What No BS Beauty recommends and skips: 1,148 products reviewed

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Serums275 reviews

"I also love their soybean serum, which is a really nice plumping serum, hydrating serum, and anti-aging serum. This one's really great for your skin, so I really appreciate this."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum

"I love this stuff. It is expensive, but it is a favorite of mine. I try to use it very minimally. [...] I really use this sparingly, so I make one of these bottles last a few months because I don't apply it all over. I just apply it where I notice the most fine lines and wrinkles, [...] and it does seem to help with fine lines and wrinkles. [...] I have not found a good dupe per se."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum 2:1

"The NIOD water-based copper peptide serum [...] is very watery, basically a liquid, so you can put it right onto your skin the next day after micro-needling. [...] It soaks in really quick, the water texture is nice, and I find it really helps calm my skin and heal it and hopefully helps with anti-aging benefits as well. You can't go wrong with either one. [...] It's easy to add into your routine without changing anything."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Biossance Squalane + Copper Peptide Rapid Plumping Serum

"I've got a handful of Biossance products I've reviewed here. Their copper peptide product, this is about upwards of $70. Most recently I was able to repurchase it at TJ Maxx for about 15."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Krave Beauty Great Barrier Relief Serum

"The Great Barrier Relief Serum was really a cult favorite. It had a simple ingredient list with tamanu oil, sunflower seed oil, rosehip oil, and ceramides, and a lot of people were talking about it and reviewing it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Multipeptides & Growth Factor Advanced Lifting Serum

"Their growth factor serum retails for just under $200, and I'm sure the new $750 product is a little bit different from it, but [...] I don't know that it's $550 different."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

"This one comes in two different strengths: [...] 10% and [...] 20%. The [...] 20% version has 20% ascorbic acid, vitamin E, ferulic acid, and sodium hyaluronate. If you have sensitive skin, the 10% might be a little bit more friendly. This one is very [...] similar to the Dr. Brenner, which has the vitamin E, the ferulic acid, and the hyaluronic acid. These two would be [...] very similar, [...] and they're both the same price, so you can pick up whichever one you want."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Prequel Lucent-C Brightening Vitamin C Serum

"This one's got 15% ascorbic acid and 0.5% ferulic acid. And then they add an additional antioxidant called ergothioneine, which is an antioxidant that helps protect your skin from daily damage from light and all of that stuff. [...] It does not contain the vitamin E trifecta. Instead, they kind of stepped out on their own by adding that beneficial antioxidant and kind of made their product stand out from the crowd a little bit."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Maelove Glow Maker Vitamin C Serum

"This one's always great."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Vitamin C Serum with Peptides

"But this one adds some nice anti-aging ingredients. It adds in the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo and also includes SNAP-8, which is another great peptide ingredient. And then it's also got ceramides in there. This one is a little bit different [...] because of the extra peptides they added for anti-aging. But this one's quite nice, certainly worth checking out, [...] and it's really nice with no fragrance or scent or anything like that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster (reformulated)

"This contains 15% ascorbic acid, [...] ferulic acid which they improved recently by adding more ferulic acid, [...] vitamin E, and [...] bisabolol, which is a great soothing ingredient. So, this stuff is really nice. Keep it in the fridge. [...] It comes with a cap rather than a dropper bottle, [...] which helps it stay fresher longer."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Regimen Lab Vitamin X Serum

"The Regimen Lab Vitamin X Serum is wonderful."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Pad Azelaic Acid Serum

"This azelaic acid serum is 15% azelaic acid and has beta glucen for hydration. It has a lotiony texture, no scent, and feels very silky. It's more geared towards oilier skin and doesn't feel super hydrating, which [...] is not a bad thing for an azelaic acid product. It has no fragrance and is super affordable. [...] I like ectoine and azelaic acid, and their azelaic acid serum was one of the gamechanging products for my skin."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum

"The Ordinary Copper Peptide Serum is my favorite copper peptide serum. [...] This one has been a long-standing favorite of mine. I use it and talk about it a lot. It's great. I add a little bit of copper peptide powder to make it a little bit stronger myself, and it's just really wonderful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Vanicream Vitamin C Serum

"Their Vitamin C Serum, this one's 18 bucks. [...] This is a nice Vitamin C Serum for people that are sensitive to ascorbic acid. It just has a nice lotion texture and has some nice vitamin C in there that can help your skin glow [...] without the potential irritation of ascorbic acid if you have sensitive skin. It probably has about 10 ingredients or so and uses tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate and camite."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Regimen Lab Level Serum

"Their Level Serum, which I finished the most recent bottle, is a great product. They now have a Level two serum that they released."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Calecim Professional Serum

"So these are expensive. $100 for five milliliters, making it one of the if not the most expensive skincare product I've ever reviewed for a tiny amount. But a couple drops do a good job covering most of the skin and feel nice, but it is expensive. You can get the six-pack, which kind of brings [...] the average price per bottle down, but it is expensive. [...] This is a very expensive product and it's going to be probably too expensive for most people to end up trying it. It is a bar."

~Mixed

90%Guru Score

The Ordinary Caffeine 3% + EGCG 1% Face Serum

"The Ordinary caffeine and EGCG face serum is nine bucks. If you're not sensitive to caffeine, it is something that instantly helps with puffiness, firming skin up. [...] It helps tighten the skin and stimulates blood flow. [...] Especially if you have [...] under-eye puffiness [...] or feel a little swollen, [...] something like this will instantly help. [...] The results are temporary and not long-lasting, but it is something helpful that day if you're feeling self-conscious."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

NIOD Survival 0

"The NIOD Survival 0 is amazing, it's got some of those same ingredients in it as well."

✓Yay

97%Guru Score

Tirtir Matcha Dual Serum

"I love these so far, the matcha toner and the matcha serum, they're both lovely."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic

"The trifecta that SkinCeuticals nailed down of vitamin C, [...] ferulic acid, and vitamin E is proven and studied. But anytime I've tried the SkinCeuticals, it's been kind of oxidized and kind of turning yellow."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Camo Triple Peptide Cover Drops

"Drunk Elephant says if you want very full coverage you can use the Camo Triple Peptide Cover Drops plain, or mix it with a lotion or a bronzer. [...] I have a feeling that might be a bit too full coverage, I tend to like light coverage as opposed to full coverage. It has an 18 percent amino acid coated pigment in a 4 percent peptide complex, and amino acids are great for barrier repair."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Medik8 Liquid Peptides Advanced MP+ Serum

"If you have super dry skin, they have a liquid peptide MP which contains a majority of those same peptides but has more of a lotion texture. It's also a little bit more expensive, and I'm not exactly sure why the price is higher on this one. It's [...] fragrance free as well. [...] This one's nice, it's got a lotiony texture and feels really nice and hydrating on your skin. You can use it morning or evening, whichever routine you prefer."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Medik8 Exo-PDRN Prismatic Plus Youthful Vitality Serum

"It uses lactobacillus ferment PDRN, plus centella, epidermal growth factors, and several amino acids. Those are all great if you're not on a budget, and there's nothing wrong with spending ninety six dollars on it, but I think there are other products where you can get more bang for your buck. [...] There's a lot of other things I'd test first that I'd rather spend my money on."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Tirtir Bright Vita Aging Pure Vitamin C 24% Serum

"It seemed to do the trick, it seemed like a decent vitamin C serum, although I do love the combination of vitamin C, ferulic acid and vitamin E, a proven trifecta, which this doesn't have. [...] A bottle lasts a long time since I just use it on a couple areas like my nose and chin, [...] so it's a more high end brand but it still lasts a long time."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Anua Rice 7% Ceramide Hydrating Barrier Serum

"The rice seven ceramide serum is also wonderful if you have dehydrated skin. I love that one in the winter, it's really nice."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

COSRX 5% PDRN Collagen Vitalizing Serum

"It's very liquidy, more of a liquidy gel texture, and it has no scent. It's got niacinamide, PDRN, collagen, several types of sodium hyaluronate, alpha arbutin, centella, lactobacillus ferment, and a peptide. It feels nice and doesn't feel sticky at all, but it's not super hydrating, so maybe it works better in a routine with a lot of other hydrating products. The serum so far, I'm not impressed overall."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum 3:1

"This is the Niod Copper Amino Isolate Serum, which is 93 bucks. [...] The main difference between this and the Ordinary copper peptide serum [...] is the texture. This one's got a very water-like texture, so it's pretty easy to fit into most routines, whereas the Ordinary has kind of a gel serumy texture. It's got 1% copper peptides, tripeptide 29, which they say helps with collagen production, vitamin E, and retinol peptide 189, which is claimed to function similar to retinol."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Plated Skin Science Daily Anti-Aging Exosome Serum

"I use it more sparingly, kind of similar to the SkinMedica, just around my eyes and mouth and areas, sometimes between my eyebrows. [...] This uses their human platelet exosomes, [...] and it's kind of interesting how they do that, but it's a really nice product. The human platelet exosomes I found are really nice and helpful, great if you use lasers at all or micro needling. I really like to use these after micro needling. [...] This one's a nice one, simple product."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Elastic Skin Firming & Plumping Growth Factor Serum

"It also contains [...] wild yam root, which is the closest thing to vegan snail mucin, niacinamide, beta-glucan, pineapple, panthenol, and some nice soothing ingredients, allantoin and vitamin E. [...] But I will mention not all of my viewers on this channel are a fan of this brand. [...] They've had some issues returning products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maelove Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum

"This one contains 1% copper peptides. It also has a lot of additional ingredients. It's got the argireline peptide, matrixyl 3000 duo, rice protein, ceramides, panthenol, niacinamide, bisabolol, turmeric, green tea, eggplant, and it also has witch hazel. Some people may feel one way or another about it, but this one's a nice copper peptide. It's got a good amount of [...] the blue shade. [...] Very watery, but it's very nice."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Copper Peptide Pro Firming Serum

"Next up would be my firming skin pick, or if you have saggy skin issues, the Peach and Lily Peptide Pro Firming Serum, 49 bucks. [...] This one's really nice. If you have sagginess I think this was a really nice one for that option because of some of the additional ingredients. This one has I believe it's 2% copper peptides."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Centella Phyto & 5 Peptide Concentrate Cream

"It has squalane, caffeine, shea butter, centella, argireline peptide, sea buckthorn berry extract, and Matrixyl peptide, so it's pretty friendly for dry skin. If you have acne-prone skin, it does have some comedogenic fatty alcohols in it, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, and myristyl alcohol, so it might not be the best bet for very acne-prone skin. [...] But for very dry skin, it's really hydrating and leaves skin feeling really nice."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

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

"My favorite ectoin product right now is the Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Milky Serum Booster. It has 7% ectoin, and sometimes I just mix in a drop or two with a serum or moisturizer. It helps hydrate skin, calm it down, and helps with texture a little bit as well. It's fragrance free. This is a newer one and I really am enjoying it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

The Ordinary Growth Factor 15% Solution

"What I like about this one is its water-light texture, it absorbs instantly so you don't have to change your routine at all, you can just add it in before anything else and it dries instantly. The star of the show is Nicotiana Benthamiana Hexapeptide 40, an epidermal growth factor that promotes cell regeneration, stimulates collagen, and improves skin elasticity. It also contains two other versions of epidermal growth factors."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Bubble Day Dream Vitamin C + Niacinamide Tone & Texture Serum

"Alpha arbutin works to help visibly reduce the appearance of spots and uneven skin tone. It also contains tranexamic acid, ceramides, licorice root, and rice bran extract. I'm on my third bottle of this, and I also love this for younger people that may have more sensitive skin, since at that age [...] skin is still super young and maybe sensitive, and it contains great ingredients to help skin acclimate to getting older."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

The INKEY List Exosome Hydroglow Complex Serum

"The star of the show is 1% cica exosome, which helps promote skin's [...] natural collagen production, skin renewal, and repair for glowing, smoother, firmer skin and helps improve skin firmness. In addition to the exosome it has prickly pear extract and ectoine, which is [...] soothing, hydrating, protective, and an antioxidant, [...] definitely up there in my favorite ingredients. It also has ubiquinone and tripeptide one. Really nice affordable product from The Inkey List."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

BYOMA Phyto-Mucin Hydrate + Plump Glow Serum

"It's a super serum for instant glass skin, it plumps, primes, hydrates, brightens, and repairs the damaged skin barrier, and improves skin elasticity and [...] texture. It's a little sticky but not terribly so, [...] a little tacky, but I love it. In addition to the yam root it contains palmitoyl tripeptide 1, arginine, panthenol, and Japanese kelp. [...] This stuff is little and mighty and I really love it, no scent, [...] it's a good all round plumping serum."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Sungboon Editor Deep Collagen Power Boosting Cream in Serum

"Star ingredient is Voluform, designed to help plump and add volume to hollow or sunken areas like under the eyes and around the mouth and cheeks by supporting fat lipid storage. A [...] creamy serum that instantly plumps skin and gives [...] elasticity without feeling greasy, [...] works well morning or evening for extra hydration. Also contains niacinamide, hydrolyzed collagen, [...] soluble collagen, [...] 10-plus amino acids, and hyaluronic acid. Fragrance free."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Remedy Dark Spots Nightly All-in-One Treatment

"I absolutely loved this product, I will certainly repurchase it, highly recommended if you have hyperpigmentation, dark spots, melasma. It's great for all of it, the amount of brightening ingredients in this one is really impressive. It [...] has retinol, mandelic acid, kojic acid, glutathione, licorice root, tranexamic acid, niacinamide, silymarin, and acetylglucosamine, and all of those help brighten up your skin and also help with anti-aging, and retinol is great for that as well as acne."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum

"Love this stuff, this was a repurchase, my next tube of this one would be my fourth purchase of it, and it's just super affordable. Azelaic acid is great for rosacea, redness-prone skin, acne-prone skin, and brightening hyperpigmentation and dark spots, and this stuff was great. Love it, and so affordable too."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"This one is the Cosrx 6 Peptide Skin Booster. Full of great peptides and ingredients in here. And pretty affordable, very large bottle."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Experiment Continuum Daily Multifying Multi-Clarifying Treatment

"It's fragrance free, alcohol free. [...] If you have sensitive skin are prone to breakouts or rosacea or clogged pores or things like that, this looks like it might be a really nice product. It's $34, so it's kind of a little bit more expensive than other azelaic acid products, but it looks like it's going to be very similar to other azelaic acid treatments which also have salicylic acid in them."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

iUNIK Beta Glucan Power Moisture Serum

"This is kind of a dropper bottle. It feels super super light, which is nice because it's hot and humid out. [...] Lightweight is just fine with me because I'm going out and it's humid out and hot. Yeah, this feels really nice and lightweight. [...] It's got a really short ingredient list: water, glycerin, beta glucan, adenosine, sodium PCA. So it's got PDRN in it and beta glucan, 160,000 parts per billion of beta glucan, but super lightweight, but feels nice."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anua Azelaic Acid 10% Hyaluron Redness Soothing Serum

"The Anua Azelaic Acid 10% Redness Soothing Serum also has licorice root, green tea, and beta glucan. It's super watery, so you're probably going to be easy to fit into any routine without having to change anything else around, which is nice. These [...] are mostly nice because they're fragrance-free and I've tolerated them all well."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Mandelic Pigmentation Corrector Night Serum

"They also have their mandelic acid pigmentation corrector which is also a really nice kind of do it all brightening ingredient."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The INKEY List Tranexamic Acid Night Treatment

"Tranexamic acid is great actually. It's really handy because it's pretty gentle and it also pairs well with other active ingredients which makes it nice. It helps interrupt UV triggered melanocyte activation. So it's great for melasma, redness, sensitive skin. [...] The INKEY List Tranexamic Acid Night Treatment has tranexamic acid and also has ascorbyl glucoside which is a form of vitamin C and lactobacillus ferment."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Tranexamic Acid & Arbutin Advanced Brightening Serum

"This one also has obviously tranexamic acid. It's got vitamin E. It has licorice root and then it also has reishi mushroom. It is on the more expensive side of things. This is just one of my empties that I finished, but I really liked and enjoyed it."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Frankly PDRN Bounce Ball Serum

"I kind of like it. It feels like a nice product that you can add in because it's so watery without having to take anything else out of your routine. [...] It has salmon PDRN. When it comes to PDRN, I'm not totally [...] buying all the PDRN as a miracle, but [...] I do feel a little bit more optimistic when it's something from salmon eggs as opposed to PDRN from plants. It's got niacinamide, soybean oil, squalane, and centella. It feels really nice [...] and kind of plumping."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster

"Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster for redness relief, which is $39. It's got the 10% azelaic acid and then 0.5% salicylic acid, making it great for acne-prone skin and licorice root extract as well. [...] I'm on my third tube of it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dr Sam's Neutralizing Azelaic Acid Gel

"The Dr. Sam's Flawless Neutralizing Gel is $28. This one's just a gel with azelaic acid, salicylic acid as well, and then bakuchiol. This one I think would be great for acne-prone skin. It's got a wonderful gel texture. It has a nice, matte finish. [...] Bakuchiol's great for anti-aging purposes."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Equalberry NAD Plus Peptide Boosting Serum

"It's just a beautiful product."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

SkinFix Ceramide Prime+ Whipped Cream with Niacinamide

"It's a facial moisturizer with that whipped texture to it that just feels so silky. It's got beta glucan, shea butter, niacinamide. It also has the fence biome peptide, which is a peptide that's supposed to help heal and repair your skin's microbiome, which is related to some people with acne, some people with rosacea, fungal acne, things like that. The microbiome is very interesting. But this stuff's wonderful. I really enjoy it. It feels really nice on your skin and silky."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Abib Glutathione Dark Spot Serum Vita Drop

"Then we've got glutathione and ferulic acid, which helps vitamin C work better underneath your sunscreen. [...] The texture has those little droplets in there which you don't really notice on your skin. Some serums the droplets are [...] hard to pop, but this one they pop seamlessly and feels really nice and even on your skin. I'm on my second bottle."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum

"Their blackberry idebenone serum, wonderful."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.5 Glutathione Vitamin Concentrated Serum

"For brightening ingredients this one's got a ton of them. [...] It's got sea buckthorn water which is a great antioxidant brightening ingredient. We have tranexamic acid. We have niacinamide. We have ascorbic acid. We've got alpha lipoic acid, ubiquinone and then glutathione. So it's got a ton of brightening ingredients. It's a very strong serum you'd want to use this probably in your morning routine in place of vitamin C serum. You don't want to use this with vitamin C."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Biossance 100% Squalane Oil

"Biossance had a 100% squalane face oil, whenever I use that, my skin was not happy the next day. My pores were clogged, all that stuff. So, for some reason, for me, even though I don't have very acne-prone skin, that squalane is very high up for me specifically. [...] But, if I have use a product something like this where it's got a little bit of squalane in it, but not 100% squalane, it's fine."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Framboos Glycolic Night Serum

"Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Framboos Glycolic Serum is great. It's way more expensive."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Pro-C Vitamin C Serum Brightening Solution

"It's got niacinamide, which is a great brightening ingredient. It's got ascorbic acid, tranexamic acid, it's got acetyl glucosamine, which is a great brightening ingredient. Then it's also got ethyl ascorbic acid. So it's got three different vitamin C forms, which are all great for brightening skin. I really love this formula. It feels really nice and elegant under my makeup and sunscreen."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Peach Slices Super Fade Discoloration Serum

"They advertise it as a highly bioavailable derivative of tranexamic acid to brighten dark spots. For me, tranexamic acid hit or miss. I didn't find huge results with it as I have with other ingredients. But [...] we've also got acetyl glucosamine, licorice root, and then kojic acid as well. Really nice product, no scent or fragrance, and super affordable for 12 bucks."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Hydrating Serum with Hyaluronic Acid

"First Aid Beauty was huge. They were one of the few brands that I really first had a serum, their hydrating serum. I just loved it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Soothing & Barrier Support Serum

"I repurchased it, so I purchased it initially and then I repurchased it a second time during the last sale which is in November. It's got asiaticoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic acid which are all active derivatives or compounds from centella, which are great for soothing skin. They also help with wound healing and skin regeneration. Really great active ingredients there. We've got bisabolol which is great for soothing, and then EGCG for hydrating and soothing. So I really enjoy that stuff."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Marine Hyaluronics

"It's got red marine algae, which is a great hydrating ingredient, and then it's got several amino acids, which are great for barrier repairing. I really love this stuff. It's so easy to fit into any routine because it's just so light. You can certainly layer it. [...] I patted this on and then I patted on a little bit of another product right after, and it layered really nice and gave my skin some extra moisture."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Antioxidant Radiance Serum with Vitamin C & Ginseng

"If you're sensitive to vitamin C, this is a nice way to get some antioxidants in your morning routine without some of the irritation. For the vitamin C in here, we've got ascorbyl glucoside. We've also got EGCG, which is a great antioxidant. We've got the thymulin 4 peptide that's supposed to help with skin regeneration, ginseng extract, which is a great antioxidant. We've got silver ear mushroom extract, and then we've also got bixa seed extract, which is another strong antioxidant."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Prequel Multi-Quench Plumping Hydration Serum

"This one's got polyglutamic acid, which is great for hydrating your skin. We've got ectoine, which is a wonderful ingredient, is great for so many different things. It's great for protecting yourself. It's great for soothing your skin. It's great for barrier repairing. It is an amazing protecting ingredient that does pretty much everything. And it plays well with every other product you've got or every other ingredient you can possibly think of. We've got hibiscus extract."

✓Yay

63%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum

"This is a wonderful product from Peach and Lily. [...] It's got a really wonderful gel serum texture. It kind of sets to a slightly radiant finish, but not terribly shiny compared to some of the other ones, but it does soak in. It's a water-based serum. In here we've got lots of goodies. Yam root extract, which is also called phytoin. Really wonderful ingredient. It's great for hydrating skin, soothing skin, and perhaps even anti-aging benefits."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Bubble Water Slide Hydration Boosting Serum with Hyaluronic Acid and Peptides

"This one's really nice and hydrating. It's got some anti-aging ingredients in it. So, it's got the Matrixel 3000 peptide duo, which is known to help with wrinkles from repeated movements, expression wrinkles, forehead wrinkles, all that good stuff. [...] Uh squalane, great ingredient, mushroom extract again. And then we've got vitamin E and ceramides. It's really a lovely product from Bubble and pretty affordable. And I love seeing a nice combination of hydrating ingredients and peptides."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

VEGREEN Skin Barrier Repair Serum

"This one's fragrance free. This one's got a really nice watery texture to it, so a little bit of it goes a long way. [...] I'll just pat onto my skin after cleansing, typically in my morning routine or occasionally my evening routine, but it's really nice just to add a nice light layer of some good antioxidants. It sets to a really natural finish and it layers well under other products, so it makes it a really nice additional layer of hydration."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Bioderma Sensibio AR Serum

"I love this lineup from them. Their Sensibio line is just a wonderful line. It's typically all fragrance-free. They've got a serum that's got some soothing ingredients in it. It's supposed to be for soothing irritated skin, maybe post-procedure microneedling, things like that. It's got bakuchiol in there. It's got licorice root, which is a great soothing and brightening ingredient."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Olaplex No.3 Plus Complete Treatment Repair

"This is a treatment you're supposed to apply to your hair before cleansing. Leave it on for 3 minutes and then rinse it off and then cleanse. And it's supposed to help repair and heal damaged hair bonds. So, the bonds that are in your hair that with damage or coloring or heat treatment, they kind of can break and damage is supposed to repair it. And Olaplex is a great brand. For hair care, I'm basically Olaplex and Moroccan Oil and then K18 treatment occasionally."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Booster

"It's great for soothing skin, it's great for antioxidants, it's great for protection. [...] We've got 7% ectoin in here, and then we've also got some additional ingredients. We've got jojoba seed oil, great hydrant ingredient, and then also vitamin E. Really wonderful product. I like to apply it just when my skin is super dry in my evening routine. I'll just apply it just on its own, but you can certainly mix it with something if you want."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Remedy Healthy Aging Serum

"Remedy's got some really great products. [...] I like the addition of peptides. Throw peptides in everything and I'll take it because I love my peptides."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Personal Day Just Like New Adaponoid Serum

"Dapenoid is going to be relatively new, just like adapalene. Adapalene's been prescription for a long time until in the US it was sold over the counter and then a lot of adapalene products have recently released. But dapenoid is really wonderful. Nice, lightweight, non-drying, none of that stuff. So really wonderful product."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Wishtrend Mandelic Acid 5% Skin Prep Water

"I'll apply it where I get my melasma, which is typically forehead and a little bit on the cheeks and it does a really nice job with that. And I'll probably generally apply to the rest of my face as well. It's really wonderful. And it's 11 bucks. [...] For the amount given, it's probably the most affordable on this list and really nice, and still 5% is still an amount where it's still gentle enough. So you could probably use it nightly, just work up to it very slowly."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Pro-Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster

"So this one's got peptides in there. It's got the Sinhiken peptide, which is claimed to boost the synthesis of hyaluronic acid deep down in the skin. It's got the Syncol peptide, which is supposed to boost collagen in the skin. It's also got the Syntax peptide, as well as other ingredients. It's really nice. I've repurchased this product a couple of times."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

BYOMA Barrier Repair Treatment

"Nice thick occlusive. I would probably recommend it at night or if you have very dry skin, you can certainly use it in your daytime routine, too. It doesn't leave your skin looking too, it sets to a pretty natural finish, I would say."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Acid Lotion

"Hada Labo has some of the greatest toners out there. Their CC toner is great. This stuff is great. This is their Gokujyun hyaluronic toner."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Milk

"It's 11 bucks. It's a fragrance-free hydrating lotion essence. It's basically just got different types of hyaluronic acid. So it's got a pretty short ingredient list, but just different types of hyaluronic acid. If you're looking for something that's pretty affordable, this is one. It's on the more watery side, but really nice. You can just pat it on the skin and it's really affordable. [...] For the amount you get, it's probably the most affordable."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

The INKEY List Ectoin Hydro Barrier Serum

"The Inky List ectoin barrier serum contains the ectoin. It also contains panthenol which is a great soothing anti-redness ingredient. It's got jojoba esters which are great for hydrating skin, oat kernel for soothing as well as ceramides. This one's got kind of a similar kind of a gel lotiony texture to it. It plays really well with other products and pretty friendly for most skin types and super affordable as well."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Good Molecules Niacinamide with Ectoin Serum

"It's very hydrating, but really nice for skin, sensitive skin. It has no fragrance in it. Good Molecules has some really nice stuff that they've released recently. And this is a great one. Certainly worth checking out if you have skin that is on the sensitive side. [...] This one's got 0.5% ectoine. Ectoine, I think in small amounts it's beneficial, large amounts it's beneficial. It's not quite as dependent as certain other ingredients where you want the exact percentage at the exact pH."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Maelove Night Renewer Glycolic Acid Cream

"I just finished this one. The Maelove Night Renewer Glycolic Acid Cream. I was just using this a few days a week for a while. [...] It's basically like an exfoliant cream with glycolic acid, which is actually a great anti-aging ingredient. If you're looking for an exfoliant that helps with fine lines and wrinkles, glycolic and lactic acid are both beneficial for that. And they can also help thicken up skin a little bit, too. So this one was really nice from Maelove."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Clarins Double Serum Complete Age-Defying Concentrate

"Clarins with their Double Serum would be another one that's been out for a while."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

BioEffect EGF Serum

"It might have plumped my skin a little bit, but I didn't notice anything dramatic in terms of benefits. I know it's very popular, it's sold at Dermstore. I just don't have anything bad to say about it, and I don't have anything good to say either. [...] For me, if I'm going with a lot of expensive skincare products, I find the most benefit with human stem cell type products, secondly animal derived, and then plant derived would be last. That's just my experience, it may not be true for everyone."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 25% Vitamin C Plus Glutathione Clinical Serum

"This one's got 25% tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate. It's also got vitamin E and then rice extract and sodium hyaluronate. It's pretty nice serum, but pricey."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Potent-C Power Serum

"I'm not repurchasing it at this point. [...] It has a hefty price tag and the brand's also not cruelty-free. This one's a tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate vitamin C serum, which is a derivative. It's got vitamin E, squalane, ferulic acid, and turmeric. [...] I've had this one for quite some time."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Moroccanoil Treatment

"The Moroccan Oil Treatment oil, it's just an oil with argan oil and then it has a little bit of fragrance in it. [...] It leaves your hair feeling nice and soft and silky. The oils in it kind of provide a little bit of heat protection if you style your hair with heat. [...] I just apply it to the ends of my hair when it's slightly damp and I apply the smallest amount. I've probably gone through five bottles in probably 12 years. [...] A little bit of it does go a long way."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Mary&May Six Peptide Complex Serum

"This one's got copper peptides in it. It's got hexapeptide 9, hexapeptide 11, matrixel peptide, and then part of the matrixel 3000 peptide duo, collerin peptide, and arginine, fragrance-free, alcohol-free. So this is a nice option as well at 36 dollars. Both of these are going to save you some money compared to the Ordinary."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Plated Skin Science Intensive Serum

"Results are gradual, cumulative and signaling based. So the more you use it, the better off. [...] I use this around my eyes, in between my eyes and around my mouth where my wrinkles are the worst. [...] The platelets are great. [...] The plated daily serum has what they say like a million platelets. [...] You can just go right to the daily serum if you want, but they also recommend if you use the intense serum after you finish this bottle, then go to daily if you want."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Tatcha Serum Stick

"It is kind of heavy for packaging, but it's nice. There's no scent to it. And the nice thing is it locks in there. A lot of lip balms can open up while they're in your bag sometimes on accident, or sometimes if it's a gel it can make a little bit of a mess. This has never made a mess and it stays locked in pretty good. Although it's really expensive, [...] I think it's like 40 bucks. [...] I don't think I would have spent 40 bucks on it again, but [...] I liked it enough to keep using it."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Remedy Daily Defense Vitamin C Serum

"They call it the bright vitamin C brightening complex. [...] They gave a moisturizer in this. [...] This one is thick, too. And it feels nice. It's winter. It was like -25 out. The more moisturizer the better right now. This moisturizer has no scent. Feels pretty nice."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Peptide Skin Injection Amplified Wrinkle Fix Refillable Serum

"For dry skin, I've got [...] the Peter Thomas Roth Skin Injection Amplified Wrinkle Fix Refillable Peptide Serum. It's 65 bucks. [...] This one's great for dry skin because it's very emollient. It's got dimethicone and squalane in it, which are great for hydrating skin. So if your skin tends to be on the drier side, this one's nice. Or for your morning routine, this one's really nice and works well under and with other products."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Power Cocktail Lactic Acid Serum

"The Peach & Lily Power Cocktail Lactic Acid Serum is a wonderful product, great formula, great pH at half off. This is a good deal if you're older and looking for some anti-aging in my opinion. Lactic and glycolic acid are the two exfoliants to look for. They over time can help thicken skin up which if you know the older you get your skin gets a little bit thinner more delicate less collagen and glycolic and also lactic acid has been shown to help firm up skin and help thicken it a little bit."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Clinique Moisture Surge Active Glow Serum

"The Clinique Moisture Surge Active Glow Serum, I have that. [...] It's nice. No fragrance or anything in it. Nice serum."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Necessaire Neck Serum Firming Serum with 7.5% Peptides

"So yeah, it's interesting. I would have expected them to say it's unscented. That has a different meaning than fragrance-free means no fragrance ingredients. Unscented means it has no scent. So they could have, I don't know, maybe these ingredient lists were not updated properly. But anyway, aside from the fragrance, it's got the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo. It's got the argireline peptide and the zinc peptide. Otherwise it looks good. I'm just curious about the fragrance thing."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

SkinFix 15% Vitamin C and Ferulic Acid Serum

"And then it contains curcumin, which is [...] related to turmeric. [...] We've got peptides in there, squalane, polyglutamic acid. Looks like it's fragrance and alcohol-free. It is on the pricier side. If your skin tolerates regular ascorbic acid, in my opinion that's the most proven studied type of vitamin C. The derivatives are a whole another thing. I trust ascorbic acid. I'm not so sure that all these other types are going to end up being proven to be as beneficial."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

APLB Glutathione Niacinamide Facial Cream

"I have the APLB Glutathione Niacinamide Facial Cream. Love it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Medicube PDRN Pink Peptide Serum

"This stuff smelled so strong, just floral perfumey. It was just too much. [...] The ingredients looked fine except for fragrance right in the middle and the fragrance was strong and it was overwhelming and it gave me the beginning of a migraine. So I didn't apply it on my face."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Prickly Pear Peptide Mucin Serum

"This one had a [...] bit of a pine smell to me, like old dusty pine needles. That's what it smelled like to me."

✕Nay

80%Guru Score

Equalberry Bakuchiol Plumping Serum

"Super affordable. The packaging is so fun. [...] It's got peptides, [allantoin] beta glucen, blackberry fruit, niacinamide, bakuchiol. It does have a scent, stronger scent. It's an herbal scent. I might try it again, but otherwise it's a good product."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Paula's Choice CellularYouth Age-Disrupting Longevity Serum for Firming, Lifting, and Smoothing

"It's also got mushroom extract. It looks to be like it's fragrance-free. Honestly, this looks pretty expensive. If you're going to drop 72 bucks on Paula's Choice, there's a retinoid that's also 72 bucks, and I think [...] that's probably a little bit better anti-aging investment in my opinion. This age serum looks okay. It looks fragrance-free. There's a lot of products that use thymulin 4 peptide in them and you don't necessarily need to spend 72 bucks to get it. So yeah, pretty expensive."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Collagen Peptide Cushion Liquid Balm

"I really love this lip balm. I went through it so fast. The Peach & Lily Collagen Peptide Cushion Liquid Balm. It was regularly 22 bucks, today or right now at Ulta it's 10 bucks and this stuff is really nice. They have four different shades and flavors. I just got the clear one and I liked it and I kept it on my nightstand and I went through it pretty quickly and I just loved it."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"The Ordinary Multipeptide Serum with copper peptides. Love this for soothing anti-aging use in conjunction with micro needling. It's wonderful use after laser treatments, anything like that. It's wonderful for that."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Rescue Party Barrier Restore Serum

"I would say all of these are still great products. You can't go wrong with any of them."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Medicube Age-R Booster Pro

"There's nothing wrong with this device per se, but if you have the money and you buy one device, in my judgment, my research, micro needling is going to be the best for your skin. [...] I'm not exactly sure that there's any setting on the Medicube that actually does anything deep down to help with collagen. [...] I have not found success with the new face or many other devices."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary 100% Organic Cold-Pressed Rose Hip Seed Oil

"Rose hip oil is a special oil in a way because it's got some anti-aging benefits for skin. It's also pretty friendly for acne prone skin. So, I really like that specific oil."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NIOD RE: Pigment Brightening Serum

"This one's really nice. If you have hyperpigmentation and melasma, this one's a nice one to try because it contains some ingredients that aren't very common in brightening products. [...] This one contains some that you don't see often. One of them is shiakei, which is actually used apparently in textile mills when they have all their textile and dyes and things they'll use shiakei to clear it up, clear the water and things like that up naturally."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary 100% Organic Cold Pressed Borage Seed Oil

"This one's their borage seed oil, which I like. In the winter, I'll use it as a good oil just to hydrate and moisturize everything at the end of my routine or sometimes just in the morning to keep things hydrated. I'll [...] wake up at like 5 in the morning, put some oil on and it'll kind of soak in before I start to get ready like 8 or 9. So it's nice for that."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

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

"This serum is also great for sensitive skin. So if you have sensitive skin that gets red, dry, flaky, anything like that, Stress Less is really nice. Beta-glucan is also the secret anti-aging ingredient. Most people think of it as a humectant and a soothing ingredient, but its secret powers are also anti-aging, helping with fine lines and wrinkles, and it's actually been studied and shown to be efficient and effective for that. So it's also worth checking out in my opinion."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid

"If you're experienced with exfoliants, get the 10%. The lactic acid is a great ingredient. It's an alpha hydroxy acid. And if you use it over time, it will help with collagen production deep down in your skin. It helps with texture, brightening skin out, uh can also help a little bit with fine lines and wrinkles, and in the long run, it will help with anti-aging really. So, it's got also has sodium hyaluronate in there, but it's a pretty simple formula."

✓Yay

95%Guru Score

Regimen Lab Azelaic Acid Serum

"It's got azelaic acid. It also has the azelaic acid derivative P.A., which is great for sensitive and soothing skin. So this is great for redness, also hyperpigmentation. It contains sweatine, which is an ingredient that helps azelaic acid work better to smooth out skin texture. It's got niacinamide in there. It's a wonderful azelaic acid product. [...] I think it's 10% but yeah, it's really nice, really nice product. And if you have hyperpigmentation..."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Vany Cream Vitamin C Serum with Ceramides

"Their vitamin C serum is great for people that can't tolerate most vitamin C products. I've got a lot of people that say, "This is one of the few vitamin C products I can use without any issues." It's not super strong. It uses an ascorbic acid derivative, so it's not terribly strong, but nice and effective and pretty short ingredient list. I think it's got maybe 12 ingredients in it. So a lot of people find it's very gentle for them."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Beta Glucan and Resveratrol Advanced Hydrating Serum

"It contains some nice antioxidants. [...] It's got resveratrol, beta glucan, green tea, astaxanthin, honey. [...] It looks like it'd be a nice serum for daytime with some good antioxidants and soothing ingredients. I definitely would pick this up, will pick this up if it's on sale."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Rescue MD DNA Repair Complex

"It's fragrance free. Looking at the ingredient list, [...] it's got an antioxidant, leachchel, which is great. It's got hexapeptide 9. And aside from those, I can't tell why it's a $150 cream. [...] The main top three ingredients are water, [dimethicone], and glycerin. And it's 150 bucks. I don't get it. I don't think I'd shell out 150 bucks for two ingredients, but I'm intrigued by it. I'll take a sample of it and try it, though, for sure."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Needleless Growth Factor Serum

"Their needleless serum, needleless serum, not needless serum, is also great and full of peptides. [...] It's worth looking at."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Peptides and Antioxidants Advanced Firming Daily Treatment

"So I want to say this is my fourth tube of it, and I still have yet to pay 165 bucks for it. [...] In addition to the sinkali, it contains six other peptides. It contains the antioxidant, retinone, green tea extract, EGCG, and it's a nice fragrance-free moisturizing cream. I like to use this one actually at night. I have no idea why. I just prefer it at night. It's really nice and hydrating. Yeah, thick. Although I do use it some mornings, but I really like using it at night."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The INKEY List Redness Relief Super Solutions 10% Azelaic Acid

"The INKEY List has a great acid serum."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Vitamin C Serum

"CeraVe is great for cleansing or moisturizer. I don't really like a lot of their other actives and things like that. Like CeraVe's vitamin C serum, I don't love. I didn't find it to be elegant feeling or anything like that."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

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

"The Geek and Gorgeous Seag Glow, I think it's like 12 bucks. It's cheaper than almost any other vitamin C serum. I think it costs less than the ELF vitamin C serum. And it's much better in my opinion than the E.L.F. one."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Resurface Serum

"The Drunk Elephant Protini Resurface Serum is a unique product with great antioxidants and peptides, and I like the fact that it works well for all skin types. [...] My only issue is it's on the more expensive side."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Numbuzin Number 3 Blue Bio Retinyl Pore Refining Serum

"Otherwise, very nice and liquidy, but it doesn't pack a whole punch for retinol because the retinol is pretty far down. But it's got other good strong antioxidants in here, which might make it good for sensitive skin or skin that hasn't used retinol before. It's got ginseng in there as well, which is nice. And Centella, all those goodies. [...] I'm really bummed by the nozzle on this one, though. That's kind of the biggest bummer. It smells like squash or zucchini or something like that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Klairs EGF Blue AC Calming Serum

"It's got a ton of amino acids and a bunch of soothing ingredients. So if you have acne prone skin, I think this is going to be a nice product to have in your routine. I'd probably use it with another exfoliant or something like that. But otherwise, I think it would be very helpful, very friendly for acne prone skin."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

The INKEY List Lactic Acid 10%

"It's hard to get really excited about a brand when they're owned by a giant multi-conglomerate organization that's mega wealthy worth billions."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Luxury Facial Oil

"No issues with that. It's marula oil. Very expensive marula oil at that."

✓Yay

60%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Peptides and Antioxidants Firming Daily Treatment

"So it's wonderful. It's got a lotion texture. It's hydrating enough. It does get a little bit shiny if you use it with the sunscreen. So keep that in mind. [...] If you use it with a radiant finish sunscreen, it might be a little bit too shiny. And even though I say daily, I tend to use this one a lot at night too. We've got green tea, we've got ferulic acid, caffeine, vitamin E, EGCG, we've got astaxanthin, we've got retinone which is a good strong antioxidant."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Ascorbic Acid 8% + Alpha Arbutin 2%

"I also got a vitamin C serum from The Ordinary, which is water-based. It's super light. [...] This is just a nice water-based vitamin C serum to add in. [...] Vitamin C typically makes your sunscreen work better, it helps protect your skin from free radical damaging antioxidants. So using that, I would wash your face, cleanse it or wipe it off, put that on first, then a moisturizer, and then sunscreen."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Neutrogena Collagen Bank 15% Vitamin C Serum

"We all know ascorbic acid is pretty unstable. This formula contains water and then propanediol, so it doesn't look like it's a water-based serum, per se. I'm more curious to buy it just to see if it's already oxidized or not by the time I get it. That's really if I buy it, it's probably the only reason I'd be buying it just to see if it's fresh or not. I don't see any reason to change because I love my Geek and Gorgeous Seaglow, [...] but that one does look interesting."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Dermalogica NeuroTouch Symmetry Serum

"At $138 for the Dermalogica NeuroTouch Symmetry Serum, which is a botanical-based serum to give skin a more sculpted appearance. The ingredients in it look terrible. There's lots of fragrance, no hero ingredient. [...] The main ingredients are haba oil, [squalane], coconut extract, coriander seed oil, lavender oil, geranium oil, sage oil, astaxanthin, citronellal, geraniol, and limonene. I don't get it. I don't know [...] how they're getting $140 for that."

