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About this product

A rich, ceramide-based moisturizing cream designed for dry skin, eczema, and sensitive skin conditions, formulated with niacinamide, shea butter, and plant oils to repair and restore the skin barrier.

Full ingredients

Aqua/​Water/​Eau, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter/​Shea Butter, Glycerin, Dimethicone, Niacinamide, Cetearyl Alcohol, Brassica Campestris Oleifera Oil /​ Rapeseed Seed Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate, PEG-100 Stearate, Propanediol, Ophiopogon Japonicus Root Extract, Ceramide NP, Sorbitan Tristearate, Dimethiconol, PEG-20 Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate, Sodium Chloride, Mannose, Coco-Betaine, Disodium EDTA, Capryloyl Glycine, Caprylyl Glycol, Vitreoscilla Ferment, Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Xanthan Gum, Tocopherol, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate

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What the gurus are saying

This cream's thick, emollient formula makes it a standout for eczema and deeply dry skin, with gurus praising its ceramides and barrier-repairing lipids for calming inflammation and relieving raw, irritated patches. The trade-off is real: the texture is so heavy that some find it works better on the body than the face, and the pump struggles once the jar depletes, meaning you'll need to scoop out the last portions by hand. Best applied to damp skin right after showering, and worth the investment if you have eczema or winter-dry skin, though one dermatologist found it overpriced for what it delivers.
Synthesized from 15 expert reviews · most recent take October 2026

What they liked

  • Rich, deeply hydrating formula
  • Non-sticky, absorbs without greasiness
  • Pump dispenser, easy to use

What they flagged

  • Too thick for most faces
  • Can feel tacky on bedding and clothing
  • Too heavy outside winter months

Type

MoisturizersCream

Key actives

NiacinamideVitamin ECeramides

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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What the gurus are saying.

