What is Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream?

A rich, fragrance-free moisturizing cream designed for both face and body, formulated to hydrate and protect dry and sensitive skin.

Is Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream worth it?

Mostly yes. 12 of the 13 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 79%.

What is Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream's Guru Score?

Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream holds a Guru Score of 79%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 13 expert reviewers we have collected.

Who is Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream best for?

Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream is generally suited to dry skin and sensitive skin.

Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream: a Guru Score of 79%

What the gurus are saying.

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Dr Dray

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"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."

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"When it comes to Cetaphil, don't sleep on the regular moisturizer or a store version of it because you can put this on the face. It's like a really good facial moisturizer in addition to a body moisturizer. I love it. I haven't used it in a while but you guys who watch my vlogs, you know I fly through body moisturizers."

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"Last night I used the road barrier butter to tougher areas that are more vulnerable to friction tonight I'm going to do the same thing only with the e45 cream"

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"The Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream in a tub is a lot richer in comparison to Cetaphil. It's like a very rich cream and I find this is good on the face, but it's so much thicker and richer in a sense that for people who have oily skin trying this on the face I think is more likely to annoy you and for you to find it feels too oily."

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"I finished up my travel tube of the Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream and this is really really good, highly recommend. This is a great travel option because you can use it on the face and the body. It's really thick and it has panthenol, niacinamide, and sweet almond oil as well as sunflower seed oil. [...] The Cetaphil moisturizers are underrated. I don't find that Cetaphil moisturizers let me down ever. They're good."

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"This is a great body and face moisturizer. Real thick, real lux. [...] As a side note, if you're somebody who's sensitive to niacinamide, the cream from Cetaphil is still a good bet. It's really just a basic rich moisturizer. Great for face and body."

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"The Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream works really well on the face. It does have niacinamide for those of you who are sensitive."

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"The Cetaphil cream, I love this. It's $14.99 for the two jars and you can use it on the face too. If you get this now, it'll carry you through the rest of summer and probably into fall, unless you moisturize liberally like I do, in which case it'll run out sooner."

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"I love this, it's a perfect moisturizer size for travel. [...] The nice thing about it is [...] I can use it for both face and body, because I've learned the hard way not to trust [...] hotel lotion, it's basically tap water and some fragrance. [...] I like using it on my face, it's like a nice rich facial cream, and it works for the body too. It has niacinamide in it now, which I believe is a newer addition to this cream."

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"Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream is a great option. I suggest choosing a moisturizer that's free of fragrance, especially when priming the skin, and this is a fantastic option if you're able to tolerate it."

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"You get the two tubs, they're on sale this month, 19.99 for the Moisturizing Cream, originally for the two jars but now 14.99, five dollars off. I really like these."

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"This is a Cetaphil [...] Moisturizing Cream. I use it on my face and body and I really like that moisturizer."

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"The Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream is on sale and I love it, love it, love it. This is a great option especially if you're in the category of people who find that the CeraVe Moisturizing Cream, which I also adore, stings or burns."

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"I like the Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream. It's very emollient, it's got avocado oil in it, and it gives the skin a nice glowy look. It feels a little greasier compared to CeraVe, but I really like it."

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"Costco had the Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream, which was a really good deal there. [...] I'm making my way through these creams as body moisturizers and I like them, they're really good. [...] A basic moisturizer like this really goes a long way at improving the health of your skin."

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"Check out the Cetaphil in the tub, which I also love, like CeraVe. It's significantly cheaper than CeraVe here. I've always loved [...] CeraVe cream, but I have to say if you are on a tight budget and you are a Costco member, I would go with the Cetaphil one, because it's going to address dry skin and some people actually cannot get along with the CeraVe Moisturizing Cream, they find that it burns and stings."