✕Nay

54%Guru Score

Neogen Real Ferment Micro Serum

"The Neogen Real Ferment Micro Serum, it's 30 bucks. It contains Bifida, Saccharomyces, rice ferment, and Aspergillus ferment. No scent in it. I've repurchased. I think this is my fourth bottle of it. It's really nice. Serummy texture to it, really good for plumping up skin and lots of good ingredients in it. So I really love this one from Neogen and I've been repurchasing this one for a long time, so years."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant C-Firma Fresh Day Serum

"I had given her this Drunk Elephant C-Firma serum. She finished it. I didn't because it did not work well for me, but it seemed to work well for her."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Amino Rain Glass Water Serum

"It does give your skin kind of a little bit of a glow, but honestly, I'm going to cover this over another moisturizer, a sunscreen, and a foundation or a BB cream. I don't really care if my serum has makeup in it. It does give skin a little bit of a glow, but I wouldn't say much more noticeable difference. [...] For ingredients, we've got [...] poly glutamic acid, which is nice for hydrating skin, squalane, sodium hyaluronate, ginseng. I like ginseng. I'm a big fan of ginseng."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Isntree Plum Peptide Booster 2000s

"It feels like it has a pretty matte finish, a little bit tacky, but not terribly so. It feels nice and smoothed into my skin pretty nicely. If you have oily skin, I'm kind of surprised that this has such a natural finish on it. It's [...] a firmness boosting face serum containing mega spicules [...] and a unique plump peptide ingredient."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Phytoestrogen Elasticity Renewal Serum

"I don't know if they still make this elasticity renewal serum. I have no idea. I will try and link to it below, but this is one I had laying around and I just decided to finish it up, using it on my neck and chest area."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Lotion

"I find the SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Lotion really hydrating. It's got some nice fatty oils in there and some peptides."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Costa Baja Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I buy the Costa Baja hyaluronic serum, it's not terribly expensive, and it's got I think three ingredients in it. [...] I mix copper peptides raw into it and I make my own little copper peptide serum. Otherwise a giant bottle of copper peptide serum would be much much more expensive. I think this cost between 20 and 25 dollars depending on where you get it. It used to be on Yes Style, now this brand doesn't ship to the US anymore so I found it on iHerb."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil

"There's a lot of hype behind it but don't anticipate too much results because the types of retinoids in here are so gentle. Most people aren't going to notice a ton of benefits unless you have very very perhaps dry skin or skin that's very sensitive to retinoids. And if that's the case maybe check out something with [bakuchiol] in it instead. For 105 bucks in my opinion this one is not relevant anymore. You heard about it a long time ago and not so much anymore."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin C Serum

"Expected a little bit more. [...] I just on their Freshly Juiced line, so they've got a couple serums, they've got this, they've got a mask. I really haven't found any of them that I love that work well for me that I think are worth repurchasing. They're not bad products overall, but for me, I find different products with better ingredients and more peptides and things like that more beneficial than something like this. But it's fine. There's nothing wrong with it."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Peach Slices Hypochlorous Acid Spray

"They released a Hypochlorous Acid Spray, which I purchased instantly when it came out, and now the Hypochlorous Acid Spray is nowhere to be found. I even emailed them, and they said it's sold out. I'm like, that's weird. It looks like it never existed."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid Capsule 100 Serum

"It's super watery and I find it kind of frustrating to use because it's so watery it's hard to really get a good application of it. But it's nice and it really has worked well for a lot of people. [...] It's basically like putting water on, which makes it a little bit of a challenge. But the good news is a little bit goes a long way. You're going to want to apply this right after toning and before serums and moisturizers to lock in that hydration."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

The Ordinary Azelaic Acid Suspension 10%

"Azelaic acid kills them and helps get rid of them and that's why it helps with rosacea. Azelaic acid kind of sinks down into your skin into your pores and things like that which also is why it makes it so effective for acne. [...] Some of these are much more affordable which is nice."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

I'm From Rice Serum

"The I'm From Rice Serum is a lightweight gentle brightening serum that soaks in quickly and leaves skin feeling nice and soft and hydrated and smooth. [...] It's got squalene, licorice root, niacinamide for some nice brightening ingredients, so if you have some dark spots or hyperpigmentation this has some nice known brightening ingredients."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Hada Labo Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"Which I really like they also have a cleansing version of this which was nice and an AJ Essence which is also looks nice I haven't tried that one yet so regular 25 bucks really nice product"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Copper Tripeptide + Ectoin Advanced Repair Serum

"I really like this stuff, it's expensive but the sample was awesome. I really like that."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals H.A. Intensifier with Arbutin and Azelaic Acid

"Normally I would spend this much money on a vitamin C serum because I love the one from Geek and Gorgeous this one I got in the space NK Advent calendar"

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Serum with TFC8®

"I [...] love to see more, I guess is what I'm trying to say. But they've got their patented baby. [...] In terms of [...] performance, for what this product promises it promises to reduce and prevent the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, help support natural production of collagen, improve elasticity, tightening and firming skin, support the skin barrier function for plumper more resilient skin with greater bounce back. I would say it does do all of those things."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Guava Vitamin C Dark Spot Brightening Treatment Serum

"The Glow Recipe Guava Vitamin C Dark Spot Brightening Treatment Serum is $45 for 1 ounce. It also has tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, azelaic glucoside, apple, and vitamin E, so this is going to be the closest dupe. It saves you about 20 bucks. The packaging's kind of fun."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster

"Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster for brightening is basically a vitamin C serum and this one is currently $55 for [...] 20 milliliters, which is a lot of money for vitamin C serum. I don't remember this one being this expensive however it's 55 bucks."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

The INKEY List Polyglutamic Acid Serum

"The closest one to it was the INKEY List Polyglutamic Acid Serum, but this one's a little bit more affordable than that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Cella 4% Dark Spot Serum

"Hero Cella 4% Dark Spot Serum, they call it go away serum. Really nice product. Hero has some nice stuff, this one is one of them. Very nice serum."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Dr Sam's Flawless Brightly Serum

"Dr Sam's Flawless Brightening Serum is really nice. She's got a NAD and vitamin C serum which I want to try, but from what I understand NAD might not be really that absorbable into the skin, but it's becoming bigger and bigger and I keep hearing things about it."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Minimalist Multipeptide 10% Facial Anti-Aging Serum

"In terms of performance, it's really nice for plumping up skin, really nice feels so nice on skin, hydrates, makes skin feel really nice and smooth and soft."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tula Brightening Treatment Drops Triple Vitamin C Serum

"It's a really nice product. The only downside is that at regular price it's a little expensive, [...] a little steep in my opinion, but it's a very nice product."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Tatcha Indigo Overnight Repair Serum in Cream

"I have tried little samples of it and I've really liked it but it's so freaking expensive."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Resveratrol 3% + Ferulic Acid 3%

"I also love that they included the ferulic acid in there. It's not as greasy as I remember it, [...] it's more silky than I remember it so I kind of like it more than I thought I did. I know this is probably my maybe third bottle of it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Maelove Hydrator Serum

"Next up is [...] the Maelove Hydrator, and it's 32 bucks. It's a very simple serum, I think it has five ingredients, and resveratrol and panthenol are the two exciting ingredients. [...] Their hydrator, it's really nice, they have some nice products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Facetheory Resveratrol F Serum

"It's got green tea and centella, it's 36 bucks at Facetheory. This brand, you know, I was really trying a lot of their stuff for a while. [...] They used to have really good sales and then they kind of stopped. [...] But they still have some really nice stuff and this one's still certainly worth giving a try."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The INKEY List CoQ10 Serum

"I've got the INKEY List CoQ10 antioxidant serum. It contains ubiquinone for antioxidant benefits as well as anti-aging. It's still a really affordable product."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Alter Repair Hydrating Serum

"Oh, this is the First Aid Beauty Alter Repair Hydrating Serum. This one had probably expired a long, long time ago, but I finished using it on my arms, neck, and chest, so I just couldn't bring myself to waste it. They haven't sold that product for a long, long time."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Klairs Maple Energy Infusing Serum

"I have a lot of products I love, and this just wasn't one of them, it was just a miss. Honestly, after this review I probably wouldn't, I don't see myself ever reaching for it again. There's a lot of products I like enough to finish them, there's even fewer I like enough to finish and repurchase. [...] But for a product that doesn't even make me want to finish it, it's not bad, it just didn't do anything for me."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Sunday Riley C.E.O. Glow Vitamin C and Turmeric Face Oil

"CEO vitamin C and turmeric face oil which I enjoy"

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Mandelic Acid 10% + HA

"Mandelic acid is a very gentle exfoliant so you can use it and it generally is a good job leaving your skin feeling soft and smooth without being too harsh or causing peeling or anything like that so it's a really nice serum if you haven't tried it check it out and it's fragrance free as well which is nice."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NIOD Modulating Glucosides Serum

"The NIOD Modulating Glucosides Serum, which is 22 bucks right now with the NIOD sale through the end of November. It's got EGCG in it, several amino acids, and ginger extract."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 5% + Hyaluronic Acid 2%

"If you're on the sensitive side there's a 5% formula, or if you're new to exfoliants this one's a nice one. It's a little bit more gentle."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

The Ordinary Virgin Marula Oil

"The marula oil from both of them, both wonderful, can't tell the difference."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

The Ordinary Balancing & Clarifying Serum

"The Ordinary Balancing and Clarifying Serum, this one is 11 bucks right now and this one is a super affordable alternative to the Regimen Lab Wave Serum which is 39 bucks. [...] These are both really nice hydrating calming serums. [...] It's still nice if you use it under a nice moisturizer, it gives your skin some hydration. [...] Both fragrance free but just a little bit more affordable option."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Renew Damage Reversal Serum

"The other thing that's a little bit disappointing is it's called a ceramide serum but it only contains one ceramide and it's pretty far down the ingredient list, which is kind of a bummer. [...] There's not a whole ton of ceramides in here, but the nice thing is it does have panthenol which is great for soothing your skin, has sodium PCA which is great for fighting acne, and we've got centella asiatica extract which is great for soothing your skin."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Triple Oat Serum

"The serum, a lot of people mention it works great for them. It's got oat in there, it's got Feverfew, and it's got centella."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Good Molecules Super Peptide Serum

"The good molecules peptide serum which is 12 bucks which I own but I'm trying to organize everything I can't find it"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Honey Glow 17% Resurfacing Acid Serum

"I've got The Ordinary Honey Glow 17% resurfacing serum. This one is strong. I've used a lot of exfoliants, I've used a lot of retinoids, I've used a lot of strong actives and I've done a lot of treatments, and this is strong. It's got a 17% blend of glycolic, lactic, willow bark, and gluconolactone. So it's maybe not something you want to use on your daily, but two or three times a week for skin that's already exposed or been used to exfoliants, it's worth trying. But it is strong."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Capsules

"The Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Capsules are typically very nice and well formulated and easy to travel with."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Minimalist Vitamin C Vitamin E Ferulic Acid 16% Serum

"This one's really affordable. [...] The Minimalist 16% Vitamin C serum has ethylascorbic acid, vitamin E, and ferulic acid. It's a really wonderful, well-packaged product and it's super affordable. [...] It's sold and shipped by Minimalist on Amazon or you can check out their website either way. It works, so very nice product."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin Charging Serum

"It seems to have the benefits of an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory ingredient, and it's claimed to be able to boost the skin's collagen production. The best known use for ethyl ascorbic acid is brightening, so it's worth a try. This one does contain grapefruit seed extract, but it has no scent, so keep that in mind if you're sensitive to grapefruit. Typically grapefruit oil is going to be much more irritating than the extract."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Skin and Lab 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum

"Skin and Lab vitamin C brightening serum uses the ethylated ascorbic acid, vitamin E, panthenol, butylene glycol, and peptides. It's really nice, really affordable, and you can pick it up at YesStyle. It's just a wonderful vitamin C product."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Good Molecules Vitamin C Serum with Oryzanol

"The Good Molecules Vitamin C Serum with Oryzanol is very nice and very affordable, I think it's 12 bucks or 10 bucks, so worth checking out."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Good Molecules Mandelic Acid Serum

"Mandelic acid's great, it was nice using this. [...] For sensitive skin this will work well, for acne prone skin there's no ingredients of note so it's great for acne prone skin as well. Oily, dry, or sensitive, it's great for all of those, no issues at all with any of that. [...] This is a full size 30 milliliters, 1 ounce, and it retails for 10 bucks so you can't beat that."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Q+A Azelaic Acid Balancing Serum

"With a 10 being a perfect score this one a 10 I can't really think of any issues with it"

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Avène Cicalfate+ Intensive Skin Restorative Serum

"Avene Cicalfate+ Triple Oat Serum."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

April Skin Carotene Clarifying Serum

"April Skin Carrot Serum which I have a lot of thoughts on so I will do a review of that."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum

"You get one refill and then them added up together I think don't even equal a full ounce. There's lots of great brightening products out there that you don't need to spend a ridiculous amount. This isn't a bad product by any means but if you're looking for something brightening, this one's too expensive. I just wouldn't recommend it to the average person because there's some other great ones that are brightening [...] without being overly expensive."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%

"This one's not super exciting"

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant C-Luma Hydrate Serum

"This is so average. I've used it several times, it's not bad, it's just average. That's the main thing I can say. If you have sensitive skin, it's a nice vitamin C product to use, but otherwise in terms of all their products, it's probably the least exciting one. [...] For the price of this I guarantee there's going to be like probably five dupes that are going to be so close to it and probably one-third of the price."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

COSRX 23% Ascorbic Acid Pure Vitamin C Serum

"This one's really nice, it's 12 bucks right now on YesStyle so it's definitely competing with the price of other vitamin C serums. This one's really nice, it uses ascorbic acid as well, [...] but it's very nice and I had this one arrive fresh. I'm not so sure how often COSRX manufactures it though, so keep that little fact in mind because if they manufacture them all at once in one run and you get it five months later, it's not as good."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Banish Vitamin C Dark Spot Serum

"The Banish Vitamin C Dark Spot Serum is really nice. This one's [...] geared towards acne prone skin types. It's got witch hazel in it, salicylic acid, rose hip, and jojoba, so it's kind of different but definitely focused towards acne prone skin."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops

"The Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops has niacinamide, sodium hyaluronic, neem extract, and Moringa seed oil. They recently came out with a tinted version of it so [...] you can mix it in with your moisturizer or foundation and give it a little bit of a tint. Honestly, niacinamide [...] these days it's in everything, so I'm not exactly sure you need a separate niacinamide product, but yeah, sometimes it's easy to get overloaded with too much of a good thing."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Serum

"This one's really nice for that, it's got some other good antioxidants in it. In my opinion this one's really good for oilier skin or for drier skin like in the summer or for a daytime serum or for layering with other products. It's really quite wonderful, not too expensive, and it really does the trick. Their toner version of it's great as well."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Serum

"I finished the Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Serum. This stuff was okay. I finished it, which was nice. I wouldn't repurchase it because of the price, but overall it was a nice product, and if price isn't a big deal, it was pretty nice. And no fragrance or anything like that."

~Mixed

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2%

"It felt like scrubbing sand on your face, almost. That's what it felt like. [...] Then after a minute or two, it just started to burn and tingle, and then irritate. So I washed it off. I tried it one other time after that, same deal. I get that using it in a silicone base is great because it makes it more stable and lasts longer, but if it's unusable, intolerable, and gross, maybe use it in your evening routine, I guess. But that itchiness and things like that was just too much."

✕Nay

51%Guru Score

SkinBetter Science Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum

"This is hands down the most expensive product on the list at 170 bucks. [...] It is really nice, it's just an antioxidant serum. [...] In this one we've got superoxide dismutase, we've got ceramides, fatty acids, vitamin E, and hob esters. It's really nice with no scent to it."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum

"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."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

KAINE Vita Drop Serum

"It'll work well for oily, dry, sensitive, and probably acne prone skin as well. I wasn't blown away with it but I was really happy with it. I really enjoy it and I'll definitely finish it. [...] I'm going to finish this one up using it just like a moisturizer over my regular serum so I can kind of get the best of both worlds. [...] Overall a good product, [...] very nice, well worth trying, and the fact that it works well for most skin types makes it really nice and unique in that respect."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous All Clear Azelaic Acid

"With the Geek & Gorgeous All Clear Azelaic Acid serum, it's something like instant results, amazing. You could tell the difference. Not every product has that experience, but some people do, so it's really nice. That one is worth checking out if you can get it on sale."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Numbuzin Panthenol B5 Active Soothing Serum

"So soothing ingredients: arbutin, katuna cordada, heart leap eggplant, sodium hyaluronate, jojoba oil, green tea extract, centella. And this one looks like it's going to have a really nice gel texture. Feels really nice and light. They also came with the moisturizer of this line which is nice too. Feels nice."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX Glow Priming Serum

"I really like this one. It [...] gives your skin kind of a nice bronze glow that's not like over the top. [...] I kind of like it, it gives me a little bit of glow which is fine on days I'm not using a tinted sunscreen or anything like that or mixing in a bronzer. It feels really nice."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Benton Deep Green Tea Serum

"The Benton Deep Green Tea Serum is absolutely wonderful. [...] It's got a little bit of a thicker texture compared to the isntree, so drier skin might like this one a little bit better and oily skin might be a better friend of that one."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Stratia C+C Serum

"The only product I didn't love was their uh C vitamin C serum I just thought it was a little thick"

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Neutrogena Bright Boost Illuminating Face Serum

"I've got the Neutrogena Bright Boost. This one, simple thing, it was too scented, very scented, strongly fragranced. I couldn't get through testing a ton. I can handle like vanilla, I can handle herbal scents, but it's like this stuff is bad. So I couldn't review this one very well."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Perricone MD Cold Plasma Plus Advanced Serum Concentrate

"This one's not a must have, certainly given the price, the jar packaging, the fragrance, the ridiculous price, the ridiculous math on the small size jar sizes, the acneic ingredients. It's just nothing in here for me that I really ever want to test again. There's other Perricone MD products I'll certainly test and review, typically they're so expensive you don't get very excited about them, but if they're in a sale or something and maybe I'll pick something up in the future."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

PSA Skin GOALS Multi Acids & Probiotics Perfecting Night Serum

"It's the PSA Skin GOALS, this one's 46 bucks so it's about half the price. [...] I really really enjoy this brand, they're the cousin brand to Allies of Skin, the more affordable lineup. This one's got a 12% blend in here with glycolic acid, gluconolactone, lactic acid, and salicylic acid. Gluconolactone is more of a PHA exfoliant which makes it even more gentle. [...] So this one's really nice, it's got all of it going on, proper pH, serum-like texture, very lovely product."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Maelove Fade Away Dark Spot Correcting Serum

"I didn't find it to be terribly efficient and effective for me. [...] In terms of the price, the full size 1 oz retails for 40 bucks, so in my opinion just over the edge of being too pricey. [...] Overall I found this to be an average brightening serum. I think it's highly likely for a lot of people that could irritate their skin, so that's a chance some of you may not want to take. It may work better for others than it did for me."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Green Machine Jelly Oil Serum

"The In Beauty Project Green Machine Jelly Oil Serum is listed as an alternative or dupe for brightening serums, though I personally didn't have that good of luck with it."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Nineless A-Control 10% Azelaic Acid Serum

"They also came with the kic acid serum which I've ordered as well uh these are both wonderful"

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Dream Oasis Deep Hydration Serum

"I think the closest dupe I found was the Summer Fridays Dream Oasis Deep Hydration Serum, very similar to this as well."

~Mixed

86%Guru Score

Dr Idriss Depuffer Redness Reducing & Depuffing Roll-On Serum

"I think this helps a little bit with redness, but the effects on puffiness might be more from the cooling feeling of the metal roller as opposed to some of the ingredients. The main [...] skin soothing ingredients are the oat kernel, green tea, and centella, but they don't necessarily have something I consider to be proven as a de-puffing ingredient. There are some impressive before and afters from people, but mine I didn't think were super impressive."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Potent-C™ Niacinamide Discoloration Treatment

"I picked up the Peter Thomas Roth Potent-C Niacinamide Discoloration Treatment and this one's multiple times the price. [...] I wish I would have known Good Molecules was coming out with that before I picked this up because I think this was something like 60 bucks. [...] It's got a lotion texture to it so you're going to want to apply it typically in your morning routine, but then apply a moisturizer and sunscreen over it."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented

"If you're trustworthy of Purito after everything that happened, some people still aren't, some people forgive and forget. [...] I gave it a seven out of ten, a very nice product. I'll certainly finish it. If it was half the price I'd probably repurchase it at some point, but it's still kind of expensive."

~Mixed

84%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Sensitive Skin Serum

"Very light, light, light product, I like the water light texture. I think for the summer and spring it will be a nice product for that as well. If you have super dry skin or live in a very dry climate it may not be enough, but if you use it under a good moisturizer it seems to do a good job. [...] Once it soaks in it sets to a natural, slightly matte finish that is slightly tacky but really non-greasy or anything like that, so love it, wonderful, very easy to use, really enjoy it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Oil-Free Mattifying Gel

"First Aid Beauty Oil Free Mattifying Gel, which didn't mattify much. I picked them up at like TJ Maxx [...] for I think like five bucks or something. I just bring these when I travel because I just use them as a light body moisturizer. I brought these with me to El Salvador and just finished them up using them just on my body and it seems to do a decent job. It's a little on the sticky side but it's just the perfect size for body moisturizer."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Youth to the People Future Poly Peptide Cream

"This stuff is really enjoyable. The one thing is it does tend to, if you pick this up and you're going to start using it, finish it as fast as you can because it starts to kind of gel up and thicken if you don't use it too fast. I've had a couple of their moisturizers dry up before I could finish them."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Peptide Skin Injection Moisture Infusion Cream

"The Peter Thomas Roth skin injection moisture infusing cream which I have yet to try"

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Vitamin C5 Serum

"This one I wanted to love so much. [...] It's got the five vitamin C versions in here but it's got too much fragrance in here. So if they took the fragrance out this could be an awesome product, I'd hands down recommend it. Or if you're not sensitive to fragrance it's great. If you're not. But I am and yeah, can't use it."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Tatcha Violet-C Brightening Serum

"They had a vitamin C serum that I absolutely loved, picked it up the first run it was amazing, then after I finished it a few months later went to repurchase it and it's orange, it's dark brown, it's awful. So [...] that's why I'm paranoid about buying vitamin C serums because their vitamin C is unstable and it goes bad fast. [...] There's only a few brands at this point I really trust to have it fresh and Tatcha isn't one of them. But a lot of people have had very good luck with it."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

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

"I do believe it helps brighten up my skin, helps with melasma and hyperpigmentation in my opinion. This helps with newer dark spots better. A lot of stubborn old dark spots need something much stronger sometimes and sometimes with higher percentages and more frequency, so I think this helps for newer hyperpigmentation. For super old hyperpigmentation I think there's probably going to be other products that are a little bit better, but there's nothing wrong with trying this out."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Bounce Boosting Serum

"The Bounce Boosting Serum, I think this one is like $44. This is another one I finished off on my neck and the few days on my face I wasn't really impressed with it. I didn't hate it, it has a nice texture, but for the price there's better products, especially like other brands that have stuff that's better for anti-aging things like that. It's nice and hydrating but it's nothing to write home about in my opinion."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Sunday Riley C.E.O. Rapid Flash Brightening Serum

"Sunday Riley is a good brand. I would say 75% of their products are really great and 25% of them are just not super wonderful. All of their products are very expensive, but they have some real winners that people really enjoy. Their exfoliating serum is just a winner. A lot of people absolutely love it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

I'm From Honey Serum

"The Honey Serum has geranium, lemon, and citrus as well as cinnamon bark, which is a lot of fragrance that just isn't good for your skin."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Hada Labo Natural Repair Serum

"One of my favorite serums of all time, the Hada Labo Natural Repair Serum. This [...] one's got ginseng, panthenol, sorbic acid, polypeptide, lactobacillus ferment, as well as several amino acids. [...] This stuff is wonderful. [...] It's got a really nice gel texture, really just wonderful multitasking product."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Good Molecules Bakuchiol Oil Blend for Oily Skin

"The Good Molecules Bakuchiol Oil for oily skin contains [...] rose hip oil as the main ingredient and also has Bakuchiol, maybe Jojoba oil in here. It's really affordable, really nice oil. They've also got a version for dry skin as well, but I don't think that version has rose hip oil. I think it's got different oil in it. A couple drops, mix it with moisturizer, pat it onto your skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Goodal Green Tangerine Vitamin C Dark Spot Care Serum

"Tangerine C line ton of stuff everything else is scented"

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Isntree Ultra Low Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"This one's another one with ahas bhas phas and lhas as well as niacinamide [allantoin] and charcoal water so this one turns out to look like charcoal when you apply it"

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Kopari Coconut Oil

"Kopari, that brand came out with just coconut products to begin with, and some people might be able to slather all that over their skin for days and days and days and weeks and not have any issues. And then there might be some somebody that slathers Coconut Oil on and breaks out the next morning. So it depends on the person."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

The Ordinary Azelaic Acid 2% + Niacinamide 2% Solution

"What makes this one kind of unique aside from the price is the fact that it also has snail mucin in here. It also has centella asiatica in here, so it has some other nice calming ingredients aside from the azelaic acid, but I think the fact that they have snail mucin in here is what really makes me love it. It's got kind of that goopy texture to it that snail mucin has. It has bergamot extract in here, so I want to mention that if you're super sensitive to bergamot, keep that in mind."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous B-Bomb Niacinamide Serum

"They list the amount of actives in each product which is really wonderful, they're 10% B-Bomb Niacinamide Serum, 15% Seagow. They list the percentages. Their liquid exfoliants are absolutely winners, um they do a great job. And better yet the brand makes all their products very affordable. So those are absolutely worth checking out, they're all very affordable. Their products are fragrance free."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Niche Beauty Labs Copper Peptide Serum

"This stuff is really wonderful. I love it. I picked it up and once I tried it after a few days I picked up a backup of it. [...] It's 50 bucks, it's 1 ounce, and it's 3% copper peptide so you won't find a lot of other products out there that's 3% copper peptide. The most you typically see is 2% and a lot of products are under that. It's nice and bright and blue and you kind of look a little bit like a Smurf until it soaks in but it's really wonderful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

AXIS-Y Dark Spot Correcting Glow Serum

"This one I was disappointed. I didn't find the ingredient list to be super loaded with brightening ingredients. I think the main ingredient might have been niacinamide, and that was really about it. I didn't find much benefit from it at all, so it was a disappointment. A lot of people love it, but if you have newer hyperpigmentation that's not stubborn, it might do the trick. For me, no, [...] that was a loser."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Omega Plus Recovery Complex Serum

"Paula's Choice Omega Plus Recovery Complex Serum which is $44. So it this one is expensive however it's half the price of the Tatcha. In here we've got Omega fatty acids we've got the ceramides we've got the sodium hyaluronate and we've got the rice. In terms of that it's very similar and it's also fragrance-free just like the Tatcha is. This one's really nice and it's a nice option and dupe for some other products as well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Calm Repairing Serum

"Paula's Choice Calm Repairing Serum, it's $44, it's a really wonderful product. [...] What's nice about this one is it's nice for all skin types so if you have oilier skin it's really nice and hydrating without feeling greasy or sticky or anything like that. In here we've got ceramides, we've got beta glucan, Feverfew, licorice root, and then sea whip extract which is also a soothing ingredient which I don't see very often."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The Ordinary Pycnogenol 5% and Ectoin Micro Emulsion

"It's a super strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-carcinogenic ingredient, so it makes it perfect for your morning routine. You can mix in a drop into a moisturizer or a serum, or dab it on your face a little bit. [...] It also can provide photo protection for skin, which in my opinion makes it wonderful for daytime use because that's when you're out in the sun and your skin is exposed to the sun and other pollutants. [...] This one comes in at $11.50."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Cocokind Chlorophyll Serum

"Feels nice"

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

BYOMA Hydrating Serum

"The BYOMA Hydrating Serum contains squalane, ceramide, ceramide, licorice root, and vitamin E."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

R&W Ceramide Concentrate Plus

"I've repurchased a few times the R&W Ceramide Concentrate Plus. It's got ceramide, beetroot, oat beta glucan, peptides, and avocado oil. Ceramides are great for repairing your skin barrier, especially if you've damaged it either due to winter dryness, exfoliants, retinoids, actives, just dry skin, or certain procedures can damage your skin barrier. So if your skin barrier is damaged you'll probably know it because your skin will be dry, rough, flaky, red."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Skin Better Alto Defense Antioxidant and Repair Serum

"I like the Skin Better Alto Defense."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sunday Riley B3 Nice 10% Niacinamide Serum

"The Sunday Riley one definitely has a scent to me that smells like toilet bowl cleaner and I don't know why that's just what it smells like"

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Kiehl's Powerful Strength Vitamin C Line Reducing Concentrate

"It's got again the small amount of vitamin C, and it also has the orange peel oil that the Kiehl's offers. But in my opinion, there's one that's world's better than the Kiehl's."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100 Collagen

"People when they use this will notice a tingling, which is probably more from one main ingredient, and [...] that ingredient is hydrolyzed sponge. I have only seen that in a few other products, but I've only tried one other product with that in there. [...] When the sponge, I think it's taken from [...] a sea life like a sponge that grows in the oceans, or perhaps they're grown now."

~Mixed

59%Guru Score

PSA Skin Visible Improvement Serum

"PSA Visible Improvement Serum is absolutely wonderful, amazing combination of peptides in here, beta glucan, no sodium hyaluronic, none of that stuff, fragrance free, pretty affordable."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Minimalist 10% HA Serum

"This is their 10% HA Serum. It's got glycolic acid, sodium hyaluronic, turmeric, and lactic acid as well. I'm kind of excited about this. I love good exfoliants and the price is pretty good on these."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Depology Peptide Complex 10% Wrinkle Defense Serum

"The lavender oil is very apparent, so for people with sensitive skin or don't like essential oils, the peptide 10% might be out of the running."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Serum

"I loved the Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Serum and I could have continued using this line forever. I really liked the vegan serum line because it was fragrance free. However, Pacifica slowly discontinued it and phased it out. I could not find this product for sale anywhere except on Amazon sold by some random third party seller. [...] I didn't want to continue to fall in love with it more, so I found my next product instead."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary High Strength Vitamin C in Hyaluronic Acid (Ethylated Ascorbic Acid 15% Solution)

"With Ethyl ascorbic acid, in my opinion this one was a pass. I wish I wouldn't have purchased it. I wish [...] I wouldn't have spent the money on this. That's four or five bottles of something gorgeous I could have had instead, which is much better on so many levels. With a 10 being a perfect score, I give this one a five. It's terrible. And this one I won't even hand down to anybody, because I [...] question many things about this formula, and that's really it."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Radiance Brightening Antioxidant-C Face Serum

"I've given this product a four out of 10. I do believe it did the worst this year. I'm not impressed with it. I'm surprised they're still selling it, to be honest, and I kind of regret buying it to begin with because my skin didn't like it at all."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

SkinFix Triple Lipid Collagen Activating Serum

"I use this as a nighttime moisturizer and I really like it. I like the pump on this because I can get every last bit out. [...] I would repurchase this. It's pricey, but I would repurchase it. [...] I was able to get three of these little samples through Sephora which ended up adding up to the size of the full size, which is like 70 or 80 bucks or something expensive, so I was pretty happy with that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Tatcha Luminous Silk Serum

"The winner for most disappointed product, and they're a winner yet a loser at the same time, kind of ironic, is the Tatcha Silk Serum. You know what, at least the other products would set you back a hundred bucks."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Light On Serum: Centella + Vitamin C

"This one's okay. It's got a nice texture, super light, which is nice. [...] No fragrance, super light texture, got kind of a gel texture to it. They don't use ascorbic acid, which is my personal favorite type of vitamin C, and to be honest I didn't notice a ton of brightening. [...] It does have a nice texture, it has some moisturizing benefits and things like that, but the form of vitamin C they used in it just didn't overly impress me. [...] It just isn't the most exciting vitamin C serum."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Peace Out Dark Spot Serum

"It's got an impressive list of ingredients. We've got mandelic acid which is a good exfoliant, a lot of exfoliants can help remove kind of that resurfacing and help with skin tone. We've got mandelic acid, we've got tranexamic acid, we've got alpha arbutin, CIC acid, niacinamide, and then bakuchiol which helps kind of with surfacing and fine lines and everything else like that. So this one is really nice and it's pretty affordable, especially for one sold at Sephora."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.3 Skin Softening Serum

"We've got a couple ingredients of note: squalane, glycerol, steroid, and then carbomer, nothing terribly alarming there. In terms of the price, the full size 50ml, 1.7oz retails for about $19, so it's a pretty good deal. A little bit of this goes a long way; a bottle will last you forever. In terms of the it factor, I really like this one."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Clinique Smart Clinical Repair Wrinkle Correcting Serum

"We've got the Clinique smart clinical repair Wrinkle Serum the Sunday Riley A+ highd do retinoid serum which is like what 100 bucks"

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Peptide 21 Serum

"The closest one I could find was the Peter Thomas Roth Peptide 21 Serum, which actually is about the same price with not nearly as exciting ingredients in it and that one's got fragrance in it."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Effaclar Ultra Concentrated Serum

"I bought the La Roche-Posay Effaclar Ultra Concentrated Serum and noticed these white things inside. To me, I wouldn't use that. It looks like mold or mildew or something like that."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

PSA Skin Midnight Courage Oil

"The PSA Skin Midnight Courage is also kind of a retinol product but it also contains that pomegranate oil, it's a really lovely hydrating oil and it's great for calming and wrinkles and anti-aging. [...] I really like most of PSA Skin's products, I've tried most, I think I've tried all of them and so far they've all impressed me and a couple of their products are definite Holy Grail status. If you haven't tried it, this one is well worth checking out."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Heavenly 16 All-in-One Face Oil

"The Summer Fridays Heavenly 16 All-in-One Face Oil contains 16 different oils and it's really nice and hydrating but not feeling terribly greasy. I use this sometimes at the end of my routine. [...] This one contains pomegranate as well as several other good fruit oils, so if you're into fruits, the Summer Fridays is certainly one worth checking out."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Cocokind Ceramide Barrier Serum

"We've got banana, aloe, squalane, several ceramides, sunflower oil, and most of these I think all of these are fragrance free and free from denatured types of alcohol just because some of those can be sometimes more drying or fragrance can be irritating. This stuff is wonderful, really hydrating. If you haven't checked it out, it's well worth it and it's super affordable too."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.3 Vitamin Concentrated Serum

"Numbuzin is [...] cruelty-free. [...] In terms of performance, this one feels super calming and hydrating on my skin, which is really nice. It's unlike a lot of other vitamin C serums, a lot of vitamin C serums don't feel super calming or hydrating on your skin. They give you a glow, they help with hyperpigmentation, but they don't feel that great on your skin. Most of them don't, some do but most of them don't. I do believe this helps brighten my skin a bit. My skin enjoys this one."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

SkinBetter Science Trio Rebalancing Moisture Treatment

"The skin better Trio moisture treatment and skin better is a pretty expensive brand"

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Matter of Fact Vitamin C Serum

"In my opinion, this brand is just a crystal clear money grab. [...] Paul claims to have spent his time working on making ingredients, specifically mentioned vitamin C, more efficacy and more efficient, as if SkinCeuticals and a hundred thousand million other brands and companies haven't spent time on this. Looking at his Vitamin C formula, it looks very similar to the Ordinary. If you search for dupes for it, the Geek and Gorgeous C Glow is a very close dupe to it."

✕Nay

48%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL 0.05% Serum

"Aveeno's retinol serum is also really nice. Both of these products are great, and you can't go wrong with them. They're both more expensive, but they're really great for sensitive skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5

"Their EUK serum, this stuff to me felt a little too hydrating or slippery and it took a long time to absorb, so I didn't absolutely love that one."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

The Ordinary Vitamin C 30% in Silicone

"The vitamin C 30 suspension felt grainy and gritty on my skin"

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

Round Lab Mugwort Serum

"The Mugwort Serum again has that scent to it so maybe for oily or non-sensitive skin this one might be a winner but for me it just didn't tick any of my major boxes off but it's not necessarily a bad product just isn't geared towards my skin type."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Mad Hippie Vitamin C Serum

"I really enjoy this one. It's a very light texture, like water light texture. It uses sea buckthorn in there as well as niacinamide, which makes it kind of nice and light and easy to fit into the routine."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Summer Fridays CC Me Vitamin C Serum

"I like this, the Summer Fridays CC serum. It's nice."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair Vitamin C Serum Capsules

"The Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair Vitamin C Serum Capsules retail for 43 dollars and these are handy because they come in these little capsule things and you can just pack them up. I'm going to the cabin this weekend and I'm just going to pack a couple of these instead of bringing a whole bottle with, and then you can just open each one as you use them, so they're really handy for that. [...] It's got a lotion texture to it, so it doesn't have that serum texture, but it's always fresh."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Biossance Squalane + Vitamin C Rose Oil

"I didn't love this one. [...] It just doesn't stand out. I'm not a big fan of rose in my skincare."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Allies of Skin 35% Vitamin C Perfecting Serum

"The Allies of Skin Vitamin C 35 Collagen Building is really wonderful. They use Tetra hexyl Decyl Ascorbate as well as ethyl ascorbic acid. It's very expensive though, and it does tend to be a little bit greasy. For collagen building, ascorbic acid has been proven to build collagen in your skin. The derivatives I'm not so sold that those are totally gonna do the trick."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Dr. Brenner Vitamin C Serum

"Dr. Brenner Vitamin C Serum retails for 20 dollars. This one's 20 percent L-ascorbic acid and also contains ferulic acid, vitamin E, and hyaluronic acid. You want to see in a Vitamin C Serum ferulic acid and vitamin E because those can sometimes really increase the amount of photoprotection you get with L-ascorbic acid, which is protecting your skin from UV damage. When you see those other ingredients in there, be happy because that's what you want in there."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

SkinMedica TNS Essential Serum

"I really enjoy that stuff. I've probably repurchased it, probably bought it four times. [...] This is one of the closest similar products I've found. It takes a little bit more time to notice the benefits like with SkinMedica TNS within a week, but this takes a little bit longer, a couple weeks, but with the money saved and the extra product in here it's well worth it. With a little time you notice it helps with fine lines, brightness, texture, puffiness, redness."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous C-Glow 15% Vitamin C Serum

"This one contains 15% ascorbic acid with ferulic acid and vitamin E. [...] They manufacture every week and it always arrives very fresh, virtually clear, and it lasts a long time. If you store it in your fridge, it lasts even longer and I love it. [...] It fits all the requirements and this is my daily go-to."

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83%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Power Peptides Pro Collagen Multi Peptide Serum

"It's really wonderful, lightweight. It instantly gives skin a plumped appearance and a little bit of a radiant glow, which is really nice. I really love this stuff. It's super affordable. It's about 16 bucks or so. [...] Using this one I used this a lot when it first came out and then I kind of tested other stuff, but I will say this one seemed to help thicken my skin up a bit. I tend to have skin that is on the thinning side, [...] and this helped thicken it up."

✓Yay
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82%Guru Score

Theramid Derma Peptides 22% Multi-Peptide Treatment

"I have the Theramid Derma Peptides and I really enjoy that too. The [...] formula is great and very budget friendly, and it comes in giant massive bottles that will last you a long time."

✓Yay
Sponsored

84%Guru Score

Theramid 3% Copper Peptide Serum

"But overall, it's very nice. It's very silky. I really like this one during the winter when my skin needs a little bit extra hydration. It's very beneficial for skin and wound healing, especially. I love that I can use this one with microneedling to help fade the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. I appreciate the combination of the additional peptides they threw in here and amino acids. It's really great for your skin. I can tell a difference on my skin when I use this. It's a game changer."

✓Yay
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79%Guru Score

Theramid Tetramid C.E.F Intensive Vitamin C Treatment Serum

"A nine out of ten being a perfect score. [...] It's a very nice product. I think people have good luck with it."

✓Yay
Sponsored

81%Guru Score

Stratia Rewind DMAE Serum

"Stratia Skin Rewind DMAE Serum is great."

✓Yay
Sponsored

91%Guru Score

Theramid 15% Azelaic Acid Treatment

"1 oz, 30 milliliters is about 25 bucks. I used this stuff last night, really lovely serum. Azelaic acid is a wonderful ingredient if you can add it to your routine, I highly recommend it. It's great for so many different things, it's great for brightening skin, it's great for redness, it's great for rosacea, it's great for acne-prone skin, and it really helped brighten my skin up a ton. No fragrance in it, very nice product, and they have good fun packaging."

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85%Guru Score

Theramid High-Dose Ceramide Treatment

"This one is the big size 1.7 oz for $44, and it's got kind of a lotion texture to it, feels really nice, soaks in quickly. [...] All these products are unscented, so that's nice. That's what I like about this brand a lot is if you have sensitive skin they're going to be pretty friendly. They don't have tons of alcohols or fragrance and things like that."

✓Yay
Sponsored

84%Guru Score

Theramid Clinical Vitamin A Treatment

"It's got retinal so we've got three different retinoids in there, we've got vitamin E, we've got jojoba esters. It's pretty affordable, it's 28 bucks, you can't beat that, and a little bit of it goes a long way. It's got a nice lotion texture to it. [...] Very nice retinol without any fragrance or anything like that in there."

✓Yay
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87%Guru Score

Theramid Lab Smoothing Treatment

"Very lovely exfoliating product with a serum watery texture. It's got a pH of 3ish which is where you want it to be for mandelic acid so they did good on that."