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✓Yay
"I reviewed and liked the La Roche-Posay Lipikar. I believe it's 10% urea."
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"The triple repair moisturizing cream I really like it has niacinamide which is good for the moisture barrier. It's really good if you have atopic dermatitis because it helps with barrier replenishment. Ceramide in it as well, lipids which are naturally found in your skin barrier. It's not greasy and it's great if you've got raw, rashy eczema that's flared up. It's not sticky."
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"I do think that you can get improvement in the symptoms of sensitivity using this as well and it's a lot less expensive. Life has gotten very expensive so I don't think choosing this over those is cutting any corners in terms of your skin care and it's going to save you a lot of money."
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"It's formulated for people who have atopic dermatitis and it even has the National Eczema Association seal on it. [...] I love the consistency and it's free of fragrance, which is beneficial if you have eczema because you may be more likely to have issues with fragrance. It has ceramides, which are really good for helping improve the production of lipids in skin's outermost layer, and it also has niacinamide, which is really good for barrier recovery."
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"This I love. This is one of La Roche-Posay's best products and it's really good if you have windburn. [...] I only use it situationally to cut down on chafing from running, [...] but if I get any kind of irritation on the face it's great. [...] When you're putting it on it's almost like you're putting on sunscreen, like a zinc sunscreen, but it does rub in and doesn't leave any kind of white cast, maybe a little bit of white film, but it definitely creates a nice protective layer."
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"L'Oreal's Lipikar AP moisturizer is really good. You can use this on the face and the body. It has niacinamide in it which is good for redness and hyperpigmentation. It's more lightweight in comparison to that Aveeno itch relief balm but it's very rich."
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"La Roche-Posay Lipikar line is great, the lotion, the moisturizer. You can use it on the face. I'm not talking about the Urea one. I think you can use that Urea one on the face as well, but the Lipikar moisturizer is great."
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"It's going to help with barrier recovery. The thing about this pump [...] is it's slow, you push down, takes forever for it to come back up. You get a pump and there's nothing left in there, it's not a big generous dollop. You're sitting here waiting for this thing to pop back up. It is a pain. Go with the tube packaging if you can find it in this product."
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"The coplas balm from La Roche-Posay is also a dimethicone skin protectant which I love. [...] The dimethicone is a skin protectant so it helps limit penetration of irritating things, it reduces transepidermal water loss, and it definitely has a smoothing effect. It also has like a pore blurring effect. It has a definite powder finish to it. It's not as amazing as the glycerin skin protectant around the eyes but it's definitely impressive."
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"I love La Roche-Posay's Lipikar, this works really well as a body and face moisturizer. It has niacinamide in it so be aware of that if you're sensitive to it. This is a great option too if you have hyperpigmentation, like on the body, under the arms, in sensitive areas where you have skin on skin contact, rather than using typical skin brightening ingredients like glycolic acid which can be too irritating in the skin folds."
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"I reviewed and liked the La Roche-Posay Lipikar. I believe it's 10% urea."
✓Yay
"Some of my favorite thicker moisturizers would be La Roche-Posay's Lipikar AP+ moisturizer. It's one that both of us love."
Top Pick: heavy winter moisturizer
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"La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ moisturizer I think is one that you'll really enjoy if you have more mature dry skin."
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"La Roche-Posay is one of my favorite moisturizers for dry skin. Their Lipikar line is phenomenal."
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"I was at the point where my skin barrier was pretty irritated, I was using some of my favorites even La Roche-Posay triple moisturizing cream, their double repair facial moisturizing cream, soothing healing ointment, and even those were kind of burny and stingy, but this was not. So this has become a staple in my repair skincare routine now."
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"We're gonna go with L Ro POS lip balm what do I like about that minimalistic extremely hydrating it's a bit of a thicker base I feel like the wax Esters are particularly prominent that's a top tier one"
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"When it comes to moisturizers, you look at the ingredients, but it's really the performance for me that really hits home. [...] This product definitely lasts all day, especially if you have dry skin. Now this is not for somebody who has oily skin, especially on the face, but somebody who has dry skin, it's a phenomenal product that's really going to last all day for you. [...] It has ceramide, shea butter, and glycerin, but mostly it's the performance over using it over a long period of time."
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"Mine is going to be still the La Roche-Posay triple repair moisturizing cream. Use it all the time. It's thick and great. I still have empties of it."
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"Some of my favorite thicker moisturizers would be La Roche-Posay's Lipikar AP+ moisturizer. It's one that both of us love."
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"At first I was like maybe this is too heavy for me, I don't love it as much, but as my skin gets drier with age and considering the size of the bottle and the price of the bottle, I am becoming more and more obsessed with this product. It locks in hydration all day, all night. It doesn't feel too greasy after it rubs in. It blends better than the Cicaplast balm. [...] It's lighter than the Cicaplast balm, and because of that, I think it's more generalizably tolerable."
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"If you have dry skin, the triple moisturizing cream from La Roche-Posay is lights out and thick."
✓Yay
"One of my favorite body moisturizers for eczema would be La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M, that works on the microbiome. There is a disregulation of the microbiome when it comes to eczema. You're going to be able to increase proteins to fight the bad bacteria that's causing inflammation and also upregulate good bacteria to help protect the skin barrier. You can actually use it to slug your cuticles for nail health. [...] You can also slug your face before going to sleep or starting off your day."
