultra Repair Face Moisturizer is a bit more lightweight."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Cetaphil PM Moisturizer

"This is the PM Moisturizer. In addition to ceramides it has antioxidants from tea which actually can help with oxidative stress in the skin, specifically EGCG, a polyphenol from green tea."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Undefined Beauty RNR Gel Cream

"Their gel cream is also really nice it's got tremella or shiitake and tremella mushroom extracts which are really hydrating it does have niacinamide so if you're sensitive you know be aware of that it does have niacinamide which again I really like anti-inflammatory good for the moisture barrier anti-redness good for hyperpigmentation it has peptides which are hydrating and it's free of fragrance camid applied to the skin can help your skin barrier start to make its own camid which are part of the mortar if you will when you think of your skin barrier as a brick wall"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Honey Hydration Day and Night Cream Duo

"I thought this was a pretty good deal, these two moisturizers for $8. They have fragrance in them, yeah the day cream does instead as the night cream. But honey is a humectant so it's very hydrating. It also has antibacterial properties and anti-inflammatory compounds, so honey is actually a pretty useful moisturizing ingredient."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Ultra Hydrating Gel Moisturizer with Aloe and Green Tea Extract

"It's very similar to Super GOP unseen, it's clear and colorless and it's water resistant. The aloe vera gel Body Essence green tea extract scented aloe can be hydrating of course and it has compounds in it depending on how it's processed that are good for hyperpigmentation."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Eczema Soothing Relief Cream

"For rosacea just based on ingredients I might gravitate towards this"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Rhode Barrier Restore Cream

"In my opinion the Barrier Restore Cream is a very nice product, but I have to tell you I did run into issues if I try to use this as my morning facial moisturizer prior to applying sunscreen. [...] If I added this and then sunscreen I would get pilling, which is not surprising when it comes to your sunscreen you really don't want to be layering it on over a ton of stuff because it can have issues setting up properly."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Rich Barrier Moisturizer

"This is good, I've used it and recommend it. It's just expensive, so it's not one that I ordinarily encourage you to choose because there are so many moisturizers out there on the market that are pretty good. The reason I like this though is it's a very nice consistency, it's richer than their gel moisturizer in this line, [...] so it's a really nice night cream. It has polyglutamic acid in it, which I love."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Eucerin Q10 Anti-Wrinkle Face Cream

"This Eucerin Q10 Anti-Wrinkle Face Cream is one of my favorites, it's totally underrated. At 13 percent, Q10 gets into the skin pretty well as an antioxidant. It can boost up the skin's endogenous antioxidant production, so it's a good ingredient. It's pretty well tolerated. This is just a nice rich night cream."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + Beta Glucan

"Cut to the chase this is not it I was really hoping this would be a good moisturizer to recommend to people who have oily skin and just want something super light yes it is super light but it leaves the skin feeling filmy and almost drier than it did to begin with"

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + Phytoceramides

"If you have rosacea, sometimes heavy moisturizers they actually can make you feel a bit overheated and precipitate a flush of redness, so you may not care for it in that regard. But overall, I really like it. The Natural Moisturizing Factors + Phytoceramides is a great addition to their portfolio for offering something that when you need extra barrier support, especially as [...] a rich night cream, I think this is nice."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Cetaphil Moisturizing Lotion

"Cetaphil Moisturizing Lotion is a good option. It has panthenol and niacinamide. [...] If you have hyperpigmentation under the arms, a moisturizer with niacinamide can help brighten it, depending on the cause. [...] If you have hyperpigmentation related to chronic irritation, the niacinamide can help because it interferes with the transfer of pigment packets from the melanocyte to the surrounding skin cells. It's also anti-inflammatory and helps with the moisture barrier."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Rich Cream

"Do I think you need this cream versus any other moisturizer to get those types of results? No. This is not something I would ever buy myself. It also has a peptide in it, palmitoyl tripeptide-8. Peptides probably just mostly act as humectants. We rely on manufacturer studies, which are obviously going to be biased; it's not like they're testing these peptides in rigorous double-blind placebo-controlled trials."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Olay Q10 Anti-Wrinkle Cream

"Q10 is good it's an antioxidant it is otherwise known as ubiquinone gets into the skin relatively easily helps ward off oxidative stress so if you are looking for a night cream to help with barrier recovery and recovery from oxidative stress from environmental stressors like pollutants this is one I really like"

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Aveeno Skin Therapy Balm

"The Skin Therapy Balm is also really good. I ended up using this a lot as a hand cream."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Equate Gentle Skin Cream

"I reviewed the equate version of Cetaphil cream a couple of years ago and it was great."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Aveeno Positively Radiant Night Cream

"I tried this a few years ago, the night cream, and I actually really liked it. I found that it did impart a brightening effect. It [...] has niacinamide in it, but the night cream also has fragrance. [...] I think these products by Aveeno are quite good, I just wish they would make them fragrance free. [...] I really did see a brightening effect with the night cream, and the fragrance was not off putting, if I'm remembering correctly."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Overnight Hydration Gel Cream

"I should probably petition Neutrogena to come back with that overnight hydration gel cream in the Hydro Boost line, that was like a Holy Grail a few years ago for me, and then I discontinued it, it was only available at Walmart."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Redness Relief Moisturizing Cream

"The other one that's a really good option is the Aveeno Calm and Restore Redness Relief Facial Moisturizer. It's a bit thicker in consistency in comparison to the Procure Rosacare one, so if you want something a bit more moisturizing, especially to address the dryness issue, that's a great option. It has feverfew extract in it, which is anti-inflammatory, and it has oat, which is a wonderful anti-inflammatory ingredient, moisturizing and soothing."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Goodal Apricot Collagen and Youth Firming Cream

"I've been using the Goodal Apricot Collagen and Youth Firming Cream that I bought several weeks ago, and I've been liking it, it's very moisturizing."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

belif True Cream Moisturizing Bomb

"I enjoyed this, if I remember correctly I actually liked it, but it does have fragrance. I found it very hydrating, it has ceramides in it, and [...] oat kernel extract, which is really good for the skin. But it does have fragrance, and [...] when I tried this I liked it, but I prefer the Hydro Boost."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Jergens Natural Glow Wet Skin Moisturizer

"In the past I used sunless tanners, and I always loved this Jergens Natural Glow, it works. [...] My experience personally using the Natural Glow is that [...] it's very subtle at first and then it gradually builds on itself, but it doesn't leave you orangey, which I always liked. [...] Though bear in mind I was using it back when I was eighteen or nineteen, so my expectations were a little different, [...] take that with a grain of salt."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Pyunkang Yul Nutrition Cream Blue Label

"The nutrition cream by Pyunkang Yul is another great one, though it's more expensive than the Intensive Repair Cream at $28. The consistency [...] is a lot like the black tea enriched cream, though there's no black tea in it, and [...] it doesn't have niacinamide, [...] so it's a good option for those of you who are sensitive to niacinamide."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Pyunkang Yul Black Tea Enriched Cream

"I have to tell you, I love this moisturizer, I just like the consistency of it, it's super rich. It has niacinamide and silicone-based ingredients like trimethicone and dimethicone. However, if you have rosacea and [...] heavy moisturizers make you flush or feel overheated, [...] I don't think this is going to be a good option for you. If you like a rich eye cream, this [...] really shines as both a face and an eye cream."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

L'Oréal Revitalift Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizer

"If you're in the market for a moisturizer with hyaluronic acid instead of a serum, try the L'Oréal Revitalift moisturizer, it's nice. It highlights hyaluronic acid and ceramide to help the moisture barrier, and it also has niacinamide, which is good for redness and has anti-aging benefits as an antioxidant."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Naturie Hatomugi Skin Conditioning Gel

"I have rather been enjoying this Hatomugi Skin Conditioning Gel."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Vanicream Moisturizing Cream

"Vanicream is also a fantastic option if you're able to tolerate it. I suggest choosing a moisturizer that's free of fragrance, especially when priming the skin."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Preparation H Hemorrhoid Cream

"Ingredients that are anesthetics can be identified on ingredient labels by the ending cane, like benzocaine, tetracaine, and procaine. These are actually commonly found in Preparation H hemorrhoid creams."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Calm Rescue and Repair Intensive Moisturizer

"The rescue and repair intensive moisturizer [...] left my skin feeling dry, plain and simple, it was not good whatsoever, which really disappoints me because I loved their previous moisturizers in this Calm line. [...] I used to recommend that moisturizer, and now [...] I no longer recommend it since they changed it, so that was definitely a fail for me."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Kahi Wrinkle Bounce Multi Balm

"I thought it looked like a nice emollient, lubricating stick, maybe like the Vaseline stick, but it smells not good, it is heavily heavily scented in a scent that lingers on the skin. It just puts out a stiff oily lubricant, it's not hydrating, it doesn't even give a gloss. You can use it on your lips but it doesn't end up making the lips very moisturized or hydrated. That scent lingers, it [...] makes the skin look greasy and shiny wherever you put it."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Indeed Labs Hydraluron Moisture Jelly

"I didn't realize Target had Indeed Labs, these are really good products. This Hydraluron Moisture Jelly, I definitely recommend it. It used to be $24.99 but it looks like there's some variation in the prices here. The Snox in it has some proprietary peptide that may help relax wrinkles in theory."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream

"I've used the Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream [...] in the past and if I remember correctly it was okay. It's on sale but it's [...] still pretty expensive. It claims 25 percent more hyaluronic acid and it also has niacinamide, which helps with redness and hyperpigmentation, [...] but some people do find niacinamide irritating, so if you're one of those people this would not be a great product for you."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Eucerin Roughness Relief Moisturizing Cream

"This Eucerin Roughness Relief Cream is really good for the feet. It has urea, and it also has lactic acid I believe, yes, and ceramides. It's very good."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Rescue Balm+ Red Correct

"The Rescue Balm, the color correcting one, is something you could use if you have post acne redness, as a spot moisturizer to reduce irritation and help camouflage the redness, similar to their Post Blemish Recovery Cream. This is good, it's got beta glucan and peptides, it helps hydrate the healing skin and reduce irritation and friction. These are both pretty good."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tatcha Water Cream Oil-Free Pore Minimizing Moisturizer

"The Tatcha Water Cream, that's a pass. I did try it and was not impressed."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

The INKEY List Omega Water Cream

"I've tried out the Inky List Omega Water Cream and I don't know, it's a pass for me. It's $9.99 and I don't think that's that inexpensive."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Aqua Gel Cream

"I really like this Hyaluronic Acid Aqua Gel Cream from Isntree, I reviewed it a while ago, it's quite good."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Silk Amino Mega Moisturizing Masque

"I don't think the mask is as good as some other hair masks I've tried. The mask I would say is kind of a little underwhelming in terms of the thickness."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

COSRX Hydrium Moisture Power Enriched Cream

"I also really like this Moisture Power Rich Cream, although it does have propolis, which some people develop an allergy to and can cross-react with a fragrance allergy, but [...] it does have moisturizing properties."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

COSRX Green Tea Aqua Soothing Gel Cream

"I really like Cosrx in general. The Green Tea Aqua Soothing Gel Cream is a favorite, it's nice and lightweight in consistency."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Seen Blowout Cream

"I like using this Blowout Cream. I put this on the night before while the hair is still damp, and then the following morning I use the blow dryer, so this is already on my hair when it's fully dry, and that further helps cut down on frizz, dryness, brittleness and breakage. This is SEEN, this is their fragrance free Blowout Cream, but they also have a scented one. It's vegan and color safe. If you're looking for a heat protectant, try this one out."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Versed Dew Point Moisturizing Gel Cream

"I tried this Dew Point moisturizer at one point and I was not, I was not impressed."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Jordan Samuel Skin Performance Cream

"I've been trying out these Jordan Samuel moisturizers and I rather like them. The Performance Cream is a nice thick cream."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Jordan Samuel Skin Moisture Recovery Cream

"The Jordan Samuel Skin [...] Moisture Recovery Cream I tried out last night and I rather liked it. It's more of a whipped consistency, nice and rich and creamy, and it feels really good applying to the skin. It's a much richer formula than the performance cream, so I worry it might not perform as well under sunscreen since the performance cream is more lightweight and that's the one that performed well under sunscreen."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Topicals Faded Brightening & Clearing Gel

"Faded by Topicals is one I've reviewed here before, and it has tranexamic acid as well as other skin lightening ingredients like [...] licorice root and kojic acid. [...] That's certainly an option to try out and it's relatively safe, though if it causes your skin irritation then it's not something you'd want to continue using. It's promising as an alternative to hydroquinone, especially during the drug holiday."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

SkinBetter Science AlphaRet Overnight Cream

"I reviewed the SkinBetter Sciences Alpharette Overnight Cream and [...] pointed out how they didn't include the vehicle control in their clinical testing."

✕Nay

83%Guru Score

Sukoyaka Suhada Urea Moisturizing Lotion

"I personally have really been enjoying this. [...] I actually prefer this to the cream version [...] because I [...] didn't care for the consistency of that as much as this. This feels almost like water."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Radiance Renewing Cream

"I finished this moisturizer from Cetaphil. It's their Healthy Radiance Renewing Cream. [...] It's one of those moisturizers that goes on a little bit streaky and patchy I found, and I personally much prefer the Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream that comes in a large tub as a facial moisturizer to this. This isn't bad or anything, [...] but I would not repurchase it."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel

"I used to use the Dramatically Different Moisturizer. It didn't lead to dramatically different results, but it wasn't a bad product. I don't use it anymore because moisturizers are so readily available at a fraction of the price that are just as good if not a thousand times better."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Balm AP+ Intense Repair Moisturizing Cream

"This is a long-standing favorite of mine that's free of fragrance and [...] good for eczema-prone skin but really good for anybody in general with a very no-nonsense short ingredient list. It has niacinamide which is [...] evidence-based [...] for dry skin, [...] hyperpigmentation, anti-redness, and barrier recovery. It [...] has shea butter which helps reduce water loss out of the skin. It's safe to use on the face [...] and body, and it's fine for the whole family to use."

✓Yay

97%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Moist Cream

"The consistency is very lightweight and also very moisturizing, so it does a good job addressing dry skin without feeling greasy or heavy. [...] It has ceramides which are good for the moisture barrier, and matrixyl which is a peptide that may help in improving the look of fine lines."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

RFLCT Screen Shield Defense Moisturizer

"The moisturizer has hyaluronic acid and glycerin in it, which are humectants to help with skin hydration. For twenty-four dollars for 1.7 ounces of a moisturizer, that's typical of drugstore prices, so I don't think they are insanely priced."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Purito Oat-in Calming Gel Cream

"I was very underwhelmed by this. It's oat seed water, not colloidal oats, so it doesn't have the beneficial compounds I expected. It's very watery— [...] more of a [...] lightweight serum than a true moisturizer—so you still need a moisturizer over it. I expected something like the Aveeno Oat Gel Moisturizer, but this is misleading marketing."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Cetaphil Cracked Skin Repair Lotion

"Urea is a favorite ingredient of mine. This has dimethicone in it, which is a skin protectant. The urea is going to be helpful for improving the health of the moisture barrier. It's a humectant and a natural moisturizing factor. This also has lactic acid in it, which is an alpha hydroxy acid that can help improve the moisture barrier and help exfoliate dry, rough skin cells. This is going to be a good one if you have keratosis pilaris."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Biafine Topical Emulsion

"It's also used in Europe to treat radiation dermatitis. [...] It does have fragrance, which is not ideal for healing [...] because it can trigger more irritation. I can see why people like it, but I still prefer Vaseline because it's more affordable, especially petroleum jelly for wound healing. [...] That said, the fragrance is actually pretty nice and is in that family of light fresh citrus scents."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Allie Facial Gel UVX

"That's not a bad ingredient, but some people find it more on the drying side. I think this particular formulation is very good for people with oily skin. I [...] live in a very humid climate and August is our hottest month, and these have been perfect for me. However, if you live in a cold dry climate, [...] especially with this low molecular weight alcohol, you may find it to be on the drying side. But overall, it's very good and fragrance-free."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream

"I was not too impressed with the moisturizer, I mean it wasn't bad, but for the price point I would go with ceramics products that are much better."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Cocokind My Matcha All Over Moisture Stick

"This has coconut oil which is antibacterial and can help reduce water loss out of the skin, beeswax, and green tea leaf powder which has EGCG an antioxidant that can help reduce oxidative stress that leads to damage in your skin cells, this looks promising unless you're allergic to beeswax."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Illiyoon Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream

"Several years ago I bought the Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream and really liked it. [...] They have since tweaked the formula, [...] so I'm giving it a try again. It has pearl-like beads that release ceramides into the skin, a ceramide complex, [...] fatty acids and cholesterol."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Purito Mighty Bamboo Panthenol Cream

"Costwise a large size is impractical, but it really helped improve the appearance of my skin on my face and body. [...] For me it's a great no-nonsense fragrance-free facial moisturizer that actually looks good on the skin. It's not oily or emollient, but it gives the skin a kind of gloss and helps lubricate the surface, so it's really good on the neck where there's more friction."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Celimax Dual Barrier Skin Wearable Cream

"The Celimax Dual Barrier Skin Wearable Cream is another rich moisturizer with ceramides, hyaluronic acid and glycerin, which are great for improving water content in your skin, plus panthenol and allantoin, which are soothing. [...] It almost has a whipped-like consistency and melts into the skin easily. It doesn't feel too oily or too heavy, but it is nice and rich. If you're [...] oily or combination, I think you'd be fine with this as a night cream for your skin barrier."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Purito Deep Sea Pure Water Cream

"I love this. It's got natural moisturizing factors, urea, very hydrating. And not greasy or heavy. This used to be a totally different moisturizer and then they changed it up to include the urea, which I think was a great addition. You know, I thought, oh no, are they going to change it up and add niacinamide like everybody and their mother? I love niacinamide, don't get it twisted, but if you're sensitive, it's like, what are you left with? Not a whole lot. Nope. They didn't."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

CeraVe Moisturizing Cream

"CeraVe Moisturizing Cream in the tub, I think that's a good deal. It's not on sale, but worth grabbing for the colder months, which I know many of you are already facing."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Skin1004 Centella Asiatica Hyalu Cream

"Speaking of heavier textures, the firming cream in this line was amazing. [...] I went through a bout of really dry skin for a couple of days when I was testing out another non-Korean skin care product that just did not get along with me, [...] so I paused it and used the milky toner in this line plus this firming cream layered on over, and within a couple of days it was peace on facial earth."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

RoC Advanced Hydration Plus Water Cream

"I happen to really like this moisturizer. In addition to hyaluronic acid, it has a marine extract, which is what La Mer is known for using and considered prestige for, but that ingredient is not necessarily rare. It's very beneficial in imparting improved moisture content in the skin's outermost layer, but you do not need to spend La Mer prices to get the benefits from marine extract."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Avène Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream

"Recently they have had an issue. People on TikTok and in Reddit threads are complaining that their Cicalfate cream [...] is arriving in orders completely separated out, where they go to squeeze it and this clear blue liquid shoots out and it's all messed up. Avene claims it's because the product was exposed to freezing temperatures. [...] It seems to be happening a lot, so [...] there's some kind of quality control issue going on with the shipping."

~Mixed

87%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Cica Cream

"I really like them, [...] they have complementary ingredients that are good for the skin barrier and also help with discoloration and skin tone. I did feel like overall my skin tone appeared more even while I was using these, though it's hard to say if it was all from these or the sunscreen or a combination. [...] Now that I've finished them, I would definitely use them again."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Cream

"It's the water cream. Very similar texture, finish, feel, performance. Has hyaluronic acid like the CeraVe product to hydrate. No niacinamide, no phenoxyethanol. So, if those are CeraVe stingers for you, you might want to go with this one. It's got ceramides also. It has urea and amino acids, which are very hydrating and good for the dryness."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Renew Skin Activator Hydrating and Firming Cream

"If you watch one of my prior empties videos, you'll recall I finished up the cream, the cream in the tub of this line as well as the neck cream and those are both fantastic."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream

"I also adore the cream, which comes in this set. The cream is much thicker. I like to stack them when I'm really feeling zesty, the serum, and then the cream. But sometimes I just use one or the other. You could do a moisture sandwich, snail mucin power essence, retinoid, snail mucin cream. Or you could just use the power essence alone as the bottom layer and maybe your retinoid and cream alone is enough of a top moisturizer."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Medicube AGE-R Capsule Cream

"They gave us this Medicube AGE-R Capsule Cream. If you have not heard my PDRN rant, it is a scam. PDRN is not it. It's just so unfeasible to think that would ever work in skincare. [...] The hero ingredient in this is 5% niacinamide. It's [...] the B vitamin that single-handedly is carrying the skincare industry."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Cetaphil Restoraderm Moisturizer

"Speaking of colloidal oatmeal, the Cetaphil Restoraderm line. Yes, yes, and yes. Very good. Very, very good. Love this."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Goodal Vegan Rice Milk Moisturizing Cream

"I'm currently using the Goodall vegan rice milk moisturizer which I really like."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Rescue Balm

"I love the Rescue Balm. It's good for the dry flaky skin after a pimple goes away."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel (reformulated)

"The new fragrance-free water gel represents a substantial improvement upon the old formula. It has a variety of amino acids that are part of skin's natural moisturizing factors. [...] It's not really solely now a hyaluronic acid focused moisturizer; it has some other things going on that are beneficial for moisturizing the skin as they are naturally present in skin's outermost layer. These help with hydrating."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Gold Bond Pure Moisture Daily Body and Face Lotion

"It's a fragrance-free face and body lotion, super lightweight and hydrating, excellent for dry sensitive skin. It has ceramides, panthenol, and niacinamide which is good for the moisture barrier and also good for redness and hyperpigmentation. It also has grape seed oil, an emollient that softens and smooths dry rough skin, and gluconolactone, a polyhydroxy acid which is not only hydrating but gently exfoliates dry rough buildup."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Face Cream

"e.l.f. also makes a Holy Hydration Face Cream that is pretty affordable."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dermavant Vtama Cream 1%

"In [...] clinical studies, patients who use Vtama cream achieved significantly clearer skin as early as four weeks and up to 40% achieved clear or almost clear skin in 12 weeks compared to 6% of those who used a cream with no active ingredient. Patients also experienced a significant reduction in itch as early as week two. Patients who achieved clear skin with Vtama cream and stopped treatment stayed clear or almost clear of plaque while off treatment for a median of about four months."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Avène Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Cream

"I really like the moisturizer and the cleanser and the thermal Spring Water spray may be beneficial in reducing like irritation in theory compounds in thermal spring water are anti-inflammatory as they come from certain thermophilic bacteria."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Neutrogena Daily Facial Moisturizer with Multi-Vitamin Complex

"It's a nice lightweight fragrance-free [...] moisturizer. It's super lightweight, it's not greasy, it feels pleasant to apply, and it offers 24-hour moisture."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Eucerin Urea 10% Cream

"I tried out a lot of facial products with urea this year, and I liked them all. [...] Honorable mention goes to [...] a five percent urea facial cream from Eucerin as well."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

e.l.f. Happy Hydration Cream

"I finished up a jar of the ELF Happy Hydration Cream. This has hemp seed oil in it which is a nice emollient, may have some antioxidants. It's free of fragrance, it's lightweight, not too greasy. I ended up using this a fair amount when I traveled, and I'm glad I made it through it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Etude House SoonJung 2X Barrier Intensive Cream

"I didn't realize [...] it's been such a long time since I've used this, the SoonJung 2X Barrier Intensive Cream from Etude House. This is a long-standing favorite, I've been using this for years. It's been a while, they changed up their packaging, and it's actually really cool, it's [...] a really smart change. [...] This line from Etude House I like, they've got great products in the line, pretty affordable, and very hydrating, nice for the drier months."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Etude House SoonJung Hydro Barrier Cream

"The Hydro Barrier Cream is an everyday moisturizer that's great for both dry, oily, and combination skin, free of fragrance. It has that combination of panthenol and madecassoside, which are good for fighting off irritation and helping to soothe the moisture barrier. [...] It's thicker, heavier, and richer compared to the emulsion, but not super heavy, [...] it's a cream that can comfortably be worn by all skin types."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Avène Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm

"I finished this Avène Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm. I really enjoy this product, it has some postbiotic or prebiotic compounds that help support barrier recovery. It's a good choice if you've just had a resurfacing laser treatment and your skin is very sensitive in the healing stages, and I would actually recommend this if you're thinking of starting a retinoid, since it can help minimize the dryness and irritation of the retinization process."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Bioderma Atoderm Cream

"I discovered this body moisturizer this year and fell in love with it. I love it because it has niacinamide in it which is a helpful ingredient not only for redness and for improving the health of the moisture barrier but for hyperpigmentation. [...] It has mineral oil which is a wonderful occlusive, it has laminaria extract that's a marine extract that acts as a humectant helping to pull water into the top layers of the skin. [...] It's definitely a standout product in my mind."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Avène XeraCalm A.D. Lipid Replenishing Cream

"It's a fragrance-free moisturizer you can wear on the face and the body. It's very good for dry skin, sensitive skin, even oily-prone skin. It has minimal ingredients and because of the packaging there are no preservatives. [...] It has an ingredient called Elmu-Dulia that is proprietary to Avène, derived from thermal spring water, and it's thought to be anti-inflammatory. I've reviewed it in several videos, including my best of Avène video."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Neostrata Bionic Lotion Restore

"This product is for those of you who want to improve skin texture, moisture content, plump and hydrate but you have very sensitive skin, or even if you don't have sensitive skin, this would be great. It has polyhydroxy acids, a type of hydroxy acid that's very gentle and exfoliates very slowly and is well-tolerated by people with sensitive skin."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Serums165 reviews

Remedy Copper Peptide Complex Advanced Firming Serum

"I personally have had this exact experience very recently with the Remedy copper peptide serum, where it makes skin dry and flaky. I've used other copper peptide serums before and never had that problem, so I have no explanation for it. It may be a formulation issue with this product rather than the copper peptide itself."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum

"TNS, that TNF alpha growth factor serum, was one of those medical grade products that got really popular, and [...] a lot of derms were sold on it, saying that stuff was legit. But I was like, no, there's no way this is working. Growth factors put on the skin are not going to do anything above and beyond maybe moisturizing the skin, and I don't think they're worth spending a lot of money on."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Remedy Intense Hydration Multi-Depth Moisture Advanced Hydrating Serum

"I'd classify this as a low irritation potential product, it doesn't have fragrance or anything that tends to cause irritation. I've seen it going anywhere from seventeen to twenty dollars for an ounce, which with the polyglutamic acid and the peptide in it is pretty [...] reasonable. [...] I think this is Remedy's best serum to date, [...] arguably my favorite product from them yet."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum

"The Ordinary's Multi-Peptide Plus Copper Peptides 1% Serum is one I've used, very much enjoy, have favorably reviewed, and recommended in other videos. I would ten out of ten go back to The Ordinary's copper peptide, and paying two dollars more for it was worth it for me in my opinion."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

AmLactin Bright & Smooth Serum

"I reviewed the Amlactin Bright and Smooth Serum and I am still using that, but [...] I would just keep using the Amlactin lotions on my face."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Water Gel

"It has urea and amino acids, which are very hydrating and good for the dryness. [...] I think they did a great job with this. I really like it. I like it a lot more. They had another gel moisturizer at one point [...] that I was like, y'all, no, no, no, no. I can't remember all the reasons why I didn't like that, but I used it, I reviewed it, and then I never look back. [...] This is an improvement from that. It's an improvement from that. Overall, I really like it. Happy to use it up."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Torriden Dive-In Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"This is the Dive-In serum. It's pretty good. It's a hyaluronic acid serum from Torriden. Of this line though, the Dive-In line, I really like their gel cream. I wish that was included instead of the travel size of the serum because that's honestly one of the best products from that line, specifically for people with oily skin who want a real lightweight moisturizer, or if you live in a hot humid climate. You don't want something too occlusive for your facial moisturizer in the summer especially."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair Vitamin C Serum Capsules

"It is an ascorbic acid serum, so that is a brownie point because a lot of brands just skip the ascorbic acid and put in these derivatives that haven't really been shown to do what ascorbic acid does. [...] Neutrogena is a brand that has a lot of R&D behind their formulations. They take them into clinical studies, so it is an ascorbic acid serum that you can be confident in, but you're not shelling out that price point."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Neutrogena Collagen Bank 15% Vitamin C Serum

"I recently reviewed a vitamin C serum from Neutrogena. I get along well with it and think it's a good option if that's something you're interested in."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Maelove Glow Maker Vitamin C Serum

"I got the May Love Glow Map Maker and Peptide Squad recently, but I found some advice saying that not saying not to layer these two ingredients, but May Love officially official claims it's fine to do so."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Maelove Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum

"Ascorbic acid is not the most stable ingredient, and it's vulnerable to oxidation, and it has its penetration issues. Copper is theoretically something that can accelerate the degradation of ascorbic acid. That being said, I have heard from cosmetic formulators that it's fine to use ascorbic acid with copper peptides, that it's not something that truly happens. I think it's fine to do so. The brand is telling you it's fine to do so, so I wouldn't worry about it."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic

"When it comes to ascorbic acid topical products, I also recommend SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic. Why? Well, because it has actually pretty good research, a really good publication backing up that the product actually works. Given the challenges of formulation, I think that that is nice to know that yeah, theirs actually works."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Alpha Skin Care Glycolic Acid Facial Serum

"They also make a facial serum targeted product that is likewise very good. It's excellent for dry rough skin texture, improving moisture content, firming the skin, and tackling keratosis pilaris on the face. In fact, the serum for the face is one that I frequently recommend for improving rough and bumpy cheeks."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Cella 4% Dark Spot Serum

"This one does not have ascorbic acid in the product, and the ascorbic acid in the product if it's there [...] is not stable."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Prequel Multi-Quench Plumping Hydration Serum

"It's definitely unique to this product. [...] The discomfort is not significant and it's very mild and it doesn't last very long. It's short-lived. There's no accompanied redness. I haven't had any peeling or irritation. I have found that it's average in its performance as a hydrating product. I don't think it is as good for me or I don't enjoy it as much. I don't get as much wow factor from this."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Torriden Dive-In Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid Soothing Cream

"I have been using the Torriden Dive-In moisturizer off and on for a while now and I really like it. If you have oily skin, you don't want a heavy moisturizer, you don't like the feeling of rich creams on your face, this is a great option. It's hyaluronic acid, fragrance-free."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The Ordinary Growth Factor 15% Solution

"Growth factors are like in skincare as a marketing hype, a precursor [...] to PDRN and exosomes nonsense claims that don't hold up at all. Putting growth factors on your skin, that's not going to do anything. They're not doing anything in skincare. Maybe they're moisturizing."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Gel Oil

"They have this gel oil. I haven't seen it in a while, so fingers crossed they didn't discontinue it, but the gel oil was really good if you had flaky skin to massage on in a circular fashion to help that to exfoliate a little bit better without disrupting the skin barrier. It was also really good on the lips."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Peach Slices Super Fade Discoloration Serum

"I really enjoyed using this myself personally. I found it very hydrating, moisturizing, and soothing. It just helped to brighten up overall skin complexion. [...] If you're going to try this out, try using it twice a day. Apply it to the face first thing in the morning either after cleansing or [...] to a dry bare face, allow it to dry so it's no longer wet to the touch and then put sunscreen on over it. That's a great pairing for tackling dark marks."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Plus Hyaluronic Acid Milky Hydrating Serum

"This without a doubt is the best product Paula's Choice in my opinion has put out in the past, I don't know, 3 or 4 years. Been a while since they've had a winner in my opinion. And this is good stuff. It's very emollient. It's hydrating. It gives the skin this nice plump, glowy, fresh look. It also has hyaluronic acid, jojoba seed oil, glycerin, which is going to be very hydrating, and squalane, a lightweight emollient."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Avène Cicalfate+ Intensive Skin Restorative Serum

"So it really gets at a root cause mechanism behind discomfort, sensitivity, redness, burning, stinging. But as a reminder, there is no such thing as a universally well tolerated product. Even air can aggravate someone's skin. So just because it is well formulated for rosacea doesn't mean it won't aggravate someone's rosacea out there. The other thing that I definitely need to mention is this is not inexpensive. One website I saw it was $40."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Peach Slices Hypochlorous Acid Spray

"Peach Slices came out with a hypochlorous spray. I think people tend to overstate its benefits on social media, but it has been shown to be helpful for cutting down on itch topically, specifically like if your skin gets itchy with sweat, I recommend that. That's what I do when I'm working out and stuff. It's really helpful. [...] I also find it's helpful to kind of deodorize a bit as well in the summer. I like to use this a lot. You can spray it on the face. I find it to be helpful."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Timeless Coenzyme Q10 Serum

"A product that I think is amazing is the Timeless Q10 serum. I'm much more interested and enjoy using far more their Q10 serum. The thing about it is that you do want to shake it up before you apply it because it does have a tendency to separate out, but that has been an amazing amazing one for me. [...] Back when I was using it consistently, I felt it was a great first step in a morning skincare routine sort of as a lightweight moisturizer and then I put my sunscreen on."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

The INKEY List Ectoin Hydro Barrier Serum

"I ended up enjoying the INKEY List Ectoin Hydro Barrier Serum, [...] but it is not as hydrating, it's not as moisturizing. It doesn't impart that overall improved plumpness, smoothness, radiance, and glow. So you are paying less, but you're not quite getting the same thing. This is fine, but I don't know that I would necessarily repurchase it."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 Face Serum

"I love to use that La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 around my eyes. I think that's a great option here."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Minimalist Tranexamic Acid 3% Serum

"I reviewed the Minimalist brand's topical tranexamic acid about a year ago and I thought it was pretty good."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Maelove Forever Firm Peptide Neck Treatment

"It's good. It will moisturize your neck. It will reduce irritation likely by reducing transepidermal water loss. It'll improve the appearance of those little dry dehydration wrinkles. But when you've used other things that do the same thing, then it's like what is this bringing to the table? If this product is over $30, if it's like $40, probably not going to buy it. [...] The Maelove product is good."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Abreva Cold Sore Treatment

"You'll probably notice Abreva sold over the counter without a prescription. And in my opinion, Abreva is way too much effort. You have to apply it multiple multiple times a day and it really only shortens the duration by like maybe half a day. So it's a lot of work. It's expensive. Valtrex is a much better way to go in my opinion."

✕Nay

58%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Needleless Growth Factor Serum

"It has this anti-redness property, plus it's good for skin yellowing. So if you tolerate it, it's really quite a good ingredient. [...] If you were gifted it or you bought the DRMTLGY one, I'd say thumbs up, use it. It's good if you tolerate it. I had no problem with it."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

EOS Kashmir Shave Oil

"EOS has a shave oil too that's also good."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 7 Bonding Oil

"I've used a lot of their products over the years, but the packaging is really chintzy. Like, it breaks easily."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Prequel Redness Reform Soothing Serum

"They have a Redness Reform Soothing Serum with licorice root that is really good for redness, as is oat. And this also has, I believe, a green tint through the chromium oxide green, which will help camouflage the redness. Likely would be good for rosacea and post acne red marks."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Acid Lotion

"Speaking of hyaluronic acid Japanese lotions, this is great. The super hyaluronic acid lotion. Really like this. $11.99."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

e.l.f. Vitamin C Serum with Ferulic Acid

"I don't get along well with ascorbic acid. I find it often irritates my skin and honestly many of the benefits of ascorbic acid I find you already get if you're using niacinamide and a retinoid. I don't really find that ascorbic acid adds much to the picture other than this whole complicated journey of finding one [...] that's not irritating, that is actually stable and effective, and not extremely expensive."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Olay Super Serum

"If you are looking at these serums with the hopes of improving skin texture, dark spots, skin tone, some wrinkle smoothing benefits, go with the night one. You avoid the issues around fragrance. It can be irritating, headache-inducing, and you also get the salicylic acid which can help with exfoliating the pore. The thing about Olay's super serums, they're not necessarily unique in terms of what they are offering. It's not necessarily a unique type of formulation."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Anua Niacinamide 10% + TXA 4% Dark Spot Correcting Serum

"I really liked this. Now, 10% niacinamide is on the higher end, above and beyond what is necessary. 5% max is really what has been shown to do anything, which includes improving hyperpigmentation, redness, the moisture barrier, anti-aging purposes, skin yellowing. 10% maybe more likely to cause irritation. And then some of you out there are already like no more niacinamide, so for those of you who cannot do niacinamide, this is off the table. This also has tranexamic acid."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%

"The Ordinary looked at a study in vitro [...] using this followed by their Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% serum [...] and they showed that this allowed for two times better absorption of that serum in vitro at least so in cells in a dish after 1 hour. [...] However, it's cells in a dish right like facial skin is much different you've got this 3D shape you've got the pores you've got a lot going on keep that in mind."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Vitamin C Serum

"Even though I don't get along with [...] vitamin C serums because they tend to irritate my skin, I did like the CeraVe Skin Renewing Vitamin C Serum. [...] They're an L'Oreal brand with lots of R&D. [...] They also threw in some caffeine, so caffeine in a serum is an interesting ingredient [...] because a subset of people who have puffiness [...] get a good depuffing effect from topical caffeine, especially coupled with a cold temperature like a chilled moisturizer or a cold applicator."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

The Ordinary Azelaic Acid Suspension 10%

"I love the Ordinary's azelaic acid suspension, great for redness, dark spots. The azelaic acid is also good not only for redness but for hyperpigmentation, a bit of acne control, and rosacea."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum 2:1

"It's not a holy grail mustave but yeah if you don't know the backstory you need to watch the backstory"

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

The Ordinary Power of Peptide Set

"I'm going to do these ordinary peptides. I reviewed them, second bottle. Mentioned this last weekend. We're going to do a drop of the concentrated eye to each eye. I reviewed these, so wanted to finish them up."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Glow Deep Serum: Propolis + Niacinamide

"We have the Beauty of Joseon Glow Deep Serum with propolis and niacinamide. If you're allergic to fragrance be really careful with propolis because propolis can cross react with a lot of fragrance allergies, but it is a very hydrating ingredient. Centella asiatica extract is anti-inflammatory. Niacinamide is good for redness, dark spots, and moisture barrier."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Road Skin Peptide Glazing Milk

"Road Skin Peptide Glazing Milk, 10 out of 10, 100 times better than this. It's a milky toner with ceramides and peptides, beautiful application, hydrates smooth. You just get this nice even radiant glow. If you have oily, dry, combination skin, it's just amazing. I don't have it here because it's been a while since I finished it, but I think about it fairly often and I would like to go back to it at some point. [...] The product is objectively good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Eucerin Advanced Repair Cream with Polyhydroxy Acid

"Here's another great rich cream this time with polyhydroxy acid, even gentler, and colloidal oatmeal which helps to hydrate."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Bio-Oil Bio-Oil

"Fragrance and essential oils ultimately will worsen the appearance of the scar, so this is not something I recommend. People who use it and claim that it helped their scars, just know it worked by lubricating the skin surface. You can get that same effect for half the price without the risk of irritation from fragrance just by using mineral oil or any of the skin protectants."

