Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum: Guru Score 69%

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Hyram

4.33M subs

~Yay

"I'm a really big fan of some of their products, like their avocado recovery"

All 6 takes from Hyram

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"I'm a really big fan of some of their products, like their avocado recovery"

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"This is very visibly meant to mimic and look like glow recipe with their avocado recovery serum which is actually my personal favorite glow recipe product"

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"I personally love the Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum. If you have a wrecked moisture barrier, struggle with redness or sensitivity, you want to really hydrate and nourish your skin with a luxury product, this is definitely the product to go with. I've used that serum so many times. It's a great one."

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"I recently featured Glow Recipe in my best serums of 2022 video, I talked about their avocado glow recovery serum, love that one."

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"It doesn't have undisclosed fragrance, which I absolutely love. [...] I've used this during the daytime as well as nighttime, [...] and it always feels amazing because it's a lightweight textured serum that packs a punch for nourishment and hydration [...] without feeling too heavy or greasy. Overall, I'm really impressed with this formulation. I think they did an amazing job."

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"The Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum took me by surprise, I love this formula. Compared to Crave Beauty's Great Barrier Relief, some people say that can be really heavy, and I'd say this is an awesome alternative if you want a more lightweight experience. It has great ingredients like avocado oil and ceramides to deeply nourish the skin, and it's great if you struggle with any skin sensitivity or redness."

AliceintheRabbitHole

59k subs

~Nay

"This is the Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum, and [...] this never did it for me. I [...] like ceramides, I really do, but [...] I can't quite tell you why I'm not the biggest fan of this one. It's just [...] another fine product, [...] and forty five dollars for fine, no, I'd rather pay that for something great."

Nipun Kapur

412k subs

~Yay

"The second product that I want to talk about is a product viral and is a big favorite with people who have like really sensitive skin and that is the avocado serum, this is the ceramide avocado ceramide serum by Glow Recipe."

No BS Beauty

89k subs

~Yay

"This one's 45 bucks, and it's got ceramides, vitamin E, avocado oil, cholesterol, turmeric, green tea, vitamin C derivative, and squalane petate. It's really nice. Although it does have some fragrant extracts, it is unscented but is not fragrance free, there is a big difference there."

All 4 takes from No BS Beauty

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"The Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum, which is 45 bucks, has ceramides, avocado oil, turmeric, rice bran oil, ginger, and green tea. Ginger extract is great for soothing skin."

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"This one's really nice. We've got ceramides, avocado, bisabolol, vitamin E, peptides, turmeric, and rice bran oil. It does contain fragrant extracts from lavender, sandalwood, and jasmine, but they're not really noticeable, which is nice. But they're still in there, so if you're sensitive to any of those ingredients, keep that one in mind. When they make a decent product, even if it's expensive, it's still worth mentioning because some people might want to try it out."

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"Glow Recipe has a lot of different avocado products, and this is my favorite of them. It's their avocado soothing skin barrier serum with ceramides. The reason this one is my favorite is because it has a couple fragrant extracts, but the scent isn't noticeable, so that's why I picked this one over their other avocado products."

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"This one's 45 bucks, and it's got ceramides, vitamin E, avocado oil, cholesterol, turmeric, green tea, vitamin C derivative, and squalane petate. It's really nice. Although it does have some fragrant extracts, it is unscented but is not fragrance free, there is a big difference there."

Kelly Driscoll

91k subs

~Mixed

"I do like the Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum and I have used it quite a bit, but while it's technically fragrance-free, when you look at the ingredients you don't see the word fragrance but there are actually a lot of plant extracts in here that do contribute to scent, and so I do hesitate to recommend this for everybody."

All 2 takes from Kelly Driscoll

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"I do like the Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum and I have used it quite a bit, but while it's technically fragrance-free, when you look at the ingredients you don't see the word fragrance but there are actually a lot of plant extracts in here that do contribute to scent, and so I do hesitate to recommend this for everybody."

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"I do like this product, I use this product, it feels amazing on my skin, I love the texture, it's very elegant and that kiss of richness is beautiful for me. But there are quite a few plant extracts in here, and when you have very sensitive skin it's a lot to navigate and it may not be worth trying out because if you do get irritation it's going to be impossible to know what irritated your skin. There are quite a few fragrant plant extracts in here, lavender, sandalwood."

Dr. Vanita Rattan

1.23M subs

~Nay

"The positives are it has got glycerin in it, it's just not as much as I'd like. [...] It's got ceramides in it but I would say not enough. My skin is not enjoying it. And then it's got oats in it which is anti-inflammatory, which okay fair enough, I can actually feel the cooling effect on the skin. The negatives of this are the fragrance, and it cost £26 for 150 mls."

James Welsh

1.58M subs

~Yay

"I really enjoy this serum, but this is the serum I wish was a moisturizer. If this was just a little bit thicker, this would be the ideal evening moisturizer. As the weather gets colder and my skin sometimes needs this recovery stage, I love that bit of extra attention and healing ability that I can sleep on overnight with a thicker layer on my face. But it's a perfectly nice ceramide serum stage."

All 2 takes from James Welsh

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"I use my Glow Recipe Avocado Serum. It's super hydrating."

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"I really enjoy this serum, but this is the serum I wish was a moisturizer. If this was just a little bit thicker, this would be the ideal evening moisturizer. As the weather gets colder and my skin sometimes needs this recovery stage, I love that bit of extra attention and healing ability that I can sleep on overnight with a thicker layer on my face. But it's a perfectly nice ceramide serum stage."

Dr. Shereene Idriss

1.73M subs

~Yay

"If I had to pick one product out of their lineup, it would be the Avocado Ceramide. This is 45 dollars. It is really, really great if you're looking for a hydrating serum. It's just yummy when you apply it and it melts into your skin so beautifully without leaving any sort of residual tackiness or stickiness. It has ceramides, it has allantoin, and it is very soothing and calming."

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All 2 takes from Dr. Shereene Idriss

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"If you are somebody who has a lot of redness in your skin it might be worth a try, especially if you're red and dry because the green hue is just going to help counteract the redness. However, I do not love the fact that it's [...] semi-translucent because you can see the product in it, so my question is does this break down because of light exposure over time. I appreciate the pump very much, so I just wish they had an opaque lining to their container."

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"If I had to pick one product out of their lineup, it would be the Avocado Ceramide. This is 45 dollars. It is really, really great if you're looking for a hydrating serum. It's just yummy when you apply it and it melts into your skin so beautifully without leaving any sort of residual tackiness or stickiness. It has ceramides, it has allantoin, and it is very soothing and calming."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Niacinamide

Niacinamide has evidence behind it for redness, uneven tone and supporting the skin barrier, and it is usually well tolerated even by skin that reacts to most things.

Source: DermNet

Ceramides

Ceramides are part of the skin's own barrier, and moisturisers built around them have evidence for holding water in and settling the tightness and flaking that come with a damaged barrier.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Frequently asked.

What is Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum?

A hydrating serum with ceramides, avocado oil, and soothing plant extracts designed to calm redness and support a compromised moisture barrier.

Is Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum worth it?

The gurus are split. 5 of the 8 gurus give it their stamp of approval while 2 would skip it, which lands it in the middle at a Guru Score of 69%.

What is Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum's Guru Score?

Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum holds a Guru Score of 69%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 8 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.