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"One of my favorite body moisturizers for eczema would be La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M, that works on the microbiome. There is a disregulation of the microbiome when it comes to eczema. You're going to be able to increase proteins to fight the bad bacteria that's causing inflammation and also upregulate good bacteria to help protect the skin barrier. You can actually use it to slug your cuticles for nail health. [...] You can also slug your face before going to sleep or starting off your day."
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"The Lipikar AP+M really helps with restoring the microbiome of your skin, all the billions of bacteria on your skin. It will help rebalance it because the European scientists are really in tune to the microbiome, [...] not just in the gut but also on our skin. When things are off you can [...] get into bad things like psoriasis or even like overgrowth of bacteria in the skin folds. [...] The Lipikar AP+M moisturizing cream has evidence behind it."
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"It's very hydrating, it's very moisturizing, and it actually has been shown in studies to help supplement your biologics or systemic oral medications for your axillary atopic dermatitis. I saw a TikTok the other day of someone with really bad hand eczema and she said she went through all the different hand moisturizers [...] but the one that worked best for her, the one that helped heal her eczema, was the Lipikar AP plus M by La Roche-Posay. I stand by that one, that's a great one."
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"If you have very dry skin or eczema, atopic dermatitis, you can check out their Lipikar balm AP+ or AP+ M, and one of my favorite moisturizers out there. That's one of my favorite body moisturizers, especially for my patients with eczema or atopic dermatitis. What I love about La Roche-Posay is that they always answer the why. Why do I recommend their skin care products to my patients? They will back it up with evidence, data, research."
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"If you can get the AP plus M, that really is great because it's going to work on upregulating good bacteria, down regulating the bad bacteria, and it promotes a nice healthy microbiome balance on your skin. So it's going to be moisturizing, plus it's going to work on the skin's microbiome, which we need to work on more as we progress with new products. They have nice studies that I was able to review. It really works well with prescription medications I would prescribe for eczema."
✓Yay
"As well as the Cetaphil gentle cleanser and the color line from Lar Ro Pose."
✓Yay
"It's just a really thick body cream. [...] This one's got shea butter, paraffin, as well as dimethicone. Paraffin is great for hydrating skin. Dimethicone is a great silicone protecting ingredient as well. Fragrance-free. Love that stuff."
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"I love this product because it is so thick. My complaint is that it's so thick that once it gets down to that empty, you will be manually removing the rest until it's empty, which is kind of annoying. [...] But when you've got something so thick, I think a squeeze tube would help. I always go for the pump because I love the pump. No messing with caps, flipping any of that stuff. But it is a little bit annoying when you get to the bottom. Otherwise, this is so thick and creamy and hydrating."
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"I found because of that it got a little bit difficult to dispense the very very end of it but overall this stuff's wonderful. I will repurchase this stuff again. It's a wonderful very thick calming body moisturizer you can use on your face or neck or hands or wherever. Very nice, very effective, gets the job done for moisture, especially when you live in Minnesota in the winter. It's super cold, I got a lot this month."
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"With this stuff, I've never had to do that. It's so nice and thick and hydrating. The main ingredients are water, shea butter, dimethicone, glycerin, niacinamide, and then some other ingredients, but it has no scent to it. It's really nice and pretty affordable. It's really nice, thick and creamy and soothing and calming. I really love this stuff and I'm sure some of you have talked about it before. This is a repurchase. Multiple times I've repurchased it. Love it."
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"This is my current go-to moisturizer at night time, the La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream. [...] It's really nice, although I will say it's kind of sticky. [...] I get out of the shower, I instantly put this serum on, [...] give it a minute to soak in, then I apply this because the serum is pretty dry, it's not enough. I find this one to be kind of sticky though."
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"The L Ro POS lip aare AP this stuff is very very thick and does a nice job. The exciting ingredients are shea butter, mineral oil, niacinamide, grape seed oil. The main thing is the mineral oil in a lot of them because it's so hydrating, so that stuff's really nice. God it's heavy."
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"La Roche-Posay can be hit or miss when it comes to fragrance, so keep that in mind. But in general, their fragrance-free products are wonderful. Their Lipikar line is great. There's a couple of body moisturizers from them that are wonderful. Their body cleansers are great. So look for the blue and white products, those are the ones that are made for sensitive skin from this brand. And it can get on sale at Ulta, which is even better."
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"It has no noticeable scent to it and the manufacturing location for this one is France. [...] It is very very sticky after you apply it. It [...] certainly does hydrate for a couple days. [...] I typically use it after showering at night and if I apply this alone a little bit does not go a long way. However, what I found is I apply this over a light serum, [...] so I'll apply a super light layer of this over my skin and then a little bit of this tends to go a long way and does the trick."
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"It's just a really thick body cream. [...] This one's got shea butter, paraffin, as well as dimethicone. Paraffin is great for hydrating skin. Dimethicone is a great silicone protecting ingredient as well. Fragrance-free. Love that stuff."
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"The La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream is great for super dry skin and winter weather. It's got shea butter, paraffin oil, dimethicone, and niacinamide. No scent to it. It's a wonderful lotion."