✕Nay

45%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Centella 4% Tranexamic Acid Dark Spot Go Away Serum

"I got this in one of the Korean Advent calendars and in contrast to that one this is more of a [...] clear colorless gel it has a little bit of a grip to it, it's a little thicker than that other one. I don't know off the top of my head if and what percentage niacinamide this has, I'm almost certain it does, but I look forward to using this. It's also got compounds from centella."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Tree Hut Pink Hibiscus Moisturizing Shave Oil

"This is the newest scent to me, the Pink Hibiscus, and I'm willing to say this is the best scent of all the Tree Hut shave oils, definitely the best one I've tried so far. It's beautiful. When I saw Pink Hibiscus I was like, is that going to be some weird floral cheapy scent? Oh no, I don't know why I doubted Tree Hut in their fragrance crafting abilities, but this is amazing. It's like magnolia gardenia but no muskiness."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Kerx 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"I wasn't expecting much from this product and boy did it deliver. It's very hydrating. It has glycerin and it also has a variety of amino acids which are naturally found in skin's outermost layer and help with moisture retention and barrier function. But it has a variety of peptides."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Nzen Vitamin Concentrate Serum

"It also has Alpha arbutin, good for dark spots. It's got a lot of hydrating ingredients: beta glucan, bifida ferment lysate, sodium hyaluronate, niacinamide, and 30o ethyl ascorbic acid, which is a stable form of vitamin C and may help as an antioxidant. I look forward to trying this. I haven't had great luck with Nzen. I tried a few of their serums and toners [...] a couple of years ago and they were not so great for me, but I'm going to give this a try."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Radiance Brightening Antioxidant-C Face Serum

"They went with 3o Ethyl ascorbic acid. This also has niacinamide which is good for dark spots, so if you're looking to improve hyperpigmentation this definitely can help but probably mostly through the niacinamide. Free of fragrance. I ended up really enjoying using this but not something I would go out of my way to repurchase and consistently have in my routine because while it didn't cause any problems for me I found it was nice lightweight hydrating."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Cocokind Ceramide Barrier Serum

"The Ceramide Barrier Serum has ceramides of course which are good for the moisture barrier and it also has glycerin which is very hydrating and beta glucan."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster

"Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster is almost always going to make an appearance in these Sephora what to buy type videos [...] because when it comes to azelaic acid, an ingredient that is very helpful for redness, for hyperpigmentation, for acne breakouts, as a cosmetic ingredient there are a handful of products out there that have this ingredient, this has to be the best one in my personal experience testing out many."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Cedil Vitamin C Serum

"I like to call this a niacinamide serum with a stable form of vitamin C of questionable efficacy. I've been using it [...] as the first step of my nighttime skincare routine after I get out of the shower when my skin's still a little bit damp. I've been putting this on my face and neck and then I put other products over it. I've been liking that combination. But I would not repurchase this per se. It's not a bad product. I've actually enjoyed using it."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Clarins Double Serum Complete Age-Defying Concentrate

"I really don't get the draw of this double serum from Clarins. It has a bunch of plant extracts which can offer some anti-inflammatory compounds and be soothing, for example it has avocado oil, oat kernel oil, and mango leaf extract that may have some polyphenols. It's like $95."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I ended up really, really liking this. I really love the texture of it. It's a little thicker in comparison to many other hyaluronic acid serums. I also really enjoyed using a drop of this to my lips followed by their lip sleep mask. I really like that pairing for ultra hydrated, plumped, smoothed, hydrated, happy lips. The hyaluronic acid serum also is really great around your eyes to help hydrate the skin there and smooth out the appearance of those little fine lines around your eyes."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals P-TIOX Wrinkle Modulating Peptide Cream

"It's $148, and I think this serum is too little too late in a saturated market of peptide serums. It's a good product, but there are so many other similar formulations with these particular peptides for much less, like the QRxLabs peptide booster serum, which I find just as good and honestly more hydrating than this. It's the price point that keeps me from recommending it, it's just way too expensive, so I would never buy this myself."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Mela B3 Dark Spot Corrector Serum

"I recently gave up on the Mela B3 serum. It's actually decent. It does have fragrance, which is not as strong as some of the other La Roche-Posay serums. It's a 10% niacinamide serum with their new Micéal ingredient that is supposed to disrupt some of the early processes that lead to pigment production. It also has niacinamide, which we know is good for dark spots. [...] 10% is unnecessary, more likely to be irritating. 5% is kind of within the zone of what has been studied."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX Glow Priming Serum

"A lot of people who use this find that their makeup starts getting very cakey and flaky and the product gets dry and kind of crusty. I've tried this and I reviewed it, I didn't experience the crusty flaky stuff with it, but I have tried others similar to this because there are a lot of these types of products, [...] and I have encountered the flaky stuff with others. This is a new product in that line and [...] it's a primer serum now. It is tinted, but it's kind of tinted."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

COSRX Hyaluronic Acid 3 Serum

"This morning I did the hydration lip stack the hyaluronic acid serum from COSRX followed by the Kerx Lip Sleeve Mask"

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Bubble Day Dream Vitamin C + Niacinamide Tone & Texture Serum

"The Bubble Daydream Tone and Texture Serum could be applied as the first step in a morning skincare routine after cleansing as your antioxidant and barrier support ingredient. This has niacinamide, which is good for dark spots and redness. It also has alpha arbutin, which can be helpful for dark spots, and tranexamic acid, which [...] applied topically can help with redness."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Bubble Water Slide Hydration Boosting Serum with Hyaluronic Acid and Peptides

"Water Slide, this is a hyaluronic acid and peptide serum. Peptides such a broad category of ingredients that may or may not do anything above and beyond hydrating the skin. Phytic acid is an antioxidant, gently exfoliate. Lactic acid is hydrating. This also has ceramides, which are good for the moisture barrier."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Clinical Discoloration Repair Serum

"Paula's Choice has 3% tranexamic acid but it also has 5% niacinamide. [...] Niacinamide like tranexamic acid is a good ingredient for dark spots, redness, the moisture barrier, reducing sensitivity, it's anti-inflammatory. All of these things that tranexamic acid may do depending on the formulation, niacinamide has a lot more research supporting that it does. I like that that's included because treating dark spots and hyperpigmentation, it's not usually just one ingredient."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser's Invisible Oil

"I'm a fan of the Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser's Invisible Oil. [...] The conditioners will help to limit the absorption of things that can discolor your hair from pool water. It's also a heat protectant, so when you do heat style your hair, use the lowest heat setting and [...] it will help to offset heating of the hair strands from your treatment that would otherwise damage your hair even further."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Milk

"I have the Hada Labo, this is one of my favorites. They also have the premium hydrating milk. These I believe have arbutin in them if I remember."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Renew Damage Reversal Serum

"I finished another bottle of Cetaphil Healthy Renew face serum with purified peptides. This is a lightweight hydrating serum I rather enjoy using after cleansing in the evening as the first step in my nighttime skincare routine, followed by my tretinoin, because it's just a little lightweight hydrating. It helps to improve water content in skin's outermost layer, you get a subtle softening of fine lines."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

L'Oreal Glycolic Bright Dark Spot Brightening Serum

"It's okay. I don't think the fragrance is something that is necessary and I honestly don't think that this product is particularly unique. I don't think it's necessarily going to be the end all be all, but I wouldn't be surprised if with regular continued use, provided you tolerate it, you do see an improvement in dark spots and hyperpigmentation, probably because of both the niacinamide and the fuic acid."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Niacinamide 10 Serum

"You really only need max 5%. 10% is kind of overboard and if anything can be more irritating. [...] The fragrance in their serums is so strong."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

StriVectin Anti-Wrinkle Peptide Plump Serum

"StriVectin has some peptide plump with alpha-3 peptide. You get these two bottles for $78.99 for some peptide plumping. Contours Crispus extract is very hydrating. I imagine this will help moisturize and give it sort of a plumping effect but you can achieve that with many other moisturizers. The packaging is kind of interesting for a moisturizer, almost looks like the kind of packaging they would use for foundation. I don't know, I think that would be annoying to use."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Prequel Lucent-C Brightening Vitamin C Serum

"I didn't find it to be irritating, a lot of ascorbic acid serums irritate my skin, especially ascorbic acid serums like this which have an acidic pH of 3. This one's 3.2, that 3.2 is a great pH in theory for allowing good penetration of the ascorbic acid but it can be more irritating. This product warns against using it around the eyes where the skin is more delicate, more prone to irritation. I [...] didn't experience any irritation with this one."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Medicube Age-R Booster H

"I'm not convinced that it's doing anything. I haven't seen a huge difference in my skin, and I do have some reservations about it and reasons why I'm not so sure you should jump on the bandwagon without thinking a little bit more about whether it's going to be right for you. First of all, let me go over what they say in terms of who should not use this. Anyone whose skin is red and tingling due to excessive tanning."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100 Collagen

"Once I saw this had spicules in it, it was an immediate no for me. I was not interested in using it. Foreign body granulomas are really challenging to get rid of, and that's one of my major reservations with this. [...] I'm really nervous about spicules. [...] I would just like to see more long-term safety data with these. You might say, well, you use those microneedle dissolvable patches, but those dissolve."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Redermic R Anti-Aging Treatment

"Retinol eye cream is usually a good idea in that case cuz they tend to be gentler"

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth FirmX Eye Treatment

"Really like this sunscreen it's really good actually no white cast doesn't burn around the eyes very hydrating"

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Serum

"This is interesting, they have the Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Serum at $21.99. Is that correct? This one has hyaluronic acid, retinol, and phyto complex. Does it have fragrance in it? Yeah, it does. I really dislike fragrance in leave-on products, like anything leave-on for the face, especially retinol and especially sunscreen. I just find that it gives me a headache and worsens redness. It's a really common allergen. But check it out."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Rhode Peptide Glazing Fluid

"I really like this. I liked putting this on after cleansing and then over it the Rhode Peptide Glazing Fluid. [...] This is objectively a good lightweight facial moisturizer that kept my skin hydrated. [...] I really can't say anything bad about these products, they worked well for me and I would repurchase them."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Caudalie Vinohydra Hydrating Hyaluronic Serum

"This is a hydrating serum from Caudalie. It has hyaluronic acid in it, of course, but it also has some components in it for the moisture barrier, natural moisturizing factors like amino acids. It has ceramides, which of course are good for the skin barrier, and no fragrance. I really like the texture."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Calming Serum: Green Tea + Panthenol

"It has artemisia extract which is anti-inflammatory, panthenol and glycerin are hydrating, allantoin is anti-inflammatory, Codonopsis root extract is very hydrating, licorice root compound is good for redness and hyperpigmentation, sodium hyaluronate good for hydration. You use two to three drops of serum onto the face, pat gently to help absorb. On the back of my hand it feels really nice and hydrating, no fragrance."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Vichy Mineral 89 Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Serum

"You get the Vichy Mineral 89, that's a really good hydrating hyaluronic acid serum."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Rosaliac AR Intense Serum

"I have tried the Rosaliac AR and it's kind of interesting it has a green tint to it but overall it kind of goes on streaky and chalky. It's not been my favorite."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

The Ordinary Alpha Arbutin 2% + Hyaluronic Acid

"I'm also making my way through the aloe 2% na so one of the questions that I get a fair amount is like is is it okay to use retinoids if you have sensitive rosacea prone skin and you absolutely can the question is like are you able to tolerate these ingredients because treat for rosacea topical retinoids actually can help the condition out quite a bit because first of all a retinoid whether it be a dappling or tretinoin or [tazarotene] um can help to reduce the number of the those rosacea bumps the red bumps the pusill bumps in theory it'll potentially help cut down on the burden of those little mites Demodex that also are contributory may help out with the inflammatory infiltrate against those that's part of you know the overall package that you get with rosacea but with long-term consistent use of a topical retinoid it actually kind of strengthens the epidermis and improves barrier function so with that you might experience an improvement in the symptoms of sensitivity because the retinoid helps the barrier function better"

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Differin Dark Spot Correcting Serum

"Differin came out with a new Dark Spot Correcting Serum that's basically just a niacinamide serum which is a shame although it also has sodium ascoril phosphate that's a stable form of vitamin C that's been shown to be helpful for acne in a small study. Unfortunately they left the fragrance in which again is a common allergen and irritant."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

The Ordinary Soothing & Barrier Support Serum

"It has a funky aroma to it, a little earthy. I [...] do use it around my eyes too and it's all absorbed and dry on there. [...] It does give the skin a little hydrated glow. Not the best thing I've ever used, but it does what it claims to do. It soothes, it supports, has that B12 in there for calming down age."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Mad Hippie Vitamin C Serum

"It's a kind of like a precursor to ascorbic acid, which if you remember from my Vitamin C Serum videos, ascorbic acid is not the most stable ingredient, so there are these stabilized derivatives but then there's always the question of like does it actually do anything. Anyway, it does appear to help cut down on acne and may be helpful via the sebum oxidation thing."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

The INKEY List Polyglutamic Acid Serum

"It can be applied to the skin after cleansing while the skin is still a bit damp, then you can put moisturizer on over it. This is actually a very good product from them. I've used it myself and repurchased it, probably one of my favorites from them. It offers many similar benefits to snail serum but does not involve the snail, and this one is a great one at 3% polyglutamic acid."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

BYOMA Hydrating Serum

"You get the jelly cleanser and the Hydrating Serum from BYOMA, I've used both of those, they're pretty nice. [...] The Hydrating Serum has ceramides in it and glycerin, so it's very hydrating and helpful for the barrier."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Beekman 1802 Milk Drop Ceramide Serum

"I have tried the milk drop serum and that's actually very nice and moisturizing. [...] The milk drops, one of the reasons I liked those is they have ubiquinone, which is CoQ10, an antioxidant that is naturally present in your skin but is lipid loving so it has a relatively decent ability to penetrate the skin depending on the formula of course."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Hydrating Serum with Hyaluronic Acid

"The Hydrating Serum with Hyaluronic Acid has licorice root in it too which is soothing and anti-inflammatory."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Avène A-Oxidative Serum

"This antioxidant protection antioxidant defense serum from Avène has scoryl glucoside, a stable form of vitamin C, and pre-tocopherol. Scoryl glucoside can get in and may help reduce free radicals, but most of the research is on ascorbic acid, not scoryl glucoside, so you may just be getting the vitamin E in there. If you're really interested in antioxidants, it's like question mark, is that really where it's at, or am I just getting another moisturizer?"

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Tula Brightening Treatment Drops Triple Vitamin C Serum

"This has sea buckthorn oil in it, which is an emollient that I actually rather enjoy in skincare products. My reservations with vitamin C make this a product that I'm skeptical about. With vitamin C serums, you really just never know if they're actually going to end up working out or doing anything for you, and if anything they can end up being a lot more irritating."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Vichy Neovadiol Serum for Perimenopause and Postmenopause

"This is new from Vichy, it is a serum marketed for people peri and post menopause with omegas. Omega fatty acids are helpful for the skin barrier and replenishing lipids in the skin and helping with lipid barrier integrity. Cassia extract may be anti-inflammatory. It has niacinamide, which is anti-inflammatory and good for hyperpigmentation and redness. Tocopherol is vitamin E. It has Scorpio glucoside, which is a stable form of vitamin C, but whether or not it improves collagen is questionable."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Moroccanoil Treatment

"I do this a couple of times a week just to help my hair be a little bit more stylable. [...] When I take a break from it and return to my Moroccan oil, my hair is a lot more manageable. This is the one hair oil that has not left my hair like uber greasy."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid

"This is a really good option if you have rough and bumpy skin on the face. It's a pretty no-nonsense mild exfoliant that can help with maintaining hydration in the skin."

✓Yay

95%Guru Score

Sunday Riley C.E.O. 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum

"So if you really want the benefits of topical vitamin C, THD may be easier to tolerate, maybe more reliable of an ingredient for formulators to work with, but for you the consumer you may not be getting the full package of benefits, but you may be getting just enough benefits to meet your needs. For example, THD as an antioxidant, it may be helpful in fading hyperpigmentation, it may be helpful in combating against oxidative stress from environmental exposures."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Facial Oil

"I'm not really one to use facial oils personally, but where I find them effective is if you have patches of dry flaky skin. I find they're helpful for exfoliating the dry flaky stuff without causing barrier disruption because they just slip between the rough skin and help it to desclamate without scrubbing away at the protective barrier. So I'd use this off and on for that purpose. It's fine, but because it's now beyond the best by date, I was going to use this for getting sticky labels out."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Some By Mi Beta Panthenol Repair Serum

"Don't buy it. This packaging is all wrong. [...] The dropper is pretty short and just the overall shape of this bottle, the dropper ends up tunneling into the product and all the product gets pushed to the sides of the container. It's very difficult to get any sucked up into the pipette into the dropper with each one, so you've constantly got to be moving it around to try and get product up into the little dispenser. It's the worst packaging. This is not it. This dropper is not it."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

The Ordinary Marine Hyaluronics

"The Ordinary makes a wonderful hydrating serum, the Marine Hyaluronics. I highly recommend it. It keeps the top layers of the skin hydrated and ultimately that smooths out fine lines and skin texture. It also helps support skin barrier turnover because the hydration that is held there in place allows the enzymes and the skin barrier to function better and ultimately that supports cell turnover. You also have glycerin which can penetrate a little bit more deeply to hydrate the skin."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Calm Repairing Serum

"This was so-so. It was a hydrating serum with beta glucan, which I really love, it's humectant rich. This also has sodium hyaluronate and other humectants. It has ceramides, which are good for the moisture barrier. Honestly, this whole line was a bit of a letdown in my opinion coming from Paula's Choice. I just felt like the products were kind of underwhelming. [...] It was nice, but I would not purchase it."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Revolution 2% Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"Two percent hyaluronic acid serum. I love hyaluronic acid as a humectant. It's a complete myth that topical hyaluronic acid is inflammatory. That is just not true. Topical hyaluronic acid is widely used in skin care products as well as in medicinal applications. It's actually anti-inflammatory and it helps with moisture content. Now that doesn't mean that some people don't find it irritating to their skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Triple Oat Serum

"These products in this line from Aveeno, calm and restore, are top dog. I especially love the calm and restore serum."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Effaclar Ultra Concentrated Serum

"I'm really bummed that La Roche Posay has added fragrance to the Effaclar serum, because this used to not have fragrance and was really good. Fragrance doesn't negate the benefits of the ingredients in this, but the fragrance in these serums is so strong and it lingers so much, that's really unfortunate. [...] It's got salicylic acid, but it also has LHA, which is a modified form of salicylic acid that's a little more precise in how it exfoliates."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

L'Oréal Revitalift Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I like the L'Oréal Revitalift Hyaluronic Acid Serum, it's really nice. I am a fan of hyaluronic acid serums, though you don't strictly need one since hyaluronic acid is pretty common in moisturizers. [...] I do find I get a little extra bang for my buck using a serum, and personally you don't need very much of it. You can get a trial size, but that's a huge markup for it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty 10% Vitamin C Brightening Serum

"It's a 10% Vitamin C Brightening Serum for fifty dollars. [...] 3-O ethyl ascorbic acid is not the most well researched form of vitamin C. [...] First Aid Beauty had some really good products back in the day, but they sold the company to another conglomerate and a lot of things changed and went downhill, and [...] I have not been such a fan since."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Vanicream Vitamin C Serum

"Vanicream recently came out with a Vitamin C Serum which I felt a twinge of disappointment about, I was not blown out of the water by it."

✕Nay

84%Guru Score

Phyla Fortify Serum

"I'm suspicious of their claims around their product. I'd like to see more long-term research on bacteriophages for acne management in general, let alone their product, and I'd like to see their product in a clinical trial that's actually published in a peer-reviewed journal before I would go buying any of the claims that they make."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Mela-D Pigment Control with Glycolic Acid

"I think this is a great product, it has capryloyl salicylic acid which can do the same thing as salicylic acid but is a little more precise, it also has tranexamic acid which applied topically may help with dark spots and also might help with redness, and it has panthenol which is moisturizing. [...] But it's 40.49, this is formerly Mela-D Pigment Control, and that's really expensive."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

RoC Revive and Glow Vitamin C Serum

"The serum has 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid, which is a stable form of vitamin C, whether or not it does anything, question mark, question mark. It also has fragrance and some botanic extracts and a peptide that may help with moisture retention."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"The ordinary Buffet is a really good one. I've personally used it numerous times and I find it very effective for minimizing the look of fine lines and improving skin elasticity, giving the skin that shiny, bouncy glow. You don't need very much of the product, you can use it in the morning or the evening, and [...] a bottle lasts a good long while."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Hyalu B5 Serum

"The La Roche-Posay Hyalu B5 is scented, and I've never really found it to be particularly wonderful."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Timeless B5 Hydration Serum

"I alternate these Timeless serums, three drops at a time, and I find they do add a little bit of a pep to my moisturizing step, but not like a must have or anything like that. [...] The B5 Hydration Serum is helpful for the moisture barrier, but you can get that from a moisturizer too."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Timeless 100% Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I'm still plugging along with these Timeless serums because they really carry you a long way. This hyaluronic acid serum is one of my favorites, just for a little bit of extra hydration. It has matrixyl 3000, which may or may not be doing anything, but when I traveled recently and didn't take it with me, [...] I did feel a bit of a difference in my skin without using it, maybe it's all in my head, but I noticed a slight difference."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Timeless Peptide Serum

"I still continue to use the Timeless peptide serums [...] and enjoy them, I'm really happy with them."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

No7 Menopause Skincare Instant Radiance Serum

"This is No7's new menopause skincare line, the Instant Radiance Serum. It has soy isoflavones which may actually help, it has antioxidants, and it also has ceramides, so it kind of looks promising. [...] I kind of want to try it, but it's expensive for a drugstore brand. [...] Topical soy isoflavones may help with a moisturizing effect and reducing oxidative stress in the skin, [...] and they're also good for hyperpigmentation, [...] but man, that's expensive."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

L'Oreal Revitalift Filler Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"Their hyaluronic acid serum is, you know, good. I currently have this."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Niacinamide Serum 10%

"Neutrogena came out with a new niacinamide serum at 10%, which is kind of high. Research shows benefit with upwards of 5%, and higher than that can end up being more irritating, but a lot of people tolerate higher percentages with no issue, so that's fine. [...] You don't necessarily need the separate serum though, [...] because a lot of moisturizers already have niacinamide in them."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Timeless Hyaluronic Acid Serum with Matrixyl

"I also have really liked their Hyaluronic Acid Serum with Matrixyl and magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, that's been another good one."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Timeless Matrixyl 3000 Serum

"I actually did not try this one. I was already going to be trying the other serums that have matrixyl 3000 in them, so I don't know that it necessarily offers anything over the other serums that have matrixyl 3000 plus additional active ingredients. I'd say this one is a skip, at least for me, in terms of what it offers."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Timeless Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum

"This has matrixyl synth prime 6, a different synthetic peptide from matrixyl 3000, along with glycerin and hyaluronic acid. It tolerated fine for me, no irritation. But to what extent it's going to offer strikingly different results from some of the other serums, I'm not convinced, so this one for me is one I would not repurchase."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Resveratrol 3% + Ferulic Acid 3%

"I [...] tolerate it and I like it because it's relatively inexpensive, it seems to be logically formulated, and I've had good success with many of the ordinary's products, so that's why I like it. [...] A word of caution though, you do not need a lot, you only need a few drops, and you can spread it on the surface of the skin very easily. [...] With a product like this it is on the acidic side, so it can be irritating for you, so be really conservative in the volume that you use."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Biopelle Tensage Snail Serum

"I've tried Biopelle's snail serum, and it has a horrible fragrance in it. I've tried both, and I personally think the Cosrx snail cream is superior to the Biopelle one."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Olay Vitamin C + Peptide 24 Brightening Serum

"That's not going to be everybody, and it's not something you should go out of your way to avoid, nor should you go out of your way to necessarily incorporate into your routine, but it's there. It may help with fading hyperpigmentation, but it's not as research backed as ascorbic acid, though it's easier to work with in formulation."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5

"If you want to use hyaluronic acid, the Ordinary is pretty good, they have a lot of it and it seems to be their main product."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"Hyaluronic acid [...] targets the stratum corneum [...] to help hydrate [...] the skin, plumping up skin cells and smoothing out wrinkles and fine lines. Some people find hyaluronic acid products irritate their skin, but otherwise it's very well tolerated, and this has occlusive ingredients like dimethicone to help trap the moisture in. But for the love of all things, do not pay 72 dollars for a hyaluronic acid serum, that is pretty pricey."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Guava Vitamin C Dark Spot Brightening Treatment Serum

"This brand is just like overhyped, Glow Recipe, let's put fruit juice in everything. This is a $45 hydrating serum with a bunch of humectants, [...] fragrance, [...] fruity extracts, and a peptide [...] I'm not sure what it does."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

TruSkin Vitamin C, E and Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum

"This TruSkin Vitamin C serum has ascorbic acid in it and hyaluronic acid. It was okay, it did oxidize pretty readily, and it's also got an ingredient that can help with healing and barrier recovery."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Bioderma Sensibio AR Serum

"They've got one of my favorite anti-redness moisturizers, the Sensibio AR by Bioderma, at 25.99. That's pretty steep."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Pure Vitamin C10 Serum

"La Roche Posay is another L'Oreal brand, but I believe their product has fragrance in it, which can be irritating and can actually worsen hyperpigmentation. Still, this is a good brand. The [...] packaging is a dropper bottle, and [...] as the ascorbic acid is exposed to air each time you go in and out of it, it is more likely to degrade, so ideally airless pumps would be a better option."

~Mixed

60%Guru Score

Vichy LiftActiv Vitamin C Brightening Skin Corrector Serum (15% formula)

"When we talk about vitamin C, I like to focus on ascorbic acid because that's really where the data lie, and this one by Vichy is an option. I [...] suggest going with bigger brands that have large R&D, like Vichy, which is a L'Oreal brand. But the packaging here is a dropper bottle, and [...] as the ascorbic acid is exposed to air each time you go in and out of that package, it is more likely that the ascorbic acid will degrade, so ideally airless pumps would be a better option."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Finacea Azelaic Acid Gel 15%

"It's been shown in clinical trials to be as effective as hydroquinone for melasma, [...] and it's also good for treating [...] acne and rosacea. Finacea at the prescription strength is an equally if not more compelling ingredient than even Differin for being available over the counter."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

BYOMA Brightening Serum

"The Brightening Serum has niacinamide which is going to be good for redness. I love niacinamide, but for those of you who don't get along well with it, you're kind of screwed because it's everywhere in skincare now."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Boots Vitamin C Serum with 3-O Ethyl Ascorbic Acid

"When seeking out vitamin C serums, [...] the more coveted form you're hoping for is L-ascorbic acid, but it's very challenging to formulate in a way that remains stable and gets into the skin. Three-O ethyl ascorbic acid may help act as an antioxidant, so it's not a bad ingredient, [...] but it hasn't been shown to actually get into the skin and convert to ascorbic acid. People do develop allergy to it."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Hyalu B5 Serum

"This is La Roche-Posay's hyaluronic acid serum and it does have fragrance in it, which can be irritating. [...] If you are sensitive, I would suggest not using this. Instead, there are other hyaluronic acid serums that are free of fragrance like the Neutrogena Hydro Boost [...] fragrance-free hyaluronic acid serum, [...] the Vichy hyaluronic acid serum, [...] and The Ordinary has hyaluronic acid too."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

I'm From Honey Serum

"This is the I'm From Honey Serum with honey that's antibacterial and [...] rich in humectants, so it's moisturizing. It has centella extract [...] for healing, turmeric root extract with antioxidants, niacinamide, [...] bee venom, [...] royal jelly, and propolis, which are going to have humectants and antioxidants. This product, unfortunately, does have fragrance. If you're allergic to fragrance, propolis and royal jelly often will cross-react, so you have to avoid it."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Tatcha Indigo Overnight Repair Serum in Cream

"This was sent to me in PR and I finished it. It's not bad. It's a very thick balm. It's really good if you're dealing with very dry skin and you're looking for something almost kind of like slugging. [...] This will get you there. If you're somebody who's interested in doing slugging and you don't get along with petrolatum, you want an alternative, some sort of balm or ointment, try this, although it is ungodly expensive. I don't necessarily think it's worth the price."

~Mixed

85%Guru Score

Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

"I reviewed the Timeless vitamin C serum and I'll link it down below. [...] If you're looking for a less costly alternative, you can use it like you use niacinamide, with other ingredients like retinol."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Regimen Lab Vitamin X Serum

"I finished the Regimen Labs Vitamin X Serum, which is an antioxidant serum. It has ferulic acid, which is a really good antioxidant. It's what's in vitamin C serums and this one also has vitamin C in it. I really enjoyed this. I did appreciate a skin brightening effect with this product, tolerated it really well, and honestly I like this brand, Regimen Labs. Unfortunately, this has gotten so popular they sell out frequently, but it was a good one."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Bliss Vitamin C Plus Tripeptide Serum

"This particular vitamin C is 3-O ethyl ascorbic acid, which is a form of vitamin C that's a lot more stable than ascorbic acid. But unfortunately it hasn't really been shown to work as far as brightening. It might brighten because it's an antioxidant, but it's not going to get in the skin and boost up collagen production. This has fragrance in it too."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

L'Oreal Age Perfect Cell Renewal Midnight Serum

"This has saccharomyces extract ferment extract, which is rich in antioxidants and humectants. It has salicylic acid oil, which is a modified form of salicylic acid, otherwise known as LHA. It's in a lot of products like La Roche-Posay. [...] It's a good ingredient that's a little more precise in how it exfoliates than just run-of-the-mill salicylic acid."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Bliss Bright Idea Serum

"This is a more lightweight version. [...] It does have licorice root, which is anti-inflammatory, and has glabridine, which actually can help in inhibiting how pigment gets transferred around and have a skin-brightening effect."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Honest Beauty Beauty Sleep Resurfacing Serum

"This has alpha hydroxy acids with glycolic and lactic acid, and niacinamide which is [...] good for redness, this is something that would probably be helpful for improving skin texture, you may want to just use something like this once or twice a week at night time in the beginning."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous C-Glow 15% Vitamin C Serum

"The stability concerns suggest to me that it's not the most stable formulation because the manufacturer is telling you to refrigerate it, to decant it, to keep it in special conditions. I would say skip it given the many limitations of ascorbic acid."

✕Nay

87%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Stress Less Serum with 0.5% Beta-Glucan and Metacast-Aide

"I was actually very underwhelmed by this product. It's just very blah, and I've been using this for several weeks and I'm really not getting anywhere with it. I really don't notice any difference in my skin with this. The [COSRX] CeraVe Hydration or Pure Fit would be a better choice."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous B-Bomb Niacinamide Serum

"This is a 10% niacinamide serum, and [...] once you start getting into higher percentages [...] it does come with a greater risk of irritation. [...] But honestly, you don't need a separate niacinamide serum because niacinamide is already in most moisturizers, and you're deriving the benefit from the ingredient in moisturizers which more often have a more appropriate, less irritating percentage strength."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Pad Azelaic Acid Serum

"I find that A.Pad tends to sting a little bit more than azelaic acid for me personally. It's an ingredient that doesn't have a lot of research behind it, and if you're wanting azelaic acid, you should just use [...] an azelaic acid that you can buy over the counter. The Ordinary or Face Theory have better options."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Oil-Free Mattifying Gel

"This has ceramides and licorice root. This actually looked pretty promising."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Facetheory Polypep Collagen Boosting Peptide Serum

"This has centella, which is good for healing and recovery, and urea, which is a fantastic ingredient for hydration and removing dry skin cells. It has polyhydroxy acids like lactobionic acid and gluconolactone, which are very very gentle exfoliants that people with rosacea and very sensitive skin tend to tolerate very well. If you have sensitive or rosacea-prone skin, this may be a good product to consider if you want to improve skin texture."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Anua Azelaic Acid 10% Hyaluron Redness Soothing Serum

"It's very hydrating. It's very soothing. Azelaic acid in a cosmetic non-medication can improve the appearance of skin tone and it can soothe the skin. In contrast to 15 and 20%, the 10% strength is meant for cosmetic use and meant to improve the appearance of the skin. [...] If you're just looking to incorporate this ingredient and you're not looking to have a prescription, you just want to try it out and see if you get a little improvement, this is a good product to experiment with."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Skin1004 Centella Asiatica Serum

"What I like about this ampoule in particular is that it contains polyglutamic acid, which is super hydrating but also creates a lightweight film on the skin to help reduce transepidermal water loss, along with ceramides [...] and niacinamide. It has a variety of peptides that can help with moisture retention, [...] plus glutathione, an interesting topical antioxidant. [...] It's still super, super lightweight, thin, and watery in texture, but there's a little bit of grip to it."

✓Yay

60%Guru Score

Remedy Daily Defense Vitamin C Serum

"I liked the antioxidant one just fine. [...] I would gladly use the antioxidant serum again."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Eucerin Radiant Tone Dual Serum with Thiamidol

"Fragrance can commonly trigger stinging and burning, and personally I just did not care for the strong fragrance in Eucerin's facial care products like this dual pigment thiamidol serum. I could not use them long term, it got on my nerves."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Virtue Alpha Keratin Healing Oil

"I got to say the Virtue Healing Oil. I mean, I have not bought the Orbe Gold Lust Oil in a while. And then since discovering the Virtue Healing Oil, I actually completely forgot about the Orbe one because what I like so much about the Virtue Healing Oil is, you know, I have pretty fine textured hair, like my individual strands are pretty fine and so a lot of hair products weigh it down and I almost never put things like that up here on the crown."

✓Yay

Notverified

Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Booster

"I finished a bottle of Paula's Choice Ectoin Booster serum. This is so good. It's very rich, very nourishing, very thick, very deeply hydrating. I even tried dragging this one out and not allowing myself to use it as many days because I wanted it to last. And I made it last a little bit longer this time around, but I went through it very quickly. This is one that I hate to say it, I probably at some point will repurchase again."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Abib Glutathione Dark Spot Serum Vita Drop

"This antioxidant serum layered under your sunscreen is a winning pair right there for protecting against the key aggravants. What I really appreciate about this particular serum is that it incorporates multifunctional ingredients. First of all, you have the golden child, 5% niacinamide, a B vitamin that is an antioxidant. It helps replenish antioxidant stores to defend against these environmental aggressors that lead to oxidative stress, which ages our skin."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Merit Great Skin Instant Glow Serum

"I wonder if it's the niacinamide in this is just like not formulated correctly because it can be an irritating ingredient. [...] This is like niacinamide and not a whole lot else. Maybe hyaluronic acid. Yeah, it's a pass for me, but I don't recommend it to you guys. Not only because it caused that issue for me, which can just be a me specific issue, okay? But it's expensive for what it is. So, this is a pass."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel with Hyaluronic Acid

"Hydro Boost is on sale, you guys. It's $23.99. This has urea, which is wonderful for hydrating the skin and gently exfoliating."

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83%Guru Score

BYOMA Phyto-Mucin Hydrate + Plump Glow Serum

"It's become a 2025 skincare favorite. It's the BYOMA Phyto-Mucin Hydrate + Plump Glow Serum. [...] It's sort of an alternative to snail mucin. [...] One of the things I really have liked about this is that it's very hydrating and it doesn't dry down filmy. It offers that plumping effect that you get from snail mucin. It's not quite on par with snail mucin. For me personally, the snail mucin really plumps the surface of my skin, firms the surface of my skin and diminishes pore size."

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85%Guru Score

Arencia Holy Hop Serum 30

"Arenia Holy Hop Serum 30, you might think is going to be a fluid. It's not. It's basically like a gel cream, a gel moisturizer. It's really thick. It's really glossy. It's deeply hydrating and limits penetration of stuff that you put on top of it and evaporative water loss. It doesn't feel greasy on the skin likely because it's very glycerin rich. Glycerin is a humectant but in glycerin rich products starts to act more as a barrier to water loss."

✓Yay

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Maelove Fade Away Dark Spot Correcting Serum

"I love May Love's discoloration serum. It's excellent. I used it consistently for over a year and got really great results."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Wishtrend Mandelic Acid 5% Skin Prep Water

"Mandelic acid is an alpha hydroxy acid that's super gentle. Great for rough skin texture, softening keratosis pilaris, hastening the clearance of dark marks, generally well tolerated. [...] I've been recommending this product from Wishtrend for years now, at least 6 years. [...] Not only does it have mandelic acid, but it's got licorice root, great for redness, soothing the skin, and it's got betalucan, which is really hydrating. Love this. Fragrance-free."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"The COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster is a peptide serum that's very hydrating. It has acetyl glucosamine, which is great for moisture balance, amino acids, and a variety of peptides which may help to a certain extent in helping your skin with its collagen production needs, but at any rate seems to be helpful for improving moisture content. I really like actually using this serum as the first step in a skincare routine after cleansing."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum 3:1

"I find that the NIOD serum is fine, it works well, [...] but I don't enjoy using it as much. I find it a bit more unwieldy texturally speaking. The Ordinary serum has a little bit more substance to it and feels like you're putting more on than just a very thin liquid that slips through your fingers. That's really just a personal preference; it doesn't necessarily speak to efficacy per se."

