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The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum

"I love this stuff. I've already got my backup of it. This stuff's got a great formula, lots of good peptides in there in addition to copper peptides, so you can't go wrong with it."

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"I'm going to apply a little bit of The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum over it. And this is night time. I apply lots of thick layers at night. That soaked in pretty nicely and I was able to get touch of it down to my neck. So that was lovely."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum has a liquidy gel texture, not as liquidy but with a little bit more thickness to it. Copper peptides are so fragile, so you don't want to apply them with anything that has a super low pH because that can break the bonds of the peptides. I apply it to my face and neck, and it's really nice, non-greasy, with no scent to it, which is nice."

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"Their copper peptide serum is great for soothing skin. If you have a damaged skin barrier, copper peptides and the ingredients in this are great for helping to heal that. I use it after micro needling or laser treatments because copper peptides are just so soothing, calming, and healing. I also found it helped with texture as well. It's got 1% copper peptides in here. It's got a really nice serum gelish kind of texture to it, but it's really wonderful. Sometimes I'll use it on little patches on my skin that get dry or irritated or if I get cuts. I use a lot of copper peptides when I have my ears double pierced. I just apply it to that area and it would help heal it a little bit faster. In addition to the copper peptides, we've got the argolene Botox in a bottle peptide, the matrix of 3000 peptide duo, which helps with expression wrinkles, the real estatease peptide, which is claimed to help stimulate collagen production deep down at skin, several amino acids, and urea, which is a really great hydrant ingredient. I love peptides. Try some of these products and use it for two months and tell me it didn't work because they do work."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum is a hardworking product and I know it's won a lot of awards and it's certainly worth a try and it's only 32 bucks compared to some other serums that are hundreds or even more."

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"It's a serum rich in peptides, copper peptides, and amino acids. The price of this one makes it affordable for everybody. A little bit of it goes a long way. It's great to use at night. It's fragrance-free with a liquid serum texture. It's especially beneficial around the eye area for wrinkles and fine lines. And I use this along with micro needling. It's great."

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"I just find them to be so nice for your skin and I think it's really helped with firmness and wrinkles."

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"The Ordinary Copper Peptide Serum is a water-based serum, and they call it advanced age support and additional antioxidant support. Great for soothing skin, calming skin, and post-procedure skin. The star of the show for this one is copper peptides. Copper peptides promote the production of collagen, elastin, lifting and firming the skin, softens the appearance of fine lines and deep wrinkles, also improves tone and texture, helps to heal sun damage, smooth rough skin, and reduce hyperpigmentation. In addition to that, it's got a ton of other peptides: the argalene peptide, the lufasil peptide, the matrixel 3000, matrixel synthesis peptide. These are all mostly Botox in a bottle type peptides that help with expression lines around the eyes and mouth. We also have the synake peptide. And then we've got 10 plus amino acids, which are skin identical ingredients. This stuff's wonderful. I've been through I don't know how many bottles of it. I love it."

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"My favorite to mix in is The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum. This one has 1% copper peptides and I like to hit that sweet spot of about 2% copper peptides. 3% is on the higher edge and it can become too much. There is too much of a good thing and with copper peptides anything more than 3% is too much of a good thing and you can end up having your skin look worse as opposed to better. What I do is this comes at a formula of 1%. I usually mix in about half to a third of this into this and it creates about 2%, might be a little bit higher than 2%. I mix it in with this and it makes it a little bit stronger because I really like the 2%. But I love this formula because it's so full of good other peptides and amino acids. So I love this formula. I wish it were 2%."

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"It's amazing. It's 32 bucks. It's got copper peptides. Copper peptides are great antioxidant, anti-inflammatory ingredient. There are studies show it can help improve elasticity, clarity, firmness, and reduce fine lines and wrinkles. May also help with hair growth. This one also contains in addition copper peptides, the argolene peptides, synake peptide, matrixel synthesis, and the matrixel 3000 peptide duo."

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"I love peptides I think they signal things in our skin to help with collagen production and anti-aging. The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum has the copper peptides as well as several amino acids and it's pretty affordable. I've repurchased it, so it's impressive. I found it to be very helpful."

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"I love this stuff. I literally finished it last night and I picked up another bottle of it during the sale. The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum is something I actually go a step further with and mix in my own copper peptides to bring it from 1% copper peptides all the way up to 2%, which is usually the level you want for copper peptides."

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"Couple drops of it is really nice. My skin feels nice. Bright, feels good on my skin."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum with copper peptides, always wonderful, probably one of the products I've been using the longest. I really have good luck with that."

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"I mix a little gram of this with The Ordinary copper peptide serum and I turn a 1% copper peptide serum into 2% myself. This helps a ton. If you're just looking for firming this is really nice. If you have oilier skin or live in a more humid environment you might be able to get away with just using this on its own as a moisturizer. I can do it a little bit during the spring but most of the time I end up layering another moisturizer over it. This is probably the most affordable of all these and the most effective. Copper peptides are great for firming up skin and with collagen production."

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"The peptides in here there are so many ingredients in small amounts, and a lot of these peptides have been shown that it doesn't necessarily need a large amount. Certain peptides even at like 0.2% work well, so I think it's something worth a try and it's not expensive. The texture is so nice and it really worked nicely underneath my sunscreen. This is the first product that's really impressed me in a while."

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"It's got copper peptides in there, it also contains argilene peptide which is the botox in a bottle peptide. It contains the LOF phasal peptide which is the one that targets wrinkles from facial movements. It also contains the matrial synthesis peptide as well as several amino acids. For bang for your buck, this is where it is, this product is going to give you the most bang for your buck. It's 32 bucks, which is expensive, but if you get it on sale it's even better. For bang for your buck, this is it. If you can add it into your routine somehow, that's the way to go."

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"It's got the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo. It's got the Syn-Ake peptide which is another Botox in a bottle type peptide. It's also got the Relistase peptide which is a firming peptide. It's supposed to help firm up skin, saggy skin, things like that. And it's also got several amino acids. Really nice water-based serum. I've been using this one for a long time. I absolutely love it. And I've tried to find several dupes and alternatives but I still have yet to find something that's a super real close dupe. Very nice for anti-aging, firming skin. I use it after microneedling. I also use it after laser treatments to help heal the skin and firm it up."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum with copper peptides, one caveat: this contains 1% copper peptides. I mix in what I believe is one gram of raw copper peptides to increase the percentage to 2%. It's got those copper peptides in there, it also contains argilene peptide, which is the botox in a bottle peptide. It contains the LOF phasal peptide, which is the one that targets wrinkles from facial movements, and it also contains the matrial synthesis peptide as well as several amino acids. For bang for your buck, this is where it is. This product is going to give you the most bang for your buck. It's 32 bucks, and if you get it on sale, it's even better."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum is my number one favorite. It's 32 bucks, so it's a dollar.06 per ounce. This one contains over 30 beneficial ingredients including peptides, amino acids, antioxidants, and soothing ingredients. It's fragrance-free and water-based. In my opinion, this is one of the best copper peptide serums I've tried for anti-aging. I love this one."

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"I love this stuff. I've already got my backup of it. This stuff's got a great formula, lots of good peptides in there in addition to copper peptides, so you can't go wrong with it."

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"My favorite serum lately is The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum. I love this stuff. I love copper peptides so much that I've been adding this into my routine and using a lot more in the last couple months, and I think I've been noticing some positive benefits from that. I'm really impressed with everything copper peptides can do. It's amazing."

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"I've repurchased this six times this year. I tend to go through it pretty quickly and it's just really nice, fragrance free, still pretty affordable. 1% copper peptides and tons of other good ingredients in here. It's a wonderful jelly liquid texture, soaks in really nicely, friendly for most skin types."

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"This one has been one I've loved now for a while. The copper peptides are great for soothing your skin as well as wound healing. When I micro needle my skin, this one is my go-to pick to use right after I'm done micro needling because of its benefits for the skin and it's really great for anti-aging. In addition to the copper peptides, it contains a ton of other good peptides. It contains argolene, which is the Botox in a bottle peptide. It contains the matrixel 3000 peptide duo. It contains the lufasil peptide, the matrixel synthesis peptide, the synake peptide, as well as a ton of amino acids which are great for healing the skin and barrier repairing. So I really love this one. I don't even know how many times I've repurchased it now."

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"I love the Ordinary's copper peptide serum. That's something I would never try to change if I can't help it."

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"Another one I'm repurchasing"

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"The Ordinary Copper Peptide Serum, of course I love this stuff, it's amazing. I mix in some of my own copper peptides to make it a 2% concentration and it's really wonderful. I already have a backup of it. It's got lots of good peptides, helps with firming skin, great for anti-aging, great for after microneedling treatments."

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"The Ordinary Copper Peptide Serum is wonderful. It's 32 bucks. It's crept up there in price a little bit, but it's still a wonderful serum. It's got 1% copper peptides as well as several other peptides and amino acids. No fragrance. I don't use this every day, but I do use this in my evening routine. I alternate, just depends on what else I'm using. Copper peptides, you don't want to combine them with strong acid. So if you're exfoliating or using vitamin C, it's not the best option in that routine, but I do use this probably every other night or every third night. And especially if I do micro needling or anything like that, I'll be sure to use this right after."

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"The long-standing favorite is The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum with Copper Peptides. It's currently 31 bucks. It's got 1% copper peptides, Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, the Argolene peptide, the Luasal peptide, and 10 amino acids. It's a long-standing favorite. Really great. Just a good basic peptide serum with a watery serum texture. This one's best used at night."

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"I really like this one during the winter when my skin needs a little bit extra hydration. In terms of The Ordinary performance, very beneficial for skin and wound healing, especially. I love that I can use this one with micro needling to help fade the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. I appreciate the combination of the additional peptides they threw in here and amino acids. It's really great for your skin. I can tell a difference on my skin when I use this. It's a game changer. For oily and acne prone skin, in my opinion, The Ordinary is a little bit more friendly because it's more of a water-based formula as opposed to a silicone based formula. I just love it. It's a very unique product with so many additional beneficial ingredients. It's a game-changing product and it's definitely in my top five products."

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"For oily and acne prone skin, The Ordinary is a little bit more friendly because it's more of a water-based formula as opposed to a silicone based formula. It's a very unique product with so many additional beneficial ingredients. It's a game-changing product and it's definitely in my top five products."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum is quite nice. It's a liquid texture serum that works well in evening routines. It contains copper peptides, argireline peptide, Matrixyl 3000, Syn-Ake peptide which is a soothing peptide, matrix synthesis and several amino acids. It's currently 32 bucks, and I'll definitely be picking up their newest version once I finish this one off. This one stays in my cabinet. Really nice product."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum is 24 bucks right now, a great nighttime face serum for anti-aging and soothing. It's got 1% copper peptides, the argilene peptide, the matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, the matrixyl synthesis peptide, the KTTKS peptide, urea, amino acids, and also contains an ingredient called the Pal-KTTKS peptide which is a four amino peptide used to treat skin sagginess and increase collagen production in skin. In my opinion, this one already contains them all in there with the good copper peptides. You might as well go for the star where it's got them all in there as well as other goodies, though I can totally understand other people wanting to use other ones."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum is great. It contains 1% copper peptides to encourage collagen production as well as elastin and glycosaminoglycans, and it also contains matrixyl synthesis, which is another good peptide for increasing collagen production. It's still relatively affordable at $32."

SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum

"This stuff is a handful of products that I start using and within days my skin just looks and feels so much better. I love it."

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"This is one of few products that really has helped me with my skin hugely. Between this, vitamin C, and a good sunscreen, it's really helped my skin a ton. Fine lines are less noticeable, skin just looks smoother. I'm impressed with this stuff."

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"If you're going to spend that much money, I would recommend the SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum. That one offers more benefits and better ingredients. It doesn't have the fragrant essential oil in there either. The nice thing is it's friendly for acne-prone skin. I love the texture of it, feels nice, but at this price I expect a little more, maybe a little more peptides or maybe some growth factors or something. It's not bad, it's just I won't repurchase it."

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"If you can afford this and this price isn't a big deal, spend instead on the SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum because in my opinion that one offers more benefits and better ingredients. It doesn't have the fragrant essential oil in there either. The one nice thing is it's friendly for acne prone skin."

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"I really love the SkinMedica TNS serum but I really got tired of paying $300 and then feeling guilty when I used it or guilty when I bought it because that's a ridiculous amount of money. I didn't at first love this ingredient, growth factors, epidermal growth factors, because there's not like 20, 30 years of studies on the safety of it. I'm pretty sure they're safe for most people but do your own research on it, don't listen to me, don't listen to anybody else, do your own digging on it because it depends on your skin type and things like that."

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"The SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum is an amazing product. If you use it for a week, it's hard not to notice the results. I've tested a lot of products that have similar ingredients, but this one really stands out. The packaging is quite nice, the size is large at 1.69 ounces, and the texture is quite nice with a gel texture to it. I've been pretty impressed with it."

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"It's got a creamy texture with all those nice growth factors and anti-aging ingredients in here, which there's only a handful of products that really make a difference that I could tell using them, and SkinMedica was one of them."

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"They're repackaging the TNS Advanced+ Serum. I initially thought they were going to get rid of the dual chamber system. It appears as though they're not going to get rid of the dual chamber system, but they are going to upgrade it so it's more functional. This is a big bulky container and I hate the fake metal because that starts to chip off. The dual chambers can be really annoying. I've read though if you store it upside down that helps it dispense better. There's little holes, and if you have an issue, you can use a paper clip and jam it in there."

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"SkinMedica TNS Advanced Serum, absolutely love this stuff. Once I add this into my routine it's one of the few handful of products that I could tell a difference in my skin within a week or less. This one uses their human fibroblast conditioned media they have a trademark on it, it also contains peptides and botanicals, great for anti-aging skin renewal. Certainly made a huge difference in my fine lines, noticeable difference. But it's $295 which is really expensive, so it's worth buying it on sale. If you subscribe to it you can get an extra discount, and you can cancel if you change your mind."

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"SkinMedica TNS Advanced Serum. The pumps are annoying because they don't dispense at the same time. So like the first five uses of it, you're just using one of the two serums and it's really annoying. It's wonderful."

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"This one turned 95 bucks if price were no issue I'd have this one on hand all the time. The SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum is wonderful. It's one of a handful of products where I've used it and almost the next day I could tell my skin look better and smoother and things like that. This is definitely probably the number one pick I really enjoy it. It's fragrance free. The dual pump is kind of annoying sometimes, not quite even, but they've got two holes here so if one of them gets off track you just stick like a paper clip in there and you can even it out. This has to be my number one pick. It's really nice."

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"This stuff is wonderful. It contains their personally made human fibroblast conditioned media, it also contains the praline peptide and whey protein. The pump is a little annoying because you can see how it has two little holes there, one part has half of the ingredients in and the other one has the other half of the ingredients, so you really want both of them to dispense at the same time to get your bang for your buck. It is a game-changing product."

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"The SkinMedica TNS serum is amazing and it's super expensive. I still love it. There's a lot of good dupes for it but still really wonderful, but it's so expensive. If I could take one expensive product that would probably be it."

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"Lotion serum texture, fragrance free, works great daytime or nighttime. Human fibroblast conditioned media is the third ingredient, and then we've also got peptides, aloe, vitamin E, and a ferment grape flour extract. I love this product. I've repurchased it many times. It happens to be easily the most expensive one out of all of them. But I don't typically use it all over my entire face. I typically focus on certain areas where I get fine lines, around my mouth and around my eyes, a little bit on the forehead and right in the middle between my eyebrows. A bottle of this will last me three or four months with very conservative usage of it. So it doesn't seem as expensive."

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"The SkinMedica TNS serum is really good. It's got the human fibroblast condition media. It's more expensive, about three times the price of some alternatives, and it's almost half the size, but it's really good. I've repurchased it a couple times at least, and I most products I don't repurchase unless I really really like them and I'm committed to continuing to use them."

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"It's expensive but this one uses their brand's proprietary human fibroblast conditioned media, which is why it is so expensive. This is one in a handful of products where two, three days in, I did notice a difference for me, especially around my eyes."

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"I've been obsessed with the SkinMedica TNS serum which is upwards of $300 a bottle. I've loved the SkinMedica TNS serum, it's upwards of $300. I've repurchased a couple times, but I got really good deals. When I use that within a couple days it's like an amazing difference on my skin. I'm always on the hunt for the next best thing because of that same feeling."

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"I just purchased the TNS Advanced+ Serum and I've been using it twice a day for one week and I'm already shocked at the results. It's one of the few products I say has instant results, amazing like you could tell the difference. Not every product has that experience but some people do. It's ridiculously expensive, but I'd get it on sale or sign up for some of the cash back websites because sometimes you'll have like 20% off and then sometimes it'll be like a 10% cash back so it ends up being even more savings."

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"It's got the SkinMedica patented human growth factor complex, it's also got prolene peptide as well as a milk peptide complex for anti-aging and collagen production in skin. It also has apple extract and vitamin E for hydrating skin. It's really lovely. It's really expensive, but you can make this one last a long time. I probably been working on this specific bottle for four months with probably another month in it, so just using it sparingly where my wrinkles are. I don't use it everywhere, I just focus on the areas where there's wrinkles."

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"It's got the SkinMedica patented human growth factor complex, it's also got prolene peptide as well as a milk peptide complex for anti-aging and collagen production in skin. It also has apple extract and vitamin E for hydrating skin. It's really lovely. It's really expensive, if it's too expensive I totally get it, but you can make this one last a long time. I make this bottle last a long time too. I probably been working on this specific bottle for four months, it's probably got another month in it, so just using it sparingly where my wrinkles are. I don't use it everywhere, I just focus on the areas where there's wrinkles."

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"Within two or three days of using the SkinMedica TNS serum, the difference I noticed in my skin was hard to deny that it was beneficial. Growth factors have undeniable results for me when using a growth factor serum."

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"This stuff is a handful of products that I start using and within days my skin just looks and feels so much better. I love it."

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"It's really nice lightweight serum. This is one of a few holy grail products for me. Within a few days my skin really started to look better to me. The human fibroblast condition media stimulates elastin and collagen production deep down in skin which helps with fine lines, wrinkles, and saginess. Enhances wound healing especially after treatments like micro needling or lasers. Reduces redness and dryness as well as transepidermal water loss. Helps with rejuvenation, tone, and texture and helps reduce any inflammation. It's really nice."

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"I'm addicted to it. I love it. It's so expensive, but I do feel like I can tell a difference in my skin when I stop using it. And when I first started using it, I could tell the difference."

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"The SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum, this one's upwards of almost 300 bucks if you can get it on sale it might be worth it. Occasionally there's a good sale typically around the holidays and I'll be able to get it for like 100 to 150 bucks, but that's typically not often. Although right now it's on sale at Derm Store, I think it's like 70 bucks off, so if you're looking at it it might be a decent time to buy it, but still pricey."

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"The SkinMedica TNS Advanced Serum is $295. It's one of the few products where I can notice results quite quickly. If I stop using it for a while and I start using it again, I'll notice the results again really nicely. It has great growth factors in it, really nice in terms of antioxidant protection for fine lines and wrinkles."

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"It has a very nice moisture texture to it. If you use it at night time, it's really nice. If you've got dry skin or during the winter if your skin gets really dry, you can also use it in the daytime as well. It is on the thicker side. This one's pretty affordable, too. It's got a really nice gel texture. It smooths in really easily."

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"I love the SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum. This is a tough one. It's very expensive. It's likely to get more expensive. But I love this stuff. This is something that I don't want to have to compromise on. I don't see myself taking these out for my routine anytime soon because it's really a work horse. It really helps with fine lines and wrinkles, and I can notice it when I stop using it for a week or two, to when I start using again. I can notice a difference. So, it's amazing. There's not a lot of skincare products that are like within a couple days you notice a difference. It's amazing the difference it makes."

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"I was at a standstill, things weren't necessarily getting better, and I added in the SkinMedica TNS Advanced serum and within a couple weeks it made an absolutely amazing difference that I could notice. Even my dad noticed, which was amazing because he doesn't notice much. I added it in without really having to sacrifice anything, change anything else, or have to deal with irritation. The SkinMedica one is very expensive, it's about $300, but it is an absolutely amazing ingredient that when you add it to your routine, I think if you have some signs of aging you will notice a radical difference very quickly."

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"They use human fibroblast conditioned media and this is one of a handful of products where I used it and within a few days I noticed my skin look better. There's not a lot of products that I can say that about. Most products, especially like actives and things like that, take months or weeks or a long time before you start to notice the benefits, but with this one product I could tell within I think two or three days that my skin just looked better, it felt better, the fine lines were less noticeable. It's expensive, but it's amazing. It comes out of two nozzles which can be kind of frustrating, but if you have a problem with it coming out of two nozzles, if you stick paper clips in these two holes you push it down and it'll dispense better. Really nice, no scent in it, really nice serum."

