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"I'm impressed that they came out with a new one. The original formula had the vitamin E and the ferulic acid, and the trifecta for anti-aging is the 15% ascorbic acid, 1% vitamin E, and 0.5% ferulic acid, which is great formula. But it just got to the point where $200 some dollars once you add in taxes became very expensive for it. For this new formula, they've added a peptide called carnosine and an ingredient called endol, which is their trademarked name for dandelion root extract that helps calm skin irritation and inflammation. But to be honest, I don't necessarily think you need to buy their newest vitamin C serum because those two ingredients are already in a lot of other skincare, especially the carnosine peptide. And I don't necessarily know that you feel like you need to shell out 200 some dollars once you pay for taxes. The total for mine ended up being $212. It's going to be very expensive still."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum

"I'm a total believer in peptides, especially copper peptides. I found them to be very beneficial, especially after treatments like micro-needling or lasers. It really helped speed up the skin healing process. Peptides are small protein chains that signal skin to produce more collagen and elastin and help firm up sagging areas. The Ordinary Multipeptide Serum is $32. Don't expect something to happen overnight. It will take a while, but it is effective."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster

"Paula's Choice just reformulated their C15 booster and increased the ferulic acid in it. It's worth checking out. It uses the amazing trifecta of ascorbic acid, vitamin E, and ferulic acid, which is the best and most effective way to help firm up skin."

✓Yay

84%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

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

87%Guru Score

Medik8 Exo-PDRN Prismatic Plus Youthful Vitality Serum

"Their Exopeptide Prismatics Plus is $96 for the full size. It's fragrance free and alcohol free, and they call it a vegan prismatic PDRN that helps provide essential building blocks to support optimal skin recovery and calm visible redness. 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

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

Regimen Lab Level Serum

"This brightening serum is wonderful if you have hyperpigmentation or melasma, dark spots, anything, even UV damage. [...] It's really nice at brightening your skin. I would put it in my top ten of brightening products, probably my top five. I love this stuff, it's wonderful."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum

"I love this stuff. It's got their human fibroblast conditioned media, which they have a proprietary interest in and have been using in this serum for a very long time. It is amazing, for me it's worth it. I use it very sparingly, just around my eyes and around my mouth, so I can make a bottle last three or four months. At Dermstore sometimes there are good sales, so it might be worth checking out. Love it, good product."

✓Yay

79%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

83%Guru Score

Plated Skin Science Daily Anti-Aging Exosome Serum

"The daily serum comes in a silver bottle. 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

74%Guru Score

iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Elastic Skin Firming & Plumping Growth Factor Serum

"Next up is my dry skin pick and that's the In Beauty Project Elastic Skin Firming and Plumping Vegan Growth Factor Serum, which is 52 bucks. This one's really nice and hydrating. If you've got super dry or even dehydrated skin, it's a nice option because it contains a lot of great hydrating ingredients. This one contains a 6% peptide complex, which contains copper peptides, three epidermal growth factors, and versilene peptides, so we don't exactly know how much copper is in there. It doesn't have a super blue shade to it, but it's not like super blue like some of the other ones, and it's nice and hydrating, feels really nice on your skin. 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

83%Guru Score

Maelove Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum

"Next up would be my vegan pick. So if you're vegan, you're looking for good skin care, this would be my vegan pick, and that is the May Love Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum, which is 48 bucks. 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. It's also got the argireline peptide, matrixyl 3000, it's also got the tripeptide which is known to help with collagen production deep down in skin, tetrapeptide-30 which is a brightening peptide, matrixyl synthesis, and the eyeseryl peptide which helps with under eye puffiness, eye bags, things like that. Collagen is another great peptide that helps stimulate collagen production. It's watermelon, turmeric, squalane, and several amino acids. Really nice. No scent or anything like that. Definitely one worth checking out if you are looking to firm up your skin a little bit."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Biossance Squalane + Copper Peptide Rapid Plumping Serum

"Next up is the acne prone skin pick and that is the Biossance Squalane and Copper Peptide Rapid Plumping Serum which retails for about 69 bucks. So very friendly for acne prone skin. If you're prone to breakouts, this one's a nice one, you don't have to worry about that. It does contain around 0.3% copper peptides. In addition to the copper peptides we have tetrapeptide-30, the skin brightening peptide, we have palmitoyl hexapeptide-52, which is known as another one of the Botox in a bottle peptides, ectoin, a wonderful all-around anti-aging ingredient, copper PCA, panthenol, green tea, aloe, eggplant and turmeric. Nice for anti-aging as well as helping to fight acne prone skin and brightening skin up."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Centella Phyto & 5 Peptide Concentrate Cream

"The Haruharu Wonder Centella Phyto and 5 Peptide Concentrate Cream is her dry skin pick, at $16, so pretty affordable. It's a thick texture night cream, best for night time use or for extremely dry skin. 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

85%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

"The Ordinary 15% Growth Factor Serum for visible skin repair is $15.50. 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. They say face and neck feel firmer and look more lifted in 4 weeks, and repairs the look of wrinkles in 2 weeks. The watery texture allows you to add it into any routine without having to customize it, unlike thick products you have to work around, this is really easy."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Bubble Day Dream Vitamin C + Niacinamide Tone & Texture Serum

"The Bubble Daydream Vitamin C and Niacinamide Tone and Texture Serum is $17. It's great for brightening up your skin. The star of the show is sodium ascorbyl phosphate, a vitamin C lightweight serum that promotes a bright, smooth, and even complexion and reduces sun damage, always used under sunscreen. Niacinamide can hydrate skin, calm irritation, improve barrier function, and reduce signs of aging. 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 Inkey List Exosome Hydroglow Complex Serum is $24. 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

"The Bioma Phytomucin Serum is $15.99. The star of the show is wild yam root, which a lot of brands use as a type of vegan snail mucin, since it works closest to snail mucin in terms of texture and replenishing benefits. 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

"A two-layer product that becomes an emulsion once shaken. 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. I've got hyperpigmentation from melasma and dark spots and just getting older, and this was great, highly recommended if you have issues with brightness at all. It's got anti-aging ingredients in it and it's fragrance free and not terribly expensive, and I love that they combined it with retinol and the brightening ingredients as well."

✓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

"The brand Experiment has a Continuum Daily Multifying Multi-Clarifying Treatment with salicylic acid and isleic acid. They call it a daily multi-clarifying treatment that gently targets the look of congestion post blemish marks and redness at every phase of the breakout cycle. It contains an aelic acid derivative, potassium azoal diclinate, squalain, glucactylone which is a very gentle exfoliant, salicylic acid, another very gentle exfoliant, vitamin E, and it also has the sim sensitive ingredient which is a soothing ingredient. 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

86%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

65%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

83%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

Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum

"Kic acid is great. It binds to the copper ions in the tyrrosinase enzymes and then it prevents the enzyme from producing any melanin, which makes it a really great ingredient in skincare for hyperpigmentation and dark spots. So, this is the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyper dark spot and hyperpigmentation treatment. The packaging is a little gimmicky, but the product itself is great. It also contains arbutin, niacinamide, and brightenyl, which seems to be a newer ingredient I'm starting to notice in more products."

~Mixed

76%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

82%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Seaglow Serum

"My favorite is the Geek & Gorgeous Seaglow Serum. It also contains vitamin E and ferulic acid. I use this every morning underneath my sunscreen. I've been using it for years now and I love it and it's so affordable. Really wonderful brand and product. Can't say enough good things about it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Frankly PDRN Bounce Ball Serum

"I'm throwing on the Frankly PDRN Bounce Ball Serum. It's kind of watery, feels like just patting your skin with water, but it's very unique. 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

77%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

82%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

89%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

"The Abib Glutathione Dark Spot Serum, this one is fragrance-free. You can see all of the little droplets in there. It has niacinamide and acetylglucosamine, which is great for brightening skin. We have ascorbic acid, ethyl ascorbic acid, and ascorbic glucoside, so three different types of vitamin C, which is a really wonderful brightening ingredient. 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

73%Guru Score

Mary&May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum

"Their blackberry idebenone serum, wonderful."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.5 Glutathione Vitamin Concentrated Serum

"This one's fragrance-free. It does have a strong scent that's a little bit like metallic. If you've used an ascorbic acid serum you're probably familiar with it but it does have that scent but it doesn't have any fragrance in it. 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. I would recommend if you're going to use this, apply it in the morning after cleansing. Give your skin 2 to 3 minutes for it to soak in and then apply your moisturizer, sunscreen, all of that."

✓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

73%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

65%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

SkinMedica TNS Essential Serum

"SkinMedica also has a recovery complex that contains exosomes as well as their TNS growth factor condition media. It's got a very strong fragrance though. So I didn't mention it today because the fragrance is so strong, but if you can handle it, it's worth it, but I just can't handle the smell."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

The Ordinary Soothing & Barrier Support Serum

"The Ordinary Soothing and Barrier Support Serum, which will be 13 bucks. It's a pink serum [...] and it's a really nice repairing and hydrating serum. It also helps with signs of redness on the skin. 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 exopolysaccharides, which are marine alternatives to hyaluronic acid, which make them a little more lightweight than hyaluronic acid typically is, but still add that boost of moisture. 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

88%Guru Score

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

"This one's just super lightweight, but it's got some nice antioxidants as well, which make it a really nice daytime serum to use underneath your moisturizer and sunscreen. 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. It's really nice."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Multipeptides & Growth Factor Advanced Lifting Serum

"It's got a nice gel texture to it. Feels really nice on skin. It layers well. No peeling issues or anything like that. I just don't know if I can get over the price for the full size, you know what I mean? Because it's expensive and there's a lot of other pricey products that I've noticed near instant amazing results with. I think the full size of this is in the three digits. So I'm just not sure that I would shell out for it. But it really did feel nice on my skin."

~Mixed

82%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. And then last but not least is Vitamin E, no fragrance in it. Really wonderful product from Prequel. They've got great stuff. And they're still pretty affordable, which is wonderful."

✓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. We've got matteside, which is derived from [Centella], which may have collagen and elastin production properties deep down in skin. We've even got some peptides and betaglucan in here. So this is kind of a powerhouse product. It's got a little bit of everything. It works for everything. Soothing, anti-aging, hydrating, protecting skin. It's got it all going on. And it does that all while being unscented, which I love. Makes it wonderful for most routines. I've repurchased this a lot of times."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Bubble Water Slide Hydration Boosting Serum with Hyaluronic Acid and Peptides

"This one's fragrance free with a gel kind of lotiony serum texture to it. It's got a lot of good ingredients in there. It's got a glowy finish, but once it soaks in, it sets to kind of a natural finish, which is really nice. 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. Can't beat that, can you?"

✓Yay

75%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. And then the star of the show looks like the TGO Cosmo 250, which is a soothing and brightening ingredient that's supposed to calm irritation on your skin almost immediately. I did a laser last year and my skin was burning afterwards. And that serum did help a ton."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 7% Ectoin Booster

"This one I would say is a great one for soothing skin if your skin is irritated from something. It's got a really nice milky texture to it. Ectoine in this is wonderful. You could use this on its own, you could mix it in with a serum or a moisturizer. It's really great for soothing skin because ectoin is just such a great magical ingredient for everything. 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

86%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

76%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

"Mandelic acid is really nice. It's also supposed to be a little bit more gentle for skin. This one's really nice, 5%. It's a good amount. I repurchased this twice. It's really just a nice lightweight toner. You can apply it with a cotton pad or just pat it onto your skin. 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. If you're looking for something for hyperpigmentation, mandelic acid's definitely the way to go."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Pro-Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster for Firming, Smoothing Skin

"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 skin. It's got the Syncol peptide which is supposed to boost collagen in skin. It's also got the Syntax peptide as well as other ingredients. It's really nice. I've repurchased this product a couple times."

✓Yay

69%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

80%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

"This one's got niconamide, which is a great anti-acne and brightening ingredient. We've got acetyl glucosamine and then betaine, so some humectants in here. This is a newer product from Good Molecules. It's got a serum texture to it, it's kind of on the thicker side, which is nice. 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. Ectoin is a little bit more friendly than that."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Maelove Night Renewer Glycolic Acid Cream

"Uh oh, I just finished this one. The may love the Night Renewer Glycolic Acid Cream. I was just using this a few days a week for a while. Now I think they've changed their packaging perhaps to have this in a tube, but it's just basically like an exfoliant cream uh with glycolic acid, which is actually a great anti-aging ingredient."

✓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

62%Guru Score

BioEffect EGF Serum

"This is a derived peptide that they say gives a visible reduction in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It also boosts hydration and moisture retention, smooths texture, and plumps skin, and it contains sodium hyaluronate. I bought this product back in 2019. I didn't feel it was expensive, I actually bought it when we were on a trip. I didn't notice any benefits and I didn't notice any negatives. 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

79%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. If you use too much, you will know it and you'll want to wash your hair the next day because it'll look greasy. But if you use the right amount, it'll give you a little bit of shine, little bit of scent, and does a good job that 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

Tatcha Serum Stick

"I like to keep this one in my purse because I'll put it on my lips or sometimes if I get a dry patch during the day, I'll just apply it there. [...] It's a nice multi-purpose lip balm, basically what I use it for. 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

93%Guru Score

Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

"They have two different formulas. Their main one is 20% ascorbic acid, vitamin E, ferulic acid, sodium hyaluronic, but they also have a 10% version as well. Timeless is pretty good. It's 26 bucks."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Maelove Glow Maker Vitamin C Serum

"The Maelove Glow Maker Vitamin C Serum is one of my runners up, and it's 33 bucks. Very similar to the rest of them: 15% ascorbic acid, vitamin E, ferulic acid, and grape seed oil. This one's really nice."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Vitamin C Serum with Peptides

"I find it to be very effective and efficient. It's got the Matrixel 3000 peptide duo in here. So, in addition to those vitamins, we've got good anti-aging ingredients. If you have aging skin or fighting fine lines and wrinkles, ascorbic acid is great, and those peptides are great, too. I've repurchased this one a handful of times. Very nice. If you can pick these up, store them in the fridge. It will stay fresh longer and last longer."

✓Yay

83%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. In addition to those hydrating ingredients, it's got the argireline peptide, it's got the Leuphasil peptide which is the Botox in a bottle peptide, the Matrixyl synthesis peptide and it's fragrance free and alcohol free. And it does have a very hydrating texture to it. It's really nice and it works well to kind of seal everything in and use it in your morning routine. Very nice for dry skin."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Peptide Booster Serum

"All great products. You can't go wrong with them. Love them all."

✓Yay

84%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. So for anti-aging that's the way to go unless you have other issues like sensitivity or acne then it might make sense to go to a different type of exfoliant but for anti-aging lactic and glycolic acid is great."

✓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

"The one thing I'll notice on the bottle it says fragrance free but when I click on the ingredient list on a couple websites it lists fragrance. So is it fragrance free or is it not? I don't know because it contains citronellal, geraniol, and roseflower water, which are all three fragrance ingredients. 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

"Skinfix is releasing their 15% vitamin C and [ferulic] acid serum, which is 69 bucks. Skinfix has always got some great stuff, some great new products. This one's a 15% tetrahexyl ascorbate 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

67%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

"The main component of this one is the thymulin 4 peptide in torine mixture, which is supposed to be anti-aging. Thymulin 4 is a peptide. It's supposed to help with elastin production deep down in skin. 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. I think if they would have released this product like six or seven years ago, this product probably would have been like 42 bucks."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast B5 Face Serum

"This one's a really nice one. You can just mist it. I'll mist it like right when I get out of the shower, all over my whole body. It's got panthenol and niacinamide. It's got micaceous, another centella-derived ingredient, and 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

78%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

73%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 recommended the Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier 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

"In my opinion, micro needling for most people is going to do hands down more long term for their skin than a device like this will. 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

72%Guru Score

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum 2:1

"Their node copper serum is nice. It's super light, watery texture. So if for some reason their lipid serum is too heavy or you don't like the ordinary one, this one's nice. It's watery, so you can just add it into your routine pretty easily without having to change anything else. It's just super waterlike texture. So if you think the other one's too heavy, this one's nice. But it's expensive."

✓Yay

73%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. So it's got some nice unique ingredients that aren't in a lot of other brightening products. So it might be worth trying. It is pricey. I just apply this to where my pigmentation is. So I don't apply it all over my face. I'll just typically focus on the forehead and cheeks because that's where my melasma is. So this one's worth checking out if you haven't tried it."