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

RoC Derm Correction Firming Serum Stick

"I did test it out on my skin, and Rock retinols are all really good. I'm confident the retinol in this is good. I just didn't really see the utility of this because [...] when I'm going to use retinol on my neck, I want a moisturizing cream that's very hydrating and soothing. This is pretty moisturizing, but it [...] wasn't like the Rapid Wrinkle Repair regenerating cream, which is such a lux cream and smooths out fine wrinkles while you wait for the retinol to kick in over several weeks."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Remedy Dark Spots Nightly All-in-One Treatment

"I've tried this out myself and I really like the formula. As far as the cons, consistency, the feel, it spreads on the skin easily, it's hydrating, didn't cause me any irritation, didn't sting. Of course I love that it's fragrance-free, there's no odor with this. The formulation is really logical and makes a lot of sense, nothing unnecessary or superfluous. Now whether or not it's going to work for any one person is very difficult to predict."

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85%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I rather enjoy this the hyaluronic acid serum. [...] Hyaluronic acid improves moisture content in the top layers of the skin and that's really beneficial for the skin barrier because when your skin gets dry, the top layers of the skin become dehydrated, you're losing water because you have a barrier issue. The enzymes that are in there trying to do their thing, they don't work as well."

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74%Guru Score

Skin1004 Hyalu-Cica Blue Serum

"I genuinely see an improvement in skin softness with this product, it's very good and I highly recommend it. [...] It has compounds from centella, which are helpful for healing recovery and have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, [...] it's very hydrating, it has hyaluronic acid. It doesn't have fragrance but it has some botanic extracts that give it [...] a bit of an aroma of grape, be aware of that, but nothing that lingers."

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77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Mandelic Acid 10% + HA

"This is a really good product for improving the look of sunspots and hyperpigmentation. It has [...] a really short, simple ingredient list. The hyaluronic acid helps pull water into the top layer of the skin, plumping up skin cells and smoothing everything out."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Cleansers128 reviews

Neutrogena Pore Cleanser 2% Salicylic Acid

"I love the salicylic acid cleanser. It also has polyhydroxy acids which are very, very gentle exfoliants, like so gentle they're often tolerated well by people with like rosacea for example. They're also very hydrating. It has the 2% salicylic acid cleanser. The salicylic acid can still exfoliate the skin in a cleanser. It doesn't all go down the drain. It does deposit on the skin. It does quickly get into the pore to exfoliate it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Banila Co Clean It Zero Original Cleansing Balm

"From everything I remember, I did really like Green Clean. This is a small little thing. Good for your travel bag. This is their cleansing balm. I love a cleansing balm. It's the first step in a double cleanse."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Prequel Pre-Cleanse Cleansing Oil

"Overall, I really like this cleansing oil. I think it's fantastic. I would gladly repurchase it over and over again. It's relatively affordable. I mean, it's not the least expensive, it's not the most expensive. It's pretty similar performance-wise to the Kose Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil, which I frequently repurchase from Japan."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser

"It breaks up that cosmetic residue and then you hop in the shower and use a gentle cleanser to wash your face properly. Works wonderfully. [...] It's not as stripping and it's like you're rubbing a moisturizer on and then you rinse it off. You don't have to get the skin wet before using this. [...] I really ended up enjoying using it in that way quite a bit."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Garnier Erase It All Makeup Cleansing Balm with Hyaluronic Acid

"It's from Garnier. My one complaint is that they have a sticky label on the package. And for cleansing balms or ointments, they shouldn't do that because it inevitably starts to peel off with a [...] greasy or oilier ointment."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Neutrogena Makeup Remover Cleansing Towelettes Fragrance-Free

"I love the fragrance-free ones. However, the ones with fragrance are horrible. [...] The performance is just a different color package, so [...] there's not anything remarkable about this. But I'll tell you where these come in handy: some mascaras fleck all over the place when you're putting them on and make a mess, no matter the application technique, and these are really handy for getting that stuff off. Currently, they have these for $19.99."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

CeraVe Renewing SA Cleanser

"The CeraVe Renewing SA Cleanser is great for gentle exfoliation as well as blackhead prone skin."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Eucerin Radiant Tone Face Cleansing Gel with 2% AHA

"This is a fragrance-free gel cleanser with 2% AHA. Lactic acid and glycolic acid are the AHAs in the 2%. Those are great ingredients in a gel cleanser like this for not only hydrating the skin but also offering some gentle exfoliation. This is a really great option as well for those of you who have keratosis pilaris on the cheeks for exfoliating away those rough bumps gently. It will help to reduce the buildup of dry dead dull skin at the surface."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser

"Cleanse with a mild cream cleanser like the CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser. [...] It has ceramides in it, good for the skin barrier."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Walgreens Hypochlorous Acid Cleansing Spray

"This stuff is great when you get really sweaty if it makes your face itch. Hypochlorous can be helpful for reducing itch and people who have atopic dermatitis and sweat is a common trigger for that. Plus, it's antibacterial. It can kind of help cut down on body odor too if you get really sweaty. People who have acne prone skin like to use it because it's anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial, but it's not like an established acne treatment."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Purifying Foaming Cleanser

"You can actually put it on to a dry face, rub it around almost like a cold cream approach. [...] You just massage it on, it breaks up most of the cosmetic film. It's a little less forgiving with water resistant mascara, but it works well to remove cosmetic residue and debris. [...] If you don't wear a lot of makeup, it is great to use as just a facial cleanser and then rinse it off."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

CeraVe Foaming Facial Cleanser

"This is one of my favorite facial cleansers to have in the shower as the second step in my double cleanse. Great for pretty much any skin type. Super gentle, super effective. Hyaluronic acid to hydrate, glycerin to hydrate. Get the fragrance-free formula. I don't like the scent in the ones with fragrance."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

CeraVe Acne Control Cleanser with 2% Salicylic Acid

"CeraVe's acne control cleanser is also another salicylic acid facial cleanser that's great for those issues."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

BYOMA Milky Jelly Cleanser

"It is anti-inflammatory, and of course it also has ceramide, similar to the CeraVe cleansers, but without the niacinamide, if you are niacinamide overloaded right now in your skincare routine. This was fine, I didn't have any gripes with it or problems, but the packaging is a reason why I would not buy this again, because I just don't like the uncertainty of if this is truly empty or not. That bothers me like you would not believe. Otherwise I really liked it a lot."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

PanOxyl 4% Benzoyl Peroxide Cleansing Wash

"It's 4% benzoyl peroxide. It cuts down on the bacteria that break down your sweat and lead odor. It doesn't keep you dry or anything, but it will help cut down on odor. And you can also use it to wash your feet to cut down on foot odor. And some people have a condition on their torso called progressive macular hypomelanosis. They continue to get these little white spots and it's actually related to the acne causing bacterium, cutibacterium acnes."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Shiseido Perfect Cleansing Oil

"I was like, cleansing oils all pretty much work the same. Like, is it really that advantageous to have a more expensive scented one? No."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Garnier Micellar Gentle Peeling Water with PHA and Glycolic Acid

"This one's got PHA and glycolic acid. This seems more like a toner to me. Like it would be useful in that regard."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water with Vitamin C

"There's also a vitamin C one that is likewise fragrance-free. It does not have ascorbic acid in it though. It has ascorbial glucoside which may help defend against oxidative stress but isn't like going to get into the skin convert to ascorbic acid to improve collagen production."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Garnier Micellar Water with Salicylic Acid

"Garnier came out with a salicylic acid containing micellar cleansing water. Salicylic acid's great for blackheads and whiteheads. It gets down in the pore to exfoliate. It's also really good if you have seborrheic dermatitis. I'm just not a fan personally for me of the micellar waters."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Anua Heartleaf Plus Vitamin E Pore Control Cleansing Oil

"It has fragrance and that killed it for me. You know, it does what it's supposed to do. No shade to this as far as its efficacy. It works. All right. There's not a whole lot you can do to make a cleansing oil not work. They pretty much all work the same. But you can ruin a cleansing oil by making the experience unpleasant. And for me, this fragrance was unpleasant. One of the reasons I like using cleansing oils so much is for eye makeup removal."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Versed Day Dissolve Cleansing Balm

"Speaking of cleansing oils, that did not go well for me and I suffered through to the end. Don't buy this. Whatever you do, don't buy it, unless you like putting Vicks VapoRub in your eye. Do not buy the Versed Day Dissolve Cleansing Balm, vitamin E and eucalyptus. Do we have a head cold? I think not. This was misery to use. [...] It's pretty hard to actually screw up the functionality of a cleansing oil or cleansing balm, but [...] you can really ruin it from an experiential part of things."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Foaming Oil Cleanser

"Skinfix has an oil cleanser here. Prebiotic foaming oil cleanser. Skinfix is expensive. This has some peptides. It has lactic acid which may gently exfoliate as well as hydrate. Ceramides good for eczema, the skin barrier."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser

"I liked everything from Prequel that I've tried. [...] The glycerin based cleanser works well as a body wash. [...] Relatively affordable, too."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Youth to the People Kale and Green Tea Spinach Vitamin Superfood Cleanser

"It was a little bit too salad in your face adjacent for me if I recall correctly."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water

"I personally detest this [micellar] water in particular."

✕Nay

96%Guru Score

Manyo Factory Pure Cleansing Oil

"In contrast to a micellar water, a cleansing oil is amazing in my experience, my preference for removing eye makeup. This is a vegan formula, it is scented. You get the two 6.7 oz bottles and an 1.8 oz bonus travel size for $29.99. I have to say, when it comes to travel, travel size cleansing oils are very difficult to come by. More brands should offer travel size cleansing oils in a bottle and packaging that you can throw in a travel bag and not have it leak all over the place."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Softy Mo Speedy Cleansing Oil

"They've got the Softy Mo Cleansing Oil. These are really good. $9.99."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Balancing Air Foam Facial Cleanser

"This is also new a balancing air foam cleanser."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

CeraVe Acne Clay to Foam Cleanser

"This is new, the clay to foam cleanser, salicylic acid cleanser. It's good for acne and hyperpigmentation, also seborrheic dermatitis."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Tatcha Matcha Cleanse Daily Clarifying Gel Cleanser

"Tatcha, and they're $32.98 for a gel cleanser. That works out to $6.60 per ounce. [...] I'm sure it washes your face just fine. I may have even tried it out at one point. I'm honestly not remembering it, so it can't be that notable."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Caudalie Vinoclean Cleansing Oil

"I love cleansing oils. These are interesting."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Exfoliating Salicylic Acid Cleanser

"I love the Cetaphil gentle clear line is slept on. This salicylic acid cleanser is great. It also has polyhydroxy acids in it which are really hydrating."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Kate Somerville Eradicate 3% Daily Foaming Cleanser

"And it does not. It does [...] smell a bit like sulfur when you're using it, but it doesn't actively leave the skin smelling that way. It has a lavender scent to it. Not strong, not headache-inducing. The lavender does not remain on your skin. [...] Don't use it around your eyes because eyelid skin is very delicate and this could be too drying. [...] I had no issue with it except after a while, I started to notice that around my mouth in particular, I was getting a lot of dryness and redness."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Kose Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil

"Their speedy cleansing oil is one of my favorites. It's pretty affordable, too."

✓Yay

94%Guru Score

Vanicream Z-Bar

"Their zinc pyrithione cleansing bar is back. Highly recommend that for those of you with seborrheic dermatitis."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Tirtir Hydroboost Enzyme Cleansing Balm

"This is a good cleansing balm. I repurchase it 100%."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Cleanser

"Did you guys see that Neutrogena came out with a fragrance-free version of their oil-free acne wash? I'm excited for that."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Light Cleansing Oil

"I do the oil cleanse stuff before I get in the shower and I've been using the Madagascar centella Skin1004 light cleansing oil, rather enjoying this, pretty nice."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Foaming Oil Cleanser

"It's not the least bit drying or irritating. It's very effective at getting makeup off without using an oil cleanser, although if you have heavy makeup this alone might not be enough. Like all of CeraVe's products, it has ceramides, it has hyaluronic acid, it has cholesterol. These are things that in a cleanser can be deposited behind on the skin and don't just rinse off right away, so they can help in making sure that your skin does not become overly dry or stripped with cleansing."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm

"Clinique's Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is [...] probably okay to get here. It's $19.99, pretty good deal. I'd get the travel one though because that's kind of a more convenient thing to have in your travel bag as a cleansing balm, and it can be hard to find cleansing balms that are small."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Beplain Mung Bean pH Balanced Cleansing Foam

"Something mung bean from this brand I've never heard of, Beplain, we have a Mung Bean pH Balanced Cleansing Foam, pretty sizable tube here. This has ceramide, it has some flower extracts, eggplant fruit extract, glycerin. Only time will tell how this is. I'll definitely use it because cleansers, I definitely make my way through."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

e.l.f. SKIN Blemish Breakthrough Clarifying Cleanser

"The cleanser is clear, colorless, and as you can see it generates kind of a bit of a clumpy unwieldy lather, but it does end up lathering quite nicely. I have no issues with this cleanser. I thought it was great. It's fragrance free."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser

"I finished the Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser. I also like using this as a hand wash. It gets the job done. It's very gentle, it's free of common allergens and irritants, it has a nice gentle foam to it, it's great for oily, dry, or combination skin."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water

"Micellar water is helpful for some people for removing makeup, water resistant sunscreen, cosmetic residue. It's like an option, right? You have oil cleanser, cleansing balm, micellar water. It works for some people. For me, I never find that these work particularly well. [...] When I've tried this, it just burns around my eyes and causes eyelid irritation."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Olay Cleansing Melts Hyaluronic Acid

"I think these would be great for travel. Retinol can be deposited on your skin from a wash through the process known as coacervation, any active can be deposited on the skin. [...] For those of you who have really sensitive skin and haven't tolerated retinol, you might try it in a facial cleanser and take advantage of the short contact therapy approach. Be careful using this around the eyes though, it can be irritating to eyelid skin."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Prequel Gentle Cleanser

"I finished up the Prequel Gentle Cleanser, really enjoyed that. Not only is it a great facial cleanser but it's also a really good body wash, and it's a pretty good value too. I honestly have to give props to everything I've tried from Prequel. While some of the things for me are not necessarily something I'd go back to, a lot of the products I have really enjoyed using, like they've been really good."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Clinique Take the Day Off Melting Makeup Remover

"I'm currently using this right now to remove makeup. It's quite good. It's one of my favorite Clinique products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Soap and Glory Peaches and Clean Deep Cleansing Milk

"This is new from Soap and Glory Peaches and Clean Cleansing Milk. I don't mind fragrance if it's not super strong in a wash-off product, a product that's going to be rinsed off the skin. This looks interesting. I like these kind of mild creamy cleansers. I wonder if this is, [...] you know, like what that brand Aveeno has, they have a micellar cleansing milk that I really like. I wonder how this is in comparison."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Omega Cleansing Balm

"The Omega Plus Complex Cleansing Balm from Paula's Choice is just a non-nonsense effective pleasurable to use in my opinion fragrance-free cleansing balm to help melt away cosmetic residue and water-resistant sunscreen. It's a great option easy to tolerate around the eyes for eye makeup removal. You spread it on the skin surface, massage it in, and then with just a little bit of water it will emulsify and rinse off the skin surface, and then you can wash your face as normal."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Kose Sekkisei Treatment Cleansing Oil

"The treatment cleansing oil is $119.99 and this one does have fragrance. I honestly don't think that's a great deal because the Kose Speedy cleansing oil that I'm using right now is much less expensive, fragrance-free, and probably performs exactly the same and is less expensive."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Moisturizing Wash

"La Roche Posay also has a creamy wash in their Lipikar care line that is another excellent choice"

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Clear Complexion Clearing BPO Acne Cleanser

"They micronized benzo peroxide cleanser is also good 2.6% benzo peroxide good for acne as well as body odor although you might want to go with a higher strength for body odor purposes"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Senka Perfect Whip Cleansing Foam

"Senka Perfect Whip, I think I've tried the beauty foam before, it's pretty good, mild cleanser. I believe they're scented. This is one of my favorite, I haven't used it in a while."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Sofim Mo Speeding Cleansing Oil

"Sofim Mo has a cleansing oil that's really good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Aveeno Ultra-Calming Cleanser

"This is one of my favorite products from Aveeno. The tolerance extremely gentle cleanser. I like to use this as an eye makeup remover as a first step in a double cleanse."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Biore Ultra Deep Cleansing Pore Strips

"Of course they're going to come right back, so it's one of those things you have to keep doing. I do caution with Biore pore strips that they definitely can cause a lot of irritation. Anytime you're stripping, whether it be putting tape on your skin or something like a pore strip which is basically a type of tape, it can strip away at your skin barrier. [...] Along with that you can get dryness and irritation, so don't overdo it with those. But they certainly can help."

~Mixed

56%Guru Score

EltaMD Acne Oil-in-One Gel Cleanser

"It has lactobacillus pumpkin ferment which may enrich for anti-inflammatory compounds, it has turmeric root extract which may also be anti-inflammatory, it's fragrance-free. It does what it's supposed to do. Is it the best product I've ever tried for makeup removal? No. But it's not the worst. Like I said, it does what it's supposed to do. I think for the price though, I'm going to stick with a cleansing oil or a cleansing balm."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm

"They also have a little tiny e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm like this product. It does have fragrance but it's pretty mild, like it's not headache inducing or anything. Obviously if you're allergic to fragrance you have to avoid it, but I don't mind it in this. And then you know you're rinsing it off so it's less likely to be irritating to the skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Olay Regenerating Cream Cleanser

"Here we've got ascorbic acid may help ward off oxidative stress and salicylic acid. It's got niacinamide which is a great ingredient if you tolerate it, good for the moisture, be good for redness, hyperpigmentation, anti-aging, helps improve ceramide production. Palmitoyl pentapeptide 4 is going to be hydrating."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Klairs Rich Moist Foaming Cleanser

"Klairs Rich Moist Foaming Cleanser, that'll be good. It's got ceramides, turnip leaf extract, some amino acids, it looks like for hydration, licorice root, tea tree leaf oil. Now, you know, you can be allergic to that, but it shows promise for seborrheic dermatitis, so there's that. It comes in a pump and you can smell the tea tree. It's puffy, I got a little bit on my nose, but looking forward to trying that out."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bubble Fresh Start Gel Cleanser

"Bubble has a little Starter Set you get their Fresh Start Gel Cleanser which I've used and is pretty good."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pure Skin Cleanser

"I'm not like the biggest fan of micellar waters, not because I think they're bad or anything, they just don't really work well for me. But an e.l.f. one that is so cute does it have fragrance? Yes it does. Fragrance compound that can oxidize and be more sensitizing. That's something that if somebody's going to be triggered to develop sensitivity and become allergic to fragrance, that's a concern."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Walgreens Gentle Facial Cleanser

"Walgreens has a version of the vanny cream Gentle Facial Cleanser. [...] It's the same volume, 8 oz, but Walgreens is making it seem like you're getting more, and you are getting more for your money at $1.14 an ounce as opposed to $1.87."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Creamy Cleanser

"They have a creamy cleanser in that same line that is great if you have very dry extremely sensitive skin, have the least impact on your skin barrier. The creamy one is actually really good."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm

"One of my favorites is actually their Oat Cleansing Balm. Use it to dissolve makeup, water resistant sunscreen. It has emulsifiers in it so that when you come in with a little bit of water and then a mild cleanser, it all just rinses away. It's very effective, gentle around the eyes. It kind of has an odd odor to it. It's fragrance-free but it has oat in it, so it's kind of like if you've ever bathed in colloidal oatmeal, you know that smell, that aroma."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Pure Skin Face Cleanser

"The Pure Skin Face Cleanser is really good"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

CeraVe Acne Foaming Cream Cleanser with 4% Benzoyl Peroxide

"The acne foaming cleanser is a 4% benzoyl peroxide wash that can help to clear up and prevent breakouts. It can also be used on the body as well. Benzoyl peroxide can be a bit drying, so a wash form is one way to utilize the ingredient, derive the benefits with less irritation and dryness. May take a little bit longer to start working, but definitely beneficial in a wash form."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

PanOxyl 10% Benzoyl Peroxide Wash

"It's just the one that's been around the longest that I've been using and recommending for the longest. PanOxyl 10% wash is a great body wash for people who have body acne, chest, back, shoulders. Works really well for clearing up and preventing acne breakouts on the body. Can also be used on the face, although it is a bit more drying in comparison to their 4% strength. The other way I always encourage to use this is for cutting down on body odor."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Versed Purest Antioxidant Cleanser

"It can help aid in reducing oxidative stress from those things that damage DNA and proteins and lipids, but it's very variable from product to product in terms of whether an antioxidant is going to do anything for you. It has to be the right form, it has to get into the skin, it has to be at the right place at the right time."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

The INKEY List 2% Salicylic Acid Cleanser

"The INKEY List has come out with a two percent salicylic acid liquid exfoliant in a base formula with blue algae extract, which marine extracts are super hydrating. This is going to be helpful if you are someone who has comedones, which are facial bumps. This can also be helpful to use if you're someone who is prone to getting milia, those little white firm bumps that can happen in areas where you have a lot of sun damage or if you have had a procedure recently like dermabrasion."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Current State of Skin Salicylic Acid and Green Tea Exfoliating Cleanser

"Current State of Skin here we have a Salicylic Acid and Green Tea Exfoliating Cleanser. If you're someone who doesn't tolerate these salicylic acid products and find them drying because it can be consider using a salicylic acid cleanser you can derive the benefits of the ingredient but it tends to be less irritating. It also has alpha hydroxy acids, glycolic and lactic."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Super Soft Foam Cleanser

"Skin1004 has a poor amazing deep cleansing foam here. I like this brand, their sunscreens are nice. Centella, most of their products have, which is a botanic with anti-inflammatory properties."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

The Ordinary Glucoside Foaming Cleanser

"It's very boring, and you all know I like boring skincare, I like bland, basic, no-nonsense. It works, it gets the job done. But if you're sitting there thinking to yourself, oh my gosh, this new cleanser, is it going to be like this wonderful experience, I think you'll be let down a bit. It's just very, it gets the job done, but it's not anything to write home about. I was not able to use it by itself to remove eyeshadow and mascara."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

The Ordinary Glycolipid Cream Cleanser

"This is a cream cleanser that you can apply to dry or damp skin and I have to tell you guys I have been rather impressed with the performance of this. If you have very sensitive irritated skin, or maybe you're using Accutane and you want the mildest gentlest products, this is a very very very mild gentle creamy soothing frankly cleanser that actually does a good job removing cosmetics."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The INKEY List Fulvic Acid Brightening Cleanser

"I tried this and it's okay, it's not like magical. [...] I felt like it was a bigger issue that a lot of The INKEY List products have a short Best By opening number. This one's only good within six months, which seems really short for a cleanser. I mean, that's small packaging anyway, so you'll probably go through it quickly, but it's just kind of odd."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

CeraVe Acne Foaming Cream Cleanser with Salicylic Acid and Glycolic Acid

"CeraVe has a product for acne that combines salicylic acid and glycolic acid that I've recommended on here a fair amount. It's really good, it's moisturizing, it's hydrating, it's effective."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Pixi Cleansing Oil

"Pixie also has a new Cleansing Oil with soybean oil and argan oil, no fragrance. It's 14, not too bad."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Facial Cleanser

"These products from Aveeno are great options. It's a fragrance-free facial cleanser, and I really like it. You can get it as a refill."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Ultra Gentle Cleanser

"I didn't particularly care for the texture. I found it a little slippery, a little slimy, and for the price I just did not feel as though it was anything mind-blowing. It's just a very basic, mild, fragrance-free cleanser, but the texture of it was a little unwieldy and I didn't quite enjoy that. But I did finish it."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Effaclar Medicated Gel Cleanser

"For me personally I have encountered some eyelid dryness from time to time if I'm not careful with the frequency of use, but overall it is a very good hydrating cleanser. It does have menthol in it, which gives it almost a medicated feel with a bit of a tingle, and if your acne is very itchy that may offer some symptomatic relief, but menthol is a fragrance ingredient, so if you are allergic to fragrance be aware it could cross react with your fragrance allergies."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Krave Beauty Makeup Rewind Transforming Jelly Oil Cleanser

"One that I really enjoy is the Crave Beauty [...] jelly oil cleanser, it's really nice, definitely really nice. [...] For this jelly oil consistency I think the Crave Beauty one is better than the Fenty Skin cleanser."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Refreshing Cleanser

"I recently finished up the Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Refreshing Cleanser. I was using this for a bit in the shower as the second step in my double cleanse, and it's nice, it's a gel cleanser, hydrating, not overly drying, doesn't have a robust foam. It's one of those gel cleansers that's a little bit slippery in your hands though, so you have to be careful with it, but it was good."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

d'Alba White Truffle Return Oil Cream Cleanser

"I actually saved this bottle and purchased refills, but I finished a whole bottle's worth over this past month. [...] This is one of the best cleansing oils in my experience, it does a good job, it's a nice experience, there's no fragrance and it emulsifies nicely, and I love that you can purchase refills of this."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Ginger Melt Oil Cleanser

"It's not bad, it does the job, it's just thirty five dollars, and [...] it just didn't bring anything else to the table compared to my favorite cleansing oils. It does emulsify just fine and it does rinse off well, I had no issue using it to remove eye makeup and water resistant sunscreen."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Neutrogena Classic Salicylic Acid Face Wash

"I had acne, and I washed my face with Neutrogena salicylic acid face wash, and that was really helpful for me personally. I was lucky, my acne wasn't that severe, so I didn't need to see a dermatologist for it, [...] and I was able to control it with that cleanser. I didn't try much else, I had that cleanser, I figured this is an acne cleanser so this must be what I need to wash my face with, and I used it and it helped."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Clear Pore Cleanser

"I love their Clear Pore Cleanser mask. This is basically guiding you through the short contact therapy if you choose the intensive mask option, [...] it's 3.5% benzoyl peroxide."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Noxzema Original Deep Cleansing Cream

"If you are somebody who has eczema and you're wondering about Noxzema, I would say I don't recommend it, even though it was initially developed for people with eczema. It has menthol so it can be actually pretty soothing to itch, but the ingredients are super irritating overall, like camphor. A lot of people love this and use it and it works out well for them, so I'm not telling you that you should stop using it, but if you have eczema, I don't recommend it."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

CeraVe Makeup Removing Cleanser Balm

"It rinses off, it works, [...] it's got ceramides. [...] The jar is TSA friendly so I used this a fair amount traveling this year. [...] One thing about this is I wish it came with something to get the product out because it's actually kind of hard to scoop out a small amount and not get too much, and I think that's part of why I went through it so quickly. [...] They did a good job with it, I just wish it were a little less expensive."

✓Yay

59%Guru Score

Heimish All Clean Balm

"I do like their All Clean cleansing balm."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Resist Anti-Aging Hydrating Cleanser

"I didn't bring a second cleanser [...] this time because I finished my travel size of the Paula's Choice cleanser, so I just used that, emulsified it and rinsed it off, and it seemed to do the trick."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Nourishing Oat Cleanser

"For the Calm and Restore Nourishing Oat Cleanser, this is a great gentle cleanser. I reviewed it in the past, and now you can get a refill on Amazon [...] which is [...] less expensive than repurchasing the bottles."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Redness Relief Foaming Cleanser

"It's free of fragrance, very mild, and not overly drying. [...] Overall this one is great if you happen to have dry sensitive skin because it is pretty mild, it uses a [...] gentle surfactant and gives a nice puff of foam. [...] Two ingredients may be issues for people with allergies, feverfew and decyl glucoside, but that's nothing you need to strategically avoid unless you have a confirmed allergy. It's reasonably priced, 7.83 for six ounces."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

CeraVe Micellar Cleansing Water

"A long time ago I reviewed the CeraVe micellar water, I hated it, it burned my eyes like none other."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Le Domaine Cleansing Emulsion

"The Cleansing Emulsion, like the cream, has fragrance, and it has centella and sunflower seed oil. Sounds like it might be a very nice mild cream cleanser for dry skin. But it's coming in at $80, which is just absurd, and I will not be buying it."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Burt's Bees Gentle Cream Cleanser

"This is a pretty decent cleanser, the Burt's Bees Gentle Cream Cleanser, but I would not pay six dollars for this little tiny sample of it."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

CeraVe Eye Makeup Remover

"That said, all I have to say is this is actually a really good product. My experience with eye makeup removers is that they kind of burn for me personally, but this one does not, and it really takes it all off nicely. If you like to take your makeup off when you get home from work but you're not going to do your skincare routine yet, you can actually leave this residue on the skin, though ultimately I do suggest taking it off with a gentle cleanser. [...] It works really well."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Cream-to-Foam Cleanser

"I reviewed this hydrating cream to foam cleanser a while ago. I like it, but I just didn't really see that it added much to the CeraVe cleanser portfolio. It's kind of like a hybrid between the hydrating and the foaming, like they combined properties of both into one. Was that necessary? I don't know, a lot of people adore it, so I guess it added something for some people, but to me [...] I couldn't really tell that it made much of a difference."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Juno & Co Jade Clean 10 Cleansing Balm

"I was not impressed with the Juno Skin Cleansing Bomb."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Rovectin Skin Essentials Conditioning Cleanser

"There are no sulfates in this, and [...] I think it's not only a gentle cleanser for those with dry irritable skin but also a good one if you live somewhere with hard water like I do. [...] I have repurchased it and continued to use it, and I do think it is one of the best cleansers that I've tried out this year."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Pacifica Glow Baby Brightening Face Wash

"The vitamin C form in these is magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, which is a stable form of vitamin C, but there's not really the evidence that it actually gets into the skin and converts to ascorbic acid, so I wouldn't get too jazzed about that changing your life."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Philosophy Purity Made Simple One Step Facial Cleanser

"I don't recommend spending a lot of money on cleansers. Seriously, just find one from the drugstore because you're literally throwing money down the drain."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

L'Oreal 3.5% Pure Glycolic Acid Cleansing Gel

"If you use a vitamin C serum, one way to improve penetration is to wash your face first with a glycolic or salicylic acid face wash. [...] This product has salicylic acid in it and also has menthol, which is fragrance and will cause a little bit of a tingle."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Cocokind Oil to Milk Cleanser

"This has oak kernel oil that's really good for gentle cleansing and is packed with humectants and antioxidants, this actually looks pretty good."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Jelly Joker Low pH Cleanser

"Jelly Joker is a very gentle [...] creamy cleanser that works into a gentle lather with almost no foam, which makes it great if you have exquisitely sensitive skin. However, it's fine if you don't wear makeup or water-resistant sunscreen, but if you're wearing makeup or water-resistant sunscreen this will not take that off in my experience. You will need to do a double cleanse, but overall this is a very gentle cleanser and pretty affordable."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Simple Micellar Gel Wash

"I love this and I think they've discontinued it, but it's a really good face cleanser. I love it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

AcneFree Oil-Free Acne Cleanser

"This is a two percent benzoyl peroxide acne wash with glycolic acid that can help with increasing penetration, and it's got ceramides in it too. This looks good you guys. I'm not seeing any fragrance."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Extra Gentle Face Wash

"It's a very creamy consistency, [...] very gentle and very mild. [...] I was able to use this to get off non-water resistant sunscreen with no problem and I took off my Maybelline mascara with no problem. I don't have anything bad to say about this. It's [...] a very mild cleanser good for people who have very sensitive skin, dry skin, or eczema-prone skin."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Cetaphil Fragrance Free Daily Facial Cleanser

"Currently, I am using Cetaphil's daily facial cleanser. That's another one that I've used for years. It does have fragrance, although several years ago they came out with a fragrance-free version of it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Remedy Derm Dissolve Cleansing Balm

"This is the Remedy Derm Dissolve Cleansing Balm. I like this. It is fragrance-free. The package is interesting because you just twist and it dispenses just the right amount. It has ceramides which are good for your moisture barrier. It also contains compounds from [Centella] which are anti-inflammatory, green tea extract, another antioxidant, and compounds from curcumin. Really nice over the eyelids. Does a perfect job with the waterproof mascara if you happen to be using that."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Cleanser

"I finished two Korean facial cleansers, both from Round Lab. The Birch Juice Moisturizing Cleanser and the Round Lab Docto Cleanser. [...] These are both wonderful. The Docto one is creamy and the Birch Juice one is clear and colorless. But they're both super gentle, fragrance-free, nice lathers, wash your face just fine. Rinse off easily. No offensive smells. Really, really like those as my second step."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Cleanser

"This is the Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Cleanser and I really enjoyed using this one. It produces a dense creamy foam that feels really luxurious, but it doesn't leave your skin with that stripped squeaky feeling of an impaired barrier. [...] It contains three forms of hyaluronic acid, [...] ceramide NP, [...] panthenol, and allantoin to support the skin barrier while cleansing."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

DHC Deep Cleansing Oil

"I personally like the DHC Cleansing Oil quite a bit."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating Gel Cleanser with Hyaluronic Acid

"It's a holy grail favorite cleanser of mine. I love using it as a second step in my double cleanse. I like the fragrance-free one, but the base formula is great. It's a great gentle hydrating cleanser that effectively washes the face. It's great as a second step in the double cleanse. I just don't like the fragrance choice that Neutrogena goes with. This is one I would keep in the shower and use as a second step in the double cleanse."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Radiance Cleansing Balm

"You can get the Beauty of Joseon Radiance Cleansing Balm. This I'd almost forgotten about how much I like this. I really like that."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Micellar Water

"La Roche-Posay's Micellar Water, first of all, it does have a scent. Second of all, it does burn around the eyes. It does a pretty good job taking stuff off of your face, but it will not touch long-wear lipstick. It's not going anywhere. Just the Micellar Water, rubbing it around, and then getting in the shower and trying to rinse it off. No, forget about it. It's staying on there."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Gentle Daily Cleanser

"These have [niacinamide], which I love."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser

"Cetaphil has a ton of amazing skin care products that are aimed at people who have various skin conditions for playing a supporting role in their skin needs. If you've never used this particular cleanser though, you might be a little frustrated with it. It's very creamy. It's almost like rubbing lotion on your face. Doesn't sud or lather, but it is a very mild and effective option. And I actually personally like using it as the second step in a double cleanse."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture 5.5 Soft Cleansing Gel

"My 2023 cleanser favorite was the Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture 5.5 Soft Cleansing Gel. Recently, I finished another tube of it. This is a great mild fragrance-free gel cleanser. Really pleasant experience. Silky lather, zero complaints, rinses off like a dream."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Cleansing Oil

"This was not my favorite cleansing oil. [...] It was okay. It just wasn't like a go-to. I really like the Japanese Sapimo Cos cleansing oil or the DHC one."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Arencia Rice Mucin Cleanser

"It works up into that silky lather, it's just a really fun product to use. You don't need very much to get a nice lather, which is another thing I really like about it. It allows you to get a more conservative amount of cleanser worked up into your hands. You can also use it to wash your hands. It's a great hand wash. It rinses off the skin well [...] and leaves the skin clean but soft, hydrated, and not feeling stripped or tight or that squeaky clean feeling."