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"This is another great product, [...] one of my favorites from Cetaphil. It's very similar in consistency to the CeraVe cream, maybe a little more emollient since it has sunflower seed oil and sweet almond oil, so if you have oily skin you may care for it less, and there are no ceramides in it. There's a bit more of an odor to it compared to CeraVe, but not an almondy smell. [...] It performs well on the face, though it does feel a bit oilier compared to CeraVe."

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Dr. Aleksandra Brown

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"It's hydration and comfort, not reconstruction. You want to think of it as a maintenance rather than a treatment. I think of this for that sensitive, reactive skin that wants reliable, uncomplicated hydration, the skin that isn't severely dry or super damaged, but really needs something that will genuinely tolerate every single day without any issue. The key ingredients here are your glycerin, panthenol, sweet almond oil, and vitamin E."

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"It's pretty thick occlusive cream designed to really deeply hydrate and protect really dry skin. [...] It's still rich but not greasy. It works really well for both face and the body. It is clinically proven to hydrate for up to 48 hours and fully restores skin moisture barrier. It is specifically formulated with a dermatologist backed blend of niacinamide or vitamin B3, panthenol which is your vitamin B5, and then hydrating glycerin to improve the resilience of sensitive skin."

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"Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream soothes and hydrates sensitive skin with a rich fast absorbing formula. It contains glycerin which moisturizes and softens the skin, has a little bit of vitamin B5 which will hydrate and soothe and preserve the skin barrier, and also contains niacinamide which is vitamin B3 to help smooth skin texture and retain skin moisture barrier."

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"For the sensitive skin, [...] the best time to moisturize is within 3 minutes of getting out of the shower, so while your skin is still damp. Just a plain moisturizer, I love things like Cetaphil moisturizers."

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"Plain Cetaphil moisturizer is so easy. You don't need to buy 10 things or have a moisturizer for face and then for your body, it's kind of a waste of your time and money at this point."

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"If you let it dry and you apply cream on top like Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream is what I've been using, just plain cream, you could totally use that. The Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream is really good for that."

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"The Cetaphil cream is a little bit thicker and a little bit more hydrating. If your skin is more on the dry side or in the winter months, cream is a little bit better option. The Cetaphil cream applies really nice, it does not have any smell to it, it spreads super easy, and you can put your clothes on pretty quick. It's not sticky at all."

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Doctorly

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"Cetaphil has incredible moisturizers."

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"You can use other just bland emollient fragrance-free moisturizers, something from CeraVe, from Cetaphil, from Neutrogena, something that's going to calm and soothe the skin."

Dr. Daniel Sugai

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"The Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream is a classic one. [...] I really come to like this one. And I love looking at the studies from Galerma looking at corneometry studies transepidermal water loss. It will minimize transepidermal water loss with their three key ingredients. You have niacinamide, glycerin and panthenol all working well together. Niacinamide helps regulate sebum, it helps repair the skin barrier in low concentrations."

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"The rival to [CeraVe] Moisturizing Cream would have to be Cetaphil's Moisturizing Cream that actually repairs the skin barrier in a different way. They use glycerin, a humectant. It uses niacinamide, or vitamin B3, which is soothing and will help repair the skin barrier. Plus, it uses panthenol, vitamin B5, and that one's a special ingredient that will help moisturize and hydrate and support the skin barrier."

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"Did you know you can use Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream on your face and your body? This is a nice affordable option for those with sensitive skin. It has panthenol, niacinamide, and glycerin."

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"I love Cetaphil's Moisturizing Cream. It has panthenol, niacinamide, and glycerin to help trap in moisture, but also hydrate the skin and help repair the skin barrier, especially during the winter time when it's really cold out. And when the heaters are on indoors, drying your skin out, you need a good moisturizer to trap in that moisture. And yes, you can use this on your face and body. Best time is to apply it after your showers."

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"It has hyaluronic acid as well so you've got the skin barrier component that's being repaired plus you have the hydration from the hyaluronic acid. Cetaphil does an excellent job with their vitamin B3 which is soothing, it can be anti-inflammatory, and it has panthenol which can be moisturizing and hydrating. [...] It also has glycerin in it as well which is humectant, it has almond oil and [...] sunflower seed oil as well. So all great moisturizing ingredients in Cetaphil."