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"I love this stuff. It's expensive, but if you're going to be into this one you've got to learn to watch for sales because when you can get on sale it saves a lot of money really fast. The thing is that around the metal of this it starts to flake off and starts to get on your face, which is not a good look, but I need to repurchase it."

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"I love peptides. I love growth factors. They're great for helping deep down in your skin, renew it, soothe it, help with collagen production. The SkinMedica TNS Advanced Serum is one of my favorites. This stuff's really nice."

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"The SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum, I just love this stuff. It sucks because it's so expensive, but it really is a game changer. This contains their proprietary formula of human fibroblast conditioned media cells which helps with collagen production and increase in plumpness in skin, and it is noticeable within a few nights to a week or two. It's amazing. I hate that it's amazing because it's so expensive, but most products that are really expensive typically aren't worth the money, but that is one of a handful of them."

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"The SkinMedica TNS Advanced+ Serum is one of the two products I've noticed work the fastest with the fastest results. Almost nothing can deliver that fast, but even this product is a couple weeks or a week or two before I noticed a difference. It's got no denaturating drying types of alcohol, which is nice for sensitive skin. There's no fragrance ingredients and no noticeable scent, which is also very nice for sensitive skin. The manufacturing location is the US. It has a lotiony texture."

Geek & Gorgeous C+ Glow Serum

"I love this serum. If you haven't tried it, where have you been living? If you like SkinCeuticals CE serum, save yourself a couple hundred bucks and get something fresh like the Geek & Gorgeous C Glow. They manufacture it regularly. I've been using this one for about three weeks now and it's still crystal clear. I've become lazy and don't keep it in my fridge anymore because I found I'm just more consistent at using it if I don't have to remember to go to my fridge to put it on. It's $14. It's a bargain. Love it. Highly recommend it. Water-based, very similar to SkinCeuticals serum, except for the price tag. It's got the trifecta of ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, and vitamin E. That is the anti-aging prevention trifecta."

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"Geek & Gorgeous, we've got the airless dropper bottle which is basic, it's simple, it's effective."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous has a tendency to set a little bit faster and feel a little less sticky and it layers just a little bit easier. I'm not sure if that's because the Timeless contains a little bit of hyaluronic acid in it but the Geek and Gorgeous for me is just a touch more pleasant to apply. It's a close point but the Geek and Gorgeous is just a little bit less sticky and layers a little bit easier. For the Geek and Gorgeous we have 15 L ascorbic acid, point five percent ferulic acid, and then vitamin E. In my opinion the ingredients that are most important in a vitamin C serum you want ascorbic acid, you want ferulic acid, you want vitamin E. Those three together are the trio that are magical."

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"They're in the sweet spot with the percentage of ascorbic acid they use, 15 percent, which also happens to be what SkinCeuticals uses. It's the same amount of the highly researched SkinCeuticals vitamin C serum, so 15 seems to be a great amount that's going to be highly effective but not too much that can irritate skin. I'm very impressed with how much this has helped brighten my skin up while not irritating it at all. The other nice thing is Geek & Gorgeous's products always arrive crystal clear. They manufacture it weekly and it lasts without oxidizing with daily use for a couple months. I can usually finish this before it goes bad. For performance, Geek & Gorgeous has the edge. 15 percent is the sweet spot, 20 is a little high and can be irritating, 10 percent is good for sensitive skin, but 15 is where you want it to be, especially based on the research done by SkinCeuticals. Geek & Gorgeous is also cruelty free as well as vegan."

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"I absolutely love it. It's in that sweet sweet spot percentage of 15 and there's not a lot of other ingredients that can mess around with other products in your teens. If you want that extra five percent and it's not going to irritate your skin then go for it. If price is a big concern especially now in the US, Geek and Gorgeous has the shipping now in the US where it's much more affordable and they make it weekly."

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"The Geek & Gorgeous C+ Glow Serum is the best vitamin C serum I found. Proper pH, proper percentage, contains the other two ingredients vitamin E and ferulic acid that make vitamin C more stable. They manufacture it weekly so it's always fresh, and it's also really darn affordable. Unless you're super sensitive to sorbic acid, if you haven't tried it, give it a whirl."

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"It contains 15 percent ascorbic acid, clinically proven active that gives skin environmental protection, boosts collagen production, and fades hyperpigmentation. Also contains ferulic acid and vitamin E, which are antioxidants that help stabilize vitamin C and increase its antioxidant power. It is so darn affordable. They make these fresh regularly, weekly, so you're not going to get an oxidized product and it will last a long time, stay fresh a long time."

Regimen Lab Level Serum

"The first one is the Regimen Lab Level serum. This one's got a ton of other brightening ingredients in it as well. Niacinamide, tranexamic acid, alpha arbutin, and licorice root. So this one's a nice do it all kind of brightening product as well."

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"This is my fourth bottle now, it's 42 bucks. In here we've got niacinamide, tranexamic acid, acetyl glucosamine, alpha arbutin, licorice, curcumin which is a compound from turmeric, and then hexyl resveratrol for brightening. This one's really nice, acne-prone skin friendly, actually pretty friendly for all skin types. It's got some nice ingredients in there that aren't in a few of these, such as the hexyl resveratrol."

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"Regimen Lab Level Serum, this stuff's wonderful for hyperpigmentation, melasma, dark spots. It's got a light water texture I really enjoy. I finish this one up and I'll definitely pick up another one. This is certainly something I would come back to in the future."

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"There's a wide variety of brightening and pigmentation fighting ingredients in here, uses five different lighting ingredients as well as salicylic acid. It's friendly for all skin types including dry, oily, sensitive, and acne-prone skin with no ingredients that would be irritating for acne-prone skin. That's amazing that they can include this many different ingredients to brighten up skin and not irritate any skin types or be too much or too drying or too oily or too greasy. Once it's soaked in it kind of sets to a slightly radiant finish. In terms of the price, this stuff is a bargain: 30 milliliters for 18 bucks, that's a really good deal. I really enjoyed this one and I highly recommend it for people with melasma, sunspots, dark spots, and hyperpigmentation issues."

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"The Regimen Lab Level Serum is amazing, it's great for that if your skin isn't sensitive to fragrance."

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"Regimen Lab Level Serum is really wonderful. In here we've got niacinamide, tranexamic acid, acetyl glucosamine, alpha arbutin, sepy white, licorice extract, and a turmeric-based active tetrahydrofurolmethine from the turmeric plant, and then hexorescinol. This one is absolutely lovely. It's a little bit more pricey than some of the other options, but they do have sales from time to time where you can pick it up with a set."

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"My favorite from them is their Level serum. It's a great brightening serum. I've repurchased that at least three times now and finished them all, so definitely time to pick up another one."

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"The Regimen Lab Level Serum is in my top picks. This one contains transexamic acid and a bunch of other good ones for brightening."

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"Regimen Lab Level Serum, this stuff's very impressive. So in here we've got niacinamide, we've got tranexamic acid, got alpha arbutin, we've got licorice root and we've got hexylresorcinol and all of those ingredients are good at fighting pigmentation, clearing it up and some of them are good at preventing it from forming so you can treat ones that exist and then also prevent new hyperpigmentation from forming with certain ingredients. This one's really nice, it's pretty affordable. The texture is water light so you can fit it into your routine really really easily without having to change anything else around. I've repurchased it three times now. You can use it morning or evening routine."

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"I'm going with the Regimen Lab Level Serum for brightening and that's why I applied a kind of neutral product in between the ultimate serum which has a lot of peptides and something like this which has some tranexamic acid in things I think it helps play better with the other products if you apply something in between a friendly product that works good between both of them. I just love this serum because hyperpigmentation melasma are a pain to get rid of if you ever can get rid of them, especially melasma once you've got it it's difficult to get rid of it if not impossible but you can make it a lot less noticeable by using brightening products and sunscreen and stay out of the bright lights."

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"The Regimen Lab Level Serum for brightening your skin up, it's really nice product and really good brightening ingredients. So if you have melasma, hyperpigmentation, this one is worth a try. I think this is my fourth bottle of it now and I really love it for all of those reasons."

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"The Regimen Lab Level serum, hands down for hyperpigmentation and melasma, one of my most often recommended products. In here we've got niacinamide, tranexamic acid, alpha arbutin, licorice root, and hexyl resveratrol. This stuff is really nice, fragrance-free. A little bit goes a long way. It might look initially a little pricey, but a bottle like this that's 1 oz with daily use will last I would say 2 to 3 months because it's super light. Less than a pump is enough to cover your whole face, so it's a very nice product."

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"I've got the Regimen Lab Level Serum, third, fourth bottle of this, fifth maybe, I don't know. It's wonderful. So in here we've got niacinamide, we've got cetyl glucosamine, tranexamic acid, alpha arbutin, an ingredient called underoyl phenoline, licorice root, and hexosorcinol. So this one's got a few ingredients that none of the other ones have as well, so something worth considering to try if you've tried a lot of other brightening products. This one's really affordable, 17 bucks I think, not on sale."

In Beauty Project ProC serum

"The In Beauty Project ProC serum has resveratrol in there, ascorbic acid, tranexamic acid, ferulic acid. It's got a lot of nice brightening ingredients if you're willing to take the chance with this company. I do like the product and I've liked the brand, but I've heard from a couple people that mentioned they had issues with customer service not being very helpful. When you hear bad things about customer service, it doesn't make me want to recommend them. Or maybe order it from Sephora where you could return it more easily."

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Skin Medicica TNS Advanced+ Serum

"This one's great for dry skin. I use a lot at night. I also use this on my neck or even post-procedure skin because it's got all the nice rejuvenating ingredients as well as the anti-aging ingredients in here. This one helps fight wrinkles, especially around the eye area. Third, fourth day, the very first time I used this, I looked at my eye area and it just looks so much better than it had before. It was really a gamechanging product for me. Within three or four days, wow, it just looks better, more youthful. It also helps firm and brighten skin. The star of the show is their human fibroblast conditioned media, which helps with fine lines, wrinkles, helps skin tone and texture."

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"This expensive one, the Skin Medicica TNS Advanced+ Serum, so expensive. I've been using it a lot lately. I've been researching everywhere where to buy it because I kept thinking I need to buy a backup."

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"The winner for favorite Luxe Skincare product of the year is the Skin Medicica TNS Advanced Serum, which is coming out with new packaging this year."

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"It's one of the few products that really helped with a dull appearance, the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles within about a week or a couple days. This is one of the few gamechanging products that have been total game changers for me. Their human fibroblast condition media is the real deal. It's fragrance free, lightweight, gel texture, allows layering. It's got a really nice silky texture to it where you can use it underneath sunscreens if you want to use in the daytime. Works well, great for all skin, dry skin, oily skin, all that. Very friendly, very nice. The packaging is the major bummer to this product. The product itself is great. The packaging sucks. They could use a revamp of it. The dual chamber is kind of a pain, and for a $300 serum, the packaging leaves a lot to be desired."

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"One of the most clinically supported growth factor serums on the market. It's one of the few products that really helped with a dull appearance, the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles within about a week or a couple days. This is one of the few gamechanging products that have been total game changers for me. Their human fibroblast conditioned media is the real deal. It's fragrance free, lightweight, gel texture, allows layering. It's got a really nice silky texture to it where you can use it underneath sunscreens if you want to use in the daytime. Works well, great for all skin, dry skin, oily skin, all that. Very friendly, very nice. The packaging is the major bummer to this product. The product itself is great. The packaging sucks. For a $300 serum, the packaging leaves a lot to be desired."

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"It's one of the few products that really helped with a dull appearance, the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles within about a week, a couple days. This is one of the few gamechanging products. Their human fibroblast conditioned media is the real deal. It's fragrance free, lightweight, gel texture, allows layering. The product itself is great. It's got a really nice silky texture to it where you can use it underneath sunscreens if you want to use in the daytime. It works well, great for all skin, dry skin, oily skin. Very friendly, very nice. The packaging is the major bummer to this product. The packaging sucks. They could use a revamp of it. The fake foil gets on you, the dual chamber is kind of a pain, and one chamber definitely pumps out a lot more than the other one. For a $300 serum, the packaging leaves a lot to be desired."

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"The first product that I've noticed the most benefits from is Skin Medicica TNS Advanced Serum. It's 1 oz for 295 bucks. Within two or three days I noticed my skin looked softer and smoother. Lines looked less apparent. The star of the show for this one is their human fibroblast conditioned media, which encourages skin cell renewal and supports collagen and elastin levels, revealing a smoother, more radiant and youthful complexion. It also contains dimer tripeptide 43, grape seed flour extract, and whey proteins. Dermstore repackaged it with two separate independent pumps, which is better because neither of the pumps gets stuck the way they did with the old packaging. And they got rid of the fake foil packaging because that foil would start to peel off. This is a hugely beneficial product. I don't use it in large amounts and I really just apply it where my skin needs it, so I don't smooth it on my cheeks since my cheeks don't have fine lines and wrinkles, but around my eyes and around my mouth is where I focus on. So this stuff is great."

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"The Skin Medicica TNS serum is the closest I've gotten so far to an all-in-one product that addresses fine lines, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, large pores, melasma, loss of volume, and sagging. It's very freaking expensive, but it's the closest I've gotten to it. The formula includes niacinamide, which is a brightening ingredient, glycolic acid and lactic acid as exfoliants that are most effective at a pH between three and four and help with firming, collagen production, skin thickness, and wrinkles with regular use, though I didn't see that performance with this one. It also has retinol, the gold standard anti-aging ingredient that helps with fine lines, wrinkles, brightness, and prevents acne breakouts, plus phospholipids, a skin-identical ingredient for repair."

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"I've tested both of these. I just haven't found these for their price to be as efficient or effective. I found the Skin Medicica to be more beneficial. I just think the Skin Medicica is just more efficient, more effective for me. I found the Skin Medicica to be one of the most efficient, effective anti-aging products out of all of them."

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"Another one is the Skin Medicica TNS serum, which is $300. The A pad's a little bit better because it's like 12 bucks."

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"The Skin Medicica TNS Advanced+ Serum is really expensive, but it gives my skin amazing nearly overnight results. It really helps me with fine lines and wrinkles. Within a couple nights it does make a huge difference. It really gives skin a nice plump appearance and firmer, and wrinkles look a little less noticeable. They use their patented fibroblast cocktail which is really amazing. It's a gamechanging product. I will say a couple things I dislike: I dislike the dual pump system. It's annoying and frustrating, and it doesn't always come out all at once. I also really dislike the silver packaging on it because after you've been using it for a month or two, they start to flake off and you start to notice them on your skin. But it is worth every penny. It's amazing. No fragrance."

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"I love the product. It's amazing. It's one of the sole products that really makes a noticeable difference in fine lines and wrinkles and it's a game changer."

Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum

"I'm on my third tube of it, and I've repurchased it many times. This one has 10% Azelaic Acid, and then for soothing we've got panthenol and betaine. And then we also have spinach, broccoli, and green algae for antioxidants. Green algae is a great protecting ingredient as well. It's a nice one to use during the daytime. This one's got more of a lotiony texture to it. This one tends to be a little bit more on the hydrating side, or sets to more of a radiant finish. Really nice, no scent. If you have oilier skin, this one's great."

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"Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum, this stuff's really nice."

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"The Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum has 10% azelaic acid, which is a superstar ingredient for so many things. It's great for acne, treating redness, treating hyperpigmentation, dark spots, melasma. It's just an amazing ingredient. This product is great for sensitive, eczema and rosacea prone skin. I will say it does contain a small amount of gardenia florida extract, so technically while this product is unscented, it's not technically fragrance free, but you don't notice any scent and most people don't have an issue with the gardenia florida. But anyway, it's a nice one."

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"The Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum, this stuff is great. Ten percent azelaic acid does help with redness. If you haven't used azelaic acid before I highly recommend checking it out. It brought my skin from a good level to the next level in terms of hyperpigmentation and redness. Azelaic acid is amazing. This product is really wonderful, and I think it's nineteen dollars and it lasts a long time. Amazing product. If you haven't tried it, check it out."

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"Coming at 20 bucks, the Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum. This one has 1,745 five-star reviews. I've repurchased this now I believe three times. I absolutely love it. It's great for rosacea-prone skin and it's great for acne-prone skin types as well. We've got 10% azelaic acid, we've got centella, we've got spinach, we've got broccoli."

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"The Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum contains 10% azelaic acid and it's $19 for 1 ounce."

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"The Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum has 10% azelaic acid. It's got green algae, panthenol, centella, spinach, and allantoin. And it's got a lotion texture."

Abib Glutathione Dark Spot Serum

"The Abib Glutathione Dark Spot Serum. This one again fragrance-free. It has niacinamide, acetylglucosamine which I don't think I've seen in any of these other ones. But acetylglucosamine great for brightening skin up. We have ascorbic acid, ethyl ascorbic acid, ascorbic glucoside. So we've got three different types of vitamin C. Vitamin C great brightening ingredient. Really wonderful. Then we've got glutathione, ferulic acid and beta glucan. Ferulic acid is great to use and helps vitamin C work better underneath your sunscreen. It's got those little droplets in there which don't really notice them on your skin. The droplets pop seamlessly and feels really nice and even on your skin. I'm on my second bottle."

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Allies of Skin Mandelic Pigmentation Corrector Night Serum

"Finished this one, the Allies of Skin Mandelic Pigmentation Corrector Night Serum. I need all the help with brightening that I can get. Tough melasma, dark spots, all that good stuff. This stuff's really nice, really effective, efficient. No fragrance in it. It is on the pricey side, but mandelic acid can be really nice for brightening up skin. This stuff lasts forever. Just applying a little bit of it. This was a repurchase, so I've repurchased this two or three times now. It is expensive, but it does do a nice job. It's got some nice brightening ingredients in there. You just apply it at night, works great."

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"The Allies of Skin Mandelic Pigmentation Corrector Night Serum, which is a little bit more expensive than this one. With a 10 being a perfect score, this one a 9. The issue is the price."

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"This is one of my favorite brightening products. It just seems to work well for new and old pigmentation issues. The nice thing for acne prone skin is there's no ingredients of note which make it great for acne prone or blackhead prone skin, and the ingredients in here also fight that. It's a bit pricey at a hundred bucks for 30 milliliters, but I've repurchased it multiple times. I'd Google it and check out prices because it's sometimes on sale at certain places or there might be buy one get one free deals at Allies. The mandelic acid is a light sensitive AHA derived from bitter almond that can gently lift off dead surface skin cells and make skin more soothing in the evening, and it also has antibacterial properties promising against acne and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. It has niacinamide, a skin brightening anti-acne ingredient, and lactic acid, an AHA exfoliating ingredient with hydrating benefits and skin firming and anti-aging benefits when you use it regularly in larger percentages."

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"It's effective enough that I've repurchased this product a couple times, I've purchased it now three times, repurchased it twice. It does help with tough melasma, which is pretty tough hyperpigmentation. It's a tough one to deal with, it's a tough one to treat. I found it gentle enough for daily use and it does contain some nice soothing ingredients and oils. A lot of exfoliants can make your skin feel irritated or flaky, but this one contains some nice soothing ingredients to help prevent that from happening. This is one of my favorite brightening products, it just seems to work well for new and old pigmentation issues. For acne prone skin, there's no ingredients of note which make it great for acne prone or blackhead prone skin, and the ingredients in here also fight that. It's a bit pricey, but in my opinion I've repurchased it multiple times."

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"I found it gentle enough for daily use and it does contain some nice soothing ingredients and oils so a lot of exfoliants can kind of dry your skin or make it feel irritated or flaky, but this one contains some nice soothing ingredients to help prevent that from happening. If you're new to exfoliants I don't recommend starting out using it every single day. I'd start using it every other day, every third day, and then slowly work your way up. This is one of my favorite brightening products. It just seems to work well for new and old pigmentation issues. And then the nice thing for acne prone skin is there's no ingredients of note which make it great for acne prone or blackhead prone skin. The price is a bit pricey, but in my opinion I've repurchased it multiple times. I would Google it and check out for prices because sometimes it's on sale at certain places. Last time I repurchased this it was buy one get one free at Allies. But otherwise if you're just purchasing this retail it's 30 milliliters for about a hundred bucks, so just do some digging and checking because I really like the buy one get one free especially when it's something else that you'd already be willing to try."