✓Yay

58%Guru Score

Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Cleanser

"I recently finished up the Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Cleanser, which I love. I think that was bottle number three."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Hada Labo Cleansing Oil

"My beloved Holy Grail Hada Labo Cleansing Oil has been discontinued. [...] That product was my gateway into the realm of double cleansing. Were it not for this channel and that product in particular, I don't think I'd be double cleansing at this moment in time. [...] I tried it out [...] and I'm hooked. I will never go back."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

COSRX Low pH Niacinamide Cleansing Water

"The kit also has the Low pH Niacinamide Cleansing Water, which is a micellar water, so if you like to use micellar waters to remove makeup you could do like a double cleanse, use the micellar water first if that's your preference to remove makeup and follow it with the gel cleanser."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Avène Tolerance Extremely Gentle Cleanser

"I really like the moisturizer and the cleanser and the thermal Spring Water spray."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Neutrogena Stubborn Texture Daily Cleanser

"It is excellent. This cleanser represents an improvement upon some of their older acne cleanser formulations. It has 1% salicylic acid which is an ingredient that exfoliates the pore, is an FDA approved over-the-counter acne treatment for helping to cut down on breakouts and clear existing breakouts. In addition to that it has 2% glycolic acid which can exfoliate rather than focusing in on the pore, kind of gently exfoliates the top outermost layer of the skin giving the skin a smoother texture."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

RoC Barrier Renew Gel to Foam Cleanser

"It has ceramides like the CeraVe Foaming Face Wash, but I actually think this is a little bit better. It's milder, it's not as foamy, and it has a nicer texture to it. [...] I really really like it a lot and I think they did a great job, especially since they're not really a brand that comes out with cleansers all the time. This is one that is a really nice complement to their portfolio. [...] It's a type of cleanser that is great for all skin types."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Clear Clarifying Acne Cream Cleanser

"It has two percent salicylic acid, plus white tea extract and aloe leaf juice which is [...] anti-inflammatory, though some people find their skin gets irritated by aloe so be aware that's in this product. Otherwise it's very nice. It has to be one of the most non-drying two percent salicylic acid cleansers I've ever tried. [...] This is one where I never ran into the issue of upper eyelid dryness with it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Radiance Gentle PHA Exfoliating Cleanser

"This is a very nice gentle way to exfoliate the skin without stripping it unnecessarily because it has gluconolactone, a polyhydroxy acid that's gentler than alpha hydroxy acids. It helps with skin cell turnover and gentle exfoliation without causing burning or stinging, actually improves the moisture barrier, and has niacinamide. I've been using it for several weeks and I think it's good for acne prone sensitive skin, rosacea, and people looking to improve skin radiance through cleansing."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

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Dove Deep Moisture Body Wash

"I love these because Dove body wash, Dove in general, I love Dove nails fragrances, whether it be their gourmands, the seasonal scents, and the more sophisticated scents. [...] These leave my skin clean and moisturized, so I absolutely adore that."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Kerasal Intensive Foot Repair Ointment

"The product I recommend is the Kerasal Intensive Foot Repair Ointment. It's not only something I use and recommend widely, it's widely used amongst dermatologists here in the US. [...] It contains urea, it also has salicylic acid, and it's in a petrolatum ointment base, which is why I believe it works out well for most people and for many different conditions where you have dry, cracked heels."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Aveeno Skin Relief Oat Body Wash

"I really like this one, the sensitive skin relief body [...] wash from Aveeno, fragrance-free, at $14.99. This is a much better deal."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Remedy KP Exfoliating Body Scrub

"I really enjoyed the KP body scrub surprisingly."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Remedy KP Exfoliating Body Moisturizer

"I think I'm going to repurchase the KP moisturizer come winter time because that one is really really rich. When I first reviewed it years ago [...] I felt like it wasn't that rich, but this last time I tried it in the new packaging I was like, whoa, this is really heavy. That has become one that I really like."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion

"Another excellent value here [...] with colloidal oatmeal, hydrating, soothing, anti-inflammatory, and barrier protective. [...] Yes, you can use this on the face, it will just feel heavier."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Differin 2% Salicylic Acid Body Spray

"For example, the brand Differin makes a salicylic acid body spray that's quite good. There are many others on the market. That just comes to mind as one I have tested out myself and can vouch for."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Topicals Slather Exfoliating Body Serum

"This topicals exfoliating body serum is here. It has retinol. It has lactic acid and urea. It also has ubiquinone which is an antioxidant that has decent penetration in the skin. It can help improve ubiquinone or Q10 levels in your own skin. This is on offer here for $12.99, which I think is a pretty good deal. However, urea, lactic acid, hello intensive."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Eucerin Intensive Foot Repair Ointment

"But I'm a big fan of Eucerin foot ointment. It has urea and salicylic acid keratolytics that get in there and dissolve all that dry rough stuff, help hydrate the skin, and it also provides some lubrication as well."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Dove Sensitive Skin Hypoallergenic Body Wash

"You'd be wrong. This body wash is in fact scented. So if you're allergic to fragrance, you really have to read the ingredients because hypoallergenic is a non-regulated term. Generally, it means the product use that term to convey that they've formulated the product in such a way that they believe it is low risk of being irritating and containing fewer allergens. But sometimes that name will appear on something that contains, yes, maybe fewer ingredients overall, but a common allergen."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA

"I've been struggling with keratosis pilaris on the upper arms for 3 years now. I've been to two dermatologists and they both basically said my current regimen is the proper way to treat it, but it doesn't really seem to help. Currently, I use the First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA one to two times a week due to it being a much harsher scrub."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Suave Moisturizing Body Lotion

"I did not like the Suave lotions. These didn't cut it for me. They were not good."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Cetaphil Intensive Foot Ointment

"Urea is what is in the Cetaphil Intensive Foot Ointment. When you use that on the feet, make sure you put it on your toenail plates and under the nail [...] because that'll really help quite a bit. [...] I've used Cetaphil for years off and on, a couple of nights a week, which really does a great job keeping that all in check."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hyaluronic Acid Body Lotion

"It improves epidermal maturation because water content matters. It cuts down on the buildup of dry rough skin and it also makes discoloration less obvious solely through the improvement in hydration from the excellent humectants and light scattering. This is a product from them that I hope they never discontinue because it's affordable, it's effective."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Aveeno Shaving Gel

"I'm a big fan of the fragrance-free Aveeno Shaving Gel. That's a great option. [...] I like that one because it's fragrance free, and it's honestly kind of hard to find fragrance-free shave products. [...] But if you're allergic to fragrance, your options are more limited. That's one I suggest because fragrance may be an irritant for you on the face too."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

CeraVe SA Lotion for Rough and Bumpy Skin

"The CeraVe SA Lotion is something that you could layer over thinner products or under thicker products. It's generally the recommended approach for how to layer products, thinnest to thickest. [...] If you want a product that is going to be a moisturizer and is going to deliver the salicylic acid, then the lotion makes perfect sense."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Alpha Skin Care Renewal Body Lotion 12% Glycolic Acid

"The Alpha Skincare 12% glycolic acid body lotion is a wonderful option. It's a really good product for moisturizing dry, rough skin texture, but with long-term consistent use may also help to improve the thickness of the skin, helping to visibly improve the appearance of crepey skin."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream

"Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream. Amazing. They have a fragrance-free one. Highly recommend that."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Gold Bond Age Renew Crepe Corrector Body Lotion

"This particular moisturizer, it's called the crepe corrector because it's really good at hydrating and it has a firming effect for those little crepey lines."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Olay Hyaluronic Acid Serum Complex Body Wash

"I get this intensely hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum Complex Body Wash. This body wash also has thiamines. It's also going to put prolamin down on the skin to reduce water loss post cleansing."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Olay Indulgent Moisture Body Wash

"It's kind of the same principle as Dove where it cleanses but moisturizes at the same time. Unfortunately, it's got tholinones which are those preservatives that people frequently become allergic to. So yet another reason why I prefer to stick to Dove body wash. That being said, Olay body wash is pretty good aside from that, but it's not as good as Dove."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

EOS 24-Hour Moisture Body Lotion Peppermint Cashmere

"Like I did not like the pistachio one specifically."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

APLB Glutathione Niacinamide Body Wash

"I have been working on this for like a little over a year and I love it except for the fact that the pump doesn't reach all the way down to the product. So when you're in the shower, you're like opening it up, pouring it into your hands once you get to the end. Body wash, however, is a really nice gentle, hydrating, soothing all over body wash. You can use it on your face, but it does burn and sting if it gets around your eye area."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Body Wash

"If you're allergic to fragrance and you're looking for a body wash, I cannot recommend this one from Aveeno enough. This is new here at Costco, actually. The three pack is $15.99, which works out to about 30 cents per ounce. Not bad at all. Oat is both hydrating and moisturizing, soothing, and it also has cleansing abilities. So really good ingredient, especially if you have atopic dermatitis."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Secret Clinical Strength Antiperspirant

"One thing I will say about this clinical from Secret is that it does not glide on the skin easily. Like the regular Secret has a better glide to it."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair Lotion

"The Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair Lotion is really good for face and body."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Olay Retinol 24 Smoothing Body Lotion

"Retinol and a body lotion is useful for improving the appearance of sun damage. It does have niacinamide, which is a great ingredient actually to pair with retinol for sun damage, for hyperpigmentation, for all sorts of benefits for the moisture barrier. It's one thing about retinol, it kind of gets a bad rap because you get a lot of dryness and peeling and irritation. And people don't realize that with long-term consistent use, ultimately it improves barrier function."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Native Body Wash

"Native has Body Wash with of course niacinamide which is good for moisturizing and you know addressing dry skin needs."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Dove Advanced Care Dry Spray Invisible Deodorant

"The Dove Advanced Care Dry Spray, that's one of my favorite antiperspirants, but it is a fragrance bomb right there. And that's the problem with a lot of antiperspirants. Either you're sensitive to the aluminum that causes irritation or it's the strong concentration of fragrance that causes irritation for people."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lumi Whole Body Deodorant

"Lumi, whose ads we cannot escape here on YouTube, these whole body deodorants tend to be formulated with ingredients that may help absorb excess moisture, offering some of the benefits that you might get from a powder without turning cakey or becoming abrasive to the skin surface. They also have ingredients in them that in theory help to maintain the acidic nature of the skin barrier, ultimately promoting a healthier skin microbiome, reducing the burden of bacteria that cause you to stink."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Dove Whole Body Deodorant

"Everybody has got a Whole Body Deodorant these days. These products tend to be formulated with ingredients that may help absorb excess moisture, kind of are offering some of the benefits that you might get from a powder without turning cakey or becoming abrasive to the skin surface. They also have ingredients in them that in theory help to maintain the acidic nature of the skin barrier, ultimately promoting a healthier skin microbiome, reducing the burden of bacteria that cause you to stink."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Secret Whole Body Deodorant Spray

"These products tend to be formulated with ingredients that may help absorb excess moisture, kind of offering some of the benefits that you might get from a powder without turning cakey or becoming abrasive to the skin surface. They also have ingredients in them that in theory help to maintain the acidic nature of the skin barrier, ultimately promoting a healthier skin microbiome, reducing the burden of bacteria that cause you to stink."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Danny Beauty Glycolic Body Lotion Grapefruit

"We have a glycolic body lotion, Danny Beauty. It's a substantial amount of lotion. Glycolic acid is good for moisturizing the skin and exfoliating. It is scented."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Josie Maran Vanilla Vibes Body Butter

"It'd be way too expensive to actually moisturize your body daily with these"

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Alpha Skin Care Glycolic Acid Body Wash

"This is a Glycolic Acid Body Wash from Alpha Skin Care, good for rough and bumpy skin, but oh, it has methyl isothiazolinone in it. Bummer."

✕Nay

58%Guru Score

Dove Melon and Even Tone Body Wash

"This Melon and Even Tone Body Wash with salicylic acid. That is helpful for lightening dark spots over time."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Eucerin Advanced Repair Lotion

"A Urea lotion that is actually very thick, very rich is Eucerin Advanced Repair Lotion, and that's going to be on sale also fragrance-free. Arguably one of Eucerin's best products in their roughness relief series. Urea is a fantastic ingredient for dry, rough skin, for hydrating, for smoothing."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

QV Bath Oil

"QV is an Australian skincare brand that has a Bath Oil that is mineral oil. Mineral oil is fantastic, it moisturizes the skin, reduces transepidermal water loss, cuts down on friction. I mean, it's great."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

CeraVe Moisturizing Relief Body Wash

"Eczema restoraderm is in a new package this is really good the daily soothing moisturizer"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream

"The La Roche-Posay Cicaplast has a hand cream as well that is excellent. It's likewise dimethicone based. These are great options for throughout the day because you don't want something too greasy that's going to make it difficult for you to do whatever it is that you need to do."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Aveeno Colloidal Oatmeal Hand Cream

"Aveeno also has a Colloidal Oatmeal Hand Cream that is amazing, very hydrating, lightweight, fast absorbing, and non-greasy."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Neutrogena Stubborn Body Acne Wash

"This is a favorite body wash of mine, it is the Neutrogena Stubborn Body Acne Wash, this is a 1% salicylic acid body wash which is good not only for helping with breakouts but also good for exfoliating rough and bumpy skin. This also has polyhydroxy acid, again those are really hydrating ingredients that gently exfoliate, they're really good for sensitive skin. The polyhydroxy acid is gluconolactone."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

APB Glutathione Niacinamide Body Lotion

"I [...] really like this super lightweight. It's got niacinamide and glutathione antioxidants that are good for reducing oxidative stress that damages DNA, proteins, lipids in your skin, compromises barrier function. And it also has rice extract, which I'm finding a lot of Korean products I have loved over the years. That's a theme. Masic acid, Asiatic acid and Asiatic acide, these are compounds that come from centella, they're anti-inflammatory and soothing."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Intensive Foot Repair

"CeraVe Intensive Foot Repair is the game-changing skincare product. As the [...] name applies, it's intensive. It has urea and salicylic acid, those are catalytics. They go in there and they break up the glue between those outermost skin cells, helping to exfoliate and smooth everything out. Apply this after a shower. It's in a petroleum jelly base similar to Vaseline. Those active ingredients will get in there and dissolve up that dry, rough stuff."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty After Shower Nourishing Body Oil

"They've also come out with a scented nourishing body oil said to be safer for sensitive skin, I don't know about that. Body oils are okay for smoothing down rough skin and improving the appearance, but they're not that great at locking in hydration compared to a full blown moisturizer. Spearmint oil can be irritating, though it does tingle."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Skin Body Moisturizer

"This is the Fenty Beauty Skin Body Moisturizer I shared with you guys, and it was gifted to me. I love the smell, it smells just like a ginger snap cookie, but I had to stop using it because the glitter is so annoying. I'm only going to use it here and there to make my way through it, and I'll be going through it slowly anyway."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Prequel Foot Rescue Advanced Restorative Treatment

"This is a foot ointment with some keratolytic ingredients to really actively help improve callous above and beyond simply lubricating the skin surface. It has urea which is a hydrating ingredient but also keratolytic. It also has salicylic acid which also helps to exfoliate buildup of callous. The urea in this [...] is also really good for the health of your nail plate, so like for your toenails for example. I really enjoyed this."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Loving Tan 8 Hour Express Tan

"I've heard so many rave reviews about it online but you never know if that's 100% authentic."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Jergens Self Tanning Lotion

"I've tried Jergens sunless tanning lotion, that's like the main one I've tried, but I've heard really good things about this one. It seems pretty expensive, but I'm not averse to the sunless tan smell."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dove Brightening Vitamin C Body Wash

"This one has ascorbic acid form of vitamin C that if it actually gets into your skin may help improve collagen, also fight dark spots and potentially help with warding off sun damage. I do question how likely it is to get in your skin in a body wash formulation. It is possible for active ingredients to be deposited on the skin in a body wash, however we all know ascorbic acid is challenging to get into the skin at baseline, so that's why I'm more skeptical."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Dial Antibacterial Hand Soap

"I would say be cautious with the dial hand wash. It is definitely not something I would recommend people use to wash their face. [...] Generally speaking it can be very irritating for a lot of people because dial hand wash is not a mild cleanser by any means. The pH is such that it can be quite disruptive to your skin barrier."

✕Nay

47%Guru Score

Vaseline Radiant X Body Lotion

"I got a sample of this Vaseline Radiant body lotion at the AAD recently and I actually really liked it. It has niacinamide in it which is good for the moisture barrier. It did have fragrance but it wasn't like headache inducing, it was kind of pleasant."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Old Spice Total Body Deodorant Spray

"This is one of those deodorants. Most deodorants are just fragrance but this one does not have fragrance. Instead it has lactic acid. The idea here is that the lactic acid may help with the skin pH ultimately helping to normalize the microflora and help cut down on the types of bacteria that break down sweat and lead to odor."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Prequel Hand Wrap Shielding Lotion

"It's very light and if you are in the throws of really dry cracked hands you would probably benefit from using just plain petroleum jelly to the hands at night under gloves but for throughout the day when you can't be bothered with all that it's too messy this is a great basic hand moisturizer. I have rather enjoyed it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Body Lotion

"This packaging is annoying. The pump, first of all you plunge it down, it takes forever for it to go back up so you can plunge again. When I'm moisturizing my body I'm wanting to get quite a bit out, [...] so that's a pain. And then honestly starting to where you have about this much left, it starts to become a chase, a tail chase event of trying to get it out. I think they make that in a tube squeeze tube, I would go with that packaging."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Aveeno Tone and Texture Body Moisturizer

"I finished the [Aveeno] Tone and Texture Body Moisturizer this is great if you have keratosis pyloris"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Vaseline Intensive Care Body Lotion

"You guys do not pay double the price for 100% petroleum jelly like there's no there's no reason to"

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Dove Glowing with Shea Butter Body Lotion

"The Dove body lotion has kind of a nostalgic scent. Some of the Dove scents there's like a nostalgia to them that's really soothing."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Vaseline Radiant X Hydrating Body Oil

"They also have a hydrating body oil. Body oils are helpful if you've got flaky skin to basically exfoliate the skin, but they don't really moisturize particularly well. This has jojoba oil and coconut oil, those are actually good choices for a body oil."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Hand and Body Cream Fragrance Free Morck and Argan Oil

"This is new, the Hand and Body Cream Fragrance Free Morck and Argan Oil, that looks like it would be nice. $3.99, that's a good deal. Extra thick. [...] I feel like they used to have this in a different [...] bottle, and it was actually really good if I remember correctly."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Nivea Coenzyme Q10 Skin Firming Body Lotion

"We have the Nivea Skin Firming Hydration with Q10, ubiquinone is a lipid-soluble antioxidant that is naturally present in your skin. There's some evidence that applying it to the skin may help in boosting up your skin's own antioxidant systems and reducing oxidative stress. These ingredients, antioxidants, a lot of it has to just be a faith effort like you're not actually going to know if they're getting in and neutralizing free radicals to reduce damage to your skin."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Aveeno Colloidal Oatmeal Body Moisturizer

"Similar to other colloidal oatmeal body moisturizers that I have raved about and loved like from Aveeno, [...] this is another good one which I am just about finished with. It has colloidal oatmeal which is on the FDA monograph as a skin protectant. It does not sting, especially important because for a lot of patients who have atopic dermatitis, moisturizers can sting when the eczema is raw and weepy."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Body Clear Pink Grapefruit Body Wash

"The Neutrogena Body Clear Pink Grapefruit Body Wash is here for $5.99. This is good for acne on the body. It's also good if you get seborrheic dermatitis, which you can get on the body. And if you have a deeper skin tone that can heal with a white spot hypopigmentation."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty KP Smoothing Body Lotion

"Alpha hydroxy acids are good for rough and bumpy skin, so lactic acid is good for keratosis pilaris, and urea. [...] This is pretty good overall. It [...] has licorice root and ceramides and colloidal oatmeal, so it really is formulated with the needs of KP in mind. It has very hydrating ingredients and very good barrier supporting ingredients, underscoring the fact that KP is a dry skin condition, but then the acid is to address the dry rough bumps."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Dove Advanced Care Acne Clear Body Wash

"Personally, I'm rather fond of that type of marketing because a lot of people deal with breakouts on their face and their body, and using salicylic acid to target those breakouts in a wash is a great way to utilize the ingredient in a short contact approach, derive the benefits, and minimize dryness and irritation. It's interesting though that it is a one percent salicylic acid strength. Usually in body washes it's two percent."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Gold Bond Rough and Bumpy Moisturizing Cream

"This rough and bumpy skin cream from Gold Bond has gluconolactone and urea. Gluconolactone is a polyhydroxy acid that is very hydrating. It also has urea, which is another name for hydroxy Apple urea, [...] and it has petrolatum, one of my favorite ingredients for reducing water loss and aiding in barrier recovery. Now this does have citrus extract and fruit extracts, which potentially could be irritating."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

CeraVe SA Cream for Rough and Bumpy Skin

"The salicylic acid cream from CeraVe, the SA Cream for Rough and Bumpy Skin, [...] these are good for keratosis pilaris or if you want something more lightweight in consistency the lotion option is good. [...] Not only does the salicylic acid help to soften that rough bumpy stuff but then the formula overall helps to address the needs of the skin barrier as it relates to having dry skin."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

CeraVe Hand Cream

"I was using for the longest time a necessary Hand Cream which I love but it's kind of pricey and this I actually think it's much better. It has colloidal oatmeal skin protectant, fast absorbing, non-greasy. I mean it just instantly makes your hands look five years younger instantly just by hydrating and it's become like a favorite. I don't think I'll go back to the necessary one since I've discovered this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Victoria's Secret Love Spell Body Cream

"The Victoria's Secret body creams, the Love Spell one, I loved those, they were good. [...] I don't know if they still make them or if they've changed up the formula, but when I was in high school and college years I was using those consistently and they were really helpful for me."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Versed Backup Plan Acne Control Body Mist

"I'm a huge fan of salicylic acid sprays like this for hard to reach areas for breakouts. It also has dipotassium glycyrrhizate from licorice root, which is really helpful for calming down inflammation and redness. The tea tree leaf extract may be anti-inflammatory, but some people end up developing an allergy to it, and it also has witch hazel water, which is an astringent that some people find irritating."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Irish Spring Bar Soap

"Irish Spring is a true soap, and true soap is quite alkaline, which disrupts your skin's pH. Those harsh effects can leave your skin dry and vulnerable to irritant penetration. We've come so much further than that, and I don't encourage you to use it."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Bring Back Memories Hand Cream

"This is a scented Hand Cream with a bunch of essential oils, and it has shea butter, which is nice and moisturizing. [...] It's pretty watery, kind of like a lotion, and it smells really strong, like a juice bar, [...] cilantro and wheatgrass. [...] If you like that scent you're gonna love this Hand Cream. [...] Not mad at that, I will definitely use it."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

O'Keeffe's Working Hands

"From the O'Keeffe's Winter Skin Essentials set, the hand cream is really good."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Josie Maran Pink Algae Pro-Retinol Body Butter

"Here's a product that's expensive that I actually love, it's the Josie Maran Argan Pro-Retinol with body butter. I hate the whole pro-retinol thing because there's really nothing in here that is evidence based for having retinol activity, but it is a really nice moisturizer, I love it, I love it, I love it."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Eucerin Eczema Relief Body Wash

"It's almost like a cleansing cream for the body. I've been very happy with it. It doesn't really lather, it's a non-foaming cleanser, so [...] if you're somebody who really enjoys body washes with a big lather, [...] you're not going to get that pleasurable experience with this product, it's more [...] useful for people with eczema or very sensitive skin. [...] But I love it, I enjoy it, it's effective, and I recommend it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 5% Niacinamide Body Serum

"Update on the Paula's Choice 5% Niacinamide Body Serum, I've got to say I think this works as a facial moisturizer better than as a body moisturizer. It's kind of lightweight, it's not that body consistency, it's more a really lightweight lotion."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Dove Advanced Care Anti-Perspirant and Deodorant

"I actually really love these Dove antiperspirants, the scents. There's one that has a pale pink top and a little pearl on the front, and I really like the scent of that."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Kopari Body Scrub

"I tried one of their [...] scrubs, not the body butter but a scrub they sent me, and I tried it and it made a mess. [...] It's not anything I would ever recommend anyway, but it was not an enjoyable mess."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Kopari Coconut Hydrating Body Wash

"I tried one of their body washes, was not impressed."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream

"I actually like the scent of the Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, it's kind of a vanilla amber tropical scent and it's a long lasting scent that lingers. But I don't like it enough that I would incorporate this into my regular routine, I don't like it enough to buy it, this was a free sample. It's also thinner in consistency and quite a bit more expensive than the Costco dupe."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap

"I know that Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap has a cult following, [...] but the problem with this is it can be pretty drying overall, so just be aware of that."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Cetaphil Acne Body Wash

"The Cetaphil Acne Body Wash is a great option. It seems like a better value than the Neutrogena one and it's got two percent salicylic acid in it, which is the standard amount. This looks like a good option."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Versed Press Restart Gentle Retinol Body Lotion

"Retinols to the body can help improve the visible signs of skin aging like sunspots and may help improve the look of cellulite and stretch marks, though don't get high hopes—we're talking modest benefit. This looks [...] moisturizing, but retinol body products tend to go on in a streaky fashion. It has encapsulated retinol which is presumably more stable and has better penetration."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Baby Foot Original Exfoliant Foot Peel

"My issue with Baby Foot peels is that they often have a lot of other ingredients that can cause irritation for your skin. [...] They're kind of intense and it's hard to know how much they're going to exfoliate. Sometimes the exfoliation is quite robust and that can actually make you at risk for blisters. [...] I prefer creams and ointments with keratolytic ingredients that you can use consistently, so you can self-titrate how much callus softening you get."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Advanced Clinicals Retinol Body Cream

"Advanced Clinicals has a Retinol Body Cream that is pretty good."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Strawberry Lemon Ultra Moisturizing Hand Cream

"This has lemon peel oil which can be pretty irritating, but otherwise it looks pretty good with the shea butter."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

AmLactin Daily Moisturizing Lotion 12%

"The 12% AmLactin lotion, the one with the green label, is one of the things that can actually reverse the dermal atrophy from solar purpura. It's buffered ammonium lactate, the only thing you can buy and use yourself that objectively moves the dial on dermal thickness, and there are so few ingredients that actually do that. It's worth knowing about."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Cetaphil Rough & Bumpy Daily Smoothing Moisturizer with 20% Urea

"Cetaphil has a 20% urea for rough and bumpy skin. That's great."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body & Face Lotion

"I love Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol. It can improve collagen production. I find it's a thicker cream, so it feels maybe a little nicer on dry skin, though I personally get a little bit more of a cosmetic benefit from the Amlactin 12% lotion visually speaking, but I really do love this product."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Body Gel Cream with Hyaluronic Acid

"When it comes to moisturizing the body for the summer, I really like that Neutrogena Hydro Boost Body Gel Cream, fragrance-free. It's very hydrating, lightweight, not greasy on the skin."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Josie Maran Whipped Argan Oil Body Butter

"I love these because they give the skin this nice glossy finish. Are they the most impressive moisturizing formulas as far as the results they deliver? No. Especially for the price point. But when you're getting it sent to you for free, then you're like, "Woo!" So I always have to keep that in mind."

~Mixed

84%Guru Score

Vaseline All Over Body Balm Jelly Stick

"This Vaseline stick, it's kind of nice to just put it right here, like massage it in. [...] If you need to do a little moisturizing back there, why not?"

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Fragrance-Free Hand Cream

"This is another one that I really like. The Norwegian formula fragrance-free. Hope they never discontinue that. That would be like [...] a sacrifice to their brand because that's one of the OG products from Neutrogena."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tree Hut Watermelon Shave Oil

"You know I ride or die for the shave oils. Tree Hut Shave Oil, love it to bits. [...] The shave oil is just another way to create a barrier between you and the razor blade to cut down on irritation and dryness. I just happened to discover the shave oils a while back and I really like them. No, they're not the same as just going into your pantry and grabbing a little Wesson and smearing it on there, because they are meant to rinse off the skin and they don't clog the razor. I mean, love them."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

APLB Glutathione Niacinamide Body Lotion

"I discovered this body lotion this year and I'm almost finished with the bottle I have been using it so much. It has niacinamide, which is good for dark spots, redness, the moisture barrier, and oxidative stress, but it also has glutathione, which is an antioxidant that can be helpful for defending against oxidative stress. This lotion is very lightweight and hydrating because it has sodium hyaluronate, glycerin, and squalane."

✓Yay

Notverified

Remedy For Body Bumps

"If you have what's called keratosis pilaris, I think you may find that this particular formulation helps to address some of those visible changes and improve the overall appearance of the skin. It's a really good formula. I don't have any problem with it. It doesn't peel, it doesn't leave the skin feeling filmy or greasy. I really liked it. I did go through it very quickly, but then again that's me, I am a glutton for moisturizer."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Skin Butter Drop Shimmering Whipped Oil Body Cream

"It smells exactly like a Ginger Snap cookie. [...] It's actually a pretty nice glossy formula, however they are not joking when they say shimmer. I didn't realize that and I put it on and I was like okay this is nice like the fragrance, but y'all know it's my preference to not have fragrance in things, and this is price-wise not something I would buy. I prefer to use it because I am a moisturizer, like [...] I really go through it fast, like I can't be dropping this kind of price point."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Necessaire Body Serum

"I'm a fan of a lot of products by Necessaire. Their Body Serum is really good. I mean, I use it on my face."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Necessaire Hand Cream

"Their Hand Cream, I love it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Other82 reviews

Hibiclens Hibiclens

"I tried Hibiclens since it's used as a pre-surgical cleanser, but it was too drying and it did not have a nice aroma."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

The Ordinary Volufiline 92% + Pal-Isoleucine 1%

"I have reviewed the volume filling serum from The Ordinary, and it's not going to bring back lost volume in the face. The study behind it was bogus, done on women's breasts showing an increase in size, so they never actually showed any kind of fat restoration at all. Topicals just aren't going to correct that kind of volume loss."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Aklief Aklief

"Trifarotene, marketed as Aklief, was allegedly supposed to be so much less irritating because of its receptor specificity, but in clinical practice it bears out to be just as irritating as any other topical retinoid. [...] Personally, I haven't found it to be less irritating."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Domeboro Aluminum Acetate Medicated Soak

"As an alternative to calamine lotion, Dr. Dray prefers Domeboro aluminum acetate soaks, which likewise have an astringent, drying property good for weepy, oozy skin conditions. She finds them a lot more soothing than calamine lotion and not nearly as messy, since it's just a powder reconstituted in water that you [...] can use to soak the affected area or as a compress."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Lamisil Lamisil

"This is often sold under the brand name Lamisil, but you do not have to buy the brand name Lamisil, you can buy the store version, the generic version, as long as it's terbinafine cream. [...] The fungus tends to typically respond to that, and it tends to work the fastest, usually doing the trick after about one to two weeks of correct twice-daily use."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Bellafill Bellafill

"Because Bellafill is a permanent, semi-permanent filler, if you develop a complication you can't reverse it the way you can a hyaluronic acid filler with hyaluronidase, so [...] if you have improper placement or aren't happy with the result you're kind of stuck with it, which can lead to uneven contours. Granulomas from the polymethyl methacrylate aren't easy to get rid of and require medical intervention."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Certain Dri Fragrance-Free Roll-On Antiperspirant

"You can put antiperspirant to the bottoms of your feet and the palms of your hands and that can work quite well for hyperhydrosis in those areas, especially the Certain Dri one. It's a roll-on. You get real nice contact and it is fast dry. They also make antiperspirant lotions which I've personally used and found to be very effective and it really works quite well on hands and feet or forehead if you wanted to. Now aluminum salts on the face can be very irritating so I will caution with that."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Galderma Epiduo

"Epiduo is [adapalene] and benzoyl peroxide, a retinoid and benzoyl peroxide. Not only do they not actively cause scarring, but they will prevent and decrease the likelihood of acne scarring both by controlling the acne and then the [adapalene] helps with dermal remodeling to help with ultimate healing to diminish the likelihood of scarring. Plus, it's anti-inflammatory."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Shark Beauty FlexStyle

"I can't attest to the power of a $279.99 discounted price. Shark Beauty FlexStyle seems like a lot of money for heat styling, but it all depends. I can see it paying off if you use these tools and you find them to be like game changers. There is a lot of variation, but like I said, I've never put this through the test."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Accutane Accutane

"Accutane, branded name for isotretinoin, an oral retinoid, that quite literally was one of the most game-changing inventions in dermatology. [...] Before Accutane, if you had acne, nodular acne, scarring was the outcome. You were going to likely have scarring in some capacity. [...] When isotretinoin came on the scene, it completely changed that because it's really the only medication that can, being the key word here, cure the acne."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Avène High Redness Concentrate

"This particular serum from Avène has an ingredient in it that can kind of address that specific aspect of sensitivity related to TRPV1 channels and the little nerves that course through the skin. It's a fragrance-free serum. It's also hydrating, moisturizing. If you have the symptoms of sensitivity, this is one to try out. Avène is not an inexpensive brand, so if there's a product that you're interested in from them, always look to get it when they go on sale."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Shark Beauty Depuffy

"If you get a pore extractor like the Shark Beauty Depuffy, don't waste a dime on that. These kind of things, if anything, they cause a lot of irritation by putting suction on the face. Can break little blood vessels. They may help to pull out those little sebaceous filaments, which are normal, but they're just going to come right back. So this is all for show."

✕Nay

Notverified

Dove Fragrance Free Beauty Bar

"The Dove Fragrance Free Beauty Bar that I love and adore is not on sale this month."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine

"I am still intermittently using the shampoo and conditioner. I didn't use it last night. I use Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine, but yeah, I am still using that."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Vicks VapoRub

"It's habit forming, this little sniffy stick, but that's really good. The [...] vapo rub itself is also moisturizing. It's like a very moisturizing base."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Maybelline SuperStay Teddy Tint

"I am still really happy with this Maybelline SuperStay Teddy Tint. This is the shade Coquettish. The longevity of this on the lips is amazing. As somebody who is always sipping on a beverage, this stays on really well, but it doesn't dry out the lips and it's easy to apply even without a mirror and not have it go all over the place. It doesn't get stringy. It doesn't get goopy. It doesn't get dry and like I need to put lip balm on. But it is tenacious."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Dove Beauty Bar

"This is gentle enough to adequately cleanse, but not disrupt skin's outermost pH to a point where it causes the enzymes there to be haphazard in terms of their function and not help with barrier integrity the way they need to. It also leaves behind moisturizing ingredients, so it cleanses and moisturizes at the same time. [...] I highly recommend this. It's great for you, and you can also use it to wash your hands. [...] These work really well for hand washing."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Lumi Glotion

"I like using this for just a little bit of color correction, a little bit of a glow. [...] The iron oxides in the tinted moisturizer [...] can also offer some additional protection against visible light from the sun that drives hyperpigmentation. This just looks good. [...] It's fragrance-free. It's moisturizing. [...] It's not overly shimmery. It doesn't make you look like a copper pot. [...] It's really good."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Colgate Total Toothpaste

"Colgate here total you get the fourack looks like you get do you get two of each? Yep. $9.91."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Vanicream Clinical Strength Antiperspirant

"The other antiperspirant I recommend is Vanicream Clinical Strength Antiperspirant."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex

"This is a cult favorite, the Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex from Estée Lauder. I have an older video where I talk about it."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Nivea Creme

"Nivea actually means snow white speaking to the white color of the cream. It does have fragrance and the fragrance is what keeps people loyal to it. Now, fragrance is a common allergen in skincare products. So, it's not something that I routinely recommend. And honestly, I have never really used Nivea Creme myself, but I understand the popularity of it. It is an effective moisturizing formula. Without a doubt, it has withstood the test of time as a popular and effective skincare product."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

VT PDRN Reedle Shot Eye Lifter

"I don't believe the PDRN in this [...] is scienced up to this yet. But I do like it as a moisturizer. I mean it's a really nice moisturizer. No complaints."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Tazerotene 0.1%

"[Tazarotene], a prescription only topical retinoid, [tazarotene] 0.1% specifically applied twice a day for 4 months in 7 out of 15 patients they got significant improvement in the size of their seborrheic keratosis. Some of them though did develop side effects of burning, redness and itch. [Tazarotene] at least here in the US does require prescription so you still have to go through your doctor."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Milani Conceal and Perfect

"I like the cream stick blend in with your hands approach. This Milani Conceal and Perfect is pretty good but it's on the matte side, which I'm seeking to avoid."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Latisse Latisse

"Latisse and minoxidil are equally effective for brow growth in women at 16 weeks. Minoxidil might be more irritating, but it might be less expensive, whereas Latisse might cause side effects of hyperpigmentation, potentially perorbital fat loss, and of course will be more expensive. You can buy minoxidil 2% without a prescription, but Latisse requires a prescription."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Silicone Scar sheets

"This right here is one of the most evidence-based things for raised scars going on 40 years of use for raised scars. We're talking the silicone scar sheets intended to be worn around the clock can often be reused, comfortable, flexible, protect against frictional forces, also help hydrate the scar, reduce certain triggers and pathways that lead to more scar formation."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Nair Nair

"But because chemical depilatories like Nair work to dissolve those disulfide bonds in the keratin proteins, there's more of a tapered, smoother end so you don't have that rough stubble. [...] Chemical depilatories don't make you grow more hair or cause the hair to grow back thicker, darker, longer, or stronger because they're really just working at the skin surface and a little bit within the pore, not down to the root. And you're not going to cut yourself."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharge Complex

"I've been using this estee rado barrier 365 cream that I got in one of the Advent calendars and let me tell you well I'm not going to tell you you have to wait"

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Grande Cosmetics GrandeBROW

"Grande brow and Grande lash they have the prostaglandin analogs so they can cause hyperpigmentation of your eyelids, change your eye color, cause a lot of eyelid irritation to boot. They can cause unwanted hair growth anywhere where they happen to get outside of the lashes and rarely can cause fat loss around the eyes which for all intents and purposes does appear for the most part to be reversible once you stop using the prostaglandin analogs."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Hydrogel Patches

"I'm really liking those Dermatology ones. Their Hydrogel Patches have glycerin and collagen in them."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Compound W Compound W

"There are a lot of other little products that can work, like Duofilm, or Compound W."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant D-Bronzi Anti-Pollution Sunshine Drops

"I don't add them to your sunscreen to tint the sunscreen because adding things to sunscreens like these bronzing drops can actually mess up the overall formulation and ultimate protection. [...] I do not get the hype with those. I also tried out they have like a pink drop that's supposed to be like a little blush and I again I didn't find either product to be very useful from Drunk Elephant. [...] In my opinion bronzing drops are sort of overrated like they just haven't worked out well for me."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Skin Smart Antimicrobial Spray

"You can just spray it there and take that fan let it air dry it really can help cut down on irritation inflammation and itch and they're pretty inexpensive. Skin Smart Antimicrobial is one [...] you can buy on Amazon."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Preparation H Preparation H

"I don't recommend doing that for a few reasons. Phenylephrine is a vasoconstrictor, may actually temporarily help because of the vasoconstrictive effect, may help push some fluid away, tighten things up a bit, and may also help with redness, but you can get a rebound worsening effect. Also, I want to say what else is in these, sometimes these have a little bit of hydrocortisone in them, so you want to be careful there. That should not be used around the eyes."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Tom's Kid's Strawberry Toothpaste

"I'm currently using this one by Tom's and it's a good option, much gentler. Strawberry is a lot less irritating in comparison to the adult strongly flavored cinnamon or mint. [...] The flavorant in adult toothpaste because it's so strong, if that residue gets around the mouth it can be irritating. [...] I always suggest keeping the fluoride and going with the strawberry first to see if that makes a difference because fluoride is so important for cavity prevention."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Ultima Replenisher

"I love Ultima if you are in the market for an electrolyte drink this is the best. They have a passion fruit flavor that I currently have, I got it on IB, it's really good. I like to have this for after a run to rehydrate. I used to get these other ones but they don't dissolve as well as the Ultima ones do."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX Temporary Eye Tightener

"It has sodium silicate, and as it dries down it just tightens the skin. It's very temporary, but it definitely works. One issue is it's all in [...] the application. These can get really flaky and peel up, and depending on your skin, for some people that's more of an issue. I actually never ran into that issue with this, but I see that complaint a lot. I think a lot of it may just have to do with your skin, especially if you have oily skin."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Twinkle Pop Glittering Eye Stick

"I got this in the Advent calendar. It's like a little cream glitter stick. I'm really impressed with this Twinkle pop because it stays on for a long time."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Avène Thermal Spring Water

"Compounds in Thermal Spring Water are anti-inflammatory as they come from certain thermophilic bacteria. It's a great little set though if you're looking to do a skin care reset, something I recommend doing if you are in the middle of a skin problem and you don't know exactly what's going on. It's a way to just pair down your skin care routine to the bare essentials: a really mild cleanser, a moisturizer, and a sunscreen."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Amuse Do Tint in Seoul

"This is a lip tint which is described as being dewy and long lasting and didn't appear to have any fragrance or flavorant in it. I look forward to seeing how this compares to those Aude fixing tints that I got in last year's Advent calendars and have been loving this past year."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Retin-A Micro

"Topical retinoids are the most important drug class to reverse the signs of aging, also known as all-trans retinoic acid, tretinoin, sold under a variety of brands including Retin-A Micro, a prescription-only topical form of vitamin A that can visibly improve mild to moderate photo damage, including fine and coarse wrinkles, freckles, other pigmentation, and improve overall skin texture after months of daily use. This is accompanied by restoration of collagen formation."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

The Ordinary Aloe 2% + NAG 2% Solution

"This particular product from the ordinary hasn't really been doing it for me, but if you have a lot of hyperpigmentation it may help."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Redken Acidic Bond Repair Concentrate

"I'm not going to come in tonight without Redken Acidic Bond Repair Concentrate because it's just not it's just not making me happy."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Lancôme Ultra Precise Waterproof Liner

"I'm wearing their waterproof eyeliner and this really does a good job getting in there, dissolving it, breaking it up."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Listerine Listerine

"For some people, using an antibacterial mouth rinse like Listerine can be helpful, because bacteria and candida yeast in the mouth can be irritating to the mucosa and incite your immune system to come in. In some cases using an antibacterial mouth rinse like Listerine may help in cutting down on recurrences of canker sores."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Eczema Honey Eczema Honey

"Eczema Honey has sunflower seed oil, and beeswax helps reduce water loss. Some people do develop allergy to beeswax as well as honey so be aware of that, but yeah I think I liked this when I tried it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals Silymarin CF

"It's just a pretty expensive acne serum. Yeah, it has salicylic acid, but you need to be spending that kind of coin on a salicylic acid serum for your acne? I don't think that the research really supports that at this point. It seems like a pretty steep price point to pay for the potential benefit of the antioxidants in the serum."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Egyptian Magic Egyptian Magic

"Egyptian Magic, a few years ago I reviewed this. It's okay honestly. It's olive oil, beeswax, honey, and propolis. Those are all hydrating, but if you're allergic to fragrance you have to be careful with those ingredients because they can cross react."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Tazorac Tazorac

"The thing about Tazorac is that when it is absorbed in the body it's highly protein bound, like 98 percent of it is bound up to proteins in your plasma. The likelihood of it crossing the placenta to the baby is very, very, very low, and there are numerous case reports of perfectly healthy infants delivered in the setting where Mom was accidentally exposed to topical Tazorac."