✓Yay
Sponsored

75%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"The new version is going to be better unless you're allergic to Amino amino acids amino masses are great for your skin they're the building blocks of your skin"

✓Yay
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74%Guru Score

Moisturizers179 reviews

COSRX Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream (Sensitive Skin)

"I love the tube packaging. So much better than the jar. This is one of my most repurchased products, and I've been using it for probably a decade now, and I don't see any need to replace it with anything else. It's great on its own, love it, use it a lot."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Dynasty Cream

"They changed it, and now it's in a tube. [...] Now that they've changed it, I've tested it and I do like it a little bit more. It's really nice."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Krave Beauty Oat So Simple Water Cream

"The Oat So Simple Water Cream [...] is really amazing, and I still remember it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream

"Actually, this one, their Ultra Repair Cream, contains eucalyptus oil, which is a sensitizing essential oil. [...] It's marketed for eczema-prone skin, but it contains a highly potentially irritating essential oil. I've had people reach out to me saying they finally figured it out, removed it from their routine, and their eczema got better."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.3 Gold 3D Firming Cream

"It also has gold, which [...] I'm not exactly sure [...] has a lot of skin care benefits on its own, but it looks pretty, and has tons of peptides, vitamin E, copper peptides, copper powder, and iron powder. It also has titanium dioxide and mica to give it a sheer look. [...] It feels super silky, soaks in nice, and [...] kind of softens your appearance. The mica and titanium dioxide almost have a little primer benefit, and this might actually be a really good primer for makeup."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Cream

"Their triple lipid peptide cream, [...] this one's really nice. It's just a thick barrier cream. It's about 54 dollars. It's fragrance-free. [...] If you've got dry skin, this is really wonderful. You have oily skin, they also have an oily skin version, and they also have a whipped version for combo skin. So they have a moisturizer that will work for every skin type and it's just lovely."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Then I Met You Renewing Rich Beauty Cream

"I emailed them asking if they reformulated this, and they said fragrance is ours in there. They just didn't list it because it fell under a certain threshold that they didn't have to list it in the label. So [...] since the laws changed, they had to disclose that it had fragrance. Meanwhile, people reviewed it thinking it was fragrance free and unscented and didn't know the truth and they didn't do anything to correct this. So don't trust them."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Kopari Moisture Whipped Ceramide Cream

"It's just a fragrance-free super thick cream. It's got baobab oil. It's got ceramides, watermelon seed oil, which is super great. It's also a good antioxidant and soothing ingredient. It's got jojoba oil, shea butter, aloe and vitamin E. If you have acne-prone skin, I would probably recommend passing on it, but if you have super dry skin that's not super prone to breakouts, it's really nice for fall and winter and no scent or anything like that."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream

"I've had a little bit of issues with the Protini foaming up before, especially in a routine with vitamin C, but I didn't have any issues with that today. It applied really nicely, it doesn't look too greasy, it looks like a nice natural finish, and there's no fragrance in it, and it's got some nice anti-aging peptides. The Protini played great over my vitamin C serum, I don't know why I had issues with it foaming up before, but it seems to be a winner today."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Medik8 Advanced Night Ceramide Cream

"For beneficial ingredients it's got ceramides, vitamin E, acetyl glucosamine, mushroom extract, and chamomile, but a lot of those can be found in the Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream for about a quarter of the price, without all the fragrance ingredients. [...] This one was a clear loss for me. I tested it out a couple times and [...] I wasn't impressed with it, I didn't like the fragrance in it."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Alpyn Beauty Super Peptide and Ghostberry Moisturizer

"So, yeah, certainly worth checking out. Um, Okay, next up is my pick for dehydrated skin or skin with a damaged skin barrier. It's really nice. It's got over 10 different peptides. It has nice niacinamide. It's got ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, resveratrol. It's a great daytime moisturizer and really nice for acne prone skin. I really enjoy it for that. It is on the more pricey side. It's a little around $62. So, a little bit pricey, but this one I would prefer over the Drunk Elephant."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Peptide Pro Firming Moisturizer

"The reason I'd say it's great for puffy skin is because it contains the EyeSeryl peptide as well as the EyeLiss peptide duo, and those are both great for a puffy eye area. [...] In addition, it's got copper peptides, argireline, epidermal growth factor peptide, Matrixyl, and turmeric. It does have a very super light scent, [...] I thought it had bergamot fruit oil in it, but I'm starting to think I'm incorrect, so I'll update that in the listing. But yeah, really nice product."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Prequel Half & Half Peptides & Ceramides Fluid Moisturizer

"It also has rice protein, ceramides, squalane, and several amino acids for the skin barrier. It absorbs easily without feeling heavy or leaving residue, leaves a natural supple finish, and can be used alone or layered under moisturizer, so it works for both dry and oily skin types. [...] Sometimes when I'm really tired I just apply a good layer of this and feel like I've done all I need for anti-aging and hydration. Love it, 26 bucks, you can't beat that, [...] it's almost 6 oz."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Cica Cream

"The Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Hyalu-Cica Firming Cream, I've tried that too and I like that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dr. Althea 345 Relief Cream

"In terms of the it factor, I didn't love this product, I wasn't overly impressed, I just find it more of a moisturizer. That being said, it probably isn't geared towards my skin type, but if you really do have acne-prone skin, there are a lot of ingredients that are actually really gold standard treatments for acne. [...] This one's got a different ingredient list everywhere, so it's really hard to compare."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Ultra Night Cream

"Listed as a dupe and alternative to the Skinfix cream, described as a nice option."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

belif True Cream Moisturizing Bomb

"The belif True Cream Moisturizing Bomb [...] is a dupe and alternative, which I actually really like. It's got a much longer ingredient list than this one."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Firming Collagen Cream

"Listed as a dupe with similar ingredients to the Skinfix cream, but the texture is much heavier."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier Balancing Water Cream Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid

"A jar like this will last a long time because a little bit of it goes a very long way. [...] It's nice. [...] It's felt really nice during this humid weather. There's some moisturizer you put on and you go out when it's really humid out and you can feel it on your skin. This stuff doesn't do that, so it's really nice for the hot and humid weather we've had recently. I love it for that."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Celimax Dual Barrier Skin Wearable Cream

"It's not the most exciting ingredient list but it is a barrier-repairing moisturizer with a lot of barrier-repairing ingredients and ceramides and skin-identical ingredients. Sometimes for sensitive skin, simple is better. It provides hydration without leaving skin looking or feeling greasy, and once it soaks in it looks natural, great finish, and works nice under sunscreen. It delivers on the promises of replenishing your skin barrier for dewy plump hydrated healthy-looking skin."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

iUNIK Beta Glucan 3X Barrier Cream

"I gave this a nine. My only point lost was the jar packaging, but otherwise this is a wonderful product."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Skin1004 Probio-Cica Rich Cream

"It's got ceramides and macadamia nut oil as well. [...] It's really [...] on the thick side, so I typically use this one as an evening moisturizer. Sometimes if you're going to use retinoids, this one's great for the sandwich method of retinoids to use a thick moisturizer, then use your retinoid and then another thick moisturizer to kind of seal it in and help prevent against dryness, flakiness, and all that good stuff."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Red Bean Water Gel

"It's also got over 10 different amino acids, which are great for barrier repairing, plumping the skin up, and all of that. It's got a wonderful gel texture to it, which is what I love about it. The gel texture just applies so nicely. I'm actually using it today underneath my sunscreen and foundation. Really nice product, not too oily. Love the gel texture to it."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

COSRX AC Collection Ultimate Spot Cream

"I've had that with azelaic acid and it's been really helpful for brightening up my hyperpigmentation and melasma. We also have panthenol for soothing and then licorice root which is another great soothing and brightening ingredient. [...] It's on the thicker side but not too thick. It doesn't feel greasy or anything like that. 20% azelaic acid is [...] about as high as you want to go, but wonderful stuff and pretty darn affordable at 12 bucks."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Neogen Hyal-Rewind Exosome Cream

"The Neoen High Exoome Cream [...] is great for anti-aging. It's 19 bucks, fragrance and alcohol-free, with great anti-aging ingredients including resveratrol, [...] synake peptide, copper peptides, matrixel, matrixel 3000 peptide duo which are known for their Botox in a jar type peptides, ferulic acid, centella, vitamin E, and a couple different types of vitamin C. It's got a really nice texture to it, which is great for pretty much most skin types."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Prequel Anti-Itch Solution Medicated Calming Lotion

"It has promoxine hydrochloride, which is an anti-itch ingredient, but it's not a steroid. Steroids can really, if you use them too much, too long, they thin the skin out and really aren't great for skin on a regular basis. It also has ceramides and the simal ingredient, which is a great soothing [...] peptide that's known to soothe skin. It [...] alleviates itching associated with minor burns, cuts, sunburn, scrapes, and insect bites. That's exactly what I need."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Laneige Balance Mode Shine Control Pore Minimizing Lightweight Moisturizer

"It looks pretty good overall. I haven't bought a new Laneige product in quite a while, so this could be time. I can't remember the last time I actually bought a Laneige product. They've got a lot of their lip mask in beauty boxes and things like that, but the last time I actually went and purchased something from them has been a while. Since they launched at Sephora, some of their stuff kind of got a little bit less affordable than some of the other K-beauty alternatives out there."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Mary&May Spicule Collagen PDRN Cream

"Has no scent. Feels really nice and silky. Actually, I'm kind of impressed. Feels really silky on your skin, which is really nice. [...] We've got slip ingredients, macadamia nut oil, which is great for your skin, vitamin E, allantoin, great soothing ingredient, some fatty acids, squalane, which is a great soothing ingredient, arginine, great skin-identical ingredient. Collagen, which is great for hydrating your skin. You can't apply collagen to make collagen, but it's great for hydrating."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Isntree Gem PDRN Hydro Firming Cream

"It's got the perfect amount of slip where you can smooth over your skin, but it doesn't look or feel greasy or anything like that. Good ingredients, squalane, niacinamide. [...] Sodium hyaluronate, we've got some antioxidants, we've got a ton of peptides, copper peptide, the argireline peptide, ectoin. Ectoin is a wonderful ingredient. It's in my top 10 ingredients for sure. And then I think the Matrixyl 3000 peptides, sodium hyaluronate. It feels really nice. I like that."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Topicals Faded Brightening & Clearing Gel

"The faded topicals, unscented. It's 28 bucks. It's got tranexamic acid, salicylic acid, niacinamide, kojic acid, oxidized glutathione. It's got chromanol palmitate, which is a brightening photoprotective ingredient, arbutin, licorice fruit, and melatonin. It's a good multi-purpose brightening serum that works well in your routine morning or evening or certainly even both if you want to do that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Vichy Mineral 89 48-Hour Moisture Boosting Matte Sorbet

"I just think for super oily skin, I don't think denatured alcohol is the best way to go. In fact, sometimes I think for some people it can be over-drying, and then your skin may freak out and then produce more oil. [...] If you've got very oily skin, I think going a little bit easier, finding a good one type one step moisturizer, like a fluid moisturizer, that might be enough for your serum, toner, and moisturizer."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream

"The Drunk Elephant Bora Barrier Cream, which I didn't love, but maybe I'll try it again."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Rice Lipids + Ectoin Micro Emulsion

"It's their rice lipids and ectoine microemulsion which will be 10 bucks. It's really nice water-based serum. It's supposed to help with redness and dehydrated skin as well. It contains rice extract which is really great hydrating ingredient and contains jojoba seed oil which is a really nice oil which is also kind of more friendly for acne-prone skin. Contains ectoine, urea and then several amino acids which are great for barrier repair and hydrating skin."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Purito Deep Sea Pure Water Cream

"This one's got chamomile for soothing, [allantoin] for soothing. It's got gazelene, which is a really nice strong soothing ingredient. It's got mattoicide, great soothing, antioxidant, regenerating ingredient. It's got green tea as well as some peptides in there. It's really nice, really affordable. [...] My skin tolerated it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all sensitive skin will. I would say this one is more geared towards oily skin types."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

The INKEY List Omega Water Cream

"But it soaks in really nicely. This one plays really nicely under sunscreen. It's great morning or evening. This one I typically use a lot like on my neck and chest sometimes. I just find it really works there at night nicely. It's got a minimalist formula. So it doesn't have a ton of beneficial ingredients, but it's got niacinamide, panthenol, and then glycolipids, which are hydrating barrier repairing ingredients. It's really nice. No fragrance, short ingredient list."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

BYOMA Moisturizing Gel Cream

"They've got some really nice products. A lot of them tend to be fragrance-free. [...] And this one sets to a really, I would say, more of a matte finish. So pretty nice moisturizer. So it does tend to be sticky though. That's the one thing I'll point out. It tends to set to a little bit of a tacky finish, but it's got ceramides, green tea, it's got fatty acids, it's got panthenol. It's really wonderful for 16 bucks. The packaging is great."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

CeraVe Ultra-Light Moisturizing Gel

"This one can be nice, in my opinion. This one sets to such a nice finish. It can be used for women, gentlemen, everybody, and it works well underneath sunscreen. It's got such a really nice gel texture, absorbs quickly. You can't really tell you've applied anything. Some things leave a radiant finish. This does not. In my experience using it, it soaks in pretty quickly, which is nice. So in here we've got ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and vitamin E are the main stars of the show in this one."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Glass Skin Water Gel Moisturizer

"Got chamomile, great soothing ingredient. Kiwi extract, antioxidant brightening ingredient. Peach extract, obviously. [...] Mulberry extract, great brightening ingredient. Bamboo, nice soothing and hydrating ingredient. And betaglucan, great soothing antioxidant ingredient. So really wonderful product. I would say it sets to a natural finish. [...] Once it's soaked in, you can't really tell there's anything on there and it layers really nicely under sunscreen."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Astera Ato Barrier 365 Cream

"So what is that? That's a markup of about 13 bucks. Uh so that adds up quickly."

✕Nay

80%Guru Score

Anua Rice 70% Ceramide Moisturizing Milk

"This is my dry skin pick because it's got some nice hydrating ingredients in here. Doesn't leave your skin feeling greasy or anything like that, but it's nice for drier skin. In here we've got rice bran water, which is a great soothing ingredient and a great hydrating ingredient as well. We've got meadowfoam seed oil, coconut oil. Some people may not love coconut oil, but if you got super dry skin, coconut oil is great. And then rice seed protein and several ceramides."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream

"The Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream is 1.7 ounces for 15 bucks, so this one will save you $27. This stuff is wonderful. It's got shea butter, ceramides, sodium PCA, amino acids. It's one of the few fragrance-free products from Pacifica. This line from Pacifica I just absolutely love. So, highly recommend checking it out."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5

"Thicker texture. It's fragrance-free. It's got shea butter, micasside from [Centella], which gives it the Cica name, which great for soothing, and then vitamin E. It's wonderful. I can't tell you what tube number I'm on of this, but it's been a lot. It's really wonderful. It was one of the first products I really got started using that really seemed to make a difference for my dry skin."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Matte Moisturizer

"It's got silica in there and silica is great at soaking up and absorbing excess oil on the skin. So if you suffer from oily skin, this might be a nice moisturizer to use during your daytime routine and under sunscreens. It's also got niacinamide, which is an acne fighting ingredient. It's got ceramide and sodium hyaluronate. It's a pretty short ingredient list, but it is fragrance-free and really nice product for summer or for using underneath maybe a thick sunscreen or something like that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Curel Intensive Moisturizing Face Cream

"This one's a really nice product from Curel. It's fragrance-free. This one seems to be really friendly for acne prone skin. It's pretty short ingredient list. Got squalane, which is an antioxidant, lanolin, and vitamin E. A [...] little bit goes a long way, so you don't want to waste it. Really wonderful. I'm not crazy about the jar packaging, but overall it does a really nice job and it soaks in. It sets to a natural finish so it doesn't look like you have anything on."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Hydration Station Moisturizer

"If you have normal to oily skin, it's great, or for summer. This one's really nice for me for summer when I don't need quite as much moisture. In addition to ectoine, this one also has Bisabolol, which is a great soothing ingredient. It's got Allantoin, which is a great soothing ingredient, and xylitol, which is a sugar-derived humectant, a really nice product. It has a [...] really nice texture to it and ends up being a nice non-sticky finish."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Beauty Bay Colloidal Oatmeal Plus Oat Lipid Rich Moisturizer

"Beauty Bay had a really nice oat thick moisturizer, which is a nice alternative to Craves oats so simple water cream."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

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

"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."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea

"It's a nice moisturizing lotion that's lightweight, but it's got some good ingredients such as the urea, shea butter, ceramides, and vitamin E. It's fragrance-free. It is definitely on the lighter side. [...] I will layer this on days when my skin is really dry. I'll layer this underneath heavier creams because this has that urea in it which gives it the extra moisture and smoothness, and then to layer it with something that's even a little bit thicker gives my skin more moisture."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Silk Amino Mega Moisturizing Masque

"I love this conditioner, the Drunk Elephant Silk Amino Mega Moisturizing Masque. It's 30 bucks. I've repurchased this several times now. It's really just a nice mask, and your hair feels so silky and soft after using it. I like keeping it around. I use it maybe once every couple weeks just as a mask and then I'll rinse it out. It's got virtually no scent. It has vanilla which gives it a little bit of a vanilla scent, but that dissipates."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Vanicream Enhanced Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid and Ceramides

"I've been using it in my evening routine. When I get out of the shower, I apply a hyaluronic serum on my body when my skin's still damp. I will mist my face to keep that hydrated and keep it not getting too dry. And then I'll apply my moisturizer and then I go on to my skincare routine. But my body gets super dry, especially this time of year when the furnace is running constantly and it's cold and it's dry outside. This stuff is nice. No scent to it. Pretty affordable."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream

"Last but not least, my newest box of the Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream. I've been using this. This is probably one of the longest products I've been using in my routine at all, going back to when I got started into it."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Ultra Plush Rich Cream

"This one's nice and thick. There's also a serum version of it, which is a nice product as well. [...] It's pretty thick. [...] Pretty nice. Very good product. I like it. No scent to it. Not crazy about the jar packaging, but what are you going to do."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Glossier After Baume Moisture Recovery Cream

"A little bit of it goes a long way. [...] If you're applying it, you kind of want to melt it in between your fingers before you apply it to let it melt and then apply it. It's very nice if you want to apply it with your retinoid, whatever. Or just after treatments or exfoliants or peels or lasers, it's nice for that. They've got the recovery word in the title for it, which says it all."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion

"Their yellow dramatically different moisturizer is probably one of the ones that's been around the longest. [...] I remember in the '90s of Clinique becoming popular for sensitive skin and buying moisturizers thinking it would help my skin. My skin was obviously dry but it just was never enough to really make a difference. [...] I just kept thinking applying more moisturizer would help, and obviously we know now just moisturizer in and of itself for problematic skin is not enough."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion with Urea

"La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion with Urea is great for rough skin that may have some issues with exfoliation, such as the back of the arms and thighs. It's geared towards skin that needs hydration, as well as smoothing and softening."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Unique Beta Glucans Daily Moisture Cream

"It's got a thicker texture than I thought I would. Well, I guess it's a barrier cream, so that makes sense. Feels nice. Not as thick as the other barrier cream I've been testing recently, which is the bubble sock swerve. That is thick. This one is not nearly as thick, but it's still creamy."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Clinique Moisture Surge 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator

"I went on to Clinique their Moisture Surge moisturizer, which was a little bit better. However, I still needed the exfoliation, but didn't quite figure it out. This helped my skin a little bit. It was a little bit more hydrating than the yellow moisturizer. Um, and it was fragrance-free, which was great. It wasn't terribly expensive at the time, but it still quite wasn't enough because I'd still have flakiness and redness a little bit, and my skin was just needing a whole routine."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Happy Barrier Cream

"The Happy Barrier Cream is great for dry skin. It's a very simple but very nice moisturizer. I went through a good long phase of using this and I still use this a lot on my neck and chest and things."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA

"I love this moisturizer. It's got a wonderful gellish texture to it. The natural moisturizing factors plus HA is the lighter one on [...] the gel side, which seems to be not quite as moisturizing as I feel like I need right now with how dry everything's feeling. Everything feels nice and soft and smooth and feels good. Like I'm going to wake up with nice clean skin that feels so soft."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + Beta Glucan

"I love this moisturizer. It's got a wonderful gellish texture to it. [...] This one is a little bit [...] more on [...] the gel side, which seems to be quite moisturizing. [...] Everything feels nice and soft and smooth and feels good. I'm going to wake up with nice clean skin that feels so soft."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Remedy Barrier Repairing Rich Cream Moisturizer

"Glycerin, grape seed oil. I like that. Squalane, jojoba oil, ceramides. Got peptide in there. It looks like half of the Matrix 3000 peptide. Licorice root, which is great for brightening. And then some fatty acids and aloe leaf. Looks pretty nice. I would buy a full size of this. It feels really nice and silky on the skin."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Rich Barrier Moisturizer

"Peter Thomas Roth water drench cream. That's a great product overall. I don't like the packaging, but it is a good product."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Dr. Idriss Calm Back Cream

"I'd be interested to see if this peptide is in a lot of other products because 60 bucks for a moisturizer is on the high end, but that peptide looks like it really could be the real deal for skin health, fighting redness, irritation, maybe overused retinoids or exfoliants and your skin is irritated. This peptide looks quite promising. [...] So it looks interesting but expensive. If I saw another product that had that acetyl tetrapeptide in, I'd probably be intrigued to pick that up."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Purito Mighty Bamboo Panthenol Cream

"I give this one a 10 out of 10. It's pretty good for most skin types. Purio is putting out some amazing products. [...] If you have sensitive skin, this one's a nice one worth checking out. I definitely would recommend it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Tatcha Water Cream Oil-Free Pore Minimizing Moisturizer

"I like their water cream still. It's still a really nice moisturizer with a light fragrance and really nice."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot PDRN Capsule Cream

"This is a newer product to me. I haven't done a full review of it yet, [...] but it's got a really wonderful gel texture, which is nice. So if you like gel textured products, this one's probably friendlier for acne prone skin, too. The texture, it's super light. Soaks in quickly. Feels nice on your skin. And no scent."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Illiyoon Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream

"Another great one that's pretty friendly for most acne prone skin, the Illiyoon Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream, which is 11 bucks at Olive Young right now. [...] Fragrance free. We've got ceramide, ginseng, vitamin E, soybean oil, canola oil. This one's got a wonderful gel cream texture to it. [...] And the bottles of these are typically large, so you can use it face, neck, arms, wherever. You don't have to feel guilty using it everywhere."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"The CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion is fragrance free and alcohol free. The main beneficial ingredients are glycerin, niacinamide, ceramides, and hyaluronic acid. It's got a lotiony texture to it. [...] This one's still a really nice one. [...] In terms of affordability, it's a great affordable moisturizer if you're on a budget or if you have sensitive skin or don't want anything too fancy or using it with other products. It's nice and reliable."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Extreme Cream Anti-Aging, Firming & Lifting Moisturizer

"The In Beauty Project Extreme Cream, 1.7 ounces for 48 bucks. Fragrance free, alcohol free, cruelty-free. It's got squalane, bisabolol, panthenol, peptides, rice bran oil, and ceramides. This stuff's really nice, too. I really am enjoying this brand."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Alpyn Beauty Barrier Repair Cream

"The Alpyn Beauty Barrier Repair Cream, 1.7 ounces for 62 bucks. Fragrance free, alcohol free, cruelty-free, and vegan. The main component is glycerin, but then it's got the snap eight peptide, the argolene peptide, [squalane] rice brand snowberry extract. It's really nice, thick, creamy, love it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion

"The Daily Moisturizing Lotion has got a creamy gel texture to it. [...] This one's got water, glycerin, some fatty alcohols, ceramides, cholesterol. It's really nice, and it's pretty affordable too. It's definitely worth checking out."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Rescue Party Barrier Comfort Cream

"I recommend the Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Cream."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Rich Cream

"So this stuff is really nice to use. I have pretty dry skin, but sometimes I'll use it in the spring and summer. And the Rich Cream is probably a little bit more my favorite for winter, but this stuff's pretty nice for summer. [...] I like that it has no scent to it, but the little bit of alcohol in there for some people could be an issue or a no-go, but probably just depends."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

BYOMA Hydrating Milky Moisturizer

"This one's super nice and lightweight. [...] It feels really nice and hydrating, but not greasy. It's kind of tacky, I would say, because it's probably mostly soaked in and feels a little sticky, but it doesn't matter because I'm going to apply sunscreen over it anyway. No scent to it at all."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Peptide Night Cream

"Next up is the DRMTLGY Peptide Night Cream, which is about 46 bucks. It's a peptide enriched cream. It's fragrance free, great for sensitive skin. It's great for barrier repair as well. It's really nice. DRMTLGY has a lot of nice stuff."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Vanicream Moisturizing Lotion

"This is their Moisturizing Lotion, which I love. It's fragrance free and [...] it's a simple moisturizer. If you have super dry skin, they've got a thicker cream, too, which is nice. That's a nice brand, readily available at Target."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Vanicream Moisturizing Cream

"I like the Vanicream one. I do mix my copper peptides in with [...] it, but this is just a good base formula for me. There's nothing wrong with it. It will save you some money here and there."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Goodal Vegan Rice Milk Moisturizing Cream

"This is the Goodal Vegan Rice Milk Moisturizer. This is just a really nice, thicker moisturizer. It's great for nighttime. I don't use it so much during the daytime, but it's great at night. We've got rice bran oil in here, we've got vitamin E, and then ceramides in here. It's really nice. No scent to it and really works well. And I think the packaging is paper, I think. So that's always interesting."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Cream

"And for acne prone skin, we've got cater alcohol, steric acid, and sythicone. So, nothing too crazy, but you have very acne prone skin, something to be aware of. Some people have acne prone skin that is more reactive to certain ingredients like fatty acids or some people it's more reactive to like fatty alcohol. So I thought it's important to note that. So very nice overall. Very affordable. I've repurchased it now. The rest of the line's pretty great too."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Topicals Like Butter Moisturizer

"Topicals Like Butter is great."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Potent-C Brightening Vitamin C Moisturizer

"This is just a little Peter Thomas Roth vitamin C moisturizer. Try this and see which one you like better. And if you guys end up liking this, I'll get you guys one of these because this one's really expensive. So, I figure I'd let you guys try a little sample of it first."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream

"Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream. This is the stuff everybody loves."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Bioderma Atoderm Cream

"Oh, Bioderma Atoderm body lotion. This stuff was really nice. Really thick. I got it at Walmart on clearance for like $5. I have no idea why. It wasn't expired. I didn't think they changed their formulation. It's really thick, but really good for dry skin. Probably best in the winter."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Peach Slices Super Fade Discoloration Moisturizer

"It's got lactic acid, glycolic acid, and it's got panthenol and pomegranate in. So it looks like it's going to be more of an exfoliating product. I'm curious what the pH is because it looks like it's a moisturizer and sometimes the pH, I'm curious to see if the pH is going to be in line to be effective. [...] Glycolic and lactic acid, they need to be in a very narrow spot there. And if they're not in there, it's not going to do much."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Cocokind Electrolyte Water Cream

"The Cocokind Electrolyte Water Cream is 20 bucks. This one has magnesium PCA, sodium PCA, zinc PCA, beta glucan, and turmeric. So it's very friendly for fighting bacteria and acne on your skin. It's got a really nice gel texture to it. [...] It soaks in really nice, feels good on the skin. No scent or anything like that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

I'm From Licorice Calming Cream

"The I'm From Licorice Calming Cream is 19 bucks. This one's got licorice root, panthenol, it's got althea, rose extract, and vitamin E. It's [...] more of a cream gel texture to it, but really nice product. No scent. [...] This one's going to be geared towards normal to dry skin types and non acne prone skin types."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Tatcha Dewy Moisture Milk Moisturizer

"The scent's not too bad, but it's definitely too strong. I usually find Tatcha's scent [...] not too offensive, but the smell reminds me of something, and it's too strong. [...] For good ingredients, it's got saccharomyces ferment, squalane, tomato seed oil which is a good antioxidant, green tea, sodium hyaluronic acid, rice extract, and then some fragrance with lemon peel oil, bergamot peel oil. It's expensive, which is why I just got the little baby one. That's enough for me."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Ionique Centella Calming Gel Cream

"Keep that in mind. It's 12 bucks. It's [...] got Centella, tea tree extract, broccoli, cabbage. It does have a light scent. I didn't find the scent to be overwhelming, but if you're sensitive to essential oils or bergamot oil, keep that in mind. I really like this brand. They're really affordable. However, some of their products when it comes to fragrance can be hit or miss. Keep that in mind. Otherwise, it's a good option for oilier skin or acne-prone skin."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Topicals Faded Cream

"They have an unscented version now. I have sensitive skin, my nose is sensitive, so I prefer unscented fragrance-free products. This one's 1 oz for 28 bucks. It's got [...] kic acid, tranexamic acid, niacinamide, isoleic acid. It's wonderful for dark spots. So if you haven't tried it, it's worth it. I just hope they come out with the bigger size again. I like the big size."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Pro-Collagen Peptide Plumping Moisturizer

"Whereas if this came out 15 years ago, it'd probably be like 15 bucks, or you know. And then last but not least, the IT factor. It's a decent moisturizer. It didn't work as well when I was using it during the colder days, but now that it's warmer out it's a little bit better. It does soak in nicely and feel nice on your skin. [...] It's nice. It's nothing overwhelming. [...] With the perfect score being 10, I gave this one a 7. And I guess we'll see where this lawsuit leads us. I have no idea."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Urban Skin Rx HyperCorrect Intense Fading Cream

"You leave them on for 10 minutes, then you rinse it off. Some of them can be more effective that way, but I just didn't notice any benefit. I didn't notice anything negative either, but I really want something leave-on. I like the fact that this didn't have any fragrance in it, though, and it was relatively easy to use. So if you can get in a habit of doing it, it's certainly worth trying for hyperpigmentation and dark spots, because they're a bear to handle."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Lala Retro Whipped Cream Rescue & Recovery Moisturizer

"The Lala is great for winter time when your skin is super dry, I like using it for that"

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pure Skin Moisturizer

"The e.l.f. Pure Skin Moisturizer, which is 12 bucks, so that saves you a ton. It contains the ceramides, phytonazine, cholesterol, vitamin E, it's fragrance-free, and it's really nice for normal and combination skin types and pretty friendly for acne prone skin."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

COSRX Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizer (Comfort Ceramide Cream)

"For acne-prone skin, with 11 ingredients, I think the chances of a breakout are going to be higher than the benefits of using this. There's nothing superstar, no antioxidants or anti-aging. It's just a [...] simple, [...] plain moisturizer. And it feels, [...] if you have oily skin, I don't think you'd like the feeling of this one, especially during the daytime. It does feel kind of slimy and slippery and feels like it's going to peel, which some hyaluronic products are prone to."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

CeraVe Moisturizing Cream

"CeraVe Moisturizing Cream, I thought this bottle would be enough for two weeks but it was not at all, didn't last long at all. It's just so thick. I think this lasted like three days, so next time I would bring a bigger bottle or a different one, a different brand or a different product that's thinner."

✕Nay

80%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Cream (2023 reformulation)

"This stuff's really nice, it is on the thicker side. [...] I just used this yesterday. [...] Super nice and thick and really nice. They do a nice job."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

PSA Skin Silver Lining Treatment Moisturizer

"PSA Skin Silver Lining, this brand does not ever get as much recognition as I think it deserves. [...] This is a nice moisturizer, it's [...] great for acne prone skin, I think that's what it's geared towards. [...] It's really nice and it's nice for spring and summer too because it's not very thick, it's kind of water-based serum. You can use it morning and evening. [...] It's great for acne prone skin if [...] you have acne prone skin or skin that's prone to blackheads and things like that."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream

"I really like that one. [...] It's regularly 39 bucks, it's not terribly expensive, it's kind of more pricey brand but it's a nice overall basic simple moisturizer. It's not super anti-aging or super brightening, it's just a simple moisturizer but it's really nice."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Sunday Riley ICE Ceramide Moisturizing Cream

"It's very nice but I like their tital moisturizer the best. [...] I don't know what's going on with that brand as a whole, they haven't really released a whole lot lately."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL 0.1% Intensive Cream (reformulated)

"The one I have is the 0.1% version, which is what I'm talking about today. This one has 0.1% retinal, and it also contains vitamin E, as well as their highly regarded thermal spring water for soothing your skin. They've got it in a mist as well. [...] I'm curious if a lot of you have tried their spring water. Apparently they have a thermal bath that people can go to and soothe their skin if they have eczema and things like that, which is kind of interesting. I want to check that out sometime."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Biologique Recherche Lotion P50

"If you're buying the uh oh what's that brand biology garge they're a really expensive p50 uh lotion uh and you're spending 100 bucks on it you want to make sure the pH is proper that you're going to get the expected results otherwise if the pH is way a skew you're not going to get what you paid for"

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Zeroid Soothing Cream

"Zeroid Soothing Cream, I've been using this a lot on my neck, chest, and hands and it really did a nice job. I haven't repurchased this one yet but I certainly would."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Daily Antioxidant and Peptide Moisturizer

"Allies of Skin Daily Antioxidant and Peptide Moisturizer, I've got my backup because I bought it from the Derm store set which was awesome deal because I got it for like 60 bucks with like five other products so love this stuff. Very nice, full of peptides and anti-aging ingredients, nice gel texture. Has a little bit of a light scent to it from I think witch hazel if I recall correctly. I repurchased this one and I will review it soon. Love the stuff. They have a new version of it at Sephora."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hada Labo Shirojyun Premium Whitening Lotion

"I've repurchased this one several times now it's last time I got the tinier bottle but I will link to the bigger bottle because it's a better deal um and I know most of you would probably like this it's got a wonderful gel texture to it"

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Minimalist Sepicalm Moisturizer with Oat Extract

"I think I'll link to it at Beauty Bay, but it's also at Amazon as well. It's just a really nice moisturizer for 11 bucks. They also have some nice vitamin C options and a couple of nice exfoliants worth checking out. This is a brand I have yet to review anything from, but I definitely will. [...] They're fragrance-free, they're affordable, and it's a really nice moisturizer. Dermatologist tested, made in France. No, made in India. Okay, anyway, so there we go, very nice moisturizer at 11 bucks."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

The Ordinary Pink Serum (Niacinamide 5% Face and Body Emulsion)

"It'll probably help brighten dark spots for some people, but my hyperpigmentation, especially on my face from melasma, is very stubborn, and this didn't do anything other than moisturize the skin, which is nice. For what it promises, to help fade the look of dark spots and give more even-looking skin tone, it'll help a little bit, as much as niacinamide as a main ingredient can help. You'll probably get better results with a product that has more brightening ingredients."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Lion Pose Pep Talk Biopeptide Barrier Cream with Triple Lipid Complex

"It contains several different growth factors: epidermal growth factor peptide, insulin growth factor peptide, basic fibroblast growth factor peptide. It also has shea butter, allantoin, oat flour, cetyl glutamine, and jojoba oil. [...] This one's a little bit lighter, so I'd say this one might be nice for oilier skin that's not eczema prone. Very nice. I like the packaging, they did a good job with it, and I like it. It's a smaller brand."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Biossance Squalane + Ectoin Overnight Rescue Deep Repair Night Cream

"I think when I reviewed it I gave it either a 5 out of 10 or a 6 out of 10 but I ended up kind of liking it more than I initially did and it was expensive enough where I thought I should finish it up. So it's just like a moisturizer I just use as like the last step of my evening routine. [...] It was nice I wouldn't repurchase it but was nice enough to finish."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Oat Gel Moisturizer

"I'm going to mention the Aveeno Calm and Restore Gel Moisturizer as well as the serum. A lot of people mention the serum."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Soothe and Recovery Cream

"The DRMTLGY Soothe and Recovery Cream has visible panthenol, [allantoin], and ceramides. [...] I really enjoy this product for my neck or for dryness."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Rich Cushion Cream Ultra Plumping Moisturizer

"This one's really nice and really thick as well. [...] It's got watermelon oil in there and a lot of good fatty oils and things like that and it's really nice once it soaks in it's non greasy non-tacky and if you have oilier skin the one that comes in the pink jar from them is great as well so you can't go wrong with that."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Kaine Vegan Collagen Youth Cream

"Collagen is a great hydrating ingredient. It doesn't make collagen in your skin so it's not a great anti-aging ingredient, but it is great for hydrating your skin and leaving it feeling soft and supple. This one's got more of a creamy lotion texture to it. [...] It probably could have been put in a squeeze tube because it's not as thick as the others. [...] Very nice, no scent, and pretty darn affordable."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Eucerin Eczema Relief Lotion

"Really nice for uh my arms and actually my legs where they get really dry I really enjoyed this one it was really nice"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Outset Nourishing Squalane Daily Moisturizer

"It feels nice though I could see this one being really nice for winter. This is not going to be one for very oily skin types I have a feeling this one's very much geared towards dry skin."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Ceramidin Cream

"The Ceramidin Cream has soothing and antioxidant ingredients which are really nice to see, and it's friendly for most skin types."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream

"This I guess it's a big seller but if you look at this compared to other similarly priced products because I think this is coming in upwards of 40 bucks now there's a gazillion better moisturizers for $40 and if you want to spend half the price there's a bazillion more."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré (Radiant Complexion Cream)

"I wasn't a fan of that one. That brand, I don't know, it's just it seems to be a miss for me every time. I'm not exactly sure why, but nothing from them that I've tried I've really loved."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

BeautyStat Universal Peptide Wrinkle Relaxing Moisturizer

"I was kind of excited because I love their other moisturizer, but [...] then I looked at this and peptide is the first word in the title and the peptides in the product are not much to be impressed by. It's 72 bucks, and I saw it for half off on G deals recently and I wasn't even that excited to try it for half off."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Premium Lotion

"I love this stuff it's got a lot of good ingredients in there and ginsing which is a great antioxidant"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Avène Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Cream

"Avene Skin Recovery Cream. I'll hold on to it because I've obviously been using it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

AXIS-Y Dark Spot Correcting Glow Cream

"Axis-Y dark spot correcting cream. I wasn't in love with this one either. I didn't find it very impressive but I continue to keep buying stuff from this brand. [...] A lot of people love this brand, they just haven't really impressed me with anything yet so I keep buying stuff and keep not being impressed."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Avène A-Oxidative Cream

"Avene antioxidant water cream which I bought to kind of test out. Let's see I think this had vitamin C in it maybe with spring water and sorbable glucoside and sodium hyaluronic micaceous. I'll have to if you guys want me to review let me know."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

A'pieu Madecassoside Cream

"My opinion it's like the uh $115 version of the protini when I liked the protini"

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The INKEY List Super Solutions 10% Urea Moisturizer

"Urea is a great hydrating ingredient for skin. I also love their AHA acid serum, the rose hip oil, I have no idea what happened with that it's not on Sephora site any longer, and their CoQ10 Serum is great. Some of their cleansers are nice. They've got a lot of products that people absolutely love and a really nice selection. I wish they kept a few more of their base products because I really liked them, especially like the rose hip oil. [...] This one's 20 bucks."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream

"I got the nice gray packaging, the Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream. I'm trying to remember if they recently upgraded this formula or not, have to check. I think they might have, or maybe I'm thinking of Purito, but either way, really nice product."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Purito Centella Unscented Recovery Cream

"The Purito Centella Unscented Recovery Cream, which they've now changed the name of, I think it's the Wonder Relief Recovery Cream, I believe. So they changed it. I don't know if they changed ingredients a whole lot or not, but worth checking out."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Cloud Dew Gel Cream Moisturizer

"The Summer Fridays Cloud Dew gel cream which is wonderful, it's 45 bucks so it's still relatively affordable. [...] It's also a great dupe for the Drunk Elephant Protini. In here we've got amino acids, we've got auras, we've got sodium hyaluronic, we've got peptides, we've got Vitamin E."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Biossance Squalane Omega Repair Cream

"I really enjoy Biossance their Squalane Omega Repair Cream. I love this moisturizer. It's 60 bucks, we've got ceramide, shea butter, squalane, vitamin E, and hazelnut oil. It's wonderful, no fragrance or anything like that, but it is pricey."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Tula Protecting Plump Firming and Hydrating Face Cream

"This one's about half the price but honestly 68 bucks is still kind of expensive. [...] In here I've also got niacinamide, I've also got honey, I've also got the [...] hyaluronic acid and vitamin E. This one's got a nice creamy texture to it and really wonderful. I don't know, Tula love this brand is hit or miss, but this is definitely a winner from them. Not everything is, but I don't have anything I absolutely hate from them."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Night Cream

"They switched to using a CeraVe night cream and it was drying their eyes and thought maybe it's the niacinamide in it. I think some people definitely find niacinamide to be drying, especially since a lot of products end up using it, so you might end up getting more of it than is good for your skin because it's in almost everything now."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

CeraVe Oil Control Gel Creme

"It feels nice, it's not terribly tacky. I mean, it's a little tacky but it doesn't feel greasy or anything. I would say overall it's a pretty matte finish. It's not like [...] that silicone feeling you get with a really silicone-y type primer. [...] This doesn't have that. It feels pretty nice. I'll see how it works under and over other skincare products, but so far, good first impressions."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

COSRX Full Fit Propolis Light Cream

"The other product from COSRX that I saw that's on sale that I absolutely love is their Full Fit Propolis Light Cream. This one's 10 bucks so a really good deal because I think I got this right when it was first coming out, I think it was like 25 bucks or so, so this is a pretty good discount. This stuff is really nice, hydrating yet light feeling and really nice texture."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Numbuzin Panthenol B5 Active Soothing Cream

"This feels really nice. It's got a really nice gel texture. [...] In the summer I'm a sucker for a gel textured product. [...] It has literally no smell or no scent to it. It's got niacinamide, centella, neem extract, turmeric extract, aloe, eggplant, willow bark extract, argan oil, and panthenol."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Lotion

"It seems like everything's gone except for the face cream at this point, and it's kind of a bummer because I really liked it. I loved the ingredients in here, really nice ingredients, no scent to it, and still really affordable. So it's kind of a bummer. Maybe Pacifica will come up with something else in the future, I don't know. But anyway, it was really lovely. I love the whole lineup, really nice products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Tidal Brightening Enzyme Water Cream

"People did not like it. It didn't last well and then they just kind of got rid of it and nothing's ever been talked about again with it. I'm not exactly sure what's going on with this brand because they used to release thoughtful releases occasionally, maybe every couple months, and now it's kind of been crickets. I know they're expensive but I really did like this cream enough to purchase it and it's kind of a bummer."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Water Cream Moisturizer

"This stuff is nice if you have dry or oily skin. I think in the summer time this stuff is really nice because it's got a really nice light texture to it which makes it very friendly for most skin types, especially when it gets to be humid outside. [...] Just super light, a little bit of it goes a long way. It's very affordable and the bottle's almost 4 ounces in it. I've got some shea butter in here, ginger root extract, green tea, aloe, no scent to it which is amazing."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Purito B5 Panthenol Repair Cream

"It's a really nice gel creamy texture and comes in paper packaging. [...] In here we've got Centella, we've got Panthenol, we've got Squalane, we've got Niacinamide, we've got Madecassoside. It's really great for soothing skin that's easily irritated, dry, or red. It's just a really nice light-textured product that fits in easily into your morning routine. You can use it under a moisturizer or under a sunscreen without any issues of it getting too greasy or anything like that during the day."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Restoring Gel Cream

"This is their barrier restoring gel cream, it's also $54. This one is geared toward oily skin types or acne prone skin types. This one also contains an updated lipid barrier complex and then also contains several peptides, green tea, squalane, folic acid, no fragrance."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Tatcha Dewy Skin Cream

"I finished up a little baby sample of the Tatcha Dewy Skin Cream which I got when I finished up in El Salvador on my trip. I love finishing up these little samples, although for what's in here, this thing is big. I mean it takes up a lot of space in your luggage and it's kind of heavy."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Intense Cream

"I absolutely love this stuff. Putting it in the squeeze tube was the best idea ever, and I can't believe it took them so long to decide to do that. [...] This is one of my favorites, the Idebenone and blackberry cream, and now they've got it in a squeeze tube which I absolutely love."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Coconut Water Cream

"First Aid Beauty Coconut Water Cream, this was in my travel bag [...] and it's pretty much empty and I opened it and there's like it was just dried up so there's nothing left of that."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

VEGREEN Nature Skin Mucin Hydrating Moisturizer Face Cream

"It feels really nice without feeling greasy or peeling. [...] Some moisturizers on the neck area cause peeling, but [...] I didn't have that issue at all with this. Works great under sunscreens and things like that, no issues at all. Works great under vitamin C serums or over vitamin C serums as well. Very nice product, moisturizing without feeling greasy. It sets to a natural slightly radiant finish that is just slightly tacky, no other issues with that at all. [...] Very easy to use."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The INKEY List Bio-Active Ceramide Repairing & Plumping Moisturizer + Barrier Strengthening

"The INKEY List Bio-Active Ceramide Repairing and Plumping Moisturizer, it's twenty bucks, it's a really nice hydrating moisturizer. It's got some barrier ingredients that help with barrier repair. It has no scent to it, which is nice. I would say this is geared towards dry to very dry skin. [...] Overall it's very nice."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Vitamin C Moisturizer

"The Paula's Choice C5 Super Boost Moisturizer, this one's $45. Paula's Choice uses vitamin C derivatives. This one has glutathione in there, which is great for brightening skin. It also uses tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate and this [...] one uses 3-O ethyl ascorbic acid. It's got peptide in there, it's got watermelon oil, which is a great antioxidant and protecting ingredient, and then it's also got polyglutamic acid. It's a really nice moisturizer."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Advanced Neck Repair Cream

"I finished this one a while ago so I'm definitely be repurchasing it. The Advanced Neck Repair Cream, it's 37 bucks, and it's a really nice cream. It's hydrating, it's supposed to help with fine lines and wrinkles on your neck area, and I found it did my neck. My neck always gets red and irritated especially in the winter, so this one helped a ton. It's got ceramides, it's got peptides, it's got sweet almond oil, it's got apple extract, it's got vitamin E, it's got a lot going on."