✓Yay
"My holy grail moisturizer for dry body skin is La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M. The emollients in this cream, like shea butter and plant oils, soften the skin and fill in the gaps between dry skin cells, which is why the skin feels almost instantly smoother. This cream also contains ceramides, which are lipids naturally found in your skin that help repair and restore your skin barrier over time."
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"My holy grail moisturizer for dry body skin is La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M. The emollients in this cream, like shea butter and plant oils, soften the skin and fill in the gaps between dry skin cells, which is why the skin feels almost instantly smoother. This cream also contains ceramides, which are lipids naturally found in your skin that help repair and restore your skin barrier over time."
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"My number one product that I use to moisturize my body for years now and I have not found anything better honestly, I'm not even looking. This is the product by La Roche-Posay, the triple repair moisturizing cream, cream not the lotion form but the cream form of this product. [...] Lotions are the thinnest, least hydrating. Creams are more thick and more hydrating, then you have balms and ointments which are the heaviest."
✓Yay
"Another popular pick for dry skin is the La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+. It contains natural skin ceramides."
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"Another popular pick for dry skin is the La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+. It contains natural skin ceramides."
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"The microcrystalline wax gives it a lot of body. I think this is a great product if you have dry skin, if you have compromised skin, if you're dealing with eczema, or if you're [...] starting to see signs of aging, it will help restore the integrity of your skin and prevent your skin barrier from breaking down, so it's super amazing for the skin barrier. [...] It doesn't have a sticky finish and it repairs dry skin."
✓Yay
"Their Lipikar moisturizer is great for the winter"
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"La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M retails for 20 bucks. I first mentioned it probably a couple years back when I first recommended moisturizers for eczema and dry skin, and to this day it's still one of the products that we use regularly in my household, especially during the winter time. I love the formula, the cream formula that's really suitable to use in the winter, especially if you yourself or your kids and your family members struggle with dry and eczema-prone skin."
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"Their Lipikar moisturizer is great for the winter"
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"If you're looking for a moisturizer that's even creamier, I recommend checking out La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M. This is one that we use in our family during the winter for a few reasons. Number one, it's a nourishing cream that is really moisturizing but not super greasy, heavy, or thick. It comes in a pump that's really easy to dispense, making bathtime routines when you have little kids so much more convenient."
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"I am a huge fan of the Lipikar line in general. [...] The Lipikar AP+M is our go-to moisturizer for the entire family during the winter. I love it for a few reasons. It's a big bottle that's in a pump style so really easy to dispense. I literally pump a couple handfuls after bathing my kids and just lather them in the moisturizer. It has wonderful ingredients including La Roche-Posay thermal spring water that we know is soothing and calming, glycerin, shea butter, and niacinamide."
✓Yay
"It really helps to relieve itch, dryness, irritation. It really calms your skin if it's a little angry. I love using this on my legs and my arms and my chest because of how moisturizing it is. It does give a little bit of a greasiness to the skin, but it's not super greasy where you couldn't wear this during the day. You will have a little bit of a shine to your skin, which I think looks really nice if you have like a sleeveless top on or you're wearing shorts."
✓Yay
"Lara blast is best for a broken Skin Barrier"
✓Nay
"It is a safe product. It's okay, it's just not great. As expensive as it is for what it is, so for me it's just a no. The other important thing to look for is a cost benefit analysis. So if you have a decent product but it's coming in at £100, then it's not going to be worth it. It's not something I'm going to recommend for you. I'm going to recommend something that's cheaper because that's what it's worth."
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"It is a safe product. It's okay, it's just not great. As expensive as it is for what it is, so for me it's just a no. The other important thing to look for is a cost benefit analysis. So if you have a decent product but it's coming in at £100, then it's not going to be worth it. It's not something I'm going to recommend for you. I'm going to recommend something that's cheaper because that's what it's worth."
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"I really like this one, the La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M. It's quite fatty, which is nice. Really great for children as well. A lot of kids have eczema, and I would highly highly recommend this product. It is a bit expensive, but you know, it's a big bottle. [...] If they have the extra and you don't mind spending the money, it's great."
✓Yay
"This is one of my all-time favorite body lotions for people who have super dry skin. I find that if someone has super dry skin they're reaching for creams that come in a tub that are really thick, but oftentimes something gets lost in the application experience. To me this is such a good balance of something that's rich and nourishing and hydrating but not particularly thick or sticky. It's designed to be a face and body moisturizer, but I do find it works a little bit better on the body."
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"This is one of my all-time favorite body lotions for people who have super dry skin. I find that if someone has super dry skin they're reaching for creams that come in a tub that are really thick, but oftentimes something gets lost in the application experience. To me this is such a good balance of something that's rich and nourishing and hydrating but not particularly thick or sticky. It's designed to be a face and body moisturizer, but I do find it works a little bit better on the body."
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"One of my top recommendations is the La Roche-Posay Lipikar Balm. This can actually be used on the face and the body, but it is quite thick, so there are a lot of people where they're just not going to love the feel of this on their face. But for the body, it is so rich and nourishing, and I always recommend this for my eczema or dry skin prone patients."