✓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

75%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous All Clear Azelaic Acid

"My second favorite product from Geek & Gorgeous is their Apad. This is probably my top five of all time skincare products that have made a noticeable difference very quickly. Within a week, my skin has pretty severe melasma and hyperpigmentation and rosacea as well, redness, all that stuff. This stuff for me was a game changer. Within five or six days of using it, I could tell a huge difference in benefit in my skin. So if you have rosacea, redness, pigmentation, dark spots, any of that stuff, this is great. Pores, everything like that."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid

"I picked out the 10% lactic acid serum, which is $9.20, but they also have a 5% lactic acid serum. So, depending on how strong you want, uh, or if you're new to exfoliants, get the 5%. 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. So, uh you might want to use this with a nice hydrating product or nice moisturizer because of the hydration benefits. So, you'd apply the lactic acid, give it a minute or two to soak in, and then go on to your other products in your routine."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

The Ordinary Pycnogenol 5%

"Their pycnogenol is a really nice antioxidant serum."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Nineless 10% Azelaic Acid Serum

"Really nice um product and super affordable."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Regimen Lab Azelaic Acid Serum

"It's wonderful as acid product."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Regimen Lab Vitamin X Serum

"Their Vitamin X Serum is great. This is their level serum for brightening skin. It's really nice."

✓Yay

81%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.""

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Prequel Lucent-C Brightening Vitamin C Serum

"Their vitamin C serum is great. It feels really nice on the skin, which is hard to accomplish."

✓Yay

82%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

"The Rescue MD DNA Repair Complex for 148 bucks. I'm intrigued by it because aside from the peptides in here, I can't quite decipher why it's so expensive other than it's just an expensive brand. 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

Allies of Skin Peptides & Antioxidants Firming Daily Treatment

"The Allies of Skin Peptides and Antioxidants Advanced Firming Daily Treatment is 165 bucks. [...] In addition to the sink call, it contains six other peptides. It contains the antioxidant, teenone, green tea for men, EGCG, and it's a nice fragrance-free moisturizing cream. I like to use this one actually at night. [...] It's really nice and hydrating. It's thick. Although I do use it some mornings, but I really like using it at night."

✓Yay

83%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

77%Guru Score

Vanicream Vitamin C Serum

"They have their Vitamin C Serum which is pretty affordable. That's just a nice ascorbic acid derivative. So if your skin is sensitive to ascorbic acid which some people can find their skin gets irritated by it or sometimes your skin just needs to acclimate. This one is great. It also contains ceramides. It's fragrance free. It's got a nice lotion texture. Great packaging. So the texture is really nice for those that don't like vitamin C because it can either be super watery."

✓Yay

83%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

72%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

63%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

73%Guru Score

Costa Baja Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"My favorite use for it used to be mixing two of these in with the Costa Baja Hyaluronic Acid Serum and using this on my body right after I got out of the shower. I use these on my body for firming and things like that and hydration. I can tell a difference when I don't use a little bit of copper peptides in my body moisturizer. My skin gets rougher. It gets more flaky. It's more easily irritated and itchy and things like that. What I liked about the Costa Baja was that there's three ingredients in this. So it made it pretty easy to mix in and not play scientist because when you start mixing in with products that have a lot of other ingredients, you start to become a scientist and it's not necessarily a good thing. It's more simple ingredients."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Numbuzin Number 3 Blue Bio Retinyl Pore Refining Serum

"It's very liquidy, so this one would be pretty easy to fit into most routines. It's got eggplant, which I have a feeling is probably where the color comes from. 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. It's a weird, interesting unique smell."

✓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 Redness Relief Super Solutions 10% Azelaic Acid

"The INKEY List 10% azelaic acid, it's not really a serum, it's more of a lotion, and it's really nice."

✓Yay

91%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

59%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

75%Guru Score

Neutrogena Collagen Bank 15% Vitamin C Serum

"Neutrogena released a collagen bank vitamin C face serum, fragrance-free for 26 bucks. It's an ascorbic acid based 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

69%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

80%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

70%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Amino Rain Glass Water Serum

"If you're going to pick this up, don't use it at night. You're better off using something with retinol in it. Shake before use. Apply to clean, dry skin once per day. I don't recommend using it at night because it's got mica as a makeup ingredient. 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. And then it's got a ton of amino acids which are great for your skin and barrier repairing. It's got argan oil, marula oil, oat kernel oil, and then some fatty acids. Feels nice. It had like an almost noticeable scent, but it doesn't have a fragrance in it."

~Mixed

70%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

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

"The Klairs is a little disappointing to be honest. 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

61%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

"Those include the Anua PDRN hyaluronic capsule serum, which I think is about 20 bucks"

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Round Lab Nourishing Soybean Serum

"I finished off the Round Lab Nourishing Soybean Serum, which I really enjoyed. Definitely would repurchase it or will repurchase it. It's really nice serum. Works nice in morning or evening or both."

✓Yay

82%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. It also has alpha glucan and hyaluronic acid, so this one's nice if you have sensitive or drier skin, [...] or if you have oilier skin sometimes in the winter when things get a little bit drier this would certainly work well for that too. It's worth checking out at under 20 bucks at $19 exactly."

✓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

79%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Serum with TFC8®

"There's not a whole ton of information on this peptide as opposed to other peptides where you find a lot of research and studies. There's not as much on this specific one. [...] For 200 bucks though, I mean I'm fine with the ingredients, they're great, but for 200 bucks I love to see snap eight or arginine. 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. [...] It really does plump skin especially. There's probably a gazillion other products under $200 that can do the same."

~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

69%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

CeraVe Six Peptide Booster Serum

"This one's pretty budget friendly the CeraVe Six Peptide Booster Serum which is about 16 bucks. It's very liquidy, the bottle's gigantic. It also contains a ton of amino acids, alanine, sodium hyaluronate. I'm not sure exactly how much they mentioned parts per million. It's so affordable I have a hard time thinking there's a whole ton of the peptides in here, but perhaps sometimes when there's a little bit more affordable you just don't really know how much of it they put in there."

✓Yay

84%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

80%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. And for what the product promises it promises to support the activation of the cutaneous repair process in particular at the level of fragile and UV damage prone pillar dermis, five growth factors can have a synergistic effect on skin and helps in rejuvenation and cell revitalization, also stimulates cell growth and promotes biosynthesis of collagen. I would agree that this made you most of those things, although to really test it this needs four to five months of continual use to really say it works. Other than that I can say it looks nice, it feels good on my skin and after using it for a couple months my skin certainly feels nice, but it needs four to five months and a lot of those. It's probably hard to tell if you don't have, if you're using a lot of other products in your routine it's going to be hard to say for sure this is that from that, especially with some of those growth factors being still new and not terribly studied, a lot of it comes from the manufacturers."

✓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

86%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

88%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

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

Klairs Maple Energy Infusing Serum

"Again they're trying to remind you, if you have oilier or acne-prone skin, this product is probably not going to be for you. [...] 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. [...] Too shiny, don't like the scent, didn't really offer enough exciting beneficial ingredients for me. But a lot of people love it, if you look at the reviews people love this stuff. I don't know if they're saying it because they got it for free or what, or if they really love it, but a lot of people love it. So I'm not always right, but that's just my personal experience with it."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Glow Deep Serum: Propolis + Niacinamide

"Coming at 20 bucks is the Beauty of Joseon Glow Deep Serum with Propolis and Niacinamide, a newer one that just came to me a couple weeks ago. It's a brightening moisturizer, very nice and very light, but the nice thing is you can use this one morning or evening or both. In here we've got seabuckthorn, we've got niacinamide, we've got panthenol, tranexamic acid which is another great brightening ingredient in addition to the seabuckthorn extract, glutathione which is another nice brightening ingredient, and then bisabolol which is a nice soothing ingredient. This stuff is really nice. Joseon has done a pretty good job with a lot of their products and whenever they come out with some new stuff I'm always excited about it."

✓Yay

82%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%

"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

91%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 Restoring Ceramide Face Serum

"It feels really nice, there's no scent to it which is also nice. It does have a slightly tacky finish that's not terrible. The disappointing thing 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 then we've got centella asiatica extract which is great for soothing your skin. So it's got some nice ingredients in there. For acne prone skin it's really friendly. The main ingredient I'd note is carbomer which isn't very acneic at all, it's pretty low on the scale. The main three ingredients are water, propylene glycol and glycerin, and glycerin is one of those ingredients that does tend to leave a sticky tacky finish. But it's a serum so you're going to use this early on in your routine and later on you're probably going to use a moisturizer."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum

"I wanted to test out the Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum. It's 45 bucks for 1 ounce. It's a peptide serum with pomegranate, which is a great antioxidant for your skin, vitamin E, squalane. It does contain fragrance. I have a feeling it'll smell like pomegranate, which is kind of what Glow Recipe does. Typically fruit scents don't bother me too much on my nose or my migraines, but my skin, we'll see."

~Mixed

64%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

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. I do know Good Molecules was talking about reformulating a lot of their products at the end of this year so if you're interested in it might be a good time to pick it up now or wait and see if they change it. It's a really decent serum at a great price point."

✓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

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

Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented

"Somebody else was talking about they had some irritation from tretinoin and they mentioned they started trying some centella products and how amazing the centella was and it really helped with irritation. The one they mentioned specifically was the Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented as well as Cerve and the La Roche Posay Cicaplast Balm. They really worked well. I highly recommend getting some centella from one of the brands I mentioned. I bet you'll see amazing results."

✓Yay

81%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. It feels nice on skin, but I just thought they were a very special unique brand because they really came out with some nice stuff, and now it seems like they're coming out with a lot of products. The prices aren't very affordable, especially if they're rising these days, and they're just not as special."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.3 Vitamin Concentrated Serum

"If you've tried their vitamin 5 serum I really love that one, it's very nice. This one's in the same lineup. For ingredients we've got niacinamide, which is a great anti-acne skin brightening ingredient. We've got C buckthorn extract, which is a great antioxidant and also good for brightening skin. We've got arbutin which is a skin brightening antioxidant. We've got adenosine, which is cell communicating, anti-inflammatory. We've got glutathione, antioxidant free radical fighting and brightening ingredient. We've got masalic acid compound from centella that has anti-inflammatory, healing, antioxidant benefits. We've got Japanese gold thread extract, soothing antioxidant. We've got ceramide NP, skin identical ingredient. We've got sorbic acid, antioxidant, brightening ingredient, anti-aging ingredient. We've got panthenol, wound healing. We've got vitamin E, antioxidant. We've got argilene, which is the botox in a jar peptide."

✓Yay

87%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

67%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

Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Serum

"The Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Serum for sensitive skin and redness and barrier repair is a really nice light serum. I don't know what they're doing with their tiger grass line but a lot of those products are very nice, but they have some essential oils in them and this one did not. I really, really liked it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Serum

"Green tea is rich in catechins and EGCG which is a very strong anti-aging ingredient or anti-glycation end product and it's been shown to inhibit the formation of advanced glycation end products. 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

69%Guru Score

The Ordinary Vitamin C 23% Suspension

"It felt like it felt like scrubbing sand on your face almost that's what it felt like it felt like scrubbing like sand on your face and then after a minute or two it just started to burn and tingle and then irritate"

✕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

70%Guru Score

KAINE Vita Drop Serum

"It doesn't compare to the skin brightening effect of sorbic acid for me, but for some people that might be too irritating, so this will help and give you some of the benefits at least from some of the nice extracts and things like that, and it's a nice option for sensitive skin that doesn't handle sorbic acid well. For what this product promises, to hydrate, repair, brighten your skin, and gently absorb to the skin without any irritations, I would agree with most of that. It won't probably do much for most types of severe hyperpigmentation. It won't hurt, it will help brighten a little bit, but for very severe hyperpigmentation, stronger things are going to do better. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with using this in conjunction with other things that might help as well. For acne-prone skin, we've got two ingredients of note: glycerol and carbomer, so no issues with that. It's a very nice, decent, gentle option for some skin types. 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. I'll definitely finish it."

✓Yay

79%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

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 the small size jar sizes uh the acneic ingredients it's just nothing in here for me that I really ever want to test again"

✕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

"It promises to fade dark spots, even out skin tone, and prevent future hyperpigmentation. I would say this is moderately helpful with dark spots and ever so slightly beneficial evening out the skin tone, but for me I just have found a ton of other products that work better. My hyperpigmentation is different than some other types of hyperpigmentation. There's many different types, there's hyperpigmentation from post-inflammatory like breakouts, there's dark spots, there's sun spots, melasma, something very specific. There's many different types and certain types respond differently to different ingredients. So I didn't find this to be super effective for me, but perhaps other people with newer hyperpigmentation might find it effective, or a different type of pigmentation related to different causes. I didn't find it to be terribly efficient and effective for me."

~Mixed

81%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

Ness 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

76%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

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. If you have oilier skin this might be moisturizing enough that you can get away without using a separate moisturizer."

✕Nay

76%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. This one's in a moderate price range, I think it's right around the price of the Drunk Elephant, but it's really nice and it's got no scent to it and it's got some nice ingredients in it as well."

✓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

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

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. My friend the last couple times she's bought it it's been already oxidized and going bad."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

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

"In terms of performance I really like this one. It promises to help with hyperpigmentation dark spots, well brightening and refining uneven skin tone and texture. I would agree that the serum delivers on most of those accounts. 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. I also appreciate the soothing ingredients that they've added into here. I really like that it will help with most discolorations, definitely is not going to hurt, but sometimes more stubborn requires a little bit stronger things and different things. What's nice about the serum is it's wonderful for all skin types. It's great for acne prone skin types, there's no acnegenic ingredients of note, no scent so it's also friendly for sensitive skin for the most part, and the gel texture makes it great for drying and oily skin type. I really think they did a pretty good job with it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Alter Repair Hydrating Serum

"I found this one and I really liked it so I don't know I guess it was a win"

✓Yay

76%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

"Their uh exfoliating Serum is a 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

Goodal Green Tangerine Vitamin C Dark Spot Care Serum

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

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

The Ordinary Azelaic Acid 2% + Niacinamide 2% Solution

"This is a steel at 15 bucks. 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. It's not fragrance-free because it's the bergamot extract and bergamot oil in there, but you won't notice a scent in this. Some people are sensitive to it though. It's a steel, I love it."

✓Yay

84%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. It also contains 13% copper peptide mix so it's got 3% copper peptides and 13% other peptides in here. I really enjoy this."

✓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

The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%

"Coming in at 15 bucks I talk about this a lot but I love it the Ness a control isic acid serum uh 10% isic acid which is great for soothing it's great for redness prone skin it's great for rosacea prone skin"

✓Yay

70%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

79%Guru Score

Dr Sam's Flawless Vitamin C NAD+ Serum

"This stuff's got a handful of good brightening ingredients. As L acid is an unsung hero for a lot of reasons and a lot of skincare products. It's great for acne prone skin, it's great for dark spots, it's great for rosacea, it's great for redness prone skin. It is one of the few miracle ingredients that I would rank in my top three ingredients of all time. It's also got niacinamide, a scoro glucoside, and then bakuchiol as well. This one is worth checking out. There's also some great Azelaic acid products but this one combines some nice brightening ingredients in it which makes it worth checking out, and again no fragrance."

✓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

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

65%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100 Collagen

"I realized this is not a good product for uh daytime use"

~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

Topology 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

The Ordinary Ethylated Ascorbic Acid 15% Solution

"Lura by Aldi has a similar alternative to this with Ethyl orbic acid"

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Redermic R Anti-Aging Treatment

"Their Redermic R treatment I found this one to be super irritating. A lot of their products have a lot of fragrance in them and some of them have a good amount of alcohol in them. They do have a lot of winners but not everything is a winner. Even if it's a brand you've grown to trust, check the ingredient list every time because you just don't know until you try it or until you read the ingredient list, or until you do a patch test."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Cetaphil Healthy Radiance Brightening Antioxidant-C Face Serum

"In my opinion this product doesn't even begin to compare with a good vitamin C serum. Very disappointed with it. I gave it a four out of 10, which is the lowest score I've given a product all year. My skin didn't like [...] it at all. I'm surprised they're still selling it to be honest, and I kind of regret buying it to begin with."

✕Nay

72%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

78%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

81%Guru Score

Peace Out Dark Spot Serum

"Peace Out Dark Spot Serum, it's sold at Sephora. 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. I think it's like 25 bucks or so. It's really nice. It's got a nice serum lotion texture and really fits into any routine pretty easily and the packaging is kind of fun too. I repurchased this one at least once."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Vegreen Skin Barrier Reishi Serum

"No issues with pilling, no issues at all, very nice. I tend to prefer things either in my morning or evening routine, and I really like this one in my morning routine because I think it gives my skin more of a glowy finish. No greasiness, not really any tackiness after applying. Very nice product, very easy to use, very easy to fit in with my routine, lovely product. I'll talk about the ingredients. We've got 65% reishi mushroom extract, which is a skin protecting ingredient, a source of richly hydrating, antioxidant rich adaptogens. Adaptogens help your skin retain water by promoting skin repair and renewal, and may also help with puffiness, wrinkles, and free radical damage, so it's a really good ingredient for that. We've got lactobacillus ferment, a probiotic with skin protecting and soothing benefits, which may also be beneficial for acne and rosacea prone skin. We've got niacinamide, an anti-acne, skin brightening ingredient. We've got allantoin, a skin soothing ingredient. We've got betaine, a humectant, and licorice fruit extract, a skin soothing, wound healing, brightening ingredient. Then we've got chaga mushroom, an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory ingredient that's starting to show up in more and more products now."