~Mixed

57%Guru Score

Revlon One Step Volumizer

"My Revlon One Step Volumizer, I'm getting a lot of mileage out of this thing. I don't use it as often as I was using it for a while there when my hair was kind of medium length, but it's really good. It doesn't cause any breakage or anything for me."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant O-Bloos Rosy Drops

"This is the O-Bloos Rosy Drops from Drunk Elephant, this was a disappointment for me but I did finish it up. [...] This just did not ever show up on my skin, I had to pile it on in order to get any kind of rosy glow. [...] For me, just putting the drops directly on my skin, I couldn't see it, so I didn't waste time adding this to other stuff. I don't recommend these."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection

"Colorescience has become like a BB cream makeup for me. I'm actually wearing it most days over a layer of sunscreen because it looks so good on the skin, but I don't put a full two milligrams per centimeter squared of it on, I use it more for decorative purposes."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Clinique Dramatically Different Hydrating Jelly

"This is a very good gel moisturizer. It has urea in it, which can soften rough skin texture and improve moisture content in the skin, it's part of your skin's natural moisturizing factors. It also has caffeine, an antioxidant that can help diminish the burden of oxidative stress from environmental exposure and may temporarily improve redness, plus algae extract packed with humectants and sodium hyaluronate."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Murad Targeted Wrinkle Corrector

"Murad is charging 79 dollars for this and I don't think it's worth it, but it does have an ingredient people frequently ask me about, acetyl hexapeptide-8, otherwise known as Botox in a bottle or argireline. [...] In theory it could act like botox, but there's no way it's actually getting down to the neuromuscular junction to [...] relax and smooth out wrinkles like botox does."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Grande Cosmetics GrandeLASH-MD

"My concern with these is always that they can have prostaglandin analog like compounds in them that definitely can cause dry eyes, and there are cases of people getting hyperpigmentation around the eyes related to these non-prescription lash enhancing serums, and they also can cause eye redness. There's one concerning rare side effect, more common in people actually using prostaglandin analogues to treat glaucoma, which is atrophy of the fat around the eye and a sunken eye appearance."

✕Nay

49%Guru Score

Aztec Secret Indian Healing Clay

"A couple of years ago I reviewed [...] this. It's kind of a mess to do, to be honest. A lot of people love this and do it, more power to you, but I'm lazy and I'd rather have a mask already made up for me."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Stick

"Neutrogena also has a new sunscreen stick. I really enjoy their sunscreen sticks because they give you a pretty large surface area, kind of like a deodorant. [...] They're super helpful for reapplying on children who tend to be wiggly, [...] they're handy for on the go, but they are prone to skip areas so make sure you're doing multiple passes with these."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Thermal Spring Water

"It doesn't appear to be harmful, and it may have some skin benefit, but [...] this is not essential, I would say it is a luxury item. The research on things like atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, and rosacea is pretty small, and you have to take it with a grain of salt because La Roche Posay funded it themselves. If you are on a tight budget, [...] this can of water would be the first thing to cut from your routine."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate

"Here's the Midnight Recovery Concentrate, it's just a bunch of scented oils. It's super popular, but it doesn't do anything, it just kind of gives you a temporary glowy look."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Alastin Regenerating Skin Nectar

"At 199 dollars this isn't going to offer you anything above and beyond what a basic drugstore moisturizer can offer you. I've not seen enough research to lead me to believe the peptides are really going to transform your skin, and I think your money would be better spent elsewhere. [...] Unless you've been advised by your treating dermatologist who's doing these procedures to get this to complement the treatment, [...] I don't think it's worth 199 dollars."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Q-tips Q-tips

"I'm loving this little box of Q-tips. I'm tempted to take it along with me, but I'm sure that would come with a fine here, so I will pass."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Winlevi Winlevi

"This is an exciting new development in treating hormonal acne, particularly for women and [...] young males, because this drug addresses the hormonal component and can be used by both genders, shows improvement in as little as 2 weeks, and has fewer systemic side effects than oral hormonal treatments like birth control pills or spironolactone."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Betadine Betadine

"One of the least expensive, albeit messier to apply, is good old Betadine, or povidone iodine solution. This is an antimicrobial as well, it will achieve the same outcome."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Frownies Forehead and Between the Eye Wrinkle Patches

"Some of these patches like Frownies [...] can have a temporary wrinkle smoothing effect by trapping water in the skin and reducing trans epidermal water loss, but [...] it's not going to be preventative, that's for sure."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

SKKN By Kim

"Nine products for $630, or $90 for a single serum, feels out of touch with the realities of these days with inflation, even though for her that's nothing compared to the roughly $4,500 worth of luxury skincare she already uses. Let's be honest, the skincare line is lacking one of the most important pieces of any skincare routine, and that is sun protection, [...] and given her financial backing I find it a little suspicious that she doesn't have [...] one."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Sederma Volufiline

"What do I think of this ingredient? I think it sounds too good to be true, it likely is. I've never used it, but honestly I would say the same exact thing even if I used it. I'm skeptical that this is doing anything to stimulate adipocyte differentiation in the face. You're applying it to the surface of the skin, how is that compound actually going to penetrate all the way into the skin, across the dermis, into the subcutaneous where the fat is, to influence fat cell differentiation?"

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo

"This is a hero product from La Roche-Posay that I've been recommending for a while now. It's got 5.5% benzoyl peroxide, which is a wonderful ingredient for acne. It's anti-inflammatory and targets the bacteria that causes acne, so it will help fight off existing breakouts and prevent breakouts in the future. Unfortunately, it's very drying and it does bleach fabrics if it comes in contact with your skin and can bleach your hair if it comes in contact with your hair."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Calm Down

"Calm Down has polyhydroxy acids and a very low percentage of salicylic acid at 0.8%, which are wonderful for very gently exfoliating and well tolerated by sensitive skin types. These ingredients help accelerate the clearance of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation [...] and improve the health of the moisture barrier. This [...] is a good one if you have sensitive [...] skin and are just looking for smoother skin texture."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous HA5 Rich

"These hyaluronic acid serums are a relatively benign ingredient and can help with healing, but the difference between the two is really nothing. The Light version is similar to the Rich except without the baobab. I don't really see the point of having these two products. They should have just made one."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Dove Sensitive Skin Beauty Bar

"In the case of this Dove sensitive, this actually works great for both face and body. You could use the original, which is more or less the same thing only with fragrance. I personally prefer the fragrance-free one, but the scent of Dove original is kind of pleasant. This is a modern syndet cleansing bar, not an old-fashioned bar soap, so it doesn't have the alkaline pH that disrupts the skin barrier."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Flash Cat Eye Liquid Liner

"We have a L'Oreal Infallible Flash Cat Eye Liquid Liner. I'm looking forward to messing around with that because I have used L'Oreal eyeliners before with pretty good success."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

iRestore Eye Restore Elite

"The iRestore Elite is the most powerful LED hair device on the market. It has 250 mW of total power output, which is comparable to in-clinic laser treatments. It uses 500 medical grade diodes: 300 lasers and 200 LEDs. So it really gives you broad coverage across the entire scalp and really targeted intensity to stimulate hair follicles. It's FDA cleared, heavily vetted for safety, and it's clinically proven. In fact, one study showed a 43% increase in total hair count in just 4 months."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Hyalu-Cica Sleeping Pack

"This has melatonin in it, which is an antioxidant, and it also has compounds from [Centella], which are also antioxidants. This is great at night for reducing water loss, which tends to be greater as we sleep, but it's not heavy or greasy on the skin. It does have a nice plumping effect. So you wake up the following morning and your skin is soft, smooth, plump, and you don't have those little overnight dry wrinkles. I have really enjoyed this this whole line."

✓Yay

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PCEL 24/7 Colostrum Pore Defense Ampule with Pixel Biome

"I can't say that this is a complete wash, a complete gimmick. I was fine, right? Like it's hydrating, it's nice, it's lightweight, but it's nothing novel. And the colostrum is just part of the storytelling of this. Like I said, it is an SEO hijack. It doesn't mean that there's any established track record of it being beneficial for the skin. But it's not a bad product. It does what it's supposed to do, what you would expect it to do, but it's not magical. It's not magical."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid 1%

"I've been using it now for two weeks just at night over my treatment, as like the last step. It's really oily when I wake up the next morning. I have not seen any dramatic change. My skin is moisturized, fine lines are smoothed down, but I'm not seeing like a major transformation. The overall texture, consistency, formulation, the delivery system, I'd like to see some more brands dipping into this shape because I really like it. It's almost like it wants to be an oil. It's like a gel oil."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Goodal Vit C Dark Spot Care Tangerine Extract

"This does not seem like something I would recommend just based off the ingredients. It does have a ascorbyl glucoside, which is a stable form of vitamin C, but not really evidence-based though like ascorbic acid. It does have compounds from licorice root which are good for dark spots, and it has niacinamide. The texture is [...] a little bit gelatinous, kind of a jelly texture. [...] The fragrance smells like a drugstore."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Sleep and Glow Omnia Pillow

"This pillow has been a game changer for my sleep. It's basically like a high quality memory foam pillow, [...] and it's got these concavities here that cradle your face if you're a side sleeper. I'm a back sleeper and it's just so comfortable on the neck."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Remedy For Pore Size

"I actually think they're really really good um I I think the formulations make a a lot of sense the ingredients are directed at the issue that the product claims to be targeting"

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

JVN Nourishing Shine Drops

"These are called Nourishing Shine Drops, but here's how I found that these work for me: when your hair is dirty it is a little bit easier to style it holds better. This product kind of gives that effect without your hair looking dirty, greasy or oily. It gives your hair a little bit of almost texture grip without weighing the hair down and looking heavy or oily whatsoever. I find I need quite a bit of it to get it distributed all throughout the ends of my hair, that's where I primarily put it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Lancôme Advanced Génifique Youth Activating Concentrate

"I've been trying out the Lancôme Advanced Génifique that was gifted to me and I don't see any reason to buy this when things like this exist and offer similar hydrating benefits."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Almay Sensitive Skin Fragrance Free Antiperspirant

"Here's one of my favorite antiperspirants, the sensitive skin fragrance free one. I put this on at night before I go to bed instead of in the morning, because at night the output of sweat is slower, so it allows the aluminum salts to trickle down into the sweat glands so they'll involute, and ultimately you'll make less sweat."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Haircare73 reviews

Head & Shoulders Classic Clean Shampoo

"I do have atopic dermatitis and even though I'm real liberal with fragrance, there are just better preservatives out there, and with so much available I don't think there are enough alternatives that I don't need to use products with tholanones. Sometimes I accidentally get things that have tholanones, like for example certain anti-dander shampoos put tholanones in and it's kind of hard to avoid them. Head & Shoulders for the longest time always had tholanone."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Head & Shoulders Bare Shampoo

"They've got the Bare line which I really like, [...] and that doesn't have the ingredient, but I don't know why they don't just phase it out of their Classic Clean as well. I was told they were going to but I still see it on the ingredient list so I don't know what that's all about."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Happy Cappy Zinc Pyrithione Baby Shampoo

"There's this Happy Cappy shampoo that is marketed for babies with cradle cap, which is dandruff that babies get. It is a great option as a gentle face wash for people who have seborrheic dermatitis. You could use it as a shampoo as well. You don't have to be a baby."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Anti-Dandruff Shampoo with Zinc Pyrithione

"They really brought a full package here with their anti-dandruff line, the zinc pyrithione. If you dose conditioner up by your roots, [...] they recommend coming in with the conditioner that has zinc pyrithione. According to Proctor and Gamble, when [...] you put conditioner up there after you've rinsed the zinc pyrithione shampoo out and let it incubate before rinsing, you [...] end up removing some of that initial zinc pyrithione from the shampoo."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Dove Intensive Repair Hair Mask

"This Dove Intensive Repair Hair Mask is really good though. Highly recommend this. It was like a discovery for me last year. [...] It's quite good just for really helping to smooth and impart shine."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Pantene Strong and Abundant Daily Scalp and Root Serum

"The scalp and root serum is the standout product of this line in my opinion. [...] I actually really enjoyed the cooling effect a lot more than I was expecting. What I like most about the serum is how easy it is to work [...] into the scalp. You're not going to get product building up on the roots, the strands, because likely that alcohol helps it to get down onto the scalp without sticking to the hair so quickly like an oil-based product would."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Pantene Strong and Abundant Shampoo

"After using these products off and on for about a month, I found the shampoo and conditioner to be just fine. Not mind-blowing. They did what they were supposed to do as far as cleansing my scalp and conditioning my strands, but I didn't notice a dramatic change in my overall hair fullness or density. [...] I really didn't see much difference as far as shine, fullness, or gloss. The overall aesthetic, cosmetic appearance of my hair wasn't that amazing."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Pantene Strong and Abundant Conditioner

"Conditioner is a mainstay for me as someone with long hair. I have to use it after shampooing, otherwise my hair is a frizzy, tangled mess. This is a fine, excellent conditioner. It does the job, but there's nothing about it per se that addresses scalp health needs. There's no peroxone olamine. And some of the other ingredients we'll touch on in a moment are not there. It's just a basic conditioner that does what it's supposed to do. And it has the same scent as the shampoo."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Neutrogena T/Sal Therapeutic Shampoo

"This is the classic Neutrogena T-Cell shampoo probably your grandfather used. It contains salicylic acid but no antifungal, no menthol, and no fragrance. [...] One small difference from the new version is the presence of sodium chloride, but that doesn't make a huge difference. It's just a subtle formulation tweak."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Peach Slices Smoothing Solution Ingrown Hair Treatment with Niacinamide and Licorice

"This is new, the smoothing solution with niacinamide and licorice. [...] This is a good product."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Dr. Groot Hair Growth Shampoo

"Dr. Groot utilizes rosemary, which is marketing. Rosemary for hair is not well established. There is a study and the study sucks to say to put it lightly, and I've explained that in numerous videos on why rosemary oil for hair is fluff BS. This also has caffeine in it though, which can get into the hair follicle, localize there, stay there, and help to energize hair follicle cells and reduce oxidative stress and has been shown to be helpful for hair loss."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

CeraVe Fragrance-Free Hydrating Hair Care Shampoo and Conditioner

"I really really like these. These work really well for my hair. The shampoo is very mild. It's very gentle and it does not leave any kind of residue behind. It leaves the hair soft, manageable. It helps that it has niacinamide in the formula and the ceramides for scalp moisturization purposes. The conditioner works well for improving manageability, shine, reducing static, all of those things that the strands need after shampooing. The conditioner nicely addresses. I've repurchased this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Garnier Fructis Hair Oil

"I saw the Fruit Tease has a variety of sort of uh silicone based hair oil smoothing things. I might just have to give a try"

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Dove Intensive Repair Shampoo and Conditioner

"The Dove Damage Therapy Shampoo is pretty good. I've used that before. You can get the shampoo for $7.98. That's 30 cents per ounce. Still significantly less expensive than that. Then likewise, they have a conditioner 30 cents per ounce."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Kérastase Elixir Ultime L'Huile Originale Hair Oil

"Heavily scented, but a nice scent. It performs similar if not a little bit better compared to that other one. I just heat it up a little bit in between my hands and then I take it to the damp ends. This [...] helps with manageability a little bit. It helps with shine. It cuts down on frizz for the ends, but it really just kind of takes the little split ends and kind of seals them together temporarily."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Hair Leave-in Conditioner with Heat Protectant

"This is new. with a leave-in conditioner with heat protectant. I can't remember what my feelings on this were. I think it was okay. I was a little let down though by the hair serum if I recall correctly."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Selsun Blue Selenium Sulfide Anti-Dandruff Shampoo

"Given everything I've said about the protocol, it can work, it is well established to work, though for a lot of people it doesn't work because they weren't properly counseled or didn't do the protocol correctly. It's rather involved and a lot to keep up with, but I suggest doing it once a week for at least three months, and bringing it back into your shower routine once the hot humid months approach."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Oribe Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil

"I really like their hair oil. The Oribe Gold Lust Hair Oil is amazing."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

L'Oreal EverPure Sulfate-Free Clarifying Shampoo and Conditioner

"I really like these for removing product residue, especially if you use a lot of styling products, which I admittedly don't. But when I was really using these was in my other apartment, where the water was very hard, and I would get this kind of residue on my hair. I found that using a clarifying shampoo once a week would really help control that, and this lasted me a long time. Now that I'm here, the water quality is a bit better and I'm not having that issue."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Vichy Dercos Anti-Dandruff DS Shampoo

"Vichy has a selenium sulfide shampoo here good for dandruff, similar to selenium sulfide and Selsun Blue. I really like it."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

L'Oreal EverPure Sulfate-Free Clarifying Shampoo and Conditioner

"This clarifying shampoo is a great one from L'Oreal. I was using it a lot in my apartment, where the water is hard, and it really helped with the hard water residue."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Nutrafol Hair Growth Supplement

"Nutrafol includes 200 micrograms of selenium in their hair supplement, both their original one and the vegan one. [...] Be really careful if you're taking that, it recently was responsible for a case of serious liver failure, likely due to a combination of things in the formula, and so the 200 micrograms of selenium in there could also be dangerous for you."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Nair Hair Removal Cream

"If you're going to buy Nair don't use their leg cream on your face don't use their leg cream in the bikini area"

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

Head & Shoulders Clinical Strength Selenium Sulfide Shampoo

"Head and Shoulders came out with selenium sulfide shampoos as well. Traditionally they've always been pyrithione and another anti-dander shampoo, but they have this clinical strength line with selenium sulfide to compete with Selsun Blue. I really like their new line because this packaging is really cool, it collapses and you can roll it as you use the product."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Head & Shoulders Zinc Pyrithione Anti-Dandruff Shampoo

"Head and Shoulders with zinc [pyrithione]"

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Neutrogena T/Gel Salicylic Acid Shampoo

"This is a 3% salicylic acid shampoo and I know what you're thinking hey you recommend that for dandruff yep I do it's good for both psoriasis and dandruff and people who have an overlap between the two AKA sio psorasis."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

RevitaLash Advanced Eyelash Conditioner

"A prostag glandon analog you got to be careful with those they can cause discoloration of the skin around your eyes as well as change the color of your eye and they can cause unwanted hair growth"

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Seen Restore Scalp Serum

"The Restore Scalp Serum I've recommended in my video on dry scalp, it's a hydrating formula, but in contrast to just putting body lotion on your scalp, this is not going to gunk up your hair. It goes into hair-bearing areas really well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bumble and bumble Hairdresser's Invisible Oil Heat/UV Protective Primer

"This Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser's Invisible Oil Heat/UV Protective Primer is like an all-in-one type product. It's very lightweight though so it doesn't weigh down your strands at all, so you can use it from root to tip and it doesn't make your hair greasy. The UV protective aspect helps offset the weathering from UV rays to the strands, especially if you have blonde hair which is a lot more vulnerable to sun damage. It can even turn your hair yellow, so this can help."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dove DermaCare Anti-Dandruff Shampoo

"This is one of my favorite dandruff shampoos and has zinc pyrithione in it, really good it's not drying in my experience"

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Neutrogena T/Gel Scalp Therapy Anti-Dandruff Shampoo with Scalp Buildup Control

"This anti-dandruff shampoo from Neutrogena has salicylic acid in it and is fragrance free. Make sure you let the lather sit on the scalp for a couple of minutes to really let it soak in to the scalp."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Oribe Gold Lust Shampoo

"I wasn't too impressed with their shampoo. I only tried a sample of it, but I do [...] love a good moisturizing mask. [...] If I'm feeling spendy or somebody is feeling generous and gives me an Oribe shampoo, I would like to try another scent besides the Gold Lust fragrance."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Kirkland Signature Minoxidil

"Just go to Costco and get the Kirkland [...] minoxidil. [...] That would be my first line recommendation."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Dove 10-in-1 Bond Strength Peptide Complex Serum Hair Mask

"I may have to buy this today because I have not seen this and I love a good hair mask. I wish they would start putting them in tubes because [...] hair masks in pots are so unwieldy, you end up dropping them sometimes in the shower, [...] water gets in there, it's just a mess. But I am tempted to buy that patented technology, sign me up. [...] And $13.49 doesn't seem too bad."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Redken Acidic Bond Repair Leave-In Conditioner

"I just finished Redken Acidic Bond Repair Leave-In Conditioner a month or so ago. [...] At first it was like, what, this is blah blah blah, not that impressive. But as I used it and got to the end, it's like yeah, I'm definitely seeing improvement."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Neral Ketoconazole Shampoo 1%

"It does not have that pesky preservative in it that people frequently become allergic to. But another thing about ketoconazole is it has anti-androgen effects, so there's interest in it topically for acne, actually for addressing the hormonal component of acne. Not like super evidence-based, but 2% ketoconazole is prescription in a cream and some people actually get good [...] improvement in their acne when using that. You could try this as a face wash."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Redken Acidic Perfecting Concentrate Leave-in Treatment

"I've been using this Redken Acidic Perfecting Concentrate for over a month now. It is intended for people who have color-treated hair or damaged hair from a lot of chemical processing. It has technology in it that allegedly reapproximates those damaged bonds and it also acts as a heat protectant. For me it's not been as good in terms of the bang for my buck I get as far as the styling benefit that it provides."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Dove Shampoo and Conditioner

"The drugstore shampoo brand that I have really liked a lot of what I've gotten has been Dove. Dove Shampoo and Conditioner has really been good for me. I love their Derma series specifically the anti-dandruff shampoo. They have been really really good."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA Scalp Serum

"They do sell a scalp moisturizer, a pretty inexpensive product from The Ordinary. It's their Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA for scalp, fragrance-free, it's lightweight, it's hydrating. Urea and lactic acid in this formula are hydrating and can soften and exfoliate dry skin. They're part of your skin's natural moisturizing factors so they're helpful for moisture retention. This formula goes into the scalp very easily and doesn't really leave any kind of residue on the hair strands."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Seen Shampoo and Conditioner Set

"Seen is a hair care brand. They have shampoo and conditioner that are fragrance-free, really good. They also have a styling cream that's quite nice."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Cocomino Glossing Shampoo and Conditioner

"These are really nice moisturizing. I don't know though that they are necessarily worth the price point, but I do really like my hair the way it looks when I use these, glossy, smooth, silky, manageable. They're good products. They don't have any fragrance so that they have sweet almond oil and there's very strong aroma of sweet almond oil to them. But one thing I really like about these [...] is the packaging. This packaging is great for your shower that just doesn't take up a lot of space."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

L'Oreal EverPure Bond Repair+ Shampoo & Conditioner

"I've also been trying out the bond repair now I don't have color treated hair so I don't you know take that with a grain of salt I don't have much in the way of damage in that regard the premise behind these is that they get in there and they may you know stand in for disulfide bonds um it's interesting and I I do think it works in that regard I don't see any difference in my hair though when I use the bond repair."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density

"It did leave a residue on my hair strands that made them look kind of greasy. I [...] noticed that residue developing after one week of using it. I continued to use it, but I was more conservative with the volume that I used because of the effects that it had on the appearance of my hair. [...] I would suggest if you do have thinning in certain areas to just use it in those areas to see if it benefits you. [...] This is not the kind of thing that you are going to see results overnight."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Viviscal Hair Growth Supplement

"Unless you are deficient in something, which is rare, honestly they're unlikely to actually do anything. The studies on these things like Viviscal, they have limitations, the endpoints that they're measuring are not very consistent. It's got biotin, and [...] there's no evidence that biotin is helpful for hair growth in the absence of biotin deficiency, which is super rare."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Hatomugi Skin Conditioner

"I have continued to use [...] the Hatomugi Skin Conditioning Gel. I like this a lot. I think it's a pretty good value for how much you get in here. It's a very lightweight hydrating gel, [...] a good option for the summer months as a moisturizer because it's nice and lightweight."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Aquis Hair Turban

"The Aquis ones are really good, I have like four or five of them I have on rotation. They help remove the water from the hair, cutting down on dry time, and it's really helped cut down on frizz for me for sure."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

The Ordinary Sulfate 4% Cleanser for Body and Hair and Behentrimonium Chloride 2% Conditioner

"The ordinary shampoo, the Sulfate 4% Cleanser for Body and Hair, isn't going to give you the experience you may be seeking if you like highly scented shampoos and lots of lathering, [...] it doesn't really lather too much. But it is effective at leaving the hair and scalp clean, and I don't get the residue with this that I've gotten with a lot of other shampoos. It's very good, and I love the packaging, this newer rectangle bottle style. You can also use it as a body wash."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Shea Butter and Coconut Oil Hair Mask

"I recently tried this and really liked it. If you have a Trader Joe's in your area, I highly suggest the Trader Joe's hair mask, it's really good and very affordable."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Oribe Gold Lust Repair & Restore Shampoo + Conditioner

"An update on the Oribe Gold Lust Repair and Restore shampoo and conditioner, I love the smell, the scent is nice, it's sophisticated."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Shea Butter and Coconut Oil Hair Serum

"This is not as good as the Function of Beauty one. I can't tell that it does anything. I think it's more helpful if you've got frizzy hair, maybe it helps with that, maybe if you have curly hair it might help [...] tame the curl pattern, but for me it just doesn't do anything. If I put it on wet hair it makes my hair smell like coconut, which I like, but the following morning when my hair is completely dry it's like I don't even have anything on there."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Silk Amino Mega Moisturizing Shampoo

"I like these, I think they're good, they leave the hair manageable, not greasy or weighed down. [...] I particularly like the shampoo, it's got a little bit of a lather but not a ton of lather."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Function of Beauty Wavy Hair Shampoo and Conditioner

"I finished the shampoo and conditioner of the Wavy line. Love these, I have wavy hair but I blow dry it straight. The scent is really nice, very tropical. [...] The conditioner has argan oil, shea butter and sunflower seed oil, it leaves the hair very manageable, soft, shiny, supple. The shampoo does a good job cleansing without making your hair brittle. I really like these."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

The Ordinary Hair Care Shampoo

"I just finished up The Ordinary shampoo and conditioner, which were not too bad, although the shampoo is boring. I love a really scented shampoo, I like the foam, the lather, I like to have a sense that I can feel it being massaged over my scalp. This one is like, hello, are you even up there."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

The Ordinary Behentrimonium Chloride 2% Conditioner

"The corresponding conditioner I likewise really liked, because it does what it's supposed to do. It helps neutralize the charge on the hair strands that comes about from shampooing, which would leave hair more prone to tangles and breakage, [...] and that's exactly what this does. [...] I have really liked what these do for my hair, I just don't care for the experience necessarily, [...] I like really florally or fruity scented shampoos and a lot of lather, and that aspect is lacking here."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Necessaire Shampoo

"They sent me their new shampoo and conditioner that are free of fragrance. Unfortunately, these have not been working out well for me. [...] The shampoo leaves [...] a residue close to my scalp, and I'm getting a lot of scalp itch with this product. [...] It doesn't rinse off well and does leave buildup on the scalp and the strands, which makes it itchy and really uncomfortable."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Kitsch Quick Dry Hair Towel Wrap

"I imagine this quick drying hair towel [...] would be pretty good because everything I've tried from Kitsch I've liked."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

T3 Hair dryer

"But to me, this is kind of a medium price point as far as hair dryers on the market, and I am pleased with it. It has [...] two different attachments, [...] you can do low, medium, or high heat, and you can do a weaker blow or a more forceful airstream. There is a little button here that switches over to cool, which [...] helps reduce static and [...] the heat damage after you have been applying heat. [...] I have been really happy with this."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Living Proof Clarifying Detox Shampoo

"If you live somewhere with hard water, especially if you have blonde hair and you find that the hard water is affecting your hair color or if you get your hair color treated, I suggest trying Living Proof's Triple Detox Shampoo. This shampoo not only has EDTA in it but it also has charcoal which will help absorb some of that residue on the hair."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Lador Moisture Balancing Shampoo

"It contains piroctone olamine, an anti-fungal that helps cut down on Malassezia, a great ingredient if you're prone to dandruff. I really like this product as a shampoo, but it's very, very rich, and I found I could not use it as a daily shampoo without getting a little bit of weighty residue to my hair. If you have very damaged, brittle hair or you color treat your hair, this might be a better option for you."

~Mixed

Notverified

Nizoral A-D Anti-Dandruff Shampoo (1% Ketoconazole)

"I would say ketoconazole shampoo is pretty low risk and potentially very high reward. If anything, it helps reduce the burden of malassezia on the scalp, which is very inflammatory and thought to play a supporting role in driving the miniaturization process even further. So it's definitely worth pursuing, especially if you have dandruff, you get a two for one there, so I say why not."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Aquis Microfiber Hair Towel

"Aquis, the Microfiber Hair Towel, I'm all about. I have several, I've had them for years. They were on the pricey side, and I think that was their ultimate downfall since consumers could get one at TJ Maxx for a fraction of the price, but they were more of an investment and they've definitely outlasted any of the TJ Maxx ones I've ever purchased."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask

"You could also try using a bond repair product. I have personally had good success with that popular K18 hair mask. These just help to re-approximate temporarily the bonds in the hair, especially if you have color treated hair with a lot of damage that ends up getting frizzy in humidity, [...] or excessive heat damage on the hair. [...] The K18 hair mask is not heat activated, unlike the other options."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

K18 Airwash Dry Shampoo

"I was sent a K18 dry shampoo [...] and it actually worked really well for styling purposes. It's almost like a texturizer and for imparting a bit of lift at the roots. [...] It was not something that caked up on my hair at all. But my goodness is that product ever hard to spray. The nozzle is really hard to work."

~Mixed

90%Guru Score

Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Hair Serum

"The one I use has fragrance, but they have a fragrance-free hair silicone hair serum as well. Really good, performed amazingly for me actually in a desert climate where deserts in my hair it's a mess. [...] My hair was amazing in Palm Springs. [...] That's when I was using the Paul Mitchell Super Serum a lot there, when I first discovered it and I still use it quite a bit now. But I don't use it every single day. I use it a couple of days a week. Gets pretty heavy."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Maelove Full Follicle Shampoo

"I had been using a shampoo before that was not good, and within a matter of a couple of days of using their new line, I had a significant improvement in the overall cosmetic appearance of my hair. It looked fuller, and that fullness was maintained throughout the time I used the products. It seemed to give me a little more volume at the crown, just kind of lifting the hair up a bit. Although once I finished the line and stopped using the products, my hair went back to the way it was."

✓Yay

Notverified

Maelove Full Follicle Advanced Scalp Serum

"And in contrast to others I've tried, this one actually did not leave any kind of greasy residue on the hair strands. I hate that about a lot of scalp serums. They're just not formulated for fine hair, which a lot of people struggling with hair loss, you know, they don't want some product that is so thick and goopy it's going to glom onto their hair and make it look extra greasy. I was pretty impressed with how it basically transformed my hair."