✓Mixed
"It's really, really good for super dry skin. I'm 52, my skin's a lot drier now. If you have really dry, scaly skin, this is brilliant. It is super thick, super emollient, and it does a fantastic job. Now there's a downside to the fact that it's super, super thick and super emollient. The pump sucks. It is so thick that by the time you get to about here you can't get the product out anymore. It's just not working. So then you have to unscrew the top and take it out with a beauty scoop."
✓Yay
"I love La Roche-Posay Lipikar really, my like one of my favorite moisturizers, and I'll use it top to toe. I'll do that in the morning after I have a shower and I'll do it in the evening as well. I'll usually have a very short quick shower [...] and then I'll apply it on slightly damp skin. [...] You want to get it on and always go downwards, don't do lots of rubbing up and down because you might trap the hairs on your body and get little bumps everywhere."
✓Yay
"Now, this is truly one of the richest, thickest, most moisturizing, most protective cream I personally have ever used. Now, as I've mentioned a few times, I have combination skin. In cold weather, it goes extremely dry, especially in the depths of winter. Where I live in the Midwest, our winters can be quite harsh and so it really affects my skin. My skin goes nearly classically dry. I can use this and it brings so much relief and so much soothing to my skin and the rest of the year."
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"If you have combination skin that does not feel dry, don't touch this cream. I have sort of a love-hate with this one. In the winter I really like it, I love it, my skin enjoys it so much. In any other season it's way too heavy for me, it's too thick and it can actually sometimes cause some congestion on my skin when I use it in the wrong season. But it is a really great dry skin moisturizer, it's fantastic for your skin barrier because the ingredients are very minimal."
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"This one has more shea butter in it and is a little bit more focused on helping your skin barrier. There's some thermal water that contains really great vitamins and minerals for your skin that help to support that overall healthy skin barrier function. It has a thicker texture here, more of a cream texture than a lotion. So if your hands are really really dry and ailing, this is a great one and a nice formula that comes in a pump."
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"I've been doing a lot this winter is mixing in a little small amount of the triple repair moisturizing cream from La Roche-Posay. This is such a nourishing, really moisturizing, quite thick and heavy cream that feels so good when my skin is really really dry. It's not always the most appropriate for my skin which fluctuates with the seasons, so sometimes I like to just balance out that really heavier texture with a more medium texture."
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"It's like a very concentrated period of time towards the end of December and like up till middle January depending on how the weather holds out, [...] where this moisturizer is the goat, the greatest of all time for my extremely dry skin. I'm also a retinoid user, [...] and this really works for that. But as soon as we move slightly out of that very narrow period and my combo skin balances out even just a little bit more, [...] this becomes too heavy for me."
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"This is really thick, this is really moisturizing, it's very healing. [...] On the first use I was like, yes, this is what my skin was craving. I didn't realize it right away, but I'm glad that I stayed open to that because this has caused me whiteheads in the past when it's too much for my skin. But trying it out now, when my skin really needs this amount of moisture, I'm not getting those whiteheads like I was before. [...] This has really been helping me out."
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"I like to just mix a little bit into the lighter creams just to give it a little bit more fluffiness, a little bit more protective quality to it, a little bit more heft, and that really brings the moisture back into my skin and protects it."
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"I'm going in for the La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream. My skin is so dry and I don't always use this moisturizer because I have said in the past that it does sometimes give me some congestion, so I am tempting a little bit. But I have to say my dryness is overriding my desire for less congestion on my skin. This is something that I've been doing a few nights a week just to really amp up the moisture and the protection, and that just feels so good."
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"It really takes down that sensitivity, that raw, itchy feeling that you can sometimes get when your skin is just so dry, when it's so dehydrated. It really replenishes my skin. It's very protective for my skin. It's very restorative. For my skin it's just really thick, so it may not be for everybody. A secondary use for this one is actually it makes a fantastic body cream."
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"Now, this is truly one of the richest, thickest, most moisturizing, most protective cream I personally have ever used. Now, as I've mentioned a few times, I have combination skin. In cold weather, it goes extremely dry, especially in the depths of winter. Where I live in the Midwest, our winters can be quite harsh and so it really affects my skin. My skin goes nearly classically dry. I can use this and it brings so much relief and so much soothing to my skin and the rest of the year."

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

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

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

A rich, ceramide-based moisturizing cream designed for dry skin, eczema, and sensitive skin conditions, formulated with niacinamide, shea butter, and plant oils to repair and restore the skin barrier.

Is La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream worth it?

Mostly yes. 13 of the 15 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 88%.

What is La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream's Guru Score?

La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream holds a Guru Score of 88%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 15 expert reviewers we have collected. It is also Guru Certified, our mark for products that hold broad approval across many expert reviewers.

Who is La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream best for?

La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream is generally suited to dry skin and sensitive skin.

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