✓Yay

74%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

71%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

PSA Skin Midnight Courage Oil

"It's a really lovely hydrating oil uh and it's great for calming and wrinkles and anti-aging"

✓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

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

"Matter of Fact, it's a new brand that just came to Sephora. It's actually founded by Paul Baker, which is a former K-pop musician. 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. It costs 92 dollars. After you pay for taxes, that's gotta be at least 100 bucks. The basic ingredients are very similar to the ascorbic acid from the Ordinary, the serum version with propanolol in it, and also very similar to the one from Geek and Gorgeous."

✕Nay

48%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

76%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

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

80%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

Geek & Gorgeous C-Glow 15% Vitamin C Serum

"The one from Geek and Gorgeous sells for about $14. It's manufactured fresh. I would pick that over the SkinCeuticals any day of the week because most of my experience with the SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic Serum was it was oxidized by the time I got it."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Power Peptides Pro Collagen Multi Peptide Serum

"This is so wonderful. It's got a really nice milky lotiony texture to it. 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

86%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

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel with Hyaluronic Acid

"The main ingredients are water, glycerin, and dimethicone. It also contains sodium hyaluronate and 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. It's a good option, and if you can get it on sale, it's a great deal."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Theramid 3% Copper Peptide Serum

"I absolutely love, uh Theramid, uh they're also the owner of of uh Acne and then Transparent Lab"

✓Yay

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

81%Guru Score

Stratia Rewind DMAE Serum

"It's pretty liquidy which is nice, it's lightweight so in my opinion this one will work well for dry and oilier skin types because it's just super light. You can see it soaks in really nicely, doesn't look greasy or shiny or anything like that. In here we've got DMAE, panthenol, we've got rice protein, we've got centella asiatica for soothing and alanin for also for soothing. So this stuff's really nice. A little bit goes a long way so the bottle will last you a long time."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Theramid 15% Azelaic Acid Treatment

"The Theramid is an azelaic acid product with 15% azelaic acid in here, it's got colloidal oatmeal, it's got EGCG in here, it's got ceramides. 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."

✓Yay

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

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

87%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

74%Guru Score

Moisturizers153 reviews

Paula's Choice Pro Collagen Peptide Plumping Face Moisturizer

"It is very thick. A little bit does not go a long way, but it feels really hydrating. I like that. No scent to it. It's got some good peptides and good ingredients in there. It's thick and it's hydrating, but it's almost a little bit mattifying."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Then I Met You Renewing Rich Beauty Cream

"I reviewed Then I Met You's Renewing Rich Beauty Cream and gave it a great review. The ingredients list looked great. The product felt nice on my skin. It wasn't too expensive. There wasn't any alcohol in there. It had no scent. But then Korean law changed. The Korean labeling laws changed and suddenly one day I saw fragrance on the ingredient list. 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

85%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

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

"It's a light cream you can use day or night, and I'd say it's my depuffing pick if you have puffiness or a puffy eye area, the Peach & Lily Peptide Pro Firming Moisturizer at 45 bucks would be my pick for that. [...] 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

"The Prequel Half Peptides Half Ceramides Fluid Moisturizer is $26. It came out towards the end of last year and I really loved it during the winter, it helped plump my skin and hydrate it. I love that it's fragrance-free. I've been using it on my arms, neck and decollete too because it's such a good value. The star of the show is the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, which helps fight fine lines and wrinkles. 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

Beauty of Joseon Dynasty Cream

"This rich cream is formulated with natural ingredients including ginseng root water, rice bran water, honey extract, and safflower oil, plus niacinamide, squalane, hyaluronic acid, and ceramides to reinforce the moisture barrier. It has a lotiony cream texture, almost like a gel lotion, that takes a moment to soak in but sets to a natural, non-tacky finish and slightly plumps skin. It works nicely under sunscreen with no peeling issues, and can be used morning, evening, or midday. It's friendly for all skin types including acne-prone and sensitive skin. At 3.38 oz for 30 dollars it's a good price for the size. It delivers on everything it promises, though at night in winter it's not quite enough hydration on its own, and it lacks a little bit of the wow factor. [...] I've repurchased it, and [...] I give this one a nine out of 10."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dr. Althea 345 Relief Cream

"I was torn on it, but the fact that I repurchased it multiple times really says something. [...] This is the full size, 1.7 oz, 50 ml, 27 bucks, so it puts it right on the edge of being too pricey, but it's still overall relatively affordable. 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. Seems like there might be one ingredient list for Korea, one for the US, probably one for mainland China."

~Mixed

66%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

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Ultra Night Cream

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

✓Yay

78%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

COSRX Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream

"The Cosrx Snail All-in-One Cream is my pick for dehydrated skin or even sensitized skin. It's 18 bucks in the tube. I love this stuff. I've been using this, it's been at least a decade now, I want to say, which is crazy to think, but yeah, it's been a while. It's fragrance free, alcohol free. It's great for dehydrated skin. It's got snail mucin, which is really great for soothing skin and hydrating skin. It's a wonderful ingredient, but if you're allergic to certain shellfish, probably want to avoid it. But if you're not, it's just a wonderful ingredient. Instantly plumps skin, calms skin, soothes it, hydrates it. It's really great for post-procedure treatments, things like that. In addition to the snail mucin, we have panthenol for soothing and sodium hyaluronate for hydration. I have yet to find a true dupe of this. There's a lot of products that include snail mucin or a lot of products nowadays that use phyto mucin, but I have yet to find one that is just as equally wonderful and priced as nicely as this stuff is."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Probio-Cica Enrich Cream

"The Skin 1004 Madagascar Centella Probiotics Enrich Cream is my pick for very dry skin. It's about 15 bucks, fragrance and alcohol-free. It has centella, shea butter, cocoa extract, which are some great hydrating ingredients. 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

82%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Red Bean Water Gel

"The Beauty of Joseon Red Bean Water Gel is my pick for oily skin. It's 12 bucks, [...] fragrance and alcohol-free, though I will say it has a scent. It smells a little bit like jelly beans. I assume that's from the red bean in here because they actually use red bean extract which is actually a great antioxidant ingredient, great for protecting skin from free radical damage and things like that. The scent doesn't have any fragrance ingredients per se, but it has a scent from that and it's actually it fades pretty quickly. [...] In addition to that red bean extract, we have vitamin E, cysteine, and the argireline peptide which is another Botox in a bottle peptide for fine lines and wrinkles, especially like expression lines around the eyes and mouth. [...] 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

65%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. I use this one typically during the spring, summer, a little bit in the fall, and in the winter I'll switch to something a little bit thicker depending on how dry my skin is. I also love to mix this with a little bit of bronzer. It's a really nice texture, pretty friendly for most skin types, and really great for anti-aging with all those peptides in there."

✓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

Mary&May Spicule Collagen PDRN Cream

"It's got a cute little tube. Comes in a very little tube. Oh, it's purple. 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. Sodium DNA, ceramides, shea butter. Yeah, feels really nice. I really like it. Feels really nice on my skin."

✓Yay

76%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

84%Guru Score

Vichy Mineral 89 48-Hour Moisture Boosting Matte Sorbet

"This one is supposed to be a mattifying moisturizer. And I go down and look at the ingredients, and for the mattifying purposes of it, the main ingredients are denatured alcohol and silica, as well as some mineral salt. 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. But I don't necessarily think going with a lot of denatured alcohol is always the way for that. Maybe for some people it might be okay, but for a lot of people, I think it might not be the greatest way to go."

✕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. It's got a really nice lightweight texture and soaks in really nicely and feels nice and hydrating on dry skin."

✓Yay

78%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

80%Guru Score

The INKEY List Omega Water Cream

"The Inkey List Omega Water Cream Oil-free Moisturizer, which is 14 bucks. This one's got a kind of a watery creamy texture to it. I would say this one is great for oily or dry skin. 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. So if you have sensitive or reactive skin, that's a nice thing for some people."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

BYOMA Moisturizing Gel Cream

"This one's the BYOMA Moisturizing Gel Cream. It's 16 bucks at Ulta. [...] This one's a glycerin based gel. I would say this one's better for normalish skin types or dry skin types, but I really like BYOMA. 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. [...] Seems like a lot of plastic for a package, but I do appreciate the square packaging because it makes it really easy to stack them in my system of storage."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Glass Skin Water Gel Moisturizer

"It's got some really nice ingredients. 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

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

"It layers nicely. So you could apply a layer of this, apply a layer of your retinoid, and then apply another layer of this using the sandwich method, which helps prevent dryness. 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

91%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Matte Moisturizer

"It's a mattifying 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

87%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Hydration Station Moisturizer

"Geek & Gorgeous Hydration Station Moisturizer is just a nice basic simple 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

80%Guru Score

Beauty Bay Colloidal Oatmeal Plus Oat Lipid Rich Moisturizer

"They had a really nice um 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

89%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. The Drunk Elephant hair care line was nice because it had little to no scent, but it didn't have a chemical scent because a lot of things that have no smell in them or no fragrance, sometimes they still have a chemical scent."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Vanicream Enhanced Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid and Ceramides

"Fanny Cream released their new moisturizing lotion, Enhanced Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid and Ceramides. It's 18 bucks. Comes in a giant bottle, which I love. It's a thick cream. It's got five different ceramides, also fragrance free. I just picked it up probably a couple weeks ago now. 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. Really nice product from Vanicream. I'd like to see what else they come out with this year."

✓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

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

74%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

69%Guru Score

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + Beta Glucan Lightweight Formula

"I love this moisturizer. It's got a wonderful gellish texture to it."

✓Yay

81%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

71%Guru Score

Dr. Idriss Calm Back Cream

"Dr. Idriss has the Calm Back rich face moisturizer for redness and skin barrier health which is $59 and it's got panthenol, zinc PCA, colloidal oatmeal and the star of the show in this product in my opinion is the acetyl tetrapeptide 40 which is a peptide that inhibits the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines that trigger redness and damage and it's also got some ceramides in there. It looks like it's fragrance free and alcohol free. 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. Or it could be used well with like a retinoid."

~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

86%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

81%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

89%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

81%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Cream

"Another pick is the SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Cream. It's a refillable thick cream. SkinFix has three versions, one for oilier skin, one for combo skin. This was the one for dry skin. Anything from SkinFix is great."

✓Yay

95%Guru Score

CeraVe Daily Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"This one's got water, glycerin, some fatty alcohols, ceramides, cholesterol. If you have very sensitive skin, this might be the one to go for just because of the short ingredient list. It's got more of a creamy gel texture to it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion

"They came out with one with urea which is great for hydrating the skin. The main ingredients are water, urea, glycerin, shea butter, rapeseed oil, glycine, some fatty alcohols, and lanolin for soothing. It's almost as thick as the Lipikar, but not quite. It's light, but it's almost in the same vein, but I would say it's just a little bit more smoothing and a little bit goes a little bit further with this one. On days when my skin is really dry, I could probably layer this underneath that other one. I absolutely love it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Rescue Party Barrier Comfort Cream

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

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Rich Cream

"It's got their trigger factor concentrate what they call TFC8, which is also oolog peptide 177 and it's just a tissue protecting peptide. 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

65%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

88%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

"It's great for dry, oily, and normal skin types. 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

57%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

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

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

83%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

"I really like this brand they're really affordable however some of their products when it comes to fragrance can be hit or miss"

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Ilune Ceramide ado concentrate cream

"The Ilune ceramide ado concentrate cream has ginseng, ceramides, vitamin E, soybean extract. This one seems to work well for skin with damaged barriers or those with dry skin. A lot of people like to sandwich it in between their retinoid product to prevent their skin from getting too dry. If you use a lot of retinoids or actives, your skin can get super dry and flaky from it, so some people like to use the sandwich method: you would apply a thick moisturizer, apply the retinol or retinoid, and then apply a thick cream something like this and sandwich it in between two thick products to prevent the dryness and redness. It's really affordable."

✓Yay

78%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

79%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

68%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

70%Guru Score

COSRX Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizer

"It feels nice, [...] just slightly greasy, [...] not too shiny, [...] and it feels hydrating, but to me [...] it's not screaming as a morning skincare routine product. It's definitely on the thicker side. For beneficial ingredients, you've got ceramides, cholesterol, and panthenol for soothing, squalane, glycerin, vitamin E, and hyaluronic acid. If you have acne-prone skin, be warned and be careful. [...] It's on the thicker side, so maybe during the winter this could be a morning moisturizer, but it just feels a little [...] greasy. It's got a lot of slip to it, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm thinking this is going to be too greasy-feeling for a lot of daytime routines."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream

"First Aid Beauty's Ultra Repair Cream is supposed to be sensitive skin friendly, but that one was loaded with eucalyptus extract or eucalyptus oil. It's always been hush hush, pretend we're sensitive skin friendly, but we're going to make a lot of products that really aren't."

✕Nay

75%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

87%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. This is a really nice morning moisturizer and it doesn't contain anything that's going to upset your skin and cause more breakouts."

✓Yay

80%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

"So this one's got 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 with the soothing spring water. Apparently they've got a thermal bath that people can go and soothe their skin if they have eczema and things like that so it's kind of interesting."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Biologique Recherche Lotion P50

"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

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

76%Guru Score

The Ordinary Niacinamide 5% Face and Body Emulsion

"It's a nice simple moisturizer probably will help brighten dark spots for some people but my hyperpigmentation especially on my face from melasma is very stubborn and this didn't even do anything other than moisturize the skin, which is nice. For what it promises to help fade the look of dark spots for more even looking skin tone, it will help a little bit as much as niacinamide as a main ingredient can help, but you're going to probably have better results with something else that's got more brightening ingredients. I didn't love it, I wasn't impressed with it. It's not a bad product but for what it promises it just doesn't quite deliver. It's bland, I guess, is the [...] best word I can use to describe it. But if you have very sensitive skin that's reactive, that might be a good thing. For acne prone skin there's only vitamin E so no issues with that."

~Mixed

78%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

CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion

"CeraVe has the daily facial moisturizer, and the daily facial moisture at regular $13 bucks now it's $9.74."

✓Yay

85%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

66%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

78%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

81%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

65%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

75%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

63%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

71%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

87%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

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

"The INKEY List and this one I've got is their 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

95%Guru Score

Purito Centella Unscented Recovery Cream

"Worth checking out"

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Versed Weekend Glow Daily Brightening Moisturizer

"For a nice alternative to the Farmacy toner, for fifteen bucks there's the Versed Weekend Glow Daily Brightening Moisturizer. In here we've also got azelaic acid, we have an exfoliant, glycolic acid, and then instead of ascorbic acid we've got magnesium ascorbyl phosphate. So this one is about twenty bucks less and it's really nice. It's also got some fruit extracts, bearberry extract and things like that. If you're looking to brighten things up, it's also got nice niacinamide, bearberry, green tea. It's very nice."

✓Yay

86%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

85%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 so although I've got another moisturizer coming on coming up in the next one of the next few ones that's really wonderful and really affordable as well"

✓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

"The biggest questionable ingredient for acne prone skin is isopropyl myristate, and that one is pretty highly comedogenic and it is the one, two, three, four, five, sixth ingredient, so beware of that if you have acne prone skin. I also don't get excited when I see ingredients like surfactants in a leave-on product typically they're meant to be rinsed off of the skin, so that concerns me a little bit for those with sensitive skin. We've got silica in here which is another ingredient I'm not super excited to see myself, but I have dry skin so again I'm not the target market."

~Mixed

63%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

85%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Face Lotion

"I really liked it and I loved the ingredients in here really nice ingredient list no scent to it and still really affordable. It was really lovely."

✓Yay

84%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"

✓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

77%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

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

84%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

68%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. So that one's worth checking out."

✓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. I think it's about 21 bucks, so for the price of one protein you can get almost over three jars of this stuff or three tubes."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Saturday Skin Waterfall Glacier Water Cream

"This is one I've repurchased and you'll see why in a second just look at this texture of this it's just wonderful"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Posthelios Gel

"The gel is wonderful with [panthenol], shea butter, and thermal water which is great for soothing your skin. It's very affordable. I really like the gel texture. If you have oilier skin I think the gel is probably more up your alley."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bubble Slam Dunk Hydrating Moisturizer

"The Bubble Slam Dunk moisturizer is overall a decent moisturizer, just contained one fragrance ingredient which I didn't love. [...] It does not contain any drying types of alcohol and it's also fragrance free unscented, which is really nice. It's made in the US."

~Mixed

81%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 siden cream uh this is probably the closest actual affordable product without a ton of fragrance in it"

✓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

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Ultra Cream

"I found this product became very fussy to work with and I found it ended up foaming when I apply it over almost anything else. Don't know why at all but something with the proteins in here or the peptides and whatever product I was using, maybe the pH something was different, but it started to foam up and became very annoying to use. And it's also very expensive. If you're someone that uses it, do you not notice the foaming? Maybe it's just especially with vitamin C. If I use it over vitamin C serum I could almost guarantee it's going to foam up and be annoying."