✓Yay

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Acure Radically Rejuvenating Whipped Night Cream

"I love this stuff. It's a nice thicker version of the Drunk Elephant protein. It's got the same beneficial ingredients and good peptides in here, it's just a little bit more moisturizing. It's great to use at night because it is on the thick side. [...] Good ingredients in here, peptides, marula oil, all that good stuff in here, no fragrance, and it's still pretty affordable."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Saturday Skin Waterfall Glacier Water Cream

"This is one I've repurchased. [...] Just look at the texture of this, it's just wonderful. It's just got that watery gel cream. Saturday Skin has a couple other moisturizers and I don't love the other ones. This one has no scent to it, which is why I liked it more than the other one. The other ones have some fragrance to them, this one did not."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

COSRX Green Tea Aqua Soothing Gel Cream

"The COSRX Green Tea Aqua Soothing Gel Cream is about $16. This one's really nice, it's got a lot of good things in it: green tea, panthenol, allantoin, aloe, neem extract. It's great for dry, sensitive, oily, and acne-prone skin. [...] I love gels and water creams because they usually soak in really nicely. [...] This one [...] soaks in nicely, it sets to a natural finish that is non-sticky, and it's got tons of good ingredients in there. It's another one worth checking out in my opinion."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Posthelios Gel

"The gel is now at Ulta. I picked it up from a store in France online. [...] These are wonderful, they have panola shea butter, mat ques asde which is great for soothing your skin, and it's very affordable. A lot of people [...] use these products. The balm is a little bit thicker, the gel is gel and I really like the gel texture. The balm is a little bit more beneficial, but they're both great. So if you have oilier skin I think the gel probably is more up your alley."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bubble Slam Dunk Hydrating Moisturizer

"In terms of price, this is a full size 1.7 ounce, 50 milliliters, and retails for 16 bucks, really good deal in my opinion. [...] It's a decent option for dry but not super sensitive skin. If you have acne-prone or oily skin, there are a few similar alternatives [...] that are upwards of $200, so it's interesting to see this one at 16 bucks. It still has that fragrance ingredient in there. [...] In terms of Bubble's products, it's not my favorite. I gave it a six to seven out of ten."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

TIAM AC Fighting Spot RX Cream

"So this one's nice and you can layer it over other treatments as well so that's also worth a try"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Torriden Solid-In Ceramide Cream

"It's really thick, it's really creamy, it's really hydrating. If you like the Dr. Jart's Cicapair cream, this is probably the closest actual affordable product without a ton of fragrance in it. [...] It's thicker than a lot of the other ones I mentioned, [...] but it's nice when your skin is super dry or dehydrated or the barrier needs to be repaired. The ceramides in here are really nice, and the rice bran oil is very nice."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Gold Bond Pure Moisture Daily Body and Face Lotion

"The Gold Bond pure moisturizer for face and body, this is another good one when it's super quick fast and lazy."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.2 Cica Ceramide Repair Cream

"It's decent for dehydrated and damaged skin barriers. I'll definitely finish this one up but it's not one that overly wowed me. Although on some nights it does feel really nice and hydrating on my skin when it's super dry. [...] It's got good things going for it except the it factor. It's just a good product but not an absolute must have for me. The full size is 60ml, 2.1 oz, and it retails between 20 and 27 dollars, so not terribly expensive. Get it on sale if you can."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Derma E Advanced Peptides and Collagen Moisturizer

"I really like this stuff, the one thing I didn't like about it was they did sneak a little bit of fragrance into this line and I don't see it on the ingredient list. The products didn't have fragrance listed but it certainly had fragrance in there, and they admitted later on it was a printing mistake. That'll kind of turn me off a little bit to the brand. [...] I don't really like a printing mistake that makes their product look better for sensitive skin. [...] That's kind of a big deal."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Minimalist Ceramide Moisturizer 3% for Dry Skin

"This one's also fragrance free so it's got some interesting ingredients, it's got some amino acids, vitamin E, oat kernel so we'll play around with some of those."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Kiehl's Ultra Facial Advanced Barrier Cream

"And then a couple of uh newer releases the ordinary soothing and ber Repair Serum the numes in sicker repair cream and the ke's Ultra Facial Advanced Barrier Cream"

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel (reformulated)

"They added a lot of amino acids which are nice to see, amino acid skin identical ingredients in this new formula. So they took something super simple that people loved and added some good ingredients to it and I'm really happy with it. The texture and everything else is nearly the same. They just added some nice ingredients. Typically Neutrogena they don't go out of the way to impress customers like me but this did impress me. I was pretty happy with it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Dr Sam's Flawless Moisturizer

"I agree with most of that. I wouldn't use it under makeup if you can help it; I'd more use it in your evening routine because of some of the ingredients. [...] In terms of drying types of alcohol, it does not contain any of those. In terms of fragrance, there's no fragrance ingredients. It has almost like a little bit of a licorice scent when you apply it and then it dissipates. It comes in a squeeze tube, no issues with that, and it's easy to travel with, which is nice."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

April Skin Artemisia Squalene Hydra Gel Cream

"We've got artemesia extract, which is mugwort, and a lot of people have great experiences with it and certain people don't have any, either way they could care less, but there's a lot of people that absolutely love it. [...] We've got rice bran extract, we've got allantoin, we've got Moringa seed oil, and then we've got ceramides. It's worth checking out."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Neutrogena Daily Facial Moisturizer with Multi-Vitamin Complex

"It's a very basic moisturizer that will work probably for sensitive skin and offers basic hydration, that's about it. It's best probably for oilier skin types, but for my dry skin it doesn't offer enough hydration without an additional layer of another serum or thicker cream. [...] For fall or spring or summer this would have been enough, but not for right now when I need more hydration than this offers. In terms of protection from environmental stressors, there really isn't any."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Soothing Cream

"I first tried this a couple years ago in a set of minis [...] and I used them all up and I really liked it, so then I picked this one up and I can already tell it's a little opaque, it's almost gone, so I've really enjoyed this stuff. [...] They say it's enriched with 72% Centella asiatica extract sourced from Madagascar. [...] This moisturizer soothes skin irritation while boosting skin's hydration levels and contains four types of plant-based ceramides to fortify the skin barrier."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Purito Oat-in Calming Gel Cream

"Oat is amazing for your skin, it's so calming and hydrating, and it's used in such a variety of ways. Different ground-up oats can be used as kind of like an exfoliant or a physical exfoliant, and then the oils can be used in a hydrating way, so it's a very versatile ingredient used different ways and certainly fits into serum steps, cream steps, toners, lots of cleansers with oat in them too. This one might be worth checking out."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + Phytoceramides

"The phytoceramide version has a lotion cream texture, however once you start smoothing it into skin it feels really greasy, very greasy, and it doesn't really set. It just stays radiant with a shiny finish, so if you want to use this during the daytime, it's probably not going to be your best option because of how shiny it is. It takes a long time to soak and absorb, but once it does, it sets to a shiny finish and is not ideal for daytime use because of how shiny it is."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Moist Cream

"It's hard to find a good product [...] that works great, protects your skin, hydrates it, doesn't feel too greasy, and works great under foundation without pilling. I really enjoyed this product more than I thought I would. [...] For acne-prone skin, there are a few ingredients of note: cetyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate, apricot oil, safflower oil, and vitamin E, so for very acne-prone skin it might be worth checking out the other version of this. At 3.38 ounces for 14 bucks, it's a bargain."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

VEGREEN Daily Moisture Cream

"This one is geared towards the most sensitive or reactive skin types because it's a very minimalist formula so there's not a ton of actives, not a ton of slip ingredients. It's a very minimal formula so skin that's very reactive will probably be successful with it. It's also vegan. For the main exciting ingredients it's minimal squalane and arginine in here."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant F-Balm Electrolyte Waterfacial

"The drunk elephant F balm which is going to be more expensive"

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.1 Purple Complex Soothing Moisture Cream

"Numuzin is more known for their toner which a lot of people love. [...] This stuff from them is great, they also have a sunscreen which I love and a lot of other products which I love. This stuff is really nice if you have oily or acne prone skin I recommend checking this one out because it's very friendly, it's kind of geared towards that skin type and it's got some really nice ingredients in here. [...] Very nice hydrating formula, retails for $20 and the tube is 3.38 oz."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Cream

"My favorite hands down is the Birch Juice just because it applies so transparently clear on my skin and it feels really nice and works well."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Peach Slices Oil Control Mattifying Moisturizer

"It feels really nice on your skin and hydrating. It sets to a natural finish. The one thing I will say is it's not super mattifying. The [...] pros of this one are it contains several forms of hyaluronic acid as well as green tea, a great antioxidant skin soothing ingredient, aloe, zinc PCA which you will see in a lot of acne products. Zinc PCA is great for helping with oil production and things like that, and it also has several ceramides in here and it's also fragrance free."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Klairs Rich Moist Soothing Cream

"The rich moist cream, they took it with some fragrant essential oils in it and made it unscented. It still has fragrant extracts in it, I think lavender extracts in there and [...] other ones are in there. The texture this one is really nice and most people will be able to use it, but for sensitive skin types it's going to be a pass."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Olay Peptide 24 Moisturizer

"I'm going to give you the Olay Peptide 24 Moisturizer, which has a very sad ingredient list. It's not a terrible product, but if you really are looking to combat aging and looking at peptides in your routine, this just... it's not. It's especially the price. These are almost going to be a very similar price, which, in the long run, for a drugstore brand to be almost as much as some of these Sephora products, I don't know. Things are getting crazy."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

The INKEY List Peptide Moisturizer

"It's also fragrance free and cruelty free, and I will link to this one at Sephora. It's not overly impressive, but it's a good one if you're on a budget or looking for something that feels nice on skin without being super expensive, yet cruelty free. To be honest, if I had to recommend the INKEY List or the ELF one, I'm gonna recommend the ELF one every day, it's just a much more impressive ingredient list, but they're still both pretty affordable."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

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

"This one is wonderful. It's a great one. The elf Holy Hydration fragrance free version contains peptides, hyaluronic acid, niacinamide. This one's also cruelty free, fragrance free, and vegan. It has a wonderful texture. They also make a sunscreen version with it, and if you like fragrance they have a version with fragrance in it as well. And thirteen dollars, you can't go wrong. This just destroys Olay every time. Every time I compare the two I'm always impressed with it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL Ceramide Lipid-Replenishing Balm

"Anyway, I've just been enjoying it, it's very nice, very gentle, and I really like the fact that they used the bakuchiol on here as opposed to retinol, because then it's friendly for morning or evening. Although a lot of the newer retinoid products that are coming out, a lot of them you can use in the daytime, but either way be sure to use sunscreen over it, because a lot of them make your skin more sensitive to the sun."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Isntree Onion New Pair Gel Cream

"It's got ivy gourd extract, which is a great antioxidant. We've got tranexamic acid, which is known for its brightening benefits on skin, hyperpigmentation. We've got hutonia cordata extract, which is a calming ingredient. And then eggplant and turmeric. So this one's really wonderful product. Great brightening, soothing, scar-reducing ingredients in this one and thankfully does not smell at all like onions, but it's really quite unique."

✓Yay
Sponsored

83%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel Cream

"The main ingredients are water, glycerin, and [dimethicone]. It also contains sodium hyaluronate. This one contains eight amino acids and then it contains urea, which is a really great moisturizer. This one's got a gel lotion texture to it. [...] A lot of people like this one. It's easily accessible, probably around most of the world. [...] If you can get it on sale, it's a great deal."

✓Yay
Sponsored

85%Guru Score

Stratia Liquid Gold Barrier Cream

"Their lipid gold is also great for hydrating. It's really nice during the winter and fall when your skin starts to get dry."

✓Yay
Sponsored

89%Guru Score

Dieux Instant Angel Lipid-Rich Firming Moisturizer

"I like so many things about it, I mean it's got good ingredients in there, but I'm not prone to this and this product gave me milia, and I'm not sure why. It gave me milia around the eyes and around the nose, and if you've ever had milia it's a pain to get rid of. [...] I kind of got rid of it myself, which you're not really supposed to do, but I did some digging on it and it all ended up okay. I don't necessarily recommend that, especially if it's around your eyes."

✕Nay
Sponsored

87%Guru Score

Sunscreen112 reviews

Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Aqua Fresh Rice + B5 SPF 50+ PA++++

"It's really nice. Super lightweight. It has no alcohol in there, so it's not drying. It's not greasy feeling. It has no smell. It's really nice, lightweight, and it seems to work well for most people. If I recommend a sunscreen to somebody who hasn't tried any nice K beauty sunscreens, that's the first one I usually hand to them."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 Zero Feel SPF 50 Day Cream

"I've been reaching for this sunscreen ever since it came out, and I'm now on my second bottle. I absolutely love it. It has no scent and feels like a moisturizer, but it has good skincare ingredients and filters that don't feel greasy or smell bad. [...] It looks okay under my makeup for the most part."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Tower 28 SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation

"Tower 28 is a really great brand. At least in the US, they put hypochlorous acid on the map for acne-prone skin and rosacea-prone skin. [...] Their little red SOS spray was a game changer for a lot of people, especially those with acne-prone skin and rosacea. And this foundation looks great. It's got some nice soothing ingredients and antioxidants."

✓Yay

63%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Daily Tinted Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40

"Most of the days I've been testing it, it's worked and I've been happy with it, although there was one day where my skin was really pink from rosacea and it wasn't quite thick enough to cover the redness, but the rest of the days it's worked just fine and I haven't had any issues with it. I'm not exactly sure I'd say I like it more than the Dr. Jart, but it is much more affordable, [...] about half the price."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

iUNIK Centella Calming Daily Sun Water SPF50

"I find it hard to apply it liberally enough, I don't feel like what I used was really enough to get the protection they advertise, which is SPF 50. [...] It feels like this is going to be a challenge to apply, you're going to have to apply it in layers. It's got a lot more filters in it than the average sunscreen so I instantly trust it a lot more, [...] but the texture makes it seem like it might be hard to apply liberally enough, and it does look kind of greasy."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Skin&Lab Ectoin Sunscreen

"It's very liquid, but it feels nice, it doesn't look like it has any tint at all and doesn't leave a white cast like some chemical sunscreens do. It [...] has no scent at all. I do feel like with the liquid texture it could be hard to apply enough liberally. [...] It also seemed to rinse off my hands very easily, so it doesn't seem like it's water resistant."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Youth Extending Daily Hydrating Fluid SPF 30

"This is a chemical based sunscreen, and it feels really nice and glowy on your skin. It's not as elegant feeling as some of the K-beauty sunscreens out there, but it's pretty nice. It has no scent to it, it feels really nice on your skin, and it's got some nice antioxidants like green tea and oats. [...] It's a really nice sunscreen worth checking out."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Color Correcting Treatment SPF 30

"Dr. Jart is my favorite BB cream."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Dayscreen Lightweight Tinted SPF 30 Mineral Sunscreen

"It's very tacky and sticky, which I don't love, and I had to set it with powder, though even after that it still felt a bit tacky and it seemed to emphasize my pores a little [...] around my nose. On the plus side there's no fragrance, and [...] it has ceramides, vitamin E, lactobacillus rice ferment, and iron oxides, which can be good if you have melasma. It also has a lot of silicone, so I have a feeling it might cause pilling if you use it over a silicone-heavy moisturizer or serum."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Premium BB Tinted Moisturizer with Niacinamide SPF 40

"I'm using the Dr. Jart+ tinted BB cream, which has SPF in it, but I would never be able to use enough of this to actually get the proper SPF 40, you'd have to layer this stuff on."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF50+ PA++++

"It feels more hydrating than like shiny or greasy. [...] It has no scent at all. The texture feels pretty nice. It feels hydrating but not greasy. And there's literally no smell to it at all. When you're around those American sunscreens, they just [...] smell so chemically. And this literally has no smell and it feels really nice and silky. I love the anti-aging peptides. Sunscreen is the real anti-aging ingredient, [...] but it looks like we've got lots of good filters in here."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Canmake Mermaid Skin Gel UV Sunscreen SPF50 Clear

"This one is combo. It's got zinc and titanium dioxide in there. And then it's also got avobenzone, tinosorb S, octinoxate. [...] Really nice product from Canmake and so affordable. I think it's like nine or 10 bucks and I love the different options."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Anessa Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk

"It's a combo sunscreen, which is great because it contains titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, which are two great mineral filters. And then it's got chemical filters, Avobenzone, UVA/UVB T150, and Tinosurb S, which are all great chemical filters. So this one covers a broad spectrum of rays and filters. [...] It's great, and it's fragrance free and denatured alcohol-free. I highly recommend it if you haven't tried it. It's great and really wonderful. This one is one of my favorites."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Skin Aqua Tone Up UV Essence SPF 50 PA4+

"This one actually did a nice job. It has a little bit of a purplish color that kind of helps brighten up your skin tone a little bit. [...] This tone up slightly tinted sunscreen lotion evens [...] skin tone for a glowing finish and also can act as a waterproof makeup base. [...] This one's got titanium dioxide so it's got a mineral filter and then it's got a ton of chemical filters: Tinosurb S, Tinosurb Plus, Tinosurb M."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Anessa Brightening UV Sunscreen Gel

"This one is one of my favorites. Anessa makes a ton of other ones that do have a little bit of fragrance. This one is their brightening one. It does have a little bit of fragrance in it, but this one's great, too."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

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

"If it's sweaty and humid out, the La Roche-Posay Anthelios Melt-in Milk Sunscreen SPF 60 is great too. La Roche-Posay, very solid sunscreen brand."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVMune 400 SPF 50+

"It's got Mexoryl 400 filter, which is a chemical UVA and UVB filter, Mexoryl XL, which is another one of L'Oreal's filters for UVA and UVB rays, and Mexoryl SX, which is a chemical UVA filter. And then other exciting ingredients, we've got vitamin A. Really nice product. I love this stuff. I've almost finished with it because it expires in I think three months. There's a little bit left. I've got my backup already."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

VT AirCloud Sunscreen

"So this stuff's really amazing. I'm really loving it"

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Anessa Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Gel

"This one's got five filters in there, some chemical, some mineral. It's a great combination and it's just lovely and has no scent. So, love this stuff."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Mecca To Save Face Sunscreen

"If you're in Australia, Mecca to save face, their sunscreen is amazing. Always seems to be very highly rated. I really love this."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

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

"Lar Ro Pose's tinted ones, for the most part, I found are very orangey."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid SPF 30

"Neutrogena has a really nice tinted sunscreen."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Universal Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46

"Dermatology as a brand has a lot of great tinted moisturizers. This is where I found one of my favorite tinted moisturizers. The Universal Tinted Moisturizer has a combo of zinc oxide, which is a mineral filter, and octinoxate, which is a chemical filter. [...] These have a pretty neutral tint to them which makes them pretty friendly for most skin types."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Tatcha Silk Sunscreen SPF 50 Weightless Mineral Sunscreen

"I like this option because it's not too tinted. It gives your skin kind of a glow, but you can still apply it liberally and apply a nice setting powder and it still looks great. It feels really nice on your skin, lightweight, there's no scent to it. It is on the pricey side, so that's the biggest downside, but this has to be probably one of my favorites for a nice [...] tinted sunscreen, and it's really friendly for sensitive skin as well."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

The Ordinary Mineral UV Filters SPF 30

"It has a nice tint. It's kind of like the Tatcha where it has a little bit of a tone-up texture to it. It's not super pigmented, but it's still enough where it kind of gives your skin an evenness and an even glow to it. And I really enjoy this one. No scent, and it is full of antioxidants, which are great for your skin."

✓Yay

56%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Daily Tinted

"Ulta MD, most of the sunscreens they make are great. They're tinted sunscreens are really wonderful. They're pretty much even enough where if you have fair skin, it'll work, or if you have deeper skin tone, it'll generally work. [...] The one thing that some of these Ulta MD ones don't have is a lot of shade options, but a lot of them, for the most part, unless you're extremely fair, will work well. And for deeper skin tones, a lot of times they just kind of melt in."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Hello Sunday One That's Illuminating Sunscreen

"This is their illuminating sunscreen. I really like this. It gives your skin a really nice glow and it is [...] a chemical-based sunscreen. [...] It just gives a nice glow to skin and it's not too pigmented where you would look unnatural if you applied it very thickly. [...] It does give skin a really nice glow and it's got really good ingredients in there and no scent."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Max Mineral Tinted Sunscreen SPF 45

"Peter Thomas Roth, yuck."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Hydrating Sunscreen Milk with Oatmeal SPF 45

"First Aid Beauty Hydrating Sunscreen Milk with Oatmeal SPF 45. This one expires in October, so you're getting about 6 months to use it."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Lean Screen Mattifying SPF 50 Zinc Sunscreen

"The one that actually ended up doing the worst was Ultra Violette's Lean Screen, which is a mineral sunscreen that cost $52 for 75 milliliters. [...] It came in at an SPF of four. They advertise this at 50 plus, so obviously four is very, very low compared to what they're advertising. They thought this could be a fluke, so [...] they tested it at another lab in Germany to validate the results. In those tests, results came back as an SPF of five, which is pretty much the same thing."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

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

"The whitening benefit comes from its additional ingredient of magnesium ascorbal phosphate, which is a vitamin C derivative that's supposed to help brighten skin up. [...] So there is a little amount of it, but very nice product. It soaks into it and sets to a natural finish that's almost matte, which is nice if you have oilier skin. [...] Not crazy about the jar packaging for sunscreen."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

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

"The iUNIK Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++ was really nice, really lightweight. No scent to it, which was nice and super affordable. I really enjoyed this sunscreen."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

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

"The Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++ is a really nice chemical sunscreen. Really lightweight, no scent to it. Really nice product."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.9 NAD Peptide Dewy Sun Essence SPF 50

"Their number nine NAD line has a super defense glow sunscreen SPF 50, it's at Target for 18 bucks, and it's a US-based chemical sunscreen. [...] I love the line, I love everything else from that line, it's all wonderful. But this one's got the American filters, which I just don't love. I don't love relying on benzone for my entire UVA protection."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Good Molecules Moisturizing Rich Sunscreen SPF 30

"The reviews look not super great so far. It's just basically a zinc oxide mineral sunscreen in a very thick base. It's got grape seed oil, shea butter, some fatty ingredients, vitamin E, linoic fatty acids. Probably going to pass on that. I like to use a good chemical sunscreen in my morning routine, let it soak in, and then apply a BB cream that has mineral sunscreen over that. That's typically my go-to. [...] I don't need another mineral sunscreen. A lot of times they're thick."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Collagen Glow 100% Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+

"Naked Sundays and Ultraviolet, they felt very elegant. I'm like, that's too elegant feeling. It just something doesn't seem right."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

COSRX Ultra Light Invisible Sunscreen

"It's fragrance free, alcohol free. It does contain a little bit of witch hazel extract. This one's got four filters in it, so it doesn't have as many as some of the other K beauty ones I've mentioned. It's got [...] a nice lightweight sunscreen, no frills. I'll use this one more in the winter than in the strong summer and humid days and things like that, but it's still pretty nice."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Mineral Sunscreen

"It started with Ultra Violette being shown that their Mineral Sunscreen had like four to seven SPF protection as opposed to the 50 it states. This one used 22.5% zinc oxide as its filter, so keep that in mind. Now it's snowballed into over 30 brands having recalled their sunscreen, including Ultra Violette."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost SPF 50 Fragrance-Free Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizer

"The Neutrogena Hydro Boost, this stuff is nice. This is a fragrance-free version of it. [...] This stuff is kind of a gel texture, too. So it's not as good for super dry skin, but it's great for moderately dry skin or spring or summer because of that."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow Color Correcting Medium Coverage Skin Tint SPF 40

"My concern is that the box had been opened a little bit. I did open it and look to see if it had an expiration date on it, and it did not. It has a batch code on the very bottom, but I feel like this is probably very old stock. And the beautiful part is they don't put an SPF expiration date on there, so you really have no idea if it's old or not. So they can sell old stock, versus a brand that has an expiration date on it, where you would know when it expired. So, kind of convenient there."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Then I Met You Light Essence Broad Sunscreen Moisturizer SPF 50

"For US-based chemical sunscreens, the Then I Met You sunscreen essence is really nice. It has Avobenzone, homosalate, octilate, and octocrylene. This is probably one of my favorite ones. It's just really nice, lightweight, hydrating. It has no noticeable scent to it, and it applies clear. If you're very sensitive to certain chemicals that sting your eyes, I typically attribute that a lot of the times to Avobenzone, but it may depend on the person."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Benton Airfit UV Defense Sun Cream

"This one is really nice from Benton. It's another chemical sunscreen. Applies pretty transparently. It has no scent to it. The finish on it is a little bit more glowy than some of the other ones, but I prefer it with my dry skin and I like all the glow I can get. [...] It's wonderful and very affordable. So this one's worth checking out."

✓Yay

Notverified

Ultra Violette Queen Screen Super Glow Bronzing Drops SPF 50

"That's not how sunscreen works. You can mix a bronzer in with your moisturizer, that's wonderful, do that. But you can't mix a sunscreen with a bronzer into a moisturizer and have it give you the same protection. That was my red flag. This company, they have no idea what they're talking about. I don't know how this is possible that they can be making sunscreens that are meant to be mixed with other products and think they know what they're talking about."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Keep Cool Soothe Bamboo Sun Essence SPF 50+

"That brand was Keep Cool. Anybody seen Keep Cool lately? I haven't either. Claire's, Purto, others, they're around. Keep cool. They did not handle a scandal well. And uh because of that, I don't think they exist anymore"

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Day Dew Sunscreen Lightweight SPF 50

"Their vitamin or not vitamin C, their uh sunscreen essence liquid essence sunscreen is very strongly scented. I love it, but it has a strong scent."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40

"Supergoop is a pretty popular brand, but I never thought any of their products were revolutionary. Not really Supergoop's fault, but the US chemical filters are just kind of sad, and I haven't been overly impressed with any of their mineral sunscreens either. In general I find most chemical sunscreens are more elegant and easy to apply and generally more efficient and effective than most mineral ones."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Neutrogena Retinol Moisturizer with SPF

"Neutrogena makes retinoids too. These ones are fine, but if I'm spending the money, this one doesn't save you that much money."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Clean Screen SPF 30

"They did some testing and they found that it ended up having an SPF of five. Some people reported about it. Some people were like, 'Oh, you know, just trust them.' But then they kind of went on another tangent and said, 'People that are talking badly about our brand are people that don't want women founded brands because Ultraviolet's a woman founded brand.' So they kind of used a lot of different rationales to come back on people and had some of their fans [...] kind of harass people."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Klairs All Day Airy Sunscreen

"Klairs All Day Airy Sunscreen. Loved this. Finished a bottle of it. Repurchased it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

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

"Their airy sunscreen is wonderful. This is a repurchase. I went through it last winter and it's very nice. Most of their products are unscented."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Babo Botanicals Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"It was the Babo Botanicals mineral sunscreen. Super runny. So it was very different than what I'm used to putting on my face, but yeah, it's worked out really well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Collagen Glow 100% Mineral Perfecting Priming Lotion SPF 50

"Naked Sundays Collagen Glow Mineral Perfecting Priming Lotion uses the same formula also in both US and Australia. They're a sunscreen company that doesn't make their own sunscreen, and they upcharged a huge amount compared to some of these other brands. [...] I don't know if your main product is sunscreen and you can't get that right. It's an issue. I think a big issue."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Velvet Screen SPF 50 Blurring Mineral Sunscreen

"So this is kind of interesting because ultraviolet is being withdrawn globally as far as I understand. So in the US the product is Velvet Screen. So if you're using that don't use it. There's also a whole list of other brands that have used the same base formulas which is going to be an issue as well. [...] They're a sunscreen company that doesn't make their own sunscreen, and they upcharged a huge amount compared to some of these other brands."

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

Kinship Self Reflect Probiotic Zinc Oxide Broad Spectrum Sunscreen SPF 32

"Kinship's self-reflect mineral sunscreen is a major hit of theirs. It's a very nice light-feeling mineral sunscreen. There's not a lot of mineral sunscreens that feel light on the skin, but this one does. And it has a rather natural look on skin. The brand was founded in 2019 [...] by Allison and Christian Kristen Powell, who were both heavily involved in the beauty industry and had venture capital backing, including a notable investor in Leslie Blodget, who was [...] the CEO of Bare Minerals."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

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

"Their sunscreen is great. They're hyaluronic watery sun gel. During sunscreen Armageddon, what was it now? Four, five, four or five years ago, when all these K beauty sunscreens were found out to be vastly underprotecting people for what they were advertising. The Isntree sunscreen stood the test of time there and didn't have any issues."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

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

"Thank You Farmer Sun Project Skin Relief Sun Cream is a nice simple fragrance-free sunscreen with some good filters in there. [...] It's not too greasy, it's not too shiny, and it's not tinted."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Hello Sunday One That's a Serum SPF 50 PA+++

"I like this one, it's kind of a serumy texture to it. I did a full review of it probably when it first came out and I was all over this brand instantly. [...] I really like this one, they've got a lot of different options and I've had good luck with all of them. The ones I've tried are fragrance free."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Ultrasun Anti-Aging Face Fluid SPF 50

"So Aqua Fluid Ultra Sun, really nice brand. This one's got Tinosorb M nano again, to not have that white cast, titanium dioxide nano, octinoxate, Tinosorb suvenol A+, and Avobenzone T1500. And it's interesting so you see zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, you see nano or non-nano versions. There's controversy which is better. Some people say the nano is lighter and it's better for UVB protection or the UVA protection, and then some say the non-nano, it's thicker and it's better for UVA protection."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Shade Drops Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Mineral Milk Sunscreen

"Summer Fridays Milk Mineral Shade Drops, they also have a foundation or more of like a BB face oil that goes with it but it's a pretty nice one. [...] It is really nice, hydrating, and not for oilier skin I would say, just my take on it because it is on the moisturizing side. I do have a video where I tested it and I think it's still for sale, it's very nice."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Sheer Zinc Mineral Sunscreen

"Neutrogena had a zinc dry touch sunscreen that was SPF 50 that came in at 24."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios XL Wet Skin Sunscreen SPF 50+

"La Roche-Posay Wet Skin Sunscreen SPF 50 passed with a reported SPF of 72, which is amazing."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Anua Heartleaf Silky Moisture Sun Cream

"It's 15 bucks for 1.7 ounces and it's a chemical sunscreen with Asian and Korean filters. It's fragrance-free. It doesn't use the sad sad American filters we have available. It's got some nice stuff. It also contains [Houttuynia] Cordata extract, grape extract, green tea. It looks really nice."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40

"I'm not messing around with sunscreen that's even a couple months old, it's not worth the risk of it for me anyway. With my hyperpigmentation, melasma, it's just not worth the risk. This one uses zinc, and I have a feeling mineral sunscreens when they go bad, they're bad. Chemical ones may not be so true, but I've heard from zinc when it's done, it's done. You're not getting a benefit from it. So there's no point in messing around with that."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

COSRX Aloe Soothing Sun Cream SPF 50+ PA+++

"I'm going to put on my COSRX sunscreen and see how that feels. [...] I love this stuff, but I'm not loving the feeling of it. I can't imagine it's not hot out today, but if it were a hot day, I just can't imagine the feeling of that underneath makeup and things like that."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Versed Multi-Serum Skin Tint Foundation SPF 40

"The coverage is light to medium the way I applied it but it feels nice on my skin. I don't really notice any issues. It [...] naturally gives you a little bit of a shiny finish, a little bit of a glow finish but feels really nice. So I could see myself really liking this one. The color is pretty close, I would say it might be just a touch too light but I can fix that up by adding a little bit of bronzer to it and then no issues there. So yeah, feels nice."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Queen Screen Luminizing Skin Screen SPF 50+

"Ultra Violette Queen Screen is a luminizing sunscreen SPF 50+, and this comes in like a highlighting version or a bronzing version. The bronzing version was way too bronze for me, I did not look normal with that on. I haven't used the highlighting version yet, it came [...] in an advent calendar. [...] It looks just like it's going to be a normal sunscreen to me, it doesn't look luminizing to me, but I guess we'll find out."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Goodal Heartleaf Calming Moisture Sun Cream SPF 50+ PA++++

"It feels nice, feels kind of silky. [...] It has a little bit of a light white cast to it but once it soaks in it kind of fades away. [...] It feels really nice. The sunscreen's nice, I like it. [...] It has a little bit of a cast on it but it feels nice, not too tacky. [...] I don't really see anything else too exciting aside from the heartleaf, vitamin E is about it. And it has no scent which I love, feels nice."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Matte Sun Stick SPF 50

"I don't have the stick version because I hated that one. I'm just pretend like it didn't happen but it worked well for a lot of people so whatever."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Skin1004 Tone Brightening Tone-Up Sunscreen SPF 50+

"I didn't love it but that doesn't mean much. I don't really like tone up sunscreen, so I probably shouldn't have bought it. But this one's a mineral sunscreen and this one is a new one, so this one has four filters in it. We've got Uvinul T150, which is a great UVB chemical sunscreen absorber. We've got Uvinul A+, another great UVA filter. We've got Tinosorb S, which is both UVA and UVB broad spectrum, and then we've got Mexoryl SX, which is a UVA ray absorber, so all chemical sunscreens."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Biossance Squalane + Zinc Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"Their new sunscreen sucked though so don't get that but anything well if you like it then get it but I didn't like it. I found it to be greasier than the previous versions."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Purito Centella Green Level Unscented Sun SPF 50+

"When I reviewed that Purito Centella unscented sunscreen, I thought how it has two filters in it, they're both around 2%, and I questioned myself like, how can this be good sunscreen? I was swayed by people that I thought were more intelligent and knowledgeable than myself [...] to think I was wrong, but my gut feeling was right. How can it have two little filters and not a very big amount?"

✕Nay

51%Guru Score

Kosas DreamBeam Silicone-Free Mineral Sunscreen SPF 40

"It's a fragrance and alcohol-free sunscreen with a hydrating serum texture and tint. It's a mineral sunscreen with 21.7% non-nanozinc oxide. [...] It's pricey but it's very nice. The tint is pretty friendly as well. It's [...] on the hydrating side, so it has kind of that serum texture, so when you're applying it very liberally and if you have oilier skin you might not love it. [...] It also contains vitamin E, biopeptide E, bioflavonoids and squalane for soothing."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Black Girl Sunscreen Moisturizing Sunscreen Lotion SPF 30

"This one smells less like a sunscreen than the other one, FYI. This one also contains aloe, carrot seed oil, avocado oil, and vitamin E. 16 bucks, really good deal, and it's 3 oz, so really nice product."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Peom Water Barrier Sun Cream SPF 50 PA4+

"It's a US-based sunscreen so it's got five of the exciting chemical filters that actually protect your skin from UVA rays. [...] It also contains Matas aide glutathione and ceramide and it's really just lovely. [...] 16 bucks you can't beat that. [...] I've actually used a lot during the summer as well, but on kind of shady or chilly days it's nice because it's hydrating but not greasy so it makes it nice for fall and winter."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Neutrogena Collagen Bank SPF 30 Facial Moisturizer

"I don't like when they use the word collagen in a product, especially one that just because it has collagen in it doesn't mean it will make collagen. I think people get confused by that, but that's all marketing."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Avène Intense Protect SPF 50+ Sunscreen

"Avene Intense Sunscreen. I'm going to hold on to that one."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"I picked up a sarra facial moisturizing sunscreen uh with the European filters in it"

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

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

"It's a little bit better once it starts to soak in. There we go, and a little bit more. It definitely has a very radiant finish going on. Thankfully I have powder, lots of powder. I like it, though. Once it's soaked in, it feels better. I think if you had a deeper skin tone, instead of brightening, it might end up making you just look pale, but I'm pale anyway, so I don't have that problem."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

CeraVe Invisible Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"Their newest sunscreen is fragrance free, it is super light, it is wonderful. I highly recommend checking it out. It seems to be a nice one for all skin types."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Sport SPF 50

"EltaMD UV Sport also has some really nice sunscreens that are really nice and have a matte finish."

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86%Guru Score

Altruist Face Fluid Sunscreen SPF 50

"The Altruist Face Fluid Sunscreen SPF 50, which is about 14 bucks at K2 Beauty. [...] This one's got five chemical filters and one mineral filter titanium dioxide for a total of six filters, pretty darn good. Fragrance free, alcohol free, great for dry, sensitive, and acne prone skin types, and it is water resistant. [...] Obviously reapply after swimming, so don't forget to do that even if it's water resistant. Still, the more often you apply the better protection you're going to get."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Eevee Daily Face Mousse SPF 50

"This is the Eevee sunscreen technology Daily Face Mousse SPF 50. It's about 25 bucks, and it was a hard one to get for a while. [...] When I found out about it, I was really impressed with it. It's got five chemical filters, fragrance free, alcohol free. It's great for pretty much all skin types, no white cast. It comes out as a foam. It's very water resistant and sweat resistant. [...] In terms of protection, it's great. The aesthetics of this one, the ease of use are wonderful."

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84%Guru Score

Kopari Bright As Day Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is a tinted one, and I tend to like it when it's mineral and it's got a tint to it [...] because it kind of evens my skin out sometimes, so on a casual day I don't feel the need to put foundation on. I'm really trying to focus on being liberal in my application because I know I have a tendency to slack on that. [...] I've done so much throughout the winter to get my skin brightened up, [...] so I don't want to ruin it all in a short summer. [...] So far so good with this one."

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90%Guru Score

Trader Joe's Daily Facial Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 40

"This one's a chemical filter with four chemical sunscreen agents. It's often compared to the Super Goop Unseen Sunscreen in terms of its texture, filters, and ingredients, [...] and it's nine bucks whereas the one from Super Goop is like thirty, thirty-five bucks. [...] It also has shea butter and vitamin E, so well worth checking out if you're at Trader Joe's."

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80%Guru Score

The INKEY List Polyglutamic Acid Dewy Sunscreen SPF 30

"This is just a US chemical sunscreen it uses four US chemical filters so not quite as elegant as some of the other products that can use European filters or ones that can use EU filters so the UVA protection's probably not as good as some of the other ones but for the winter or for days when you're inside a lot it's a nice one it has a nice finish."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Jumiso All Day Airy Fit Sunscreen SPF 50

"This one's 15 bucks, a chemical sunscreen with five filters. It's got panthenol, sunflower seed oil, and sapiens, and bamboo stem extract. This one's a really nice option, it seems to work also very nicely for acne-prone or oily skin. Or if you have oily skin you can always set it with a little bit of powder, but I think this one works well for a lot of people with acne-prone skin."

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80%Guru Score

Garnier Ambre Solaire Super UV SPF 50

"I love ker to Beauty for ordering sunscreens or I think essential is another one essential.com uh they sell a lot of these and we'll ship them"

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Cancer Council Face Day Wear Fluid Matte SPF 50

"Cancer Council Face Day Wear Fluid Matte SPF 50, this one's 20 bucks. [...] If you're in Australia, this one will be a nice one to get. [...] Chemist Warehouse ships there, and [...] you guys have a lot of good options."

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81%Guru Score

Ionique Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen SPF 50+

"Some people with oily skin say this one doesn't set for them and it ends up looking very shiny. I notice that a little bit, however I typically end up setting it with powder or foundation over it, so I don't ever really notice those issues. I do want to mention that if you have very very oily skin this one might be better off being passed on, but for those with super dry skin that makes it a nice option."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Good Molecules Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"It's their Sheer Mineral SPF 30 sunscreen and it's $12. [...] I find it has a little bit of white cast. If you use it under foundation it's fine, but it's a little bit high maintenance for me, especially for it just being SPF 30. Although I will say the reviews of this one, a lot of people love it, so nothing wrong with that. If it works for you, go for it."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Brush-On Shield SPF 50

"The Color Science brush on mineral sunscreen is $55. I don't want it got so expensive, but a lot of other brands have similar products, so you don't necessarily need to buy this one. This one's kind of a retouch one. I wouldn't trust this as your sole source of sunscreen. If you use this as a setting powder, that's the way to go. Don't use this as your sole source because you'd have to apply so much your face would look ridiculous."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Hada Labo Wonder Black Rice Sunscreen Airy Fit

"This one's 16 bucks, it's a chemical sunscreen with five filters. In here we also have rice bran oil, we've got cowberry fruit which seems like it's a relative to blueberries and blackberries, we've got heartleaf, and then we've got antioxidants in here, so it's a really nice option."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Vanicream Sunscreen SPF 30

"It's got 12% zinc oxide, doesn't have fragrance in, but for me this is super thick, super white, casty, and just didn't like it. Although, I get it, they're in the US, we've got terrible sunscreen filters, they haven't approved a new one in my lifetime, [...] and they haven't approved any new filters. So what do brands do? You really don't have a big choice, so use zinc oxide and hope it's not too terrible. But anyway, I didn't love that, but I'm sure for some people it might work great."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

IOPE UV Shield Sun Ample

"I tried their sunscreen after sunscreen Armageddon happened a few years ago. They had one of the few sunscreens tested well."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Clear Broad-Spectrum SPF 46

"This one is also a hybrid sunscreen and really nice, really light, great for acne prone skin, great for summer and winter. [...] This one also uses US-based chemical filters, so keep that in mind. Some people [...] prefer US filters only and some people prefer anything but US filters because they're so old and the US hasn't really updated anything they've done with sunscreens in the last 20, 30 years, so the US is really lagging behind in terms of all the technology in sunscreens out there."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Hello Sunday One Serum SPF 45

"This is the one that's a serum SPF 45 and it's really amazing. This stuff under the sunscreen camera, I mean it was amazing. This provided the most coverage out of any sunscreen I saw under that camera, so this stuff was impressive. It's got a super light texture."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

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

"It's got a gel texture, so I think it's probably ideal for oily skin types or for very humid weather. [...] The scent isn't terribly strong. It's got Juniper and Jasmine oil, and it dissipates pretty quickly. The gel texture is really lovely. If they come out with a fragrance-free version, I'd be all over it."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Purito Daily Soft Touch Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++

"I was very suspicious of this sunscreen the whole time. Other people that I thought knew more than me vouched for it, big chemists that do a lot of YouTube videos vouched for it, wrote up the whole thing on their page about how great it was and how light it was. I thought there's no way I know more than she does, and sadly I was right. I wish I'd been wrong. [...] When a brand doesn't even disclose what percentages of filters are in them, how do we know? We don't. We're going by blind faith."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.3 Pure-full Calming Water Sunscreen SPF 50+

"The Numbuzin No.3 Pure-full Calming Water Sunscreen is really wonderful. It's a chemical sunscreen that sets to a slightly radiant finish but it feels nice and calming and hydrating on the skin. I've never got burnt, tanned, or freckled using this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Tone Up Sunscreen

"These two, the tone up and the mild up, they also have good reviews. Personally I don't love tone up sunscreens. [...] I just don't find tone up sunscreens ever really fully absorb and look natural on skin, and I always feel like tone up sunscreens should end up doubling maybe as foundation, that's kind of the goal of them to make your skin look glowy and just go on with your routine. I just find that they never really end up feeling that nice."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

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

"I really love the Abib Quick Sunstick. They just came out with a newer different version of it. [...] This one's great for reapplication. It really has a silky texture to it. It's really easy to apply over makeup as well. So if you're looking for a nice sunscreen on the go, I carry this one in my purse a lot with me, or sometimes if I go on the boat I'll carry this with me because it just slips right over everything and you can apply it on your face, body, what not."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50

"This sunscreen is wonderful. I really enjoy it. I like seeing five different filters, I like seeing the combination of UVB and UVA filters, and I like seeing the L'Oreal patented one that's nice to see being used in some K Beauty brands. The manufacturer of this one is Colmar Korea, which I think makes a lot of innisfree sunscreens as well, and in my past testing some of the Colmar Korean ones I've had pretty good luck with them. I haven't really had any issues."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Isntree Yam Root Milk Tone Up Suncream SPF50+ PA4+

"This is actually one of the few ones I actually liked so far in terms of tone up creams, this is one of the better ones. [...] And I'm sure I didn't apply it liberally enough, but anyway, that's why sometimes it's better to go with SPF 50 then like 30, because assuming people don't apply it liberally enough, if you have a little bit higher SPF then maybe if you're not applying it liberally enough you're still getting some good protection."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

ILIA C Beyond Triple Serum SPF 40

"One of them I've got right here is the ILIA C Beyond Triple Serum SPF 40, so you don't necessarily have to think [...] that chemical ones are bad. Then use a mineral one because nowadays the mineral ones aren't thick and terribly white casty like you think they are. They've become a lot better."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Bioderma Photoderm Cream SPF 50

"This is Bioderma's Photoderm Cream SPF 50. I have probably five or six sunscreens from Bioderma and none of them have disappointed me. They all have great UVA protection. This one's water, heat and humidity resistant, sensitive skin friendly, no fragrance. It's chemical SPF with five different filters. You can't go wrong with it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

BYOMA Moisturizing Gel Sunscreen SPF 30

"After using this a couple days I started to get a little freckling, and at that point with my hyperpigmentation melasma, [...] I'm not going to risk screwing up what I've [...] come so far with. I stopped using this on my face and started using it on my arms as a way to test it without further risking damage to my melasma and hyperpigmentation. This one I might pull out in the winter and use it, but definitely not in the summer, just isn't strong enough for what I need with my melasma."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

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

"After the sunscreen scandal, they released their Birch Juice sunscreen, which is really nice. [...] Their sunscreens are all great. Their Birch Juice sunscreen's great."