✓Yay

Notverified

Rogaine Minoxidil 5% Foam

"If you have androgenetic alopecia, which is pattern hair loss, it is definitely a go-to established treatment for that. When you first start using it, you will experience an increase in hair shedding. That is normal. That's to be expected because minoxidil works by putting more hair follicles into the growing phase and it helps to get hair follicles that have miniaturized into the growing phase. You have to give it some time."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Neutrogena T/Gel Coal Tar Shampoo

"It's the Neutrogena T/Gel. This has been around for a long time. Fingers crossed they never discontinue it. It is a salicylic acid fragrance-free shampoo that is excellent for gently exfoliating the scalp, calming down scalp inflammation, reducing the formation of flakes and helping to remove product buildup. So, it's a great option if you have dandruff or if you use a lot of styling products and you've gotten some scalp buildup that is irritating and contributing to itch."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo

"I tried the Olaplex shampoo and while I liked it, I really didn't find that my hair was any different in comparison to using that Pantene shampoo."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

L'Oreal EverPure Bond Strengthening Shampoo

"I've used these, the shampoo and the conditioner. I have this but I haven't used it. The shampoo and the conditioner were fine for my hair but they the shampoo has methyl isothiazolinone in it so I don't recommend these."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

L'Oreal Metal Detox Shampoo

"I don't color treat my hair, I've never had Balayage before, I don't dye my hair, so these aren't really intended for me, but it's not as though you can't use them if you don't have color treated hair. [...] I really really like these and they lasted me a long time. The shampoo generates a nice lather and rinses out easily. [...] You don't need a ton of shampoo to adequately cleanse your scalp and it left my hair silky smooth, glossy, manageable."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Moroccanoil Perfect Defense Heat Protectant Spray

"I have a little travel can of the Moroccanoil heat protectant spray, that stuff is great. I have a big one that I use all the time."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Function of Beauty Customizable Shampoo and Conditioner

"I love these fully customizable hair care products that you can have delivered to your door. I like them because you can [...] tweak the formula for your specific hair type and hair needs, which may change depending on the season or what you are doing with your hair. [...] You can keep it fragrance free, which is good if you are allergic to fragrance, since it can be tricky to find a shampoo and conditioner that works for your hair type."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Masks & Peels55 reviews

Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel Pads

"I like the pads for precise application because they allow for very precise application of a thin layer, but you ultimately do end up wasting probably some of the product because sometimes they're like really heavily soaked. [...] The Dennis Gross peel pads are around 90 something dollars, so you could get two [CeraVe] products for much less than that."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Tree Hut Shea Sugar Scrub

"This is fine if you have keratosis pilaris, for mechanical exfoliation. My experience with these Tree Hut ones is the scent is quite strong, it actively scents the body long after you have used it, it's pretty long lasting. I haven't used one in a long time though. [...] Make sure your skin is wet before you use this, don't go on dry skin, it'll [...] slough off much more easily if it's wet first."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Torriden Cellmazing Firming Gel Mask

"I love these. If you've ever tried one before and you know you like them and you get along with them, $39.99 doesn't seem too bad. [...] This has various sizes of collagen, which helps with water retention. Plus, this has a variety of peptides, which they'll claim do all sorts of things like boost collagen and anti-age your face. Whether or not they actually do that is a matter of question mark, question mark, question mark."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Prequel Multi-Acid Milk Peel AHA Exfoliating Solution

"I think this is a great option not only for the body like the arms, the thighs, wherever you deal with it, but you can also obviously use this on the face. The reason I call it an affordable dupe is if you have ever come across the Sunday Riley Good Genes, that is so expensive. It's very popular and at the end of the day, it's a lactic acid toner, serum, whatever you want to name it. This does what that does, but much less expensive. Very good formulation. Highly recommend that."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Lazy Days Allnighter Hydrating Mask

"But [...] the funny thing about this is that this is the basic tenants of what you will find in the majority of body lotions and body creams. So what they're doing here is taking what you can get in a value size and putting it in a small tube and charging three times as much and calling it something else, calling it a night mask. [...] It is probably heavier in comparison to a facial."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

PanOxyl 2% Salicylic Acid Liquid Exfoliant

"We've been recommending it to patients for years. I have recommended in numerous videos here and many other derms do as well. And it is a drugstore acne brand, right? Meaning you go into the drugstore, digital retailers carry it as well. And they now have a liquid salicylic acid leave on product very similar to the Paula's Choice one. Poxyl is $10.97 for the same 4 oz size. [...] Both brands are reputable. Both brands create really effective, well-formulated, logical products."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"Salicylic acid, which is BHA, right in that toner, is actually a great scalp ingredient. It loves oily surfaces. It's actually approved for dandruff. It can help exfoliate away flakes, and it's anti-inflammatory. It's also good for seborrheic dermatitis, which is basically dandruff on the face. So the facial product, you can certainly use it on your scalp."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Nightly Exfoliating Treatment

"They have a great exfoliant, leave-on exfoliant that is wonderful for rough skin texture."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Cetaphil Derm Control Clay Mask

"I'm a big fan of one from Cetaphil, but I feel like they discontinued it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Good Genes All-In-One AHA Lactic Acid Treatment

"All well and good. But $122 for 1.7 oz. Like, this is just marketing. And Sunday Riley, they have some controversy behind the hype as well. [...] They have a history of fudging online reviews. A lot of the hype is manufactured, I believe. [...] It is a good product. [...] It does what lactic acid does, helps smooth and hydrate the skin. But there are other options that do the same thing for less."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

I'm From Honey Jelly Mask

"I love these repairing hand masks. And you can't tell me that this is like actually expired. 20 bucks seems pricey for it though. But inside the mask they have it's not just [Aquaphor] in there. It is urea and glycerin and shea butter and avocado oil and panthenol. That's not what's in [Aquaphor]. But basically putting in moisturizers under occlusion is a great way to really amp up repair of dry skin."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Glass Skin Ginseng Collagen Mask

"Peach and Lily has a Glass Skin Ginseng Collagen Mask. Illuminate, refine pores, firm, hydrate, and nourish. These are really popular, kind of like the Bioance one that I tried out for you guys a while ago. I enjoyed that. I found it to be effective. This one has some fragrance in it, though, orange peel oil, bergamot fruit oil, which can be irritating, especially under occlusion in a mask like this that you're leaving on for presumably a prolonged period of time."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Watermelon Overnight Face Mask

"This is a scented gel cream. [...] It's very strong."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

L'Oreal Bright Reveal Exfoliant Peel

"L'Oreal Bright Reveal has a new exfoliant. Remember I reviewed this, it's pretty good. [...] This is a lactic acid, glycolic acid, glucono lactone, salicylic acid combo with niacinamide and a strong fragrance."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Versed Doctor's Visit Instant Resurfacing Mask

"The resurfacing mask can be irritating but may help if you've got rough skin texture. [...] In addition to the pineapple enzymes, it has glycolic acid and lactic acid."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Walgreens Watermelon AHA Mask

"This has glycolic and lactic acid, those are the alpha hydroxy acids. Lactic is really good for rough and bumpy skin, keratosis pilaris, dry skin. This has sodium hyaluronate which is hydrating, and of course niacinamide which does a lot of heavy lifting in skincare products. [...] As with any alpha hydroxy acid skincare product, it can make you a bit more sensitive to sun, so make sure you're vigilant with your sun protection."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Bubble Moonwalk Gentle Exfoliating Serum

"Then we have Moonwalk, allegedly a gentle exfoliating serum. A walk on the moon, I like the names of these, they're fun, they're clever, they're not too cheesy in my opinion, which no one asked for. They just tell us what's in it. Lactic acid, good for those of you who have rough and bumpy skin."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Walgreens 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"Walgreens has a dupe of [Paula's Choice] 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant and we have a dupe of the ordinary's azelaic acid suspension. I love both of these brand name versions. [...] Walgreens is charging $11.99. [...] These are great options for acne-prone skin. Salicylic acid's great for closed comedones, open comedones, acne, whiteheads and blackheads. It's also good for hyperpigmentation and rough skin texture. Fragrance-free."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Pantene Miracle Rescue Intensive Bond Repair Mask

"Pantene gets a lot of shade but the shampoo has always worked out well for me. [...] It's always worked well for me, might have to give this a try at some point."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

AXIS-Y PHA Resurfacing Glow Peel

"It's a polyhydroxy acid gel that you put on similar to the Peter Thomas Roth thing you put it on leave it on for 10 minutes and then rinse it off."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Isntree Chestnut BHA 2% Clear Liquid

"Isntree Chestnut BHA 2% Clear Liquid, I really like it. It's really helping to smooth the skin surface and it's not irritating, although I did find that I've been putting it on my neck and I did find that I got a little bit of dryness back here."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

St. Ives Fresh Skin Apricot Scrub

"The product that everybody loves to hate on is the St Ives apricot scrub. You guys know that product, it's abrasive, it can be very irritating, but some people use it and they don't have any problem with it, it doesn't cause them problems, they enjoy using it."

✕Nay

41%Guru Score

Mediheal Sheet Mask

"I've been pleasantly surprised with these. [...] I'm not really a big Sheet Mask person, I don't think they make a huge difference, but I am someone who from time to time does enjoy dabbling in a Sheet Mask. I find them relaxing. [...] They definitely [...] can make a difference, especially if you have really dry irritated skin because they're basically the principle of occlusion, you know, something really hydrating on damp skin under occlusion it can be really beneficial."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Bubble Overnight Hydrating Sleep Mask

"I've been doing this a couple of times a week, and so far I don't know, this I don't know that it's like a win but it's not a loss. [...] Everything I've tried from Bubble skincare so far I've been sort of, I don't know we'll say seven out of ten, not a fail but not like oh my God."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Lineage Water Sleeping Mask

"I have tried the Lineage sleep mask multiple times and it is the most disappointing thing."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Glycolic Acid Overnight Peel

"Here's a product that I am rather a fan of from Neutrogena, it's their Hydro Boost Glycolic Acid Overnight Peel. It's fragrance free and it has hyaluronic acid, which actually may help enhance the penetration of the glycolic acid. Alpha hydroxy acids definitely exfoliate, they dissolve the glue between the sticky skin cells."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Peach Slices Snail Rescue Intensive Mask

"This has licorice root extract in it which is actually good for dark spots and redness. It targets blemishes and dullness for calm, clear and bright skin. Skin brightening doesn't correct pigment but instead it brings out your natural radiance. [...] I always think of skin brightening as like the opposite of skin dullness, just brings out like a radiant glow."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Extra Strength Daily Peel Pads

"These hydroxy acids are going to help with exfoliating the skin, smoothing out the skin surface, and they're also going to be helpful for lightening hyperpigmentation, although the fragrance could be irritating so be aware of that. And then the second step is actually a pad that has retinol in it which can help with wrinkles, Resveratrol and antioxidant Q10 and soy isoflavones."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution

"People go on and on about the Ordinary's liquid exfoliant, the red one, the AHA BHA one. I mean, it's a good product."

✓Yay

58%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth FirmX Peeling Gel

"If you're someone who doesn't regularly do skin care you may be impressed by how this performs, but if you're routinely washing your face and moisturizing this shouldn't really be necessary, and it increases the risk of irritation, not only from the bergamot fruit water but the pineapple fruit extract can be pretty irritating too depending on how it's formulated. I say pass, it's ordinarily close to 50 dollars, and I would not pay 25 dollars for it on sale."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Exuviance Performance Peel AP25

"In the box you get a six week supply. This really does work, it helps smooth out the skin surface, brighten up the skin, and even out skin tone, ultimately allowing your skin care products to go on more evenly and penetrate better. I've really liked this, I've done it a handful of times, it's very gentle, it's not the kind of thing that causes a lot of irritation. [...] That's a great product."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Nourishing PHA Exfoliator

"For those of you who have really sensitive skin and are looking to improve skin texture, I highly recommend this Aveeno Calm + Restore Nourishing PHA Exfoliator, it's not abrasive. [...] Gluconolactone is a polyhydroxy acid, it helps soften rough skin and helps gently exfoliate, it also helps with improving moisture content in the skin. I really love this."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 1% BHA Sensitive Skin Exfoliant

"This is the Paula's Choice one percent BHA Sensitive Skin Exfoliant. I've been putting it on in the morning. It's pretty moisturizing, it's got one percent salicylic acid. [...] It's nice, it's like a moisturizer with a little bit of acne, oily control, and anti-inflammatory, hyperpigmentation, skin smoothing."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

COSRX Propolis Honey Overnight Mask

"This is the COSRX Propolis Honey Overnight Mask. I think I've tried this in the past and I actually liked it. Propolis can cross react if you're allergic to fragrance, so you have to be careful with it, but it is pretty hydrating."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Some By Mi AHA BHA PHA 30 Days Miracle Acne Clear Foam

"This has tea tree leaf water in it, which can be irritating, though this cleanser also has compounds from centella that can be helpful for healing. It has peppermint oil in it too, which is going to give a little tingle, but it doesn't actually do much for your skin other than potentially cause irritation."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Topicals Like Butter Hydrating Mask

"I wouldn't repurchase the Like Butter. [...] There are a lot of other moisturizers out there [...] that are equally as good if not better for dryness, and [...] have at least niacinamide which can improve discoloration. So I don't really find that this is necessary, but it's not bad. For the price point, I don't think it's worth it."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Laneige Water Sleeping Mask

"I tried this and I do not see the hype, honestly."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 25% AHA + 2% BHA Exfoliating Peel

"I like this product too. I reviewed it earlier this year. It has twenty-five percent alpha hydroxy acids, and those alpha hydroxy acids include glycolic, lactic, and mandelic. It also has salicylic acid. This is a product that you put onto the skin, leave on for ten minutes, and then rinse off and you only need to use it once a week. [...] It also has butterfly pea flour in it which has antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds and gives it this kind of purplish coloration."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Good Molecules All-In-One Exfoliating Treatment

"It's very good. It has alpha hydroxy acids and beta hydroxy acids to smooth out the surface of the skin and help improve skin texture. On the nights I used this, I didn't use my tretinoin because I didn't want to cause too much irritation. But I never developed irritation with this product, and it did help improve the smoothness of the surface of my skin overall. Good Molecules has a lot of really good products."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Smooth Out Liquid Exfoliant with 12% AHA

"Smooth Out is a more intense chemical exfoliant with 10% glycolic acid and 2% lactic acid. It's [...] good for not only skin texture but for helping with clearance of hyperpigmentation. [...] If you have oily skin or you're used to using hydroxy acids, this should cause no problem for you. It's actually pretty good. If you have sensitive skin I would discourage you from trying this, but if you have rosacea skip this for sure."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Cheer Up 5% Mandelic Acid plus 1% BHA

"Cheer Up has 5% mandelic acid, which is [...] quite large and doesn't penetrate very deeply into the skin, so it's [...] very very gentle, almost as gentle as polyhydroxy acids. It helps with accelerating the rate of hyperpigmentation clearance and improves overall skin texture. [...] This particular product [...] is a good one if you have sensitive, oily, or sensitive acne-prone skin or sensitive skin that heals with discoloration."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Abib Rice Probiotics Overnight Mask Barrier Jelly

"For example, the Abib barrier jelly mask that I recommend all the time is very clearly a clear and colorless, thick, viscous occlusive glycerin skin protectant, even though it doesn't call itself that. It calls itself a night mask."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Biodance Bio-Collagen Real Deep Mask

"I love these Biodance masks. PDRN in skincare isn't really doing anything, but these are really good in general, [...] as long as you're not allergic or irritated by the ingredients. They're really good for reducing water loss and hydrating the skin, and it's impressive how comfortable these masks are to wear. [...] They take some time to dry down into that adherent film, which is really what limits me from doing them as often, since I'm a busy body and can't wait around for it to set."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Pore Minimizing Quick Clay Stick Mask

"This one uses pink clay as well as kaolin clays that help to absorb that excess oil from the surface of the skin and from within the pore. And this formula also contains centella to help soothe the skin. It's not overly drying, and the convenient stick applicator makes it really easy to just apply to problematic areas like your T-zone where you tend to have a lot of shine. Apply it to a clean, dry face. Leave it on for 5 minutes or so and then rinse it off."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Red Bean Refreshing Pore Mask

"Beauty of Joseon has an excellent one."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Exfoliating SA Lotion

"Cetaphil also has an excellent salicylic acid body lotion that is great not only for the body but for the face if you want to entertain the idea of using that ingredient."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Medicube Collagen Night Wrapping Mask

"For me, when you put it on, it goes on really sticky. It almost feels like you're putting honey on your face, but it does dry down into a film that is not going to stick to your pillowcase or anything. A few times when I tried this I noticed by the time I woke up it was already peeling off in areas, but in other areas really stubborn to get off the skin. So in summary, no, this is a pass, I do not recommend it. There are much better hydrating overnight masks out there."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

COSRX Ultimate Nourishing Rice Overnight Spa Mask

"This is a fragrance-free moisturizing cream that markets itself as an overnight spa mask. It's a bit more lightweight compared to barrier jellies, but it's an excellent option for hydrating the skin, reducing water loss, dryness and irritation. It has niacinamide and rice extract which is soothing and moisturizing, and it always delivers a bang for very little buck because it's a pretty affordable option as well."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Isntree Chestnut AHA 8% Clear Essence

"This clear Essence I think is a great option for people who have dry sensitive skin. Alpha hydroxy acids can be particularly beneficial for dry skin but it's easy to overdo them and further worsen dryness and cause a lot of irritation. It all is contingent on kind of the overall formulation of the product as well as what else you're using with it and how frequently you're using it but this particular Essence is great for dry rough and bumpy skin."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Isntree Real Mugwort Clay Mask

"The Isntree Real Mugwort Clay Mask is a long-standing favorite of mine. It has a variety of different clays: kaolin, bentonite, and Canadian colloidal clay. While the clays absorb excess oil, it's also very moisturizing. People with oily skin tend to believe that because they're oily they're moisturized, but oil and sebum is actually not that great of a moisturizer and you can still have dry skin. Using a product that is too drying may end up irritating your skin in the long run."

✓Yay

Notverified

Iris store Red Light Masks

"Full disclosure I am affiliated with Iris store they make one of these devices that you can use at home. Before investing in it you do need to consider the fact that depending on where you're at in the telogen effluvium phase there's a good chance that it will resolve on its own. [...] It's an upfront investment, and if it's something that is eventually going to go away and then you're left with this device, is that worth it? Probably not."

~Mixed

Notverified

Peter Thomas Roth Cucumber Gel Mask

"This product was not bad, it wasn't great, not something I would go out of my way to purchase again. [...] The main annoyance of it is that you've got to wait 10 minutes, not the most time efficient thing out there. I didn't hate using this but would not go out of my way to repurchase it."

~Mixed

84%Guru Score

Shani Darden Signature Nourishing Facial Mask

"It's a clay mask that's fragrance-free and [...] it helps to soak up excess sebum from the surface of the skin from within the pore. I rather enjoy this."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Etude House Mask Proof Fixing Tint

"I'm also going to take the Etude House Mask Proof Fixing Tint. These are really good, they stay on really well. This is the shade midnight mauve."

✓Yay

Notverified

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Sleep Mask

"This is a very rich cream ideal to use at night and I really like this. [...] It has shea butter in it to really put the brakes on water loss out of the skin and it has hemp seed oil [...] which has antioxidants that can help potentially with recovery from oxidative stress. [...] It has these little jojoba esters which are emollients so it looks like it's got beads in it, and those beads are green because the green is chromium oxide."

✓Yay

Notverified

Lip49 reviews

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask

"I hated it. I've tried it multiple times. Different flavor. No. Worst thing for me. But some people it's like their holy grail. The main problem with this, as with any lip balm, is it's not just plain petroleum jelly. So [...] everything else in it could potentially become an allergen. Unlikely in the vast majority of you all that will ever happen."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

NYX Butter Gloss

"This is one of those things that got so hyped up on YouTube and on social media, [...] and I could not have been more disappointed. But I understand that some of you do like this NYX Butter Gloss, so if that's you, you get four glosses, and I like that it comes with a clear, colorless one too."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Lippe Balm

"The Drunk Elephant Lippy Balm, I always liked."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask

"I've never used anything from Tatcha that I thought was worth anything, and it's super overpriced, but this product was good. The Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask, I believe it has fragrance, and I loved it. I went through two, maybe three jars of it. I haven't gone back to it in several years, simply because it's very expensive, so it's kind of a splurge."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Abib PDRN Collagen Lip Mask Glazed Jelly

"It does have flavorants in it. It's a thick viscous jelly, a wonderful overnight mask with very good longevity on the lips, you wake up the following morning and the lips are hydrated. It was nice. My one gripe is the packaging is a little awkward because of the texture and consistency of the product, [...] it comes with an annoying little [...] spatula and [...] it's hard to get out just enough, so [...] I ended up liking this but think it would be better in a little squeeze tube."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Lip Oil

"It has hyaluronic acid and does not have any flavor to it. It's hydrating, stays on the lips for a good long while, and has good longevity, really locking in moisture. [...] They also came out with tinted versions, and they have a beautiful coral shade. [...] It's a great value and one I love and always have in my collection. [...] It's amazing, it plumps, it hydrates, it soothes, all of the above, and it lasts a long time on the lips so you don't have to keep reapplying."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Lipstick shade 601

"One thing I will say about it, you know, they stamp L'Oreal into the side of the lipstick and I honestly think they should not do that because I think it kind of compromises the integrity of this lipstick. It has a tendency, I think, [...] to break off at that point where they have stamped in the L'Oreal. Plus, the way that this comes out of the tube, it kind of has a tendency to bang up against the side of the wall and make a mess."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Torriden Solid-In Ceramide Lip Essence

"The Lip Essences, you have got to try them. I have been, I actually finished a tube the other day. [...] The lip essences are wonderful. [...] They're petroleum jelly based, but they also have some other emollients in them. Fragrance free. I really like the dispenser, that type of lip balm dispenser where it's the little hole as opposed to the stick that you're always repeatedly wiping over your lips."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick in Worth It

"This is the L'Oreal lipstick in the shade Worth It. Love the color. Love the way this wears. But I don't know if it's the packaging or what. It kind of [...] whacks the back of the case and it's messy. It's really messy. But it looks nice and the packaging is pretty nice except they ruin it with the sticker, which good luck getting that off."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

L'Oreal Plump Ambition Hyaluronic Lip Oil

"Love this packaging. Hyaluronic lip oil."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Tokco Vitamin Nourishing Lip Balm

"This was fine. It isn't necessarily deeply hydrating. It's more emollient. It's good for if you've got kind of some flaky dryness on your lips. Glide this over. It'll help slip between those shedding sheets, if you will, and allow them to come off. And it really does impart a nice glow."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Balm

"They're $27. I've tried them out before. I like them. They're good."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick

"It's a matte liquid lip. The first one I had was a while ago and I just thought it was the worst thing ever. I [...] think that's why I didn't like the first one because it went on a little more patchy. [...] But this one goes on really smoothly. It stays on really well. You guys know I'm always drinking beverages, sipping water, coffee, tea, and this stays on really, really well. I've been super happy with this, and I like this color. It's what I'm wearing currently."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Avène Lip Balm SPF

"I have this on my lips right now. Mine is the peachy keen color. [...] I really like these. They're fragrance free, very hydrating, very moisturizing. They have pretty good longevity. For the SPF lip balms, these are really, really good."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Prequel Lip Visor Sunscreen SPF 30

"They also have an SPF lip balm, lip visor. It's a chemical sunscreen. This one is clear."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Sun Bum Sunscreen Lip Balm SPF 30

"It's water resistant 80 minutes which is a really good feature in an SPF lip balm because it's really being tested to stay on your lips with chewing, talking, licking your lips, all of those things, sipping on drinks. So I value that. This does obviously have fragrance in it because it's watermelon, so that's a possible irritant. It's a chemical sunscreen, it shouldn't leave a white cast. If you're not bothered by fragrance in lip balms, that'd be a good one to try out."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Revlon Kiss SPF 20 Lip Balm Berry Burst

"I'm wearing the Revlon Kiss Berry Burst, and these are really nice."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Lip Balm Broad-Spectrum SPF 36

"It has ceretin, an antioxidant, and it has vitamin E, so those will help along with the sun protection defend against damage from ultraviolet radiation. It has glycerin and [petrolatum] so it really keeps the lips hydrated. And I love that it's water resistant 80 minutes. Like I said, you lick your lips, you eat things, it's nice to have a little bit of assurance that it's going to at least remain on the lips a little bit better than if it were not water resistant."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Glow + Go Lip Oil SPF 50

"It's a glossy lip oil that stays on really well despite not being water resistant, which is my preference. It's nice, it's glossy, it's easy to apply, it's not too sticky or gooey and it stays on pretty well. You obviously need to reapply it. It doesn't quite have the longevity of some of the others. It comes in a few other flavors and shades, coconut and watermelon. This [...] salted caramel one has a slight pinkish hue to it and a little bit of a hint of shimmer as well."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Jack Black Intense Therapy Lip Balm SPF 25

"You guys have been talking up and down all around town trying to convince me that I need to try the Jack Black SPF lip balms and I finally took your advice this year and thank you, I really really like this chemical sunscreen for the lips. [...] This formula is very moisturizing, no white cast, it's clear, it's colorless, it's a pretty thick formula."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Cocokind Ceramide Lip Blur Balm

"I've been using the shade Be Kind. Really like this. It's a fragrance and flavor-free lip balm. Goes on over sunscreen on the lips just fine. It's very moisturizing, has ceramides, which are good for skin's outermost layer. And the reason I like the fact that it doesn't have flavorant or fragrance in it is those are common potential causes of allergic or irritant lip cheilitis, meaning chapped lips from your chapped-lipped product. [...] It doesn't have those in it."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Maybelline Lifter Gloss

"Lifter Gloss from Maybelline. Gummy bears. Sign me up. $19.99. How many do you get in there? You get three."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm

"This has zero longevity on the lips. [...] It's very similar to if you just got a run-of-the-mill body lotion and put it on your lips, which you can do, but it does not have the longevity on the lips. Lips are of a different makeup skin, so you've got to formulate with lips in mind. I'll notice if you put products that are not meant for the lips on the lips, [...] they just sort of fall right off. That was my experience with this."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Merit Slick Tinted Lip Oil

"I use the Merit Slick Tinted Lip Oil on my lips, the pink beet one."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Lanolips Lip Sleep Mask

"I have tried the popular Lanolips Lip Sleep Mask and I do not like it. I don't like the fragrance, I find it to be a bit too strong, and honestly I just don't find that it keeps my lips moisturized throughout the night."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Clinique Almost Lipstick in Black Honey

"Clinique's Almost Lipstick in the Black Honey shade is perfect for fall, and if you're someone like me who's very low maintenance in your makeup, this is great because it gives that hydrated gloss from like a lip gloss but the pigmentation that you get from it is much bolder than just a tinted lip gloss. I frequently wear this shade in the fall and always get compliments."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Carmex Classic Lip Balm

"CarX has ingredients that are soothing like camper phenol but also irritating. The CarX, uh, you put it on, it feels soothing, it feels like your lips are soft because it is moisturizing, but then you get that irritation that develops, uh, and several hours later you're like, oh, my lips are chapped again. So you reach for more CarX. Say vicious cycle."

✕Nay

52%Guru Score

Remedy Lip Balm

"It is a good product for dry lips. It has ceramides which are good for the moisture barrier, squalane and jojoba, it has peptides which are hydrating, and it has petrolatum which helps to reduce water loss. [...] It goes on almost like you're putting a lotion on your lips. [...] It's not a greasy ointment, it absorbs pretty quickly into the skin of the lips, and I did find that it helped my lips stay soft, moisturized, hydrated."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

NYX Fat Oil Lip Drip

"I am tempted to try this NYX fat oil just because that is that looks tempting"

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Versed Tinted Lip Serum

"This looks like some kind of tinted serum. I might like to try this for cosmetic reasons. The iron oxides may offer you some protection against visible light."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Peripera Milky Brown Lip Liner

"I just rarely ever line my lips because I am so inept at doing it, but this is very user friendly. If I can line my lips with this, anyone can do it. I find it's really smooth. A lot of lip liners it's like dragging some crusty crayon across your lip, [...] but see how smooth that is? It's just real subtle, you know, requires minimal effort. This is a shade Rosy Nude."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Hyaluronic Acid Plus Peptide Lip Booster with Squalane

"I finished up the Paula's Choice Hyaluronic Acid Plus Peptide Lip Booster and loved this. It's very moisturizing. I liked using this before going to bed at night. It's got shea butter in it, so it's pretty moisturizing. The peptide in it allegedly is going to help with collagen production and whatnot."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment

"This looks and performs like a lip gloss. It does not really lead to long-lasting improved hydration in the lips. For example, if I use it at night, the following morning when I wake up, my lips are not necessarily feeling super moisturized. But if I wear it during the day it's kind of like I just put on a lip gloss. [...] It doesn't perform like a skin care product. It performs more like a cosmetic."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

MD Solar Sciences Hydrating Sheer Lip Balm with SPF

"This is one you've heard me rave about before, the MDSolarSciences SPF 30 lip balm. I recently repurchased it and I still adore it. It's [...] a chemical sunscreen, so if you don't get along with those on your lips [...] you may not care for it, and it's not water resistant, but it's super moisturizing and hydrating."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Pat McGrath Labs Lipsticks

"I'm wearing that Pat McGrath lipstick that I got in my [...] FabFitFun box. [...] I would never have purchased this lipstick in a million years, and I have been wearing it a ton."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Vaseline Lip Therapy Original

"They have a variety of kitty lip balms, Vaseline Lip Therapy, what's in that, probably fragrance and flavorings. Yeah, fragrance, just use plain petrolatum Vaseline, but it's kind of hard to carry around sometimes depending on the packaging."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

Kopari Lip Love

"Sometimes Kopari sends me PR and honestly I have never really been impressed with any of their products, except there was a lip balm that I rather liked."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

St. Ives Watermelon Sugar Lip Scrub

"St. Ives is just never backing down, and I think it gets a lot of unnecessary hate online. [...] The micro tear thing really is just little tiny tears that lead to more dryness perhaps, but some people don't have any issue with it. It can be irritating, and people hate on it, but they're not going anywhere, they have a loyal following. Now they have a Juicy Watermelon Lip Scrub."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Tree Hut Sugar Lips Lip Butter

"The Tree Hut Sugar Lips Lip Butter has moringa seed oil, which is an emollient, and shea butter, which is moisturizing, but it does have fragrance, which really can be pretty irritating on the lips."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick in Taupe Beige

"This is a satin lipstick from Anastasia Beverly Hills. I kind of think this needs lip liner in order to look right, it kind of looks like I just have sunscreen on my lips."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Pillow Talk

"I'm going to take this lip color from Charlotte Tilbury in the color Pillow Talk. You can see I've used a fair amount of it, so that's going to go."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Lancôme Juicy Tubes

"I recently discovered Lancôme Juicy Tubes. I don't like lip gloss because they're sticky and my hair sticks to them, and many lip glosses are irritating with flavorants. But this stays in place and it doesn't get sticky. It feels like it's going to be sticky but then it's not, and it's actually pretty moisturizing. I love the color, the shade Magic Spell."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Lip Sleeping Mask

"I love the Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating Overnight Lip Sleep Mask. I like to keep it in my travel bag, and it's great for a dry climate like in hotels. It has hyaluronic acid and no fragrance."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Peripera Ink Glasting Lip Gloss

"But it does have fragrance, which is a bummer. [...] Fragrance in lip balms can be irritating. I even find that to be the case. Fragrance in lip balms can be a source of potential allergen for allergic contact dermatitis. If you're using a lot of flavored and or fragranced lip balms and you find your lips keep getting dry and you keep reapplying it, [...] it could be that you're allergic to something in the lip product, but fragrance and flavor are a common set of culprits."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick

"So I've been using this, it has coconut oil, shea butter, jojoba seed oil. I don't like it as much as Cerave healing ointment or just Aquaphor healing ointment because it's very, it's more just like an emollient. Like I don't really feel like it's a good formula if you just want to soften the lips like you have dry cracked lips. It is free of fragrance and flavorant, which are common irritants, but it doesn't really have that petroleum jelly lock in the moisture, second skin action."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

COSRX Propolis Lip Sleeping Mask

"It stays on the lips really well. I'll apply it at night, but sometimes I like to apply it in the morning. It's part of my morning skincare routine, and then later when I do my makeup, lip care products, lip glosses, and things go on hydrated, moisturized lips so much better. So I like it in that regard. It has shea butter. It has coconut oil, which some people don't get along with, but it's a great ingredient for dry skin, including chapped lips."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

NARS Afterglow Lip Balm

"The NARS Afterglow Lip Balm, I really like them. They're very moisturizing and fragrance free, flavorant free. I love it, worth every penny."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The INKEY List Tripeptide Plumping Lip Balm

"I was having [...] really chapped lips, especially the corner in my mouth was getting cracked. It's 100% that Inkey List lip balm that I was trying out, so that is a no-go for me. I looked at the ingredients and I could not find anything that was suspect, so I have no idea [...] what it is about that, but I'm back on my petroleum game."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick Plus Sunscreen

"I rather enjoyed this Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick Plus Sunscreen. It's a little stiff to apply and not the most moisturizing thing, but for a chemical lip SPF it did not cause lip irritation for me, and I leaned into this quite heavily. You get a two pack at Target for 7.69. One interesting thing [...] is there's no lanolin in it, unlike Aquaphor Healing Ointment, which has lanolin, an allergen for some people. [...] This one has sunflower seed oil, shea butter, and jojoba seed oil instead."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Eye Care44 reviews

RoC Retinol Correxion Line Smoothing Eye Cream

"I've actually used an entire tube of this. Honestly, thought it was great. It moisturizes my eyelids. RoC is great in terms of a retinol. Now, I use retinol occasionally around my eyes, the eye creams. I don't use tretinoin around my eyes. It's too irritating there for me. Sometimes I'll dabble in one of these to try them out, see what they're like. They're formulated to be gentle enough around the eyes. I never developed any irritation around the eyes with this. It's a good product."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Eucerin Radiant Tone Eye Cream with Thiamidol

"I suggest trying the Eucerin eye cream instead. It's the only product in the US line that is fragrance-free, so it's a lot gentler. I don't believe the percentage strength of the thiamidol in it is disclosed, [...] but since I personally did not care for the strong fragrance in the other facial care products, the eye cream might be gentler for you too."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Abib Collagen Eye Patch Jericho Rose Jelly

"I love the Abib ones."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Shark Beauty Cryo Glow Under Eye Cooling LED Anti-Aging and Blemish Repair Mask

"LED technology, one of the very few devices I actually think are worth it. This also has a cryo cooling which will help depuff. I have heard although I've never used this, I have heard this is a very heavy mask. So, a bit uncomfortable to wear. Now, this set does come with a silk pillowcase which is great actually for cutting down on sleep creases and really wonderful for cutting down on breakage and frizz of your hair."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

RoC Multi Correxion Revive + Glow Eye Balm

"I get the hype, especially if [...] you haven't found a good moisturizer for around your eyes that you like and this is your first time using it. It's nice, it glides on. [...] But as far as the ingredients, I'm not really sold that they are going to be game changers even for just targeting pigmentation. The actual ingredients in the product may help improve discoloration, maybe nudge things a little bit further above and beyond moisturizing the skin."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL Eyes Eye Cream

"I used an entire Retrin AL eye cream around my eye. [...] I tested it out rigorously. No eyelid irritation, no problems whatsoever. Felt like it moisturized my skin. And after I finished an entire bottle, I did feel like the skin around my eyes was a little plumper, a little smoother. [...] The biggest difference I found between the eye cream and the non-eye one came down to the eye one being better at actually not running into the eyes. It had a little bit better tenacity."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Plus Caffeine Eye Gel Cream

"The eye cream doesn't have any fragrance, so you could use that on the rest of your face if you're like me and you don't like strong fragrance. [...] Hydroboost one's pretty good."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Vitamin C Eye Cream

"I reviewed CeraVe Skin Renewing Eye Cream several years ago and I really thought it was quite good. It's got niacinamide, good for dark spots. It's got caffeine, which for some of you is going to help depuff, for others, it'll do jack squat. And it's got Matrixyl 3000, two peptides. One lowers the inflammatory mediator IL6, interleukin 6. The other kind of looks like a little piece of your collagen, GHK."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Eye Cream

"One of them is Neutrogena's Rapid Wrinkle Repair Eye Cream. I'm recommending that for years. Great retinol. Johnson and Johnson has put a lot of R&D into retinol. They've been doing retinol a really, really long time. When it comes to good retinols, Neutrogena is a no-brainer for me. And I love that product. It's a nice rich moisturizing base. It really does give a very nice instant effect."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Global Beauty Care Lift and Firm Eye Cream with Collagen and Peptides

"It's also in this lift and firm eye cream which is new from Global Beauty Care. It has collagen in it which is moisturizing. It's another myth people think that collagen in skincare is useless because of the size, but it really allows for a product to be not only moisturizing but it has a lot of textural properties to it. Certainly not useless. This also has ascorbic acid which is an antioxidant."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

belif Moisturizing Eye Balm

"I would not use something like this. I'd just use my regular moisturizer. The scent is powdery and strong. It looks like a lightweight hydrating gel cream, pretty sizable amount though for an eye cream. Usually eye creams are teeny tiny. This will last you forever, like this is big enough that you could use it as a travel moisturizer honestly."