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"I absolutely love this serum. Most products I purchase and review are nothing I'll ever repurchase again, but the fact that I've repurchased this multiple times, especially given the price of it, says something huge about this, especially for people with melasma and pigmentation and brightening issues. It just seems to work well. The ingredient list is amazing, I love seeing bakuchiol or superoxide dismutase in an ingredient list. It's a wonderful ingredient list with white tea and several soothing and hydrating ingredients, peptides, vitamin and panthenol. Very impressed with this great brightening and exfoliating product, and the combination of brightening and exfoliating all in one as well as anti-aging, soothing and hydrating."

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"It's a brightening and exfoliating product, and the combination of brightening and exfoliating all in one as well as anti-aging, soothing, and hydrating. If you're looking for a minimalistic routine, you can cleanse, tone, apply this and a moisturizer and I think you're good to go because it does everything else for you. I gave this a nine out of ten. The only issue I had was the price, it's expensive, but it is worth it. A little bit does not go a long way, but a bottle lasts me two to three months, and it basically does everything I need it to do, so it's wonderful."

Topicals Faded Brightening Serum

"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."

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"This is the one I recommend is the unscented version. It's 28 bucks. This one's got some great brightening ingredients. It's got tranexamic acid, and then we've got azelaic acid. And that for me, I got my melasma so much under control, and then it was kind of stagnant for a while. And then I added in azelaic acid, and that really helped brighten it up to the next level. Azelaic acid is great for brightening up skin, hyperpigmentation. It's also great for rosacea, acne-prone skin. It's an amazing ingredient. In addition to that, we've got niacinamide, kojic acid, oxidized glutathione, dimethylmethoxy chromanyl palmitate, which is a brightening ingredient as well as a photoprotective ingredient. We've also got arbutin, licorice root, and melatonin, which has antioxidant benefits as well as brightening benefits for skin. For a long time I was looking for a product that had melatonin in it. There really wasn't much. So, with topicals now it's great to have that option."

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"I am going to put on Topicals Faded, which has a fragrance-free version, but it's in a tiny bottle. I have so much melasma, so I try to use a brightening product in an evening routine every night. I like to mix in as many different brightening products during the week as I can because melasma is a tough one to tackle."

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"The Topicals Faded, which I used to love till they added fragrance."

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"The Topicals Faded, which I loved before they added the fragrance in it and now I don't love it so much."

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"Topicals Faded is also a good one as lactic acid. Also I found very effective for helping with hyperpigmentation. Something like this or topicals Faded are both wonderful."

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"It's great for brightening skin. It's one of the best brightening serums in my opinion for hyperpigmentation, melasma. It's got glycolic acid, kojic acid, tranexamic acid, niacinamide, and chromoily ingredient. It's pretty affordable at 28 bucks regularly, and when you take 20% off that it starts to add up. A little bit goes a long way. I typically don't apply this all over my face. I'll just apply it to the areas where I have my melasma, which is my forehead and cheeks. You can certainly apply it everywhere if you want or if you have dark spots. Really nice product. I prefer the unscented version, but some people like the fragrance and nothing wrong with that."

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"Topicals Faded, their original formula smelled sulfurous and people didn't like it, so they added fragrance. If you can handle the fragrance in it, it's well worth it. It's got a lot of great ingredients. It's still pretty affordable."

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"This is a brightening serum with tranexamic acid, niacinamide, AIC acid, KIC acid, oxidized glutathione, and arbetin. Really nice. I've repurchased this probably my third or fourth tube now. And it's the unscented version. They have a scented version. If you don't like the smell of it, it has kind of an earthy scent to it, I would say, sulfurish almost. Some people didn't like the scented version, so they brought back the unscented version later, thankfully, because I did not like the scented version. Typically with most things, I'd rather just smell a bad ingredient than have something that's kind of covering it up."

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"Topicals Faded, it does contain fragrance. I finished a tube up and I didn't repurchase it because I didn't like the scent to it, but if you tolerate fragrance in it, it's worth trying because it also contains tranexamic acid, niacinamide, alpha arbutin, and azelaic acid. So if you tolerate the scent to it, it's definitely worth using."

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"Topicals Faded, if you can stand fragrance, topicals Faded, I wish they would have left the fragrance out but it's still really good serum."

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"It's got salicylic acid, arbutin, kojic acid, glutathione, turmeric, licorice root. It is wonderful. In terms of brightening skin, this is going to be in my holy grails. If I had to pick 10 best brightening products, this is definitely going to be one of them. There's a lot of great brightening products and this is certainly worth checking out if you haven't tried it before."

Remedy Dark Spot Serum

"This one's got a whole variety of ingredients that are known to help brighten skin. You want to use this one at night for sure. And definitely use sunscreen with this one because of those retinoids and the mandelic acid makes your skin more prone to skin damage. So, definitely sunscreen. This one's great."

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"Overall this one's really nice. It's a new product that they released and it's a very nice product overall and it's pretty friendly. I will say if you have super acne prone skin it is on the thicker side so just be aware of that, but overall very nice product."

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"This one has a pretty long list of ingredients. We've got niacinamide, tranexamic acid, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate vitamin C derivative, soybean seed extract, turmeric root, acetyl glucosamine, licorice root, and then we also have retinol and mandalic acid which aren't technically brightening ingredients but they do brighten up your skin by using it. This one is really nice, a really nice complete list of ingredients for brightening. Different brightening ingredients work different ways, some work by stopping the pigmentation and some work by correcting what's already there. This one's nice though and has no scent in it."

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"The Remedy Dark Spot Serum has a little bit of retinol in there which is good because I don't have any retinol anywhere else in my routine. It's got a lot of good brightening ingredients in it. For brightening we've got retinol, mandelic acid which is an exfoliant, cica acid which is a brightening ingredient for dark spots, then we've got glutathione, licorice root, tranexamic acid, niacinamide, and acetyl glucosamine. It's just pretty nice. It kind of seems like a do-it-all in one. If only it had azelaic acid in there that would be awesome."

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"Their dark spot serum is great."

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"Another alternative is the Remedy Dark Spot Serum, which is 38 bucks. This one's got niacinamide, mandelic acid, tranexamic acid, glutathione, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, licorice root, and silibum extract for brightening up skin. Really nice product from their nice lineup from Remedy."

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"Remedy for dark spots, they've got retinol, mandelic acid, KIC acid, glutathione, licorice root, tranexamic acid, niacinamide, psyllium, and acetyl glucosamine. All proven to help brighten skin tones. This one is in my top picks."

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"I've alternated it just to give my skin a break to get some hydration because Retinol can be drying. I've also used it in conjunction with microneedling, so one night I'll microneedle and the next day I'll use it, and I do think this has helped brighten my skin up a bit. I will finish it, but at this point I wouldn't repurchase it because melasma is my main source of hyperpigmentation and it's hard enough to treat and I don't want to take anything to risk it getting worse. But I do notice this brightens my skin up so far. For what this product promises, to help fade the look of existing dark spots, prevent future discoloration, and promote even skin tone, I'd agree that this helps with most of those, though I'm not exactly sure this can do much to prevent future discoloration. I would say this is going to be most successful if your hyperpigmentation is from sun exposure or post-inflammatory."

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"For what this product promises it promises to help fade the look of existing dark spots prevent future discoloration and promote even skin tone I'd agree that this helps with most of those. I would say this is going to be most successful if your hyperpigmentation is from sun exposure or post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. If it's from melasma just be careful with it and get to the root of the causes that can help more with prevention. Overall it's a really nice one."

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"I like this product. If that didn't [factor in], it would be up there with the level serum and The Topicals Faded Serum before they added fragrance. I have this one an eight, it's very nice overall and for most people I think this will be a winner. Just be sure to start out slow and continue use sunscreen during the daytime when you're using this, otherwise you're wasting your time and money."

Bubble Daydream Tone and Texture Serum

"If you've got hyperpigmentation and haven't tried a lot of other products, this might be a nice one to start with. We've got that vitamin C derivative sodium ascorbyl phosphate. The reason you see that compared to some of the other vitamin C derivatives is that one specifically has been known for its benefits for brightening skin. Other than that we've got niacinamide, alpha arbutin, tranexamic acid, and licorice root. It's really nice, gentle enough I think if you have a kid or a teenager. This brand is pretty friendly for younger people."

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"The Bubble Daydream Tone and Texture Serum is really great. It contains tranexamic acid which reduces melanin and reduces inflammatory mediators, and it also contains brightening ingredients such as niacinamide, alpha arbutin and licorice root. It also contains vitamin C in the form of sodium ascorbyl phosphate. I've repurchased this. It's quite nice, and it's so affordable. I think it's like 16 bucks a bottle. You can't beat that in terms of price."

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"The Bubble Daydream vitamin C serum has a lot of brightening ingredients in it as well as different forms of vitamin C. I really think it helped brighten my skin up and it's really affordable."

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"This one is a really nice affordable serum. It's very light textured. I love it. I'll definitely repurchase it. Bubble's got some really nice things. If you're looking for a regimen lab level serum dupe, this is the closest one I have found yet."

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"It's got a vitamin C derivative, alpha arbutin, which is a brightening ingredient, tranexamic acid, another great brightening ingredient. It's got ceramides for helping the skin barrier and helping with hydration, licorice root, another brightening ingredient, and then rice bran extract. It's a really nice lightweight serum. You could use this if you've got a younger person or somebody my age. It's a really nice daytime vitamin C serum, or you can use it in your evening routine as well if you want. Sometimes I'll even layer this over my regular vitamin C serum, or sometimes I'll layer this over just as the hydrating serum and it seems to work well for that as well. I love the brightening ingredients as someone with lots of hyperpigmentation and melasma issues."

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"The Bubble Daydream Serum, this one's got a nice list: niacinamide, alpha arbutin, sodium ascorbyl phosphate, tranexamic acid, licorice root, and then rice bran extract which has shown some benefits for soothing as well as brightening skin. This one's really affordable, really nice one, great serum. No scent in it, can't go wrong with it. If you haven't tried a lot of other products, this might be a nice one to start with because it's so affordable."

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"The Bubble Daydream is a nice vitamin C serum that's got sodium ascorbyl phosphate, which is a derivative vitamin C that's thought to be brightening for skin. It's got niacinamide, tranexamic acid for brightening. It's got ceramides, rice bran, and marshmallow, which is a good beneficial ingredient for skin."

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"Bubble's daydream serum is great for brightening skin. It is a good product. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, but it is made for the most amount of people that will be able to use it and buy it without having a reaction. Is it made with as much actives as other products might have or have as good benefits and results as other products that might be more expensive that aren't drugstore brands? Probably not."

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."

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"The Peach Slices Super Fade contains niacinamide, acetyl glucosamine, azelaic acid, green tea, and licorice root. So this one's really nice. Although I've heard from some people that said they didn't love this one, didn't find it super effective. But if you're just starting out with hyperpigmentation, might be a good one to start with because it's like 11 bucks. So really affordable, really nice product. No fragrance or anything like that."

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"I gave this one a 10. There's nothing to lose. You have dark spots and hyperpigmentation, this is one you can nicely end your routine and you probably notice some benefits. For the super stubborn stuff, it's worth trying, but keep your expectations clear because some hyperpigmentation is just really stubborn."

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"This one focuses on niacinamide and tranexamic acid. It's a good option for fighting hyperpigmentation and dark spots. Be sure to use sunscreen during the daytime. If you're not going to use sunscreen, there's no point even using this really because they're just going to get worse and more noticeable. This one worked for some of my newer hyperpigmentation spots. One actually from a scratch I noticed it helped. I've been using it there and it actually really helped. It was a lot more noticeable about a month ago. My melasma, it might have helped. I honestly didn't notice much, but my melasma that's left is super stubborn. I've tried hundreds of products on it. At this point, it's probably here to stay. What this product promises is it visibly and rapidly brightens post blemish marks, dark spots, and hyperpigmentation. I would agree it does all of that. It doesn't make any promises about melasma. Melasma is its own unique hyperpigmentation. So this does a nice job."

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"This product promises to visibly and rapidly brighten post-blemish marks, dark spots, and hyperpigmentation. I would agree it does all of that. It doesn't make any promises about melasma, which is its own unique hyperpigmentation. This does a nice job and delivers on all the promises, and in my opinion, this will work well for all skin types: oily, dry, sensitive, and acne-prone. There are no ingredients known to be problematic for acne-prone skin. For the price, that's the even better part. It's 1 oz, 30 milliliters for 12 bucks, which these days you can't find much for 12 bucks or under. It's got a nice texture, good packaging, good ingredients, great price, and it's cruelty-free. If you have dark spots, this one's a nice one to try."

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"There's no scent to this one but it feels really nice, it sets to kind of a nice matte finish. It's full of goodies with mat cas, azelaic acid, panthenol, green tea. It's a little bit tacky of a finish but you're going to apply something over it so it's not a big deal. I feel nice, I'll keep using it."

Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream

"I've had a problem with the Drunk Elephant Protini, which is why I stopped really using it. It foams up over vitamin C serum."

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"I've had a problem with the Drunk Elephant Protini, which is why I stopped really using it. It foams up over vitamin C serum."

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"I really loved it. Something in it changed or something about my skin chemistry changed. I don't know what it is, but I don't love it anymore. Usually when I apply it, it froths up. It got very expensive and for some reason something that just started to not work as well and I didn't like the foaminess and it became a high maintenance product."

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"Every time I apply this it foams up, unless I apply it on dry skin with nothing else on it, it foams up, and even then it foams up. I don't know something changed or I have no idea, but it foams every time, and I used to love this stuff, man. I would go through it so fast, and now I'm still working on the same jar for like a year or two years. I don't know, it just foams up."

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"It feels nice. The real deal has no chemical smell which is nice. Both feel very similar in terms of texture. The first three ingredients are the same: water, glycerin, and then diethyl carbonate. Instead of using the marula oil that Drunk Elephant uses, the dupe product used macadamia oil instead, which I found interesting."

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"Very similar to the Drunk Elephant Protini in terms of ingredients."

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"Both of them foam up anytime I apply it on top of almost anything. At first I thought maybe it was the vitamin C serum I was applying it over, then I'd wait 10, 15 minutes, it would still foam. I'd apply it over a regular serum without anything, it would foam up. So in my opinion, this one's not relevant anymore. There's really nice dupes and alternatives that you don't need to spend that much for. One of them being the Neogen Dermatology High RX Exosome Cream, which I think is 19 bucks right now. It's got a lot of the same great ingredients, anti-aging ingredients, resveratrol, it's lovely. This has no scent, and this one doesn't foam every time I apply it. And you're saving around 50 bucks."

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"I love it, it's probably out of all these one I've repurchased the most. However, I don't know something changed in it because almost anytime I apply this now it foams up. It's a good moisturizer, it works well for so many people. It's expensive, it's 69 bucks. Something changed or something I changed or maybe something in my skin changed, but almost anytime I apply this now it froths up on me. I don't know, but one of my best friends just bought it and loves it, doesn't have that issue. It's still getting rave reviews. The texture is really nice, gel cream texture, seems to work well for dry, oily and acne prone skin, except for some reason my skin where it foams up every time."

Plated Skin Science Intense Serum

"It works really nicely right under sunscreen or makeup. It's got a silicone in it so it gives it that nice sheen that looks like a good primer. In addition to the Exosomes it's got arginine and cilantro oil which is a great antioxidant. Really nice product."

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"I've got the intense serum, which is about the same price. You get half as much. I use this around my eyes, in between my eyes and around my mouth where my wrinkles are the worst. The platelets are great. The plated intense serum has like 17 million or something like that. It's more concentrated and is more expensive, but you don't necessarily have to go right to it if you want. The exosomes are great for your skin."

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"It has a nice gel texture. I've been focusing on applying it mostly in the areas where I get the most wrinkles, which is typically around my eyes and around my mouth. I'm glad that they add some soothing ingredients for it. I've been using this now since Friday and it seems like this is going to last longer than I thought. A little bit goes a long way with this, which is nice. It's definitely thick and contains the methone 4% and then the processed skin proteins is kind of their deal."

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"For wrinkles and fine lines, it definitely has helped, especially around my eyes. I notice that the most. It helps with the fine lines and instantly kind of plumping skin near instantly upon application. I would put this on the same pedestal that I put the Skin Medicica TN TS advanced serum, which is absolutely amazing and wonderful. I do believe this probably would help with melasma. Previously used their calm serum which had the platelets and I did find that helped really heal and soothe my skin after a peel amazingly, and the calm serum did seem to help with the pigmentation and things like that. This is just kind of a whole new phase for anti-aging and you can use it with those other ingredients as a really way to fully work on anti-aging. For acne prone skin there's no ingredients of note. In terms of the price, it is expensive."

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"It promises to reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles, even the appearance of dark spots and redness, enhance luminosity and glow. For wrinkles and fine lines, it definitely has helped, especially around my eyes. I notice that the most. It helps with the fine lines and instantly kind of plumps skin near instantly upon application. I would put this on the same pedestal that I put the Skin Medicica TN TS advanced serum, which is absolutely amazing and wonderful. I do believe this probably would help with melasma. Previously I used their calm serum which had the platelets and I did find that helped really heal and soothe my skin after a peel amazingly. The calm serum did seem to help with the pigmentation and things like that. This is just a whole new phase for anti-aging and you can use it with other ingredients like retinoids, peptides, and ascorbic acid as a way to fully work on anti-aging."

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"It is expensive, but it's a really nice product and worth checking out. Out of a 10, I gave this a nine. This would be a 10 out of 10 if I could get it for free."

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"This one is Plated Intense Serum, which they consider to be Plated's strongest exosome serum, containing over one trillion of human platelet extract. It's geared for advanced signs of aging but can be used on a daily basis. It's pricey, but I've noticed the one from the calm line really helped calm my skin down and help it with plumping, so I'm hoping I'll get the same benefit from this one."

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"They use blood that's just expiring to remove their exosomes from it. So instead of using like plant-based PDRN type exosomes, they use actual human donor, which for my experience using it, I find it makes it a little bit more effective fighting fine lines and wrinkles. It also contains argan and celandriol, which is an antioxidant. So it's a very simple formula. It is expensive. The intense contains what did they say, I think 30 million exosomes. So the intense is a little bit stronger."

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"The Plated Intense Serum is very expensive, around 265 or 255 dollars for a half ounce. I've finished their calm serum and I'm about halfway through this one. I just use it only where I have wrinkles, so I don't waste it anywhere else. I just use it around my mouth and around my eyes, in between my eyebrows. Because I feel like it's so expensive, it's wasted. I will say the people that have used Plated absolutely love it. I've got a couple friends that use it and find it totally gamechanging and amazing."

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"Just a little bit of it helps with collagen production deep down in skin. And if you use it in conjunction with micro needle or laser, it's even better. So, very nice product. No scent, very short ingredient list. The Plated really does work well in conjunction with micro needling."

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NIOD Survival 0

"It's just a great antioxidant serum, well not being ascorbic acid serum, it's just great for daytime protection."

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"I absolutely love the NIOD Survival 0. This is probably my favorite antioxidant serum. It's very effective and I've repurchased it multiple times. This one's the more affordable one, so I'd probably recommend this one."

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"NIOD Survival Zero, which is great. It's full of antioxidants. This stuff's really nice and super light. Fit into your routine really easily."

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"It's just a great antioxidant serum, well not being ascorbic acid serum, it's just great for daytime protection."

The Ordinary Soothing and 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."

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"This is great for soothing skin, dry skin, dehydrated skin. Contains some nice hydrating, soothing ingredients as well. You can pretty much use this easily in your evening routine. It has kind of a light texture to it. This one has got really nice lightweight serum. It's easy to fit into your evening routine. You can just use in the place of a serum or in addition to a serum. Great if you have dry skin. It's very soothing and calming. It's got some calming ingredients in there that are actually some of them are pretty new ingredients that are great for calming if you're using a retinoid that you haven't gotten adjusted to or if your skin is irritated from something else or a peel or whatever. It's got some ingredients in here that instantly calm your skin down."

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"This is their soothing and barrier support Serum. At first I thought this was too much. I didn't like the color because it is very pink and the next morning when you go to wash off or if you use like sometimes I'll just use a cotton pad with a little bit of micellar water on it you will notice it's pink. I didn't like that. It is very greasy. However, if you use this in your evening routine it's got some really nice soothing ingredients. I found it plays really nicely if I'm going to use like a strong exfoliant in my routine or strong treatment. This really helps balance out the prevention of dryness with those. And it's in the long run pretty affordable. It's got some nice ingredients in it. Obviously the pink is annoying, but I don't use this in my daytime routine ever because for me it didn't work well that way, but at nighttime it was pretty nice for that."

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"It's got the Sim Calman ingredient which is a great peptide that helps with if your skin feels itchy, dry, painful, that's an ingredient that you want on your skin because it helps soothe it and calm it down. And it's got propylate. So this is a really nice one."