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85%Guru Score

Round Lab Camellia Deep Collagen Firming Sun Serum SPF 50

"Mine is almost empty, but I'm loving it and it's certainly one that I would repurchase in a heartbeat. [...] My skin just feels like it has a little bit more of a glow when I use this one. It's a chemical sunscreen with five filters, Uvinul T 150, Mexoryl SX, Uvinul A Plus, Parsol SLX, and Tinosorb S, a great combination of UVB and UVA filters. [...] It's also got urea, soluble collagen, and quercetin in it. [...] It's wonderful, no scent to it. [...] It's one of my favorite sunscreens lately."

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

"This is a holy grail sunscreen for so many people and I love it too. There's it's great sunscreen."

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87%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Probio-Cica Glow Sun Ampoule SPF 50+ PA++++

"This one's a holy grail for many people. It's a great sunscreen. No scent to it. Chemical filters again. Pretty good job. [...] This is one of the most talked about sunscreens. For a lot of people, they really love it."

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68%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++

"This one's on sale for 19 bucks. It's regular about 29 bucks. This stuff's really nice. No fragrance, no denatured alcohol. It might have a little bit of denatured alcohol in it, a small amount. Chemical filters, very nice sunscreen. Round Lab does a nice job with their sunscreen."

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Sponsored

76%Guru Score

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

"I'm really enjoying this one. It's so elegant and it's so light. [...] It doesn't look greasy, it's not tacky. [...] I haven't gotten red or freckled, they're tanned using this one at all. It works great under foundation and makeup. It seems to be geared towards dry sensitive skin types. It's very nice. [...] If you tried their other onion sunscreen, it's got sad filters in there. A lot of people liked it, nothing wrong with that, but this one's much better in terms of filters in my opinion."

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80%Guru Score

Cleansers92 reviews

Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser

"This is my second bottle of it. It's a big bottle. It's a very sensitive skin friendly face and body cleanser. You can use it all over. It has no fragrance in it. It leaves your skin feeling soft, clean, and hydrated and not dry or squeaky clean or anything like that. It's really great. [...] It lasts a long time and I love that I can use it on my face and body. Typically things that are face and body I relegate to body only, but this is one of the few that I didn't. So I love it."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Cleanser

"Another product I love from them is their vegan Yamoot milk cleanser."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

DHC Deep Cleansing Oil

"This is my repurchase of their Deep Cleansing Oil. [...] It's got olive fruit oil in it and that does have a little bit of rosemary oil, so it does have a herbal scent. It rinses off, so for most people won't be a big concern, but I do want to mention that."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Foaming Oil Cleanser

"This is one of my favorite cleansers because it's so non-drying and really feels nice on my skin. I love that cleanser from Skinfix, it's so nice, no scent to it, nice ingredient list. It rinses off but leaves your skin feeling nice and soft, not dry or irritated."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Regimen Lab Tabula Cleanser

"This one's a nice kind of no-frills gentle cleanser. I kept it in the shower and I've been trying to finish it since we're remodeling our bathroom."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Prequel Pre-Cleanse Cleansing Oil

"I love this cleanser, it's super light and it rinses really easily. On nights when I was really tired, [...] this stuff was so great that I typically didn't feel like I needed a second step cleanser on those days, it just gets the makeup off enough that I can go to bed and lay down without the makeup sitting on your skin. [...] It's really nice, super lightweight, and affordable, so I loved it, amazing. I will repurchase that again [...] in a heartbeat."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin Mask Cleanser

"You apply it like a face mask, leave it on for a minute or two, and then once you emulsify it with water, it ends up working as kind of like a foaming cleanser. I've tried a handful of two-in-one products, and a lot of times they work pretty well. Typically, they're good at one thing and not so much the other, but this might be good. [...] This one's got panthenol, niacinamide, vitamin B, polyglutamic acid, ceramides, and of course we cannot forget our PDRN."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Molecular Silk Amino Hydrating Cleanser

"I like this one because you can use it to remove makeup or just as a gentle cleanser. [...] It's got a very light blue shade. [...] Kind of almost has a gellish serum texture to it. And it feels really nice. It has no scent at all. Feels really nice and light on skin. And I really like that kind of gellish kind of serumy texture to it. [...] I don't see really any reason why you couldn't use this one daytime or evening or both."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Dr Sam's Flawless Cleanser

"The Dr. Sam's Flawless Cleanser, really nice fragrance-free cleanser, pretty gentle. [...] It's got some vitamin E and aloe and good stuff in it. I like the pump bottle."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Kose Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil

"The speedy is my favorite because it's the fragrance free one but it's also super lightweight and like one pump is enough to do your whole face. It lasts a long time. So this one's got mineral oil in it. It's got olive oil. It's got shea butter jojoba seed oil safflower seed oil at 12 bucks and it also has refills as well which makes it really nice. So this stuff is great. If you haven't tried it below or you're on a budget this stuff's great. Love it. Yeah, repurchased it multiple times now."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Cleansing Oil

"It's got some really nice ingredients: 18 bucks, avocado oil, grape seed oil, ceramides, and it's got a ton of amino acids as well, and it's got a really nice super lightweight formula. It's a really nice K-Beauty product, so definitely one worth checking out."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Shiseido Perfect Cleansing Oil

"The fragrance isn't terribly overwhelming, just depends on how sensitive your skin is and how sensitive your nose is to the scent, but overall it's a pretty nice formula. It's got mineral oil, grape seed oil, vitamin E. It's definitely a fan favorite of a lot of people. I'd call this my Lux pick because it's definitely the most expensive out of all of them, but it does a nice job and it rinses away pretty clean as well. So you don't necessarily feel like you need a second step cleanser."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Bubble First Class Oil Cleanser

"It's got grape seed oil which is a really great oil, rosehip oil as well, another great wonderful oil that's got some rich ingredients and antioxidants. It's got vitamin E and then last but not least is prickly pear oil which is a great oil and antioxidant. This stuff's really nice. The packaging is fun, no scent to it. It's super lightweight, one pump is enough for the whole face and neck, and I just really love it. I kept it in my shower. It's now empty so I need to repurchase it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

SkinFix Eczema Foaming Prebiotic Cleansing Oil

"It's got calendula, ceramides and peptides really nice morning cleanse. After use this you don't need another step. It leaves your skin pretty soft clean. Does a nice job without stripping the skin or leaving it feeling super dry. I like this stuff."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe Eye Makeup Remover

"I'm using the CeraVe eye makeup remover. I don't love it. [...] I do like that it's non-scented, but it does make everything kind of blurry for a few minutes afterwards."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser

"I love this. This is just a squalane-based cream cleanser. You apply it to dry skin, smooth it in a little bit and then rinse it off and it rinses off nice and clean. It leaves your skin feeling soft, fresh and even a little bit plumper than it was before you applied it. And it does a great job removing most makeup and sunscreen. It does struggle with waterproof eye makeup, but most other makeup and sunscreen products it washes right off really nice."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser

"This one's a cleansing gel. It gives no lather, so it's kind of strange, but it's very nice. Non-drying for the most part. It's got their spring water in there and niacinamide. Very gentle, no scent. Not having a lather is weird. I kind of prefer a lather, I think, but for the dry winter, this was perfect. Got me through no issues."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tatcha Deep Cleanse Balancing Exfoliating Cleanser

"This one does a really nice job. It's got rice extract, which gives you that scrubby feeling. Some of these contain oat as well. This one also contains a pine, which I believe is derived from pineapple [...] because pineapple has bromelain, an ingredient that's known in pineapple and sometimes used as a [...] meat tenderizer. And then this also contains green tea. [...] I finished that off. This one's very light, I would say. Very gentle."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Prequel Redness Reform Sulfur Cleanser

"It's got a lot of soothing ingredients in it [...] and I've really enjoyed the cleansers I've tried from Prequel so far."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Face Cleansing Foam

"This is the Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Face Cleansing Foam, which is 26 bucks. It's a [...] fragrance-free cleansing cream or cleansing lotion. It's pretty great for dry and sensitive skin. [...] I've been through I think this is my second or third tube of it. It's just really nice and pretty darn affordable."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Farmacy Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm

"It's a nice cleansing balm. It thins out pretty quickly, so you don't need to use a ton. It smooths over really easily and it does a great job removing sunscreen and makeup without leaving any residue. I can actually get away with just using this removing my makeup and then rinsing and just not even using a second step cleanser, which makes it unique in that way. So, it's really wonderful. [...] I'm going to recommend the fragrance-free version because there's just a lesser chance of irritation."

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82%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Milky Moisturizing Facial Cleanser

"It's just a very gentle facial cleanser with a total of eight ingredients which makes it pretty simple. We've got water, ethylhexyl, glycerin. I wonder if they're trying to come after the success of Cetaphil because this one's just a basic simple cleanser. It's [...] just a basic glycerin cleanser."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Remedy Rich Cream to Foam Cleanser

"Rich Cream to Foam Cleanser. There we go. Feels nice. Not too shiny."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Lancôme Bi-Facil Makeup Remover

"It worked great for makeup removal, but I can't remember if it irritated my eyes at all. I can't I don't think that one had fragrance in it, but I could be wrong about that."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Softy Mo Speedy Cleansing Oil

"The Softy Mo Speedy Cleansing Oil. Man, I'm on my I don't know, third or fourth tube of it. It's wonderful, fragrance-free, and super affordable. You can't beat that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Good Molecules Soothing Azelaic Acid Cleanser

"That cleanser felt nice. Not drying. It did have a chemical smell. The cleanser has glycerin and passion fruit oil, so pretty gentle. Nothing too exciting in terms of ingredients or too irritating. I would say if you're using this for the benefits of the azelaic acid, leave it on for 30 to 60 seconds. If this would be a good morning cleanser, I don't think the texture to me feels like it would be a really good makeup removing cleanser, so keep that in mind."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm

"Their Mighty Melt Cleanser is just so easy. It makes it so easy to remove and it's a pretty big tube, too. It's taking me a while to get through, but a little bit does a great job removing eye makeup, sunscreen, all that stuff."

✓Yay

95%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Jelly Joker Low pH Cleanser

"Their jelly joker cleanser is great."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

The Ordinary Glucoside Foaming Cleanser

"I don't love them"

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Cetaphil Nourishing Oil to Foam Cleansing Face Wash

"It just looks like a clear liquid gel kind of. There's not much lather, but super light lather. It did have a slight scent to it. I'm not exactly sure what that's from, but there was like a slight scent. I don't know if it's from linseed oil. There really isn't any fragrance ingredients, but it did have a slight scent to it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water

"It's a fragrance-free micellar cleansing water, which is really nice. Very simple formula. No fragrance in it. It's really nice for helping just remove any excess makeup or eye makeup, sunscreen, things like that. Really nice. Really affordable. Definitely pick this one up."

✓Yay

96%Guru Score

Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser

"Vanicream has a limited but meaningful product list. [...] The ones they do have are thoughtful, well formulated. [...] Their facial cleanser is just a gentle face cleanser with 10 ingredients in it, [...] so very friendly for those with sensitive skin. It tends to work well on the face or body if you prefer to use it as a body cleanser too. And it's like eight bucks, so you can't beat that."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Bubble Magic Melt Micellar Milk

"Their Magic Melt Micellar cleanser is also a nice fragrance-free toner and makeup remover. It does a pretty nice job."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Tula Cult Classic Purifying Cleanser

"I think they have a fragrance-free version, but this version I think has fragrance in it. So, when they first started, [...] I had a lot of holy grail products from them. I don't know, maybe two or three. Not a lot, but two or three from one brand is a lot. But then they just went crazy and just have been releasing new products just like crazy and it's just too much, too fast, too expensive. And then the products seem to be less thoughtful, you know? And then they started becoming beauty boxes."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

CeraVe Balancing Air Foam Facial Cleanser

"My skin doesn't feel dry or anything from that. It just struggles a little bit to remove some of the makeup, but overall, I think as a morning cleanser, I think it might be the bomb."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Cleanser

"Round Lab has a lot of different cleansing options and this one is by far my favorite. They have their cleansing oil but that one has some essential oils in it so I don't love it, especially for sensitive skin. If you have sensitive skin I would technically recommend avoiding that one. But their all-purpose general cleanser does a really nice job and doesn't leave your skin feeling dry or flaky. It's a good second step cleanser but it can't remove most makeup and sunscreen things like that."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Cleanser

"This one is geared towards oilier to normal skin. [...] It does a good job removing makeup for the most part and works as a second step cleanser or a morning cleanser. It has a light lather, not too foamy, and does a nice job removing makeup or any oil or if you use a mask. It does a really nice job and it doesn't leave your skin feeling too dry or parched afterwards. There's some cleansers that really can leave your skin feeling dry and flaky afterwards and this is not one of them."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Refreshing Cleanser

"I like the Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Refreshing Cleanser, too. [...] It's very gentle, low pH, so makes it nice for most skin types, and has plum and blueberry and stuff in there, which is also worth checking out."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Klairs Gentle Black Fresh Cleansing Oil

"Klairs also has two oil cleansers, the Gentle Black Fresh Cleansing Oil and the newer one that comes in a clear bottle. This one, the Klairs Gentle Black Fresh Cleansing Oil, has scent in it, so if you like scent go for this one. It does a nice job removing everything. It's a really pretty big 4.73 ounces, and it will last me forever because just a little bit of it is enough to clean everything, so it lasts a long time."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

By Wishtrend Green Tea Enzyme Milky Foaming Wash

"It's 17 bucks. [...] I keep this one in my shower. I don't use it all the time, but certain days when I feel extra grimy or I put a lot of makeup on or I used a rinse off mask, I'll use this cleanser. It's nice. It's a very highly foamy second step cleanser. It does a great job. Contains oatmeal and green tea. I would say this one's great for oily and normal and maybe slightly dry skin types, but it is extremely lathery. So keep that in mind."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

BYOMA Milky Jelly Cleanser

"That was a nice cleanser. I didn't smell any fragrance in it, which was nice."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Ceramide + Ectoin Hydrating Gentle Gel Cleanser

"Those two cleansers did a pretty darn good job. I mean there's really no residue left and I had a decent amount of makeup and foundation and eyeliner and eyeshadow on so I would say I'm impressed they those cleansers together did a great job"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Vitamin C & Omegas Cleansing Balm

"I'm going to start out with a makeup removing cleanse which will be the Allies of Skin [...] Vitamin C and Omega Cleansing Balm and use that on dry skin and rinse it up. [...] It's a fragrance-free cleanser with omegas and vitamin C but honestly keep in mind though that most of those good ingredients actually pretty much all of them go down the drain."

✓Yay

Notverified

Current State of Skin Salicylic Acid and Green Tea Exfoliating Cleanser

"It's a nice gentle cleanser without any fragrance. I picked it up because it just looked like a gentle cleanser without any fragrance in it and it is just nice gentle cleanser. It's [...] a nice basic second step cleanser. It doesn't do a great job removing makeup and sunscreen, but it does a nice job after that or as a morning cleanser. It's gentle and non-drying, so I think it's worth checking out for some people."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Makeup Remover Cleansing Towelettes Fragrance-Free

"These are really nice. [...] I used to just keep a pack of these on my night stand so I'd be in bed and I could still at least feel like I was removing the bulk of it. That's one of the worst things you can do for your skin is not removing your makeup and sunscreen because it gets in your pores, it's not good. So even if you don't feel good, that's the best thing you can do, is if you do nothing else do that."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Bioderma Sensibio Two-Phase Eye Makeup Remover

"Bioderma eye makeup remover, this stuff was awesome. I have nothing bad to say about it. Does a really nice job removing eye makeup and mascara. No fragrance in it, short ingredient list. Yeah, it was nice. I would repurchase this."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Cleansing Cream

"The one expensive cleanser that I actually did like was the Augustinus Bader Cleansing Cream. It was really nice."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Krave Beauty Makeup Rewind Transforming Jelly Oil Cleanser

"It's a one step cleanse you apply it to dry skin and then rinse it off and they say use it as a first step cleanse or for makeup removing but it does have fragrance in it so I didn't love that factor about it. If you don't mind fragrance in a product it's okay, a lot of people enjoy this one. It's a nice product for some people if you don't mind a scent."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Foaming Oil Cleanser

"The CeraVe Hydrating Foaming Cleansing Oil is another nice one, really affordable, probably the most affordable one on this list. [...] This stuff is really nice so you can use it on dry skin or damp skin and cleanse and rinse. [...] A lot of people love this as a one-step cleanser for makeup and then just a gentle cleanse."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

PSA Skin Reset Cleanser with AAI and Manuka Honey

"I've purchased this one probably close to 10 times. It's the PSA Reset Nourishing Cleanser with AAI and manuka honey. [...] This stuff's really nice, no scent to it. You can use it as a one-step makeup remover cleanser or you can use it as an evening cleanser. If you use it on wet skin you can use it either way, and it gives you a little bit of a light lather to it, which is really nice."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Mello Marula Cream Cleanser

"It feels nice and fine and my skin feels nice hydrated not dry. Pretty darn clean. I'm impressed, a lot of times those all-in-one type cleansers are good at one thing and not the other, but this actually did a decent job of removing makeup, sunscreen, eye mascara, as well as leave my skin feeling soft and not super dry or tight. No strong scents. The lather is nice and gentle. I think this would be a nice one to use with a handheld silicone face cleaner device."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

The INKEY List Fulvic Acid Brightening Cleanser

"I always say if you're on a budget, spend less on products that spend less time on your skin. Cleansers, as long as you have a decent one that's gentle, it doesn't really matter too much, it's going down the drain. You can certainly, if you have more money, spend more, but if you're going to cut back on certain things, cleansers are one thing [...] to cut back on in my opinion. This one's nice, it's no frills, it has no scent to it, it has a nice lather."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Sofim Mo Speeding Cleansing Oil

"If you're a budget shopper, this lasts forever. I'm not even exaggerating, forever. It's super light, so it's easy to spread it really quickly on your skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tatcha Pure One Step Camellia Cleansing Oil

"Their cleansing oil is great as well"

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Tatcha Indigo Cleansing Balm

"Their Indigo Cleansing Balm is nice."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

CeraVe Foaming Facial Cleanser

"This one's geared for normal to oily skin but I find this one works great for my dry skin. It comes in a big bottle and it's really affordable. [...] It's got a short ingredient list, no fragrance in it, nothing too exciting but it really worked well. Out of all the CeraVe cleansers this one's probably my favorite. It's been a go-to for me and it's really nice, pretty gentle non-drying but still good enough for oily skin too and my dry skin likes it as well."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Garnier Erase It All Makeup Cleansing Balm with Hyaluronic Acid

"Their big hits were Garnier cleansing balm which it looks good I haven't tried it yet but I really like the Garnier makeup cleansers"

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Dermalogica Special Cleansing Gel

"They mentioned one from Dermalogica which is $115 which is ridiculous."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Numbuzin Easy Peasy Cleansing Oil

"It's a very thick cleanser and it's got those little things, they call it a rice enzyme softening cleansing foam, but it feels like it exfoliates but not as much of them as other things. The [...] ingredients are glycerin, water, cellulose, then rice extracts and ceramides, ramlin for exfoliation."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Avène Cleanance Cleanser

"Avene Hydrants Cleanser. I think this is the second one of these I found so one of these will give away."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

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

"This is a decent cleanser but honestly for me I actually found it a little stripping and drying on my skin. Other people absolutely love it. Youth to the People was a smaller brand when they first started out but now they've been purchased by one of the big brands. [...] I'd say if it works you go for it, [...] but now it's been purchased by one of the big companies I think it's better off finding a smaller brand and supporting them. But again there's nothing wrong with this cleanser."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Cleanser

"I don't know how people's skin tolerates it. The only redeeming factor of it is that it rinses off and you're not going to spend very much time on your skin. That one was pretty terrible. I highly do not recommend anybody try it. They still have that pink grapefruit line of stuff and I don't know, maybe one or two random people in the world it works well for, I don't know, but for me it left my skin feeling very dry and irritated, itchy, and squeaky clean, almost like a stripped feeling."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Elemis Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm

"I will say this about Elemis, a lot of people love their makeup removing balm. It's probably in terms of the Beauty Box I've subscribed, it's probably the single product I've gotten the most of. I think I have like 12 or 13 of them."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Clarisonic Facial Cleansing Brush

"For a long time these Clarisonic brushes were very popular. [...] I like the brush for foundation application, but for cleansing I found I really just like these little silicone sponges instead."

~Mixed

55%Guru Score

COSRX Low pH Good Morning Gel Cleanser

"A lot of people I think either relied on it too much to do too much or were let down because it couldn't remove makeup and things like that, but it's just a nice gentle morning cleanser. That's what it is, that's all it is. You don't really want to use it at nighttime. It's just a nice one for the morning for people that a lot of times just splash their face with water. This one is just an alternative basically to that and still gentle."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Heimish All Clean Green Foam

"I love this one. [...] For 10 bucks you get a really good cleanser. It is one of the few cleansers that I consider an all-in-one cleanser except for very waterproof sunscreen and very waterproof eye makeup. Sometimes if I'm in the shower I'm really tired or [...] just want to get done with it and get out of there and I don't want to do a two-step cleanse, I just use this one. [...] For the most part it gets everything off except for very stubborn things and it does a good job doing that."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Lancôme Cream Skin Milk to Oil Cleanser

"This is Lancôme Cream Skin Milk to Oil Cleanser, wonderful at removing makeup and oil and sunscreen. [...] I love this, it's fragrance free, it's pretty hearty, it has a thicker texture to it, it just does a really nice job and I don't find myself having to use as much scrubbing [...] as I do with other cleansers. [...] It was really nice for my sensitive skin and it didn't leave it dry or anything."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Papaya Sorbet Enzyme Cleansing Balm

"I did like it, it didn't have a super strong scent to it and it did a pretty good job removing most makeup and things like that. [...] This one's really nice and hydrating, although I do like the one from Pharmacy just a little bit more, it's a little bit lighter, not quite as thick. I wouldn't repurchase it because I've got like a gazillion other cleansing balms that I need to finish up."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Clinique Take the Day Off Charcoal Cleansing Balm

"The Clinique Take the Day Off Charcoal Cleansing Balm, this stuff is a Holy Grail for a lot of people. The regular version without the charcoal, I like the version with the charcoal better than the regular version. The regular version gets in my eyes and makes things blurry. I didn't have that experience with this one, so I would hands down buy this one again."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Cleansing Oil

"The Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Cleansing Oil is a very nice cleansing oil, super light feeling and no scent to it which is nice. It's got some nice ginseng and does a pretty good job removing makeup and sunscreen. It's a little lighter than the typical oil cleanser since a lot of them can be kind of thick, but this one was very thin so it took several pumps to get the job done, but it did a good job. It's super affordable which is also wonderful."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Whipped Cream Cleanser

"I switched the two so and I didn't even realize until the next morning I was smearing this on my face, I was so tired. I just got to get something on my face so it feels hydrated after being in the air and traveling all that and then I wake up the next morning my skin's pretty itchy. Not terribly so, not as bad as you would think mixing up the two and leaving a cleanser on your skin for 12 hours or whatever, but it wasn't a great experience. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Purifying Foaming Cleansing Oil

"I finished up the La Roche-Posay Toleriane Purifying Foaming Cleansing Oil which is $20. It's wonderful. I bought it more as a body cleanser because my body in the winter gets super dry, [...] but it also did a great job for my face. It removes makeup and things like that. [...] For 20 bucks the bottle's huge. It's great at removing sunscreen and leaves skin feeling soft and supple. I couldn't ask for anything more, so I'll definitely be picking that one up again because I absolutely loved it."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

CeraVe Makeup Removing Cleanser Balm

"The CeraVe cleansing balm for $14 was disappointing. I found it was too thick, it took a lot of effort to smooth it into skin to get it to really work, and when it rinsed off it left [...] a kind of residue so I didn't love it. The jar is super tiny for what you'd think it would be for CeraVe, typically they're a little more affordable. [...] I didn't love how it took a long time and a lot of effort to break down and melt on skin."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Peach & Lily PowerCalm Hydrating Gel Cleanser

"What I like about this one is it, if you're just using a little bit of makeup or a little bit of sunscreen that's not terribly water resistant, this one does a pretty good job at being a one-step do-it-all cleanser. So that's a nice option for that. And you can certainly use it as a second step cleanser, but for days where I don't have a ton of makeup or I just have a light sunscreen, this one does it all."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Ginger Melt Oil Cleanser

"I love that I went through it I finished it a few months ago really nice cleansing oil very nice got a really nice texture to it it's not too watery it's not too thick it was really nice and if you do the oil cleansing method [...] where you massage over your skin for like 10 or 15 minutes it's actually a nice one to use for that because it's not super runny but it is a little bit on the thicker side and really nice product so that is definitely worth picking up on sale."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Senka Perfect Whip Cleansing Foam

"The Senka Perfect Whip, this one's very very fragrance and it also felt stripping and I really wanted to use one somehow like on my body or something but it's just far too drying for that."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Abib Acne Foam Cleanser Heartleaf Foam

"The Abib Acne Foam Cleanser is really nice and contains salicylic acid which we all know is great for preventing and clearing out breakouts. It has heartleaf for soothing and centella, and it does contain wintergreen extract which they claim has antibacterial properties that fight acne. I don't know how true that is but I do want to mention it. I've been testing it and I don't notice any smell when I use it so thankfully I'll take that. No irritation or anything like that."

✓Yay

Notverified

Good Molecules Rose Water Daily Cleansing Gel

"This one's got no acneic ingredients, it's not overly stripping or overly drying, and a lot of people with acne mention this one does the trick."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Innisfree Blueberry Rebalancing 5.5 Cleanser

"The first one is the Innisfree Blueberry Rebalancing Cleanser. This one is super strong scented from lavender oil, orange peel oil, and lolu. And I will say once I rinse this off my skin feels screaming like stripped dry. So I don't recommend that."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Then I Met You Living Cleansing Balm

"This one's got the sea buckthorn ingredient, got grape oil, olive oil. It's a really nice cleanser. [...] I really do like this cleansing balm even though it has a little bit of fragrance in it."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm

"The first 10 times I tried it I hated it, and then I end up using it [...] on dry skin and I liked it a little bit more, because the ingredients say to apply it on a damp face and neck, but this stuff is so thick and Vaseline-like, and when you apply it on something that's wet it just feels like you're trying to mix oil and water and it doesn't do anything. And then I applied it to dry skin, it seemed a little bit better, but it's still always left like a residue feeling."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Jordan Samuel Skin Cleanser

"Their cleansers are really nice and gentle. They're worth checking out."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Minimalist Oat 6% Gentle Cleanser

"This one's got oat glycerin, apply on wet skin and massage rinse off thoroughly. Doesn't really have a lot of anything, it's a very short ingredient list. Super affordable so I'm excited to play with this one. [...] I don't see any foaming ingredients."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Cleanser

"They're a grapefruit cleanser, I mean for real, a grapefruit cleanser. A lot of their stuff is great. They've, in my opinion, recently been doing a lot better in terms of allergens and fragrance and things like that, but they still have a lot of stuff that they've made that has a ton of fragrance in it. So be on the lookout. Neutrogena is another brand that really markets to sensitive skin or to people that want a simple routine without a lot of added irritant and things like that."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Cream-to-Foam Cleanser

"The CeraVe Hydrating Cream-to-Foam Cleanser is [...] very nice. It says it's geared towards normal to oily skin but I find this works very nice on my dry skin in the dry winter and it's really affordable and the bottle's huge. Both of these from CeraVe are both winners for wintertime or for dry skin and the bottles again they're gigantic they will last you a long time."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil

"The L Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil is probably one of the tougher ones because these are all great, they're all ones I've repurchased, and the winner is the L Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil which is a new product this year. [...] It's an amazing product, use it every day."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Blueberry Bounce Gentle Cleanser

"The Glow Recipe Blueberry Bounce Cleanser was another one I heard a lot about with mold in it and people took photos of it and then emailed them and got another one returned."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Beste No. 9 Jelly Cleanser

"It's a decent jelly cleanser, it's it is what it is. It's nothing compared to my love for the PHA, they just don't even, not even in the same category."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Pure Skin Face Cleanser

"Today, for day two, [...] I picked the First Aid Beauty Pure Skin Face Cleanser. It's a pretty decent face cleanser for the most part, and it works great for a lot of people. [...] No matter what other people say, I still think you should spend the least amount of money you can on a cleanser and find a good, gentle one. There are a lot of really affordable cleansers that are very gentle, and you don't have to spend a ton. They get rinsed down the sink."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Cleanser

"The Birch juice cleanser is also quite nice. It's a really nice cleanser and it does a good job."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

CeraVe Micellar Cleansing Water

"My eyes are not terribly sensitive but this one makes my eyes water and I just didn't find it did a really good job removing any extra makeup or anything like that so this one was not my favorite product from them and it became a really easy pass."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Isntree Onion New Pair Cleansing Foam

"That sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate can be kind of harsh. [...] Turmeric is in here, sodium ascorbyl phosphate, tranexamic acid. I found this one is a little harsh, although it's less harsh now that I figured out [...] my water softener was empty for like a week. [...] So this one's not as harsh once the water softener is working. I'm just gonna use it for a really quick cleanse off my nightly routine products."

✕Nay
Sponsored

73%Guru Score

Other59 reviews

Medicube Zero Pore Pad

"But the bigger issue is this brand had batches recently in the late summer that according to official government research and publications contained an ingredient called Sudan red. Hong Kong Customs tested this product that was going to be sold to customers and it found one point five milligrams of Sudan red inside of it and Sudan red apparently is an extremely carcinogenic carcinogen. Not good for your skin, not good for topical, not good for anything."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous HA5 Rich

"The Geek and Gorgeous hyaluronic acid rich is $9.90. There are different levels of hyaluronic acid and this one's the rich, more hydrating one. You still want to use it under a good moisturizer, [...] but this will instantly plump up your skin and help with that."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant D-Bronzi Anti-Pollution Sunshine Drops

"The bronzing drops, these are really nice, they've got some peptides in there as well. It's like the cherry on top of the cake, gives you a little bit of color."

✓Yay

59%Guru Score

Alastin Restorative Skin Complex

"This one's packaging has changed, so [...] I got this on sale because of that, and I'm happy with that. It contains their TriHex Complex, which includes a proprietary Octapeptide 45, some firming peptides, bio peptide EL, a great one if you have sagginess or crepiness. It also has Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, the Syn-Tax peptide, and ornithine. [...] But this one has got a really nice moisturizer texture, so I'll use this at night a lot and a lot on my neck, and I got this one for a great deal."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Hydrogel Patches

"Another one with kojic acid is the DRMTLGY Hydrogel Patches, which also contains a ton of peptides, ceramides, and aloe leaf, plus the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo. It's a really nice product, and a really nice brand overall."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bioderma Photoderm Aqua Fluid

"Bioderma, their photoderm line is great. They've got a really nice lineup with some really good filters in there. I would put them in my top five list of most trusted sunscreen brands. Bioderma would be in it. [...] I really love this one. It's got a nice tint to it. I picked this one up when I was traveling last time, but it's got a nice enough neutral tint to it. And I think this one's a chemical sunscreen with some really nice ingredients."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

BBL Broadband Light Laser

"The BBL treatment felt like a little bit of heat on your skin. It didn't feel bad. I would have no problem going in tomorrow and doing it again."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Uzu Eye Opening Liner

"I love this eyeliner. [...] It's Uzu Eye Opening Liner. [...] This was like a soft brown, I believe. [...] It's like a deep brown. I love it. [...] Really wonderful eyeliner."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tatcha Luminous Skin Softener

"It's a wonderful uh essence. It's really expensive. If it were like 30 bucks, I'd probably still buy it. Um but um really nice, really, really lovely, really light texture, but yeah, there's just so many other options"

~Mixed

56%Guru Score

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex

"Estée Lauder made anti-aging a mainstream beauty category really with the release of this, and it kind of markets itself as DNA repair for your skin. It's been reformulated several times and is still on the market today, which is amazing. There's not a lot of mainstream products that last that long. Most products either get reformulated or changed, or the brands change hands. So to have a product that's still very similar to the original one is not very common."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

The Ordinary Volufiline 92% + Palmitoyl Isoleucine 1%

"Nothing has revealed like amazing results that you hear about. So, [...] that could just be me. I'm just going to apply it around my mouth area, typically where you want more volume. [...] It's kind of an oily type feeling concoction. I typically recommend applying it to hollow areas or sunken-in areas. A lot of people do it around the mouth, and some people pat it on around their eyes. Some people get amazing results. Some people, like me, don't notice much either way, but keep trying it."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

SkinMedica TNS Recovery Complex

"The SkinMedica TNS Recovery Complex has more exosomes and more growth factors than the advanced serum, but if you don't like fragrance, get the advanced serum instead because this one smells terrible. I got [...] it on a really good sale thinking I'd suffer through the scent because of that good ingredient, but I still haven't opened it after five months."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Shark Beauty FlexStyle

"I love this. It comes with different options. You can put on a hair dryer, you can put on a curling iron, you can put on a straightening thing. [...] I use this a lot. The Beachwave is probably my first go-to, but if my hair is damp at all, this is the one I use. This is what I styled this hair with two days ago."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

The Ordinary Aloe 2% + NAG 2% Solution

"Their aloe serum is really nice too for soothing."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 300

"So if you haven't tried the Reedle Shot, the 300's starts at 50 and goes up to I believe 900. So 300 is in the newer to mid tier of it strengthwise. 18 bucks is a really good deal. These are some of the more expensive K beauty products I come across. So seeing it that cheap under 20 bucks is a really good deal. And if you wanted to try it, this is a good chance to try it without having to put a whole K beauty or Asian beauty order in."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100

"So, nothing wrong with that. Uh but yeah. So, most expensive one, but they're these are all great."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

NARS Light Reflecting Eye Brightener in Night Swan

"I don't like fussing around in front of the mirror for a long time. And I found this one really needs time to apply it, time to absorb, time to do all of it. And I just don't do that. So I reached for it a handful of times, and now it just sits on top of my drawers. [...] Maybe for people that like to spend a lot of time getting ready or people that have dark circles, [...] maybe it's a total winner. But for me, I kind of jumped the gun on this. I probably didn't need it."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Scope Floss Picks

"I just keep them in my drawer, but regular floss is better. Although I did pick up something different this time with the double floss, they're a little aggressive compared to the Scope, which is a little more gentle. These are a little [...] painful, so the Scope was a little bit less painful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Latisse Latisse

"Instead of using it every day, I use it every two days or every three days, and I don't notice that my lashes are getting any shorter by doing it that way. It helps my eyes stay a little bit more hydrated because I find those can be kind of drying. I apply it after I do my eyelashes, and I put a little bit on each brow with one drop. [...] I haven't noticed any negative effects on my lashes by doing it every two or three days instead of every day."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Thermal Spring Water

"For two to three hours after that treatment my skin was very unhappy, red, irritating. But anytime I misted this my skin instantly calmed down for like a second or two and then I'd mist again. It's pretty simple. It's [...] got their Thermal Spring Water which has some benefits. I'm thinking there's a [...] thermal bath where people with really bad eczema and skin rashes and allergies can go and bathe in the thermal water. It's really nice for that."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Fragrance-Free Collection

"I loved it. I think there were six products in it. Amazing. Today I go look at it and there's like two of them left, maybe three. It's curiously the only line from the brand that I know of that was totally fragrance-free. So now I think they have the cream left and maybe the cleanser or something. That line has kind of disappeared. It's another line where I don't want to fall in love with anything, because it will not exist tomorrow if I love it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid 1%

"Niod kale serum love it"

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Clinique Dramatically Different Hydrating Jelly

"I like the jelly one better than the yellow. The yellow versions are just too oily for me even with my dry skin."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Moxy Laser

"The Moxy for some reason, I really, it was painful. I was tearing up the whole time. [...] I have a pretty high pain tolerance, [...] and it was still very painful. I love how they say this fast and easy, low to no downtime, it's an over lunch procedure, but I hate when companies do that stuff. You don't want to go back to work after that. For the first two hours, I finished a bottle of pain relief within probably half an hour of my car ride home and had to stop at Walgreens and buy more."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Frownies Forehead and Between the Eye Wrinkle Patches

"The thing I don't like about them is that it really limits what I can use underneath them because they have to stick on your face in a certain area. They make ones for the eyes, mouth area, forehead, things like that. And then when you're sleeping it prevents them from moving so when you wake up in the morning you don't notice them as much."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Shiseido Prep Cotton Pads

"Shiseido Prep Cotton Pads, I love these, they're really nice, they're lovely."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NIOD Photography Fluid

"This is their [...] Photography Fluid, [...] they have different strengths of it or different coverage, and I didn't love it. [...] I just found this one to be kind of greasy. This is kind of what started NIOD off, [...] the main founder was really looking for something to use in photography to even out skin tone and things like that, and this is kind of what his pet project was, but I didn't like it."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Shiseido Eyelash Curler

"This is a Shiseido Eyelash Curler. It comes with the refill thingies for it, but I don't curl them hard enough that I ever think I need to refill the rubber part of it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12%

"In here we've got ascorbyl glucoside which is a stable form of vitamin C. It potentially shows to have all three of the anti-aging benefits of vitamin C or ascorbic acid: antioxidant protection, collagen boosting, and fading hyperpigmentation. So this one is well worth a try in my opinion. [...] This one's great for brightening your skin."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Lancôme Advanced Génifique Youth Activating Concentrate

"People love the Lancôme Génifique and if it works for you go for it. For me, I just found it kind of drying and irritating. But I guess there's a lot of people that really like it. I mean, it's one of their top sellers, so if it works, go for it."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

About Face Fluid Eye Paints

"They have some really cool looking dual chrome liquid eyeshadows but I'm not good with liquid eyeshadows at all. [...] I'm just not precise enough to make them look good."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

r.e.m. beauty Midnight Shadows Lustrous

"I bought an eyeshadow from them and I didn't love it at all. I wasn't super impressed with it."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Kylie Cosmetics Kylie Cosmetics

"Kylie Jenner that brand I don't see lasting too long"

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

PMD Clean

"Another brand called PMD they make something like this which is great too. I find these are nice to get a really nice deep clean on without the brush kind of being irritating or drying."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

NIRA NIRA

"You just use it around your eyes, your mouth, wherever you have fine lines and wrinkles, and over time it will help build collagen in the skin. This one is not painful. It stings a little bit, but not anywhere near as much as the other two I'm going to recommend. This one is fine, there's nothing wrong with it. It's probably a nice one for beginners or for people without harsh wrinkles. For people with a little bit tougher wrinkles, though, you'd want something else."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Doctor Pen Doctor Pen

"These are great because you can just screw off the tip and they come with replacement tips, and every time you use it you have a new tip that's fresh, that's sharp, that won't irritate you. [...] Do your reading before you start using it [...] because there's different settings, there's different lengths, there's different speeds, and different areas you use it on require different lengths and different speeds. [...] Overall this is a great device."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

The INKEY List Alpha Arbutin 2%

"The inky list Alpha arbutin serum"

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Cetaphil Gentle Makeup Removing Wipes

"I'm not a big cleansing wipe person but occasionally I like to try them out because sometimes at night I just keep them on my nightstand so if I've had a migraine that day or something like that I can still remove my makeup and not feel guilty about it that I didn't wash my face."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Numbuzin Collagen 73% Pudding

"Numbuzin they've got some great stuff these days and I'm really happy to review more and more of them and this stuff was so wonderful to try and I'm very excited and very happy I gave it a try. [...] So they say this upgrade on Numbuzin's signature anti-aging serums come chalk full of 73% collagen to firm hydrate and plump tired skin additional ingredients of hydrolyzed elastin eight kinds of hyaluronic acid as well as adenosine keep skin smooth supple and hydrated."

✓Yay

60%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 6 Bond Smoother

"I've had good luck with [Olaplex] in the past uh I really enjoy"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Dermaflash Dermapore Ultrasonic Pore Extractor & Spatula

"I just have not had good luck with this brand whatsoever. [...] I didn't have good luck with this brand, this product. It's kind of harsh to get it to actually work. Some people love these spatulas and if you maybe have oilier skin or prone to blackheads, but I found the amount of pressure you have to use on this to actually help extract that ends up sometimes irritating your skin and flaking it and sometimes can end up making your skin look worse."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Glass Skin Face Polisher

"This one I found to be a little harsh. I didn't love it. [...] I keep it in the shower and honestly I reach for this one a heck of a lot more. [...] I don't know, I just didn't love it, especially how expensive it is."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Youth to the People Yerba Mate Resurfacing Energy Facial

"I found this one to be a little bit harsh. I didn't love it and I don't find myself reaching for it hardly at all. [...] I don't love it for the price, so this one's an easy pass in my opinion. [...] I have a problem with Youth to the People anything that they have in a jar, which is pretty much everything, and it ends up drying out very fast."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

bareMinerals Bare Pro

"I absolutely love [...] the original formula that they came with but they changed it up. I started seeing it at TJ Maxx for a long time and then they came out with this newer version which to me is very similar except the colors are all different. It's annoying. This shade I have is 21 cool [...] and I think it's just a touch too dark or maybe it was a little too light. I don't know. A little bit of this goes a very long way."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Skin Better Alpharet

"I haven't tried them, I believe it's the one run by SkinBetter. I like the SkinBetter brand, but I have not tried their AlphaRet products. They're kind of expensive, but I mean they look good and it's a good brand."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot Series

"It's definitely an interesting product. I'll certainly continue to use this because so far [...] my skin does feel nice, it feels hydrated, it feels smoother, maybe a little less red than normal. I do enjoy it and it's different and it's unique. So I see why it's got a lot of people talking because that sponge ingredient isn't in a lot of products. I've only tried one other product that had it in there, so it's kind of interesting to see."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant O-Bloos Rosy Drops

"They said their only products that are safe for kids are the bronzing and Rosy drops uh virgin oil and laa whipped cream and the jelly cleanser"

✓Yay

59%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game range

"If you don't have retinol in your aging routine, which we all are, get with it, pick one of these up. [...] The winner for best retinol product is Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 10 or 5. If you're newer, start with 5. If you're experienced retinol users, go with 10."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Snail Rescue

"This stuff is wonderful, my only criticism of it is I wish the product came in a bigger bottle. [...] It's got a wonderful jelly texture and lots of good skin protecting ingredients which make it really wonderful for use during your daytime routine. It soaks in nicely and you can certainly use this daytime or evening, but a lot of snail products I find can be kind of slimy or goopy."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

RNW Ceramide Plus Concentrate

"The RNW Ceramide Plus Concentrate is another alternative."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Wild Marula Tangle Spray

"This was okay to be honest I wouldn't repurchase it. It wasn't bad but I just love my..."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

The Ordinary Amino Acids + B5

"Their amino acid B5 is one I've repurchased a few times, which is just a bunch of amino acids which are really great for anti-aging. I kind of moved on from this one but I still come back to it from time to time. It's a really nice one, and when I first tried it I was goo goo gaga over it."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant B-Goldi Bright Drops

"They introduced this recent one, the B-Goldi Bright Drops, which is essentially again the same thing as the DE Bronzi serum except it's gold so you mix it in and it makes you look gold instead of bronze. I don't know who wants to look gold but they're kind of relying on their fans and sending out products for review because if you look at Sephora the brightening drops, the gold drops now have like 311 five star reviews of course it's all people that got the product for free."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Klairs Fundamental Nourishing Eye Butter

"Their eye butter from this line is great too. I love it, and I finished that one up as well, so I need to do some repurchasing."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

SkinCeuticals Silymarin CF

"I didn't end up loving this one. If you're going to spend the money on SkinCeuticals get the main one. But what I've heard lately is people have been ordering it from the SkinCeuticals website and it's arriving oxidized, and you're spending 180 dollars on something that arrives oxidized. I would be really irritated spending that much."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

The Ordinary Matrixyl 10% + HA

"It's cruelty free, fragrance free, it contains hyaluronic acid as well as matrixyl peptides for anti-aging. [...] This one retails for ten dollars. [...] In my opinion, if you're looking for something with a really light serum texture, this stuff is wonderful."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Accutane Accutane

"Accutane, a prescription acne medication, has been the subject of numerous lawsuits. Plaintiffs claim the drug caused serious side effects including inflammatory bowel disease and birth defects. The manufacturer of Accutane faced multiple losses and eventually discontinued the product in some countries."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Calm Down

"It's got a proper pH. [...] This one is great for sensitive skin, skin that's prone to redness. The exfoliants in here, it's got 0.8% salicylic acid, which is great for if you notice clogged pores or acne or blackheads, things like that. It's a great ingredient for that. It also contains two very gentle PHAs, glucactylone and lactobionic acid, which are very gentle, but very good for helping your skin tone, texture, all of that."