✕Nay

80%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

Dr Sam's Flawless Moisturizer

"They say your first line of attack against breakouts blackheads and dark marks it helps to reduce redness spot size and minimizes future breakouts and it's actively hydrating so it's kind of your skin barrier, it won't flake or peel so it works seamlessly under makeup. 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. It comes in a squeeze tube, no issues with that, it's easy to travel with which is nice. 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."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

April Skin Artemisia Squalene Hydra Gel Cream

"I wasn't even going to consider this one for this video because I see gel I think not as hydrating as like cream, but then I see gel cream and I'm like, you know what, let me swing back to it and try it out again, and I'm glad I did because it's really wonderful. 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

Copari Whipped Ceramide Moisture Cream

"The Copari Whipped Ceramide Moisture Cream is super creamy and super thick. In here we've got shea butter, squalane, ohaba seed oil, ceramides, watermelon seed oil which is one of my favorites, it's one of the best fruit oils with antioxidant properties, protective properties, soothing properties, hydrating properties, it's amazing, then we've got baob seed oil and no fragrance in it. And this one, even how thick it is, it sets to kind of a matte finish so it's great for daytime for super dry skin during the daytime when you don't want to look greasy because a lot of these can look greasy because of how hydrated they are but this one doesn't."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Soothing Cream

"This does have a really nice gel texture to it and I will say a little bit of it goes a long way. [...] I love gel formulas. [...] It absorbs pretty quickly and sets to kind of a radiant finish once it soaks in. It's not super shiny, it doesn't feel greasy, but it is a little bit of a shiny radiant finish, so some people might not like that, but for me I don't mind it as long as it's not feeling greasy. [...] You can use this morning and evening after cleansing, toning, and serums. It tends to work well under sunscreen and makeup and also works well over most serums, with the exception of certain serums I found that are oily or greasy feeling, then this ends up looking and feeling kind of greasy. But otherwise it's pretty easy to use. I like the texture of it, and maybe for drier skin types they're looking for more of a glowy finish, it might be ideal for them. [...] The star of the show with this one is centella asiatica. It's a wonderful ingredient. It's great for soothing, it's great for wound healing, it's great for hydrating, and it's a great antioxidant ingredient."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Purito Oat-in Calming Gel Cream

"This one's certainly a little thicker, so keep that in mind, so it might not be able to fit in your serum step, but in terms of the ingredients we've got oat seed water, oat kernel oil, oat kernel flour, and oat kernel extract. 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. It's 15 bucks, the bottle's big, so you're going to get your money's worth either way, and it is a nice cruelty-free option."

✓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

Neutrogena Daily Facial Moisturizer with Multi-Vitamin Complex

"For acne prone skin we've got carbomer and dimethicone, for some people maybe a little bit of an issue but won't be an issue for most people, and it does have some fatty alcohols in here but no other types of alcohol. Vitamin E for some people can be a trigger but not for most people. So I think for most sensitive oily acne prone skin this product will probably be a winner. It doesn't really have a lot of other anti-aging ingredients in it, it's a pretty simple formula which is good for the market that this is going to. That's a good formula for sensitive and reactive skin, less ingredients better. So this one I think will be a one that a lot of people will end up probably liking a lot."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Moist Cream

"I really appreciate that I can use this in my morning routine over vitamin C without any issues. [...] There's not a ton of products that really play well in my morning routine that work well under sunscreen but also work well over vitamin C. It's hard to find because sometimes they'll be great over vitamin C and then they'll peel up under a sunscreen or look too greasy. [...] This one fit the bill for that. [...] The finish of it is slightly radiant. Once it soaks in it sets to kind of a more natural finish but a little bit goes a long way. It's non-sticky. If you have dry skin or in a dry environment I recommend using a sleeping mask all over this or a sunscreen over this something to lock in the hyaluronic acid. It works very well and feels nice on skin. It [...] feels lightweight but it's very hydrated at the same time, which is nice. It's a very elegant formula, especially for the price. It works so well in both of my routines but especially in my morning routine. It's hard to find a good product in your morning routine that works great, protects your skin, hydrates it, doesn't look or feel too greasy, and works great under foundation without pilling. I really enjoyed this product more than I thought I would."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Kaine Vegan Collagen Youth Cream

"There is just a little bit for my neck, no scent to it. If my neck tolerates this it's amazing because my neck is super sensitive. It feels nice. I like it."

✓Yay

81%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

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

"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"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Aging Care Firming Lotion

"Initially it looks very shiny but once it soaks in it feels really nice on the skin and it's not as shiny. It [...] tends to work best if I apply this onto damp skin and follow with a hydrating serum or good thick moisturizer over it. The really nice thing for this one is it plays well with most skin types including sensitive, acne prone, dry and oily skin types. It's very friendly to everything and there's no real ingredients of note for acne prone skin, so that is pretty wonderful because sometimes it's hard to find products that are very friendly to acne prone skin. At 140 milliliters retailing for about 15 dollars, it's a pretty affordable product, especially the fact that 140 milliliters of a lotion texture will last quite some time. [...] It's very simple and will work well for most skin types, which makes it really wonderful. [...] It's not a must-have, but it's really nice and I really like it and a lot of their products. They're very simple but well formulated."

✓Yay

84%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

76%Guru Score

Peach Slices Oil Control Mattifying Moisturizer

"It's a nice light moisturizer and it really uh feels nice on your skin feels hydrating"

✓Yay

84%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

The INKEY List Peptide Moisturizer

"Coming in at fifteen, the INKEY List Peptide Moisturizer, which is now not in a jar, it's in a squeeze tube. It contains a small amount of peptides, but in my opinion, looking at where the ingredients are, I think they say it's one percent of peptides in the formula. 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

81%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL Ceramide Lipid-Replenishing Balm

"Getting back to the Avène, very nice, pretty friendly for acne prone skin, so halfway friendly. For acne prone we've got safflower seed oil, cetearyl alcohol, glycerol, steroids, and soybean oil, and then olive oil, so not terribly friendly but not awful. 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. So this one's pretty nice and worth checking out, so I will link to it below."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Isntree Onion New Pair Gel Cream

"It's got ascorbal phosphate, which is a vitamin C derivative known for brightening. 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

83%Guru Score

Stratia Liquid Gold Barrier Cream

"It's a really nice thick moisturizer and Stratia is an absolutely wonderful brand. So this is a nice way to get it on sale."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Dieux Instant Angel Lipid-Rich Firming Moisturizer

"First off I'm going to start with the DO Skin Instant Angel, which is now at, I think that just came to Sephora, I picked mine up from So Glam and I did a little review on it. 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. A lot of people love it, but this is just one that didn't work for me, and I'm okay with it because it's really expensive, and I really like the Kraves Beauty Great Barrier Relief as opposed to this one. This one's more meant to be like a sleeping mask, or a thick moisturizer. Sadly this one just didn't work out for me, but I'm okay with that, especially since it's one that's kind of expensive that I didn't like."

✕Nay

91%Guru Score

Sunscreen104 reviews

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

64%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 Zero Feel SPF 50 Day Cream

"Geek and Gorgeous came out with a sunscreen and I've been using this one a lot too, it's almost finished."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Daily Tinted Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40

"This is more of a BB cream than a tinted sunscreen, and I apply it like a foundation. 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

66%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++

"It's worked well most of the days. I've been testing it, yesterday or the day before I didn't love the finish, it left me looking a little pink and I didn't love that. But the rest of the days it seemed to work and give decent coverage. I don't dislike how it looks over my other sunscreen, it doesn't end up looking too greasy and it doesn't look flaky, so I think it's okay."

~Mixed

92%Guru Score

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

"Dr. Jart is my favorite BB cream."

✓Yay

84%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

La Roche-Posay Mineral UV Air Serum SPF 50

"La Roche-Posay released a Mineral UV Air Serum SPF 50 for $43. It's a titanium dioxide zinc oxide based sunscreen designed to provide multiday daily UV protection and weightless texture as light as air. It's fragrance free and alcohol free. I don't really love a lot of mineral only sunscreens, but it looks unique and looks like it might have a little bit of tint to it. Might be a really nice option for some people."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Heliocare Oral Sunscreen Capsules (Polypodium Leucotomos Supplement)

"It's basically an extract called Polypodium leucotomos, which is a type of fern plant, and it has been proven in published studies that it helps protect skin from sun damage. 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

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

"It doesn't feel like super shiny. 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. We've got some peptides, niacinamide, soluble collagen, and several other peptides like Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo and argireline, the Botox in a bottle peptide. For filters it looks like we've got five or six chemical filters in here, so it feels nice and light. It's definitely on the radiant finish, but it doesn't feel greasy or anything like that."

✓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

76%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

76%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. I have probably tried at least a dozen tone-up sunscreens and I've hated them all, but this one actually is one of the very few tone-up sunscreens I actually liked."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

iUNIK Centella Calming Daily Sun Water SPF50

"I'm very curious. It looks like a toner texture with sunscreen in it. But you pat it on the skin. I was impressed with the filters they used. They used octalock octisalate, enzylzol, uvinul A plus, tinasorb S, mexoryl SX. It's fragrance-free. It's 18 bucks. The second I saw it, I'm like, I have to try this."

✓Yay

83%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

"So we've got our Mexoryl 400 filter, which is a chemical UVA plus UVB filter, or Mexoryl XL, which is another one of La Roche-Posay or L'Oreal's filters for UVA and UVB rays, and Mexoryl SX, which is a chemical UVA filter. And then other exciting ingredients in here, we've got our vitamin A. So really nice product. I love this stuff. I've almost finished with that one because it expires in I think three months."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

VT PDRN Aircloud Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✓Yay

84%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

Neutrogena Pure Screen Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid

"Neutrogena has a really nice tinted sunscreen."

✓Yay

88%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. I think that's where a lot of people struggle finding one that works well and still matches their skin type and still has the good ingredients in there. [...] You can see how nice it would be and evening on your skin and just set it with a little bit of powder and you're good. But be sure to apply it liberally. That's going to be the most important thing."

✓Yay

86%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

66%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios Tinted Mineral Light Fluid Sunscreen SPF 50

"La Roche-Posay makes a variety of tinted sunscreens. I typically don't recommend those because La Roche-Posay's tinted ones, for the most part, I found are very orangey. [...] I did buy the tinted version of this and it is orange. So I never used it. I don't remember what I did with it, but I wanted to mention that because I don't want people to be disappointed trying them."

✕Nay

66%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. But sometimes when you're super pale or fair, on the very fair side, they can look a little too dark."

✓Yay

72%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

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Body Mist

"This was Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Body Mist, and this one was June of 2026. If you're [...] buying a sunscreen at TJ Maxx, you don't know how it was stored or who they're buying it from. I wouldn't want to purchase a sunscreen that's close to expiration when I don't know if I can use the entire bottle before it expires."

✕Nay

65%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

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

79%Guru Score

Good Molecules Moisturizing Rich Sunscreen SPF 30

"Good Molecules released their Moisturizing Rich Sunscreen SPF 30. It's 13 bucks. The reviews, it doesn't have many. 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. This one looks like it's going to be thick."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Mineral Sunscreen

"Mineral sunscreens are really tied to two different ingredients. And a lot of mineral sunscreens, if they look great and elegant, a lot of times they're not going to be the best. [...] Naked Sundays felt very elegant. I'm like, that's too elegant feeling. Just something doesn't seem right."

✕Nay

61%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

85%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

IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow Serum Foundation SPF 40

"I found the IT Cosmetics nude glow foundation, or the color correcting, which is basically a foundation which has an SPF of 40. My concern is 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 had 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 the SPF expiration date on there. So you really have no idea if it's old or not. So they can sell old stock versus if it was a brand that had an expiration date on it, you would know when it expired. So kind of convenient there."

✕Nay

72%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

Krave Beauty Beet The Sun SPF 40

"Crave Beauty has also used this testing lab. So if you're using Crave, be cautious about that. If you're using any of these, do some digging on them and maybe use something else for a little bit. It's not worth risking, especially if you have hyperpigmentation, melasma, if you're on certain medications. Certain medications can make your skin much more susceptible to sunburn and sun damage. If you have babies, it's just not worth the risk taking it."

✕Nay

58%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Queen Screen Super Glow Bronzing Drops SPF 50

"When they came out with their bronzing drops, it was a bronzer with a little bit of sunscreen. You take the dropper, mix it in with your moisturizer, and then you get sunscreen. 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

"We've got our own sunscreen scandal, and this one's [...] going to involve a lot of brands, including some American sunscreens such as Supergoop. It sounds like this is coming down to [...] a research lab, [...] the Princeton Consumer Research Study. [...] There was a former employee who quit their job over doubts about the accuracy and integrity of the SPF testing."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

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

"Naked Sundays, same base formula, and interestingly just the other day finally posted something. Mecca Beauty posted: we want to let you know that Naked Sundays and Mecca have made the decision to remove the Naked Sundays Collagen Glow Mineral Priming Lotion from sale effective immediately. This decision has been made as a precaution. While the product is made by multiple manufacturers, this brand is still waiting independent retesting on one of those. They're trying to pull this very quietly under the rug. And apparently the one that's being sold in the US may have a different batch than the ones made in Australia at this point. I don't know if I trust this."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Klairs All Day Airy Sunscreen

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

✓Yay

85%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

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. It was sold at Ulta until this year and now they're mainly sold on their website as well as Amazon. This brand still remains independent and run by those co-CEOs, so it's nice to know that the small brand is still independently run."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Shiseido Anessa Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk

"However, they own Anessa, which is a sunare sunare line, and their sun products are really, really wonderful, well thought out, great."

✓Yay

68%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

84%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

Ultra Sun Anti-Aging Face Fluid SPF 50

"Ultra Sun really nice brand. So this one's got Tinsorb M nano, titanium dioxide nano, octocrylene, Tinosorb A+, and avobenzone. 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 is thicker and it's better for UVA protection, and it's debated which is better. I don't necessarily know if there's a decision. I think it just comes down to what you prefer. So anyway, so this one's really nice."

✓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

59%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Wet Skin Sunscreen SPF 50

"Lar Ro Pose Wet Skin Sunscreen SPF 50 Passed with a reported SPF of 72 which is amazing"

✓Yay

84%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 Hatinya Cordata extract, grape extract, green tea. It looks really nice."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40

"This Ilia Super Serum Skin Tint, I was getting down to the very bottom of it and then I looked and I realized it expired like a month or two ago. [...] 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

67%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

81%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

73%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

72%Guru Score

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

"It's going to be pretty darn friendly for acne prone skin. The only ingredient of concern for acne prone skin is lauric acid, so yeah pretty friendly. It also has ferulic acid which is a great antioxidant, so really wonderful list of ingredients. It feels super nice on my skin, it gives a little bit of a glow, a little bit of a shiny finish. I'm usually loving this stuff."

✓Yay

85%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

68%Guru Score

Purito Centella Green Level Unscented Sun SPF 50+

"When I reviewed that Puro [centella] unscented sunscreen I thought how it has two filters in it they're both around 2% and I I questioned myself like I'm like how can this be good sunscreen"

✕Nay

51%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

Then I Met You Light Essence Broad Sunscreen Moisturizer SPF 50

"This one is a chemical sunscreen but it uses US-based filters and it's got four of them. Honestly not my favorite for very sunny, strong or hot weather, but in the winter and fall when there's not as much sun I'm okay with using a US-based chemical sunscreen. But to be honest, because it's US-based filters it can't compete very well with some of these other chemical filtered sunscreens that use all the best and newest filters. So keep that in mind. It's 36 bucks but what I like about it is it's pretty invisible and it has a nice kind of creamy texture, it's a little bit thicker than some of the other ones. The one drawback of this one being fragrance and alcohol free, it smells like a US sunscreen, you know what I mean, just that chemical smell. It smells, it dissipates and it goes away. I actually really do like it but yeah, so we've got those filters, the US-based filter, we also got camid sacris ferment, ginseng and panthenol in here. Very nice creamy texture to it and soaks in nicely and still feels moisturizing but not greasy."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Kosis Dream Beam 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, and the tint is pretty friendly as well. It gives skin a glow but it is on the hydrating side, so it does have that serum texture. If you have oilier skin you might not love it. It feels nice but is on the hydrating side. It also contains vitamin E, biopeptide E, bioflavonoids, and bisabolol for soothing."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

PEOM Water Barrier Sun Cream SPF 50 PA4+

"Very nice sunscreen I've actually used a lot during the summer as well but on kind of shady or you know chilly days it's nice because it's hydrating but not greasy so it makes it nice for fall and winter"

✓Yay

84%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

70%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

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

✓Yay

76%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."