✕Nay

53%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Brightening Eye Masks

"They have caffeine in them, which for some people can help reduce puffiness and temporarily brighten up the appearance of under eye skin. They also have niacinamide, which is good for dark spots and redness. They're very cooling, very soothing. I recommend putting these in the refrigerator and popping them onto the skin chilled to really help depuff. Love doing these first thing in the morning. They also have licorice root, which is very soothing, good for redness."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

The Rock Multi-Correction Eye Cream

"You get a serum and a sunscreen. So the sunscreen is a chemical sunscreen with hyaluronic acid, so it's very likely going to be a hydrating facial moisturizer with broadspectrum protection. Again, you got to apply it in a thick layer, but 30 is the recommendation. Then you get a hyaluronic acid serum. These can be helpful for smoothing out the skin surface and improving water content in the skin. And you get an eye cream. The eye cream has glycerin and hyaluronic acid."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Good Molecules Caffeine Hydrogel Eye Patches

"Good Molecules they have a caffeine one. These have caffeine in them too which is good for just kind of brightening and depuffing. Those are really good as well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41

"I find that this product is actually a pretty good eyeshadow primer. The makeup goes on over it well, helps the eyeshadow stay on better, last longer throughout the day. It's not marketed as an eyeshadow primer but I found that it works quite well in that way. [...] I personally find that sunscreen is like my makeup primer because it moisturizes the skin, it hydrates it, it allows for a more even base for the makeup to go on. [...] It is $44, so it's not cheap."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Colorescience Total Eye 3-in-1 Renewal Therapy SPF 35

"One of my favorite skincare products that is definitely a splurge is the Colorescience Total Eye 3-in-1 Renewal. It is a sunscreen for around the eyes. No, you don't need a specific product as a sunscreen for around your eyes, the sunscreen you use on your face is more than adequate, but this particular product has some ingredients in it and the overall formulation is such that it offers really nice color correction around the eyes and it helps to hydrate and smooth out little fine lines."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Cetaphil Hydrating Eye Gel Cream

"I like to use this Cetaphil product around my eyes too. In this Cetaphil healthy renew line, they have an eye gel that's actually a really good eyeshadow primer."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth 24K Gold Hydra Gel Eye Patches

"The gold ones are just like the opposite of hydrating. They're just very filmy and you take them off and you feel like you need a shower."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Hydrogel Eye Patches

"I love these cloud hydrogel eye patches from Peter Thomas Roth. They're very hydrating and don't burn around the eyes."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

NYX Face Freezy Reusable Cooling Under Eye Patches

"Reusable cooling under eye patches from NYX. Love stuff like this to temporarily de-puff. Put these in the fridge, um that definitely can help."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Goodal Vitac C Eye Gel Patch

"I'm bummed to see that these [...] have fragrance because the under eye area is so delicate that it's more likely to be irritating. They're kind of hard to get one out at a time. They have a little bit of a grippy, bricky texture to them, almost like a little bit of corrugation."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Eye Serum

"I definitely appreciate an under eye brightening effect with it, but like other similar products, I find that you don't need that much of that product. [...] I gave it a good try before reviewing it and I've continued to use it off and on trying to make my way through it. [...] I see benefit, I see improvement, but to me it's the same as The Ordinary Caffeine Plus EGCG. I don't appreciate much of a difference."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

L'Oreal Revitalift Caffeine Plus HA Eye Serum

"It is free of fragrance. A little bit goes a long way. I actually did appreciate a subtle de-puffing effect with this, similar to the Ordinary's caffeine serum. I actually really like the applicator too. But the product, there was too much product, you barely need any. It took me forever and then the formula started getting kind of cloudy looking. I don't know if I accidentally transferred like moisturizer from my face into the bottle at some point, but it was pretty good."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

L'Oreal Caffeine Eye Cream

"This has oat extract in it which is very good for moisturizing the skin. Vitamin A is anti-inflammatory. Sodium hyaluronate can improve water content and that has a skin plumping effect. Glycerin likewise improves water content. Jojoba seed oil is an emollient. This looks like a decent eye cream for getting the temporary brightening with the caffeine."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

RoC Multi Correxion Dual Eye Cream

"The eye area is very delicate, so the collagen and things are more susceptible to damage from environmental exposures, namely the sun, but also pollution, and then of course if you smoke, certain lifestyles are going to be more inflammatory."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

RoC Multi-Correction Hydrate + Plump Eye Cream

"Maybe it formulated in a lower percentage here to be better tolerated"

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross Advanced Retinol Plus Ferulic Triple Correction Eye Serum

"This has retinol in it which can help improve fine lines around the eyes as well as vacuole, an antioxidant that may also help with stabilizing retinol. It has ubiquinone, one of my favorite antioxidants. Ubiquinone, otherwise known as Q10, helps fight off oxidative stress. It has compounds from centella which are anti-inflammatory. It has mandelic acid, a very gentle alpha hydroxy acid, and it has caffeine which can have a brightening effect and be helpful for hyperpigmentation."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Olay Retinol 24 Eye Cream

"The night eye cream has retinol, which is cool, Olay has some pretty good retinols. [...] In addition to retinol, which can be helpful for the fine lines around the eyes, this has niacinamide and panthenol, which I love in a moisturizer, it's really well moisturizing. This is seriously one of the best products from Olay in my humble opinion."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Lumify Redness Reliever Eye Drops

"I do not suggest applying the Lumify eye drops to the skin, because they have bromonidine in them, and bromonidine can lead to rebound worsening of redness."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

StriVectin Super C Brightening Eye Serum

"It [...] has ascorbic acid, which is [...] challenging to formulate so that it actually gets into the skin and does anything, plus some flower extracts that may have antioxidants, a peptide called argireline that they like to pretend acts like Botox [...] but it can't, so it's just hydrating there likely, and biotin, which I'm not convinced does anything topically. You get a travel size plus a full stick for 0.67 ounces total, and they're charging 58.99 for that."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Pyunkang Yul Black Tea Time Reverse Eye Cream

"The eye cream is a pass for me, it's not something I'm going to use in my routine, I do just fine with my facial moisturizer and I don't need this. It is good if you're one of those people who likes eye cream, it has ceramide, copper tripeptide, argireline, adenosine and shea butter, and it does have some more unique ingredients that may address fine lines a little better than the face cream alone. Overall it's a decent value, [...] but it's not something I would repurchase."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Pyunkang Yul Black Tea Time Reverse Eye Patches

"I ended up really liking these Black Tea Time Reverse Eye Patches, they [...] were a pleasure to use, hydrating, and [...] once I took them off my eyes did look a lot brighter. They have hydrating ingredients, [...] ceramide, and dipotassium glycyrrhizate from licorice root which is anti-inflammatory and good for dark spots."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

The Ordinary Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG

"This is one of my favorites from the ordinary, their caffeine solution plus EGCG. The EGCG comes from green tea and can help minimize the burden of damage that occurs upon exposure to environmental stressors, namely UV, and the caffeine is also an antioxidant which will help with oxidative stress that leads to premature skin aging."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Heimish Marine Care Eye Cream

"I'm kind of intrigued to try this, please tell me it doesn't have fragrance. Oh, it does have fragrance, that is not good, especially in an eye cream. I don't know why they're doing that. [...] Even if you're not sensitive to fragrance and it doesn't cause problems, you're not allergic to it, the thin skin of the eyelids is a place where you're definitely going to develop an issue. Why would you put fragrance in an eye cream? We don't need scented eyelids."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

ISDIN K-Ox Eye Cream

"But this product has fragrance in it, which is a surprise for an eye product, and in my experience the fragrance was very strong and headache inducing, it made my eyes water, so I actually cannot tolerate this product because of it. I did not notice any difference other than my eyes watering more. It's $97, and no, in my opinion, I don't think this is worth $97, [...] I can't in good faith recommend you guys go out and spend that kind of money on this product."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

The Ordinary Caffeine Eye Cream

"I have also tried The Ordinary's Caffeine Eye Cream, and that was pretty good."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Sudden Change Under Eye Firming Serum

"Do you believe in magic? That's my way of saying this doesn't look like it's gonna do much. I thought this Sudden Change Under Eye Firming Serum might be one of those like the Peter Thomas Roth Firm X product, which had silicates in it that dry down and give a temporary tightening effect, but I'm not seeing that as an ingredient here. I just see some humectants, hyaluronic acid, and preservatives, so I don't know that that's gonna give a sudden change, but if it does, it's likely temporary."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Cocokind Revitalizing Eye Cream

"I actually honestly really liked this eye cream, but it's not something I would buy myself or use on a consistent basis. It does have a metal tip applicator that can be very cooling if you have puffy under eyes, marula seed oil and amalia that have antioxidants, [...] an ingredient called persian silk tree that can reduce the look of fine lines dark circles and puffiness around the eyes, and [...] shea butter which is really good for reducing water loss [...] and keeping it hydrated."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream

"Oh no, it has fragrance. You don't need an eye cream anyway; this is your moisturizer."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Pacifica Ceramide Hydration Full Under Eye and Smile Line Jelly Patches

"These I enjoy using. [...] It's more of a relaxing therapeutic thing. I find they kind of wake up the under-eye areas. Fun to use but not really necessary. I would have preferred if Pacifica [...] had taken this fluid and put it in a bottle and sold it as a hydrating toner that you could just pat on the face prior to applying your moisturizer."

~Mixed

84%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Eye Cream

"The eye cream I wish were the face cream because the eye cream is actually pretty good. [...] The eye cream has panthenol which is wonderful for the moisture barrier and it has sunflower oil in it which is a nice emollient."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Revive Eye Serum: Ginseng + Retinal

"Beauty of Joseon, if you are watching this video right now, you need to update the packaging on your retinal eye cream, which I love. Retinaldehyde for improving wrinkles around the eyes, because it's got Panax ginseng extract in it. [...] We've been putting it around our eyes happy as clams because that's a great product."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

NIOD Fractionated Eye Contour Concentrate

"This product is $70 for 15 ml. I [...] would not go out of my way to repurchase this at $70. For me personally, I have not seen a huge difference in the way that my eye area looks using this compared to the glycerin skin protectant, and therefore I would be more inclined to just continue using that and not pay the big bucks for this. [...] It is a good product. It does what it says it's supposed to do for the most part. It's just very expensive."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Skin Iceland Hydrocool Firming Eye Gels

"They have ceramides and peptides and ubiquinone, which has been shown to get into the skin and help mitigate some of the damage from free radicals. [...] I really like those. [...] Whenever there's a big sale at Sephora or online, [...] those are a good thing to pick up during the sales, don't pay full price for them."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Eye Makeup44 reviews

L'Oreal Telescopic Lift Lengthening Mascara

"I'm back on the L'Oreal Telescopic Lift. Far and away one of the better mascaras. A more of a spidery lash and it's a really nice formula. It's not messy. It's not goopy. And it's a reasonable price. It's a drugstore mascara."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

e.l.f. Cream Glide Eyeliner

"I've been using for a while now these eyeliners from e.l.f. in the smoky coal line. I have a white eyeliner that I love that I use on the upper lid on the inner part. And I also have this kind of rust brown that I'm using. I really like those pencils because they're real smooth application. They're a nice striking color. They don't get all muddy or patchy. They're a nice balance between a sharp line that's also forgiving and can kind of smudge a bit. Plus, I like how opaque they are."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara

"But I'm wearing the mascaras a lot that I got in those calendars"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal 24-Hour Brow Lamination Gel

"I've been using this L'Oreal brow lamination that came in the advent..."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara

"This is that brown mascara. I've never been a brown mascara wearer, but I'm kind of liking this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Shadow Stick Twinkling Rose

"Day 13 is the shadow stick in shade twinkling rose."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Glossier Boy Brow

"This is the Glossier Boy Brow in [...] the lavender shade. I love this because it's lavender and it's opaque and it's a smooth application. I just put it on the upper inner eyelid area close to my lashes and it really helps open up the eyes."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara

"My Tarte tubing mascara arrived that I got from Amazon for Prime Day, and I'm pretty happy with it. It works well."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Milani Highly Rated Lash Extensions Tubing Mascara

"I like the Milani one. Milani has a tubing mascara that's really good. [...] It's really good. The longevity, like it does get a little flaky in comparison to the Tarte one, but it's hardly it, it's barely different. $12.99 for this one."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

NYX Brow Glue Crazy Lift

"NYX, the brow glue is really good."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Maybelline Super Lock Brow Glue

"I'm currently using the Maybelline one. I think it's a little bit better."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Grip Mechanical Gel Eyeliner

"If you watch a lot of my vlogs, maybe you'll remember several years ago, I tried this product for the first time and I hated it. I didn't like [...] it. Tried the gray color and all of a sudden it was like, oh yeah, this is one of the best products I've ever used. And it stays on all day and it also lasts a long time. [...] This particular pencil I've been using for several months now. So, highly recommend that."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Lancôme Hypnôse Drama Extreme Volume Mascara

"I was using this Lancôme Hypnôse Drama Mascara before and [...] I ended up liking this. It has a similar wand to the new Maybelline bubble wand, this kind of spiral wand. This particular formula does get a little flaky, but I haven't run into that with this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze

"It does not. You want to glue the hairs in place so they're not going anywhere. This is the Dippity Do of brows. [...] That stuff did not move; it's like cement. Now a word of warning about this: you don't want to go in heavy-handed, otherwise you're going to look like you put glue in your brows. Don't try and overdo it. Less is more with this. You don't need a lot."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High Mascara

"Not a fan of these as I pointed out before because you have prostag gland and analog just like Le but unlike Le no one's monitoring you for the side effects that come with Le like discoloration unwanted hair growth outside of where you're applying it change in eye color and periorbital fat loss"

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

Maybelline Lash Sensational Mascara

"Ooh this is new mascara from Maybelline they always they always make good mascaras the Lash Sensational I just finished this"

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Benefit Bad Gal Bang Mascara

"This is the mascara I've been using, it's from Benefit Bad Gal Bang."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Benefit Bad Gal Lash Mascara

"I've been using that Benefit Bad Gal Lash, it's okay but it's kind of clumpy."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Lash and Brow Serum

"If you're looking for a lash serum without a prostaglandin analog in it, I suggest The Ordinary's. I can't guarantee it's not going to cause lash irritation, but it does not have the prostaglandin analogs in it. It's like one of the only ones. I'm sure there are others, but it's the one that I've seen and know for sure does not have those ingredients."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Merit Solo Shadow Matte Eye Color in Studio

"There's no essential oils. I never understood putting fragrance in eyeshadows. Eyelids skin is really delicate and cosmetics can easily be irritating around the eye area. Their cream shadows I absolutely love for a few reasons. First of all they give, in my opinion, a really good color payoff, easy to work with. I'm not some sort of advanced makeup applier, I need something that's simple to do, easy to reproduce, and that I can do basically blindfolded."

✓Yay

63%Guru Score

Babe Essential Lash Serum

"This has a prostaglandin analog in it, so be careful with these because they can cause discoloration of the eyelids, irritation, and in theory they can cause discoloration in the eye. These are cosmetic prostaglandin analogs whereas a medication like Latisse, that's [...] FDA approved, but you definitely can develop the same side effects even though one's a drug and one's a cosmetic. So I never feel comfortable recommending those because I hate for somebody to develop those kind of side effects."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

NYX Ultimate Shadow Palette Warm Neutrals

"I have been raving about this NYX ultimate eyeshadow palette. I love it. I'm actually currently wearing it right now. [...] You get 16 shades in this palette, and some of the shades truthfully there is a little bit of fallout but it's not awful. Overall they're really good. The shades stay on the lids, last a long time, and they're also not overly glittery or that going-to-the-club kind of vibe. They're just a great [...] array of colors for everyday purposes."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NARS Clouded Eyeshadow Palette

"I really like the NARS palette because it doesn't fall out and flake all over the place."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Maybelline City Mini Palette

"I purchased the City Mini Palette from Maybelline [...] expecting it to be a win because [...] I love these lavender shades, but it's terrible. [...] You need a ton of the product for it to even show up, and it flakes all over the place, even with a small amount. [...] The fallout of this is horrible."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Maybelline Falsies Lash Lift Mascara

"The Sky High one is pretty good too, and so is the Falsies Lash Lift."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Milani Anti-Gravity Waterproof Mascara

"I'm coming up on three months of using the Milani mascaras I bought, which I love. I'm [...] still loving the Milani ones. [...] They've been working out well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lancôme Hypnôse Doll Eyes Mascara

"I enjoy testing out different mascaras. The Lancôme Doll one turned out to be okay for me, I ended up enjoying it in the long run, even though it's on the pricier side."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Universal Volumizing Mascara

"I finished the Rare Beauty Mascara. I actually really like this. [...] A lot of celebrity skincare and cosmetics you are paying a premium for, but this is actually really good, I really liked it a lot, [...] and I really like the packaging too. It is easy to use."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Superhero Mascara

"I've tried the IT Cosmetics Superhero Mascara [...] in the past and I was not super impressed, I didn't find it super heroic."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Glossier Pro Tip Liquid Eyeliner

"They sent me all of these Glossier eyeliners in wacky colors, and when I got them I wasn't sure I'd use them, but honestly I have been using them. [...] If you layer the white one over some of the other colors you end up getting a really pretty look. What I like about them is the consistency, they're soft, they're not crumbly, they have a smooth glide on the lid, and as you drag them across the skin they don't skip."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Essence Lash Without Limits Mascara in Brown

"I know the Essence mascara was really popular, but I tried one of their mascaras and I didn't care for it at all, I thought it was like really clumpy."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Rodan+Fields Lash Boost

"Rodan and Fields had to pay a huge sum [...] of money, millions or billions, for their lash serum because it had a compound very similar to bimatoprost, a prostaglandin analog. [...] Those prostaglandin analogs [...] can have side effects like discoloration of the eye color, and there are even reports of it changing the distribution of fat around the eyes. [...] They got nailed on that one."

✕Nay

45%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Film Star Bronze and Glow Palette

"This Charlotte Tilbury Filmstar Bronze and Glow was sent to me, I would not buy this, I would just buy something like Revlon at the drugstore. I'm not really a makeup person, [...] I pretty much just use it for filming purposes because of camera lighting, and I find it helps me not look as washed out, but [...] I honestly don't find it's much different from drugstore brands."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Covergirl Lash Blast Volume Mascara

"The lash blast from Covergirl is pretty good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maybelline Great Lash Mascara

"I repurchased this recently to take a trip down memory lane and it's still pretty good. It's not waterproof, but [...] they make it in a waterproof formula too. It was always a good mascara and they've been around for a long time, and it still does the job."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

L'Oreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara

"We have the Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara. I have to say I'm pretty excited about this. I have been using the mascaras so far that came in this calendar and I'm really happy with them."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Maybelline Colossal Bubble Mascara

"If you've been here for a long time, like one of my all-time favorite drugstore mascaras is the Maybelline Colossal. [...] The bubble gives a little bit more girth plus length to the lashes. [...] I have really really liked this a lot."

✓Yay

57%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Push-Up Lash Mascara

"I'm currently using the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Push-Up Lash, and that's great."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

L'Oreal Lash Paradise Mascara

"I rather enjoy the Lash Paradise Mascara."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Lancôme Monsieur Big Mascara

"I've been using this Monsieur Big Mascara from Lancôme and it's kind of a little clumpy."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Merit Eyeshadow Cream Pots

"I came in with the cream shadow from Merit midcentury and then this is also another K beauty makeup win from one of the Advent calendars."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara

"I've been using the Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara on not only my top lashes but my bottom lashes. The way it's shaped, it makes applying mascara to the bottom lid really easy. I flip it so that it's concave and use that for the upper lash and then I flip it so that it's convex and I just go back and forth on the bottom lash and it really gets them coated without being clumpy and going all over the place."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

NYX Eyeshadow Palette

"This NYX one it's okay, it's not as good, but for the price it's not too bad. By not as good, I mean the color is not like, you have to go in a couple of times to really get the color to pop, and there is some of the shades that fall out quite a bit."

~Mixed

Notverified

Thrive Causemetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara

"I'm considering it the holy grail tubing mascara because it's the best one that I've ever tried. [...] You pretty much have to buy it from their website, it's twenty five dollars, and if you buy it [...] just one time you have to pay shipping and handling, but if you have it auto delivered every three months, which is the frequency I recommend you replace your mascara anyway, they give you free shipping."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Retinoids36 reviews

Neutrogena Adapalene 0.1% Gel

"It improves collagen. And [...] because it's an over-the-counter medication, what you see is what you get. Like if you try this, you give it a good go, you use it for a long time you're like I saw no improvement whatsoever, you know it was a you plus adapalene not working out thing. [...] Adapalene, what you see is what you get. It's not formulation, there's not a lot of formulation variation there. There's none, okay? It's pretty standardized."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Olay Regenerist Retinol 24 Night Moisturizer

"This is the one I would recommend getting if you're into retinol because their retinol is very good. This is fragrance-free. It does have niacinamide, so if you're sensitive, you know, find another retinol. [...] I think this is a very moisturizing cream, and Procter & Gamble, they do extensive R&D. I've been behind the scenes with them and seen what they do, and it's legit. They're legit doing a lot of R&D back there. So this is a good formula. [...] I've used it. I've tried it."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Altreno Tretinoin Lotion 0.05%

"Your dermatologist might try to prescribe other topical retinoids in vehicles that help reduce irritation, such as Altreno lotion, which contains hyaluronic acid and collagen. It is often better tolerated, it's a lot more moisturizing, and it's formulated to really address the dryness and sensitivity issues, but there's no guarantee with that."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Retinal Renew Retinaldehyde Gel 0.1%

"That has to be one of my favorite Prequel products and they have a lot of great gems. Retinaldehyde can be a little irritating in the beginning, although it's generally well tolerated, and [...] I find the base of that retinaldehyde is amazing as a moisturizer, it's beautiful. [...] That has to be one of the best products I have tried out this year, I'm not exaggerating. It's going to make an appearance in my best of series most likely towards the end of the year."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturizer with Retinol

"I enjoy Paula's Choice retinols. Right now, you can get this here for $16.99. That's not too bad."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Retinol Pro+ Regenerating Cream (Fragrance-Free)

"The Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Regenerating Cream, the fragrance-free one, I have been recommending for years and years and years. [...] I swear it has this instant plumping hydrating effect. And it likely has to do with the hyaluronic acid, which helps to improve the dryness, the irritation that one might experience from their very effective stabilized retinol. That's slow release, sustained action. That's a great formula with hyaluronic acid."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

RoC Retinol Correxion Max Hydration Cream

"Cannot go wrong with RoC retinols and this fragrance-free option. It's really good. It's competitive neck and neck with the Neutrogena rapid wrinkle repair retinol cream."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

A313 Vitamin A Pommade (Retinol Ester)

"A313 is a cream that contains retinyl palmitate. [...] Retinyl esters are vitamin A derivatives that don't do what tretinoin, retinol, retinoic acid, retinaldehyde, tazarotene, trifarotene, and adapalene do. It doesn't do the collagen boosting. It just acts as an antioxidant. Using a retinyl topical is not going to prime your skin for getting used to a topical retinoid. It's not a gentler version of that, and it's no different than using any other antioxidant."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

RoC Retinol Max Hydration Fragrance-Free

"Rock also has a wonderful fragrance-free cream that is likewise pretty rich, nourishing, moisturizing. [...] I think retinoid cream by itself is adequately moisturizing. Provided you tolerate the retinoid, I think it's fine as a moisturizer."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Retinol B3 Serum

"If it's from L'Oreal, the retinol has good science behind it. [...] L'Oreal [...] brands like La Roche-Posay, their retinols are going to be well formulated."

✓Yay

60%Guru Score

L'Oreal Revitalift 0.3% Pure Retinol Night Serum

"You can't go wrong with L'Oreal retinols. If it's from L'Oreal, the retinol has good science behind it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Vichy Lift Active Retinol 0.2%

"L'Oreal brand and they own a lot of skincare brands. [CeraVe], Lar Ro Pose, Vichi, their retinols are going to be well formulated."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Retinol Serum

"The retinol in that line is amazing."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum

"The Resurfacing Retinol Serum is a great retinol that has licorice root and niacinamide. Both of those are going to be good for dark spots and redness. And then the retinol is also going to be helpful for post acne marks like dark marks and red marks. And then it's got ceramides in there which are good for the moisture barrier."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Walgreens Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"When it comes to adapalene, you don't have to get the brand name gel. [...] There's the Walgreens version."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Roche Retinol Deep Wrinkle Serum

"This one is on sale $34.99, [...] which is $10.30 per ounce. I wish it were fragrance free though because I don't like scented face stuff."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL Line

"It was the first retinaldehyde that I tried out, that I encountered five or six years ago. Back then retinaldehyde was not as commonly encountered in skincare products. Now there's a lot more competition, you have a lot more options. The Ordinary has a retinaldehyde which I reviewed a few weeks ago, but the Avène one is excellent. It's this nice rich cream, great for dry skin, mature skin, but it's not greasy or oily. So if you have oily skin, it's not off-putting."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion

"I have actually really liked this product a lot and I think they did an excellent job with it and I'm now adding it to my list of topical vitamin A products I recommend because it is quite good. $14.90 is very reasonable. [...] I really like the pump package I think that's a convenient way to dispense product as opposed to a tube or a dropper. It does come out yellow which is to be expected from a retinaldehyde and I was able to tolerate this no problem no irritation or anything of the sort."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Olay Pro Advanced Retinol Complex Night Moisturizer

"This is a pretty good option for a retinol. It can help with improving the signs of skin aging with long-term consistent use and helps improve collagen. It also has some peptides which are hydrating and may help with collagen as well, and niacinamide. So if you're sensitive to niacinamide this would be a pass, but that's good for the moisture barrier. It's an antioxidant so it's good for anti-aging purposes, and it's really helpful for dark spots along with the retinol."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Cocokind Advanced Retinol Gel 0.5%

"This is kind of an interesting formula I've not seen a product that combines both retinol and retinaldehyde. Looks like they're all encapsulated together. No fragrance. $26.99. The question is is it effective because honestly all retinol and all retinaldehyde are beginner friendly but there is a huge difference between the dryness irritation and peeling that you get with tretinoin compared to retinol."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

AcneFree Adapalene 0.1% Gel

"AcneFree's Adapalene 0.1% Gel is a good affordable option. This is a retinoid, and adapalene is one of the least irritating retinoids, so people tolerate it better. It also has anti-inflammatory properties and it can help lighten and prevent hyperpigmentation. You don't want to use it near the eyes, corners of the mouth, or corners of the nose. You only need a very thin film. It can be used at night time or in the morning."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Number Seven Retinol 1%

"I have tried the Number Seven Pure Retinol and it's very good, fragrance free."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

RoC Retinol Capsules

"This particular product I have tried and it's very nice. It's nice and moisturizing and it almost has an immediate skin smoothing and hydrating impact from a cosmetic angle, but it does take time for the retinol to work. What the retinol is going to do is help improve the rate of skin cell turnover. Retinol is not actually exfoliating the skin like an alpha hydroxy acid, but instead it is teaching the cells in the skin to move along at a more reasonable rate."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

No7 Advanced Retinol 1.5% Complex

"I remember being really impressed by this when I tried it a few years ago. This No7 Advanced Retinol 1.5% Complex is really good. It's a good retinol just for improving wrinkles with long-term consistent use but it also has a peptide in it that can help in improving just moisture content specifically. It has Matrixyl 3000 which is actually two peptides, they're matricides so allegedly they're going to get in and improve collagen production. I actually really liked this when I tried it out."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Revolution Retinol Overnight Cream

"They have an overnight cream for eight dollars that's a pretty good value."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

RoC Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle Targeted Patches

"RoC is a good brand overall and their retinol is pretty good, but it's kind of an interesting concept just using retinol in this fashion in these targeted areas. What's the point, why are we not treating the entire face? I suppose it makes sense if you find prescription retinoids [...] too irritating [...] around the eyes or mouth but still want to use retinol."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Olay Regenerist Retinol 24 + Peptide Night Moisturizer

"You can get the two jars for 33.99. [...] This is actually a good product and this is a good value here, and they have the fragrance free one. The peptide may help with moisture retention, hydration, and improves skin firmness, which is probably going to lead to a more gratifying instant result, whereas the retinol takes some time with ongoing use, though the retinol can help improve fine lines and skin firmness."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

RoC Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle Night Cream

"The retinol correction deep wrinkle night cream does have fragrance, it has shea butter, and zinc gluconate, which is a polyhydroxy acid that can help with hydration and gentle exfoliation. This has glycolic acid, it's going to help with wrinkles, but it can be irritating. It [...] also has dimethicone. It's ordinarily 34.99 but right now it's some dollars off."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

SkinMedica Age Defense Retinol 0.25

"But now that we have this paper showing it gets into the skin, activates the markers of retinoid activity, and shows clinical improvement in the visible signs of photo aging, I can actually recommend this product as a retinol. [...] I feel pretty confident that if you chose it you would at least be getting the benefits of a retinol, [...] although it's got its limitations, since this was a very small study that only enrolled Caucasian skin types and didn't control for the vehicle."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Advanced Clinicals Retinol Moisturizer

"I have recommended this in numerous videos and it's really good. [...] It is free of fragrance, it's a Retinol Moisturizer with green tea in it which is an antioxidant that may help combat oxidative stress. What I like about it is that it's actually pretty moisturizing. [...] This is a standout product. It's simple, it's effective, and it's affordable."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Revitalift Retinol B3

"L'Oreal came out with a fragrance free retinol with niacinamide. This looks pretty good too. It's a pretty short ingredient list and L'Oreal has good R&D."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 10 Retinal Serum (0.1%)

"The AAME 10 with 0.1% retinaldehyde is definitely worth trying. It's actually not that common to find a retinaldehyde, and these are well formulated, free of common allergens and irritants, and affordable."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 5 Retinal Serum (0.05%)

"The AAME 5 is 0.05% retinaldehyde, which is a reasonable percentage strength, and I definitely recommend trying it because it's actually not that common to find a retinaldehyde that's this well formulated, free of common allergens and irritants, and affordable."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Differin Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"Of all of the medications in the retinoid class that you apply to the skin that are used for the purposes of treating skin disease, this is far and away the easiest to tolerate and the one that is least likely to cause you dryness or irritation. [...] While I personally started with this years ago and saw amazing results, I still to this day do not tolerate this or any other topical medication in the retinoid class on my neck or chest."

✓Yay

94%Guru Score

Anua Collagen Retinol Refining Gua Sha Cream

"I tried out Anua's collagen retinol refining gouacha cream earlier this year and I have since come to really like it and strongly recommend it. Ignore the gouacha thing because they got to rope people in and set themselves apart from everyone else. I don't think gouacha does anything. If you enjoy it and find it to be helpful, by all means, it's not harmful. It may reduce puffiness temporarily, but it's not going to sculpt your face or change the trajectory of facial aging."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Retinol Pro+ Regenerating Cream

"One of my holy grail favorite retinol products is the Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Regenerating Retinol Cream. I've recommended that for years and I still do. [...] Not only do you get an excellent stable retinol, [...] but the moisturizing formula it's in gives you some immediate benefit too."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Toners36 reviews

Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Refreshing Toner AHA + BHA

"This looks really promising. I have yet to use a Beauty of Joseon product that I did not enjoy to some extent, some more than others, and I often enjoy their toners. This has glycolic acid and salicylic acid, which is a good ingredient combination for blackheads, whiteheads, and cutting down on build up of dry rough skin, [...] as well as keratosis pilaris."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

I'm From Rice Toner

"This one from I'm from is actually really good. How much are they charging for it here? $16.99."

✓Yay

94%Guru Score

The Ordinary Saccharomyces Ferment 30% Milky Toner

"I see no reason to ever go back to that Saccharomyces thing. It was more of a try use for the sake of reviewing it because people are curious. But I don't really like this that much."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Milky Toner

"I really like that Haruharu Wonder milky toner"

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

BYOMA Milky Toner

"It's accessible. However, I do find that this one is a little bit different as far as the texture. And for me personally, that actually has made a bit of a difference as far as me just liking it overall. It's a little thinner. And if this were my first Milky Toner, I'd say this is nice. This works well. This is good. This does what it's supposed to do, but it's not like a must-have holy grail."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution

"If you're just picking up a random skincare product like The Ordinary's glycolic acid toner, for example, and trying to use it in the skin folds where it was never meant to go because that's just not how that product is meant to be used, you can get significant irritation. Glycolic acid will help acidify the skin pH, but it can be super irritating."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Tear Tier Milk Skin Toner

"I did not care for the Milk Skin Toner. The peppermint leaf extract can be irritating if you have rosacea. Peppermint's like a common potential trigger for rosacea."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Tirtir Milk Skin Toner

"I've been using this like I said started towards the end of December throughout January rather enjoying it no problems with it it's hydrating it's moisturizing I don't really notice it to be frank I'll finish it up but would I go right back to it would I go out of my way to purchase a full size bottle no really glad that I got the travel bottle because that's just enough."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Salicylic Acid Toner 2%

"Hero Cosmetics has a salicylic acid toner 2% with salicylic acid and polyhydroxy acid, AA Lotus water, fragrance-free. This looks promising as an alternative to the [Paula's Choice] one, which can be pricey. I always get that one on sale."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Thirst Burst Pore Perfecting Toner

"This is new from e.l.f., the holy hydration line has these thirst burst drops. Guess what, it's a 5% niacinamide serum. That's what we need. Check out this little duo though, you can try the drops plus you get their bronzing drops to pop some color on."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Goop Good Clean Goop 10% Glycolic Acid Toner

"A $20 glycolic acid toner. Glycolic acid is great for improving skin texture, hydration, can help lighten age spots. Caffeine is an antioxidant and caffeine also can kind of temporarily help improve the look of redness. Black tea ferment probably has antioxidants."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Coats Gentle hydrating toning milk

"The 3% ascorbic acid is a stable form of vitamin C, probably not going to do all of what you're seeking out of vitamin C but it is more stable. Niacinamide is really good if you tolerate it, it does so many things for your skin, it's anti-inflammatory, good for redness, dark spots, hyperpigmentation. This is a mandelic acid toner like this is a gem right here. [...] Mandelic acid is an alpha hydroxy acid, it's very gentle, helps hydrate and gently exfoliate, and can help with fading dark spots."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Aestura Hyaluronic Acid Watery Toner

"I really like this brand Aestura, for example I love their Hyaluronic Acid Watery Toner and I'm currently really enjoying their sunscreen."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Facial Radiance Pads

"The Facial Radiance Pads are okay. They have glycolic and lactic acid, but I just prefer to use a liquid exfoliant, not the pads."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Peach Slices Acne Exfoliating Toner with Salicylic Acid Acne Treatment

"This Peach Slices Acne Exfoliating Toner is another great liquid salicylic acid treatment. It also has lactic acid which can soften and smooth the skin surface reducing certain types of skin bumps."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Skin Perfecting 7% AHA and PHA Exfoliating Toner

"Polyhydroxy acids hydrate and gluconal oxidants of polyhydroxy acid they hydrate and they soften rough and bumpy skin and then Alpha hydroxy acids also soften and exfoliate so this I always like that was a good product"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Goodal Vegan Rice Milk Moisturizing Toner

"Coming in with the Vegan Rice Milk Moisturizing Toner from Goodal, this is not as viscous as snail mucin but it's pretty hydrating."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Beekman 1802 Milk Shake Hyaluronic Acid & Squalane Facial Toner Mist

"Bifida ferment, which again is hydrating, rich in antioxidants, soothing. This looks like a promising toner. Toners can be helpful as an aftershave if you're someone who wants a little bit of extra moisture to the skin in the morning before you put your sunscreen on but you don't want to mess with a whole moisturizer because sometimes they can be incompatible with sunscreens and then the sunscreen pills. [...] A hydrating toner or essence can be beneficial in those situations."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Peach Slices Snail Rescue Blemish Busting Toner

"It's a lot less expensive, but I've been saying I need to try this because in addition to the snail secretion filtrate, which is hydrating and has compounds in it that may help with healing, it also has centella asiatica extract, a botanical ingredient that may help with healing and recovery. That's what I need to try. [...] I've been happy with everything Peach Slices I have ever tried before."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Toner

"There's a tea toner from Isntree that I really like, [...] it was featured in my best Korean skincare of 2022 video, and it offers the benefits of the tea, I see an improvement in skin hydration and it's less expensive. In contrast to it, I almost prefer the Pyunkang Yul black tea toner a bit since it has more texture and isn't a straight liquid, so it's easier to apply, but both of them are good as far as a tea based toner."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

ITK Tri-Acid Toner

"ITK also has a Tri-Acid Toner. It has gluconolactone, which is a polyhydroxy acid and can gently exfoliate, it also has lactic acid, an exfoliant, salicylic acid, and niacinamide, so this looks to be promising for improving the appearance of pores."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pure Skin Toner

"Most products with alpha hydroxy acid come with a sunscreen disclaimer but this one doesn't, and I would like more transparency about the intended purpose. While I didn't develop any irritation, I didn't notice benefits and I didn't feel like this was adding much to my skincare routine. The consistency is lightweight but the overall consistency I just didn't really feel like this was adding much. [...] For me this one would be a pass and I wouldn't buy it myself."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

The INKEY List Polyhydroxy Acid Toner

"They're also great because a lot of people have very, very, very sensitive skin and want to use an exfoliant but their skin does not tolerate it. This is a great family of ingredients to include in your routine. This particular product from Inky List is great. It not only has these but is free of fragrance. The way to use it is after cleansing, while the skin is still damp, just pat a little bit in and then apply moisturizer over it. Really great product."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Wild Oat Hydrating Toner

"I am not kidding when I say this product really did make a visible difference in the appearance of my skin as far as evening out skin tone and just giving the skin a very radiant, healthy glow. The way to use it is after you cleanse the skin while it's still damp, pat just a little bit of this onto the surface of the skin and then apply a moisturizer on over it. I [...] highly recommend it, especially for those [...] looking to improve overall skin tone and texture through hydration."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Revitalift 5% Glycolic Acid Peeling Toner

"This is fragrance-free, making it a good product for somebody who is trying to improve the rate of clearance of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation and also can improve skin texture. [...] You can use it in the morning on clean skin before sunscreen, and it [...] will increase your sensitivity to the sun. You can also use it at night, but not if you're using retinol or retinoid, since they can be too irritating together."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Cocokind Rose Water Toner

"This is just another thing to put on your skin, everybody's doing it so you feel like you have to, but trust me you don't need rice water toner."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Liquid Hydration 5% Panthenol and Natural Moisturizing Factors Toner

"This hydrating toner has panthenol and urea, but seriously, you don't need this. [...] You can get these ingredients in a moisturizer, and the benefits that this would yield you're going to get just by using a moisturizer. This is not worth your time or effort. It's [...] very watery and this needs improvement."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Saturday Skin 4% Glycolic Acid Exfoliating Toner

"It has tea tree in it, which you know from my videos can be irritating, and a bunch of essential oils. Yeah, let's skip this."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Toner

"I really enjoyed this. [...] It has this hatching X07 technology, which is kind of interesting because in theory it's going to help loosen the dead, clumped up skin cells on the surface of the stratum corneum to help hydrate and smooth out the surface of the skin without getting in there and dissolving the bonds between dead stuck together skin cells and potentially being irritating for sensitive skin. This has antioxidants and polysaccharides from the red algae extract in this."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Purito Tranexamic Acid 6% Niacinamide 10% Retinaldehyde Toning Booster Serum

"Recently over the past year I have discovered a retinaldehyde serum from Purito that works really well for me [...] on my neck and upper chest, and I find that I get along better in these more sensitive areas with a cosmetic like this, which is notoriously a lot gentler than prescription tretinoin."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Skin1004 Probio-Cica Essence Toner

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Celimax Dual Barrier Creamy Toner

"I've personally fallen in love with this year. The first comes from Celimax. This is a repurchase for me, the Dual Barrier Creamy Toner. [...] It has a peptide in it called Aquatide, which allegedly is going to do stuff with our autophagy recycling pathways. [...] I love because it hugs the skin and then sinks in and quenches. Really nice formula. Very close to the Aesop milky toner, which I love, but I rarely ever buy because it's so expensive."