✓Yay
Sponsored

78%Guru Score

Stratia Interface

"Very nice moisturizer, no fragrance in it, works well for most skin types. In here we've got seven different peptides including epidermal growth factor, we've got rose hip oil, acetyl glucosamine which is another great ingredient, licorice root and allantoin both for soothing skin, really nice product. This is one you can use daytime or evening, either one or both. It's nice in my opinion."

✓Yay
Sponsored

83%Guru Score

Masks & Peels57 reviews

Geek & Gorgeous Smooth Out Liquid Exfoliant with 12% AHA

"I also love their Smooth Out liquid exfoliant. It's 32 bucks. It's got 12% AHA, which is comprised of glycolic and lactic acid. It's wonderful."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Sill Full Face Sheet Mask

"I've used this mask before and I really loved it. It has some heft to it, not flimsy like a lot of sheet masks. It stayed on my skin amazing, it didn't start to slide or slip off my face like a lot of masks do on me, and it felt really nice. The ingredients in here are great, it's fragrance free, it doesn't have any denatured alcohol, and it's full of peptides, which are great for anti-aging, plus some nice ferments in there too."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Advanced Smoothing Treatment 10% AHA

"You want to make sure it's at the proper pH so it absorbs. Paula's Choice exfoliants are always way above par. Paula's Choice probably started the exfoliant trend and it's very beneficial for your skin. Using this serum a few nights a week helps keep my skin kind of firm and from becoming too saggy and also brightens up my skin tone and texture. My skin started to get a little bit saggier the older I've gotten. This seems to help."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 25% AHA + 2% BHA Exfoliating Peel

"The my pick is the [Paula's Choice]."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Cheer Up 5% Mandelic Acid plus 1% BHA

"Geek & Gorgeous Cheer Up liquid exfoliant is also a nice option. [...] And that one just happens to be one of the ones that works great for me."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial Brightening Mask

"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial Brightening Mask [...] has niacinamide and phloretin, which is another brightening ingredient that also has anti-aging benefits and helps improve skin tone and brightening. We've got glutathione, alpha lipoic acid, and ergothioneine, which [...] helps suppress melanin production. It's a great brightening product. Drunk Elephant has done a few things right and that is one of them."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

I'm From Honey Jelly Mask

"I really love their honey mask. It's really nice. If you haven't tried it, really nice face mask."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Apricot Blossom Peeling Gel

"It's got apricot, apple, green tea, blueberry extract, really nice. Leaves your skin feeling super soft. I just love it. I've repurchased it and I've really become a huge fan of those gentle peeling gels. [...] Worth checking out at 12 bucks. The bottles last me quite a long time. You only need a little bit."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary Salicylic Acid 2% Mask

"The Ordinary Salicylic Acid 2% Mask is a really nice acne fighting, oil absorbing mask. It's got a slight physical exfoliant benefit for it as well. So it's really nice occasional mask to use. It's got salicylic acid which is great for pores, fighting acne, fighting breakouts. Really great for that. It's got kaolin which soaks up extra oils on the skin. It's got charcoal powder which gives it the little bit of abrasiveness."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"This one's out of your price range, and there are several great dupes that are about half the price. This is Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant. It just uses 2% salicylic acid, and it's a liquid toner. You can apply it with a cotton pad or just pat it onto the skin. This would be great for people with acne-prone or oily skin, since salicylic acid is a great ingredient for that. It's a great product."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 4% BHA Pore Refining Treatment

"I've repurchased this several times. I typically use it just on my nose or wherever you get clogged pores or large pores. It's fragrance-free, alcohol-free, and contains 4% salicylic acid, which actually [...] penetrates into the pores whereas other exfoliating ingredients sometimes just penetrate to the surface level. Salicylic acid penetrates a little bit deeper, which makes it one of those great ones for clogged pores or acne."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Isntree Chestnut BHA 2% Clear Liquid

"This one's a really nice option. It's 3.38 ounces and it's $10.50, so this one will save you about $25ish dollars. It's got 2% salicylic acid. It's got licorice root and [allantoin] for soothing. Yeah, so it's a very nice alternative in my opinion to the [Paula's Choice], which is getting kind of pricey."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Walgreens 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"The Walgreens 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant. This one's also got 2% BHA, salicylic acid to fight blackheads and acne. This one's got a pretty short ingredient list and it's got the proper pH. [...] This is a really nice option."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel Pads

"They retail for 94 bucks, so they're kind of expensive, especially if you're going to do it on a daily basis. I've tried them and they're quite nice. The brand was co-founded by Dennis and his wife Carrie in 2000 aiming to make clinical grade skincare accessible with science-backed products inspired by his dermatology practice and pioneering work on chemical peels."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Lanz Waterbank Aqua Facial Serum with BHA and AHA

"Lanz has their Waterbank Aqua Facial Serum with BHA and AHA. 1 oz for 36 bucks. This one also has glucactylone and sugar maple. It's got lemon extract. Might be too scented. Um sugar cane. It's got some ferments in there which look nice. Um orange fruit extract. I'll check that one out too. But that one's at least not terribly expensive. But with K beauty, I always expect it to be a little bit less than everything else."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Medicube Collagen Night Wrapping Mask

"If you have sensitive to dry skin or eczema-prone skin, products with high amounts of polyvinyl alcohol can be irritating and disrupt the skin barrier, especially in the peel-off formulas. Using it too often for some people can make your skin tight and flaky. It tends to have decent reviews, but honestly, if you're just looking for a good sleeping mask to put on at the end of your routine, I've got a couple that I'd rather recommend that I personally think work better."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask

"The Jet Lag Mask is wonderful and it's a pretty good deal if you can get it for 20% off."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Perfectly Clear 2% BHA Serum

"Their perfectly clear serum is a 2% salicylic acid serum, which is similar to the [Paula's Choice] 2% BHA liquid exfoliant. It's got the proper pH. I've repurchased this a few times. Really nice."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

COSRX BHA Blackhead Power Liquid 4%

"And then the other pick for that is the uh cranny cell buffa ampule complex repair ampu ampule which is 17 bucks. So this one's got buffa and it's got galactomyces ferment gins singen which I love for anti-aging."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Abib PDRN Collagen Overnight Mask Firming Jelly

"It's a fragrance-free night sleep mask. It's got panthenol, it's got PDRN, which is the new [...] hot ingredient, turmeric, neem extract, ceramides, macadamia oil, and peptides. [...] I always love a good sleep mask or nighttime moisturizer. So this one looks like one I'm definitely interested in checking out."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth FirmX Peeling Gel

"For a long time I thought these things were kind of a scam but they're really nice and really gentle. They're not rough like sandy type feeling exfoliators. They just have like a cellulose ingredient in there and it kind of works with the water. [...] It was just a little sample and I finished it up. I don't know, about 0.5 ounces I think I got probably seven or eight uses out of it. So nice and gentle."

✓Yay

60%Guru Score

The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution

"The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution which is $9.50 for one ounce, this one's probably the closest to the Paula's Choice but they're all nice alternatives and they're all a heck of a lot more affordable."

✓Yay

58%Guru Score

PanOxyl 2% Salicylic Acid Liquid Exfoliant

"I gave it to my friend she was complaining about blackheads on her nose and chin so I gave it to her to use. So I don't have it here but I have used it, it's very nice, and that one is $12.50 for 4 oz."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Retinal + Peptides Overnight Repair Mask

"This one is expensive. The brand's gotten really pricey. [...] It also contains other peptides in there which are nice for anti-aging and I like the packaging, it's a little bit more travel friendly."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Good Genes All-In-One AHA Lactic Acid Treatment

"I don't love it because the pH of it is very low for what it needs to be to be effective."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Dermalogica Hydro Mask Exfoliant

"It was a fragrance-free product, just a mask you put on and rinse off but had these little beads that would break and give you a little bit of gentle exfoliation to it. For the price it's probably not worth repurchasing. I don't think I would repurchase it. [...] Sometimes just a nice mask once in a while is fine to change it up. [...] I did like the packaging though, it was pretty, just push this down and then it would just dispense it."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial

"The Ordinary HA + BHA Peeling Serum is a dup for another Drunk Elephant product, their T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial, which was very strong as well. But another good dup."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 8 Bond Intense Moisture Repair Mask

"I really like this mask from them. [...] One thing I want to mention, I haven't repurchased this, I've repurchased this probably twice now because I use such a small amount of this. I haven't had to repurchase it more than a couple times. The bottle is 1.7 oz, so I literally use almost a pea size, which I can't get away with doing almost pea size with almost anything, but with this one it works well."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Josie Maran Whipped Argan Sugar Scrub

"Josie Maran has a body sugar scrub. I don't love sugar scrubs because I find them to be too harsh. My skin is so sensitive, even when I get a pedicure done and they try to massage your feet with those sugar scrubs it's too much and it hurts and I don't like it."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Minimalist 10% Vitamin C Face Serum with PHA

"This is a nice vitamin C gentle serum with some nice derivatives in it, no fragrance, it's got ferulic acid in it, so it's a nice way to try it without having to buy a bunch from the brand to get free shipping. [...] It's still really affordable even compared to a lot of other brands these days."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Strawberry Smooth BHA and AHA Salicylic Serum

"I would recommend this over those other two almost any day of the week probably any day actually any day of the week it's better formulated"

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

L'Oreal Bright Reveal Exfoliant Peel

"The L'Oreal Bright Reveal dark spot exfoliant peel, I wouldn't recommend that over this one. [...] I've tried it and I would recommend this over that almost any day of the week, probably any day actually. [...] It's better formulated."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Ground Rice and Honey Glow Mask

"This one's got some nice physical exfoliant properties but it also is hydrating but it also soaks up oil so when you rinse it off your skin just feels nice and clean and bright and soft not oily not too greasy nothing like that so it's a kind of a nice in between type product."

✓Yay

97%Guru Score

COSRX AHA/BHA/PHA/LHA 35 Peel

"This one is a nice peel you're going to leave it on. [...] For me I only use this on my nose and I use a little bit on my chin. [...] This is kind of [...] a more gentle dupe to the one from the Ordinary which tends to be too harsh. [...] If I use this on my whole face I will not be happy, but if I just use it where I'm prone to get blackheads or clogged pores then it's great."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant

"Their gentle physical exfoliator, the Daily Microfoliant, seems to work well. It's pretty gentle, and it's not ridiculously expensive. In my opinion, I would guess it's probably one of their most popular products."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 6% Mandelic Acid + 2% Lactic Acid Liquid Exfoliant

"It will help with skin cell turnover and things like that. It's pretty effective. It's more gentle than some exfoliants and less gentle than others. [...] It's pretty friendly for all skin types including acne prone skin, [...] which is wonderful. [...] In terms of price, [...] this product is 30 milliliters for 37 dollars, putting that on the cusp of being too pricey. [...] If you're going to apply this with your fingertips it's affordable; if you're going to apply with a cotton pad it's not."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Minimalist 10% AHA + 2% BHA Face Exfoliating Serum

"I've been meaning to start testing it, so this one I played with a few nights now and it's really nice. In here we've got [...] exfoliants, we've got glycolic acid, lactic acid, and salicylic acid. So [...] far so good with this one, it's really nice. No fragrance or anything like that."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Bliss Overnight Clear Genius Clarifying Peel

"This one's got a blend of gluconolactone, glycolic acid, salicylic acid, and lactic acid, and it's really much more affordable. [...] You just use these just like you would the Drunk Elephant, apply it at night in your evening routine. You can use it nightly if your skin's tolerable to it, otherwise you can start a couple times a week or every other night, or if you use retinoids or other actives you can alternate evenings with them, so it kind of makes it nice for that."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tatcha Rice Polish

"I like this but I like the calming version better because it's better for sensitive skin. This one's a little bit on the harsh side but I like the calming version better, but a lot of people love it."

~Mixed

89%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Centella 3% PHA Gentle Liquid Exfoliating Serum

"In terms of the price, this is the full size, which is 4 oz, 120 mL, and retails for $20, which is pretty darn affordable. In the long run, if you use this, it will last a long time, especially if you just use it by patting it onto skin. [...] Overall, it's a decent product, but if you have sensitive skin, I'd recommend checking out something different for exfoliating."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 1% BHA Sensitive Skin Exfoliant

"[Paula's Choice] they use BHA in the form of salicylic acid this is going to be a great ingredient for acne prone skin especially like around your back some people are more prone to acne uh on their body certain areas of their body their chest things like that. [...] So this one it will also help a little bit with firmness but salicylic acid is more helps with breakouts and things like that but it's still a really nice product and it will help firm up your skin to some extent."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Skin Plush Pudding Intensive Recovery Mask

"It doesn't really say fragrance, but I have a feeling it does, because it has a little bit of a taste. Maybe that's the coconut. It feels really nice and thick, and if you put it on before bed, you wake up and your lips feel nice and soft. [...] I am retesting this one, and I'm liking it more now than the very first time I tested it. I'm not exactly sure what the differences are, but sometimes I end up changing my mind, and with this one I might have changed my mind."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bubble Moonwalk Gentle Exfoliating Serum

"It's just too high. A lot of those exfoliants aren't going to function as exfoliants when the pH is too high. [...] This is showing exactly what the other pH test strip showed, it's too high to really function as we're hoping it to do, which is kind of a bummer because Bubble typically they've been doing a pretty good job with their products. They're nice and typically very efficient and they typically do what they promise, so having this one be at the pH that it is, it's kind of a bummer."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Pumpkin Enzyme Mask

"It's a rinse off exfoliant mask with pumpkin enzymes, peptides, and silver which is an antibacterial ingredient, and then jojoba beads. I didn't hate it. Actually this is my second pro jar of it, I finished the first one and I enjoy it. It's nothing a must have, but it was okay."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Exfoliating Moisturizer

"This one's a really nice, wonderful gel cream moisturizer. It's 25 bucks for 3.77 oz, so you can use this and not feel guilty about it. It's got a really nice product for your morning routine, with a very nice light finish. It has shea butter, green tea, and aloe, and no scent to it. So it's a really nice product, well worth checking out. It's pretty friendly for acne-prone skin as well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Ranavat Facial Polish

"The scent and the essential oils they use in here are way too strong in my opinion, especially for those with sensitive skin types. My skin felt nice after I used it, but the brand is very expensive as well, so this one is a very easy pass. I'm struggling to finish it."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Versed Doctor's Visit Instant Resurfacing Mask

"This is the Versed Doctor's Visit Instant Resurfacing Mask at 17 bucks. It's got a really jelly texture. [...] This one's a really nice weekly rinse off mask. In here this one's a little bit more gentle. We've got lactic acid, pineapple, salicylic acid, and turmeric. [...] It's really nice and in terms of the peels I've mentioned, this is probably the most gentle one yet still effective out of all of them. I really like this one."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

PSA Skin Follow the Light Multi-Acids and Vitamin C Peel

"The PSA Skin Follow the Light [...] is my favorite between the two. It's just a rinse off chemical exfoliating mask. [...] It's got 10% mixture of glycolic and lactic acid, also contains 5% vitamin C, pomegranate enzymes, centella, and then lactobacillus ferment. It also has glutathione and vitamin E. [...] You just apply it once a week or twice a week for 20 minutes then rinse it off. It's really a nice mask. [...] I love some of their products and [...] I really love a lot of their products."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Peach Slices Snail Rescue Intensive Mask

"Their snail rescue mask is Grail status. I love that stuff."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Nourishing PHA Exfoliator

"I'm currently almost finished with the Aveeno Calm + Restore Nourishing PHA Exfoliator. It's super thick so it does take time to rub in, but the next day my arm still feels moisturized even after I applied it last night. I love that it's got some nice panthenol in there and lots of different oat sides. It's really wonderful and the bottle's huge too."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.6 Deep Sleep Mask

"Some dupes for the Sunday Riley B3 Nice, the first one is the Numbuzin No.6 Deep Sleep Mask serum. It's got the niacinamide, it's got the neem extract, it's got the holy basil, turmeric and aloe, and the nice thing about that one is it doesn't have a scent because the Sunday Riley one definitely has a scent."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Bubble Overnight Hydrating Sleep Mask

"For acne prone skin, it's not the most friendly product. [...] We've got squalane, we've got cera alcohol, we've got glycerol stearate, we've got stearic acid, hexene glycol, and isostearate, so six acneagenic ingredients. For acne prone skin I'd probably [...] avoid this at this point, just too many acneic ingredients in a short product list. [...] The price is good, this is 1.7 ounces, 50 milliliters, and retails for about $20, so that's a pretty good deal."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Equal Rxn Oat Milk PHA Serum

"This one's got oat protein extract, oat meal extract, and oat kernel oil, and it still has that watery light serum texture. [...] In my opinion, [...] this is probably the closest dupe you're going to find that's still cruelty-free and fragrance-free. [...] And in my opinion it's still a little bit better."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Krave Beauty Kale-Lalu-Yaha AHA/BHA Exfoliant

"The Krave Beauty Kale-Lalu-Yaha has 5.25 glycolic acid and also contains spinach and kale which are good for vitamins in your skin, and it's got the proper pH. It's still a gentle product and really nicely formulated so it's worth checking out."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow AHA Night Treatment

"I think when they changed it they didn't change it for the better. It was a little bit better before they reformulated it. [...] Now they call it an AHA night treatment, but I don't [...] like the new way they recommend using it. I really like using it more as a rinse off mask. If you use this as a night treatment I find it kind of pills up and it doesn't play well with other products in your routine unless you use it alone. As an actual overnight treatment I didn't love it."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Strawberry BHA Pore Smooth Blur Drops

"This brand gets a lot of hype. I put it on my hand and it felt nice, so I bought it. [...] It did feel really nice on my hand and smoothing and everything. But I purchased this probably two months ago and it hasn't left the box here yet. So that feels like a total waste of time and money. [...] It's just too expensive to go to waste."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Saturday Skin Yuzu Vitamin C Sleep Mask

"I really like it. It does have a little bit of citrus mandarin orange peel oil, but otherwise [...] it's very nice. It's got some nice brightening ingredients, it's also got some peptides in there, and the texture of it's really quite nice as well. I tend to use this one just in my routine as the very last step, [...] layered on after everything else and kind of let it soak in while I sleep."

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76%Guru Score

Mists & Essences54 reviews

Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence

"This stuff is fragrance-free. I've repurchased this a handful of times now. It's just full of good ingredients, good ferments, really great plumping, no fragrance or anything like that. It's just a great [...] essence or toner."

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92%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

"Snail mucin is a constant in my routine. In summer I pull back and go more minimalist, but now that we're heading into fall I'm using it a lot more."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid Mist

"It kind of boosts my skin's hydration level, maybe adds a little bit of plumpness. I like to use it the next day after microneedling because it kind of helps soothe and calm and hydrate skin after that, which is nice. You can use it over makeup, under makeup, in your morning routine and your evening routine. It's really versatile. For fresh out of the shower soothing, this stuff is wonderful. I really love it."

✓Yay

63%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence

"Numbuzin No. 9 NAD Sill Boosting Essence is wonderful. [...] It has some peptides, a little bit of each one. I've really noticed this instantly plumps skin in appearance and long-term. I've been using this for probably close to two years and it's really been a great product in my routine. I highly recommend checking it out. It's really wonderful."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Then I Met You Giving Essence Brightening & Hydrating Treatment

"For brightening ingredients this contains a lot of berries, niacinamide, white mulberry extract which is a really great brightening and antioxidant ingredient, turmeric root which is another great brightening ingredient, and azelaic acid, which is a really great brightening ingredient, I haven't really seen it in a lot of products until this one."

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81%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Probiotics Barrier 2% NAD+ Serum Mist

"You can use it under or over makeup. That's how fine the mist is. I absolutely love it. [...] It seems to be a nice protective spray. It also contains rice extract, meadowfoam seed oil, galactomyces ferment, buffy ferment, and ceramides. No scent to it. Really wonderful product. And I love the fact that I can apply this over or under makeup morning or evening or middle of the night, whatever you feel like. It's great. I can't say enough good things about it."

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85%Guru Score

Biodance Collagen Peptide Jelly Mist

"The Biodance Collagen Peptide Jelly Mist for 19 bucks. It's fragrance-free face mist with Galactomyces ferment, vitamin B12, and then it's got an additional 10 plus peptides. It looks really interesting at Sephora."

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85%Guru Score

NIOD Superoxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist

"I liked the version 2 much better than this one. This stuff was terrible, really hard to mist it evenly. The previous version you could mist and be very even to the point where you could apply it over makeup. I just apply this like midday as I'm going through the day for some hydration boost and things like that, but yeah, the nozzle, the sprayer on this was awful. And it did have a scent. It wasn't a fragrance ingredient, but it had a strong scent from one of the ingredients."

✕Nay

83%Guru Score

Rhode Glazing Milk Ceramide Facial Essence

"It feels nice. It has no fragrance in it, which I appreciate, but it has a little bit of a rubbery smell to it that dissipates pretty quickly. It's a little tacky, but you're going to be applying it underneath another serum anyway, and it feels really nice and hydrating and plumping. It does have that weird smell, but I'd rather have a rubbery tire smell than a floral lilac smell."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Missha Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence 5X

"I've probably tried every single version of this and this is their fifth version. It's quite nice. I call this my acne prone skin friendly pick just because of all the nice ferments in here and it's got a nice waterlike texture. You can pat it on. You can use a cotton pad. It's not so expensive that if you used it with a cotton pad you would feel guilty versus some of the other ones that get pretty pricey."

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79%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water

"I repurchased the Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water and I open it up and I can instantly smell it was not as the original one was. It smelled very very off like it was stored in a hot storage container for a year and it was definitely gone bad."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Hydro Essence

"It's really nice and sensitive skin friendly. No scent to it at all. Nice lotiony texture. Works well underneath other moisturizers and works well under sunscreen as well. [...] It's got squalane in there, which is a great hydrating and antioxidant. It's got amino acids, which are great for damaged skin barrier. It's got urea, which is a really great humectant and hydrating ingredient. And then it's also got glucose in there. So I really enjoy this brand."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Founders Essence Advanced Treatment

"The Allies of Skin Founders Essence Advanced Treatment with 56 proven active ingredients"

~Mixed

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Caserex Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizing Mist

"The closest dupe I think would probably be the Caserex Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizing Mist, which is nice."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

RNW Special Ceramide Mist

"I've tried both of those and I prefer this one just in terms of the additional ingredients and fermentss and things like that"

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

COSRX Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizing Mist

"It's got really nice even mist. I'm a big fan of a nice even mister nozzle. Can't go wrong with that. So in this one, what do we have? Panthenol, hyaluronic acid, ceramides, amino acids, arginine, squalane, allantoin, great soothing ingredients. Nope, doesn't look like any fragrance or alcohol in it. So very nice."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 Spray

"The La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Spray, this one's a really nice one. You can just mist it. I'll mist it right when I get out of the shower, all over my whole body. It's got panthenol and niacinamide. It's got micacide, another centella derived ingredient. It's got cocoa. It's really nice. It's got a nice even mister on it, too. [...] Sometimes I'll just the second I get out of the shower to hold on to any moisture I have, I'll just spray it. So it's nice for that."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

COSRX Madagascar Centella Ampoule (Retinol Boosting Shot)

"Skin 10004 has their COSRX Madagascar Centella Ampoule, which is 13 bucks right now at YesStyle. It uses 2% retinol, then it's got inulin, a hydrated sponge, which may help ingredients penetrate deeper into the skin. And then it's also got Centella. So for 13 bucks, it looks like it might be a nice bargain. I'm intrigued."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Mary&May Vegan Blackberry Complex Cream Essence

"The blackberry essence is great. Some of these are just really easy to kind of add in some extra moisture in addition to all these other steps."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The Ordinary Superoxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist

"I like this new formula. This is their third formula of it. I don't like the bottle it's in. When I finish my current bottle of the second version, my plan is to pour that into that bottle. I do like the opaqueness of this bottle [...] to protect the antioxidants in here, but the nozzle on it is not very even, so it doesn't provide a very good mist. I like to use this product throughout the day to hydrate my skin and protect it from antioxidants."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Mixsoon Bean Essence

"It's nice and thick. There's no fragrance, and it's got a rather short ingredient list with just a bunch of different ferments in it. So, the bean that they refer to as soybean, which is a lactobacillus soybean ferment. Then we've also got another good one, saccharomyces barley seed ferment, which is also really nice. So, no scent in it. Really nice. And a little bit of it goes a long way."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

I'm From Mugwort Essence

"So it's not fragrance free, but it's technically unscented, but mugwort has its own unique kind of scent to it. [...] This one's a really nice one for acne prone skin. A lot of people find mugwort very helpful for calming redness and acne and breakouts and healing them. [...] So it might be better for those skin types as opposed to like dry, non acne prone skin, but still a really nice product."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Skin Food Royal Honey Propolis Enriched Essence

"In here we've got honey, we've got propolis, we've got royal jelly, squalane, beta glucan, no scent to it. [...] This one is a hidden gem in my opinion."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Jumiso Snail Mucin 95 Plus Peptide Facial Essence

"The Jumiso Snail Mucin 95 Plus Peptide Facial Essence, this one's again kind of a thicker texture to it, but really nice goopy essence. It has [...] a fragrance ingredient from Gardenia, Florida extract, which is technically mostly just a fragrance extract, but it shows up in a lot of K beauty products because some brands believe it may have some benefits to skin, but it still could be something that's potentially irritating."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Missha Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence Intensive

"Missha has great essences, facial treatment essences. [...] The First Treatment Essence Intensive is really nice. I picked this one up a while ago and I've been back to loving it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dr. Siracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence

"The Dr. Siracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence is loaded with goodies such as green tea, saccharomyces ferment, centella, and fig ceramide. It's really nice. It's a very thick creamy product. It's wonderful. It has no scent to it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule

"My first experience with this brand was their Centella Ampoule and their Centella toning toner, which was kind of right when I was starting to get really interested in K beauty [...] stuff. Their toners and moisturizer are great. Can't go wrong with Skin1004."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray

"I personally would recommend this as opposed to like alcohol wipes because that would be pretty drying. But either way, it's very important to sanitize it if you have any active breakouts or things like that, hold off or see an esthetician or dermatologist."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.3 Radiance Glowing Jumbo Essence Pad

"So I'm just using this like a toner with their provided little pads. These are pretty handy for vacation, I must add. If you don't want to bring a whole toner with you, just take a few samples of those, and it should do the trick. [...] I guess I might as well finish the second one it came with, right? [...] Okay, this does have a little bit of fragrance. I think it had an herbal extract in it, which gave it a little bit of a scent. But the little pads are handy."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Isntree Real Bifida Ampoule

"The Isntree Real Bifida Ampoule does contain anise fruit extract, which is technically kind of a fragrance ingredient, but it doesn't have any scent to this product. It [...] contains bifida, lactobacillus pumpkin ferment, lactobacillus soybean ferment, and rice ferment or saki, and it's 20 bucks and it's really nice product from Isntree."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

SK-II Facial Treatment Essence

"It's got sodium ascorbate, CoQ10, ectoine, carnosine, ginger extract, silver fungus, and centella. All good antioxidants. It's got a really nice pleasing texture to use with it. [...] It's kind of just got a serum texture, which is nice."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

VT PDRN Essence 100

"It really does a nice job hydrating, smoothing skin, and soothing. It helps with wound healing. [...] It does plump up skin and helps form a radiant skin moisture barrier and create a post-glow effect to provide healthy glow and elasticity to skin. I would say it helps with most of those benefits. Not exactly from the PDRN that they're naming the product off of, but more from the ceramides and the ginseng that they used. It's not super friendly for acne prone skin types."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Benton Snail Bee High Content Essence

"I will mention brands Misin and Benton both make great snail products. None of them ranked to my favorites, but both brands are worth checking out just because I didn't have a favorite from those two brands. [...] They both have great snail products which are worth checking out as well. They just weren't my personal favorites, but nothing wrong with that. A lot of people have great luck with them."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Clog Snail Mucin Energy Essence

"This one contains both snail mucin and yamroot extract. [...] They call it an essence because you should apply it best after toner, but it's got that same gel texture to it. It feels just like a serum. It's not much of an essence, it's more of a serum than an essence. So really nice and affordable at 17 bucks and 3.4 ounces is not bad."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream Mist

"This one I would say is more hydrating, so if you have drier skin this one's really nice. Sometimes I'll use this one when I get out of the shower and I want my face to stay moist before I begin my treatments. I don't want the water to totally dry and then toner and then dry. [...] It's better if it stays damp. So this one's a nice one. I'll just mist it on my face before I get into my skincare routine so I keep my face damp until I apply my toner and essence and things like that."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Wild Dew Treatment Essence

"The Peach and Lily Wild Dew Treatment Essence is regularly $39, so you'll be able to get it for just under $20. I have it in the bathroom with me, I love it here, so it's worth checking out. It's very nice. You just pat the essence onto your skin and it's really nice with no scent in it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Active Delivery Essence

"It's kind of a lot of marketing to me but I will test it out. [...] Yeah, so there's other tips and tricks to get things to penetrate better, penetration enhance the ingredients that could be in the product, things like that. [...] It really doesn't have many ingredients in here. Yeah, glycerin and water and propane are the main ingredients and then probably a couple ingredients that may help something soak in better or absorb better."

~Mixed

59%Guru Score

Topicals Faded Brightening and Clearing Mist

"They've got the Topicals Faded cream which most people have used, this is a mist which is meant to be used on the body and this one has additional beneficial ingredients. It's got a lot more beneficial ingredients than this one. It contains kojic acid, tranexamic acid, alpha arbutin, also contains niacinamide, licorice root, glycolic acid. It's a little bit more expensive but in the long run I think if you're really looking for real results this might be where you're going to have to land."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

APLB Azelaic Acid Peptide Ampoule

"I love this, it's a great ingredient. It's great for acne, it's great for redness, it's great for brightening skin up. We've got epidermal growth factor, peptide, we've got matrixyl, lactic acid, eggplant, and beta glucan. [...] Really nice serum with some nice ingredients in it and still pretty affordable and no fragrance in it. It's pretty friendly for most skin types. [...] Really nice serum, probably works best in evening routine. So [...] far so good, fingers crossed."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Pink Drink Firming Resurfacing Essence

"They also have a Sunday Riley set which includes uh their ceramic slip cleanser uh pink Drink Essence which I didn't love is very scented"

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

ILIA Base Face Milk Essence + Lightweight Moisturizer

"It's a lightweight like toner type essence, [...] fragrance-free with squalane, [allantoin], and argan oil in it. It looks pretty nice and I've heard some comments from lots of you saying you really enjoy it. The smaller size is 1 oz for 28 bucks, but they also have a full size. [...] 1 oz isn't very much and it'll go quite fast."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Tirtir Ceramide Milk Ampoule

"It's got a nice milky texture. I don't notice any scent to it. It feels nice, it doesn't feel sticky or anything. It's vegan, and it has rice bran oil, avocado extract, [...] oatmeal extract, rice extract, sweet almond, apple, cocoa, coconut oil, bunch of ceramides and amino acids. It feels nice, definitely more for like an evening or at night because it is a little bit of a greasy feeling, especially on my neck which is so dry."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Jet Leg Skin Soothing Hydration Mist

"I love how fine the Mist is there's not a lot of Mists that are fine they did a good job with that"

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Manyo Factory Bifida Biome Complex Ampoule

"You can get something that's pretty darn good for 32 and that's the Manyo Factory Bifida Biome Complex Ampoule. We've got bifida ferment, we've got hyaluronic acid, squalane, panthenol, and then caffeine. [...] If you're looking for something a little bit more affordable, this one's really nice. You can't go wrong with it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dr. Ceuracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence

"The Dr. Ceuracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence is also amazing, it's got some really nice ingredients in there, it's really hydrating. It's really nice for evening time routine because it's a little bit on the hydrating side so it might be too much for certain skin types in the morning."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence & All-in-One Cream Set

"It's now 11 bucks in the tube, they've updated the packaging, the packaging is much better. It's in a tube. [...] All-in-one creams and all-in-one ampules were like big in K Beauty and then I don't know what happened to them all but this one's left. It's all in one, I love it. If you haven't tried it, try it seriously. I will venture to say very few people that try this end up disliking. Most people like it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Missha Time Revolution Night Repair Ampoule 5X

"I really liked the first two versions of this one, and then the most recent versions have had fragrance in it, so I haven't liked them so much. The one in the silver container, I think that was the borabit ampoule, and I really like that one, and they changed it too much. And then the most recent version had too much fragrance in it. I'm all for changing things and updating and adding new ingredients, but sometimes they make it worse for certain people or customers."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Tone Brightening Capsule Ampoule

"In terms of performance, I would say adding this has been somewhat helpful. I like the fact that I can add this in without having to take anything else out, that's a big priority of mine. [...] There's some reviews online from people that say they didn't notice any brightening. For true brightening to occur, you really need to be very patient, give each product two to three months to work, and it depends on how many other brightening products you might have tried before."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

COSRX Galactomyces 95 Tone Balancing Essence

"The COSRX Galactomyces 95 Tone Balancing Essence, this one's very nice, it's around 11 or 12 dollars so you can certainly check that one out"

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Farmacy Honey Milk Hydrating Essence

"I thought it would be more like a toner but it's pretty darn thick. [...] It feels really nice. [...] You definitely don't want to use it like a toner because it's so thick it would never absorb into the cotton. [...] For exciting ingredients, it doesn't have any scent that I noticed. It's got aloe, honey ferment, honey camide, chamomile, and panthenol."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Jing Jung Soothing Moisture Essence

"I'm going to pat on just a little bit of the Jing Jung Soothing Moisture Essence. This stuff is wonderful."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

I'm From Mushroom Collagen Ampoule

"The I'm From Mushroom Collagen Serum contains the collagen ingredient, the vitamin E, and the niacinamide."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist

"My main pick from Tatcha is their Luminous Dewy Skin Mist. I love it and it's 30 off. It's a steal in my opinion."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Isntree Onion Newpair B5 Ampoule

"The dropper comes out nice and clear with a gel texture that feels really nice and calming and hydrating. It feels just nice on the skin without feeling greasy or [...] mattifying. [...] The main ingredients include onion bulb and then panthenol at five percent, which is great for wound healing, calming, and anti-irritation. There's betaine, which is pretty high and good for skin. [...] They added a good amount of caffeine, which is an antioxidant and can help with puffiness."

✓Yay
Sponsored

66%Guru Score

Toners54 reviews

Klairs Supple Preparation Unscented Toner

"I do love their supple preparation toner. It's super hydrating. It was probably one of the very first toners I ever used in my entire life. It [...] feels really nice, [...] has no scent, and it's super affordable with a pretty decent sized bottle. It feels nice on my skin."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Anua Rice 70% Glow Milky Toner

"This is the Anua rice and ceramide toner, and it seems to be working very well for me."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Tirtir Matcha Milk Skin Toner

"I love these so far, the matcha toner and the matcha serum, they're both lovely."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.5+ Vitamin Boosting Toner

"It's a really nice toner with a moderate texture, not too liquidy and not too runny, with a little bit of thickness that makes it nice to pat into your skin, maybe in your evening routine. It has sea buckthorn water, which is great for brightening skin, ethyl ascorbic acid, glutathione, ascorbic acid, arbutin, and Japanese gold thread, all great antioxidants and brightening ingredients. This whole lineup from Numbuzin is pretty wonderful. If you haven't tried it, it's worth checking out."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Medik8 Press and Glow PHA Toner

"It's an exfoliant acid toner with a [...] very short ingredient list, gluconolactone, which is a gentle polyhydroxy acid, plus a sea extract for antioxidant benefits and aloe for soothing, no fragrance. It's pretty simple and it'll last you quite some time. [...] If you have super sensitive skin or your skin doesn't react well to other AHAs or BHAs, this one's nice. It's great for sensitive skin and very easy to fit into your routine because of how gentle it is, and it's got nice packaging."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

April Skin Artemisia Rice Essence Toner

"It has a liquidy texture and a little bit of a scent, which mugwort typically does, and [...] I find that calming, especially for certain acne prone skin types. It felt nice and I don't have any complaints about it either way. [...] I would say if you have acne prone skin this might be a nice one, and it's nice that it's vegan and cruelty free, I like both of those."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Peach Slices L-Glutathione Glow-On Brightening Toner

"For brightening it contains licorice root extract, which is also great for soothing, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate which is a vitamin C derivative, and glutathione, a really great antioxidant. It's [...] fragrance free, pretty affordable at around 13 dollars, and certainly worth a try if you can tolerate the scent of the glutathione. I'm loving it so far, and the scent doesn't bother me."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Wild Oat Hydrating Toner

"You can pat it on or apply with cotton pads. It's got a milky toner texture to it. In here we've got a lot great soothing ingredients. We've got oat, we have honey, uh feverfew extract, beta glucan, great for everything. There's some multitasking ingredients that are just great at everything. Beta glucan is one of those. Green tea extract, and then licorice root, which is another great soothing ingredient. So this stuff's really nice. I'm glad they haven't gotten rid of that one yet."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Purito Tranexamic Acid 6% Niacinamide 10% Retinaldehyde Toning Booster Serum

"It's a nice water-light serum with no scent. [...] It's kind of a multi-phase serum. [...] It's super nice. A little bit goes a long way. It's 16 bucks. This bottle lasts a long time. A lot of retinols are thick, they're creamy, you don't get much more than a few weeks out of them but that one will last you a little bit longer."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

I'm From Black Rice Toner

"It's fragrance and alcohol free. It contains black rice seed extract, cocoa extract, poly glutamic acid, and panthenol. They seem to market this one for oilier skin, whereas their regular I'm From Rice Toner they tend to recommend for dry or sensitive skin. They're both nice, but I really enjoyed this one as well."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Benton Aloe BHA Skin Toner

"It soaks in and sets to a natural slight radiant finish, but it feels very calming and soothing the second you apply it. It's got aloe and propolis extract, great for fighting acne. It's got panthenol, a great antioxidant, and then it's also got that Hationia cordata soothing extract ingredient in there. Really lovely product, and it's certainly worth checking out. [...] You can use it on face or body."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Bubble Cosmic Silk Hydrating Milky Toner

"Nice lightweight milky texture. Kind of a toner moisturizer. This one's got some interesting ingredients in here. It's got coconut alkanes. It's got xylitol, which is a sugar-derived humectant. It's got glucose, another sugar derived humectant. It's got several fatty acids, which are really great for hydrating the skin. It's got maple sap, which is another really great hydrating ingredient. It's got ceramides. And then it's got arnica."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Skin1004 Probio-Cica Essence Toner

"It's basically got centella in there, which is a great antioxidant. It's great for your skin. It's hydrating, soothing. It also has a little bit of glucactylone, which makes it very mildly exfoliating. And then niacinamide, which is great for anti-acne and brightening skin up. I could say this is probably a great toner for acne-prone skin and oily skin as well. [...] The affordability is wonderful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

I'm From Rice Toner

"This one's got rice extract, a great soothing ingredient. It's got squalane, which is a wonderful antioxidant, rice bran extract, and then it's also got an extract which is a hydrating humectant ingredient. This stuff is really nice and pretty wonderful and pretty affordable. It works well for a lot of people. So it seems to be a winner."

✓Yay

94%Guru Score

COSRX Full Fit Propolis Synergy Toner

"I love this stuff. It's really nice. I think this is my third bottle of it. The propolis in there is really great for protecting your skin. It's a great antioxidant. It's a great hydrating ingredient. A lot of people say it also is great because it has some antibacterial properties, so it can help fight acne a little bit. It's got propolis extract, betaine which is a humectant, and then panthenol for soothing. Really wonderful ingredient."

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87%Guru Score

Peach Slices Snail Rescue Blemish Busting Toner

"This one's got snail mucin extract in there, which is great for soothing skin and calming it down. And I found I think snail mucin is really nice for hydrating as well as anti-aging. It's got hyaluronic acid in it. It's got centella and vitamin E, no fragrance, no scent. Really wonderful texture, sets to a really nice finish."

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83%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Salicylic Acid Toner 2%

"The Hero Pore Release 2% salicylic toner is one I've repurchased. It's a brand that flies under the radar, but they've got a lot of nice stuff, so they're certainly worth checking out."

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84%Guru Score

Glow Recipe PDRN Repair and Soothe Korean Prickly Pear Toner Pads

"These are $30. I typically don't love toner pads, though, because you're very restricted in how many come in there. I think it's 30, so it's about a dollar a toner pad, or 75 cents a toner pad. Whereas if you get it just in a bottle, you can use it however you want, if you want a lot on one day or just a little bit. So I kind of like that. This one uses two types of vegan PDRNs, from white rice and prickly pear. Prickly pear is a great ingredient for skin care."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Saccharomyces Ferment 30% Milky Toner

"It feels nice and clean and soft and smooth."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Watery Toner Plus

"And I also am loving this one, the I unique betaglucan sunscreen. It's quite nice."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pure Skin Toner

"The other alternatives are the E.L.F. Cosmetics Pure Skin Toner... [...] Also nice alternatives"

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

COSRX PDRN B5 Vital Soothing Toner

"COSRX comes up with their PDRN B5 Vital Soothing Toner for 18 bucks. [...] This one looks interesting. It's got [Centella] PDRN, salmon PDRN, green caviar PDRN. I don't even know what green caviar is. Is that a plant or is that the egg from the fish? I don't know. Then it's got rice PDRN and Lactobacillus PDRN. It looks intriguing. I'll definitely pick that one up if it's on sale."