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"It has a nice list of skin calming, skin soothing, wound healing ingredients like xylitol, ginger root extract, and vitamin E which is an antioxidant. I got a scratch on my cheek and put this on it, and it really helped calm it down and stopped it from stinging. If you have any tiny little wounds or areas like that, I think it's really good for that. In terms of performance, the promises it makes are that it's going to help your barrier and boost hydration, and I think it does both of those. The ingredients are proof of that, they use skin soothing, barrier repairing, wound healing ingredients in here. It's very nicely hydrating. It does feel a little bit greasy, but I mean it's not a huge deal especially if you're going to use it in your evening routine."

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"It enhances your skin barrier, contains ingredients that will hydrate and soothe your skin, and may also help with calming breakouts as well. It's very nicely hydrating. It does feel a little bit greasy, but it's not a huge deal especially if you're going to use it in your evening routine. It does help with skin that's dry or irritated. The impressive thing with this serum is they created something that's very moisturizing and soothing and it's friendly for almost all skin types, even for mostly acne-prone skin. For acne-prone skin there's only three ingredients of note: cetyl alcohol, stearic acid, and vitamin E. So it's pretty friendly for dry skin, oily skin, sensitive skin, and pretty friendly for acne-prone skin as well. This is a full size 30 milliliters and retails for 17 bucks, so it's more expensive than a lot of The Ordinary products but still not ridiculously expensive."

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"The Ordinary Soothing and Barrier Support Serum uses skin soothing, barrier repairing, wound healing ingredients. It does what it promises, enhances your skin barrier, contains ingredients that will hydrate and soothe your skin, and may also help with calming breakouts. It's very nicely hydrating, though it does feel a little bit greasy, but that's not a huge deal especially if you're going to use it in your evening routine. It does help with skin that's dry or irritated. The impressive thing with this serum is they created something that's very moisturizing and soothing and it's friendly for almost all skin types, even for mostly acne-prone skin. It's pretty friendly for dry skin, oily skin, sensitive skin, and acne-prone skin as well. In terms of price, this is a full size 30 milliliters and retails for 17 bucks, so it's more expensive than a lot of The Ordinary products but still not ridiculously expensive."

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"It does help with skin that's dry or irritated. The impressive thing with this serum is they created something that's very moisturizing and soothing and it's friendly for almost all skin types, even for mostly acne-prone skin. For acne-prone skin there's only three ingredients of note: cetyl alcohol, stearic acid, and vitamin E, so it's pretty friendly for dry skin, oily skin, sensitive skin, pretty friendly for acne-prone skin as well. It does feel a little bit greasy, but it's not a huge deal especially if you're going to use it in your evening routine. In terms of the price, this is a full size 30 milliliters and retails for 17 bucks, so it's more expensive than a lot of the ordinary products but still not ridiculously expensive."

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"So might be a nice option like if you do like a laser treatment or have some issues where your skin's really burning, maybe you overexfoliated it. Uh could be beneficial for that. So, that is worth checking out."

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"It seems to provide a good base for products. If you have really oily skin, I'd maybe recommend using it more in the evening because it does feel a little tacky, a little bit shiny of a finish. For 17 bucks, I don't think it's terrible. There's a lot of good repairing serums and most of the products were well over 17, so for The Ordinary it's kind of expensive, but it's still more affordable than most other products out there. I like the fact that it's cruelty free, though I'm not a big fan of their parent company, Estée Lauder, which is not cruelty free, and that is an issue for me. This one might be one to check out, I think during winter when my skin gets drier I might appreciate it more. For other people that are starting to use retinoids or exfoliants or peels or lasers, it could be a good backup product for that or micro needling. I don't think it helped much with my redness. I'm always a little pink, and I don't think it did much for that."

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"It does have fragrance in it but it has a slight smell, almost smells a little bit like clay. It feels nice on my skin, it doesn't feel super greasy, but it feels a little tacky. So it's really meant to be a barrier soothing serum. It's got niacinamide, antioxidants like centella and EGCG, ginger root extract, and Vitamin E. For soothing ingredients, they've got an ingredient called Sensille, which is a soothing molecule meant to decrease stinging and burning sensation. So if you've really irritated your skin with a peel or maybe a laser or maybe some type of microneedling treatment, this product might be a good one to calm your skin down. It says it can reduce stinging by up to 78 percent and burning sensation by up to 80 percent after three minutes."

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"It's a nice ingredient list. I really don't think the average person needs to use this twice a day, morning and evening, every day. I would say this might be a good backup for micro needling, lasers, whatever irritation, sunburn, overdid it with acids, overdid it with retinol. But if you have maybe a weekend skin barrier issue or you're getting a lot of redness or flakiness, using it twice a day until your skin heals might not necessarily be a bad thing. Twice a day every day for the rest of your life, I don't know if I could commit to that because there's so many other exciting ingredients I really want to expose my skin to like vitamin C, retinoids, copper peptides. I think you probably could use this with certain other products. I don't really see anything that would conflict with a lot of other products. It's a little tacky, but I put it on six minutes ago so I think it's pretty much as absorbed as it's going to get."

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"I think I might appreciate it more during winter when my skin gets drier. I've got a pretty good routine down where my barrier seems to be not irritated a ton, but for other people that are starting to use retinoids or exfoliants or peels or lasers it could be a good backup product for that or micro needling. I don't think it helped much with my redness, I'm always a little pink, I don't think it did much for that. I'll keep playing with it and definitely do a full review after it's been about a month of testing it out."

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"The Ordinary Soothing and Barrier Support Serum. This one's nice. No issues with it. The star of the show is vitamin B in here, and it's starting to show up in a lot of other products. It adds some hydration. I already bought a backup of it, so that says something. It's affordable for the most part, and it seems to work well for a lot of people."

The Ordinary Multi Antioxidant Radiance Serum

"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. It's 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. It's got ascorbyl glucoside, EGCG which is a great antioxidant, the thymulin 4 peptide that's supposed to help with skin regeneration, ginseng extract which is a great antioxidant, silver ear mushroom extract, and bixa seed extract, which is another strong antioxidant. It's really nice and super light, fit into your routine really easily."

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"It's just watery, absorbs quickly, a little bit of it goes a long way, it's really easy to fit in your routine. Would I use this on its own as an antioxidant serum? Maybe. Depends on how much ginseng is really in here. I have a feeling not that much. And given the price, there's a lot of really good ginseng products and they're a little bit more expensive. But yeah, this one's nice with other products. So that's the caveat or the asterisk at the end of the sentence. I like it with other products."

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Peach and 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 Santella, 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."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really nice, fragrance-free gel serum. I love this stuff. It's now in a glass bottle, used to be in plastic."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really nice, fragrance-free gel serum. I love this stuff. It's now in a glass bottle, used to be in plastic."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum has niacinamide, matrixyl, and asiaticoside in common with the Sunday Riley, and also the Peony Yu black tea boosting serum has nice niacinamide, asiaticoside, and slipping green of glycerin in common."

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"I've repurchased this what six, seven times now. The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really nice. It's a nice fragrance-free gel texture serum with some nice anti-aging and brightening and hydrating ingredients, yet still being a nice product. In terms of simplicity, it's really wonderful. It's a really nice kind of neutralizing serum, so if you want to use like peptides in the same routine as maybe like an exfoliant or something, this is a really nice neutralizing product to use in between them."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really wonderful. It's a neutral serum, something without a ton of ingredients, something that's hydrating and acts as a buffer between other products."

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"the peach and lily glass skin serum is nice"

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum, which is 39 bucks, also contains Snap-8. If you haven't tried this one, it's really wonderful and really easy to fit in your routine as well."

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"The texture is very similar to the Purito Super Light, absorbs quickly, non-greasy. It's in a glass bottle now, which is good for recycling. It's more of a niacinamide type serum with simple ingredients. It's still good and works well for a lot of people. I just want something with a little bit more antioxidants and maybe more anti-aging benefits. I still use it from time to time."

Anua Azelaic Acid 10% Hyaluron Redness Soothing Serum

"This serum, it's really nice from Anua. So, okay, 22 bucks. It's a little more than most K beauty. Like, typically I would expect this product from K beauty to be like 11 or 12 bucks. Not that much."

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"It's got a lot of great reviews. For me, it's a little bit on the almost drying side, I find, and I'm not exactly sure why, but when I use this in my routine, it ends up making my skin feel just a little bit dry. That being said, it's got such a light texture it can easily fit into most people's routines. So that's a nice thing, but maybe it's just not necessarily geared towards drier skin types, but I think it would work better for oilier or acne prone skin types. Nothing wrong with it, but for me, I didn't exactly find it to not be drying."

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"There's nothing wrong with it, but it's a little bit on the almost drying side. I'm not exactly sure why, but when I use this in my routine, it ends up making my skin feel just a little bit dry. That being said, it's got such a light texture it can easily fit into most people's routines. So that's a nice thing, but maybe it's just not necessarily geared towards drier skin types, but I think it would work better for oilier or acne prone skin types. It's affordable and it hits all my main points, but I just don't love it the same way I review other azelaic acid products."

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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."

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"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."

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"The Remedy Healthy Aging Serum is really nice. It contains retinol, retinyl, argalyne, matrixel 3000, glycolic acid, niacinamide, resveratrol, and ferulic acid."

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"I'm torn on this one. For the exfoliation benefits, I wouldn't regard this as a good exfoliant because of its pH that I found. It's not optimal for AHA exfoliants to work to their highest level when it's at this pH. It also contains so many different ingredients and so many actives in one product. Is it a retinoid? Is it an exfoliant? Is it an antioxidant serum? Is it for fine lines and wrinkles? I think they're trying to do a little too much in this. I do like the combo of retinoids that they've used in here. The one issue I did have using this is I don't want to use this with other exfoliants because it does contain a fair amount of glycolic acid in here. So I stopped using my exfoliants while testing this one out, and I started to notice some of the issues that you get when you don't use exfoliants so much, like larger pores. For me, I ended up really preferring to use this like every other night and then still use my exfoliants, and then it just becomes a retinoid serum. I do highly recommend following up with a moisturizer just to prevent dryness."

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"I wasn't overly blown away by the performance. The ingredients include niacinamide which is a brightening ingredient, glycolic acid, HA exfoliant most effective and efficient when it's between three and four pH. When glycolic acid is used in a proper amount or percentage at a proper pH, it actually helps with firming and collagen production in skin with regular use. I didn't see that with this one, but I have noticed it with other glycolic and AHAs that I've used regularly. Got lactic acid, HA exfoliant, again best between three and four pH. When used properly at a proper pH, helps with skin thickness and wrinkles. We've got retinol, anti-aging, gold standard ingredient, helps with fine lines, wrinkles, brightness, prevents acne, breakouts. Phospholipids, skin identical ingredient for repairing and also phospholipids are used with other ingredients to create liposomes which they mention they use for their retinoids. Liposomes are great because they help deliver ingredients penetrating into the skin as well as allow for a slow release so it's not like the retinoids are in your skin and it's irritating."

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"It's an interesting product that combines so many different actives. It's pretty nice to hit them all at once. But definitely do a patch test because it's got a lot of strong ingredients in there. It's very unique and it's got a lot of great anti-aging ingredients, retinoids and exfoliants, and if your skin tolerates it, it's pretty nice to be able to fit everything into one product in your routine."

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"The remedy Healthy Aging Serum is a really nice anti-aging serum with a lot of good ingredients in it. It's got retinol, retinaldehyde, argalene, matrixel 3000, some peptides, glycolic acid, ceramides, resveratrol, and ferulic acid. It's fragrance-free. You can use it in your evening routine. At 30 bucks for 1 oz, 30 milliliters, you can't beat that price, especially since it's hard to find this brand on a good deal."

Medik8 Liquid Peptides Advanced MP+

"This stuff's wonderful. It's a light serum. It helps firm and plump skin. It's got a gellish serumy texture to it. In here we've got really nice ingredients. I would say this one's nice for acne prone skin. It's got some probiotics in there, a couple of them, inulin. It's also got the carnosine peptide, which is an anti-glycation peptide. It's also got the syncol peptide, which is supposed to help produce collagen deep down in skin, which helps with plumping, helps with firmness, all of that good stuff. They've got the argolene and matrixel 3000 peptides. And then it's also got the X50 anti-aging peptide duo. And then it's got the lofasil peptide which helps with expression wrinkles. Really nice product. No scent in it. Wonderful formula."

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"The Medik8 Liquid Peptides serum contains panthenol, sodium hyaluronate, and carnosine peptides, so those are some of my favorite peptides and favorite coordinating products. If you're looking for one that's got them all, these are going to be my favorites and easy to fit in your routine."

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"The Medik8 Liquid Peptides serum, which is $66, contains panthenol, sodium hyaluronate, and carnosine peptide. Those are some of my favorite peptides. If you're looking for overall peptides and that's your main concern, this is one of the products with the most peptides, containing a nice variety of peptides, and it's easy to fit in your routine."

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"The Medik8 Liquid Peptides Advanced MP+ is 60 bucks, so this ends up being $2 per milliliter. More expensive than The Ordinary. However, this one also has a really nice ingredient list. It uses a special kind of copper peptide which does not turn things blue. It's got the X50 anti-aging peptide duo, which is known to promote collagen and elastin in skin. It's got the carnosine peptide, which carnosine on ingredient list doesn't make it look like a peptide, but it is a peptide. It's great for anti-aging. We've got the sinol peptide, the argolene peptide, Tigep 417 peptide for anti-aging."

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"The Medik8 Liquid Peptides Advanced MP is really quite nice for the most part. It's dexmethylone based and it's got matrixyl synthesis. It's got the crystallide peptide which is known for brightening skin up. It's got the synolip peptide, matrixel 3000 and the argireline, botox in a bottle peptide. Fragrance-free. I would say more for dry or dehydrated skin types. If you have oilier skin, it might be a bit on the hydrating side."

In Beauty Project Elastic Skin Firming and Plumping Growth Factor Serum

"The In Beauty Project Elastic Skin Firming and Plumping Growth Factor Serum is amazing. The second you apply it, your skin instantly looks plump, plumper, and with long-term use, it also helps to firm skin up as well. It's got kind of a lotiony texture to it. A little bit goes a long way. It feels a little bit like snail mucin on skin, and it's really nice because it's got that wild yam extract, which is called vegan snail mucin. It's got copper peptides in here. It's got a plant-based peptide that improves skin density as well as elasticity. It's got a peptide which provides collagen elastin support deep down in skin. It's also got another peptide which helps promote elastin production deep down in skin. It's got beta glucan as well as ceramides. It's just so wonderful. No scent, no fragrance. I really enjoy this brand."

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Peach and Lily Copper Peptide Pro Firming Serum

"It's got both the seral peptide as well as the eyeless peptide, which help fight under eye puffiness, dark circles, and eye wrinkles. It's got several amino acids, mushroom extract, watermelon extract. Watermelon is a great antioxidant. Turmeric and eggplant extracts, great both for brightening skin. This stuff is just so wonderful. Highly recommend it."

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"It's very liquidy, so it makes it nice and easy to fit in as the first step in your routine. Very nice product from Peach and Lily."

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"This one's got hexapeptide 9, the matrixyl peptide, watermelon squalane, apple extract, and turmeric. In my opinion, this one is great if you have hyperpigmentation or you're looking for something brightening. It's got that little bit of brightening ingredients from the turmeric and the tetrapeptide 30. One pump is enough to cover your whole face. If you haven't checked it out, highly recommend checking that out."

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"This is a water-based serum. It's very watery which is nice because a little bit goes a long way. It will last a long time with copper peptides. It's got the argolene peptide and squalane, and it's at Ulta so it makes a nice option and it's cheaper as well and it lasts longer."

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"Will fit into most routines easily. In addition to the copper peptides, it also contains argolene matrix 3000 isal peptide which helps with puffiness under your eyes. The collerin peptide, tigo pep as well. In my opinion, this one's great for anti-acne prone skin and also nice for skin that is sagging and might need some firmness. The concentration of copper peptides in this is 2%, so that's going to be significantly lower than the Othe or The Ordinary. But I do love this one. It's really nice and has some nice additional benefits such as fig, eggplant, apple, and watermelon, which is amazing for your skin, especially watermelon seed oil."

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"It's got copper peptides as well as 12 additional clinically proven peptides. It's got a watery texture and really easy to fit into most routines. Very watery, but it's nice because a little bit goes a long way. This bottle's lasted me for a good decent amount of time. That water light texture, little bit goes a long way. It absorbs quickly."

May Love Peptide Squad Serum

"May Love has this. The main focus of this one is copper peptides. As you'll see here, it's got the wonderful blue, baby blue color to it, which makes it really nice for skin."

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"May Love has this. The main focus of this one is copper peptides. As you'll see here, it's got the wonderful blue, baby blue color to it, which makes it really nice for skin."

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"It feels really nice and silky on my skin. So it is on the pricier side, I think it was like 50 bucks or so, but if you watch like gmaals.com that website sometimes they'll have brands like May Love for like half off. So might be worth checking out if you're interested."

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"It's best for oily skin types. It's got the Matrixel 3000 peptide duo, copper peptides, and the argolene peptide as well. So it's really nice and very versatile. I would recommend using this one in your evening routine. Since it contains copper peptides, you probably should be careful with ascorbic acid serums, or if you use ascorbic acid, try and put a neutralizing layer between the two."

Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptide Serum

"The Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptide Serum is just so wonderful. It's got a really nice milky lotiony texture, really lightweight. It instantly gives skin a plumped appearance and a little bit of a radiant glow, which is really nice. It's super affordable, about 16 bucks or so on the Geek and Gorgeous website. I used this a lot when it first came out and it seemed to help thicken my skin up a bit. I tend to have skin that is on the thinning side, and this one helped with that. It's got the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, which is a great peptide combo that helps with expression wrinkles and fine lines from repeated face movements. It's also got matrixyl synthesis peptide, and the TGO pep 417 peptide which boosts fibronectin and collagen production in skin, which is something that's really important. I think that's probably why I noticed it thickening my skin up a bit. And it's also got an ever so small amount of the X50 anti-aging peptide duo."

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"What this product promises is it helps with aging, wrinkles, loss of firmness, and loss of elasticity, and from my experience so far I would say this honestly helps with all of those. It's easy to fit in my routine. Obviously two, three months down the road we'll know more from the benefits, but so far so good. I really enjoy it. The skin cycle is about 30 days, which is why typically most products you want to give them at least 30 days to be able to tell they're going to benefit. I think it's friendly for all skin types: oily, dry, sensitive, and acne-prone. For acne-prone skin, the only ingredients of note are cetyl alcohol, glycerol, stearate, and carbomer. I do think this has been helping with the wrinkles around my mouth, which are getting more noticeable the older I get. This is a full size, one ounce, 30 milliliters, retails for 16 bucks. I really enjoyed this product."

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"This product promises it helps with aging wrinkles loss of firmness and loss of elasticity and from my experience so far I would say this honestly helps with all of those. It's easy to fit in my routine. Obviously two three months down the road we'll know more from the benefits but so far so good. I really enjoy it. The skin cycle is about 30 days which is why typically most products you want to give them at least 30 days to be able to tell they're going to benefit. I think it's friendly for all skin types oily dry sensitive and acne prone. For acne prone skin the only ingredients of note are cetyl alcohol glycerol and carbomer. I do think this has been helping with the wrinkles around my mouth which are getting more noticeable the older I get. This is a full size 1 ounce 30 milliliters retails for 16 bucks. I really enjoyed this product."

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"At the 10 being a perfect score I gave this one a 10. I love it. Geek and Gorgeous does a great job. They're pretty well thought out with all their releases and I'm really happy with this one."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptide Serum comes at 15 bucks and has a nice list of peptides with the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, Matrixyl synthesis peptide, tetrapeptide 21, and copper peptol hexapeptide 14. This one's really nice, it's got a really nice serum lotion type texture, a little bit thicker than other products but still really nice to fit into your routine pretty easily. You can use it in your evening routine, or if you're not using vitamin C in your daytime routine then you can sneak the peptides in when you can. Really nice product with a short ingredient list, nice for sensitive and acne prone skin."

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"Here's the Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptide Serum, a really nice peptide serum with a liquidy texture. It's not really a serum texture, it's very liquidy, but it's quite nice. You can just use it as an essence. A lot of people really have good luck with it and it's really affordable and the bottle is huge, so this might be a nice way to fit a peptide in your morning routine."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptides is a nice lightweight serum that contains four different peptides that are proven to help boost collagen production and elasticity in skin. One of them is Matrixel 3000 peptide duo. It's a really nice lightweight serum you can use in your morning or evening routine. Just a really nice serum to add into your routine pretty easily. No fragrance, very affordable."