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"My favorite moisturizers to slap on would be [CeraVe]'s Moisturizing Cream or Cetaphil's Moisturizing Cream. [...] Consider thicker textured moisturizers in the winter time or in the colder weather. Go from lotions that are in a pump like Cetaphil [CeraVe]. They have lotions that are great in a pump, but you might want to switch over to the cream in the tub in the winter time because that will be better at being occlusive and having a nice film over the top to lock in that hydration."

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"If you want a nice moisturizer for your face and body, Cetaphil has niacinamide. So their Moisturizing Cream or their lotion will have it in their products and you can use that either the cream or the lotion on your face and body. So that's a nice hack there that if you want just one product, nice moisturizing product, go ahead and get Cetaphil's Moisturizing Cream or moisturizing lotion."

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"Cetaphil's Moisturizing Cream is very nice, it definitely is nice for those with dry skin, eczema, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis. The consistency is a little different from CeraVe. I'd say they're both very good options. I love that they come in jars and they last forever. A little goes a long way."

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"I recommend Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream that has niacinamide in it. Versus CeraVe, they really like to lean on their three essential ceramides to help repair the skin barrier, but Cetaphil has found that their three main ingredients, glycerin, panthenol which is pro-vitamin B5, and their vitamin B3 aka niacinamide, work together in repairing the skin barrier. They've shown with tul meters that the transepidermal water loss has been decreased with the use of this Moisturizing Cream."

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"I just got back from a Vegas conference, the fall clinical conference at the Win Hotel and got some new updates, especially on an exciting product, a moisturizer by [Cetaphil]."

CYoung

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"If you have really dry, crusty skin on your body in winter, I highly recommend going with [...] a Cetaphil jar cream, or a repair version, that's a lot better."

Dr. Shereene Idriss

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"It's a very simple cream with a simple ingredient list, basically like Vaseline with a little bit more moisture in it. It's safe for sensitive skin, slightly on the thicker end, but it's really nice to use, especially if you're somebody who's very sensitive."

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"Cetaphil cream is great for people with eczema. Not only can you use this, it is a mix of white soft paraffin, white liquid paraffin, so vaseline and mineral oil, but also a lot of fatty alcohols, and as you can see it is extremely thick but feels much more lightweight than vaseline does on your skin and has a much better play time so it spreads more easily."

Dr. Mamina

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"I'm a big fan of Cetaphil. It's a great moisturizer with ingredients like ceramides, shea butter, petrolatum, dimethicone, colloidal oatmeal, glycerin, squalane, and sunflower oil, these are all great at moisturizing, hydrating, and soothing, and some of these occlusive ingredients can really help lock in that moisture."

Dr. Vanita Rattan

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"I like Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream. This is basically water, glycerin, petrolatum, and it's niacinamide safe."

Nipun Kapur

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"You do need to use some moisturizer whether it's Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream. It's a very hydrating formula."

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"You do need to use some moisturizer whether it's Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream. It's a very hydrating formula."

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"If your skin is super sensitive, you will have to take a break for one week and just use a basic [...] cream like Cetaphil and then just let your skin calm down."

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"I have personally never really had a good time with the standard super budget-friendly bulk moisturizers that a lot of people tend to recommend. I'm talking about things like cerave, cetaphil and qv. [...] These tend to come in really big pump bottles or in really big tubs. They do work for a lot of people, so I'd recommend giving them a try, especially if you have drier skin or if you live in a cool dry climate. But for me these tend to feel a bit greasy."

Kelly Driscoll

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"I usually buy the tub and use it as a body cream, but [...] I've never really loved the tub for face application. I don't [...] like digging into a giant tub of moisturizer, so the squeeze tube has been really helpful for face application because I can control the amount. It's a really simple, straightforward, sensitive skin cream, and it's very occlusive, which is exactly what I'm looking for in a fall morning routine."