✓Yay

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. But the filter in this one has ruined a couple of my clothes, so keep that in mind."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

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

"It's so elegant and it's so light. It doesn't look greasy, it's not tacky. I love this one. It hasn't gotten me 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. I prefer this one. If you tried their other onion sunscreen, it's got the sad 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. The full size is 50ml, 1.7oz, and retails for about 18 bucks so it's affordable. My only slight issues were it being made in Korea, which is still kind of a thorn in my side, and there are a few acneic ingredients in this one. Otherwise it's really nice overall."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

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

"It feels very light, it says ultra light so it should be ultra light right. I like it a lot and it literally has no smell at all there's no chemical smell, there's no herbal smell, there's no floral smell, there's no smell at all so I like that. And it feels really just like a lotion, feels like a moisturizer with maybe a little bit of sunscreen so feel super light. SPF 50 PA with four pluses on it which is the highest you can get. It looks really nice and not greasy at all."

✓Yay

81%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. There's no scent in it, which is nice because they came out with two other products and those all had a lot of fragrance in them."

✓Yay

90%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

70%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."

✓Yay

82%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."

✓Yay

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

"If you're in Australia you guys have a lot of good options so you really don't necessarily need more but you have some nice options there"

✓Yay

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 uh and 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"

~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

75%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

79%Guru Score

Vanicream Sunscreen SPF 30

"I really enjoy the brand, however the sunscreen was just missed the mark for me. 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

"The EltaMD UV Clear, I think this is the tinted version I have, which the tint is not super friendly for my skin, but if you get the one that's untinted it's really nice. 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

82%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++++

"This one does contain fragrance and alcohol and I still like it. It's the Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Sun Serum. Beauty of Joseon said they included fragrance in it to cover up the scent of the alcohol. There's not a ton of alcohol in here, but I think they did mention somewhere that they're going to make a fragrance-free version of this, so I'd be all over it because I really enjoy the texture of this one. 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

64%Guru Score

Summer Friday Shade Drops SPF 30 Mineral Milk Sunscreen

"It really ends up with no white cast so I mean I guess has a slight tint to it but it doesn't uh tint the skin at all"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

"CeraVe came out with this ultra light moisturizing gel which is a really nice gel textured product. This is one of them that was somewhere in the middle, I didn't totally fall in love with it. But if you have oily skin without many anti-aging or acne concerns, I think this is a decent, affordable middle-of-the-road moisturizer. For exciting ingredients, there's not really any anti-aging or anything like that in here. It's got ceramides, niacinamide, vitamin E, cholesterol. So if you're younger, I think you can probably get away with just using this and being fine. But if you have fine lines, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, texture, breakouts, you're probably better off going with something different. But the majority of people that are younger and don't have any issues and just looking for a basic, affordable, simple moisturizer, this one fits the bill. For me, it's okay. It's nothing. I personally need more. I need more firming ingredients, I need more brightening ingredients, I need more peptides. For me, it's not necessarily up my alley."

~Mixed

72%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

Peom Water Barrier Sun Cream SPF 50 PA4+

"The Peom Water Barrier Sun Cream SPF 50 is really nice. It contains five different chemical sunscreen filters and we've got some good UVA filters including Uvinul A+ and Uvinul T150, Mexoryl SX which is a L'Oreal owned sun filter, we've got Tinosorp S and then Polysilicone 15. It's really quite nice and really feels elegant on the skin. I've been using this one a lot this summer and have had really good luck with it. It's just really nice lotion texture, it smooths into skin really nicely, it's easy to apply a liberal amount to get the proper application to get the proper level of protection. This stuff is one I would recommend. It's fragrance free and free from denat types of alcohol."

✓Yay

87%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

"Personally I don't love tone up sunscreens and I I just I uh I should use it on my hand where it's not still I just don't find tone up sunscreens ever really fully absorb and look natural on skin"

✕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

89%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. Rice bran oil feels really nice and it's got the nice combination of hydration but it's not looking greasy, so in my opinion it's probably going to be great for drier skin types, but certainly oily skin types, if you set it with a powder or something like that, it works great. The texture makes it really nice to apply it in layers. I can't see it would be terrible for reapplying. When applying this, I apply it liberally. I tend to apply the first layer not enough so then I go and apply the second layer and it doesn't pill or anything."

✓Yay

82%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

BYOMA Moisturizing Gel Sunscreen SPF 30

"It's got a lovely creamy texture to it that's a gel formula so there's absolutely no white cast, it is transparent which is very nice. So if you have a deeper skin tone, that's very nice that it's transparent and applies very nicely. The texture, it's got a nice gel serum texture, it feels hydrating but not greasy which is really nice. However, reapplying the sunscreen later on is a little difficult because it will peel up, it's prone to pill. The first time you apply it applies pretty easily, but if you're gonna apply it especially like after hours, every two hours you should be reapplying it. If you have foundation or makeup or powder on it's going to make it even more prone to pilling. It can end up looking a little flaky towards the end of the day, and I'm sure the pilling has something to do with the sodium hyaluronic and the dimethicone, especially when you reapply it on top of itself. In terms of other beneficial ingredients, I've got beta glucan, humectant, skin soothing, antioxidant, sodium hyaluronic humectant, ceramide NP, cholesterol and phytosphingozine which are all skin identical ingredients and barrier repairing, oleic acid fatty emollient from nuts and or olive oil, hydroxy acetophenone antioxidant preservative combo, lecithin and emollient, panthenol wound healing, Golden Rod extract a skin conditioning."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Kosas DreamBeam Silicone-Free Mineral Sunscreen SPF 40

"This one is fragrance free. The main complaint from what I read online is that people complain that it pills. So if you apply this over a full morning skincare routine, apply this and then apply foundation over it, it will pill. For me, what I found is if I apply this after I wash my face and apply a vitamin C serum and then apply this, it's enough for my skin when it's kind of humid out, without following up with tons of layers, then apply this and just set it with powder, and I don't have any issues of pilling. I'm pretty confident I'm applying it liberally. In here we've got zinc oxide, we've got some fructose saccharides which are sugar-based humectants, bioflavonoids, ceramide, and sodium hyaluronate, which is probably the cause of some of the pilling for people. Otherwise there's not too much else exciting in here. There's no tint to it."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Round Lab Camellia Deep Collagen Firming Sun Serum SPF 50

"This is the Round Lab Camellia Sun Serum. I'm wearing it today underneath my Dr. Jart BB cream. 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."

✓Yay

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Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++

"I actually really like this line from Round Lab because this sunscreen is just absolutely wonderful. It's virtually empty already, so it's probably going to be the next sunscreen I finish. I've done videos on this sunscreen before, it's just amazing."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

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

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

✓Yay

90%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."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Cleansers80 reviews

DHC Deep Cleansing Oil

"It's a fragrance and alcohol-free lightweight cleansing oil. Emulsifies and rinses really clean. It does a great job. I really enjoyed it. So I certainly would repurchase it. Really nice super lightweight cleansing oil. While the other one is certainly on the heavier side, that one is very light. It's got olive oil, vitamin E, aloe, all that good stuff in there."

✓Yay

89%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

Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Cleanser

"This is the new foamy version of the Isntree yam root cleanser. It felt nice going on, a little frothy with some foam, and my skin felt nice afterward, not tight at all. It has hyaluronic acid, ceramides, yam root, and rice powder in it, and it's pretty gentle. It left my skin a touch squeaky clean, but not terribly squeaky clean. This cleanser seems pretty nice, I'd say it's probably more oily skin friendly."

✓Yay

92%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

83%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

89%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

70%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

"This is the Bubble First Class Oil Cleanser which is $17. This one's got some really nice oils in it. 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

65%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. It's got squalane, it's got sucrose which is a humectant from sugar, and then it's got vitamin E for hydration and 8 bucks. So you can't beat that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Tatcha Deep Cleanse Balancing Exfoliating Cleanser

"So Calm was the one I preferred, but this one does a really nice job."

✓Yay

68%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

77%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser

"It's fragrance free. It's a non lathery formula, so when you apply it, it doesn't foam up, which for some people makes it less drying on your skin. It's also got a ton of their probiotic thermal water in there as well as ceramide and panthenol. Really nice short ingredient list, but great for super sensitive skin for cleansing. Rinses clean, but leaves your skin feeling nice and soft."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser

"My first favorite from them is their cleanser, which is their non-drying glycerin face cleanser for face and body. It's 18 bucks. It comes in a giant bottle and it's fragrance-free. It works as a great morning cleanser to just kind of rinse off all its stuff but not leave your skin feeling dry or tight or anything like that. It really leaves skin feeling supple and soft. I use this on my face and body a little bit during the winter. Typically I've been just using it more on my face, but over the last few weeks my body started a little bit on the drier side and changing this into my body cleanser really helped. This stuff's wonderful."

✓Yay

85%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."

✓Yay

82%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

Geek & Gorgeous Jelly Joker Cleanser

"Some of my favorite cleansers are the ordinary [squalane] cleanser, the Geek & Gorgeous Jelly Joker Cleanser and the pre-quill facial cleanse."

✓Yay

78%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

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

94%Guru Score

The Ordinary Glucoside Foaming Cleanser

"I don't love them"

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Cetaphil Nourishing Oil to Foam Cleanser

"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. Not exactly sure what that's from, but there was like a slight scent. I don't know if it's from linseed oil. I don't know. 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

Tula Cult Classic Purifying Cleanser

"This is their cult classic 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. That's the thing. They started showing up in a lot of beauty boxes. And I don't know, for some brands, that's a not a good sign because that means they're not selling a lot or they're just have too much excess products or they're too expensive for what they really are."

✕Nay

64%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

79%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. Isntree has done a great job with most of their cleansers."

✓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

80%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

Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin Mask Cleanser

"I'm not a big fan of the orange peel oil, but in a rinse off product, it's not as big of a deal as putting something with orange oil on your skin, not using sunscreen and going out in the sun. It's got glutathione, niacinamide, ascorbic acid in it. So, looks interesting."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

BYOMA Milky Jelly Cleanser

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

✓Yay

70%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

"Neutrogena makeup remover, these are really handy. The fragrance free version that's what you want, the one with fragrance doesn't smell very good. 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

"This stuff was awesome I have nothing bad to say about it does a really nice job removing eye makeup and mascara"

✓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

87%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

80%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. It does struggle a little bit with strong heavy eye makeup, but otherwise for sunscreen and things like that it does a great job."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Mello Marula Cream Cleanser

"This cleanser gave me a very light lather, felt nice, and smells a little bit like coconut but it wasn't overpowering. It [...] did a pretty good job removing my mascara. My skin feels nice and hydrated, not dry, and pretty darn clean. I'm impressed because 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, and eye mascara as well as leaving my skin feeling soft and not super dry or tight. [...] The lather is nice and gentle, and there are no strong scents. I think this would be a nice one to use with a silicone face cleaner device."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

The INKEY List Fulvic Acid Brightening Cleanser

"Last but not least is The Inkey List Fulvic Acid Brightening Cleanser. It's just a no frills cleanser, it's 13 bucks. 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

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

80%Guru Score

Dermalogica Special Cleansing Gel

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

✕Nay

71%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

73%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

74%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. I've used it, it's just not my favorite and it certainly has gotten a lot of hype."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash

"Left my skin feeling very dry and irritated itchy and um squeaky clean almost like you know what I mean like 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

68%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

51%Guru Score

COSRX Low pH Good Morning Gel Cleanser

"It's been talked about a lot, it's been overpromised. It's just a gentle cleanser for the morning. It doesn't remove makeup, it won't remove sunscreen, but it does enough to remove serums and your routine in the morning. 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. It's pretty friendly for all skin types as well."

✓Yay

83%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

72%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. My skin was pretty angry for a while afterwards."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Purifying Foaming Cleanser

"It's wonderful so I bought it more as a body cleanser but it also did a great job for my face so it also remove makeup and things like that so I love it for 20 bucks"

✓Yay

92%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

59%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. I typically don't use this one in the morning, it's more of an evening type cleanser for me."

✓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. It is on the slightly drying side but I think for most skin types I think they'll benefit from this overall."

✓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

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

88%Guru Score

The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm

"I changed my mind on it like a hundred times. 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. In the long run, I don't like it. There's better cleansers that I don't feel like leave a residue and they're nicer and do a better job taking makeup off, and things like that. But this one will still have a ton of fans, and there's nothing wrong with that."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil

"The foaming oil is really nice. I finished that up last month. It's a cleansing oil for face and body and it's really non-drying. The nice thing is you can use it for shaving your legs and stuff like that as well and it's not drying. I've repurchased it."

✓Yay

89%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

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

78%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

First Aid Beauty Facial Cleanser

"First Aid Beauty Facial Cleanser is a pretty decent face cleanser. It works great for a lot of people. In my opinion, no matter what other people say, I still think spend the least amount of money on a cleanser and find a good gentle one. There's a lot of ones that are really affordable that are very gentle and you don't have to spend a ton since they get rinsed down the sink. This face cleanser is a good one and really affordable to begin with, and half off is even better."

✓Yay

86%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

Drunk Elephant Beste No. 9 Jelly Cleanser

"I finished a little tiny sample of the Drunk Elephant Beste No. 9 Jelly Cleanser which was just a perfect size for the cabin. It lasted me four or five or six cabin trips. It's really wonderful."

✓Yay

57%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

"The cleanser, it's not my favorite cleanser. It's very foamy, probably from one of the main ingredients, sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate, which is a very foaming ingredient, and some people can be kind of sensitive to it. Otherwise, glycerin is very high up, and then we've got some more gentle cleansing surfactants, cocoa betaine, but that sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate can be kind of harsh. I found this one is a little harsh, although it's less harsh now that I figured out my water softener was empty. So this one's not as harsh from this water softener working. I'm just gonna use it really quick to cleanse off my nightly routine products."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Other59 reviews

Medicube Zero Pore Pad

"Medicube is more of like a trendy TikTok type brand than anything else. Not one of my favorite brands. The brand typically, the ingredients just were typically not great. Like the fifth product is denatured alcohol and then it's got lavender oil, eucalyptus oil, rosemary oil, orange peel oil, grapefruit peel oil, limonene. It's got all these fragrance ingredients that are not good for your skin, bergamot oil. They're not good for your skin, especially if you're going to go outside or they're a lot of these are phototoxic. 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. You don't want exposure to carcinogens at all if you can help it. Medicube is not a brand I use a lot and probably will avoid knowing that they're messing around with Sudan red."

✕Nay

55%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

58%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

82%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 just fine. It 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

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

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. I just purchased this a couple months ago, before some of the news broke about some of the scandals and things, so I'm going to finish it because I already bought it."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

The Ordinary Volufiline 92% + Pal-Isoleucine 1%

"I don't think volume is the end all be all ingredient that some people think it is, but for some people maybe it's me. Had some really amazing results, but for me now, this is my third volume product and out of all three of them, none of them have been overly impressive to me. Nothing has revealed like amazing results that you hear about. Some people get amazing results. Some people, like me, don't notice much either way. But I haven't I don't think I've done a full review of it yet. Still need to keep testing it out."

✕Nay

61%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

73%Guru Score

Kora Organics Kora Organics

"It's interesting that uh Car became Miranda Care became very tied to this controversy to the jewelry"

✕Nay

73%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

"It's the VT Cosmetics Reedle Shot 300, which is 18 bucks or 56% off. 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

84%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Line

"Their Lipikar Line is great. There's a couple of body moisturizers from them. They're wonderful. Their body cleansers are great. So, look for the blue and white products. Those are the ones that are made for sensitive skin from this brand. And it can get on sale at Ulta. It's even better."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

VT Reedle Shot 100

"VT Cosmetics, their Reedle Shot serum is pretty popular. They have a lot of PDRN products. They initially launched in 2010, focusing on oral care products, which is now becoming a bigger thing now here, especially in the US. The brand later expanded into skincare and cosmetics, gaining popularity for innovative products like the Reedle Shot. And in 2021, VT cosmetic co-founders purchased Cube Entertainment. And as of today, the brand is still run by its two founders, and they're running Cube Entertainment, which apparently is a big big deal in Korea."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Aqua Fresh Rice Plus B5

"I didn't like it at first, then I grew to like it, but now I like their Aqua Fresh version of this one better, but it's still wonderful."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Shiseido Shiseido

"I love their Anessa sunscreen brand and otherwise Shiseido products are overpriced and overly fragranced, not that great for skin."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo

"La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo Acne Treatment with Salicylic Acid. $25. I got kind of excited about this because it's got a small amount of salicylic acid. It's just meant to be used as a spot treatment and then I saw it contains fragrance. But it's got niacinamide and zinc PCA, but then the fragrance kind of ruins it for me."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Thirst Burst Drops

"It's average at best, which is just fine for most people, unless you need help with texture, brightening, wrinkles, which is what I need help with basically everything."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Latisse Latisse

"I use Latisse for eyelash serum. I found a place online where you can get a prescription for it. 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."