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78%Guru Score

COSRX Hydrium Watery Toner

"You can never go wrong with this stuff. It has no scent to it. It's lovely."

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74%Guru Score

Nineless Control Targeted Acne-Prone Skin Toner (Azelaic Acid)

"The Nineless Control Targeted Acne-Prone Skin Toner does contain tea tree oil, so it has a light scent, but it's great for [...] blackheads, acne, things like that. It's really nice for that. And brightening up skin, azelaic acid is great."

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76%Guru Score

Manyo Factory Panthenol Essence Toner

"The Manyo Factory Panthenol Essence Toner is really nice. I finally just picked this up. It came out a while ago, and now I've just been testing it recently. It's got ceramides, panthenol, lanolin, ectoin, macadamia oil. This one's got a nice cream texture, liquidy creamy, [...] very thick, thick and creamy, which is very nice, kind of goopy. Nice toner."

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77%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Glow Replenishing Rice Milk Toner

"I'm using the Beauty of Joseon Glow Replenishing Rice Milk with a DHC cotton pad. [...] This is a nice watery toner which I kind of use just to remove any leftover skin care products."

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70%Guru Score

COSRX Hyaluronic Acid Intensive Toner

"I need to repurchase COSRX Hyaluronic Acid Intensive Toner. I take this, it's a basic serum and I add copper peptides to it. [...] I use it on my body for firming up and things like that. It's really wonderful and ends up being a bargain if you do it that way."

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84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Thirst Burst Pore Perfecting Toner

"They've got some brightening ingredients, but they also have some ingredients in here that help kind of your skin look a little bit brighter right after applying it. I think it's got a little bit of mica in there so it gives your skin a little bit of a glow. So it works really nicely under sunscreens and moisturizers and things like that. It's a really nice product and it's affordable. It's got niacinamide and hibiscus, so it's brightening internally and externally."

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82%Guru Score

The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution

"Their glycolic toner, I didn't love this one, but this is another one that they sell a ton of so people really love it."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Thank You Farmer Rice Pure Essential Toner

"It's a large bottle so it's on the edge of being pricey but it's still affordable when you think about [...] it. It's very nice toner. I'm really enjoying it and I'm very glad I purchased this one. I really look forward to using it, which doesn't happen with a lot of products. I [...] actually look forward to using this, it's kind of fun. [...] For toner, I was getting pretty excited to use it. [...] I gave this one a 10. I really love it, it's very nice."

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83%Guru Score

Isntree Ultra Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid Toner

"It's usually mentioned as a great dupe for the Lancôme Génifique and it is and it's better than the Génifique but it still has anise fruit which can be a fragrance ingredient. There's really no scent to this but besides that I found it to be greasy and it took a long time to soak in and absorb into my skin so I just didn't love it because of that. [...] I typically love Isntree in most of their products but this was one that I still just don't love."

✕Nay

83%Guru Score

Versed Weekend Glow Daily Brightening Toner

"This one is about 20 bucks less and it's really nice it's also got some fruit extracts bearberry extract and things like that so um yeah so if you're looking to brighten things up"

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84%Guru Score

COSRX AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner

"It's one of the few ingredients I added into my routine where I knew a difference, I could tell a noticeable difference in my skin very quickly. It's great for redness, it's great for acne, it's great for hyperpigmentation, it's great for hydration, it's just a wonderful ingredient all around, and it's really great if you have suffered from blemishes, dark spots. My acne got a lot better when I started using this."

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80%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.1 Pure-full Herb Calming Toner

"It's a nice toner, it's without a lot of ingredients, it works and hydrates and soothes most skin. It's not a must-have for me. I liked it, I'll certainly finish it, but [...] it's nothing that's overly exciting to me that I would repurchase it. It does help with redness and things like that. [...] In terms of the bottle size, it's still pretty big, so that's not going to be an issue, and it's pretty affordable."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Good Molecules Niacinamide Toning Essence

"Their niacinamide brightening toner I just absolutely loved it was amazing. I'll definitely be picking it up again. Wonderful product, very effective and super affordable as well."

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84%Guru Score

Tirtir Milk Skin Toner

"It's definitely on that tackier side but very hydrating for soothing. It will soothe most skin unless you're sensitive to some of those fragrance ingredients like witch hazel. I liked it. My skin is super sensitive and I'm very sensitive to fragrance. I didn't notice any scent, so I would say this product is unscented but not fragrance-free. [...] This is pretty well suited to dry, oily, and acne-prone skin types. It's pretty suited for most skin types except for sensitive skin."

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73%Guru Score

Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner

"The Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner, a lot of people really love this one and to me it felt like kind of using like water. I didn't notice any soothing benefits from it. It didn't irritate my skin but I've tried other toners that have really helped with redness and things like that and this one just didn't do it. I'll finish it, but I [...] certainly wouldn't repurchase it."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

CLA Supple Preparation Toner

"Also another good toner is the CLA Supple Preparation Toner. I also really enjoy that one."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

PSA Skin Heroine Toner 5% Niacinamide

"PSA Skin, which is the affordable sister brand to Allies of Skin, which is a pretty expensive but very effective brand. PSA Skin has a whole lineup of products. I believe they're all fragrance free. I own, I want to say all of them. They're cruelty free. My favorite is the Heroine, their liquid exfoliant."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Goodal Vegan Rice Milk Moisturizing Toner

"I really enjoyed it. It's really nice, it's really gentle. [...] It's very watery but it's a little bit thicker than the average toner. [...] It's got rice in there, rice ferment, super hydrating."

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79%Guru Score

Thayers Milky Hydrating Face Toner with Snow Mushroom and Hyaluronic Acid

"This is a decent simple [...] toner. It's mildly hydrating. It's not as hydrating as other toners I've used, but it's simple [...] and it soaks in nicely. My skin feels soft, it looks nice and soft, not sticky, very nice soaks in. Nice texture, feels calming. I think for most people with most skin types will be able to use this with no issue. For acne prone skin there's only one ingredient of note and that's glycerol stearate."

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75%Guru Score

Purito Oat in Silky Toner

"The Purito Oat in Silky Toner is very friendly for sensitive skin. It's got a nice milky texture to it with oat seed water, metal foam seed oil, oat kernel, and beta glucan, which is great for skin soothing and wound healing. I absolutely love this stuff and have repurchased it a couple times now, which says a lot because I try and finish a lot of products but for the most part won't repurchase again because I have other things to try. Well worth checking out."

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72%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.4 Hydrating Glow Mineral Toner

"The first one I'm going to mention is the Numbuzin No.3 toner which a lot of people absolutely love. It contains grape lactobacillus ferment as a probiotic ingredient and also contains a ton of other ferments. It has a little bit of fragrance in it, so it's super light and not terribly noticeable, but it works well for a lot of people."

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84%Guru Score

Thayers Witch Hazel Toner

"The Thayers Witch Hazel formula, I found to be drying. I didn't think it did a heck of a lot for my skin. It's probably one of the bigger sellers in every drugstore though, so it must work well for a lot of people. [...] Maybe for oilier skin it'll work well, I don't know, but for me this one's [...] just not good for me at all."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Youth to the People Kombucha and 11% AHA Exfoliating Toner

"It really does a really nice job smoothing your skin. I found it's very nice. It also has some really exciting ferments: saccharomyces, black tea ferment, then we've got kombucha in there as well as betaine for hydration. It's a really nice product. It's fragrance free and it's effective yet still non-irritating on my skin, which is what I really look for. I want as effective as I can get without the irritation or the fragrance."

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84%Guru Score

Good Molecules Glycolic Acid Toner

"I absolutely love this stuff, it's been repurchased multiple times. [...] This one is a little bit of a different type of formulation. It's got 3.5% glycolic acid and 0.2% salicylic acid, so you get a little bit of the benefits of the salicylic acid and then you get the benefits from the glycolic acid. It also has galactomyces ferment, which is great for barrier repair and skin barrier, hydrating, skin conditioning. It also contains aloe, which is nicely hydrating. This one is really wonderful."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Numbers Super Glowing Essence Toner Number 3

"It's got 50 different ferments. Is that really actually like super beneficial? Some people absolutely love it. [...] But I think this was not worth the hype."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Toner

"For toners I've tried several of their toners and their Dokdo toner I went through so fast I loved it and I bought up a backup and then my friend ended up wanting to try it so I gave it to her because I liked it so much."

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78%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Toner

"The Birch Juice Toner is also very nice but in terms of toner I really preferred the dodo one. It's very gentle, hydrating, calming and not a whole slew of ingredients where it can you can have issues with one of them or allergies or anything like that."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Liquid Hydration 5% Panthenol and Natural Moisturizing Factors Toner

"You can use it as a mask or as a toner by spraying it onto a cotton pad. [...] I repurchase this one multiple times, and I always recommend it to people starting a skin care routine, because it's so friendly for sensitive skin, so hydrating, and so affordable. You can't go wrong, and [...] it's a great starter toner or for younger people as well."

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76%Guru Score

Isntree Yam Root Vegan Barrier Milky Toner

"This is my barrier repairing pick. I've been testing it for the last three weeks or so. It's $13, fragrance-free and alcohol-free, with licorice root, vitamin E, [...] lactobacillus ferment, and vegetable, pea, oat, and wheat [...] proteins. [...] I love their yam root lines, both of them, and they're both wonderful. It's thicker but still thin enough to use a cotton pad on. It's really nice, has no scent, and feels very hydrating and soothing on my skin."

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78%Guru Score

Kaine Kombucha Balancing Ampule Toner

"I love this one. It's got some nice ingredients, kombucha and some goodies. No scent to it. I went through it pretty fast."

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Stratia Aqua Factory Hydrating Toner

"So in here we've got urea, we've got panthenol, sodium B [...] PCA, bet glucan, and then [allantoin]. It's relatively new so I've just been testing it out but it really works nice. You can pat it on skin, you can use it with a cotton pad. If you pat it on skin, apply your serum next before it dries and it helps seal in some of the moisture and things like that."

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86%Guru Score

Isntree Onion New Pair Essence Toner

"You've got the neem extract, panthenol, turmeric again, and then tranexamic acid which is lovely. Tranexamic acid is great for brightening the skin. I love seeing that as well as turmeric. Turmeric is a great antioxidant. You've got butane and allantoin, some nice ingredients, a couple types of sodium hyaluronic and hyaluronic acid in here which aren't the most exciting, but otherwise it's nice. It feels nice on the skin, it doesn't feel greasy but it doesn't feel drying either."

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Retinoids52 reviews

Paula's Choice Retinal Renew Retinaldehyde Gel 0.1%

"Prequil is absolutely amazing. Their Retinol Renew Retinohyde gel is [...] 29 bucks and comes in two strengths, 0.1 and 0.2. [...] It's wonderful because it has ectoine in it to help soothe skin so you don't experience retinization. [...] Plain tretinoin is full of denatured alcohol and can be very drying and difficult to get started on. This makes it so easy to get into the rhythm of using it without the dryness, flakiness, and peeling."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Clinical 1% Retinol Treatment

"One of the first retinoids I used was the retinol from Paula's Choice, and it contained a lot of hydrating ingredients, so I didn't have a ton of the retinization that can happen when you start using retinol, like flakiness, redness, itchiness, scratchiness, and dryness."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Isntree Hyper Retinol EX 1.0 Serum

"This one uses 0.3% retinal palmitate, which is a very gentle type of retinol, plus 0.1% retinol and 0.6% bakuchiol, adding up to 1% total. It also has five ceramides, centella, and five additional peptides, which I love. The more peptides I get in my routine, the better, I [...] find them to be a total game changer."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Medik8 Crystal Retinal 6

"It's free from denatured types of alcohol. It uses retinal, which is stronger than retinol, plus ethyl ascorbic acid, cloudberry seed oil, [...] vitamin E, and squalane. It's on the expensive side, so if you're on a budget there are a lot of other retinols that are [...] more affordable. This one is very nice, and I like the vanilla scent. [...] Overall it's a good product, but if you have super sensitive skin, that's one thing to be aware of."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Medik8 Intelligent Retinol 3TR

"Their intelligent retinol is a supercharged one percent vitamin A night serum for $50. It contains fragrance from patchouli oil. [...] It's basically just a retinol squalane serum with a short amount of ingredients, and it's overpriced. You could use The Ordinary's squalane retinol oil, or a lot of other brands' squalane and retinol serums, so you really don't need to spend $50 on it, especially with the fragrance in it. That was a clear pass for me."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 20 Retinal Serum (0.2%)

"I love this stuff. Retinoids are wonderful for anti-aging, for fighting acne, for firming skin, for fighting wrinkles, all of it, and this product is right up there, probably in my top three or four products, maybe my number one. It's tough to say, but I really love this stuff, and it's pretty affordable."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Pro Retinal Serum

"Paula's Choice Pro Retinal Dual Retinoid Treatment, this one's really nice, it contains both retinal as well as adapalene, which is a newer retinoid, so this one's really nice. It is on the pricier side, but I'm really enjoying it."

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71%Guru Score

CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum

"The CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum is $17. The star of the show is the encapsulated retinol they use. It also contains niacinamide, licorice root, and ceramides, which are in everything CeraVe does. It reduces the appearance of post-acne marks and pores, and three essential ceramides help the skin barrier and improve skin smoothness. It's really affordable, [...] and this is one of the good ones, especially if you have acne-prone skin."

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83%Guru Score

e.l.f. Youth Boosting Advanced Night Retinoid Serum

"This nighttime serum helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles over time, reveals smooth, renewed, and radiant skin. It also contains sunflower seed oil, licorice root, and bisabolol, which are all great soothing ingredients, and the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo. [...] These are all absolutely wonderful products, you can't go wrong with any of them, they're all fragrance-free, pretty affordable, [...] and they all deliver results."

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84%Guru Score

Versed Press Restart Gentle Retinal Serum

"They say it's a retinol serum without the potential for irritation, made for aging, dullness, dark spots, problematic skin, and acne and clogged pores. In addition to the bakuchiol and retinol it contains aloe, vitamin E, rose hip oil, and sea buckthorn oil. [...] I really enjoy this stuff, no scent to it and still pretty affordable."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Revive Firming Moisturizer: Ginseng + Retinol

"I just wasn't impressed with it. I didn't hate it, but I certainly won't repurchase it. It's twenty one dollars for [...] the full size two ounce. With a ten being a perfect score, I'd give this one a seven, which is still okay, and a lot of other people seem to love it."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Anua Collagen Retinol Refining Gua Sha Cream

"They say this cream is formulated with retinol capsules, collagen, and peptides to refine the neck to décolletage. It also has niacinamide, panthenol, macadamia nut oil, and Japanese gold thread extract. It's fragrance-free, alcohol-free. It looks very unique. I'm always down for something unique and maybe it's finally time for me to try it out."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Prequel Retinal Renew Retinaldehyde Gel 0.2%

"I've got the Prequel Retinal Renew, and if you're newer I would recommend the 0.1% to start with and use it in your skincare routine. If you're new to it, add it in very slowly, maybe use it one night a week and slowly ramp it up if your skin tolerates it well. Another tip is if you're very new to retinoids, you can mix it with a moisturizer and then apply it, which helps your skin acclimate to it. Retinoids are the gold standard for anti-aging."

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85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion

"Got ginger root extract, which is another great soothing ingredient, as well as vitamin E. So it's got a lot of great ingredients in there for hydration. I would recommend if you haven't used retinoids before, either mix this in or layer it in between two thick moisturizing products. They call it the sandwich method and it helps prevent it from drying out your skin too much. But really nice retinoid product overall, and with the sale even more affordable."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Blackberry Retinol Blemish Serum

"It's lightweight. It's pretty easy to use. And I would say it's a little bit more on the gentle side compared to all of these."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Retinol for All Renewing Serum

"I would say it's on the very gentle side. [...] However, I will mention it does contain fragrance. It doesn't have a strong scent. I can use it. There's a lot of products that have fragrance that my skin doesn't tolerate, nor does my migraine tolerate, but this one is okay. One thing to note: every single time I go to use it, there's just a clump at the front of it and it's annoying and frustrating. That stuff's really nice though. At 55 bucks, it's worth checking out."

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79%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Midnight Ritual Retinol Renewal Serum

"The Summer Fridays Midnight Ritual Retinol Renewal Serum, which is 69 bucks for 1 oz. [...] It's got squalane, retinol, bisabolol, rose hip oil, a lot more other ingredients, but overall the base and the actives are the same. Very nice product. Smaller business. That's what I like."

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80%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Rescue Retinol Nighttime Renewing Cream

"This one's also a nice alternative option. This one's probably about 19 bucks or so at Ulta."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Retinol Fusion PM Night Serum

"It's just a basic squalane-based serum oil. It's got a really oily texture to it. It doesn't have a ton of ingredients. It's got 1.5% encapsulated retinol, squalane, vitamin E, and hyaluronic acid as the main ingredients. 65 bucks for this. A little bit overpriced in my opinion, and a brand that most people probably don't want to support any longer."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ EXO+ Retinol Alternative Intensive Skin Barrier Repair Balm

"The skin fix barrier and exo ectoine intensive overnight repair balm which I actually really like"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 10 Retinal Serum (0.1%)

"I find this one works pretty well with fine lines and wrinkles. [...] The nice thing is it will work well for most skin types, including dry and oily. For acne-prone skin, there are a few ingredients of note, though, so keep that in mind. It has Haba oil, vitamin E, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate, and carbomer. Some of those are very comedogenic, so if you have acne-prone skin, this may not be the best. Although the retinal may kind of cancel some of those out."

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90%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 5 Retinal Serum (0.05%)

"For about the same price, you can get the Geek and Gorgeous A Game 5, 10 or 20, which are probably a little bit stronger and probably you'll probably notice a little bit more improvement."

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85%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100 Retinol

"It applies really nicely. [...] It's got kind of a serum lotion texture to it, a little bit thicker. This one is light. This one's not very strong in terms of the microneedling. It's 100. So a lot of the other ones you can feel like a prickly feeling from one of the specific ingredients, but this one is pretty gentle."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Mary&May Spicule Retinol PDRN Cream

"I thought I should get a big bottle of that and try it out. Sadly, this one has a very strong smell. [...] It's got rose water, [...] retinol bakuchiol, which I love, but it's got a strong rose scent to it. It's got raspberry leaf, vanilla, [...] hydroxy cinnamon. Yeah, it's got a lot of different fragrance in it. [...] The actual smell of it was gross. And I have a lot of other retinoids that I like that don't have any fragrance in it. So this just won't be in my routine."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Differin Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"I would say Adapalene is a great way to go because it's just so easy to fit in your routine. It is clear and it fits in pretty flawlessly and no real ingredients of note and no scent or anything like that. So, this stuff is lovely."

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92%Guru Score

The INKEY List Retinal and Novaretin Scar, Mark and Wrinkle Solution

"And it's got 1% retinol acetate, which is a form of retinoids. It's got 5% granactive retinoid and [squalane] as well as soybean oil. It's fragrance-free. It's very gentle. So if you're new to retinoids, it's a nice option, or if you have sensitive skin or if your skin is acclimating to retinoids, it's a nice option. There's also a great method sandwiching in between two thicker moisturizers. If you're new to retinoids or if you have dry skin, that's the way to go."

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81%Guru Score

Good Molecules Gentle Retinol Cream

"This one's got 0.1% retinol. It's got grape seed oil, bakuchiol, also known as phyto retinol, and vitamin E. These are all fragrance-free options, so they're always very nice. I love Good Molecules. I love that they're still an affordable brand. And I love that this is still eight bucks for now, and maybe get on sale. This stuff's really nice. Decent packaging, no smell, decent ingredient list, all that good stuff."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Altreno Tretinoin Lotion 0.05%

"I love the Altreno lotion. This is prescription. So, I can't link to it below, but um I just had my regular doctor write out a prescription for it and I had it filled at the pharmacy and just paid um I think I went to Costco for this one. Walgreens was really expensive, but Costco is actually ridiculously cheap. And this one's nice. So, if you have dry skin, this is a nice prescription retinoid that doesn't dry your skin out like a lot of them otherwise the prescription ones can."

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76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 2% Emulsion

"So if you're experienced in retinoids or maybe used things like that, then this is a nice one. Retinoid is stronger. It requires one less conversion into skin to create retinoic acid. So it's proven to be anti-aging superstar, fights wrinkles, smoother skin, firmer skin, more elastic skin. The nice thing with this one is it also contains several soothing ingredients [...] and then also contains the antioxidant vitamin E. It's for about 15 bucks. So this one's nice."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinol 1% in Squalane

"It's just got 1% retinol, which is kind of a standard amount, but squalane is a great antioxidant and hydrating and skin identical ingredient. They paired it with that, as well as tomato extract, which is also a good antioxidant. So this one would be a nice nighttime oil. It's got a nice oil texture to it, so it's [...] very hydrating at the same time as fighting wrinkles and fine lines. It's a really nice formula. No fragrance, short ingredient list, very nice product."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinol 0.2% in Squalane

"If you're looking for some anti-aging stuff, The Ordinary is a great brand that is affordable and effective and they've got a retinol."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Night Retinol Serum

"This one feels really nice and very hydrating. If you're new to retinol, this one might be a nice way to get started. I've really been loving using it at night, and out of all the new goodies, I think this one's my favorite so far."

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78%Guru Score

Maelove Moonlight Retinaldehyde Serum 0.1%

"The Maelove Moonlight Retinaldehyde Serum does have fragrance in it, contains bergamot oil, orange oil, and grapefruit oils. They're not strong but there is a citrus scent to it, so if you're going to use this be aware of it, certainly don't use it during the daytime. This one contains 0.1% retinaldehyde. It also contains cloudberry seed oil and green tea."

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80%Guru Score

Medik8 Crystal Retinal 24

"The Medik8 Crystal Retinal 24 has 0.24% retinaldehyde, so I believe it's probably the highest retinaldehyde concentration out there that I can think of nonprescription. It also contains cloudberry seed oil and vitamin E. It does contain vanilla and coumarin, which is [...] a fragrance ingredient that gives products a vanilla scent, [...] so it definitely has a vanilla scent in there, so keep that in mind if your skin is sensitive. [...] These are not cheap, they get to be pretty pricey."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Medik8 Crystal Retinal 20

"The Medik8 Crystal Retinal 20 has 2% retinaldehyde. It also contains cloudberry seed oil and vitamin E. It does contain vanilla, which is fine, but it also contains coumarin, which is technically a fragrance ingredient and gives products a vanilla scent, [...] so it definitely has a vanilla scent in there. So keep that in mind if your skin is sensitive. [...] These are not cheap, they get to be pretty pricey."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Retinol Duo

"It's probably one of their bigger sellers"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 5% in Squalane

"The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 5% in Squalane is one of my runners up. It's a wonderful serum, but it's a little bit on the oilier side, so keep that in mind."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

A313 Vitamin A Pommade (Retinol Ester)

"A313 which markets in the US that this is the retinol all French women use and I literally just saw Reddit thread last night about how no French women uses this, nobody uses this, this is more like an ointment. It expired one month ago but I did review it."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Revolution Retinol Overnight Cream

"This Retinol Overnight Cream is 13 bucks, it's a really good deal. I really like it. The packaging for 13 bucks is really good, it's got a simple pump. [...] The ingredients in it are really good, it's a nice retinol, it's non-drying, there's no scent in it, and it's 13 bucks. They've done everything right."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

BYOMA Sensitive Retinol Oil

"This is the BYOMA Sensitive Retinol Oil, it's $19. If you have older skin, if you have experience with retinoids, I wouldn't recommend it, but if you aren't, and this might be your first retinoid product you're thinking about trying, or your skin is very sensitive, or you have a lot of other products in your routine, this one's worth checking out. It contains the HPR, which is very, very, very gentle."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Allies of Skin 1% Retinol Repair Cream

"Next up on the little bit more expensive side we've got the Allies of Skin 1% Retinol Repair Cream. [...] In here we've got retinol, we've got peptides, we've got ferulic acid and niacinamide for brightening, we also have glutathione for brightening as well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Multi-Acid and Retinoid Brightening Sleeping Facial

"The allies of skin bright future sleeping facial which is like $100 or so"

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Anua Retinol 0.3% Niacinamide Renewing Serum

"That one feels really nice and you got that fruity scent to it which some people will love"

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Kinship Dreamwave 2% Bio-Retinoid Complex Renewal Serum

"It has tranexamic acid in it which is nice for brightening up skin, and 2% bio-retinoid complex with vitamin E. So not a whole ton of retinol, but overall it feels nice. It does have a little bit of a scent to it, so keep that one in mind, but so far I like it and the scent isn't terribly strong."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Sunday Riley A+ High-Dose Retinoid Serum

"Then they come out with this [niacinamide] serum which in my opinion smells like toilet bowl cleanser"

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

The INKEY List Super Solutions 1% Retinol Serum

"So in my opinion this one's really nice and worth checking out as well"

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturizer with Retinol

"This was an old, old, old product, and I had like two pumps left, so I just used it on the back of my arms. It's the Paula's Choice intensive repair cream for dry or very dry skin. I don't think they make this anymore, and I have no idea how long I've had it. It's probably very old. I [...] put it on the back of my arms because I think it had some retinol and anti-aging ingredients in there, but I didn't want to use it on my face since I didn't know how old it was."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant A-Passioni Retinol Cream

"The stuff is not good for kids, especially a lot of their [...] products. This is too strong for most adults, and having an 8-year-old, 10-year-old, [...] or 16-year-old use it, their face is going to be even more apt to burn and get damaged."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Retinol B3 Serum

"Their retinol I found to be super irritating, full of fragrance. La Roche-Posay has a lot of amazing stuff, but they also have a handful of stuff that my skin did not tolerate well, and a lot of people probably will not."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

COSRX Retinol 0.1% Cream

"The CeraVe Retinol 0.1% is super impressive in my opinion, really great product and pretty affordable. [...] Aside from retinol it also has some other really nice impressive ingredients: beta carotene, sorbic acid, and 30 ethyl sorbic acid and then a bunch of other goodies. No fragrance in it. [...] The ingredients in here are great. [...] I really enjoyed the cream and I really like the packaging, the metal tube, so it's protected from exposure to light and air. It's wonderful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Retinol 0.05% & Peptides Repair Night Cream

"This retinol and peptides repair night cream has 13.5 peptides, antioxidants, brightenings, and encapsulated retinol. It's super hydrating and really works well in [...] my evening routine. I'll apply my serums and then this as my second to last step. It's really wonderful and [...] I'd use it every night or every other night. [...] I really enjoy this stuff because it's really strong without being irritating. It's in a very hydrating formula."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Stratia Night Shift Retinol Cream

"I put my friend on their retinoid product to start with helping with fine lines and wrinkles and things like that. And so far so good. Stray does a really great job."

✓Yay
Sponsored

85%Guru Score

Lip39 reviews

Paula's Choice Pro-Collagen Peptide Gloss Balm

"This is probably my third tube of it and I have two more tubes as backup. [...] A friend was asking me about it when she was getting [...] fine lines around her mouth, and I told her to try this one. She'd been using Carmex [...] her entire life, and once she switched from Carmex to something with good ingredients in there, it really made a huge difference. She's sold more people on this lip balm than I have, and the fact that she loves it says something because she's kind of picky."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm

"I love the Summer Fridays lip balm, they're all great."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

VT Lip Plumper

"After I've tried this VT Lip Plumper, I'm not so sure I'd try anything from them ever again because [...] that was like an allergic reaction city. Never cried so much in the middle of a video in my life."

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

Buxom Night Lip Balm

"I love the brand. I've got so many of their lip balms. I used to do it for Christmas back in the day when they had all the big displays at Ulta with the different lip balms. I could buy everyone because they have the different names of lip glosses."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Pat McGrath Labs Lipsticks

"I was going through my lipstick cabinet and I found several Pat McGrath lipsticks and I thought, how could this brand go out of business? Because they're selling lipsticks like hotcakes for 40 bucks or so a pop. [...] And a lot of the shades are sold out. They'd have a sale occasionally for like $36 and they'd all be sold out so fast."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

YSL Lipstick

"Those expensive lipsticks, it's all about the packaging of them. And then they always have like a perfumey taste like YSL lipsticks. I just can't. They're just I can't do it. It's too much."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Flushed Lip Stain

"They released a Flushed [...] Lip Stain lip tint, which looks like a lip liner. It's 22 bucks, but the colors look really nice. They've got six different colors from light pink to a deep mauve. Back in the day when I really got into skincare makeup, I loved lip liners and lip tints and things like that, lip crayons because they have so much more staying power than the typical lip product does. So, this might be something I'll pick up maybe when it's on sale or something."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Squalane + Amino Acids Lip Balm

"I didn't love the Ordinary lip balm they came out with. [...] I had it on my nightstand for a while, but it wasn't my favorite. [...] The Ordinary lip balm felt more like a paste to me than it did like a gloss or a gel. I just didn't like it."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

The INKEY List Tripeptide Plumping Lip Balm

"I didn't love the one from The Inkey List. At first, I really liked it. Then, the more often I used it, the more I started to dislike that it had no taste at all, which almost left it with a taste. It's not a bad product, but it's just, I don't know."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Glow Peach Peptide Lip Balm

"This is the Glow Peach Peptide Lip Balm, which is 23 bucks. It comes in three different flavors. Iced Blue has no taste, which is the one I have, [...] and the other two will have a little bit of a taste. It's tacky, similar to the Tatcha Kissu lip mask, which is really nice. [...] It's very thick. [...] It's thick and kind of sticky and kind of goopy. [...] This one's got a few beneficial ingredients in here. It's got [dimethicone], which is really great for sealing things in and hydrating."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Bioderma Atoderm Lipstick Balm

"It's about 10 bucks. [...] It does have a lemon and citrusy flavor, so be aware of that. It does have fragrance in here. It's got a matte finish, so it works well also under lipstick. [...] It has literally no shine to it at all. [...] It does have a citrusy scent to it due to the fragrance. For beneficial ingredients, it's got mineral oil, wax, paraffin, shea butter, vitamin E, sunflower seed oil. It's really nice."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

The Ordinary PHA 5% Exfoliating Lip Serum

"It's got a kind of a thicker texture to it, which I was not expecting. Feels okay. I don't feel any tingling or anything. It has a little bit of a taste. One little drop of that was too much I will say. [...] So ingredients glycerin water then we've got the PHA we've got ectoine which is a great hydrating soothing ingredient. Carrot juice um malic and tartric acids and then some preservatives. So not the most complicated formula but it feels nice. I guess I should be applying this at night."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Clavu Nourishing Care Lip Sleeping Pack

"This is the one I use at night a lot now. The Clavu Nourishing Care Lip Pack in vanilla. They have different flavors of this one. The vanilla one to me is the nicest. So I just put this one on in my evening routine. But this one's pretty nice."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Lip Balm

"SkinFix Barrier+ Lip Balm, this was an old one because now they have [...] one in a jar, but this was one I just kept on my nightstand so in the middle of the night if my lips were dry I just kind of wipe it on and it did the trick. I like packages like this as opposed to the jar, especially for my nightstand, because otherwise if I'm half asleep in the middle of the night the jar will get, I will forget to screw it on or something like that and that'll get ruined."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Fresh Sugar Advanced Therapy Lip Balm

"I finished up my last one last summer. I really like them and they're kind of expensive, they're 28 bucks normally. So when I finished that one last summer I didn't repurchase it because it was so expensive, but now it's on sale. It's in a white tube and it has no taste to it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

NIOD Lip Biolipid Concentrate

"The lip stuff tingles a little bit, it feels kind of good. It's a milky serum and it's supposed to be an exfoliating serum. [...] It looks like it's right around just under four pH, [...] which is surprising because typically St. Lauder companies will make something exfoliating and then the proper pH will be off or something. [...] It feels nice on my skin and it has no real scent to it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dior Addict Lip Glow Balm

"Dior Addict Lip Glow Balm in shade 600, which I don't know if they make anymore but it's almost done. I think it's at the very end of it, it's probably five years old or more, but I got my money's worth because I literally wore this down to the very bottom. So at the end of it if there's a little bit left in there I can take a little lip brush and apply it from that."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask

"It's the Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask, it's 29 bucks. It's got part of the Matrix of 3000 peptide, it's got vitamin E, squalene, peach kernel, and lanolin. No noticeable flavor, although when I was looking at the ingredients it does contain fragrance but it has no scent to it. [...] I like it. This is my holy grail for a long time, it's still really wonderful. Great nighttime mask with a thicker texture."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Hyaluronic Acid Plus Peptide Lip Booster with Squalane

"It's the most expensive one on the list, it's [...] 33 bucks, it's very tiny. It's got hyaluronic acid and [...] peptide, and then we've got castor seed oil, cocoa butter, squalane, shea butter, no flavor but has a shiny finish. [...] This one's got a metal applicator. [...] This one's almost as shiny as the other one."

✕Nay

80%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Pillow Talk

"This one is Pillow Talk in the Matte Revolution formula. I really like the shades. I'm wearing it actually right now. You see it's neutral enough but it still gives your lips some color to it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

NARS Afterglow Lip Balm

"I really like this one, I think it's Lagona, and then that one's a little bit darker. [...] I really like them so I have them in like three or four different shades and I keep sometimes in my purse too."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lip Gloss

"I've got the Pillow Talk Lip Gloss"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lip Balm

"Then I'll do the balm, which doesn't have as much color payoff. There you go. It's interesting, they're all pretty much the same color, just different versions."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Jelly Bear Lip Mask

"The Dr. Jart+ Jelly Bear Lip Mask, which is 25 bucks, so with 20% off would that be $20, it looks like a Laneige lip mask and it doesn't look like it has any scent. [...] The packaging on it is really cute though. The ingredients look nice."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Lippe Balm

"I found this when I was doing my organizing and I went to finish it up and actually I might be able to get like one more little fingernail in there to get like one more use worth, but yeah so nice lip balm."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick

"Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick, this was one I kept on my nightstand and sometimes in the middle of the night I put it on without realizing it and then I'd wake up and the cap would be off and it would be all gross. It's almost all gone, but after it fell on the floor in the middle of the night I'm not going to put it back on."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Kopari Lip Love

"Kopari Lip Love, I really enjoy this stuff. This was another one I kept on my nightstand, and I've tried a few lip products recently and I've had some stuff that I really like, but now I've tried a few of these and I just love it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Lip Balm

"I like it though it is nice"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Plum Plump Hyaluronic Gloss Balm

"The Glow Recipe Plum Plump Hyaluronic Gloss Balm smells like plums, which is wonderful."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask

"Bite Beauty, something happened they changed to vegan, especially like their favorite Agave lip products and nobody liked them and they never recovered from that. I don't know why they couldn't make something successful."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil

"I love the Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil in the shade Pink Cloud. Summer Fridays, you know what, a lot of people think they're overrated but I really ended up really enjoying this brand. When they started I didn't like them as much or very much at all but I've really grown to love them and their lip products are amazing. This stuff feels really nice and light."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask

"This one felt waxy, it felt like it doesn't soak in and I guess maybe it's supposed to feel that way and it just feels heavy. I [...] don't like the texture, I don't find it to be repairing. I just find it to be too thick and waxy."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Glowy Balm

"Their lip glowy serum balm it's a little bit better I like it better than the lip sleeping mask personally."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Lip Balm

"La Roche-Posay their Cicaplast Lip Balm is also great. I had it but I finished it and that was another good one to check out."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment

"Fresh has some interesting ones too. The sugar one, the one in the plain bottle, this is my favorite because it doesn't have much of a taste. Some of the other Fresh ones are pretty tasty and I don't mean that in a good way, pretty flavorful, and the vanilla ones aren't as bad."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Then I Met You Honeydew Hydrating and Exfoliating Lip Mask

"I really like this one as well. I've had it now for a while and I typically use it a couple times a week. It has a really nice glossy finish and it has [...] a little bit of a melon taste to it. [...] It's kind of shiny so it might not be a favorite for so many people, but [...] even my dad uses it and he really likes it. [...] The scent dissipates pretty quickly."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

COSRX Lip Balm

"This could be mold or gelling or crystalline crystallization issues but that's another one it looks pretty gross and I would not definitely put that on my lips that's for sure. I just found tons of examples of this, here's one from a month ago and they think there's little black specks in their COSRX Lip Balm."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Magic Lip Oil

"Pillow Talk lip oil, yes that's it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Buxom Select Lip Gloss in White Russian

"I love for Christmas I got everyone one of the Buxom lip glosses in their name Grace or Ella or Sarah or whatever Erica Celeste they even had a Celeste one so they have some great stuff and really nice this one's White Russian vava plump rush into you so they have their white Russian line was a big one"

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Body & Tan34 reviews

SkinFix Eczema Plus Hand Repair Cream

"I love this stuff. Hands down, the best hand cream in the world. My second favorite would probably be the Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream unscented, but this is my favorite by far in a way and I love this stuff. I [...] keep one in my car, one at my dad's house, one in my nightstand, and one in my purse."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Iota Supercloud Body Serum

"It's just a nice hydrating body serum. It's got aloe extract, [...] algae extract. It has aloe. It has ceramides, ectoin in it. It's got a lot of goodies. It does have fragrance from [...] a specific type of citrus orange. So it will have a little bit of a citrusy scent. [...] They have fragrance-free options, but I don't think those are on sale. [...] But they've got some really nice products. So if you haven't tried Iota, they're certainly worth checking out."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Loving Tan 8 Hour Express Tan

"They've got the Loving Tan brand, which has self-tanners, but most of their self-tanners include fragrance. So, I don't get too crazy about it, but a lot of people that don't mind fragrance absolutely love that self-tanning brand."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Fragrance-Free Hand Cream

"Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream Fragrance-Free. This stuff is thick and really nice. It's got no scent, it's got an unscented version. It's really nice. My hands get super dry during the winter, especially when our water softener got turned off for a month or so, right as fall and winter was kind of starting, my hands got really dry and still kind of dry but a little bit better."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream

"I like the Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream is great."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Therabu Buttered Repairative Hand Cream

"I finished the Drunk Elephant Therabou Buttered Hand Cream, which was nice. I like that it didn't have a strong scent. Nothing wrong with it for a hand cream. It's kind of pricey."

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

Versed Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion

"Next up is the Versed Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion, or just generally any retinoid lotion. This one I like. It's $18 and it's fragrance-free, just a nice body lotion with retinol. Retinol is one of the most studied anti-aging ingredients that exists, if not [...] the most. It helps with collagen production deep down in the skin and helps firm it up. You don't necessarily need to apply this everywhere."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body & Face Lotion

"It's 13 bucks. My one beef is I have yet to see anything with the exact percentage of retinol in it so I'm not exactly sure. I have a feeling it's probably a tiny amount because it's so non-irritating. I could use this seven days a week everywhere and not get super dry, but it does seem to work well for a lot of people. The reviews are pretty good and I'm on my second bottle of it now."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 10% Glycolic Body Blend

"This one's 30 bucks and it contains 10% Glycolic Body Blend, so it's got glycolic, tartric, lactic, and citric acids at the proper pH and proper percentage. Used on a regular basis, glycolic and lactic acid especially are known for firming up skin. When I recommend anti-aging routines, exfoliants often come up as part of the discussion because people typically don't think of them as anti-aging ingredients so much, they think of them more as just an exfoliant to help smooth skin out."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Weightless Body Treatment 2% BHA

"Paula's Choice Weightless Body Treatment 2% BHA, which is 32 bucks, is a nice lightweight lotion. It's great for acne prone skin and also great for those with KP, which is a skin condition where you get like red bumpy skin and it just needs a little bit of exfoliant. [...] A lot of people get it on the back of their arms or sometimes on their legs. [...] It has no scent to it, and it softens skin up."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Native Body Wash

"Native body was I just picked this one to travel with because it got a nice size for traveling it's pretty gentle and it does have a vanilla scent and it's not terribly drying."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Gold Bond Age Renew Crepe Corrector Body Lotion

"Lately I've been hearing about their crep corrector crepy rase moisturizer from gold bun like a lot lately a little suspicious"

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hyaluronic Acid Body Lotion

"This one is the Neutrogena Hydro Boost body lotion, it's 14 bucks, it's just a fragrance-free gel body lotion, works great. Lately what I've been doing is I have been using a body serum, I mix my copper peptides into this from Costabaja and I apply this over my whole body for anti-aging and firming, and then I finish up with this one for hydration."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve

"This one's a really nice hand cream for dry skin and pretty thick. It does have a little bit of fragrance in it, it's got lemon and eucalyptus in it, along with aloe, glycerin, olive oil, and some fatty alcohols. [...] If you're sensitive to fragrances, the Neutrogena Norwegian hand salve is the one to get, but I still like this one even though it's got a little bit of fragrance in it because I'm not as sensitive on my hands as I am the rest of my face."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Iota Super Vitamin Body Wash

"I really really love this stuff. It's their Super Vitamin Body Wash. It had no fragrance in it. [...] I absolutely loved it. I will definitely pick up another bottle of this stuff because I really found it gave me a nice lather, it gave me a nice clean feeling. I felt like it removed sunscreen and sweat and things like that pretty good and it didn't dry my skin out. I love that there was no scent to it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Algenist Genius Hand Liquid Collagen Hand Cream

"I finished up the Algenist Genius Hand Liquid Collagen Hand Cream [...] and I really really love this one. I would repurchase it. It does have a light vanilla scent to it. But I like the Skin Fix just a little bit better, and the Skin Fix one's a little bit more affordable."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Dove Deep Moisture Body Wash

"Dove body wash started at 34 oz and now it is 30 oz. And even more creative, some of these brands made the packaging look bigger even though you're getting much less. So you look at it, seems like a big bottle, and then you don't realize it until later you're getting actually less. [...] Another version of Dove body wash went from 24 oz down to 22 oz."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Suave Moisturizing Body Lotion

"Suave, they kept this one the same price but they took it from 32 oz down to 18 oz, which is about half. Suave is supposed to be one of those economical brands that people can trust, but anyway, so they're cutting."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Verso Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion

"The Verso brand is great, it's got retinoids in here so this is something you could use a few times a week. [...] I would use this maybe a couple times a week depending on how sensitive your skin is and be very cautious with certain areas, especially like around your elbows, inside that's very sensitive skin, underneath your armpits that gets very sensitive so be cautious about applying too much."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant TLC Glycolic Body Lotion

"So if you use this a couple times a week this will certainly help with crepiness, it will help with firmness, it will help with skin texture, it also helps with smoothness. Glycolic acid is proven to help with collagen production in your skin, so something like this is great. If you use that regularly, not just for a few weeks or a few months, that will help firm up your skin."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Necessaire Body Serum

"Their Body Serum I [...] very much enjoy. It's a light Body Serum [...] and I apply this right when I get out of the shower, then I can finish up getting ready, and then by the time I'm ready to put my thick body lotion on I put it on over this."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Good Molecules Discoloration Correcting Body Treatment

"Their Discoloration Correcting Body Treatment I do enjoy this one. I think I neglect my body a little bit but I have hyperpigmentation all over my face and equally I've got it on everywhere in my arms. I've got sandal mark hands from 30 years ago that still are stubborn but this seems to help a little bit and it's hydrating."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Nécessaire Multivitamin Body Lotion

"The Necessaire Multivitamin Body Lotion is wonderful. It's fragrance free and has peptides in it. It's really nice and thick. [...] This is something you want to use right after you get out of the shower, right when you get out of the shower, to moisturize your body."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Necessaire Eucalyptus Body Wash

"This one I've repurchased, I think, since the first came out, the Necessaire Body Wash. It's really non-drying and a little bit of sudsy, which is nice, to the [...] point where I repurchased it. I will say this is unscented but it does have [...] lemon extract in it, [...] which is kind of a fragrance ingredient, but it's not like lemon oil and this has no scent. There's a difference between unscented and fragrance free."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion

"The CLA is all over Supple preparation lotion this stuff is really nice quick quick cuz it's light you can apply it pretty quick and get it done"

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Necessaire Body Cream

"The Necessaire body moisturizer, this stuff is really nice. I like how this line made options. [...] They made fragrance-free options for those of us that like fragrance-free products, or unscented products I should say, and then they have some options with fragrance. [...] I like that. I like having options, I like having choices. I hope more brands do that."