✓Yay

Notverified

COSRX Hydrium Watery Toner

"But here's where this product has really been one that I think flies under the radar. It's that it's got poly glutamic acid in it, which I don't know why brands are not so generous with this ingredient because it compliments hyaluronic acid really well or performs really well on its own because it is hydrating but it creates this slippery soothing film on the surface of the skin to also reduce water loss. So it has occlusive properties but it's not heavy."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Isntree Ultra Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid Toner

"This particular Essence is great for dry rough and bumpy skin in particular"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Klairs Supple Preparation Unscented Toner

"This is the one, this is the one I love. This is a great product. [...] It's like a very rich cream in my opinion. It's kind of one of the OG sort of moisturizing night sleep masks, although it wasn't ever marketed that way, but it's nice and soothing. [...] Shea butter, jojoba seed oil, ceramides, a bunch of peptides. This is great, highly recommend this product."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Watery Toner Plus

"The Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Watery Toner Plus is a chemical sunscreen that I really enjoyed using. [...] It made my skin look really glowy and healthy, subjectively speaking. [...] It is a chemical sunscreen with no cast and some really good filters including Tinosorb M, Tinosorb S, and Uvinul A Plus, which allow for good UVA protection."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Mists & Essences25 reviews

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule

"The Madagascar Centella Ampoule is one I like so much from them, it's thicker and more viscous than their newer pore perfecting ampoule."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Rhode Glazing Milk Ceramide Facial Essence

"Can I use only the Rhode Glazing Milk without any other moisturizer? In other words, can I use it as an everyday moisturizer? Yes, you absolutely can. I love that product. Personally, I find it a very hydrating, moisturizing, lightweight fluid. You don't necessarily need to use additional moisturizer, of course everyone's skin needs will vary, some people will benefit from additional moisturizer, but it can easily be used as a standalone moisturizer."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 Spray

"This around the eyes is underrated because it protects delicate eyelid skin from irritation, locks in hydration, keeps it in place because it's a skin protectant, and it also brightens up the under eye area just by light scattering because it's glycerin. So it really deeply, deeply quenches and hydrates and provides long-lasting hydration. This stays in place. It's not greasy. It sinks down."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

SK-II Facial Treatment Essence

"We have SK2 here, Facial Treatment Essence, and it is $219.99. Now, I tried this a long time ago. I didn't think too much of it. Ferments are great in products, so there's that. But these kind of ingredients have become really easy to come by and there's nothing particularly magic in my opinion about their ferment patena. That's just what they've trademarked the name."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

Purito Galacto Niacinamide 97 Power Essence

"I like the texture. It was nice and lightweight. I felt like my skin looked very smooth, very hydrated, calm, collected. I like to use this at night time as the first step of my nighttime skincare routine. I went through it pretty quickly. I started it on that trip because it's sort of travel friendly, had a cap, [...] and then I used it up in a matter of [...] about 4 weeks. I would also use it in the morning. Niacinamide twice a day for 12 weeks. Get on that train."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist

"I love this lip sleeping mask, Two Bits. And these are really good."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

VT PDRN Essence 100

"They're spinning a new tagline about an ingredient that's been something we use in skincare for a while now. [...] But I do actually like this as a moisturizer. [...] I have no problem using it. It's a little pricey in my opinion, I think it's like 30 bucks, but it's really [...] nice. It's nice and emollient, rich. Emollients like oils are really good if you have dry, flaky skin."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Active Delivery Essence

"For me personally I would not repurchase this product because it really felt like just an unnecessary step in my routine. I'd like to think that the ingredients in serums that I apply do what this does, they have water, they have glycerin, and I like to think that they're formulated in a way that allows for good penetration."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Manyo Factory Bifida Biome Complex Ampoule

"The mano bifida biome serum, I never got anywhere with this. I used it, I kept expecting it to turn a corner for me and it was always like so so. It was okay but like $28.99 for that bottle."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence & All-in-One Cream Set

"They still have it here, but it's on sale right now. This whole power kit gets you the two Power Essence bottles plus the two smaller tubes of the cream, both of which I adore. Normally it's $37.99, but it's $8 off, so $29.99."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

COSRX Galactomyces 95 Tone Balancing Essence

"There's one product from them that I tried in the early days of trying COSRX that I did not like. The Galactomyces 95 Tone Balancing Essence did not work well for me. That's like the one product that stands out in my mind from them that was a miss."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray

"I know that Tower 28 one is also really popular. I've just never bought that or used it myself so I can't speak to how it is."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Prequel Universal Skin Solution Dermal Spray for Face and Body

"I have the Prequel Universal Skin Solution Dermal Spray for Face and Body, which is another great option. I have atopic dermatitis that gets aggravated by my sweat, and that makes me really itchy. I find hypochlorous acid sprays really beneficial, mostly for my body. I don't really use them too often on my face, from time to time I do, but primarily on my body."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Missha Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence 5X

"One of my favorite fermented type products, not an ampoule, it's an essence, is that Missha Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence. That is really really good. I love it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Bubble Bounceback Balancing Facial Mist

"The balancing mist does have fragrance, so I wouldn't recommend misting that on the face. It's got rose flour, water, glycerin, niacinamide. I mean, there's really not much need for that. It just introduces another variable into your routine."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail Radiance Dual Essence

"I would not repurchase the Advanced Snail Radiance Dual Essence, because I did not appreciate any improvement above and beyond what either their [...] power essence or their cream already offers me. It has some unique ingredients the others don't, five percent niacinamide and glutathione, and if you have a tendency toward hyperpigmentation you might see a bit more improvement in discoloration from those than I did, though I can't promise that will happen."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Bamboo Mist

"This is the Haru Haru Wonder Black Bamboo Mist with ultra deep technology. It is a mist with fragrance, bergamot oil, lavender, limonene, and bamboo shoot extract, but can't say I'm gonna get much use out of that."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Missha Time Revolution Artemisia Treatment Essence

"I didn't realize Missha had more stuff in their Time Revolution Artemisia line, [...] I really like the essence."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

BYOMA Balancing Face Mist

"I used to think face mists are a waste of time, but I've come to realize that for some people like if you don't want to wash your face first thing in the morning [...] but you do want a little moisture, there's an argument for it. But if you constantly carry a mist and spray your face with it throughout the day, I think it can end up drying out your skin more because it evaporates and pulls water out of your skin."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Topicals Faded Brightening and Clearing Mist

"They feel very sticky and the sticky residue doesn't go away - it's almost like you have sprayed yourself with spray adhesive. [...] I was optimistic about trying it, thinking it would be like other spray-on lotions but with active ingredients for hyperpigmentation such as niacinamide, kojic acid, arbutin, tranexamic acid, glutathione which is an antioxidant, licorice root, and glycolic acid. [...] But overall the formula [...] was really sticky, felt like glue, and it was irritating."

✕Nay

80%Guru Score

Skin1004 Pore Perfecting Centella Ampoule

"I loved this. It surprised me. It's got centella with Madagascar centella products, asiaticoside, madecassoside. These are anti-inflammatory, soothing. There's some preliminary evidence that they may help with healing, potentially improving the final appearance of scars, and even helping with radiation dermatitis. This also has a variety of peptides and hyaluronic acid. No niacinamide if you're sensitive. I found it very hydrating and soothing. I enjoy centella. I do find that it calms the skin."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Probiotics Barrier Essence

"If I were going to rank the Prequel Half and Half, I would not put it above Haru Haru Wonder Black Rice Probiotic Barrier Essence, which I love. It has more of a silky, luxurious texture. It softens and smooths."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Mixsoon Bean Essence

"I was just about to give up on Mixsoon because this bean essence, this is a pass in my opinion. I mean, some people love it, but it's just not I was not impressed by it."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

"COSRX Snail Mucin Power Essence has to be one of my favorite skincare products because what it does is it hydrates, it plumps, it smooths. I visibly see a difference in skin elasticity. [...] It's got greater snap, and through the plumping and hydrating effects, I see a diminishment in pore size. Very effective for me personally. [...] You could [...] use the power essence alone as the bottom layer, and maybe your retinoid and cream alone is enough of a top moisturizer."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Skin1004 Probio-Cica Intensive Ampoule

"The Skin1004 Probio-Cica Intensive Ampoule has a very simple ingredient list, nothing super fancy. It has a fermented filtrate from [Centella] and that imparts humectants, anti-inflammatory compounds. [...] It does very similar things [...] as far as just imparting that overall plump, firm, smooth, suppleness to the skin surface, brightening up skin tone. And it's not really an over-the-top complex formula. I've repurchased this before. It takes a long time to go through this too."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Acne17 reviews

CeraVe Acne Control Gel with Salicylic Acid

"CeraVe's acne control gel is pretty much the same thing as the first step pad. CeraVe also has a retinol in that acne control line that's pretty much the second step. Instead of little pads, you've got bottles and serum pump bottles and a tube. [...] They can all do pretty much the same thing."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment Acne Treatment Maximum Strength 10%

"In the drugstore, you have two products that I frequently recommend. First is going to be the De La Cruz sulfur ointment. Topical sulfur can be very helpful for rosacea, and we do find that it can be helpful for peroral dermatitis probably because it is a cousin, pretty much identical on pathology to rosacea."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Neutrogena Stubborn Acne AM Treatment 2.5% Benzoyl Peroxide

"You can use benzoyl peroxide actually in the morning and at night and then put adapalene which is stable in the presence of benzoyl peroxide. You can put the adapalene on at night. That combination is really tight for controlling acne. The downside of benzoyl peroxide is that it bleaches fabrics. So using a wash form is an alternative less likely to bleach stuff when you just use it in the shower and then rinse it off the skin."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Clear Mattifying Acne Moisturizer Salicylic Acid Treatment

"The Cetaphil acne mattifying moisturizer, underrated as a matter of fact. Cetaphil's acne line in general very good. This has 0.5% salicylic acid. You could use this as a spot treatment but I encourage you to use it to the entire face of course sparing the eyelids because too drying in that area. 5% is effective but works very slowly, so this is something that you want to be patient with. But as a leave-on treatment it's a great option at this percentage, less likely to be drying and irritating."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Stubborn Acne Hydrocolloid Patches

"Neutrogena's patches are excellent. They stay on the skin really well, and you completely forget you have them on. The other reason I like them is that they offer a bit of cosmetic camouflage. They make the pimple less visible. They don't completely block it out or cover it up, but if you've ever had one of those pimples that you try to cover up with foundation or concealer, you know it can end up making it look even worse, getting all cakey and flaky."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

e.l.f. SKIN Blemish Breakthrough Triple Acid Resurfacing Serum

"The salicylic acid, the tranexamic acid, and the polyhydroxy acid, sum total, 8.5%. It sounds really intense, but this has niacinamide as well, 10%. This was fine. Didn't cause any irritation for me. A little blah. I would not repurchase it."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

e.l.f. SKIN Blemish Breakthrough Acne Calming Water Cream

"This I ended up really really liking quite a bit. But I think it's a bit underrated, like flies under the radar because it's their acne calming water cream. If you don't have acne and you're not in the know, you're going to dance on right by this. But what this is is a 1% salicylic acid facial moisturizer, fragrance-free. So that's helpful for smoothing dry rough skin texture if you got keratosis pilaris."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Differin Acne Patch with Salicylic Acid

"Looks like Differin came out with a new Acne Patch with Salicylic Acid, centella, and willow herb, which is anti-inflammatory. These can be really helpful, but the salicylic acid on the patch is more likely to be irritating because you have it under occlusion. The hydrocolloid helps kind of flatten the pimple and reduce the urge to pick."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Bubble Fade Away 5% Benzoyl Peroxide Acne Spot Treatment

"Azelaic acid helps also if you're someone who has rosacea, which again is a condition where you can have face bumps related to it. [...] This also has dipotassium glycerizate that's going to be anti-inflammatory and help with redness. The thing about rosacea though when it comes to salicylic acid it can be pretty irritating for people who have rosacea but it's not to say that you can't use it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Equate Benzoyl Peroxide Spot Treatment

"I've used this product from Equate and it's pretty good, but it's 10 percent and it's pretty drying. An alternative though is to use a micronized benzoyl peroxide, which just means that the benzoyl peroxide particles are a lot smaller so they spread out on the skin surface a lot more efficiently and they get into the pore more efficiently. Ultimately it's a lot less irritating and drying and just as effective. Lower percentages are just as effective as higher but less irritating."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

The Ordinary Salicylic Acid 2% Solution

"This is really good as a leave-on salicylic acid for blackheads, acne, hyperpigmentation, if you get keratosis pilaris on the face, for some people they find that salicylic acid helps. It's got keratolytic properties to soften and exfoliate that dry rough stuff. This one is like just a liquid but it's not drying."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Clear Triple Action Acne Serum

"This is Cetaphil Gentle Clear Triple Action Acne Serum. The salicylic acid is 0.5 percent, which is very gentle and very easy to tolerate. It might be a little bit too irritating for the bikini area or under the arms, so I wouldn't suggest using it there. It also has polyhydroxy acids, which really help not only with softening the skin but also deeply hydrating. All those things together are definitely going to help with reducing ingrowns."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Noxzema Ultimate Clear Anti Blemish Pads

"The Noxzema anti-blemish pads, salicylic acid pads with two percent salicylic acid, camphor, eucalyptus leaf oil and menthol, those things can be pretty irritating. There are so many good salicylic acid leave-on products that I don't recommend these, just because of all those unnecessary irritants."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Vichy Normaderm SOS Acne Rescue Spot Corrector

"This is a product that in my opinion does not get enough attention, it's the Vichy Normaderm SOS. It has sulfur in it which is anti-inflammatory, it can be helpful for acne as well as rosacea, though this product is formulated more for acne. It also has glycolic acid in it, which for some people with rosacea is not well tolerated, [...] and niacinamide, which is really good for acne as well as rosacea. This is also a product that is safe to use during pregnancy."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Transparency ProSpot Treatment with 20% Vitamin C

"It has sunflower seed oil, licorice, ferulic acid which is an antioxidant, and [...] licorice root extract and kojic acid, which are good for dark spots. This looks like a promising product. It also has ascorbyl tetraisopalmitate, which isn't evidence based for doing anything, but it's in there. It's odd that they market it kind of like a vitamin C serum when there are other good ingredients in here, why not market it as a kojic acid dark spot corrector."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Mighty Patch Original

"As soon as you get the mosquito bite, it's like it takes over your brain wanting to scratch it. [...] This will just interrupt that pathway immediately. [...] As far as a pimple, these are great to help you reduce picking. You can also just get an inexpensive roll of hydrocoloid bandage and cut it into little squares. The little circles are convenient for a pimple. I really like them. I find these are very comfortable to wear and I forget I have them on."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Eucerin Roughness Relief Spot Treatment

"Eucerin's got a great line, the Roughness Relief. They used to have this spot treatment, but I can barely find it anymore. It was like more of an ointment and they also have a really good thick cream and a thick lotion."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Balms & Ointments14 reviews

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Gel B5 Skin Protectant 21%

"I love to use the La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Gel around the eyes. It's a glycerin skin protectant."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neosporin Neosporin

"Topical antibiotic ointments that might be used around the eyes are another common culprit, particularly those you buy over the counter that contain neomycin, aka Neosporin, or bacitracin. Stay away from those in general, they are well-known causes of contact dermatitis, and they're not very good antibiotics to be putting on the skin, so stay away from them."

✕Nay

31%Guru Score

Protopic Protopic (Tacrolimus Ointment)

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Prequel 1% Colloidal Oatmeal and Alanine Multi-Ceramides Adenosine Barrier Therapy Rich Skin Protectant Cream

"They're both fragrance-free. [...] The rich one is a little richer, a little heavier, may be less comfortable for you to wear on the face, especially if you live in a hot, humid climate. [...] Overall they leave the skin nice and moisturized. And the hydration lasts about 48 hours. [...] With ongoing use, it'll really help keep the barrier in check and keep the skin moisturized. I think these are fantastic. Prequel does a really good job."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Aveeno Eczema Therapy Itch Relief Ointment

"The Aveeno Skin Healing Ointment is on sale. Normally this is $19.99, but they are knocking down $ [...] 6. You can get the two 7.2 oz bottles and a 2 oz bottle for $13.99. The 2 oz bottle is great to throw in your purse. This also works really well as a hand cream. It's glycerin based and so it feels a little [...] like you're rubbing something sticky on, but it's not sticky. [...] I ended up liking this. Very good for dry cracked heels, too. Also good to cut down on chafing."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Aquaphor Healing Ointment Advanced Therapy

"You could use Aquaphor around your eyes. It will not cause milia."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Prequel Skin Utility Gel Multi-Purpose Skin Protectant

"The skin protectant to the eyelids helps protect them. I've managed to be able to put a tiny drop of that on my eyelids in the morning and work it in and let it dry down and then put sunscreen on over and not get any peeling around the eyes. And that pairing has worked out really well for my eyelid skin needs. [...] I am kind of intrigued to try that with this 40% much higher than the other one."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Prequel Skin Utility Balm Multi-Purpose Skin Protectant

"This is a petrolatum based ointment with bisol which is anti-inflammatory and I really liked this quite a bit. Works well similar to Vaseline, Aquaphor, CeraVe healing ointment. [...] But given how I go through ointments so quickly, I use so much ointment, this doesn't end up being a very cost effective ointment for me to pursue. I finished this in like a matter of a couple of weeks at most. I went through it very quickly."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream

"It is very lightweight, it is not a super rich heavy cream, so if you're somebody who likes a really rich thick formula this maybe a little too on the lightweight side for you. It did leave my skin feeling moisturized and hydrated, didn't dry down with a tight film. The following day my skin was moisturized. It doesn't feel greasy, sticky, there's no odd residue."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Triple Paste Medicated Ointment for Diaper Rash

"This Triple Paste is really good if you get rashes and the skin folds or chafing. That's basically an irritant dermatitis, same thing happens in the diaper area for babies. The zinc is anti-inflammatory and it protects the skin. This also has petroleum which is also a skin protectant, lanoline, visol is anti-inflammatory as is oak kernel extract, glycerin is hydrating. There are a lot of hidden gems."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Balm

"Aquaphor has lanolin, and some people develop an allergy to that, so you could be making things worse. Petrolatum is probably the safest, lowest risk of any allergy, so just stick with plain petrolatum."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Vaseline Original Healing Jelly

"I don't understand how people take so long to go through a tub of Vaseline petroleum jelly. I [...] use it as my petroleum jelly socks at night, a thick layer on my feet [...] with a sock over it, and I [...] put it around my ankles from the knee down. It's a great moisturizer that reduces transepidermal water loss. The rhinestone bedazzled jars from Etsy don't hold up well, so buyer beware."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

CeraVe Healing Ointment

"They removed several ingredients and replaced hydrolyzed hyaluronic acid with sodium hyaluronate. It is new, but whether or not it's improved, that's going to boil down to you, the individual. You're not going to get objective data showing improvement. [...] You will find people on the internet who [...] claim it's awful now, others who say they used to hate it and now they love it, and some people like myself who [...] didn't even realize the change and didn't notice a difference."

~Mixed

87%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healing Ointment

"It has shea butter in it, which I think gives it that soft texture, but it really does a great job as an ointment for locking in hydration. This is also really good on the lips, around the eyes, or really anywhere. If you're someone who wants to try slugging, which is the practice of going to bed with a thick layer of an ointment on your face as the last step of your nighttime skincare routine, you might want to try this one out."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Tech12 reviews

iRestore Laser Device

"These are arguably, in my opinion, the best devices on the market. [...] It improves circulation, which is important for getting hair into the growing phase, reduces inflammation, and [...] the red light jumpstarts cellular metabolism, waking up the follicle. I would not expect it to regrow an entire bald scalp, but it can move the dial on hair growth for sure."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Omnilux LED devices

"I always recommend the Omnilux devices. That's what I use. They're fantastic. They're the ones who make the in-office devices. They put their devices through a lot of safety testing. So that's why I always recommend them over a cheaper device. They are an investment and I tell people this all the time. They only work if you use them. If you keep them in a drawer and you only use them on a spa night every so often, they're not going to do anything really. So they have to be used consistently."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Shark Beauty Facial Pro Glow and Depuffy Atome Hydrating Skin Device

"You'll be stuck with a $399 vacuum for your face that you don't use, so I think it's gimmicky. [...] I don't recommend a poor vacuum, which is what this is, and I think they're kind of just getting into the skincare device market. I would say pass on this. If you need any more encouragement not to buy it, I don't think this is worth your hard-earned money."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

iRestore Laser Hair Growth Helmet

"Lately I have really started to appreciate more regrowth of my frontal hairline, new growth I should say, and it's mostly because it's getting longer so I'm really starting to see it more, especially under the little cushion there. With the iRestore, your scalp starts to feel a little bit warm around the 8 to 9 minute mark because the energy is improving blood flow to the scalp, so it's normal. It doesn't get hot or anything."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Iris Store Elite LED Hair Growth Helmet

"I feel like my hair is a little bit thicker. [...] One of the biggest misconceptions that I think people have when it comes to red light devices and near infrared devices such as this [...] is that they're not powered sufficiently to yield any kind of meaningful effect. You actually only need an energy density within a certain small range for it to be effective. If you exceed that density, you end up getting diminishing returns and you can actually have a negative effect."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross DRx SpectraLite FaceWare Pro

"The nice thing about this is you can do it with both red and blue, you can do it with just red, or you can do it with just blue. So if you have acne and you're looking to really capitalize on the blue light, you could just do the blue, or if you want wrinkle improvement, you could just do the red, or you could do both. And it's three minutes a day. [...] LED therapy can be very effective, only as effective as you are willing to do it."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Tripolar Radio Frequency Device

"The Tripolar, I'm not sponsored by them, but it's the one I'm most familiar with, and it can be helpful for skin laxity, fine lines and wrinkles, as well as improving skin texture. It has heat sensing technology, so it will automatically turn off if the temperature gets above 40 degrees, which is a safety mechanism because it prevents overheating of the epidermis, so it would be very unlikely for this device to end up impacting someone's fat compartments."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device

"It's not inexpensive at 339 dollars, and for that price you have to keep using it consistently just to maintain very temporary, very subtle results. In my opinion the microcurrent thing is a bit of a hoax because there's just no data to support it for any aesthetic purpose, and there are better technologies out there that actually have some science behind them. I honestly do not see this device as being worth your money."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

iRestore Elite Low-Level Laser Hair Regrowth System

"This works, okay? The technology works. It's evidence-based. New studies come out all the time supporting the use of low-level laser therapy for hair restoration, not just for androgenetic alopecia, but we have evidence for telogen effluvium for getting the hair back a little faster, and we have evidence for frontal fibrosing alopecia. It's a really really good technology to use if you're someone dealing with thinning hair or androgenetic alopecia. It works by a couple of mechanisms."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Omnilux Face Contour Red Light Therapy Mask

"I favor Omnilux. They've been a leader in the industry for a long time, and they actually make a device specifically for the hands, which I've used myself. I happen to find it also helps my hand eczema, which makes some sense because it has anti-inflammatory benefits. But these devices only work if you're willing to use them, and you've got to use them consistently, they don't work overnight. If you're highly motivated, I do think they're worth it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

iRestore Professional Hair Growth System

"I've been really impressed with those devices as far as what they offer."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Omnilux Neck and Chest Mask

"The Omnilux Contour Face and Neck Chest Mask is the first and only FDA cleared device for specifically targeting those little neck wrinkles as well as sun damage. It helps with evening out overall skin tone and pigmentation, reducing redness, minimizing the appearance of sunspots, and with consistent use, it leaves the skin of the chest and the neck smoother and more radiant. It uses the same red and near infrared wavelengths of light that the Omnilux Contour face mask does, 633 and 830 nm."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Concealer10 reviews

Merit Minimalist Concealer

"I have been using the same concealer now for I want to say 3 years. And I keep thinking to myself, maybe I should try something else because honestly, it is on the expensive side for what I prefer to spend. But it lasts a long time. It works. So, I'm okay with spending the money. [...] I just use this under my eyes, but you could use it elsewhere as a concealer. It's a nice creamy formula. It doesn't cause any creasing for me, and it lasts all day."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Neutrogena Glow Perfector Concealer Pen

"These concealer pens are new from Neutrogena Glow Perfector Pen. They have fair, neutral, tan, medium, and deep. Fragrance-free with isododecane, dimethicone, iron oxides."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Lancôme Teint Idôle Ultra Wear All Over Concealer

"It's a long wear concealer and it stays on really well. I would put it on and then blend it in with that Angie hot and flashy makeup brush from BK Beauty and it held up really well. It didn't get creasy. It really does a good job camouflaging dark under eye circles. When it's 50% off, it's more of a drugstore concealer price, so this would be the time to try it out."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Concealer

"This concealer is really good. I've been really happy with it. It's creamy but it doesn't get all melty and break apart, and it doesn't crease too much."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Milani Conceal + Perfect Longwear Concealer

"The Milani Conceal and Perfect, highly recommend this. It's a longwear concealer and it stays on really well. [...] I like this because it blends in really easily, like you can just use your fingers."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Tarte Shape Tape Concealer

"I got shade 125 light natural. [...] It says long wear, so I'm a little concerned about that because long wear stuff tends to be drying in my experience. [...] I've been using the Tarte Shape Tape and it's okay, but I feel as though there has to be a drugstore option that performs just as well because it's not like, you know, mind-blowing or anything. It was thirty dollars, so there's that. That seems like a lot to me."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer

"I've been using the one that was gifted to me a year ago from tarte and it's okay the shape tape um but I want to try something drugstore and this Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser seems reasonable when it comes to dark under eye circles. [...] Caffeine may temporarily de-puff and decongest and give a little under eye brightening effect. Even gets the job done and the iron oxides in the concealer may help protect against visible light which generates free radicals in the skin."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Tarte Shape Tape Ultra Creamy Concealer

"I got the very popular Tarte Shape Tape the creamy formula so that's what I've been using under my eyes all summer just as an under eye concealer and I've been applying it with this brush and it really blends it in really nicely."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Full Coverage Anti-Aging Waterproof Concealer

"This is something I may actually buy and try. It's [...] an under eye concealer, which is one of the few things that actually can at least temporarily get rid of dark under eye circles, obviously not permanently removing them, but under eye concealer is one of the more practical things you can do to address dark under eye circles on a day-to-day basis."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Radiant Serum Concealer

"I actually use the L'Oreal True Match eye cream concealer with hyaluronic acid [...] on my upper eyelids as an eyeshadow primer, it works quite well that way."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Tools8 reviews

Tweezerman Tweezers

"This is great for the rogue chin hair and brow grooming. These are really good quality. I've always gone with Tweezerman, never been disappointed, not sponsored. Twelve ninety nine, that's not a bad price."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Clean Skin Club Clean Towels XL

"These Clean Skin Club towels are sort of silly in my opinion. I [...] think they're kind of glorified paper towel. [...] We're drying our face with an active ingredient infused towel. Acne breakouts are not a hygiene issue. [...] You can just frequently wash your towel in hot soapy water."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Kitsch Satin Pillowcase

"A satin or silk pillowcase can be particularly helpful for cutting down on frizz and breakage from your hair. It's also very smooth on the skin and can cut down on irritation. I happen to think that not only are these good for you but you might consider getting them and keeping them to give as gifts over the holiday season. Who wouldn't love a Satin Pillowcase? It's nice and cool on the skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Dark Spot Brightening Lightning Wand

"The Lightning Swipe looks like they put the same tranexamic acid and niacinamide from the Lightning Wand into a pad. If you start using something like that at the first sign of a pimple and continue through its lifespan and a few weeks after, it will reduce the chances it heals with hyperpigmentation, provided it's not too irritating for you. I've tried this out before and it's really good."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Dr Dana Priming Wand File

"It's a decent nail file, but you can get something like this at Sally Beauty Supply for significantly less, or really anywhere that sells nail care supplies like Target or Walmart. It isn't necessarily unique or magical. Keep in mind, using something like this, buffing the nails, can actually be somewhat disruptive to healthy nail growth in the long run because it's kind of traumatic to the nail itself. Buffing is one of those aggressive manicure practices that can backfire in the long run."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

BK Beauty A506 Cat's Paw Concealer Brush

"This brush however, this concealer brush is unique. I think it's their bestseller. I mean you can't go wrong with any of their makeup brushes. I have many of them and they're all excellent. It's got this kitten paw shape to it so it really allows you to very gently pat in and blend in concealer minimizing any creasing and it gets in the hollow of your eye really easily. And it's super soft so it's not irritating along your eyelid."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Lily Silk Mulberry Silk Pillowcase

"I'm a huge fan of purchasing silk pillowcases and other silk items from Lily Silk because the quality is just unmatched not to mention their customer service has never ever let me down. A Mulberry Silk Pillowcase is really smooth on the skin surface and helps cut down on creasing of the skin when sleeping on it. Another advantage is that it doesn't soak up a lot of moisture and so from a hygiene perspective that's excellent."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Beachwaver Curling Iron

"This little thing is not it, doesn't hold much hair. Maybe if I don't go down, if I just grab like the tip here, I feel like you kind of have to leave a little piece out. You kind of have to leave that little straight edge there."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Blush & Bronzer7 reviews

L'Oreal Lumi Le Glass Highlighter Stick

"I'm definitely excited about anything that says Louie on it from L'Oreal. We have a highlighter stick in the shade glassy pink ballet."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Milani Baked Blush

"Check out this blush from Milani. Their blush is really good."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Merit Flush Balm Cheek Color in Beverly Hills

"I use one of their flush balms every single day. I'm currently using the shade Fox, and I also really like Pimon, and there's one called Cheeky. They offer a very beautiful light color, but you can build upon it, add a couple of layers of it, do a couple of coats of it to get a stronger color payout. I love it. It's easy to blend in with your fingers. You don't need a brush. They do sell a brush, but you don't necessarily need one. You can just use your fingers."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Lily by Red Love Beam Cheek Balm

"Lily by Red Love Beam Cheek Balm. Some kind of a blush. How sweet is the packaging on this blush? I really like that. A little difficult to get into. Looks like a cream blush. It's a Korean brand, never heard of it."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Omnilux Contour Glove

"It's an investment for sure, but it's pretty easy to do. [...] You just velcro it in place. The red and near infrared wavelengths of light in this hand mask penetrate to stimulate collagen production and can help to improve the visible signs of skin aging on the backs of the hands. It also to a certain extent may help with age spots as well, not as evidence-based for that, but there has been some observation that people's sunspots seem to lighten when they do that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Liquid Blush

"The Liquid Blush update on this. I have given it a try. It's one of those where a tiny bit goes a long way."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

NARS Orgasm Blush

"Now I'm coming in with my Nars Orgasm Blush. I don't need very much of this."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Fragrance7 reviews

Billie Eilish Eilish Eau de Parfum

"Love this perfume from Billie Eilish. Um I don't really care for the packaging though."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Nemat Vanilla Musk

"If you like a musk scent because they are so good. Now that being said, at least my experience with the roller ball. It's not a super overpowering like it's really good when you first put it on, but I feel like it doesn't last that long, which can be a good thing. I love traveling with these. [...] So I went in there whiffed it and I do like it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Bath and Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar Candle

"This is one of my favorite scents, the warm vanilla sugar. They also have it as a lotion. It's like a nice coconut vanilla aroma."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Clinique Happy

"Clinique Happy is okay."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Pears Glycerin Soap

"Glycerin soaps are actually pretty nice for cleansing and this one does have fragrance again but you know you're going to rinse it off so less likely to be an issue. Sodium Laurel sulfate can be a little drying."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lancôme Idôle Eau de Parfum

"I know better than to sample a perfume before getting on a flight. One of these Idôle fragrances, I did not care for, because it had a certain scent that always gives me a bad headache."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

All Free and Clear Laundry Detergent

"All Free and Clear is another good one, free of fragrance and dyes."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Powder & Setting7 reviews

Zeasorb Excess Moisture Control Powder

"They sell a powder with an antifungal in it, it's called Zeasorb powder. I suggest using that as well. It'll help absorb moisture in your shoe and cut down on fungal spores because it has an antifungal in it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Monistat Chafing Relief Powder-Gel

"I'm a big fan actually of the Monistat Chafing Relief Powder Gel because it offers similar benefits [...] to a water resistant sunscreen. That's usually what I recommend people use not only under the arms for chafing and irritation, but also in between the thighs. If you have loose skin after weight loss, I really recommend that as well for cutting down on friction and irritation, since a lot of loose skin can lead to intertrigo, skin barrier breakdown, and secondary skin infections."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NARS Translucent Crystal Light Reflecting Setting Powder

"If I want to make my forehead less shiny I'll come in with some of this Nars translucent powder"

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

e.l.f. Stay All Night Microfine Setting Mist

"e.l.f. came out with a new makeup setting spray. These can be drying, that's kind of the main thing, but they put 3o ethyl ascorbic acid in it, which is a stable form of vitamin C that may or may not do anything."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 36-Hour Defy Transfer Setting Spray

"I heard really good things about this. It keeps your makeup on through sweaty workouts."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

VT Cica No Sebum Moisture Powder

"VT Cica No Sebum Moisture Powder. These are the makers of the Rose Shot, which I'm not [...] so into because of those spicules. [...] This one doesn't have the spicules in it, which I don't find an ingredient list on this, I'm guessing it's just powder. Provided there are no spicules in this, I might give it a go. [...] This is probably one of those things that helps reduce shine, so I may play around with that a bit."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Skin Food Peach Cotton Multi Finish Powder

"Peach cotton multifinish powder probably not going to use that. I'm not one to really do a lot with the powder but looks like it'll be good nonetheless."

✕Nay

Notverified

Foundation6 reviews

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Gel Tint

"They have a new hydrogrip primer with a tint in it."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Perricone MD Face Finishing and Firming Tinted Moisturizer

"Perricone MD is back with the Face Finishing and Firming Moisturizer. It has fragrance, unfortunately, which is a common potential allergen. It does have Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, which is a stable form of vitamin C, but whether or not it improves collagen remains to be determined."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Covergirl Simply Ageless Skin Perfecting Essence Foundation

"It doesn't act like retinol, it may help stabilize retinol, it may be helpful for the skin, that's about it. Oh my gosh, hold your breath because you're not going to believe what I'm seeing on the ingredient list of a makeup product: tranexamic acid. Tranexamic acid is good for the moisture barrier and some preliminary evidence suggests it may be helpful for redness, so nice to have in there. But just look at this formula."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Clinique Foundation

"When I was doing ballet I had to wear a foundation for stage makeup, so not that often, just whenever we had a performance, which was every couple of months or something like that. The only foundation at the time that did not aggravate my skin was a Clinique Foundation, granted I did not try out a ton. I don't even remember the name, but I could get along with that. I had some bad experiences with drugstore foundations at the time."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo CC Cream

"It's a mineral sunscreen, a hybrid sunscreen with zinc and titanium dioxide and then a chemical UV filter. But it goes on really chalky and dries down very, very, very matte. I could not stand this. It was almost like having chalk on my skin, and if you're like me I cannot, I feel weirded out by touching chalk. So this was a no for me. It comes in a lot of different shades though. [...] If you have really oily skin try this one out, but it did not work out well for me."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

e.l.f. Foundation

"The e.l.f. Foundation here has sunflower seed wax in it and costs $10.99. It smooths, hydrates, and protects, and it has niacinamide, which is good for cutting down on redness, hyperpigmentation, and oxidative stress. It has no fragrance, so that looks promising as a makeup product for sensitive skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Nails5 reviews

Kerasal Multi-Purpose Nail Repair

"The thing I like for nails is the lacquer from Kerasal, which has urea and not lactic acid or salicylic acid. I like the lacquer [...] because it has real good staying power on the nail, it lasts a lot longer, it adheres, and it really allows for good penetration of those ingredients."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

OPI Nail Envy Nail Hardener

"The OPI Nail Envy Nail Hardener nail strengthener works really well as a base coat."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

BioSil Advanced Hair and Nail Care

"In contrast to [...] collagen peptide supplements, [...] this uses choline stabilized ortho silicic acid, which is non-animal derived, so if you have allergies to fish, pork, beef, or you're trying to avoid animal products, this is completely free of that. There's no gelatin in the formula. Another issue with biotin is that a lot of people find that high biotin in dietary supplements actually triggers an acne-like breakout, and that hasn't been reported with this."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Nail Color

"These Insta-Dri, as the name implies, they do dry pretty quickly and you'd think that their longevity would not be that great but it is, it's pretty good. I mean, is it like a full-blown gel manicure going to last until the nail grows out? No, but it'll last you about 5 to 7 days. I do like this sparkly brown, I think it's a really nice color for fall."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Dr Dana Nail Renewal System

"I've continued to use the Dr Dana Nail Renewal System and it's still working really well. I [...] really think it's helped my nails. [...] I didn't have brittle nails or nail ridging, but I definitely have seen just a difference in the shine of the nail plate."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Primer3 reviews

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer

"I've never tried any Milk products, but I've heard about this Hydrogrip primer. And I went in here and let me tell you, I had the best time chatting with the folks in this booth. They were so friendly. They watched my videos and they let me test out the Hydrogrip primer and I really appreciated the information that they gave on the fact that when they designed it..."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

StriVectin Blurfector Instant Wrinkle Blurring Primer

"This new instant wrinkle blurring primer, [...] the Blurfector, does blur little fine lines. It's a silicone based scented moisturizer, so it will give that pore blurring, filling effect. But you could get that same effect, no fragrance, with the Monat shaving cream, and the Monat shaving cream is like 8 bucks, this is 39."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

e.l.f. Power Grip Primer

"It's one of those super hyped like it appears in a lot of people's favorites types videos and you I have to wonder is it as good as people claim. Let me know it's only five bucks but that's a pretty small little tube like how much of it are you ending up using, I guess not much."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Supplements3 reviews

Verisol Collagen

"Verisol collagen seems to be a popular one in some of these studies. And in fact, they do suggest that these collagen peptides can make their way to the skin intact where they actually can stimulate the fibroblast of your dermis to amp up and improve collagen production and elastin production. [...] The studies are small and they look in the short term, not the long term. Many of them are industry funded, which doesn't necessarily mean they're not useful, but it is something to just be aware of."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Heliocare Oral Sunscreen Capsules (Polypodium Leucotomos Supplement)

"The dietary supplement with strong research to suggest it may help in reducing the burden of UV damage is polypodium, and the brand name is Heliocare. If you're looking for something to use in conjunction with sunscreen—remember it's not a replacement for sunscreen—that may help in reducing the burden of UV damage after spending time outdoors, then that would be one to consider."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Olay Collagen Peptide 24

"This is actually a pretty good moisturizer. Collagen is really large and can't actually get into the skin in skincare products, but it has moisturizing properties as a humectant. This also has Tremella fusiformis which is a humectant, and it's got palmetto oil pentapeptide that in theory can help improve collagen and panthenol."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Ingredients1 review

Retin-A Tretinoin

"Tretinoin applied to the skin is more than safe. It's been used for over 50 years in dermatology to treat a wide array of skin conditions, and it's been approved by the FDA since the 90s for the treatment of fine lines, mottled hyperpigmentation, and rough skin texture associated with photo damage. It does in fact work to improve collagen synthesis, smoothing out wrinkles and fine lines, and it does not thin the skin or thin the dermis."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

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