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"The absorption on this is so incredibly fast, so incredibly quick. I absolutely adore this. It's designed for face and body. [...] I always look for a cream that has quick absorbency but lots of moisturization because I do have a dry body, dry and ashy body skin. And so, this has really quite a similar texture that I look for. I love that really neutral finish to this too because it's not wet, it's not heavy, it's not greasy."

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"It sinks into the skin so beautifully. It's not streaky. It's not heavy. It's not greasy. And it leaves my skin incredibly soft. Right out of the shower, this just absorbs on my skin beautifully. I've been talking about this for many years as well. I love this one. I like the size, too. It's about 550ish milliliters, so it's really great. Cetaphil is probably going to stay my main body moisturizer just due to value, bigger size, and slightly lower price."

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"This is what I call a head to toe cream. I use this on my face, I use it all over my body, I use it for my hands. I absolutely love this and this is something that I have been going back to for a few years now. It's a really nice barrier restorative cream. It doesn't have a focus on ceramides but it still is very protective with glycerin and niacinamide and all of that."

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"It's moisturizing, it's occlusive and protective and holds the hydration in place, but what's really beautiful about it is it's not a heavy, dense, really rich type of cream. It's not overwhelming and like feeling like it's suffocating your skin. It's pretty light and breathable for packing a lot of protection and moisture in. It is a very simple, very gentle formula, and that is something that I really appreciate in all my skincare products."

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"This is a great drugstore find that I think is a fantastic hyaluronic acid-free competitor. They are using glycerin and panthenol to really get that hydrating element into the moisturizer, but then they're balancing it out with some more emollient ingredients. There's sunflower and sweet almond oils in here, and then the occlusivity factor with dimethicone and petrolatum, and that's what really helps to seal everything in. I love this cream texture."

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"This is the Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream. I love this. This is a great head-to-toe cream. This is great for the face, but I particularly love it as a body moisturizer. This is really the body moisturizer that I use when I get out of the shower. It's got this amazing texture because it is a cream, but it's not like the type of cream that leaves white streaks on your body. It's almost like a balmy type of cream."

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"I do also like Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream I find this to have a little bit of a lighter feel than cvey it's still very protective it's occlusive I think it's still um good"

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"The Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream, love love love this stuff. It's so straightforward but that's what I like about it. It's actually quite occlusive without being really heavy. There's not a lot of weight to this and it absorbs in the skin like a dream. This is actually something I do use on my face but I love it as a body moisturizer because it absorbs so quickly into the skin."

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"I've been using this since 2018, before it got super hype and popular. It's just that good, such a staple for me, especially in this season. I love Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream, it's pretty much in all my empties videos because I do like this for face, but I love this as a body moisturizer. I always call it a head to toe cream because this works so well, and it's also more affordable."

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"It has the perfect texture that just sinks into your skin immediately with no white streaks, no weird greasy residue at the top of your skin. It absorbs in, but it's moisturizing enough and it has this really silky velvety finish that is so good. [...] It's super moisturizing for dry skin. It's occlusive, so it holds in moisture, especially if you're locking in [...] hydration and plumpness. [...] You can put it on damp skin and it just locks it all in really beautifully. It's long lasting."

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"This is such a simple drugstore moisturizer but that's actually what I really like in moisturizers. I like really simple, to-the-point kinds of creams and I really like to see a mix of humectants, those hydrating kind of water-binding ingredients, emollients, and I like a good amount of occlusivity so that just hugs and seals everything in. And this does exactly that in like the simplest, straightforward formulation."

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"Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream has niacinamide and panthenol and glycerin to restore your skin barrier and provide 48 hours of lasting hydration. For dry skin, I am recommending the Moisturizing Cream over a lotion because creams are more hydrating and tend to be more lightweight lotions."