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"I'm going to go with a light layer of the Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptide Serum, which is new to them. This one's really nice, Matrixyl 3000 Duo, which is great for wrinkles and fine lines and material synthesis."

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"The winner was the Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptide Serum, which I absolutely love, love, love. It's out of stock right now, but hopefully when it's in stock I was going to order it for gifts, so hopefully it'll be in stock again soon."

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"Their power peptide serum is great."

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"Geek and Gorgeous Power Peptide Serum. All great products. You can't go wrong with them. Love them all."

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"This one's really nice. Soaks in really nicely. Works well with other products. It's great for all skin types. Sensitive, oily, dry, and most acne prone skin types. We've got 4% of the Tig Pep 417, which is a newer anti-aging peptide that helps with fine lines and wrinkles. It's got 5% of the Matrixel 3000 peptide duo. It's got the synthesis peptide blend and then copper peptide, a version of a copper peptide which is known for anti-aging even in very very small amounts is powerful for anti-aging. So, this stuff is really nice. Easy to fit into almost any routine."

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"I've been testing it for about 10 days now and so far I'm really enjoying it. It's really easy to add into your routine. With spring and summer here, this serum is hydrated enough where I don't necessarily feel like I need to add another hydrating serum all the time. In here we've got six different peptides including the Matrixyl 3000 Duo which along with arginine they call Botox in a bottle. It's also got the Matrix so synthesis peptide, no fragrance in here, and it's just very nice, light yet hydrating, and has a really nice texture to it. In terms of a plumping serum, this is thus far the serum I found to be the most plumping."

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"It's fragrance-free. If she likes it and wants to continue it, it's really affordable. I love this brand. It's a nice one for the morning."

Skinceuticals C E Ferulic

"Skinceuticals' patent expired and there's a lot of great dupes in my opinion. I've heard more and more people complaining online about the Skinceuticals serum arriving old or oxidized, which is virtually impossible for them to manufacture fresh when it's sold at hundreds of stores, probably in store and online at hundreds of places. So by the time it arrives at your house, it could be six months old, a year old, and the older it is, the less effective and efficient it is."

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"It's fragrance and alcohol-free with a really nice lotion texture. If you have skin that needs some brightening, this is a nice serum for that. It's got 15% ascorbic acid, 1% vitamin E, and half a percent of ferulic acid. It's basically what most of these other vitamin C serums are based on, with research that Skinceuticals and L'Oreal did behind this product. A lot of people say the Geek and Gorgeous Sea Glow and this are so close, and formula-wise, they're very similar. But the couple times I've ordered it, they have not come nearly as fresh as the Geek and Gorgeous Sea Glow has. It's not my favorite, but it is the fan favorite."

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"The star of this show is their long research and patented formula which includes 15% ascorbic acid, 1% vitamin E, and 0.5% ferulic acid. That is the trifecta for brightening your skin and protecting your skin from free radical damage. If you can use this in your morning routine on a daily basis, your skin will be looking great, feeling great."

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"SkinCeuticals paved the way with their vitamin C serum, no doubt about it. It's not one of my favorites because it's $180 or some dollars, but the formula they have is proven. Even if it was the same price as some of these other ones, I and my friends just haven't had good luck with it arriving fresh. So once it's starting to turn colors, golden, dark, and then dark brown and almost rust colored, it's oxidizing. You're not going to get the most benefit from them. That's the main issue I have with SkinCeuticals. They're sold in so many places and it's just difficult to get one that's made fresh."

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"The formula is fine, but I have problems getting this fresh, that's my main thing. When it's virtually identical to five other serums, I don't feel the need to spend $200 on it. There's nothing wrong with it; I don't have anything bad to say other than the price is stupid and sometimes the freshness of it isn't always there depending on where you purchase it from."

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"SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic is 182 dollars and I get that SkinCeuticals has done a ton of research and everything like that and their patents coming up and everything else like that but why can geek and gorgeous manufacture nearly the same thing for 13 dollars that these people are selling for 182 dollars? It's not like there's expensive ingredients in there. There's nothing in this vitamin C serum that costs that much. So I mean I get that they did research and everything else but sometimes it makes me look like it's just a money grab because their patent might be expiring soon."

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"It's a product that really came out with research-backed science proving ascorbic acid as well as vitamin E and ferulic acid. When you add those three together, they're an amazing combination to protect your skin from sun damage and to brighten your skin from sun damage, hyperpigmentation, things like that. It was major when it came out and it's still beloved by a lot of people. But in my opinion, it's not relevant because there's an alternative that's 13 bucks that contains the same ingredients, similar pH, and an awesome formula. If you offer these both to me at the same price, I would buy the other one every single time. I've had some experiences with some not so fresh vitamin C ferulic serum which arrived kind of yellow and not clear, whereas the alternative I've been working on for about a month or so now is still super clear because they manufacture it regularly."

Clarins Double Serum

"Clarins with their Double Serum would be another one that's been out for a while. To have products that are still very similar to the original one is not very common."

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BioEffect EGF Serum

"I bought this product in probably 2019. I didn't notice any benefits or 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 don't have anything bad to say. I don't have anything good to say either. It was just neutral for me."

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The Ordinary Growth Factor 15% Solution

"I'm going to apply a touch of their Growth Factor 15% Solution, which is very watery. I like that I can include this in my routine without really having to change anything else because it is so so watery. It really just feels like almost just like applying a little bit of water on your skin. Super watery. Feels nice. Easy to fit into most routines without having to change anything, which is a big plus in my book."

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"Their growth factor serum is just so freaking drying. A lot of the stuff they've come out with after Brandon's been gone has been kind of lackluster, not nearly as exciting or innovative as a lot of their older products."

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"It's got a celleptide which signals fibroblasts deep down in your skin to ramp up collagen and elastin production, improving firmness and elasticity over time. The nice thing about this one is it has a waterlike texture, so you can add it into any routine pretty easily without having to take anything else out. It soaks right in. I'd apply it after toning, give it a second to soak in, and then go on with your serums and whatever else you use. Pretty affordable."

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"This one contains 15% plant-based growth factors that mimic the natural growth factors in skin. It contains epidermal growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, and transforming growth factor beta. This one is super watery texture. It's really nice if you're looking for an affordable growth factor serum, and it's really easy to add to your routine because of how light it is. The texture is just like water, so you can apply it right after cleansing and toning. It soaks in quickly and is easy to add to your routine without having to mess anything else up or change anything."

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"The Ordinary Growth Factor Serum contains three different growth factors that help with fine lines and wrinkles. They help regenerate the look of skin by reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles in crows feet, forehead lines and smile lines. Helps with firmness and skin elasticity, texture, and tone. It's so watery, you can add it into any routine really easily. A bottle of this will last you quite some time because a little bit goes such a long way. It's literally water light, almost even lighter than water texture to it. One or two, three drops is enough to cover your whole face. There's no scent to it. It's got the three main growth factors, which are nice, and you can add them into your routine without having to take anything else out, which is nice if you like to layer a lot, or if you have dry skin. It's nice to add in a bunch of layers, especially like during fall and winter."

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"A little bit goes a long way because of the water texture, so maybe within one or two bows you'll even notice the benefit, but be patient. The nice thing is you can add it into your routine and use it morning or evening or whatever works best for you. It's friendly for all skin types, oily, dry, sensitive, acne-prone, all that good stuff. It feels very nice, short ingredient list, very affordable. It fit on my neck nicely too. So far so good, those are my first thoughts from testing it yesterday and this morning."

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"Super light texture, can use it on your face, your neck, wherever you prefer, especially around the eye area which can get very wrinkly very easily. It doesn't feel greasy, it literally is water-based. The notable ingredients include niacinamide, hexapeptide 40, and sh'ogo peptide 1, which is a plant-derived peptide that comes from an indigenous Australian plant. This ingredient is really great for inducing collagen and elastin production, which will help your skin with fine lines and wrinkles, especially around your eye area and around your mouth where you get fine lines and wrinkles from aging, sunlight exposure, and other things like that."

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"This ingredient will help with wrinkles and fine lines as well as dark circles and wrinkle reduction, but you're not going to notice it right away, it's going to take four, five, six months with continual use. The nice thing is it's affordable and it's super light textured so you can really add this into most routines without having to change anything else because it soaks in so quickly. It literally doesn't feel like I have anything on my face, it feels just like clean skin but moisturized. It doesn't feel sticky or like there's a film on it. However, you're not going to have fast effects like you do with other products. You probably won't notice results right away, although you will notice immediately that your skin feels nice and soft but doesn't feel greasy. It's easy to fit into any routine, and at $15.50, it's not terribly expensive."

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."

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"The Tatcha serum stick is 49 bucks. I typically carry this one in my purse because it works nice as a lip balm. It also works nicely to even out skin tones or dry patches. Sometimes I'm out all day and I don't get home until late and then I notice a little bit of dryness or something like that or on my hands or patches on my face and I'll use this. You can also use it as a lip balm so it's very nice. It is expensive but overall it's a nice multi-use product and I don't like to carry lotions and things like that around with me because it's just another thing to carry around and your bag's already heavy enough so this one does the trick for that. It's got rice bran, vitamin E, squalane. Nice multitasking product."

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"What I like about this one is I leave it in my purse so if I use it as a lip balm that's what I'm wearing right now on my lips, or if I need something because my back of my hand got dry or if I get like an itchy patch somewhere or my neck gets dry I can put this on and it's really nice. It's really one product that is a multi-purpose product so I can leave it in my purse and instead of having to worry about carrying a lotion a lip balm and a moisturizer, this does it all. It's really expensive normally and it's still expensive, but there's a lot of other similar type products but this one I really do enjoy from them."

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Polish Choice C15 Super Booster

"The Polish Choice C15 Super Booster, which is 55 bucks. This one uses again the same formula, 15% ascorbic acid, vitamin E, ferulic acid. It also includes a peptide as well for anti-aging. It's more expensive than all the other ones so far, but it's a lot of people like it and have good luck with it. But I will mention it's 55 bucks and it's not apples to apples in terms of size. This is 0.67 oz or 20 milliliters. So it's 2/3 the size of the other ones. So when you're thinking about numbers, keep that in mind because if this were an ounce, this would be 70 bucks, something like that, maybe a little bit more. So when you're thinking about the price, just remember this is a smaller bottle compared to the other ones I've mentioned first."

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Medicaid Liquid Peptides Advanced MP

"This has a watery texture and really easy to fit into most routines. Very watery, but it's nice because a little bit goes a long way. This bottle's lasted me for a good decent amount of time. It absorbs quickly. I will say I haven't been enjoying this. I've got a couple subscribers that didn't love this one. So far I've been testing it going on probably a month and a couple days. This one is fragrance free. It does contain a small amount of t-butyl alcohol. For peptides, it's got the carnosine peptide, which is a peptide that's not in a lot of things, but you'll see it occasionally. It's a peptide that fights glycation, which is responsible for aging. It's got Matrixyl 3000 Duo. It's got the TGO Pep 417, which is a peptide that helps with collagen and fibronectin production in your skin. It's got the X50 anti-aging peptide and then it's also got the Crystallide peptide which is a newer one."

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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."

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"The scent is so strong. It doesn't really dissipate well. I rinsed it off before I actually washed it off. I really scrubbed it off because it was very strong. This one has a small amount of sodium DNA, which is the PDRN that they mentioned. Sodium DNA is based from typically salmon. It contains DNA fragments, long chains of nucleotides that help support and repair and regenerate the skin. It also contains turmeric, ubiquinone, and five peptides, which are at the very end of the ingredient list. Aside from the fragrance, if it didn't have the fragrance in here, I'd probably be using it. The strong scent is way way too much for my migraines. So, sadly, I'm not going to be able to use it."

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Dermatology Peptide Night Cream

"The dermatology peptide night cream has main components of glycerin and shea butter. It's also got ceramides, the Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, and the SynKen peptide which can help skin produce sodium hyaluronate according to research, and then squalane. It's fragrance-free, alcohol-free, cruelty-free, and vegan."

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"Dermatology peptide night cream very nice product love it. I already have a backup above this one as well."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream is really full of good ingredients. We've got shea butter, we've got peptides, we've got ceramides, we've got vitamin E, we've got alantin, we've got cholesterol. It's really nice. It's a pretty thick product and wonderful."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream 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."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream is 34 bucks. This one also contains ceramides, shea butter, vitamin E and A, and lanolin. It's got a nice variety of peptides, so if you're looking for one that's got them all, this is going to be one of my favorites and easy to fit in your routine."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream, which is 34 bucks, contains glycine, shea butter, vitamin E and A, and lanolin. It's one of the products with good peptides and a nice variety of peptides, so if you're looking for one that's got them all, it's going to be one of my favorites and easy to fit in your routine."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream is 2 oz for 32 bucks and it contains the M trixel 3000 peptide, contains the sinol peptide, and then it contains the syntax peptide. It also contains shea butter, ceramides, and vitamin E. It's really nice and you don't have to just use it during your evening routine, you can use it morning or whenever."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream is really nice, nice moisturizing cream, not terribly expensive. It's got the good peptides in there."

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"This one is 2.1 ounces, forty-four dollars. It contains five peptides and it also contains several ceramides which make it really nice for skin. It's fragrance free, cruelty free, and vegan. I don't know why they named it a night cream because it really works well daytime or evening."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream is really nice. It's got peptides in it, some silicones, ceramid, urea, allantoin, and vitamin E. It's thicker than some others. It's great for anti-aging. They do say it's a night cream, but honestly I use this one in my daytime if I'm not using a salicylic acid serum. I will use this under or over my topical serum or something like that. But if I'm using salicylic acid, then I don't like the peptides mixing around with the salicylic acid because I feel like salicylic acid can break it down, so I don't go crazy with it. But if I'm using something else, it's great with that."

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"The Dermatology Peptide Night Cream is 46 bucks. In here we've got shea butter, we've got several different ceramides, we've got five different peptides and we've got vitamin E. I geek out on peptides because I think they're amazing and what the peptides can do is amazing."

Bioma Phytoin Glow Serum

"It's got vegan snail mucin in the form of yamroot. It's got a really nice serumy lotiony gellish texture to it. I just love gel textured stuff because you can layer it so nicely. This stuff's got no scent in it. It's also got a peptide. It's got panthenol and poly glutamic acid for hydration. It's a really nice serum. No fragrance. Pretty affordable, like 14 bucks or so. Really nice product. Highly worth checking out."

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The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid

"The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid has a 10% to 5% formula. In additional ingredients, this one also contains green tea, ginseng, ceramides, hyaluronic acid, Ganoderma lucidum mushroom extract, and no fragrance."

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"In terms of actives, my favorite is lactic acid 10 percent. This stuff is five percent or ten percent depending on your type. I repurchase both of these. They're wonderful, they're in the proper pH, they're super affordable, and I like the fact that there's a five percent option for more sensitive skin or newer skin to exfoliants, or the 10 which is a little bit stronger for more experienced skin types. Both of these are wonderful."

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"The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + HA is nice, it's properly formulated, it's got a proper pH, it's a really nice exfoliant and it's ridiculously affordable even at $9.20. It's a really nice wonderful product and if you're on a budget it's a really good one to go with."

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"This is a great lactic acid serum and it's only $9 and the pH is proper, it's pretty effective, and I've repurchased this I don't know three or four times and it always does a good job for me. So if you're looking for a simple fragrance-free lactic acid serum that's in the proper pH with a good percentage of lactic acid, this is it and you can't beat that anywhere."

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"The Ordinary 10% lactic acid, super affordable I think it's around $12 or so. So if you're on a budget this is very affordable, it's still also going to be very functional."

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"It's just a super watery texture to it. A little bit goes a long way. It's basically lactic acid. For anti-aging, glycolic acid would be the more researched of the two, but lactic acid may be nearly as effective as glycolic acid, but glycolic acid is just a little bit more researched. This one is a good one."

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum

"First up is their advanced night repair serum from Estée Lauder. This one's 30% off at Ulta. That stuff is really nice."

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"I've actually been kind of adding this into my daytime routine a little bit from time to time, and it feels really nice, especially like on my neck and things. I did like this one. It's nice. It's expensive, but if you get it on sale, then it's a little bit better."

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"The main star of the show with the Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum is the bifida ferment, so it's the main exciting ingredient we're looking for."

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"I actually really enjoy this one. It feels really hydrating and calming, it really feels nice when your skin needs a little boost of moisture but you don't want it to feel greasy. It doesn't. It seems to help a bit with fine lines, seems to plump up skin a bit, especially noticing on my hand it's amazing. It's non-greasy, you can add it to most routines without having to rearrange or change anything. It doesn't have any high maintenance ingredients that don't play well with this. It does seem to help with redness and calming skin. For acne prone skin, there's only a couple ingredients in this one of note, hexling glycol and carbamer, and those aren't terribly comedogenic. In terms of the price, this is kind of one of the bummers. It's 20 milliliters, 0.7 ounces, it retails for 78 bucks, although the bottle will last you forever. I've been using this now for over a month and it's just barely below the water line."

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"Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair, it's an expensive serum, but it uses good ferments to help your skin. I think that's why it's such a popular ingredient. I think it's what their best seller."

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"First up is their advanced night repair serum from Estée Lauder. This one's 30% off at Ulta. That stuff is really nice."

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"It's got buff ferment, baobab extract, chamomile, it's got a lot of good anti-aging ferments and hydrating and soothing ingredients. It's expensive, but in my opinion this one is still relevant. It's still a really good product. I haven't found one that just hits it on the head for me like I'll never want to buy this one again. I think in my opinion it's still relevant."

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."

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"I absolutely love this one from The Ordinary. Their Multi-Peptide Serum plus copper peptides used to be the Buffet. This one is full of peptides and amino acids as well as one percent copper peptides. It's got the blue color, so you know that the copper peptides are in there because there's a lot of copper peptide serums that aren't blue. Copper peptides have been shown to have a reservoir effect in our skin, so you can apply it in your evening routine and then you rinse it off in the morning and it still stays working in your skin to firm it up. You can't use it with strong acids, but you can use it with retinol and vitamin C. It's very high maintenance if you're going to use any routine, you really want a minimal routine, but it's worth it."

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"This one's $31.99, which in my opinion is a little pricey, especially when you can get the original The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum with copper peptides for less. Although copper peptides are fussy, I mean to be honest if these two are the same price I'm buying this one every time. They added some nice ingredients and you get it on sale it's even better. The packaging is now glass, which is kind of exciting, whereas it used to be plastic. The new version has more of a serum lotion texture, while the older version has more of a gel runny texture."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum with copper peptides is lovely, 32 bucks, really nice serum, easy to fit into your routine. Well, it's a little high maintenance to fit into your routine to be honest, but it's worth it. If you ever do micro needling or office treatments, it's a nice followup and helps your skin heal quickly."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum with copper peptides amazing, love it. I actually add a little bit of copper peptide powder to it to make it a little bit stronger and copper peptides are one of my favorite ingredients. Copper peptides and lactic acid are two of my top five, top top in the top five favorites."

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"It's great for dry, sensitive, oily and acne prone skin type, so very friendly for everybody. The price is really affordable, 1 oz for about 12 bucks, so it's really pretty affordable which is nice. It's a nice budget friendly serum. I still come back to the ones from The Ordinary that I love. Overall with a 10 being a perfect score I gave this one an eight. It's very nice, very affordable, and I've been enjoying using it. If you're on a budget it's certainly worth a try."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum with copper peptides, copper peptide is another ingredient that for me it's amazing. When I use it just even the next day or two the benefits for it are it's amazing. So copper peptides I'm totally sold on it and there's lots of research on it. It's kind of still a relatively new skincare ingredient and it was founded I think in 1976 but it really hasn't been talked about much until the last few years. So this one's really nice."

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"It does feel really nice and silky and it has no scent at all, which is nice. The ingredients in here are quite extensive, with a lot of antioxidants like argan oil, centella extract, copper peptide, Chinese skull cap root, and superoxide dismutase, which is a really good antioxidant, especially for daytime use. I would call this a daytime type serum because of those antioxidants. Then you've got peptides in here as well."

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"This one comes with I believe 1% copper peptides. Sometimes I'll order these and then mix a little bit in so you can create kind of your own percentage of it. So I typically go up to 2% I'll mix a little bit in and it really is beneficial. Love this stuff, really wonderful. It's got a really nice moisture gel texture. I've repurchased them multiple times. This one's 1.7 oz and it will go a long long way."

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SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream

"The SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream has ceramides, shea butter, rice protein, vitamin E, and peptides. That one's a little bit more expensive."