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61%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Thermal Spring Water

"It's really nice for soothing skin, calming skin, nice for use after cleansing. It applies pretty evenly as well, so if you want to apply a little bit of it before you put makeup on it works well for that. No fragrance, really affordable option. I did a BBL treatment and a Moxy laser, and they sent me home with a little bottle of this and I went out and bought the giant one. 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

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid 1%

"Niod kale serum love it"

✓Yay

68%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

"It was painful, I was tearing up the whole time. [...] I'd say I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but the Moxy was really rough. I hate when companies say it's a [...] fast and easy, low to no downtime, over lunch procedure, because you don't want to go back to work after that. For the first two hours, I was in pain. They gave me a little bottle of product to manage it, and I finished it within probably half an hour of my car ride home, so I had to stop at Walgreens and buy more. It's not really a lunchtime procedure unless you have a very, very, very high pain tolerance and you've done it before. [...] I don't think most people want to feel like going back to work afterwards. After you do it, your skin brings the damage to the surface, [...] dead skin cells, and my skin feels like sandpaper. [...] The first two to three hours after the laser it burnt, and I was spraying product on it basically continually."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Frownies Forehead and Between the Eye Wrinkle Patches

"So I've been trying these lately and you they have different sizes different patterns and things like that so you can use them in different areas of your face. They have some for your forehead, they have some around your eyes, they have some for your mouth area. People swear by these and the only thing I can't get past is the fact that you can't really layer on a ton of products because they won't stick if you have tons of products on."

~Mixed

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

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

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

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

79%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

85%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Mighty Patch Original

"The mighty patch from Hero Cosmetics, those are always decent and good."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Enhancing Tint

"They mentioned the Lisa Eldridge seamless skin tint here and I really want to pick that up and try it because I've heard very good things about that brand"

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

The Ordinary Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12%

"The Ordinary Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12% is still relatively affordable compared to some of the newer Ordinary products that are coming out these days upwards of 30 bucks or more. 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

Good Molecules Good Molecules

"They're extremely affordable brand. They have a lot of different nice options for exfoliants and they also have a lot of different great brightening products. This is just a nice lightweight serum. It's not fussy, it's not thick. When I'm kind of feeling tired at the end of the day and I just want to put on my moisturizer and go, this is a nice one because it dries super quick. Their eye creams are pretty nice. I would love to see some nice more moisturizer options from them. They really have one main lightweight moisturizer, so I'd love to see more from them in terms of different moisturizing options, maybe different for oily skin or dry skin things like that, and maybe some new sunscreens."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

PDO Threads PDO Threads

"Threads, often called PDO threads, are one of three types of sutures commonly used in lift thread procedures. They're made from polydioxanone and polycaprolactone, and these threads can be beneficial for the skin, some of them include hyaluronic acid. It's a tiny little thing that's injected or pushed through your skin into the subcutaneous layer, and it's supposed to dissolve over the course of six to twelve months, and where it dissolves is a slight injury that results in [...] collagen. I love collagen, I just don't know if I can do this. Some of these threads are cogged, some are barbed, to either produce more injury. A lot of times they're called [...] surgery free face lifts or non-surgical face lifts. I was reading a website a couple months ago and I'm like, wow, non-surgical face lift, this sounds so much easier, in and out in an hour, and now that I'm reading this, this is probably what they were doing. For the people it works for it probably is great, but it makes me nervous thinking about it, because a lot of people do this stuff themselves. It's just not worth saving even if it's a couple hundred dollars, even if it's $1,000, it's not worth saving on, because when it's done right, probably ninety-nine percent of the time it's great, and then if it goes wrong, it can go wrong very badly."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

JLo Beauty JLo Beauty

"She's got like 100 different fragrances and now her skincare brand which isn't doing super well and honestly I don't, she's one that I personally think of more as a cash grab than anything. I don't see that she would probably use the stuff she sells, that's just my gut instinct on it, but I have heard a few good things about it."

✕Nay

53%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

Doctor Pen Doctor Pen

"The Doctor Pen is probably the most popular one. 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

Numbuzin Collagen 73% Pudding

"This one's really wonderful, it's got just a wonderful like jelly texture and a little bit of it goes a super long way. It feels really nice on the skin and it absorbs pretty quickly, so you can use it in your morning and or evening routine after cleansing and toning but before other moisturizers or if you're going to use like a water-based serum, like a vitamin C serum I would use that before this. It really does have like a jelly texture, I can't get enough of the stuff. My neck absolutely loves it, which my neck is pretty sensitive. It feels super nice on skin, I really love the texture, it's like Jell-O. Once it soaks in it does set to a radiant, natural finish that is on the tacky side, very tacky. If you're going to use a moisturizer over it or if you're using your morning routine use a sunscreen over it, not going to be a problem. But if you're going to just use it and you want to use this as your last product in your routine it's going to be sticky and you're going to have anytime wind blows your hair is going to stick to it. So you want to apply something over it because it is super tacky, but otherwise the texture and everything else is wonderful."

✓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 don't recommend this, the Dermaflash Dermapore 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. So if you do pick it up be very careful with it. It's hard to not apply the proper amount of pressure if you actually want it to function properly."

✕Nay

58%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. I try and if I buy something from them I try and hurry up and finish it as fast as I can because I know it's probably going to go bad at some point soon. The first several times I used it I liked it, and then after that I'm not sure what happened but I just found it was too sensitizing and I found the exfoliating grains in here a little bit harsh and unforgiving. The more I ended up using it the less I ended up liking it."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Bare Minerals Bare Pro

"I really like the original formula that they came with, but they changed it up. The newer version is very similar except the colors are all different, which is 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. A little bit of this goes a very long way. I will mention, if you don't wipe the nozzle off it gets all over the cap and then every time you open it it's a big mess."

~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

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

RNW Ceramide Plus Concentrate

"The RNW Ceramide Plus Concentrate is another alternative."

✓Yay

87%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. That's the new marketing tactic instead of lowering prices for everybody they just market it by sending it out to everybody and pay for marketing that way which in the long run they could just lower the price by like five or eight bucks and make it more affordable for everybody but they don't do that."

✕Nay

65%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

Clarisonic Clarisonic

"I find it really helps clean my skin a little bit better and not as potentially irritated as like the Clarisonic were."

✕Nay

50%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

73%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Calm Down

"My favorite typically is the Calm Down. My skin tends to be pretty sensitive. It's very gentle, but it is nice and exfoliating. It's got PHAs and BHAs, which are two very gentle exfoliants. It's a large bottle, waterlike texture, and the pH is spot on. You can apply it by patting it onto your skin or with a cotton pad, whichever you prefer. It's nice for acne prone skin too."

✓Yay

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

83%Guru Score

Toners49 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

82%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

75%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.1 Pure-full Herb Calming Toner

"This is the Numbuzin Vitamin Boosting Essential Toner, which is fifteen dollars. 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

74%Guru Score

Medik8 Press and Glow PHA Toner

"Their press and glow toner is $35, fragrance free and alcohol free, and it comes packaged so you dip your cotton pad in instead of pouring it out, which is convenient. 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

"This toner has mugwort, rice extract, cacao extract, neem extract, and different types of sodium hyaluronate, so it looks pretty gentle. 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

Numbuzin No.5+ Vitamin Boosting Toner

"This one's really nice for brightening up skin. It has niacinamide, ethyl ascorbic acid, ascorbic acid, and arbutin, known for its brightening effects, sea buckthorn water also known for its brightening benefits for skin, and glutathione. You can apply it with a cotton pad or just pat it onto your skin. It's wonderful, super affordable, and generally you can't go wrong with Numbuzin, they have some of the most unique and affordable products out there."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Peach Slices L-Glutathione Glow-On Brightening Toner

"This is a new one I just did a first impressions of, but so far I'm really enjoying it. It does have a chemical smell from the strong amount of glutathione they used, but the second you put a serum, sunscreen, or moisturizer over it, that scent goes away. Some people were really negative in the reviews because of that scent, but sometimes ingredients that work just have a scent, so if you're sensitive to that this might not be for you. 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

Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ PDRN Glow Boosting Toner

"This one works well with a cotton pad. It's super watery texture. I like to use this in my routine after cleansing. I'll apply it with a cotton pad and then smooth it over skin. Leaves skin feeling really nice. It does have a little bit of alcohol in there, but for me it's not a problem. I follow up with some nice hydrating products afterwards. It has salmon PDRN, NAD which is a vitamin shown to be very good for your skin, resveratrol which is a great antioxidant, the argireline peptide Botox in a bottle peptide, as well as the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, and about 50 total peptides in this. Obviously not in huge amounts, but a little bit of each peptide and some peptides work very well in very small amounts."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Wild Oat Hydrating Toner

"This one's great for drier dehydrated skin. It's great at plumping skin up instantly as well, which is nice. 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 Rice Toner

"Fragrance and alcohol free, it contains black rice seed extract, cocoa extract, poly glutamic acid, and panthenol. They tend to recommend it for dry or sensitive skin. It's a great toner, and I really enjoyed it as well."

✓Yay

95%Guru Score

Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Toner

"It's got yam root extract, which is great for hydrating skin. It's a plant-based alternative to snail mucin. [Panthenol] for soothing. Argan oil. Macadamia nut oil. Great fatty oils. Camide. Sweet almond extract. Oat kernel. Really wonderful. Milky toner as well. And I pretty much love everything from this line except I haven't tried the sunscreens yet. I think their sunscreens are tone up sunscreens so I don't go too crazy about toning up sunscreens. But the cleanser from this line's great. The moisturizer is great. Yeah, wonderful line."

✓Yay

85%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

"The Bubble Cosmic Silk Milky Toner, which is 16 bucks. Give it a good shake. The one thing with this one is if you buy it, don't close it until you've used it, given it a few seconds to rest. Otherwise, it will bubble up over the top and make a mess. 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. Arnica on a regular basis I'm not totally crazy about, but occasionally could be okay. Certain sensitive skin types might not love arnica on the regular basis, but arnica is definitely great for a lot of skin issues like bruising. Some people use it after like filler treatments and things like that. Some people use it after lasers for soothing and healing."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Liquid Hydration 5% Panthenol and Natural Moisturizing Factors Toner

"It's about nine bucks, fragrance free, alcohol free. It's got panthenol in there. It's got urea which is a really great hydrating ingredient. It's got lanolin. Then it's got rice protein and vitamin E for antioxidant hydration. Really nice product and super affordable. I'm very picky about my face mist, so I typically use this more with a cotton pad or just pat it on the skin. It's really nice."

✓Yay

75%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."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Skin1004 Centella Toning 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 gluconolactone 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. Really nice product from them. The affordability is wonderful."

✓Yay

71%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."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hada Labo Gokujyun Hyaluronic Milk Toner

"It's a fragrance-free hydrating lotion essence with different types of hyaluronic acid and a pretty short ingredient list. 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, this one's probably the most affordable."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Skin1004 Probio-Cica Essence Toner

"This one's nice, fragrance-free. It's got some nice ferments in there, probiotics, centella as well. It's super lightweight, so you can use it with a cotton pad or just pat it on. Wonderful product. No fragrance. Super affordable."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

The Ordinary Saccharomyces Ferment 30% Milky Toner

"It feels nice and clean and soft and smooth."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Youth to the People Kombucha and 11% AHA Exfoliating Toner

"This one's another liquid. You can just pat it on the skin and use it like that."

✓Yay

84%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."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

COSRX Hydrium Watery Toner

"You can never go wrong with this stuff. It has no scent to it. It's lovely."

✓Yay

77%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."

✓Yay

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."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Cane Kombucha Balancing Ampule Toner

"Their Kimoo uh balancing toner is great."

✓Yay

84%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."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

COSRX Hyaluronic Acid Intensive Toner

"Costa Baja hyaluronic serum i take this it's a basic serum and I add copper peptides to it"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

COSRX Full Fit Propolis Toner

"I'm on to my second or third bottle of this one. The COSRX Full Fit Propolis Toner, which is currently $11. This one's great for acne prone skin or oily skin. Propolis is great at fighting bacteria naturally, so if you have breakouts or things like that it's pretty friendly for that. Then we've got honey which is also really good for that. It's a little bit more watery, certainly really easy to apply with a cotton pad."

✓Yay

87%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

76%Guru Score

Stradia Aqua Factory Hydrating Toner

"This is the Stradia Aqua Factory Toner which feels really nice. It reminds me a lot of the Geek and Gorgeous Liquid Hydration Spray in terms of the feel, the texture of it, and the ingredients."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Thank You Farmer Rice Pure Essential Toner

"Thank you Farmer rice toner is a hypoallergenic toner formula with 100,000 parts per million of skin brightening, various strengthening and highly moisturizing rice extract that not only boosts skin's glow but also gently rids it of impurities, with added infusions of botanical extracts that synergize with its star ingredient for extra soothing and nourishing effects. I got it about a little over a month ago and I'm really happy with it. I've had a chance to try it and test it out, and I'm very happy with how it performs."

✓Yay

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

84%Guru Score

COSRX AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner

"This is more of an active, but it's an active I think most people will be able to benefit from. It's the COSRX AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner, which is 19 bucks. In here we've obviously got salicylic acid, which is great for so many things. [...] 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. I highly recommend everyone try salicylic acid at least once, and this one also has some nice ingredients too, snail mucin, centella, niacinamide. Wonderful product, and pretty affordable as well."

✓Yay

79%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."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tirtir Milk Skin Toner

"It helps brighten skin as well as hydrate skin. It has a lot of soothing ingredients but it also has a few ingredients that may be problematic for sensitive skin. Overall it mostly does what it promises for most skin types. [...] It's got a lot of brightening ingredients and some soothing ingredients, it's very hydrating which is nice. [...] It's definitely on that tackier side but very hydrating and soothing. It will soothe most skin unless you're sensitive to some of those fragrance ingredients. [...] I liked it. My skin is super sensitive and I'm very sensitive to fragrance, and I didn't notice any scent, so I would say this product is unscented but not fragrance-free. [...] For acne prone skin there's only one ingredient of note and that's carbomer. I would say 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."

✓Yay

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

87%Guru Score

KAINE Kombucha Balancing Ampule Toner

"I became interested in them after I tried their toner recently their toner is amazing"

✓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."

✓Yay

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. For very sensitive skin, citric acid and potassium hydroxide keep it in mind, but for the most part I think oily skin, dry skin, most sensitive skin, and acne-prone skin should all be able to use this without any issues. I found it very very nice and effective and efficient in terms of the price. This is a full size 12 oz, 355 milliliters, and it retails for $15 making it super affordable. This bottle will last forever I'm convinced of it."

✓Yay

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."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.4 Hydrating Glow Mineral Toner

"Which a lot of people absolutely love it contains grape lactobacillus ferment as a probiotic ingredient it also contains a ton of other ferments uh has a little bit of fragrance in it so uh it's super light and not terribly noticeable but it works well for a lot of people"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Kaine Kombu Balancing Ampoule Toner

"I've got one percent panthenol which is a good skin soothing and wound healing ingredient, hydrolyzed hydroxyethyl urea which is a urea derivative with strong moisturizing and humectant properties, beta glucan good humectant skin soothing anti-inflammatory, and then finally we've got vitamin E which is a great antioxidant and hydrating ingredient. So a really nice list of ingredients in here. I'm very impressed with it. They did a really nice job with their ingredients. The nice thing about this product is it's friendly for all skin types really, and for acne prone skin just the vitamin E to be concerned about. So it's really nice to see a product because there's not a lot of products that are really friendly for most skin types. In terms of the price, this is a full size 150 milliliters for 16 dollars. That's a bargain it really is. It's a pretty large bottle, a little bit of it goes a long way. If you're not gonna use a cotton pad this bottle will last you a long time. I've been working on this daily for three months or so, really giving a good test there, and it's still got a long ways to go. It's a super nice toner. It's fragrance free, it's cruelty free, it's affordable, it's vegan."

✓Yay

81%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."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Stratia Aquala Hydrating Toner

"Their aqua toner which is 12 bucks right now, it's a hydrating facial toner that helps calm skin, helps with redness, leaving it soft and moisturized. 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."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Isntree Onion New Pair Essence Toner

"I like the essence toner. It contains onion bulb extract and calm complex to calm the skin and strengthen the skin barrier. The first ingredient is the onion bulb extract, which has no smell. I think that's probably the reason why this line took a while to take off because people thought it was going to have a very oniony smell and who wants to walk around smelling like onions all day. We've got niacinamide pretty high up the list, then we've got eggplant, which has been shown to be good for skin and can help with oil regulation. Got the neem extract, panthenol, turmeric, and then tranexamic acid, which is lovely. Tranexamic acid is great for brightening the skin. I love seeing that as well as turmeric."

✓Yay

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Masks & Peels48 reviews

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. It's still filled with a lot of product, probably a couple days worth of serum and hydration, so I'm saving it to use again. I can't say anything bad about it. I love it."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 8 Bond Intense Moisture Repair Mask

"I really enjoyed this Olaplex No. 4 intense moisture mask sample. I really like Olaplex hair products, they're probably one of my top two favorites, and this stuff was really nice on my hair."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

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

"If you are looking for something to help with anti-aging, this is great, glycolic acid and lactic acid are exfoliants that are proven to help with collagen production deep down in skin, and it also helps with firming up skin, texture, and wrinkles, so I really like this. I have my backup of it already in the new packaging. Lovely, no fragrance in it, and in terms of price it looks expensive, but a little bit of it goes a very long way, so this bottle lasted me a long time using it a couple nights a week."

