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Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum.

About this product

Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum is a lightweight antioxidant serum featuring idebenone and berry extracts designed to protect skin from environmental stressors.

Full ingredients

Purified Water, Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry) Fruit Extract (67,500Ppm), Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract (67,500Ppm), Vaccinium Angustifolium (Blueberry) Fruit Extract (67,500Ppm), Glycerin, Caprylic/​Capric Triglyceride, Glycereth-26, 1,2-Hexanediol, Butylene Glycol, Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate, Hydroxydecyl Ubiquinone (1000Ppm), Hydrogenated Lecithin, Arginine, Carbomer, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caprylyl Glycol

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Guru Score

82%

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Early verdict · Few reviews so far

What the gurus are saying

Idebenone earns praise for potent antioxidant protection against pollution and UV damage, keeping skin from the slow toll of environmental stress on the moisture barrier and collagen. The serum is lightweight and affordable, though its light texture means it won't deliver the hydration some need for daytime or winter use. Those after moisture support may want something richer.
Synthesized from 4 expert reviews · most recent take May 2026

What they liked

  • Light texture, absorbs quickly
  • Potent antioxidant blend with idebenone
  • Affordable price point

What they flagged

  • Not hydrating enough for winter or dry skin

Type

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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What the gurus are saying.

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"So if your skin is looking unhealthy, uneven, if it's looking dull and lifeless, this is a great serum for that because it's going to give you that really gorgeous little glow up to your complexion. [...] It has a really thin, runny, slightly watery consistency, but as it absorbs, you're just going to feel just a tiny kiss of moisture. It's not quite like an oil. There is a little bit of emollency here. That is the idebenone."
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"So if your skin is looking unhealthy, uneven, if it's looking dull and lifeless, this is a great serum for that because it's going to give you that really gorgeous little glow up to your complexion. [...] It has a really thin, runny, slightly watery consistency, but as it absorbs, you're just going to feel just a tiny kiss of moisture. It's not quite like an oil. There is a little bit of emollency here. That is the idebenone."
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"Mary and May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum has idebenone, which is a very potent antioxidant ingredient that is really fantastic to help protect your skin from environmental stressors, pollution, and UV damage. Antioxidants can be a really helpful supportive ingredient for just healthy skin in general, and for a well-aging journey definitely antioxidants have their place. They're a great supportive ingredient for anybody's skincare routine just because they're so protective for the skin."
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"I think it's actually pretty exciting that Mary and may has created like an antioxidant only you know type of serum where they're focusing in on one that we don't hear about a lot but is actually quite potent"
✓Yay
"Their blackberry idebenone serum, wonderful."
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"Their blackberry idebenone serum, wonderful."
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"This stuff is really nice, it's really light which is wonderful. It contains several amazing antioxidants which are great. It's good one for your morning routine to help protect your skin from free radical damage. It's got idebenone which is a super strong antioxidant made from coq10 or ubiquinone and it's a little bit stronger version."
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"The Mary and May Idebenone Blackberry serum, I don't know what happened to it, I spent like an hour looking for it, maybe I finished it and I just didn't remember. Mary and May all of their serums are absolutely wonderful. The Idebenone Blackberry one is my absolute favorite from the collection. All their serums that I've tried are fragrance-free and unscented. It's only $16 and at YesStyle it's actually on sale right now for like seven bucks."
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"This contains some amazing fruits, blackberry 20% blackberry extract, which is an amazing antioxidant skin protecting ingredient. We've got blueberry and then we've also got idebenone, which is an amazing antioxidant that also protects your skin. It's really nice. It's usually about nine bucks for the bottle and no fragrance or anything like that, and it's really quite nice."
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"Mary and May has a lot of different serums in their lineup and they're all winners. So far I found I like all of them. They're all fragrance free. This stuff is really great. Idebenone, great antioxidant. Blackberry and all those good fruits that are good to eat, they're good for your skin too, and really good for brightening your skin up. So this one's really wonderful, very easy to fit in your routine and super affordable."
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"We've got the Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry serum. Obviously we've got idebenone which is a super strong version of CoQ10, blackberry, blueberry, and açai berry."
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"This has more antioxidants. Idebenone is a super strong antioxidant, blackberry and some of those fruit extracts, especially some of the berries like blueberry and things like that are great for your skin. And this one's also pretty affordable, super light texture, and I really enjoy this one. The reason I changed from this one is I wanted something a little bit more hydrating."
✓Yay
"This antioxidant serum, I didn't expect to love as much as I do. It's got idebenone and blackberry complex with anthocyanin rich fruit extracts such as blackberry which makes up 20% of this as well as blueberry. It contains a good amount of idebenone, which is an ingredient that's actually really popular in Korean beauty and I just feel is quite underrated."
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"It contains one thousand parts per million of idebenone along with twenty percent blackberry complex, combined with blackberry, acai and blueberry, so you're really getting a complex antioxidant rich formula. I love a short ingredients list like this because we can really figure out what's going on. [...] This is one of their most popular products."
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Frequently asked.

What is Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum?

Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum is a lightweight antioxidant serum featuring idebenone and berry extracts designed to protect skin from environmental stressors.

Is Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum worth it?

Yes. All 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 82%.

What is Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum's Guru Score?

Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum holds a Guru Score of 82%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.

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