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"When I make these custom routines, SkinFix is always a brand I include because I know they're going to be fragrance-free typically and I know for the most part if somebody has sensitive skin, they're not going to have an issue with it. The SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream is a fragrance-free thick cream that's great for dry or dehydrated skin. It's 54 bucks. The bottle is refillable, which is nice, so if you end up liking it, you can just repurchase the refills. You would unscrew this part and then screw in the cap refill."

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"The updated version of the SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream is meant for dry skin. If you're going to use something with retinoids or exfoliants, it's really important to make sure you get some good moisture over it. It feels nice. It's wonderful, and they sell refills for this now, which is great. If you haven't tried this, it's really lovely."

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"SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream, which is another nice option at 54 bucks. This one's got some really nice ingredients: ceramides, vitamin E, phytonazine. It's really nice for dry skin. It's fragrance-free, certainly geared towards dry and sensitive skin types, and they have the same recycling package refillable thing as well which is nice. You can't go wrong with SkinFix, they pretty much do a great job all the time."

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"The SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream comes in a nice airless jar. It's very thick. It is a little bit shiny when it soaks in, but you really can't tell, and it soaks in and feels really nice. For winter and thickness and dry skin, this triple lipid peptide cream is the one to go with. If you have oilier skin they have an oily skin version as well which is their gel cream."

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"The SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid + Peptide Cream has ceramides, shea butter, rice protein, vitamin E, and peptides. That one's a little bit more expensive."

Peach and 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."

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"It's the Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Restore Serum and this one's got a lot of good stuff in it. It's got panthenol, ceramides, oat, squalane, mugwort, allantoin, and I think it's also got heartleaf in it. It's got a really nice serum lotion texture to it which is super wonderful. I've been using this actually, I'm wearing it today underneath my moisturizer and foundation and feels really nice. There's also a moisturizer version as well of it, so very wonderful. You can get it on sale, even better, so worth checking out."

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"The Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Serum contains several of the same ingredients as other barrier serums, with ceramides, allantoin, butylene glycol, lactic acid, arginine, and sodium hyaluronic acid. It's probably the closest version to other options I've tried. It's a little bit pricey, but I really like this one. It's new, it's really nice and hydrating, so for dry skin it's a really nice option."

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"For the serum, we've got oat kernel oil, that's a really good one for soothing. We've got ceramides, so good for barrier repair. Fatty acids in here, vitamin E, panthenol, squalane. It's definitely got a thicker, creamy texture which I thought it would be a little thicker, but it really feels lightweight. So that one feels nice."

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"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."

Skin Medica TNS Advanced Serum

"There's certain products that I will say I have used within a couple days I noticed positive results. But that's typically far and few between for me. The handful of products that have given me results within a few days of benefit. It's probably three products. Geek and Gorgeous A.Pad, Geek and Gorgeous Seaglow, and the SkinMedica TNS Advanced Serum. That's it."

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"The Skin Medica TNS Advanced Serum is an expensive one. If you can get it on sale, it's a deal, but I will never pay the market price for this. I will only buy it if it's a really good sale, lots of cash back, and a good gift with purchase, because otherwise it's just so expensive. Revive serum has something that's very similar and it's one-third of the price."

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"This is the big boy, the expensive one. And I like to use this one because it's got some really good growth factors in there. It's really great for anti-aging, but it's too good to waste any of it."

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"The Skin Medica TNS Advanced Serum was huge for me. I love that stuff. It's so expensive, but anytime it was on sale during Black Friday I bought two bottles of it. I use it super sparingly. I use it on my forehead, I use a little bit around my eyes and then around my mouth. I don't really use it anywhere else. A bottle of it will last me six or seven months just using it very very sparingly. Using it on dry skin or right after a mist helps it kind of absorb quicker."

The Ordinary Volufiline Serum

"I will say I've tested this. I personally didn't have any positive results. I didn't have any negative results either, but I didn't notice any effect after testing this for a couple of months in very small amounts around my mouth area. I didn't notice any benefits. Some people say they notice the most amazing benefits and so this was studied. So it's a controversial ingredient. It's a combination of hydrogenated polyisobutene and a plant extract founded by a French company called Seders. It's got a plant-based extract and it helps when you apply it with the formation of subcutaneous adipose tissue. Some people will say they used it around their mouth area and in a couple days their mouth area already looks much more plump, but I'm very wary of anything that says within a couple days you can get noticeable results, especially when with this product you would think you get noticeable results perhaps in a couple of months. Most topical products cannot give you dramatic results in two days."

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The Ordinary 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."

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The Ordinary 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, if I wake up. Sometimes I wake up at like 5 in the morning, I'll 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."

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Geek & Gorgeous Stressless Serum

"Their stressless serum is also great for sensitive skin. So, if you have sensitive skin that gets red, dry, flaky, anything like that, stressless is really nice. Betaglucan 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."

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"Coming in at 12 bucks is the Geek & Gorgeous Stressless Serum, a super lightweight serum you can use for daytime or evening or both. It's great to use in conjunction with other products because it's just got a super light texture so it layers well. I think this is my second or third bottle of it, so just a really nice lightweight gel texture serum. In here we've got beta glucan, which is great as a humectant, soothing ingredient, antioxidant. Then we've got madecassoside, which is a derivative from centella, a compound from centella rather, that's great for wound healing and collagen production, great for your skin."

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"Beta glucan is a star of this show with the Geek & Gorgeous Stressless Serum. Beta glucan's a great antioxidant with hydrating and soothing benefits. Even small amounts of beta glucan can help hydrate skin and even better than hyaluronic acid, and it also has soothing wound healing benefits to skin. Beta glucan in my opinion is superior to hyaluronic acid. I really prefer it in it because it's just got other good things that it does as opposed to hyaluronic acid, which is a great humectant, but beta glucan is that and it does other good stuff."

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The Ordinary Pycnogenol 5%

"Their pycnogenol is a really nice antioxidant serum."

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"Pycnogenol is actually the trademark for Pinus pinaster bark extract, and it's a super strong antioxidant. It's taken from specific trees' bark and it's a super strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-carcinogenic ingredient, so it makes it perfect for your morning routine. You can mix in a drop into a moisturizer or a serum, or you can dab it on your face a little bit. It also can provide photo protection for skin, which in my opinion makes it wonderful for daytime use because that's when you're out in the sun and your skin is exposed to the sun and other pollutants and things like that. This one comes in at $11.50, it's a little bottle, but literally just mix a drop or two in with something else and it does a great job."

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"Their pycnogenol is a really nice antioxidant serum."

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"Pycnogenol is a trademark name for a trademarked, purified version of Sorbus Cordata Folia extract, which is more researched, more standardized, and more pure, probably stronger than other alternatives. Pycnogenol is a great antioxidant and anti-inflammatory."

The Ordinary Marine Hyaluronics

"The marine hyaluronics are super lightweight, watery, liquid, hydrating ingredients. You want to layer this under other moisturizers or serums, but it's really nice, lightweight, super affordable. Probably one of the more lightweight products that exist, and it just feels really nice and hydrating on your skin."

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"I've repurchased this now, I believe this is my third bottle. I'm not a crazy fan of hyaluronic serums in general, I think it's just kind of a simple basic ingredient, but this stuff is just wonderful. It's super light so you can add it to your routine almost like an essence or a toner and it just gives you so much moisture. I would say this one is really great for dehydrated skin types. It's super liquidy, almost more liquidy than water, so it's hard to use it without feeling like you're wasting it. But I love it. It's really easy to fit in your routine and it has some really nice ingredients in it, simple and affordable."

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"This is my third bottle of the Marine Hyaluronics, it's seven bucks, it's a super lightweight serum. There's a lot of hydrating serums, this one is super super super lightweight, lighter texture than water. I think this one's probably best during the summer or to layer it with other products, but it is very very liquidy. You can apply this after toning and then go with your serum or moisturizer. In here we've got red marine algae, we've got algae extract, we got 11 different amino acids, then we've got pseudo ultramon ferment extract, which is a biotechnologically derived ingredient produced by the fermentation of marine bacteria living in the cold Antarctic ocean. It has skin protecting properties as well as protects skin from dryness and redness specifically due to cold weather, probably because it comes from cold weather. This ferment can also help promote skin regeneration and smoothing of skin surface by stimulating protein synthesis in skin. So it's so affordable but for seven bucks you can't beat it, it's really nice."

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."

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Prequel Half and Half Peptides and Ceramides Fluid Moisturizer

"It feels really nice and hydrating without feeling greasy or anything. It's kind of like an emulsion or like a thick hydrating essence because the texture of this is on the thicker side. It feels really nice on the skin and it's pretty affordable. I think it's about 26 bucks at Target. 5.7 ounces, and probably using this twice a day, this would probably last me four months maybe, because just a little bit did a perfect job. Doesn't feel greasy or anything like that. But I will say if you have acne prone skin, this might be one to pass on. There's a lot of ingredients of note. Isopropyl myristate, which is highly comedogenic, is the fourth ingredient. So you might want to pass that up if you have acne prone skin."

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"There's a lot of ingredients of note. Isopropyl Mystery, which is highly comedogenic, is the fourth ingredient, so you might want to pass that up if you have acne-prone skin. You've got squalane, palmitic acid, some fatty acids, vitamin E. They call it Half and Half Peptides and Ceramides, but I will say it's a little overpromising in terms of the peptides. We have Matrixyl 3000 peptide duo, which is great and one of the best peptides out there, but that's really where it ends. We do have a ton of ceramides in here, one, two, three, four, five ceramides, so to call it ceramides and peptides is a little bit overpromising. It's got basically a duo peptide in there, which there's nothing wrong with, but for real anti-aging, I think this is going to leave a little bit to be desired. If you're relying on this solely for anti-aging, I think you might be left a little disappointed. But that being said, it's really nice. If you have oily skin, it's a nice way to get some ceramides and barrier-repairing ingredients in there without the thickness or heaviness of a moisturizer."

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"We've got a ton of ceramides in here, rice protein, one, two, three, four, five ceramides. So to call it ceramides and peptides is a little bit overpromising. It's got basically a duo peptide in there, which there's nothing wrong with. But for real anti-aging, I think this is going to leave a little bit to be desired. But as long as you use it in a routine with other good anti-aging things, I think it'll fit in well. But if you're relying on this solely for anti-aging, I think you might be left a little disappointed. There's a lot of great peptides out there and just using picking one basic duo, I don't love that. But that being said, it's really nice. If you have oily skin, it's a nice way to get some ceramides and barrier repairing ingredients in there without the thickness or heaviness of a moisturizer that can end up greasy. It feels really nice, not sticky at all. A lot of moisturizers or fluid moisturizers can be kind of sticky. This does not leave your skin feeling sticky at all. Feels really nice. Nice base moisturizer. I think in the summer on the hotter, more humid days, I probably could get away with just using this underneath my sunscreen and going with it. Rice protein, the peptide duo, vitamin E, squalane, which is a good antioxidant."

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"If you have oily skin, it's a nice way to get some ceramides and barrier repairing ingredients in there without the thickness or heaviness of a moisturizer that can end up greasy. It feels really nice, not sticky at all, which is what I like. A lot of moisturizers or fluid moisturizers can be kind of sticky. This does not leave your skin feeling sticky at all. Feels really nice. Nice base moisturizer. I think in the summer on the hotter, more humid days, I probably could get away with just using this underneath my sunscreen and going with it. It's nice. It's affordable. It's a big bottle. So I'm liking it."

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"If you have oily skin, it's a nice way to get some ceramides and barrier repairing ingredients in there without the thickness or heaviness of a moisturizer that can end up greasy. It feels really nice, not sticky at all, which is what I like. A lot of moisturizers or fluid moisturizers can be kind of sticky. This does not leave your skin feeling sticky at all. I think in the summer on the hotter, more humid days, I probably could get away with just using this underneath my sunscreen and going with it. The main ingredients include rice protein, the peptide duo, vitamin E, and squalane, which is a good antioxidant. There's no real major red flag ingredients unless you have acne-prone skin because some of those fatty acids can be really problematic for acne-prone skin. It's nice. It's affordable. It's a big bottle. So I'm liking it."

Allies of Skin Peptides and 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."

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"The main exciting ingredients in here are niacinamide, honey, tetraxsoral, lactobacillus ferment, peptides, and astaxanthin, which is a great strong antioxidant. I love this product. I use it in the daytime but I actually typically end up using it more at night, kind of weird, but I just find it super hydrating so I really enjoy it. It's got a nice creamy texture to it and really wonderful."

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"Allies of Skin Peptides and Antioxidants Firming Daily Treatment, which I use as I guess supposed to do daytime moisturizer but I actually use this one at night and I really like it. I like the pump on this because I can get every last bit out. I really like this stuff. I would repurchase this. It's pricey but I would repurchase it."

Dermatology Needleless Growth Factor Serum

"Their needleless serum is also great and full of peptides. It's worth looking at."

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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."

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Geek and Gorgeous Apad Serum

"The Geek and Gorgeous A Pad Serum, which is an azelaic acid derivative. That's the one I used when I noticed the most benefits. It really helped brighten my skin up super fast, really amazingly. It was one of a handful, I'd say there's probably 10 products in my life that have been near instant game changers. That's on that list. The A Pad's a little bit better because it's like 12 bucks."

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"I really didn't know much about acid until I tried the Geek and Gorgeous Apad Serum, and this is probably going on six or seven years ago now. Within the first week I was blown away as one of the few products that I can say really made a huge difference in my skin very quickly. Acid is amazing, and for me, I think I'm rosacea prone, but my hyperpigmentation and melasma is the biggest issue I have with my skin, and it really helped brighten it up. It helps with redness as well. The formula has panthanol, a skin soothing ingredient; betaine salicylate, which is a mild exfoliant; lanolin, which is skin soothing; licorice root, another soothing and brightening ingredient; neem extract, which is an antioxidant; green tea water, which is an antioxidant; sodium hyaluronate, which is a hydratant; niacinamide for brightening and anti-acne; aloe and beta-glucan, which are both soothing and hydrating ingredients; and centella and centella root extract, which is antioxidant, skin soothing, wound healing, and anti-inflammatory."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous Apad Serum, I really love this one. It's super gentle. It's got 20% potassium azelate, which is a derivative of azelaic acid, which is known to be very gentle, so if you haven't used azelaic acid before, it's a nice product to start with. It's great for reducing redness from blemishes, pigmentation, and just plain redness in the skin, and at the same time it's gentle and non-irritating. There's not a ton of other ingredients in here, it's really affordable, and it's just a short ingredient list, so there's not a lot of other ingredients that might irritate your skin. This product when I added it into my skincare routine a few years ago was one of the few products that made an absolutely huge difference in my skin. I highly recommend if you have redness, acne, hyperpigmentation, anything like that, give it a try. It's well worth it and it's very affordable."

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"Geek and Gorgeous Apad Serum. Wonderful product. This one uses their human fibroblast conditioned media, they have a trademark on it. It also contains peptides and botanicals, great for anti-aging skin renewal. It's certainly made a huge difference in my fine lines, noticeable difference. But it's $295, which is really expensive. It's on sale from time to time. It's worth buying it on sale. At Dermstore you can subscribe to it and if you subscribe and then change your mind like a month later you don't want to subscribe to it, you can cancel it and they give you an extra discount if you subscribe."

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"Geek and Gorgeous Apad uses an AHA acid derivative and I found that made huge differences in my skin just within like 30 days it was amazing. If you have rosacea, hyperpigmentation, melasma, or acne, if you haven't tried AHA acid, check it out, it's amazing. And it's also pretty friendly. A lot of other acids like glycolic acid or lactic acid or salicylic acid can be sensitizing, but AHA acid I've yet to find any issues using it, even on my neck, so it's a wonderful ingredient for so many different things. It's also got niacinamide which is anti-acne and skin brightening, panthenol for soothing and wound healing, a lot of centella in here with centella leaf extract, centella asiatica extract, and centella root extract which are all soothing, antioxidant, help with redness and are anti-inflammatory, and snail secretion filtrate which is antioxidant and an amazing ingredient that contains glycoproteins, enzymes, hyaluronic acid, copper peptides, antimicrobial peptides, and trace elements of copper, zinc, and iron."

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"The Apad Serum is one of the few skincare products where I tested it out and I noticed a difference very very quickly, and there's not a lot of brands out there that have done that, but this is one of them."

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"Geek and Gorgeous came along with a product called their Apad Serum which contained an AHC acid derivative and I used it and I was just amazed with the benefits from it. It has a nice, serumey texture and it absorbed quickly. I fell in love with AHC acid because it's such an amazing ingredient for so many different things, different types of skin that you would never think would benefit from the same ingredient all kind of come together with this ingredient. So it's absolutely amazing if you haven't tried it, especially if you have rosacea prone skin, redness prone skin, breakout prone skin, oily skin, melasma, hyperpigmentation. This one's got 15% which is a nice sweet spot."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous APAD Serum contains an amazing amount of 50 different peptides as well as several antioxidants such as resveratrol, astaxanthin, ubiquinone, and vitamin C. It's a really good product. Certainly worth checking out."

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"Their Apad Serum is the one I've got here, it's 13 bucks, and this is one of a handful of products that were total game changers for my skin. After using it for a couple weeks I could notice my skin was looking much brighter, a lot of the hyperpigmentation melasma was reduced, and my skin just felt better, and it's only 13 bucks."

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"This is in the last couple years one of the few game changing products I've truly experienced that have really made my skin better. It really helped with my melasma, redness, sensitivity. The A Pad is an azelaic acid derivative and azelaic acid is the amazing ingredient."

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"This product was a total game changer for me. Honestly, I probably didn't really realize I had rosacea until I used this and it really helped. It's got a 20% azelaic acid, which is an ingredient that helps with rosacea, and it's got 6% pure potassium azelate, which is an azelaic acid derivative, and then it's got lanolin. Very affordable, wonderful product, hugely helpful for me. So if you suffer from this, even just redness or things like that, it's very helpful."

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."

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"I don't know how they call this a serum it is thick it's grainy it does not have any of the same properties as the geek and gorgeous. It's just thick and it's expensive and it just is not nearly as elegant or effective as the geek and gorgeous in my opinion."

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"I didn't love the texture of the CeraVe Vitamin C Serum and it's not really a serum, it's more of a lotion. It kind of irritated my skin a little bit, but it seems to work well for a lot of other people."

Glow Recipe Prickly Pear Peptide Mucin Serum

"It definitely has a smell that goes away pretty quickly, but it is definitely noticeable once you apply it. It feels nice on my skin. I mean, it's a little on the sticky side, although all types of mucin products always are kind of sticky. I think that's the goal of them. But it feels really nice. It soaks in. Yeah, no issues at all."

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"It feels just like a little more slippery. It has a strong vegetable smell to it. I don't know how else to describe it. Smells like squash. Of all the things they didn't add fragrance to, vegetable smell is lingering. So we've got the prickly pear extract, which is a good antioxidant soothing ingredient. We've got ectoin. Ectoin is an antioxidant, it's a soothing ingredient, it's a hydrating ingredient, it's wonderful. We've got ubiquinone, good antioxidant. We've got some ferments in here, a phyto ferment, galactomyces ferment, some oils, castor oil, licorice root, vitamin E. The smell goes away pretty quickly, but it is definitely noticeable once you apply it. It feels nice on my skin. It's a little on the sticky side, although all mucin products always are kind of sticky. I think that's the goal of them."

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Drunk Elephant Marula Oil

"Drunk Elephant Marula Oil sample. No issues with that. It's marula oil. Very expensive marula oil at that."

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"Drunk Elephant Marula Oil sample. No issues with that. It's marula oil. Very expensive marula oil at that."

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"A little baby Drunk Elephant Marula Oil that I got as a sample in something I don't remember when it's probably pretty old but it worked just fine."

The Ordinary Vitamin C

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

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Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops

"I've got a serum, Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops"

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"I've got a serum, Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops"

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"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."

Marula Oil

"It feels nice. I don't feel like I compromised on the hydration front that I like keeping my skin clean."

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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."

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"The Neogen Real Ferment Micro Serum has got the Buida ferment, sodium hyaluronic, the glycerin and the vitamin E and it's really nice. This is another product I've repurchased multiple times and it's really lovely and it's got all those as well as a ton of other good ingredients so it's a really nice repairing serum."

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"The Neogen Real Ferment Micro Serum is amazing. It's got so many good ingredients in here, it's still got the good antioxidants, it's got the peptides in here, it's got the ferment in here. It's good especially for the price, it's just full of good stuff. It's definitely a little bit thicker than some of the other products, but this one is really nice. I repurchased, I think this is probably my third bottle or so. I found sometimes it makes it pill a bit under certain sunscreens, but I really like using it in my evening routine now."