✓Yay

88%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

76%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

"At first, I kind of thought these were a scam, you know, like they're trying to trick people into thinking the cellulose is all their dead skin cells coming off, but the cellulose is just really effective and a nice efficient way to gently physically exfoliate skin without having too many granules that could damage skin. 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

63%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. And it's also got 4-t-butylcyclohexanol which is a really nice soothing ingredient. So the ingredients in here can work and your skin is soothed at the same time so you don't notice any irritation or anything like that."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"This one's their 2% BHA liquid exfoliant. It just uses 2% salicylic acid. It's a liquid toner that you can apply with a cotton pad or just pat it on the skin. This would be great for people with acne-prone skin and oily skin. Salicylic acid is a great ingredient for that. The bottle looks tiny but it lasts forever, especially when I just use it on areas of clogged pores."

✓Yay

89%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

Geek & Gorgeous Smooth Out Liquid Exfoliant with 12% AHA

"The Geek and Gorgeous Smooth Out Liquid Exfoliant with 12% AHA, this stuff is nice. I like having the little travel ones so if you are on a trip or something like that, you don't have to bring the whole bottle with you and then you don't have to worry about repackaging. This stuff's really wonderful liquid exfoliant."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel Pads

"Dr. Dennis Gross's standout product would be their Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel Pads, which are [...] a two-step AHA BHA peel pads pre-dosed with those exfoliants as well as antioxidants and people just love them. 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

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

64%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

71%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

Peter Thomas Roth FirmX Peeling Gel

"This was another one, Peter Thomas Roth peeling gel. This one's just like a cellulose type thing you put it on damp skin and you massage and it's a very gentle exfoliator. 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

67%Guru Score

Paul's Choice 2% BHA

"Oh I've been using the [Paula's Choice] 2% BHA for years it's the best thing ever"

✕Nay

71%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

72%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

70%Guru Score

L'Oreal Bright Reveal Dark Spot Exfoliant Peel

"I wouldn't recommend the L'Oreal Bright Reveal Dark Spot Exfoliant Peel 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. My main issue is the bottle."

✕Nay

66%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. Some people maybe use it on your T-Zone, forehead, nose, or for some people maybe the whole face, but just be careful with it because it is on the stronger side. But those PHA and LHA, those are much more gentle exfoliants. They say use once a week, leave on for no more than 10 minutes, and then when you rinse it off apply moisturizer afterwards."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Nightly Exfoliating Treatment

"For very gentle exfoliation I really love these peel rinses, so like the CeraVe peel cream. It's like a cleanser type but it's got cellulose fibers in it and it really does a nice job physically exfoliating without being harsh or having like a sandy feeling or clay feeling in it. It's really nice and gentle. At first I really didn't like those because I'm like all it is is cellulose, it's like, but people think it's coming off their skin but it's just the ingredients and the product, but after using it now off and on for a long time it feels nice. It feels very nice on skin in terms of the ease of use. The main issue with this one is it will take some practice to get used to applying it and making sure you're applying liberally enough. If you're looking for something to reapply during the day I don't like this one as one to reapply. I find the thickness ends up getting pilling if you're trying to apply a second layer or if you're trying to apply it over makeup during the day, it gets to be a bit much."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Minimalist 10% AHA + 2% BHA Face Exfoliating Serum

"This is probably the most affordable one on the entire list and it's one I've just started playing with because I've just started testing out this brand, it's Minimalist, and this is their 10% face exfoliator with AHA BHA serum, 12 bucks. 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

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

88%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 Skin Perfecting 6% Mandelic Acid + 2% Lactic Acid Liquid Exfoliant

"I have a little sample of it but I need the full size to really test it out. I like the fact that a lot of this brand's products have some fragrance in it, so it's happy to see this one didn't have any."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Bubble Moonwalk Gentle Exfoliating Serum

"I pH tested this first with pH strips, [...] and this is showing [...] that the pH is high on this one. It's not really in the exfoliating range, it's right around five, and for most of these exfoliants you want it between three and four. This just doesn't do that. 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. [...] The exfoliants aren't really doing much exfoliating, which is probably why this is so gentle."

✕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

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

Paula's Choice Calm 1% BHA Sensitive Skin Exfoliant

"For a gentle exfoliant that also is soothing, I've got the Paula's Choice Calm 1% BHA. It's really nice and it's $35. It's got 1% salicylic acid, which is a unique exfoliant in the fact that it goes deep down in your pores to really help with breakouts and blackheads, but it also is soothing for your skin. A lot of exfoliants can't do both, but BHA does. We've also got vitamin E in here, [allantoin], and then mushroom extract."

✓Yay

84%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

"I wasn't totally disappointed, I just wasn't overly impressed. I didn't really notice any additional benefits in my routine as opposed to using my other products. [...] 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. [...] Terms of the it factor, I wasn't overly impressed. I didn't hate it, I'll definitely finish it, but I wouldn't repurchase it. I think maybe for younger skin with less issues, less aging issues, less hyperpigmentation issues, it could probably be more beneficial than somebody older like myself that has all of the issues going on: wrinkles, fine lines, hyperpigmentation, texture."

✕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 really liked using it as a rinse off mask, but they reformulated it and changed it. The original formula was nice, but the reformulated product it kind of fell off. 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. As a rinse off mask occasionally it's fine, but not as an overnight treatment."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

St. Ives Fresh Skin Apricot Scrub

"Came up with Saint Ives for its scrubs"

✕Nay

39%Guru Score

Retinoids48 reviews

Prequel 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

86%Guru Score

SkinFix Acne+ Adapalene Gel with Niacinamide + Squalane

"The Skinfix Acne Adapenoid Gel is $48 at Sephora. It contains adapenoid, a newer retinoid ingredient that is a derivative of adapalene, a third generation retinoid. This stuff's great. If you have acne-prone skin it makes it really good for your skin. I found the adapenoid to be really gentle but effective. I use this a lot on my neck. Can't go wrong with it."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Clinical 1% Retinol Treatment with Peptides and Vitamin C

"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

66%Guru Score

COSRX Retinol 0.1% Cream

"This one uses 0.1% retinal, along with panthenol, shea butter, ethyl ascorbic acid, and glutathione. It's really nice, a little bit stronger than some of the others, so sometimes I use the sandwich method with it, applying a thick cream, then the retinoid, then another layer of moisturizer, to help prevent the dryness and flakiness that can come from adding a strong retinoid into your routine."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Revive Firming Moisturizer: Ginseng + Retinol

"They also released a face version of this called the revive moisturizer. It's okay, it's very, very gentle."

~Mixed

70%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

"Their crystal retinal comes in a variety of strengths, ten being the strongest in the line. It does contain a little bit of fragrance from coumarin, which gives it a vanilla scent, but coumarin isn't super sensitizing, though it could be an issue for some people. 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

84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 20 Retinol

"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

81%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Clinical PRO Retinaldehyde Dual-Retinoid Treatment

"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."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing 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."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Versed Press Restart Gentle Retinal Serum

"The Versed Press Restart Gentle Retinal Serum is $19. The star of the show is the retinal and bakuchiol, which both work to fight fine lines and wrinkles, using microencapsulated retinal and the natural retinal alternative bakuchiol to help refine skin texture. 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

84%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

69%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. It helps with skin cell turnover, and it's one of the best steps for brightening your skin as well."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion

"It's got bisabolol, which is a great soothing ingredient. 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

79%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Retinol for All Renewing Serum

"This one uses 0.1% encapsulated retinol, so it's probably [...] going to be one of the more gentle ones. It's got ectoine, it's got ceramides, it's got bisulfol, it's got everything going on. [...] 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."

✓Yay

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."

✓Yay

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 Retinol 10

"I still love my Geek and Gorgeous A-Game. It's probably the closest alternative alongside The Ordinary Retinol Emulsion."

✓Yay

90%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

72%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game Retinol 5

"It's affordable to begin with and it's even more affordable now. If you are newer to retinoids, their A-Game 5 is the place to start. Then you can go up to 10 and then work your way up to 20. It's a great retinoid serum. It uses retinol which is a little bit stronger and you can certainly ease your way into it starting with A-Game 5. I love them. Fragrance-free, really easy to add into your routine, sandwich it between two moisturizers, you're good to go. And it's wonderful for anti-aging as well as if you get acne or things like that."

✓Yay

85%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."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Good Molecules Gentle Retinol Cream

"Love good molecules. Love that they're still affordable brand. And I love that this is still eight bucks for now."

✓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. uh they some of them contain a lot of denatured alcohol which can really dry your skin out in combination with the retinoids making it even drier but this one's really nice at preventing that."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturizer with Retinol

"I'd still recommend all of these."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 2% Emulsion

"This is their retinol 2% emulsion. This is their strongest retinoid product that they have. 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

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinol 1% in Squalane

"If you have sensitive skin and haven't used a lot of retinoids, this is a nice one. 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

85%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."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

The INKEY List Super Solutions 1% Retinol Serum

"We've got The INKEY List 1% Retinol Serum which is $25 for 1 oz and this contains 1% retinol"

✓Yay

69%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."

✓Yay

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

89%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

84%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

61%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 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 Nano Retinol 3% Renewing Serum

"That one feels really nice and you got that fruity scent to it which some people will love"

✓Yay

86%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

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

57%Guru Score

e.l.f. Youth Boosting Advanced Night Retinoid Serum

"This does do what it claims. It claims to be anti-aging and hydrating and help with evening skin tone, and I think it helps with all of those, which is nice. There's a lot of products that make a lot of claims and they don't follow through on most of them. This is an exception. It does follow through with pretty much everything it claims, and it's got a nice mix of ingredients as well as soothing ingredients to calm skin and prevent the retinization process. If you've ever started out with a strong retinoid and your skin gets flaky, irritated, itchy, cracked, dry, red, retinization is not fun. But if you use a good retinoid with some balancing hydrating ingredients and soothing ingredients, then you can avoid that. And also starting out with something weaker versus something very strong can also stop that from happening. It's pretty friendly to all skin types including dry, oily, sensitive, and acne-prone, so pretty nice product overall and very friendly for almost all skin types. I can't really think of a skin type that it's not going to work for, maybe those super sensitive to retinoids, but again it's still pretty gentle if you use it with a good moisturizer. And the full size is 1 ounce and retails for about $22, so it's a pretty good deal overall, especially when there's a lot of other products out there that are much more expensive."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Geek and Gorgeous A-Game Retinal

"This stuff is a nice medium in the middle there and it has a really nice hydrating formula in it and it's really affordable"

✓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. [...] I've tried other prescription retinoids and they've dried my skin out, [...] peeled and flaked my skin to the point where it took me probably three or four years to get to the point where I was willing to try this stuff without freaking out. I was really impressed that I could use this retinol without having the reaction that I did with the other stuff even after working my way up."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Aveeno Retinol with Retinaldehyde

"This one's also kind of new, the Aveeno Retinol Ceramide Cream, another really nice hydrating retinol product. It's got the ceramides in there and nice lipids and very hydrating, no fragrance in it. It's a little bit pricey but it's really nice. Aveeno also has a retinol serum that's also really nice. Both these products are great, you can't go wrong with them. They're both more expensive but they're really great for sensitive skin. Aveeno is a fan of their thermal water in their products which really seems to work well for people."

✓Yay

82%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

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Mists & Essences42 reviews

Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Sill 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

Anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid Mist

"The Anua hyaluronic acid capsule mist is twenty bucks and contains a little bit of PDRN. I've been testing this out recently. I use it when I get out of the shower to keep my face damp before I apply my nighttime products. So far so good. I like it. It doesn't have any scent and it's got some nice additional benefits with ingredients like the PDRN."

✓Yay

70%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. It also has licorice fruit and blueberry, blackberry, and cranberry, which are great antioxidants, great to use in the daytime because they protect your skin and they're great for brightening and protecting it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence

"I'm pretty picky about my toners, and this is one of a couple of toners I've ended up really loving and repurchased."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Probiotics Barrier 2% NAD+ Serum Mist

"This is my third bottle of it and it just came out I believe this year. It's a really nice super fine mist. So I really love it. There's no fragrance in it. The star of the show for this one is NAD Plus, which really works great to help fight off free radical damage. 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."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

NIOD Superoxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist

"I finished The NIOD Superoxide Dismutase 3 face 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. This one, it's nice if you can suffer through the mist nozzle or just repurpose a spray bottle that worked well for you. And that's how I ended up finishing it. It was in a spray bottle that I'd used that worked really nicely. But it was kind of more expensive. I prefer the NIOD 2 version. Just personally."

✕Nay

82%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

77%Guru Score

Missha Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence 5X

"It contains buffa ferment, which is a great probiotic, brightening ingredient, protecting ingredient, niacinamide, saccharomyces ferment, yeast ferment, barley extract. It's even got something called candle tree leaf extract, which is a soothing UV protecting and anti-inflammatory ingredient. 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."

✓Yay

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

68%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

"This is what I would consider a $20 toner in terms of ingredients and things like that."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Hydro Essence

"This is my sensitive skin pick. It's got that kind of milky gel lotion texture. 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

Cosrex Advanced Snail Mucin Essence

"It's a classic product from Kasar X. I can't I have no idea how many times I've repurchased it. It's just really wonderful"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Allies of Skin Founders Essence Advanced Treatment

"The Allies of Skin Founders Essence Advanced Treatment with 56 proven active ingredients"

~Mixed

80%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

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

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

75%Guru Score

I'm From Mugwort Essence

"The ingredient list shows one ingredient, which is mugwort, which has its own natural kind of scent to it. 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. You can pat it on your skin a couple layers for extra hydration, use it before some of your actives to give your skin some boost and glow."

✓Yay

88%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

82%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

82%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

81%Guru Score

VT PDRN Essence 100 Elasticity and Wrinkle Care

"You can see just how much smoother the one hand looks that I applied it to. It really does a nice job hydrating, smoothing skin, and soothing. It helps with wound healing. It does plump up skin and form a radiant skin moisture barrier and create a postsp 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 got four ingredients of note. The most important one is the isopropyl myristate, which a lot of people can find very irritating. It's not super friendly for acne prone skin types. In terms of the price, this one's starting to sneak up there. It's 30 milliliters and it's 43 bucks, which for a K beauty product is expensive."

✓Yay

76%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

"The Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream Mist is really nice, fragrance-free. 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. So it's really nice for that purpose."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

CeraVe Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

"CeraVe Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence, absolutely love this stuff especially after my laser treatment my BBL and Moxy laser. Snail cream and essence have been a favorite of mine to calm down and rehydrate because my skin feels like sandpaper after treatment."

✓Yay

84%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 just supposed to be applied with a cotton pad which is brilliant because the cotton pad probably ends up soaking up most of the product. You use it over your skin and then go on to use your products so it's supposed to help ingredients that don't penetrate easily to penetrate better. 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. I'm thinking this might be a lot of marketing and not so much delivery but we'll see."

~Mixed

59%Guru Score

Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist

"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

75%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

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

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

"I love it if you haven't tried it try it seriously I I will venture to say very few people that try this end up disliking"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Tone Brightening Capsule Ampoule

"In terms of animal testing, this is cruelty free as well as vegan. 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. Things like my melasma may never really get that much better, and you also must be using sunscreen to prevent new damage from forming. Not every type of hyperpigmentation responds to every different type of treatment. In terms of what this promises, a fast absorbing ampoule that provides you with clear and brighten skin, I'd agree that it'll help with one of those things, I don't..."

~Mixed

76%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

70%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

77%Guru Score

I'm From Mushroom Collagen Ampoule

"That one contains the collagen ingredient the vitamin E and the niacinamide"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lip33 reviews

Paula's Choice Pro Collagen Peptide Gloss Balm

"I'm using the Paula's Choice Pro Collagen Peptide Lip Balm. I love this stuff. I just love how it has no taste at all. It gives lips a really nice kind of glossy finish that just looks natural."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm

"I love the Summer Fridays lip balm, they're all great."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Pat McGrath Labs Lipsticks

"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."

✓Yay

82%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

84%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

62%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

60%Guru Score

The Ordinary PHA 5% Exfoliating Lip Serum

"The Ordinary is a couple of these. They're PHA lip exfoliating serum and the Node. I'm testing both of these out and I don't have a review of them yet, but they're both okay. I'm not sure I put either of these on this list at this point, but I'll continue testing them."

~Mixed

70%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. Peach extract, some peptides in there, and propagalate. Really nice and rather short ingredient list, but really nice product and certainly worth checking out."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Bioderma Atoderm Lipstick Balm

"It's got a few beneficial ingredients in here. It's got [dimethicone], which is really great for just sealing things in and hydrating, peach extract, some peptides in there and propagalate. Really nice, rather short ingredient list, but really nice product and certainly worth checking out. 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

65%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

Glow Recipe Plum Plump Hyaluronic Gloss Balm

"I like their other lip balm. It was quite nice. So yeah, if that one's on sale or in a beauty box, I'd love to try it out."