✓Yay

Notverified

Necessaire Hand Cream

"This one is really nice. [...] I will say this is unscented but it does have I think it's got like lemon extract in it, [...] which is kind of a fragrance ingredient but it's not like lemon oil and this has no scent so there's a difference between unscented and fragrance free. This would be unscented but not fragrance free because of that lemon extract."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Sili Whipped Body Lotion

"I had this Drunk Elephant Sili body lotion which was fine. I mixed something into this and it ended up not working very well. [...] I like this, I wouldn't repurchase it because I think it was like maybe $28, which is expensive. There's other body lotions that are great that aren't that expensive that I like better."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream

"I really liked it. [...] The cream is definitely a little bit thicker and things like that but it feels super nice on your skin. [...] Lovely texture, a little goes a long way, sets to a kind of radiant natural finish that's really not that sticky. Great for dry patches, dry skin, eczema areas, and after laser treatments. I've only had a couple laser treatments for my aesthetician but the next one I'm, I'm glad I remembered I had this."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Good Molecules B5 Hydrating Body Serum

"Good Molecules B5 Hydrating Body Serum, [...] I mixed a little bit of copper peptides in with it. [...] The body lotion is light enough that you can mix it. If it's a too thick of a lotion you'll just end up with little flakes of powder in it, but it worked out pretty good. I'm just trying to firm up my arms, really the skin on my arms, so I think it's helping. This one's really affordable and nice."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Dial Antibacterial Hand Soap

"A lot of those are super harsh, a lot of them have antibacterial agents that are very harsh, a lot of them have a lot of fragrance in them that are very harsh."

✕Nay

47%Guru Score

SkinFix Eczema Extra Strength Body Cream

"I love this stuff. So I shop at TJ Maxx occasionally and I found several bottles of these and I picked them all up because I'll link to it at Sephora but it's normally like 40 bucks I think or somewhere around that for a bottle. So it's kind of expensive but it is wonderful and I don't use this like during the summer spring too much but in the winter and fall when it starts to get really dry I'm using this stuff all the time."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe SA Cream for Rough and Bumpy Skin

"The Crave Great Barrier relief is also another dupe for it so uh the grave is going to be probably the most affordable one"

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Sculpting Body Lotion

"This is nothing but a liquidy not very hydrating body lotion and it's expensive. It's just not very good."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Eye Care29 reviews

The Ordinary Lacto-PDRN 4% + B9 Eye Cream

"I don't necessarily know if PDRN is the next best thing. [...] Copper peptides really were a game changer for me, azelaic acid too, but PDRN is not one of them. I don't dislike it, but I have yet to find one that made me think, 'Wow, I look younger after using it,' even trying it monthly. But it also contains shea oil, folic acid, and lactobacillus ferment, so it might be a nice eye cream."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream

"The Inky List has their caffeine depuffing dark circle eye cream for $14. [...] It's more geared towards small areas like the under eyes or specific puffiness. Definitely another good one. It's fragrance-free and super affordable."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Revive Eye Serum: Ginseng + Retinal

"This one uses 2% liposomal retinal, which equals 0.02% retinal, and because it's encapsulated [...] it delivers more slowly and gently over time instead of all at once. It also has ginseng extract, macadamia nut oil, ceramides, and the syn-coll peptide. [...] This stuff is nice, it's very, very gentle, which might be a good thing for some people, maybe especially if you have very sensitive skin. [...] I only recommend using retinoids at night if possible."

✓Yay

94%Guru Score

The Ordinary Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG

"It has a milky texture, no scent, and feels nice and not greasy, though my face felt a little tacky. This product wasn't screaming my name and it didn't overly impress me, but my skin isn't really puffy so it wasn't made for my skin type. If you have puffiness and aren't sensitive to caffeine, there's nothing wrong with it, and people with more puffiness might have a better [...] experience with it than I did."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Auto Correct Brightening and Depuffing Eye Contour Cream

"The Sunday Riley Auto Correct Depuffing Eye Cream is a depuffing eye cream. It's got caffeine which helps with puffiness and under eye dark circles, helps brighten it up. Watermelon extract, great antioxidant. It's got xanthrul, which is another great antioxidant, and ginseng. So it's a really nice eye cream if you're looking for one, especially if you have puffiness or looking for brightening up under eyes. This one's really nice."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Peach Slices Snail Rescue Ultimate Eye Gel

"Peach Slices released a new product, their Snail Rescue Ultimate Eye Gel. It's $14. It contains snail mucin, aloe, centella, and birch juice. And I love the Peach Slices lineup because it's so affordable and they have a lot of nice products. And cousin or sister brand to Peach and Lily, they've got some nice stuff. So that one looks nice."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Eye Serum

"This is their Multi-Peptide Eye Serum. Just a drop right around the eyes is all you need. And it's full of good anti-aging peptides. [...] One drop is enough for both eyes. Then you kind of just pat it on. It feels nice for an evening routine. It's on the daytime routine for my eye products. [...] And it's got a lot of good ingredients in it as well."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Lancôme Advanced Génifique Eye Cream

"My opinion, even at half off, it's probably overpriced and overrated. Lancôme products are mostly water, fragrance, and silicones, but some people may prefer strongly against that."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Retinol Volumetox Eye Cream

"You just apply a moderate amount and then they say pat for better absorption. I would recommend using this in your evening routine. It does have kind of a pearlescent finish which makes it nice, but because of the retinoids in here, I think you're better off using this at night and in your daytime focusing on sunscreen and vitamin C. Even though it has a nice finish that kind of gives it a little bit of a brightening look, that's kind of what I would recommend doing."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant C-Tango Multivitamin Eye Cream

"I found the Sea Tango multivitamin eye cream at TJ Maxx for $39.99. What's going on with Drunk Elephant? Is Chaseo. Did they recoup their billion dollars that they spent on this? So they build up this brand to be this high esteem brand and then they kind of devalue it by, you know, shilling it at TJ Maxx for way less the price and then people still think they're getting a deal. [...] I guess it's at least it's cheaper than the normal price."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

NIOD Fractionated Eye Contour Concentrate

"If you have crows feet, puffiness under your eyes, their eye serum is wonderful. It's got a lot of good ingredients in it. It's kind of expensive. It's 25 bucks, but a drop on each eye is enough to cover it and it will last you quite some time."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Good Molecules Yerba Mate Wake Up Eye Gel

"I've really liked this one ever since it came out. And at six bucks, you almost can't get anything for six bucks anymore. So, this one's good. It has a nice gel texture. Use morning and or evening. It helps with puffiness as well as fine lines. [...] The yerba mate is a great antioxidant which helps fight free radicals. Then it also has caffeine again."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Thrive Causemetics Brilliant Under Eye Brightener Illuminating Corrector

"I'm going to put a little bit of the Thrive Causemetics Brilliant Under Eye Brightener on. It's just a really easy eyeshadow. I usually just put like a very tiny amount on."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Versed Water Rush Hydrating Eye Gel

"The Versed Water Rush Hydrating Eye Gel is quite nice, I'll certainly review that, and it's really affordable as well."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Versed Smooth Landing Advanced Retinoid Eye Balm

"It's a nice product for those sensitive or with sensitivity to retinoids or those that are new to retinoids. It's a nice product to start with. A little bit goes a long way and it lasts forever. Overall it's a nice one, [...] especially for sensitive skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Kinship Bright Wave Vitamin C Brightening Eye Cream

"It's really nice, helps with brightening the eye area. It's really great for your morning routine. In my daytime routine I typically go with another eye cream, but in the daytime when you're looking for something brightening or to help with puffiness this one's really nice. [...] The main stars of the show are oat kernel oil, C Buck oil, vitamin C, squalane. Really nice product overall from Kinship. They're a brand to keep an eye on because they keep coming out with really interesting fun stuff."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Brightening Eye Masks

"They're Brightening Eye Masks. I'm not a huge eye mask person, my eyes aren't terribly puffy. Some people definitely have puffiness or dark circles and things like that. [...] They've got good ingredients: caffeine which will help with puffiness, niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, peptides, licorice root and blueberry which will all help with brightness as well as puffiness. I just found them a little laborious to use and honestly I'm not a big eye mask person. For me it just seems like another step."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Jordan Samuel Skin Performance Eye Gel

"I'm just going to put a little bit around my eyes. [...] It's got a nice gel, [...] that's nice and light. If it were like very creamy I could see how it wouldn't work well in the morning, but it's light enough."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice C15 Super Boost Eye Cream

"So this one is in my opinion more friendly at night. I wouldn't necessarily use this in your morning routine, but at night this one works really nice. It's a little bit on the hydrating side for daytime, might make your makeup pill or [...] make it look settling into fine lines, so that's why I'd recommend that one at night more."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Light Aura Vitamin C Plus Peptide Eye Cream

"This is a really nice brightening eye cream. It sinks in pretty quickly. [...] We've got a lot of really good ingredients in here: sorbic acid, the vitamin C Real Deal, argilene which is the botox in a jar peptide, rose hip oil, turmeric which is another great brightening ingredient, caffeine which is great for puffiness, and then niacinamide. I will mention a lot of times dark circles a lot of times you can't brighten them away, a lot of times they're just genetic."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Jin jangs Hybrid face and eye cream

"The Jin jangs hybrid face and eye cream is really wonderful. It's in a big tube, 3 oz, so it's a large product. In here we've got centella, we've got several peptides, we've got several ceramides, green tea, beta glucan, panthenol. It's like a face cream but you can also use it as an eye cream. [...] Really lovely product. [...] I would say this one's pretty friendly for most skin types as well as oily and dry. [...] The bottle's gigantic so you won't regret it. It's wonderful."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Redermic Eye Cream

"Their redermic R treatment I found this one to be super irritating"

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Mary&May Tranexamic Acid + Glutathione Eye Cream

"I applied it to my face and it had such a terrible floral fragrance and I went and laid back down and then I laid there for a couple minutes and I'm like I have to wash this off and start all over again so it was like 2 a.m. and I'm doing my skincare routine again because I screwed up."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Bioscience Squalane and Marine Algae Eye Cream

"I like this one. I think I had the full size too and then I got a little sample of it and kind of hardened into nothing at the very bottom but it's a very nice eye cream. I really like it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dime Luminosity Eye Serum with Cucumber and Peptides

"The Dime Luminosity Eye Serum looks really nice. I haven't tried anything from that brand yet, but they have a vitamin C serum that looks really wonderful as well, so this will be my first foray into Dime skincare and I'm looking forward to it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Lumify Redness Reliever Eye Drops

"When my allergies are really bad my eyes get really red and I use this occasionally maybe once a week or something. [...] It does instantly make your eyes brighter. It is pretty impressive. If you haven't tried it, might be worth a try depending on your issues with your eyes."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Klairs Fundamental Eye Awakening Gel

"This is their Fundamental Eye Awakening Gel. [...] If you have sensitive skin, their Fundamental line is a great way to go. It's pretty darn good, especially compared to everything else."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

COSRX Snail Peptide Eye Cream

"If you're looking for an eye cream for your eyelids and the whole area, I really like the Cosrx Snail Peptide Eye Cream for that."

✓Yay
Sponsored

73%Guru Score

Stratia Lipid Gold Eye Cream

"It's kind of the sister product to its big brother Lipid Gold. In here we've got rose hip oil, we've got sea buckthorn oil, we've got ceramides, we've got peptides, and we also have an algae extract. Algae is great for protecting skin and works great as an antioxidant, so some really nice ingredients in here worth checking out."

✓Yay
Sponsored

85%Guru Score

Eye Makeup27 reviews

Benefit Precisely My Brow Pencil

"I had the wrong color of this for about three years and wondered why it didn't work well. Since they now have a dozen shades, I found a lighter one, and it works much better. [...] The front of my brows is light and the rest is dark, so I shade in just the front, and shade three has been wonderful. The darker shade [...] may have worked for me a while ago, but my brows have faded a bit since I had a powder brow treatment."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Natasha Denona I Need a Cool Eyeshadow Palette

"It's got a lot of cool neutrals and metallics and sharp-looking silvers, and it [...] looks like a more neutralized cool version of a palette I already have. Seventy-two dollars is more expensive than this brand used to be, so [...] I'll probably wait since I'm sure it'll be half off at some point around Christmas or Black Friday. But it looks beautiful, I love metallics."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Lash and Brow Serum

"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Lash and Brow Serum. [...] I wouldn't repurchase it. [...] These are the non-prostaglandin ones. They work a little bit, but I don't know. My eyebrows are okay."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Babe Essential Lash Serum

"Babe Lash is nice and it's got those prostaglandins. I have used Babe Lash and I really liked it."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Benefit Goof Proof Brow Powder

"Benefit is probably my lead brand for eyebrow products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Rabanne Mini Eyeshadow Palette Duos

"Kind of fun. I like metallic shades. I don't like gold as much as I'm more of a silver person. I think silver looks better with cooler tone skin. [...] Those little mini eyeshadow palettes are on sale right now. The quality on these is really nice. I do like these little mini ones."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lash Curl Finisher

"I have a feeling this is just for people that don't want mascara, but they want a polished look. My eyelashes look fine after it. [...] They're about [...] the same as they were before I applied it, but they do have a little bit of a polished finish look to them. My eyelashes grow kind of clumpy sometimes. It feels nice. [...] Very thick, very, very thick."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked Palette

"My first pick is kind of expensive but I will say it's very handy and it will last you forever. [...] If you travel at all, it's really handy because it literally is everything you need in a palette. It's got usually most of them have a variety of a different blush, a bronzer, and highlighter, and then this one's got a face powder in here. So if you travel at all, it makes it pretty handy. I will say this pink blush broke, but this one's probably three or four years old."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara

"I'm wearing it right now, is the Tarte Tartist XL Tubing Mascara. I personally I love tubing mascaras. The Thrive is great. This is very similar to be honest. I probably could switch the two ones and not notice the difference once they apply. Very nice. And right now it's 16 bucks. So it's 40% off."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Thrive Causemetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara

"Next up is the Thrive Causemetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara. I already had my repurchase of these in hand, so here's my replacement. I typically use these a little bit longer than you're supposed to. I think a tube is supposed to be used for three to four months, correct me if I'm wrong, but I usually use them for six months, and I know it's bad, but I'll try and do better next time, I guess."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Kaja Winged Eyeliner Stamp Set

"For people that like the winged eyeliner look but are untalented, have shaky hands, or just not very good at makeup, this one's nice because it's got stamps. One says right, the other one says left, and it's just a stamp, and you stamp it on your corner of your eye like that and then it gives you the catwing. They also have two versions of it, a short regular version and a long one. So if you want a longer cat eye, you can have that. If you want a shorter one, this one is regular."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked Shaped Eyeshadow Palette

"What I like about this is they have two different versions. One for warm skin tones and one for cool skin tones. And this coming from somebody that didn't really know if they were cool skin toned most of their life up until probably recently. [...] I like that they broke up that and made it easy for people that barely know your skin tone and about other than that know little to anything else about mixing and matching colors. [...] It's 56 bucks. [...] I've got so many of these Urban Decay Naked."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Bronze Palette

"I'll do a quick look. So I got some brushes. I'm going to start with my eyeliner brush and go with suntan color on my eyelash line. [...] Then I'm going to do my crease with this brush. [...] For my crease, maybe I'll do Sundown. It's got suntan and sundown."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Bimatoprost Lash Serum

"I got this from one of those sites that does the thing online. [...] You pay for the prescription and then they send it out to you and [...] pay for the product. They sent applicator sticks and things like that. [...] I use it every other night and I also like to use it on my eyebrows a little bit. [...] I don't like to do it every night because my eyes start to get a little dry from it, but every other night, every three nights, lashes and brows does a good job."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Revital Brow Advance Eyebrow Conditioner

"My eyebrows are in rough shape. They need all the help they can get. They're looking a little more even these days, but I use this one and I really liked it. I would repurchase it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz

"Here we go, the Anastasia Brow Wiz. [...] This color, I think, is medium brown, and it usually works. I usually just fill in this very front eyebrow. [...] Sometimes if it's too dark, then I get a cotton pad and swab it, and I even it out this way, because I think medium brown is still a little bit too dark. I just want them to look even."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Micro Stroke Detailing Brow Pen

"This is Anastasia Beverly Hills Micro Stroke Detailing Brow Pen in medium brown and then I usually just take a Q-tip and blend them in."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Milani Highly Rated Lash Extensions Tubing Mascara

"This is a tubing mascara and it's the only thing that can compare to another mascara I used to love. [...] After using this one, there's no joy in testing any other mascara out there [...] because [...] nothing compares to this one. [...] I typically buy mascara from this brand a couple times a year, and this is always one of them. It's usually on sale for 20% off, [...] but the free shipping is the key. [...] Regular price is 26 bucks, now 20 bucks, and the free shipping is very important."

✓Yay

59%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Precisely My Brow

"And then the Anastasia medium brow Brown"

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Thrive Causemetics Brilliant Eye Brightening Eyeshadow Stick

"I really like these ones. [...] I actually really haven't needed to sharpen them because I kind of like once they get a little bit of rounded tip on them. [...] You can easily make it bright darker if you want, smudge it if you want. [...] I have a silver one that's called Betty which is my favorite. I love silver, it's actually like a blue silver. So these are all really nice. I like them."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Cream Shadow Stick

"I ordered this Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Cream Shadow Stick from Ulta, and when I [...] opened it up, [...] the actual stick in the eyeshadow flew out and landed on my countertop. I'm probably going to return it. I [...] don't know what happened, but it's kind of gross when it lands on your countertop. [...] They're not cheap, I think [...] the new colors are like 34 bucks. It's a bummer because they're not cheap, and especially for 34 bucks, I shouldn't be spending that much on eyeshadow anyway."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Rodan+Fields Lash Boost

"I found it when [...] I was going through my lipstick drawer [...] at the very bottom, and the thing is like completely dry, the spoolie thing on it. [...] I don't recommend this brand. [...] The price of these is pretty similar to other options, and Rodan+Fields is not my favorite brand because they're an MLM, and MLMs generally are evil unless you're the one at the top. I will never buy this again."

✕Nay

45%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Subculture Eyeshadow Palette

"Anastasia Beverly Hills, they used to have all these exciting eyeshadow palettes and things like that, and trendy products. It just seems like their trend isn't hitting lately."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

About Face Eyeshadow Stick in Pearly

"I'm wearing it kind of in the corner of my eyes and so far I liked it. [...] I'm wearing it in the corner of my eyes, it gives a nice pearly glow. It's not super expensive to start with, but I like some of the shades they have. And honestly, the older I get the lazier I get about my eyeshadow, so I've got tons of different shadow sticks from different brands and I enjoy lots of them. [...] I'm a fan of shadow sticks and they're pretty easy to apply and then they're not too fussy to remove."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Retro Glam Palette

"For eyeshadow I've been really enjoying this, the Natasha Denona Retro Glam Palette. It's another one that's kind of wasted on me, I mean somebody that was really good at this stuff could really make some fun looks with it, but it's me so I really just try and make something work."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance Eyeshadow Palette

"An Anastasia Beverly Hills palette with some questionable looking substances in it. If you think there's mold at all, discard it or return it, don't use it. And the fact that some of these people are questioning like do you think this is mold, should I keep using it, like no. If you even have to question it, it's not worth it. Putting mold on your face is gonna be a mess, especially if you have damaged skin or any cuts or things like that. It's just not good."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

About-Face Shadow Stick

"I still want to try this brand About Face. They've got some interesting products. [...] The Shadow Stick might be kind of fun to try out and maybe I could kind of mute it a little bit. I like bright colors but I don't like looking like Rainbow Bright."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Haircare23 reviews

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density

"I love this stuff. [...] I apply this to my hair after showering when it's still damp, applying it to my part line and a couple other parts. [...] I don't apply it for hair density per se, but more for scalp health, and it certainly helps with your scalp from preventing it from getting dry. If you're using harsh shampoos or have hard water, this stuff is really nice."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Crown Affair Microfiber Hair Towel

"For 60 bucks, I expect a lot more. There's another review. I bought one of these towels years ago despite the price, and [...] it's the best hair towel I ever owned. I figured it was time to refresh my supply, so I bought another one. Disappointed to find that it was made in a different place, and the material content was totally different, and the quality and workmanship has gone downhill. [...] People mentioned that they [...] put it in their dryers, and it just fell apart."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Gisou Honey Milk Active Repair Leave-In Conditioner Mist

"I bought a test kit from this brand [...] years ago and tested out the products. [...] I used all of them two or three times, and it just didn't do anything for my hair. [...] For me, it just left my hair feeling really dry and almost like straw. This brand probably works well for a lot of people, but [...] for me, it just didn't work out."

✕Nay

58%Guru Score

Olaplex No.4P Blonde Enhancer Toning Shampoo

"My hair stylist told me to start using this more often. I finally finished it up. I really like this. The scent is nice. Doesn't bother me. It's not over the top."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask

"The K18 molecular hair mask, [...] you just use a little bit. [...] In the shower, wash your hair, don't apply conditioner, and then when you get out of the shower, I'll just apply a dime-size amount, rub my hands together, and then just apply it to the very ends of my hair, and it does a nice job. This is more for color-treated hair, permed hair, damaged hair."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

The Ordinary Hair Care Shampoo

"The Ordinary does have that. I will say my dad loves their shampoo. He loves that shampoo I bought for him. So, now he's all over it. He needs fragrance free products, too."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Olaplex Bond Maintenance Shampoo and Conditioner

"I really like this little size. It was perfect for travel. And then once I was done traveling, I finished it up in my shower, which is nice. This stuff does a nice job. Leaves your hair feeling nice, but not snarled, which is nice, but not too thick or things like that. Some conditioners can be very thick and leave your hair kind of feeling greasy and these don't. It does a nice job."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

K18 Heat Bounce Conditioning Heat Protectant

"K18 has a new leave-in conditioner heat protectant. I use this a couple times a week. [...] This one does have a strong smell. It dissipates and it's not superly offensive like some other ones are. But I'm curious how this leave-in conditioner smells because leave-in conditioner tends to be more noticeable to me."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Dyson Supersonic Neural Hair Dryer

"The Dyson neural hair dryer is a new version, updated version."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Silk Amino Mega Moisturizing Shampoo

"I like this. I don't like hair care that's super strongly scented. So this was nice because it had a super light, I think it was vanilla based scent. [...] It's tiny for a shampoo, so it goes fast. I wouldn't repurchase this one, but I do like their silk amino conditioner to the point where I do repurchase that one."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

COSRX Peptide 132 Shampoo

"I think it smells like a citrusy pine. My hair does feel really nice after using it. The shampoo gives a really nice lather, which I find nice. It's a nice shampoo for your scalp as well as your hair. If you have dandruff or issues like that, I think this isn't going to be enough to replace a dandruff shampoo a few times a week, but this is a really nice lathering shampoo. It rinses nice and clean and doesn't feel drying to the scalp."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

COSRX Peptide 132 Conditioner

"The conditioner is thick, and if you have long hair, you're only going to want to put it on the ends of your hair. You're not going to want to put it on your scalp and rinse it down, because that's going to be too greasy and too thick. Just put it on the ends. If you have short hair, you probably don't need this one at all. If your hair is shoulder length or shorter, unless you use a lot of hot irons and curling irons and things like that, you probably won't necessarily need this."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Head & Shoulders Classic Clean Shampoo

"The best now for that recommendation wouldn't be Head and Shoulders or any of those or cels and blue or whatever those are because they have a lot of scent in them"

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA Scalp Serum

"They also have another one which I found to leave my hair greasy, which is their Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA Scalp Serum. I found this to leave my scalp feeling greasy and needing a wash so I didn't love that one."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Nizoral A-D Anti-Dandruff Shampoo (1% Ketoconazole)

"Some people that have fungal acne are still using the Nizoral shampoo, which is a dandruff shampoo made to treat fungus. Some companies believe that the fungus is the root of dandruff, and if we treat that fungus, that gets rid of the dandruff. Using these medicated shampoos that attack fungus help the skin. A lot of people use this medicated shampoo and they use it like as a face mask and leave it on for a couple minutes then rinse it off and it seems to help."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Cocomino Glossing Shampoo and Conditioner

"I really got into like drunk elephant skin care or not skincare Hair Care two of them the uh shampoo with the Coco glossing whatever and the silk amino conditioner I've really grown to like those two things"

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Living Proof Scalp Care Exfoliating Treatment

"I think I recall when that came out and it did not look the friendliest for sensitive skin scalps."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

K18 Damage Shield Protective Conditioner

"The K18 Damage Shield Protective Conditioner [...] is really wonderful if you have dry dry hair or treat it with colors and things like that. This does a really nice job of hydrating it and if you follow directions to a tea it's great and you don't have to use much. I used it in my hair after my shower last night and it feels nice and soft."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Aveeno Baby Wash and Shampoo

"Then the body wash is aeno baby body wash which doesn't lather up it's very gentle"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Nair Hair Removal Cream

"I've never tried that stuff. It must work because people buy it."

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

Tria 4X Advanced Laser Hair Removal Second Generation

"For laser hair removal, [...] this Tria [...] is great for small areas like eyebrow lines or bikini line things like that where the area is not very large. [...] After you get the area you want treated for a few months, a few routines, it doesn't come back anymore. I got this one off eBay for a hundred bucks when they're normally like four or five hundred dollars new. [...] This one worked very well just for small areas."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Olaplex Clarifying Shampoo

"Their Clarifying Shampoo is great."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Sulfate 4% Cleanser for Body and Hair and Behentrimonium Chloride 2% Conditioner

"I use a clarifying shampoo to remove all the [...] oil and things, and then [...] when I play the hair mask, it apparently works better. [...] This does a good job with that."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Foundation12 reviews

Purito Relief Sika BB Cream

"I used Purito, they have a great BB cream. I used it occasionally."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Foundation

"One brand I'll say I did have pretty good luck with was Charlotte Tilbury's different foundations."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Clinique Foundation

"So, I did end up liking [...] and using a lot of different Clinique foundations, and some of these I had varied success with. What I did like, before there were a lot of other fragrance-free brands, is knowing that Clinique is generally going to be unscented or have no scent. I have a lot of Clinique foundations. Here are [...] four of them, and they're four different shades. [...] You can see there's oil in there, and you can tell it's been sitting for a while."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Beautyblender Bounce Foundation

"I did have pretty good luck actually with Beautyblender's foundations. They I think they have a couple new ones, but these both I had really good luck with actually. I liked them."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better Foundation

"I don't like what [...] IT Cosmetics is doing. I have one friend who uses their foundation for her makeup and her sunscreen. I have tried to get her to use sunscreen. She won't do it, but she trusts this as her sunscreen because it says SPF 50. IT Cosmetics has four or five, probably six or seven, different formulas with sunscreens in them. [...] My problem is that I was at TJ Maxx a couple weeks ago shopping and I saw these in the box. [...] The boxes are sealed, so you can't open them."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Missha M Perfect Cover BB Cream

"But it does look like it has a lot of fragrance. Although, I will say my favorite BB cream has a lot of fragrance and I don't smell any of it and my skin doesn't seem bothered by it. I don't know if it's because I apply it after so many other layers. I apply it after I tone, a serum, a moisturizer, a sunscreen. So it's basically my fifth layer. So I don't know if my skin is so prepped that the fragrance in here doesn't bother me, but I don't smell it at all either."

~Mixed

87%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion Foundation

"These things seem shady and just kind of gross to me. Uh especially when people that are watching don't know what's really going on."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

The Ordinary Serum Foundation

"They've re-released their foundation, which I tried and wasn't overly impressed with, but maybe it works well for some people."

~Mixed

60%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation

"The one thing I have learned though [...] with foundation you definitely don't need nearly as much as you need when you put on like a BB cream. You need a lot with the BB cream, but with the foundation it's just a very tiny amount."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation

"They really like the e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation, which I've tried and I enjoyed that one."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Kosas BB Burst Tinted Moisturizer Gel Cream

"The winner of week five is the [Kosas] BB Burst Tinted Moisturizer Gel Cream with copper peptides. They've been seen here before, but this is their new foundation. It has some nice ingredients in it, including copper peptides, and I really like it. The shade selection is quite nice as well, so if you haven't checked it out, do so. It's really nice, with good options in terms of colors. There's also no fragrance in the formula."

✓Yay

57%Guru Score

About Face Performer Skin Focused Foundation

"She's got the About Face brand which is at Sephora. I actually picked up the foundation from them and it was okay."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Acne9 reviews

Dr.G R.E.D Blemish Clear Soothing Cream

"This one contains 5% zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. [...] But this stuff is wonderful. You can't go wrong with that."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Bubble Fade Away 5% Benzoyl Peroxide Acne Spot Treatment

"This is their Fade Away spot treatment which contains benzoyl peroxide which is a nice treatment and pretty affordable and gentle yet effective."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Transparency ProSpot Treatment with 20% Vitamin C

"Their newer one their transparent C proo moisturizer I haven't had a chance to play with this yet but I picked it up recently and it was really nice"

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Mighty Patch Original

"The mighty patch from Hero Cosmetics, those are always decent and good."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Tula Clear Up Acne Clearing & Tone Correcting Gel

"Acne Clearing and Tone Correcting Gel, which is wonderful actually. Tula is a brand, they have so much stuff, their prices are somewhere in the middle, but that's probably my favorite product from them. I've repurchased it many times. With a 10 being a perfect score, this one gets a 10. I can't really think of anything wrong with it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Minimalist 2% Salicylic Acid Serum

"This salicylic acid serum is wonderful. I've picked up about five or six serums from this brand and I've pretty much been happy with all of them. It's 11 bucks and it's worth checking out. [...] This brand is really worth checking out if you like The Ordinary but not so much the prices these days."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Neutrogena Stubborn Acne AM Treatment 2.5% Benzoyl Peroxide

"Differin sarra Sandos tarot Neutrogena"

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Equate Benzoyl Peroxide Spot Treatment

"Galderma equate the Walmart brand"

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Peace Out Salicylic Acid Acne Day Dots

"The Peace Out Acne day patches are really handy. I really like the Peace Out brand as well, so I think they're worth trying some of their products. They have some really nice stuff, some nice moisturizers. Their stuff is fragrance free, so if you suffer from acne, I think those patches might be very helpful. They also contain some active ingredients as well, aside from just what the normal hydrocolloid patches are."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Powder & Setting9 reviews

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder Trio

"I love these. I've got another one still. Um but I don't think I'd be purchasing them for $100. That just seems um insane. But it is handy to have all six of them because you can travel and one of them counts as a face powder, a highlighter, a blush, and a bronzer. So, it is nice. But $50, I I just price gone crazy when that's 100 bucks."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Tarte Creaseless Brightening and Setting Powder

"A lot of people probably use it around the under eye area to brighten it, but I use it there and all over my entire face. [...] It's really nice. It does a nice job mattifying. Sometimes if I just put sunscreen on, it looks a little oily or shiny and I don't want a lot of makeup, I'll just put this over it to kind of mattify things. It's really nice and it works nicely over your entire face as well."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Cover FX Perfect Setting Powder

"I had a Cover FX powder, but I must put it away. But I purchased a ton of stuff from Cover FX over the years. They really had some great innovative makeup."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Sulfur 10% Powder to Cream Concentrate

"It contains a really high percentage of sulfur, 10%. So I'd probably recommend only using this once a day and probably at night, and being very cautious with it. [...] Sulfur can help heal acne by lessening oil production, killing bacteria and sloughing off dead skin buildup. [...] 10% does sound high, but I'm sure they've done research on it and it probably works well. And it's not very expensive."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Setting Powder in Banana Bread

"The hype got me. [...] I never reach for it. I got caught up in the fact that oh, it might be a limited edition. Maybe I need to buy it now before they come back out with the fragrance version. [...] I didn't need it. I don't reach for very often. I have a favorite setting powder that I use and that is the soft focus hydrate and set powder. I love this stuff. I've been gone through dozens of these. Well, not dozens, but many of them. I just didn't need this. I already have one I love."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

The Ordinary 100% L-Ascorbic Acid Powder

"This one's 52 bucks, it's got 10% ascorbic acid, it's got alpha arbutin and ferulic acid. I actually like this one. It did feel greasy but in the winter time it's not a huge issue for me and I have pretty dry skin so it doesn't bother me, but for those with oilier skin or in a humid climate it might be a little over the top. [...] It does contain tangerine peel extract in it, probably to cover up that ascorbic acid smell that we all know."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

MAC Fix+ Setting Spray

"Just for setting makeup, the MAC Fix+ [...] is nice. So this is one of them. My favorite one had a little bit of a sheen to it but I think they discontinued that one. So now I'm back to this. Or sometimes I'll dampen like a makeup brush with it a little bit. So like if I'm doing my powder eyeliner I'll dampen my brush and it helps it stay longer. This one's nice and it doesn't have any scent to it."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Tatcha Silk Powder

"I also like The Hourglass powder but for today I'm going to do the Tatcha one. [...] The powder is [...] translucent, radiant translucent. [...] It did take the radiance right out that sunscreen which is good, but it was a little too shiny for me even for me."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder

"Ah for using all these they're pretty good they're coming through for me today"

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Tech8 reviews

Dr. Pen Microneedling Device

"There's no cord, which makes it convenient. [...] The needles are a little bit more affordable. But the first one died on me after a handful of uses. I will finish up my cartridges that I have left. [...] Would I repurchase it at this point? Probably not after it died on me so soon. This version [...] costs about two-thirds of what the Derminator did, so it still has its purpose and people will probably use it. But compared to the Derminator, the Dr. Pen doesn't feel as built to last."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Shark Beauty Facial Pro Glow and Depuffy Atome Hydrating Skin Device

"If you've ever done a hydroacial, that's what it looks like. [...] If you're thinking about buying this one, I'd probably wait till Black Friday because it's $200. I bet on Black Friday you can probably get it for half price or something like that. But it looks clunky to use."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Omnilux LED devices

"Omnilux, which is a company that makes LED devices, has been accused of this."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Foreo UFO LED Mask

"They say it uses LED lights in the same way as proven treatments and therefore it's equally effective, however the red lights or LED lights on that little Foreo UFO device [...] are so small and they spend so little time on your skin you're really not going to get much benefit. [...] It's a novelty. [...] Even more brilliant with that UFO device you get, you have to buy the mask things each time you use it so you get a repeat customer every time you want to use it."

✕Nay

54%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device

"The NuFACE Trinity, this one required too much commitment from me. You really need to do it every day, usually every morning. It's radio frequency so you smooth it over your skin and the electrodes stimulate your nerves. The results on this were so short lived and not long lasting. It really requires you to use it every day and I just couldn't do it. I can do something a couple times a week but I can't sit there for 10 minutes a day doing this."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Saluma Red Light Therapy Device

"The first thing is this Red Light Therapy Device. It literally just came today. I've been seeing my esthetician, I still see her occasionally, [...] maybe once a year. [...] After she did microneedling she used this red light device which I found very helpful. I've tested and used other red light devices and found them generally helpful. The science is still poorly understood."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Light Therapy Acne Mask

"The one I used a lot was the one from Neutrogena which got discontinued because people complained about their eyes. I've tried a dip, a ton of different other off-brand ones and varying degrees of success."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Celluma LED Light Device

"A lot of estheticians use that brand. [...] If you're gonna spend money on it, get a quality brand and not some of these cheap twenty, thirty dollar masks because I'm just leery that those really are effective. The Celluma is expensive, I think it was like thirteen hundred dollars to buy a device, but if it's something you find helpful in the long run it might be worth it because I think my esthetician charges like fifty dollars for a session. It can help with fine lines, wrinkles."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Blush & Bronzer7 reviews

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Luminous Powder Blush

"It is really nice. [...] I've been using it a few times now and it applies really nice. It gives you kind of a little bit of a glow. It's almost like a highlighter and a blush combined in one. It's really nice. [...] I'm wearing it today and it just looks really nice. It doesn't scream like too shiny or too much. It just gives you kind of a natural glow. I'd heard great things about it for a long time, probably for years, and I hadn't tried it until recently."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Clio Prism Highlighter

"The other shade I have is Lavender. [...] Cream Fizz gives you a little bit of a nice highlight, and it's 15 bucks. Lavender is supposed to be for cool-toned skin, and that's the one I picked up first and I really liked it. Fizz is supposed to be more for warm-toned skin, but to be honest, I don't really notice. I think I'm pretty cool-toned, but I didn't notice that it made too much of a difference if you pick the wrong one. So, really nice shade options."

✓Yay

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Natasha Denona Berry Peep Pop Cheek Trio

"I pulled this one out to be my blush but it is so pigmented it's too pigmented. It's the Natasha Denona Berry Peep Pop Cheek Trio and [...] just barely touching it, you can see that, just barely touched it. That's crazy how pigmented it is, it's over the top. [...] That blush is way too pink and I'm just going to pray that I can blend it enough."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Bronzer in Luminous Bronze Light

"I'm going to use my Hourglass Ambient Lighting Bronzer in Luminous Bronze Light for just a little bit of a bronzer"

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Bronzing Powder

"Jo Armani uh bronzing powder although for bronzing powder um I really am liking the one I got from Allure which is the Charlotte Tilbury"

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush

"For a little bit of blush I'm just going to use The Hourglass. I've been trying to finish this compact for like two years now because I have one other one and they seem to last forever. I have one other one that I got for the holidays and I've been trying to finish these, but [...] I guess I must just not use enough because it's taking forever."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Isle of Paradise Sunny Serum Instant Face Bronzer

"It looks nice it doesn't look ridiculous"

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Balms & Ointments5 reviews

Prequel 1% Colloidal Oatmeal and Alanine Multi-Ceramides Adenosine Barrier Therapy Rich Skin Protectant Cream

"The closest alternative to that I could find is the Prequel Barrier Therapy Rich, which is 10 ounces for 20 bucks. So, that will save you $22. This one has colloidal oatmeal in it. It's got shea butter. It's got ceramides, soybean oil, soybean sterols. It's very thick. Really nice product from Prequel."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream

"Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream, which is 18 bucks. It's got safflower seed oil, glycerin, shea butter, dimethicone, soybean oil, and then the stand on this one would be colloidal oatmeal. It's really nice. A great thick cream for your skin. Prequel is a really nice brand overall, fragrance-free. They've got a lot of good stuff. They're still releasing nice stuff and new things and typically very gentle products, which is what I like."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Prequel Skin Utility Balm Multi-Purpose Skin Protectant

"This looks thick. Its main ingredient is paraffin. This is going to be too much I think for my neck. [...] It feels just like Vaseline which is fine, but I might have to rinse the tear tier off my neck."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

CeraVe Healing Ointment

"Before I apply this I apply an ointment, the one I like is the CeraVe Healing Ointment, and I just apply to those areas so that I don't get too much dryness from this soaking in. So I like doing that. [...] After you apply this in your evening routine be sure to apply it with a good moisturizer a sleep mask afterwards [...] because it is on the strong side."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Gel B5 Skin Protectant 21%

"I absolutely love the texture. [...] I bought it and used it for a while, then kind of forgot I had it, and when I irritated my skin with a couple products I was testing, I found this again and it's like oh I love this stuff, I'm glad I found it. It has a good amount of glycerin, and glycerin usually makes products have a tacky or sticky finish, but I really didn't notice that so much with this. It really doesn't have much of a tacky finish. I'd say the finish is kind of shiny."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Tools5 reviews

Beautyblender Original

"I had to retire my Beauty Blender after several uses. The little fibers would start to come out of it when you'd use it. They last a long time, but after a while the fibers start to break down, and they're only so good for so long."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

Clean Skin Club Clean Towels XL

"For these types of things, I don't like using just a regular towel. I like being as sanitary as possible. So I use these Clean Skin Club towels. [...] A towel if it's used more times is not as sanitary. I just prefer these because it's a little bit more [...] clean and sanitary."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Dr. Pen M8s Microneedling Pen

"Apparently uses the same cartridges. And so, some of the cartridges with the Terminator are a little bit more expensive. I think they're made a little differently. The technology it seems like is better. Um, so I just went and bought this. [...] This end up being about 70 or 80 bucks I or so. Uh, so it's worth it cuz some of these cartridges I already own like a hundred or more. And uh, to me it seems like for like superficial treatments, I'll probably still use my doctor pen."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Beautyblender Biopure Sponge

"They've got a Beautyblender Bio Pure makeup sponge. Normally 20 bucks, it's 10 bucks on sale. It's actually [...] made out of 60% plant composition, so it's good for the environment."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Beachwaver Curling Iron

"I've got my Beachwaver curling iron. [...] Beachwaver, it's awesome. [...] Yes, beach waver curling iron is the best idea ever."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Primer4 reviews

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter

"I really loved just using this plain on my skin. [...] I did say the Charlotte Tilbury ones weren't bad. I really like this, but then I remember her telling me it's not a foundation. So, then I kind of just slowed down and stopped using it so much because I'm like, well, maybe it's not giving me enough coverage. I've got melasma, hyperpigmentation. I want to cover all of that up."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter

"I was going to buy the milk makeup hydrogrip, but you guys mentioned these and I have both of these and I really didn't need that one. [...] I'm going with the [...] e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter. [...] They're dupes, except the elf one is way way way more affordable, so that's what I'm going to go with."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip and Glow Illuminating Primer

"The milk makeup one contains denatured alcohol so it might be debating it now I'm thinking not so much but I really want like a glowy primer so I'm sure there'll be something else out there but anyway Illuminating gripping primer with agave aloe and batan and we'll see about the denatured alcohol that might be another one if I go to Sephora I might have to check out and see how it feels on my skin or on my hand before I purchase it."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

The Ordinary High Spreadability Fluid Primer

"Their High Spreadability Fluid Primer I just really disliked. I found it clogged the heck out of my pores, which is tough to do, but this one did it pretty easily."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Supplements3 reviews

Heliocare Oral Sunscreen Capsules (Polypodium Leucotomos Supplement)

"It is not a sunscreen pill. You cannot use this and not use sunscreen. It works best when you use this with sunscreen. And I just take this every single day. And I'm very fair, I'm very easy to burn, and this stuff I trust, and I will not go a day without it, and especially if it's sunny out. If it's sunny out, I'm not missing this, and I'm certainly wearing a hat and long sleeves, no matter the temperature. But this stuff's great."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides Gummies

"If you read my newsletter, I talked about my dad and he's doing these. This is an unflavored powder. You can mix it with your coffee. I will say if you drink it with just plain water, it tastes like like I think pea would taste like. So, you want to mix it with something like coffee that has a taste. But these were fine. And a big bottle. 120. Although, you're supposed to take four at a time. So, 120 is actually more like a month's worth. But I usually just took two at a time."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides with Amino Acids, Iron and Protein

"Vital Proteins has done very well. They have a powder which I will link to below."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

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