Costa Baja Hyaluronic acid

"I've got my Costa Baja hyaluronic acid, which I'm mourning because I cannot find this brand anywhere. And the brand's website doesn't really have any information or anything anymore. So, I have no idea what's going on, but I used to mix this with my copper peptides and then use it on my body after coming out of the shower."

~Mixed

74%of gurus approve

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 bakuchial 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."

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"The retinol in here is very, very weak. It's more of a hydrating oil than anything, so if you're looking for retinol, this is probably not the product. People might like it because of the smell or the look of it, but if you're looking for a retinoid product, there's a ton of them that actually have real retinol on them and don't cost nearly as much as this one does. In my opinion, it's overhyped."

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"The Sunday Riley Luna oil, it's got fragrance in there. This is a Holy Grail for a lot of people. When I first got into skincare it used to be talked about a lot more, it's not talked about quite as much, but some people I'm sure still love and use it."

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Round Lab Soybean Serum

"I finished off the Round Lab 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."

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"The soybean serum, I absolutely love this stuff. It is full of skin identical ingredients, ceramides. It's wonderful, it's very hydrating, very calming. This stuff is really nice and it can almost rival any other serum out there in terms of hydration benefits and skin loving ingredients and it's not terribly expensive. It's really nicely hydrating, calming and feels really good on your skin. It's got just a wonderful texture to it as well. I just love it."

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"The soybean line has been wonderful and this one contains soybean extract several ceramides different ferments. It also contains panthenol which is a good calming soothing ingredient and this stuff is really wonderful and it's pretty affordable. A little bit of this one goes a very long way. It's almost got like a gel texture to it which I really appreciate. It's really wonderful calming soothing non-greasy at the same time."

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"I never had any clue how much I'd end up really liking this product until I picked it up, but that's the Round Lab Soybean Serum, and it was mentioned by a lot of you who asked me to review it. I had no idea, I kind of just brushed over it. Round Lab, they have a lot of hits but they have a few misses in there, just some products that just aren't that great. This one's really wonderful. We've got soybeans, squalane, ceramides, cholesterol, folic acid, and then I think there's several different ferments in there, lactobacillus ferment. It's got a really wonderful texture to it, kind of like a gel serum texture, and it's just really, really nice product and no scent to it. It can be a little bit expensive if you don't find it on sale. I think it's like 30 bucks, but if you can get it on sale, it's even better."

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"Round Lab Soybean Serum, 20 bucks. It's a nice hydrating serum that's great for soothing skin as well as repairing the skin barrier if it's damaged. It's got soybeans, ceramide, squalane, coco seed and scorable glucoside, vitamin C derivative. I would say it's geared towards normal, maybe dry skin, but if you use it in the evening, oilier skin as well."

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"Round Lab Soybean Serum which is just really lovely. Both fragrance free, really easy to fit in your routine. This one's really nice. I use this one a lot on my neck and décolletage right after getting out of the shower and it's just lovely, full of good ingredients in here."

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"The Round Lab Soybean Serum, this one's really quite nice from Round Lab."

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"I finished off the Round Lab 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."

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"The Round Lab Soybean Serum is really nice. It's great for daytime or evening, though I like using it daytime because it's got such a wonderful texture. It's got soybean extract, ceramide, squalene, several different ferments, and vitamin E, and it's got a lovely kind of gel serum texture to it, which makes it really friendly for most skin types as well as acne-prone skin. It just feels really nice, soaks in really quickly, and plays well under other products. This line from Round Lab is just wonderful, really really nice."

Moroccan Oil Moroccan Oil

"Little baby Moroccan Oil because then you can kind of have your own routine with your favorite products without having to carry the whole thing. Yeah, it still works. It's nice."

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"The Moroccan Oil I love this stuff so I already have my next bottle already sitting on my countertop. A half pump use of my hair really nice, love it. It does have a light fragrance but it's light and it dissipates pretty quickly."

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"I just love my Moroccan Oil. I just love this stuff. It lasts a lot longer and the bottle's a lot bigger and probably cheaper too."

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"Little baby Moroccan Oil because then you can kind of have your own routine with your favorite products without having to carry the whole thing. Yeah, it still works. It's nice."

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"Moroccan oil is my other favorite hair care brand."

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"They do mention Moroccan Oil which is my personal favorite, one of my favorite brands."

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."

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"This one, it's a really nice serum. With a 10 being a perfect score, I can't really think of any issues with it, so it's worth checking out and 13 bucks, you can't beat it."

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"The azelaic acid wasn't as much, it's a little bit better but it just didn't fit well in my routine. It was kind of thick and I found other acid products I found a little bit better."

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"In terms of performance I'm really impressed with this. I love the combination of azelaic acid and salicylic acid. For troubled acne-prone skin it could be a total winner. For people that are able to find benefits from a small amount of azelaic acid and BHA it's great. It certainly helps with clogged pores, also helps calm skin down a bit. I also found this helps brighten my skin up. For acne-prone skin there's only two ingredients of note: squalene and glycerol stearate, so it's pretty friendly for all skin types, dry, oily, sensitive, and acne-prone. I love the two-for-one. It retails for 39 bucks so it's a little pricey. It's super nice, super wonderful product, something I definitely would consider repurchasing."

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"The one from The Ordinary is thick and pilled. I fell in love with azelaic acid because it's such an amazing ingredient for so many different things, different types of skin that you would never think would benefit from the same ingredient all kind of come together with this ingredient."

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"The Azelaic Acid, which I didn't buy but my friend from Australia sent me several tubes, and I love this stuff. 20% azelaic acid. I love azelaic acid. It was finally when I added it into my routine it became a game changer for me, how much it helped with redness and hyperpigmentation and prevents breakouts and things like that. So it's amazing."

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"The Ordinary 10% Azelaic Acid Suspension, which is $12 for 1 ounce and contains 10% azelaic acid."

Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster

"Paula's Choice has azelaic acid serums that a lot of people love, but they're getting so expensive."

~Mixed

73%of gurus approve

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"Paula's Choice has azelaic acid serums that a lot of people love, but they're getting so expensive."

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"In terms of performance I'm really impressed with this. I love the combination of azelaic acid and salicylic acid. It's not exactly new because there's several products now that use the combination of both of them, but I like it being a two for one product. For troubled acne prone skin it could be a total winner. For people that are able to find benefits from a small amount of azelaic acid and BHA it's great. It certainly helps with clogged pores, also helps calm skin down a bit. I also found this helps brighten my skin up. For acne prone skin there's only two ingredients of note: squalene and glycerol stearate, so it's pretty friendly for all skin types, dry, oily, sensitive and acne prone. I love the two for one. This retails for 39 bucks so it's a little pricey. It's a super nice, super wonderful product. Something I definitely would consider repurchasing."

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"The one from Paula's Choice, which is also 1 oz, the azelaic acid which is only 10% azelaic acid, that one's $39, so I was like right on the edge of it. I gave them the point for the price, it's not terribly expensive, and the fact that it's a little bit stronger form of azelaic acid, it's right on the edge there. I'm really happy with this one. I definitely consider repurchasing this one again. No real close dupes to this. The texture and finish is really nice, and it plays great with other products."

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."

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Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster

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

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"The Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster, it's pretty expensive, that's why I don't recommend it in my favorite ones, but it's expensive and it comes in a really small bottle, two-thirds of an ounce, and it's really expensive, but I've still typically had good luck and good results with it."

Tula Brightening Treatment Drops Triple Vitamin C Serum

"The Tula Brightening Treatment Drops Triple Vitamin C Serum is $58 for 1 ounce and this one contains ethyl ascorbic acid, esculetin glucoside, glutathione, and aurbic acid."

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"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."

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"The Tula Brightening Treatment Drops Triple Vitamin C Serum is $58 for 1 ounce and this one contains ethyl ascorbic acid, esculetin glucoside, glutathione, and aurbic acid."

Timeless Skincare 20% Vitamin C Serum

"The Timeless Skincare 20% Vitamin C Serum is $26 for 1 ounce. It's another one I've repurchased a handful of times and that one is also worth checking out."

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The Inkey List Polyglutamic Acid Serum

"With a 10 being a perfect score I gave this one a nine. It's lovely and I think a lot of people have really good luck with this, and if you're on a budget it's really budget friendly too."

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Prequel Multi Quench Plumping Hydration Serum

"It really does a nice job adding some moisture to skin. It's got a short ingredient list, which is nice for sensitive skin. For what this product promises to provide excellent skin moisturization, improve the skin barrier, and support the skin's natural moisturizing factor, I would say it pretty much does all of those things in a serum, especially with a short ingredient list. It's definitely geared towards drier, sensitive skin types. Oily skin types might find it's a little bit too shiny of a finish, but if you apply it under moisturizer it's not going to be a huge issue. For acne-prone skin, we've got carbomer and vitamin E, so not terribly bad for acne-prone skin. This is a full size which is bigger than most serums at 1.7 ounces, 50 milliliters, and it retails for about $28, although if you check out the Prequel site they sometimes have sales. A little bit of it goes a long way, which makes it really affordable. I like the serum."

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71%of gurus approve

Byoma Phyto Mucin Glow Serum

"It feels nice, has a kind of a bit of a radiant finish. It is kind of tacky, I guess it hasn't fully soaked in, but it's very tacky. I think you're meant to really use it under moisturizer, apply and then finish with moisturizers. So it is very sticky."

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Anua Rice Ceramide Hydrating Barrier Serum

"The Anua Rice Ceramide Hydrating Barrier Serum retails for about 16 bucks. In here we've got several rice extracts, we've got ceramides, we've got niacinamide, water, lotus, vitamin E, arbutin. This one's also got a really lovely texture to it, kind of a goopy texture which I like. A little bit of this stuff goes a long way. I typically use this one in my evening routine because it kind of sets to a radiant finish, but you can certainly if you have drier skin use it in your morning routine. No fragrance, no scent. This whole line from them is really nice."

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VT PDRN Serum

"The VT PDRN uses a plant type of protein instead of the salmon thing. I don't necessarily know how much I think some of these plants are going to end up stacking up next to the human or the other ones or the salmon ones that are more biologically close to our skin than a plant. But if it doesn't smell like salmon, then I'm okay with it. I don't want to smell like salmon."

~Mixed

70%of gurus approve

Sunday Riley Good Genes All-In-One 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."

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

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"Sunday Riley Good Genes, which smells like sour milk and is super strong, much stronger lower pH than it necessarily needs to be to be effective, but it's a holy grail for a lot of people."

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"The Sunday Riley Good Genes, that one's very low pH, very strong."

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

77%of gurus approve

Biossance Copper Peptide Serum

"This one's always good from bio and their copper peptide serum's nice too."

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Glow Recipe Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum

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

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73%of gurus approve

The Ordinary Marula Oil

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

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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."

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"In terms of actives, my exfoliant favorite is lactic acid. This stuff is five percent or ten percent depending on your type. I repurchase both of these. They're wonderful, they're in the proper pH, they're super affordable, and I like the fact that there's a five percent option for more sensitive skin or newer skin to exfoliants or the ten percent which is a little bit stronger for more experienced skin types. So both of these are wonderful."

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"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."

The Ordinary Balancing and 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."

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"The Ordinary came out with a Balancing and Clarifying Serum and I am enjoying it so far. It's got a really nice water texture, we've got a ferment in here, and then the star of the show is the AHC acid derivative, potassium azeloyl diglycinate. That's the star of the show. So far I'm really liking it. It's really nice. I would say this is going to be a direct competitor to the Geek and Gorgeous A-Pad serum, that's what this reminds me of."

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"The Balancing and Clarifying Serum with the azelaic acid derivative is quite nice."

Theoid Copper peptide serum

"The Theoid copper peptide serum is wonderful. If you have acne prone skin, go with the Theoid. If you're on a budget, I think the Theoid ends up being a little bit more affordable and it lasts a little bit longer and the bottle is pretty big, this 1.7 oz. This stuff is pretty thick, it has a kind of an almost an ointment like texture to it which I love for my dry skin, but it has broken me out a handful of times even when my skin isn't blemish prone, so keep that in mind. Copper peptides are wonderful for anti-aging, just be cautious how you use them. You don't want to use them with a lot of actives, especially ones that have a low pH, because it can break up the peptide bond. So you don't want to use it with retinoic acid or certain exfoliants, lactic acid, things like that. Or if you do, be sure to use a neutralized product in between them so that the copper peptides can do their job without being disturbed by the low pH of actives."

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NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum

"The copper amino isolate serum is a copper peptide serum great for nighttime use to help with anti-aging. We've got 1% copper peptides, we've got vitamin E, we've got that retinol peptide 189, and then we've got prolene peptide. It's a water-based peptide serum. We also have an ingredient called tholin 4 which is a peptide that's claimed to work with the youth hormone, works by compensating the loss of thymic factors that come with age and it's thought to stimulate the skin immune defenses and help the skin to regenerate and produce more collagen. So buy this for the copper peptides and the other peptides in here and keep using it for the other beneficial goodies in here. It's a really nice serum."

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77%of gurus approve

Skin and Lab Vitamin C Brightening Serum

"Skin and Lab Vitamin C Brightening Serum uses ethyl ascorbic acid, vitamin E, panthenol, builder, and peptides. It's really nice, really affordable, and you can pick it up at YesStyle. It's just a wonderful vitamin C product."

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"The Skin and Lab Vitamin C Brightening Serum includes several different vitamin C derivatives so later on if one of them is shown not to be super beneficial maybe one of the other ones will. It's a very nice product overall that can fit into most routines easily and won't be a problem for most people."

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"The Skin and Lab Vitamin C Brightening Serum is really nice. They use six different vitamin C derivatives, so it's kind of a win-win in my opinion. You've got all of them in here, and if one of those derivatives ends up being good, maybe you got that one. And if none of them do anything, you've also got ascorbic acid in here. You've also got turmeric and you've also got glutathione in here for brightening skin."

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

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Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum

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

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Medicaid Liquid Peptides

"This one is a glycerin butanediol base and then in it they've added several peptides in here. I see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, six or seven, and it looks like we've got the arginine peptide in there which is nice. It has no fragrance in it. This one's so light I think it'll take me a long time before I get through it."

~Mixed

76%of gurus approve

Allies of Skin Tranexamic and Arbutin Advanced Brightening Serum

"Allies of Skin Tranexamic and Arbutin Advanced Brightening Serum, I really love this, the manufacturing or expiration date is May 2025, but it went bad a little early. That doesn't look like something you want to put on your skin, so kind of a bummer. Generally when it's black, it's not a good thing. Generally when a skincare product turns black or like dark orange or something like that, it's generally not the greatest sign."

~Mixed

80%of gurus approve

Drunk Elephant C-Firma Fresh Day Serum

"I've also currently been testing out the Drunk Elephant new vitamin C serum which in my opinion it's not super impressive. I don't know, some of their releases used to be special and they just don't seem like that anymore."

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"I had the Drunk Elephant vitamin C serum which I reviewed finally. There's a little bit left. I just gave it to my friend to finish up because it didn't work well for my skin. It was too acidic, too many different volatile ingredients. My skin really did not like it. It freaked out. It was just too irritating."

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"The Drunk Elephant C-Firma serum, I believe the reason why they changed the formula was probably due to consumer complaints about it being oxidized, but also because I heard Skin Ceuticals was coming after them for using their patented formula."

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"I've been wanting to try for so long however I'm super paranoid about vitamin C serums because they go bad so fast and a lot of times if you don't get on the first packaging manufacturing run a lot of times they end up getting old, oxidized, not great. I will say Drunk Elephant is probably an example of that. If you got their first run of their C-Firma serum it was amazing, then after that it was like they did one run of it and that was it and it turned to just garbage. Now they've repackaged it and stuff and I'm still not a huge fan."

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"I'm still annoyed with Drunk Elephant, what they did with their C-Firma serum, selling it oxidized for years. That leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. I picked up the new bottle, which is similar to Clinique and requires mixing the two parts. I haven't mixed it and tested it yet, but I'm still annoyed with the whole thing. And it's still ridiculously expensive. So I just think there's better options if you're going to spend hundreds of dollars. There's just so many better options out there."

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"The Drunk Elephant La La Retinol Whipped Cream was really nice, however I kind of moved on to another product. This stuff is pretty expensive and I found after a while it's a little too hydrating, but it's still nice and works well for a lot of people. It's just I don't need it anymore. I moved on kind of from Drunk Elephant as a whole because of how expensive they are, but overall it's still a good moisturizer and it still works well for a lot of people."

Good Molecules Mandelic Acid Serum

"The Good Molecules Mandelic Acid Serum, this one is really nice. I've been testing it out now, the pH is good. Mandelic acid's a really great exfoliant, it's more gentle than glycolic acid. It's an exfoliant made from bitter almonds or maybe sweet almonds, I can't remember one of the two. So if you're into exfoliants, 10 bucks you can't beat that, you just really can't. So worth checking out."

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81%of gurus approve

The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%

"Niacinamide and sorbic acid are a great team for brightening up your skin so if you have hyperpigmentation melasma things like that it's nice although ni cide now now days isn't everything"

~Mixed

67%of gurus approve

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"Niacinamide and sorbic acid are a great team for brightening up your skin so if you have hyperpigmentation melasma things like that it's nice although ni cide now now days isn't everything"

Holy Grail Products for Sooothing Skin and Gentle Actives

"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"

SkinBetter Alto Advanced Defense and Repair Serum

"This is hands down the most expensive product on the list at 170 bucks. It's really nice, 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. I really enjoyed it."

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81%of gurus approve

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."

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89%of gurus approve

CeraVe Oil Control Moisturizing Gel-Cream

"It feels nice, it's not terribly tacky. I mean it's a little tacky but it doesn't feel greasy or anything. I would say overall it's a pretty matte finish. It doesn't have that silicone feeling you get with a really silicone-dense type product. It feels pretty nice."

~Mixed

64%of gurus approve

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"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. And then there's some fatty alcohols, carbomer. Overall, with the exception of that one ingredient for acne-prone skin, it's probably okay, and that sodium methyl cocoyl taurate is probably going to be okay for most people, although for some people with very sensitive skin it's something to watch out for."

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"I 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. For acne-prone skin, the biggest questionable ingredient is isopropyl myristate, which is pretty highly comedogenic and it is the sixth ingredient, so beware of that if you have acne-prone skin."

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Serum

"The green tea fresh serum from Isntree is a great neutral serum, something without a ton of ingredients, something that's hydrating and something that acts as a buffer."

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Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Serum

"This one was really nice, it was expensive and I like it. I'll finish it, but I wouldn't repurchase it because there's so many more affordable centella serums out there. It's super light with a water texture."

~Mixed

74%of gurus approve

Drunk Elephant TLC Framboos Glycolic Night Serum

"In here are the stars of the show: glycolic acid, lactic acid, tartaric acid, and salicylic acid. It is a 10% blend of those ingredients and the goal of this one is to exfoliate skin, leaving it soft and smooth over time. Glycolic acid is one of the miracle ingredients that can help rebuild collagen in skin as long as you set the proper pH and proper amount, typically 10%. It will help with collagen production and deepen your skin over time. You can't use it for one day and then expect results, it will take months, but over time glycolic acid, like ascorbic acid, helps build collagen deep down in skin. It also helps improve skin texture, pore size, and brighten skin. It's also got some other nice ingredients: raspberry extracts, salicylics, marula oil, and sodium hyaluronate."

~Mixed

64%of gurus approve

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"Drunk Elephant TLC Framboos Glycolic Serum's great. It's way more expensive."

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"this is a Sephora post so kids in skincare purchases when do you refuse I had a 12-year-old girl try to buy the Drunk Elephant glycolic acid serum today this one which is too strong for me to use on a regular basis and she looked at me like I killed her dog because I wouldn't sell it to her thankfully I saw her and got her to remove it"

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"This one's really expensive. A lot of people like absolutely like this product. I'm trying to finish it up, I've been working on it for quite some time now, but it's still overall a good product. Just for the price though, like, I don't know, it's 120 bucks now? It's ridiculous. If you're looking to add some good anti-aging into your skin, AHAs are a good way to go, and there's so many of them."

The Inky List Alpha Arbutin Serum

"The Inky List Alpha Arbutin Serum may work better for others than it did for me. New hyperpigmentation is going to be easier to treat than things that have been on my forehead for years, decades probably or more. I didn't have that good of luck with it, but it's average and will work better for some than others."