✓Yay

78%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

Paula's Choice Lip Balm

"Loves this stuff he uses it on his mouth and then on it uh sometimes on the back of his hands and things like that"

✓Yay

80%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 Serum

"It's the Tatcha Kissu Lip Serum, it's 29 bucks. It's got a matrix of 3000 peptides, vitamin E, squalene, peach kernel oil, and lanolin. No noticeable flavor although it does contain fragrance but it has no scent to it. I reviewed it, it's nice, I like it. This is my holy grail for a long time, it's still really wonderful. Great nighttime mask and thicker texture."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Hyaluronic Acid Plus Peptide Lip Booster

"The [Paula's Choice] hyaluronic acid and peptide lip booster, it's 33 bucks, it's very tiny. It's got a shiny finish and has a metal applicator. This one's almost as shiny as the Peach and Lily."

✕Nay

79%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

76%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

84%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

Summer Fridays Lip Butter Bomb

"My current favorite is the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Bomb. So nice lip balm."

✓Yay

85%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

67%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

Glow Recipe Plum Plump Lip Cream

"This the glow recipe lip balm Plum plump lip balm it smells like plums wonderful"

✓Yay

78%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"

✕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

71%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

75%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

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

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

Body & Tan28 reviews

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

SkinFix Eczema Plus Hand Repair Cream

"I've been picking these up from TJ Max occasionally for like $4.99 and I'd grab every single one they had cuz my brother-in-law loves it. I keep one on my nightstand next to my bed, my hands get dry. I keep one at my dad's house cuz when I get over there my hands get dry, and it's not greasy, I just put it on the back of my hands and rub the backs of my hands together so it doesn't get my palms. So I love this stuff. I'm not exactly sure what's going on with it but I've been seeing a lot of them at TJ Max, so if you're near one and you see these, pick them up. I love them, it's great."

✓Yay

85%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 Press Restart Gentle Retinol Body Lotion

"This is the Versed Press Restart retinol body lotion, or just generally any retinoid lotion. This one I like it's 18 bucks, 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, and it helps with collagen production deep down in skin. It helps firm up skin. You don't necessarily need to apply this everywhere. If there's specific areas, I know for a lot of people their stomach tends to be an area, and then for women the arm area tends to be an issue. Or you can apply it everywhere, doesn't matter. Just be sure to start out slow and mix a good moisturizer after it to help prevent dryness and flakiness, just like you would when you start retinoids on your face. The skin cycle is typically about a month, so keep that in mind. Don't give up on something just because you're not noticing results right away. Give it a while, give it two to three months. Give it time to adjust."

✓Yay

81%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. This is a nice one for sensitive skin or maybe to work your way into a stronger retinoid on your body, but overall it's really nice."

✓Yay

93%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

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + Inulin Body Lotion

"It promises to keep skin hydrated even after washing, that's a specific claim they are making. The lotion textured formula provides instant and all day hydration and strengthens the skin barrier after one application. I would say it does some of that, but it isn't enough to keep my skin hydrated after washing. It is very hydrating, it does leave skin feeling instantly hydrated and it does help the skin barrier after one application, but after you cleanse in the shower it cleanses off with you. There are a handful of moisturizers for the body that can do this, this one not enough for that. It's not enough on its own to provide all day hydration for the winter, but with another product under or over it definitely helps. When I apply it, it feels nice and super moisturized, but within 2 hours I can tell it's kind of dry. When I layer it, I don't have that problem."

✕Nay

76%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. This one's also friendly enough where I think you can mix it with copper peptides, but if you mix too much in it then it becomes a liquidy soupy mess and you don't want that. Pretty short ingredient list: glycerin, petrolatum, sodium hyaluronate, no frag in it. They do have fragrance versions though so beware of that, but these are still really nice, really affordable."

✓Yay

93%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

57%Guru Score

Suave Moisturizing Body Lotion

"Suve uh moisture lotion they kept this one the same price but they took it from 32 oz down to 18 Oz"

✕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. If you use this you can certainly apply it with a nice moisturizer on the other days you're not using it or after it to prevent dryness. Retinoids are a cell communicate ingredient, it's one of the best known anti-aging products or ingredients out there."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant TLC Glycolic Body Lotion

"There's a lot of other moisturizers for the body with exfoliants but this just happens to be one example of it because I noticed it's got the 10% blend in here with glycolic acid. 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. This is going to be much more beneficial versus something that will make your skin feel smooth that day after you use it but there's no real long-term results unless you start using it every single day."

✓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

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. This would be unscented but not fragrance free because of that lemon extract."

✓Yay

75%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

50%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"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Eye Care28 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

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG

"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

77%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

72%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

95%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

72%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

"In terms of denatured types of alcohol, it does not contain any of those. It does contain some fatty alcohols and has no fragrance and no scent and is manufactured in Korea. You want to use the pumper. I do like that they put the expiration date and the manufacturer date on here, that is a pro. It does make this kind of hard to dispense a proper amount, but it does apply really nicely. 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. It does have a nice feel, a nice texture to it. It doesn't feel tacky or anything, it really does feel nice and slippery on skin, but not over the top or sticky. I'll use it around my eyes, underneath my eyes, and sometimes in between my eyebrows, but a lot of eye creams I'll put on my eyelids, I don't recommend doing that with this because of the retinoids in there. Be very careful getting this too close to your eyes because your eye tear ducts are very sensitive to certain ingredients we use in skin care and a lot of lash serums and things like that, so be very careful, you don't want to get into your eye at all. I've done that a few times and it's just not worth the risk to your eye gland."

✓Yay

84%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

79%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. And then in addition to that, it's got something called the isurel peptide which has been known specifically to help with under-eye bags and puffiness. So that is, this one's got three things fighting the puffiness for you, which is really nice. At six bucks, it's worth a try. I'd highly recommend checking it out. It's the most affordable on my list, I think. And it's really nice for puffiness or dark circles and things like that."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream

"This is probably my third or fourth tube of it, it's just wonderful. What I love about it is you can use it around your eyes for anti-aging and hydrating, but the bottle's big enough that if you're traveling and you don't want to bring the giant tube of snail mucin with you, you can just bring this instead. Most eye creams you don't get very much, this one's almost a full ounce, which is the size of most serums. It's got snail mucin and peptides, sunflower seed oil, argan, just lovely ingredients. You can use it wherever you want but your eyes is what it's made for, but get creative with it. A little bit of it goes a super long way."

✓Yay

79%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

77%Guru Score

CeraVe Eye Cream with Peptides

"The cerx snail peptide eye cream has always been a favorite for years now"

✓Yay

60%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

85%Guru Score

Kinship Bright Wave Vitamin C Brightening Eye Cream

"I really enjoy the 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. A lot of people really like this one though."

~Mixed

70%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

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. You can certainly use vitamin C and it's certainly going to help, but a lot of times they're there and sometimes if it's just genetically prone it's better just to sometimes camouflage them and there's not much you can do about it."

✓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

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 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

77%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

Stratia Liquid Gold Eye Cream

"So 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. The package is so cute and tiny, and it's half an ounce."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Eye Makeup20 reviews

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

68%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

55%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 Palette Trio

"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. I've got one that's probably three or four years old and I still get use out of it and I travel with it. I've bought it four years in a row. I like the different variety of shades. I know they're expensive, but it is worth it."

✓Yay

73%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

66%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. It's hard when I feel like there's still a ton of product left in there and I haven't had any eye infections or things like that, so it's hard to just discard it without feeling a little wasteful."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked Shaped Multitasking 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. I love these. They're so handy."

✓Yay

84%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

"This was my Lash Serum, Bimatoprost. 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

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

69%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

65%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Definer in Medium Brown

"And then the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Definer in Medium Brown"

~Mixed

76%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. They're 24 bucks each or get them on sale, I'm sure they'll be on sale for Black Friday or something like that."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked Palette

"The Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked Palette really quick, I still have my palette from a few years ago. I love these palettes, they're so handy. They're expensive, but what I love about them is when I travel, it basically has everything you need if you're not too picky on what your favorites are. It's got an all over powder, it's got a blush, a [...] bronzer, then it's got a highlighter in there. So literally if you're traveling and you bring this one compact, this is all you need for your face. It's really handy. It's expensive, but [...] these last me a lot longer than a year. The last one I actually had to toss or recycle just because it was starting to get not as good as it was before. [...] They have three different shades now, I think light, medium, and deep, which is also nice."

✓Yay

71%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

About Face Eyeshadow Stick in Pearly

"So far I liked it I picked this up I don't know how long ago not very long uh but anyway probably can't see it very good this camera is not the best for that anyway I'm wearing the corner of my eyes it gives a nice pearly glow"

✓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

74%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

Haircare19 reviews

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

Crown Affair Microfiber Hair Towel

"It says, 'I wasn't able to find the composition information on the Sephora listing for the product.' Which would be like, what's the ingredients? What's the material? 'When I received this, I was shocked to find that the towel is nearly $60 for polyester.' I'm guessing you could probably find something that's polyester for like $10 for your hair. 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. [...] It needs to lay out to dry or something. Too high maintenance for my hair towels."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density

"I love this stuff. The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density, which will be $18 during the sale. It's a water-based scalp serum for hydration and building root strength. And it's got some actually really interesting peptides in here which have been studied and shown to help with hair growth, hair density at the root. So it's got caffeine in there. Caffeine is used in a lot of lash serums as well and also eye serums for puffiness. It's got apigenin, which is a flavonoid, which makes it a super strong antioxidant. Also used in hair products. Wheat germ extract. It's got green tea. It's got biotinoyl tripeptide 1, which is a peptide claimed to be helpful for reducing hair loss. And it's also known for making eyelashes appear longer, fuller and stronger. It's got acetyl tetrapeptide 3, which is a four amino acid peptide that has been researched and promises to help combat hair loss. So two or three really exciting ingredients in this. [...] I use this more on my scalp to keep it hydrated during the winter."

✓Yay

69%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. If you don't color treat your hair or perm it or do anything like that, there's I think this might for some people end up making your hair worse off. I've heard certain proteins and peptides if you use them on hair that's not damaged it can make it worse."

✓Yay

82%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. I'm now on to their about to finish their purple shampoo which works well for my hair and I have their clarifying one as well. So I like Olaplex, second to Moroccan Oil which has to be my favorite hair care brand of all time, but this stuff is pretty good."

✓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

78%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Silk Amino Mega Moisturizing Shampoo

"Drunk Elephant Silk Amino Shampoo. I like this."

✓Yay

83%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

74%Guru Score

Nizoral A-D Anti-Dandruff Shampoo (1% Ketoconazole)

"There's really not a lot of real great treatments even today for fungal acne. 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

86%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

68%Guru Score

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

"The Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer is 23% off so 329 bucks which might be a good sale. I think typically you get them at 20% off, which is typically the best."

~Mixed

85%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

78%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

76%Guru Score

Olaplex Clarifying Shampoo

"Their Clarifying Shampoo is great."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Sulfate 4% Cleanser for Body and Hair

"Using a clarifying shampoo and this does a good job with that."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Acne8 reviews

CeraVe Acne Control Gel with Salicylic Acid

"I saw the CeraVe Acne Control Gel 2% salicylic acid treatment. It has the box that says new on it. This was very interesting to me because I looked this product up and this product was new 5 years ago. This product was released 5 years ago. It's not new. It's 5 years old. Salicylic acid also degrades. Probably not as fast as other acids, but it degrades. So this product says new, but it's 5 years old. And the beautiful thing with some of these giant beauty companies and skincare companies is they don't put manufacturer dates on them. A lot of them don't. So you don't know when it was made. They use batch codes which then you have to find a batch code checker website and then you got to believe that the batch code checker website is correct, which a lot of times they're not."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

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

74%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

COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch

"Can Make Mermaid Skin UV Gel it's a great Sun screen though amazing and no scent to it which is nice"

✓Yay

75%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

PCA Skin Acne Gel

"The PCA Skin Acne Gel, which is very expensive, is probably the closest dupe. It doesn't contain as many actives as the neutralizing gel does."

~Mixed

72%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

Foundation8 reviews

Purito Relief Sika BB Cream

"I used Purito, they have a great BB cream. I used it occasionally."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Missha M Perfect Cover BB Cream

"Missha came out with their Perfect Cover BB Cream, which is 26 bucks at So Glam. It looks like it's an upgrade from their best-selling BB cream version. It comes in 10 different shades, which looks wonderful. 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. So I shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but it does look like it has a lot of fragrance in it."

~Mixed

82%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

55%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

69%Guru Score

Kosis BB Burst Tinted Moisturizer Gel Cream with Copper Peptides

"It has some nice ingredients in there and copper peptides and I really like it the shade selection is quite nice as well"

✓Yay

68%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

Kosas BB Burst Tinted Moisturizer Gel Cream

"I really am enjoying the Kosas BB Burst. For summer I think I like the Dr. Jart one a little bit more because it also has sunscreen, but for some reason I don't apply it liberally enough in my first step, at least in my foundation step I'll get a little bit okay."

✓Yay

57%Guru Score

Powder & Setting7 reviews

Tarte Creaseless Brightening and Setting Powder

"It's just a brightening powder. The one I picked up was the shade pink, but they've got a few different shades and it comes with a little brush. 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

83%Guru Score

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

The Ordinary Sulfur 10% Powder to Cream Concentrate

"The Ordinary released a 10% sulfur powder to cream concentrate spot treatment for $9.90. Sulfur is known to help with breakouts and things like that. After cleansing you just put a little bit on. They recommend with a finger, but I would probably recommend putting it with a Q-tip, since more bacteria in an area where there's breakouts is not the best idea. 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

78%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. I reach for this one every day. I rarely reach for this."

✕Nay

71%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

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

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

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

71%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

92%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Gel B5 Skin Protectant 21%

"This one doesn't contain any drying types of alcohol, it's fragrance free with no noticeable scent, which is really wonderful. It's made in France. It's got a really nice gel texture. 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. You can use this for hydrating purposes with retinoids, for post procedure skin like after a laser, microneedling, or stitches, post-laser protection, and it protects and relieves chapped, cracked, and shaved skin. It comforts and soothes skin and helps soothe a disrupted skin barrier. It's sensitive skin friendly, so you can use it if you've overdid on retinoids or exfoliants."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tech5 reviews

Omnilux Face Contour Red Light Therapy Mask

"It looked like Omnilux saying, 'Hey, uh I love this Reddit thread, blah blah blah blah blah.' uh you know as the moderator can you please have this post removed which was a post I'm assuming negative saying negative things about Omnilux and it said if you remove this post we'll give you 750 bucks right up front"

✕Nay

75%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

"Foreo is a brand known for taking effective treatments and using them in a novel way that is realistically not going to make much of a difference for most users of the product who have spent over $300. The UFO LED Mask hasn't been proven clinically. 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

"I've never had really good luck with this brand because most of the things I've had from them, the first one would charge after it was dead, same thing with their dermaplaner. I went through like three of those through QVC. 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

60%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

Blush & Bronzer4 reviews

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

84%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

81%Guru Score

Isle of Paradise Sunny Serum Instant Face Bronzer

"It looks nice it doesn't look ridiculous"

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Supplements3 reviews

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides with Amino Acids, Iron and Protein

"This is kind of my runner up. It says it's unflavored. This is my repurchase of it. It does have a flavor. If you mix it with plain water, it doesn't taste great. But they do have like a lemonade flavor. They've got tons of different options. They've got protein shakes as well. If you go to Target or Walmart and check them out, they've got those. So that's kind of what I'm interested in trying from them next. It's got a little bit of protein in it, vitamin C, which is very important, collagen peptides, bioactive collagen peptides, hyaluronic acid. It's unflavored. You don't want to drink with plain water because it kind of tastes bad. But if you mix it in with something else, you won't notice it."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides Gummies

"Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides Gummies, I also have my dad. 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

Olay Collagen Peptide 24

"The Olay Collagen Peptide 24 has a very sad ingredient list. It's not a terrible product, but if you really are looking to combat aging, looking at some peptides in your routine, this just isn't it. 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."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Tools3 reviews

Clean Skin Club Clean Towels XL

"I'm going to wipe my skin off with a Clean Skin Club towel, which are nice."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Beautyblender Original

"An old beauty blender. I replaced it with a new one that I got from TJ Maxx. They last a long time, but the more you start to clean them, some of the foam starts to kind of break apart. I used this one for probably a year, though. Maybe six months, maybe a year. So, I would say that's a good outcome for that."

✓Yay

81%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

Fragrance1 review

The Body Shop The Body Shop

"My biggest issue with them is that they're an MLM. A lot of their branches are, and do some research on MLMs because MLMs are very insidiously evil to the people working for them. Most people at MLMs will never make any money, and most people actually lose money on the MLMs because most of them require you to purchase a base amount of product to sell, and that's how they make the money. It's a very predatory industry."

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

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