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Dr Jart+ Cicapair Sensitive Skin Serum

"Use morning and evening, one full dropper is enough to cover most of the face. It has a really light watery texture that absorbs really quickly. You can apply it after cleansing and toning, and if you use an essence, use it after that. It's super light. I really liked it in El Salvador because it was really hot and humid there and this watery texture soaked in nicely and set to a natural slightly matte finish. It just left my skin feeling hydrated but not greasy, and I could use a sunscreen and moisturizer over it without it being too much. I've continued using it since and really am enjoying it. It's a very light product. For the summer and spring it will be a nice product. If you have super dry skin or live in a very dry climate it may not be enough, but if you use it under a good moisturizer it seems to do a good job. Once it soaks in it sets to a natural slightly matte finish that is slightly tacky but really non-greasy. Love it, wonderful, very easy to use."

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81%of gurus approve

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"This water texture soaked in nice and set to a natural slightly matte finish. It just left my skin feeling hydrated but not greasy or anything like that, and I could use a sunscreen or moisturizer over it without it being too much. It's a very light product. For the summer and spring it will be a nice product. If you have super dry skin or live in a very dry climate it may not be enough, but if you use it under a good moisturizer it seems to do a good job. Once it soaks in it sets to a natural slightly matte finish that is slightly tacky but really non-greasy. It's nice and travel friendly in terms of the bottle being lightweight and compact with no worry about spilling."

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"What this product promises is to quickly soothe the skin barrier and reduce redness for healthier looking skin, and I would say it delivers on both of those promises. I really enjoy the light texture of it, it's really nice for summer and humidity. For very irritating dry skin, I think you might need something with a little bit more oomph. It sets to a natural finish and feels really nice on skin. For skin types, this one's going to be a nice product for most skin types including dry, oily, sensitive, and even acne prone skin. Pretty nice, does what it promises overall. The main downside is the price: 30 milliliters for $54, so it's expensive for what it is."

Isle of Paradise Sunny Serum

"It has no scent which I like, and I also 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. It's got squalane, sunflower seed oil. It feels nice."

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81%of gurus approve

Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented

"Absolutely love it. It's 15 bucks. In here we've got centella, ceramides, peptides, panthenol, mat ques aide, green tea extract. It's a really wonderful serum. A lot of people really enjoy it. Really nice serum."

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"Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented, very nice serum. They've repackaged it now, I think this is like their third or fourth time repackaging it, and the repackaging looks nice. It's a nice serum, it's wonderful. It seems to be pretty friendly for most skin types and it has some nice good ingredients in there, and as the title says, it has no scent to it."

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"The Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented is really nice. It's got centella, mateso side peptides, aziatic acid, matasic acid, all that good stuff, and this is the fragrance free version."

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"This one's got ceramides, peptides, centella, green tea, it's got a whole list of goodies in here, niacinamide, sodium hyaluronic, it's got several centella components as well. Really nice, it's a good product. Purito I've lost some trust with them after the whole sunscreen thing but it's still overall a decent product worth trying for some people because in long it's really affordable."

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"Their centella unscented serum has a really amazing ingredient list. It's got peptides, it's got centella, it's got ceramides. It's really nice, really hydrating, really calming, no fragrance in it. It's really affordable. I've repurchased this multiple times and it's still just a winner for me. I think a lot of people find this to be a really good product for them, so if you haven't tried it, it's super affordable and well worth a try."

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"The Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum has biopeptide eel, matrixyl 3000, poly toil dipeptide 10, and then some other exciting ingredients like green tea and centella derivatives with antioxidant benefits for skin. All of these are great anti-aging serums and you really don't need to spend any more than 40 bucks because this stuff is great."

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"The Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented is still a really nice product overall. I use it less and less but it's still one of my favorites when it came out and I still always have one around because sometimes I find my skin gets red and need a little bit of help."

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"I like it. It's something that's very seasonal in my opinion. I certainly in the spring or summer I think this will be way too much for my skin even at night, but for super dry skin in the winter I think it's very nice and does the trick. There's interestingly not a lot of dupes for this product. The closest one I could find is the Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented, so nothing super similar to it. It's very nice for specific skin types and it's going to be wonderful, and for others like with acne prone skin it's just probably going to be too much."

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"The Purito Wonder Relief Centella Serum Unscented is a really nice product with peptides, centella, ceramics, no scent to it, and pretty affordable. However, I lost trust with the brand after everything that happened with the sunscreen situation where Purito SPF 50 was really shown to be SPF 17. I really lost trust in the brand and didn't want to regularly support them as much as I had been. There's nothing wrong with the product itself, but when you don't trust their sunscreen, do you trust that this has all the ingredients in it that it claims it does? They could easily be lying about that too."

Beauty of Joseon Light On Serum: Centella + Vitamin C

"The Beauty of Joseon Light On Serum with centella and vitamin C has a really nice lotiony texture, vitamin C serum that's really easy to fit into your routine. It's very good for sensitive skin types with a shorter ingredient list, but it's also got centella and centella derivatives in there, which are nice. This one's worth checking out and it's super affordable."

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78%of gurus approve

Dermatology Vitamin C5

"The Dermatology Vitamin C5, 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. Or if you're not sensitive to fragrance it's great. But I am and yeah can't use it."

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64%of gurus approve

Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E + Ferulic Acid Serum

"I like Geek and Gorgeous better than Timeless, but they tend to manufacture as fresh too."

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73%of gurus approve

DRMTLGY Peptide Night Cream

"It contains five different peptides and three different ceramides. It's a really nice fragrance-free skincare cream and you can certainly fit it into your evening routine or your morning routine. At $32 for 2.1 ounces, it's a little bit larger than the average moisturizer. I'm getting low on this one so I'll definitely be stocking up on this one during the sale."

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83%of gurus approve

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."

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"I like this one was okay, it's expensive for 1 ounce. My neck is always tends to be dry but it's been getting a lot better."

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The Inkey List Azelaic Acid Serum

"This product is great for sensitive eczema and rosacea prone skin. It does contain a small amount of gardenia flora extract, so technically while this product is unscented it's not technically fragrance free, but you don't notice any scent and most people don't have an issue with the gardenia flora. This one's got 15% azelaic acid."

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79%of gurus approve

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"This one I love it's also got oatmeal in here and ceramides. It's fragrance free, it's got a wonderful lotion texture. This stuff is really wonderful and it's currently one of my absolute favorites."

Axis-Y Dark Spot Correcting Glow Serum

"This is another K Beauty one that gets talked about a lot. I have hyperpigmentation and melasma and dark spots and all that sun damage, so anything that's for dark spots I'm going to try at least once. In 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. Yes, if you have newer hyperpigmentation that's not stubborn it might do the trick, but for me nah, no, no, no, no, nope. That was a loser."

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Polish Choice Calm Repairing Serum

"The Polish Choice Calm Repairing Serum is 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. This one's worth checking out."

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75%of gurus approve

Bioma Hydrating Serum

"The Bioma Hydrating Serum, which contains squalene, ceramide, licorice root, and vitamin E, is really nice."

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83%of gurus approve

Mary and May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum

"Mary and May Idebenone Blackberry Complex Serum, and this one I really like because I wanted to use something with more antioxidants. This has more antioxidants. Idebenone is a super strong antioxidant, blackberry and some of those fruit extracts, especially some of the berries like blueberry and things like that are great for your skin. And this one's also pretty affordable, super light texture, and I really enjoy this one. The reason I changed from this one is I wanted something a little bit more hydrating. I think it was moving into winter and this one wasn't getting me enough hydration, especially for the daytime, so I moved to something a little bit more moisturizing."

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79%of gurus approve

Theraphyto Copper Peptide Serum

"The Theraphyto Copper Peptide Serum, another one I've really enjoyed. Copper peptides there's other peptides in here as well. I believe it's 13% peptides, 3% copper peptides."

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86%of gurus approve

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"This is a newer product to me up until probably a month ago, the Theraphyto Copper Peptide Serum. I'd been eying it up for some time. It's 3% copper peptides, typically most products are 1 to 2%, so 3% is getting higher. It was out of stock for so long and finally came into stock. I picked it up and ordered it right when I saw it, and I'm happy with it. I just had their Black Friday sale at 30% off, and I went and picked up another bottle of the super sized version. Really nice moisturizer serum texture. I love copper peptides."

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"The Theraphyto Copper Peptide Serum, another one I've really enjoyed. Copper peptides there's other peptides in here as well. I believe it's 13% peptides, 3% copper peptides."

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

"I wish I wouldn't have purchased it. I could have had four or five bottles of Geek and Gorgeous instead, which is much better on so many levels. I give this one a five out of ten. It's terrible. I won't even hand it down to anybody because I question many things about this formula."

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80%of gurus approve

SkinMedica TNS Essential Serum

"I purchased SkinMedica's TNS Essential Serum probably about a year ago or so. The one I got from them was legit."

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63%of gurus approve

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"I love it. It's really wonderful. I try and use this early in my routine, so it gets the most benefits. But the packaging on a $300 product is terrible. I can't believe they haven't fixed this yet. I try and use it as sparingly as I possibly can because I don't want to spend more money on it. So, I really just try and use a very small amount on the specific areas that need the most help, which is my forehead, around my eyes, and around my mouth."

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"I purchased SkinMedica's TNS Essential Serum probably about a year ago or so. The one I got from them was legit."

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"I really enjoy that stuff. I've probably repurchased it, probably bought it four times. This is one of the closest similar products I've found. It takes a little bit more time to notice the benefits like with SkinMedica TNS within a week, but this takes a little bit longer, a couple weeks, but with the money saved and the extra product in here it's well worth it. With a little time you notice it helps with fine lines, brightness, texture, puffiness, redness. It's friendly with other products, which is why with retinols and things like that and vitamin C I love using it. I'm very impressed with this stuff, especially given what they've been able to do with the price and the other good ingredients."

COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"It's really nice but it's very watery so one and a half pumps is usually enough to cover everything really easily and quickly and absorbs almost instantly."

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"It feels more like an essence or an ampoule with the texture, but it feels nice and light and it does not have any smell to it at all. It has a lot of peptides in it. The formula has a six peptide complex that provides various skin benefits like collagen boosting and brightening. It's perfect as a first step serum that pairs well with other active ingredients. The exciting ingredients in here are arginine, which does have some really good studies showing that it helps decrease wrinkle depth by 17 percent after used for 15 days and a decrease after 28 days of further decrease in wrinkle depth of 16 percent. It's pretty high up the ingredient list. Copper peptides are in here as well."

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"The ingredients in here are great and it's fragrance free as well and much more affordable but still got lots of good peptides in here. It's got niacinamide, all those peptides and amino acids, and it feels really nice on my skin, like really nice. So we've got all those cell communicating ingredients, skin brightening with the niacinamide and acetoglucosamine, then we've got those amino acids and then for soothing copper peptide and some vitamin E in there and soybean oil. If you have acne prone skin the main ingredients to be aware of is the vitamin E and the soybean oil, those are the only ingredients of note. So really nothing to be concerned about for the most part, most people tolerate vitamin E very well even though it's kind of comedogenic, it just sometimes depends on the formula too. Overall it feels nice, I'm really impressed. I'm going to continue to use this because I really like it."

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"It's got some vitamin E in there and soybean oil, so if you have acne prone skin, the main ingredients to be aware of is the vitamin E and the soybean oil. Most people tolerate vitamin E very well even though it's kind of comedogenic, it just sometimes depends on the formula too. Overall it stuff feels nice. I'm really impressed. I'm going to continue to use this because I really like it. The copper peptide in there is very sensitive to other ingredients. I have found copper peptides are very fussy. You're not supposed to use them with almost anything else basically. I mean not supposed to use their retinol, acids, vitamin C, or strong antioxidants. So basically almost anything you use. But I found if I use a copper peptide and then layer a neutral product in between that's not a pH dependent product, that's not an active in between the copper peptide, it seems to work for me and other brands have recommended it, because otherwise you have to choose one or the other. Copper peptides can be very fragile. It's still kind of a relatively newer ingredient in skin care, but I found that works for me and I'd rather do both as long as your skin isn't irritated than have to pick one or the other and only get the benefits from one or the other."

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"Next up from COSRX is their 6 Peptide Skin Booster, which is their newer release. It's a wonderful liquid booster it retails for 21. I kind of use it in place of an essence and it's really absolutely wonderful. I can't wait to do a full review of this one after I've gotten a little bit more chance to test it out. So far so good, so so good."

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"It's really nice but it's very watery so one and a half pumps is usually enough to cover everything really easily and quickly and absorbs almost instantly."

Geek and Gorgeous Stressless Serum

"I'm on my third bottle of it now and I really love this one. It's a simple formula, so if your skin is very sensitive but you're also having irritation, sometimes more simple is the way to go, especially for easily irritated skin. In here we've got saccharide isomeric, we've got beta glucan. I love beta glucan, it is an amazing ingredient and it's great for soothing skin. It's a good humectant and also can help brighten skin up, amazing ingredient. And then last but not least we've got mat quesa side, which comes from Selenite otica, that has skin healing, wound healing properties in it. The texture of this stuff is wonderful and it just soaks into skin super easily. A little bit of it goes a long way and it's really affordable. You can pretty much add this into any routine pretty easily. Beta glucan and mde together are even better, they can help really protect your skin."

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numbuzin No.5 Vitamin Concentrated Serum

"I was very tuned into this because I love vitamins I love antioxidants and this is full of it. It's an intensive vitamin ampul that brightens skin and reduces the appearance of hyperpigmentation. It contains whitening properties featuring glow which evens your skin tone and helps with antioxidizing, and includes niacinamide to moisturize your skin for a healthy complexion. I love their packaging, it's in a glass dropper bottle and it is opaque, which I can appreciate because not enough brands use opaque packaging for strong antioxidants."

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84%of gurus approve

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"I was very tuned into this because I love vitamins I love antioxidants and this is full of it. An intensive vitamin ampul that brightens skin and reduces the appearance of hyperpigmentation. It contains whitening properties featuring glone which evens your skin tone and helps with antioxidizing, and includes niacinamide to moisturize your skin for a healthy complexion. I love their packaging, it's a glass dropper bottle and it is opaque, which I can grow to appreciate because not enough brands use opaque packaging for strong antioxidants. I'm happy to see that."

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"It contains whitening properties featuring glone which evens your skin tone and helps with antioxidizing, and includes niacinamide to moisturize your skin for a healthy complexion. The packaging is a glass dropper bottle that is opaque, which I really appreciate because not enough brands use opaque packaging for strong antioxidants. It's fragrance free, although the instant you apply it, it does have like almost a little bit of a sunscreen smell to it, and then it dissipates immediately."

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"It has a viscous gel water texture to it and a little bit of it goes a long way. It's not super liquidy like some vitamin C serums are, where you feel like it's dripping into your eyeballs. This texture is really nice, not too thick, but a little bit of it still goes a long way. I would say half a dropper ball is enough to cover your face and neck, and it feels really nice. It sets to a natural finish and does take like a minute to soak in. Once it soaks in, it sets to a natural finish and it's just a little bit slightly tacky but not noticeably so to the point where it makes it uncomfortable. It works great under sunscreen and moisturizer too."

numbuzin Skincare New! 🆕🍊🍑 No.5 Vitamin Concentrated Serum Review & How to Use

"It has a wonderful texture that feels really nice on the skin. In terms of performance, this one feels super calming and hydrating on my skin, which is really nice. It's unlike a lot of other vitamin C serums. A lot of vitamin C serums don't feel super calming or hydrating on your skin, they give you a glow, they help with hyperpigmentation, but they don't feel great on your skin. This one does. I do believe it helps brighten my skin a bit. My skin enjoys this one. It's a gentle vitamin C serum with several different types of vitamin C, so super friendly for all skin types, including acne-prone skin."

numbuzin Skincare New! 🆕🍊🍑 No.5 Vitamin Concentrated Serum Review & How to Use

"In terms of performance, this one feels super calming and hydrating on my skin, which is really nice. It's unlike a lot of other vitamin C serums. A lot of vitamin C serums don't feel super calming or hydrating on your skin. They give you a glow, they help with hyperpigmentation, but they don't feel super great on your skin. I do believe this helps brighten my skin a bit. My skin enjoys this one. It's a gentle vitamin C serum with several different types of vitamin C, so it's super friendly for all skin types, including acne-prone skin. For antioxidants, we've got lingan berry extract, which is the first ingredient. It's an extract that's rich in antioxidants and it has significant skin calming properties and is a good source of the beneficial mineral manganese. Then we've got alpha arbutin, which is a good antioxidant, also brightening turmeric."

numbuzin Skincare New! 🆕🍊🍑 No.5 Vitamin Concentrated Serum Review & How to Use

"It really soaked in and it feels really nice on my skin. For the price, this is the full size 1 oz 30 mL and retails for about $23 depending on where you pick it up, so it's a pretty good deal. A little bit of it goes a pretty long way and lasts you a while. I've really enjoyed this serum. After a few days I combined it with some of my regular serums and they seemed to complement each other nicely. I enjoy the fact that this formula is pretty friendly for most skin types: dry, oily, combo, sensitive, acne-prone skin. I really think it'll be a winner for the majority of people, with the exception of those with the most sensitive skin because of the number of ingredients. I think it's a total winner, combining a lot of brightening ingredients and vitamin C."

numbuzin Skincare New! 🆕🍊🍑 No.5 Vitamin Concentrated Serum Review & How to Use

"I enjoy the fact that this formula is pretty friendly for most skin types dry oily combo sensitive acne prone skin. I really think it'll be a winner for majority of people exception of those with the most sensitive skin because of just a number of ingredients. It's combining a lot of brightening ingredients and vitamin C. I really enjoyed this one."

numbuzin Skincare New! 🆕🍊🍑 No.5 Vitamin Concentrated Serum Review & How to Use

"I really think it'll be a winner for the majority of people, with the exception of those with the most sensitive skin because of a number of ingredients. For very sensitive skin, typically simple is better, not a whole long list. But it's a total winner, combining a lot of brightening ingredients and vitamin C. I really enjoyed this one."

Regiment Lab Level Serum

"If you suffer from hyperpigmentation, dark spots, melasma, or anything like that, this is a great brightening serum worth checking out. It contains some nice ingredients that are pretty friendly for most skin types. There's no fragrance in it, it's pretty affordable, a bottle will last you a while, and it's great for hyperpigmentation, all dark spots, and uneven skin tone. It's a winner."

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Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Moist Cream

"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 that works great, protects your skin, hydrates it, doesn't feel too greasy, and works great under foundation without pilling. I really enjoyed this product more than I thought I would. For acne-prone skin, there are a few ingredients of note: cetyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate, apricot oil, safflower oil, and vitamin E, so for very acne-prone skin it might be worth checking out the other version of this. At 3.38 ounces for 14 bucks, it's a bargain. For beneficial ingredients, we've got argan oil, safflower oil, vitamin E, and Pteris multifida extract, which is from a plant called spider brake fern that's been used in traditional Chinese medicine but is now being used topically as a potential anti-aging ingredient with antioxidant properties."

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"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."

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"Beta glucan is an amazing ingredient, really wonderful. It's in my opinion the next best version of hyaluronic acid in terms of the it factor. It's a really wonderful product. Wonderful formula, great texture. It takes a minute to soak in but once it does it sets to a really nice finish on your skin. Wonderful formula, texture, cruelty free, affordable. It's a very unique formula, there's not a ton of similar alternatives to this one. Isntree does a really great job with their products. In fact they have some of my favorite moisturizers of all time."

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."

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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."

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The Ordinary Mandelic Acid 10%

"Their mandolic acid is great for exfoliant if you're looking for a more gentle one. It's pretty good for being kind of gentle on the skin and it's really nice."

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83%of gurus approve

Dr Sam's Flawless Brightly Serum

"Dr Sam's Flawless Brightly Serum contains azelaic acid as the second ingredient and also contains some other brightening ingredients such as adorable glucoside and bakuchia. This one's another great azelaic acid product."

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79%of gurus approve

The Inky List Peptide Moisturizer

"It contains a small amount of peptides, one percent of peptides in the formula. It's also fragrance free and cruelty free. 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."

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75%of gurus approve

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."

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65%of gurus approve

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"Mad Hippie Vitamin C Serum is a nice option for if your skin's sensitive or if your skin's feeling super dry, it adds some nice moisture and soothing benefits as well as brightening. It's formulated well, and this one's really nice. I gave it a 10 out of 10. I really enjoy it and certainly will pick up a full size of this."

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The Ordinary Ascorbic Acid 8% + Alpha Arbutin 2%

"The Ordinary Ascorbic Acid 8% + Alpha Arbutin 2% retails for twelve dollars. This was also a waterless formula so this one is pretty greasy it takes a long time to absorb it's not my favorite. I think that's the problem with some of the Ordinary products is they're very affordable but they're not very fun to apply and use because texture is an issue or sometimes the absorption's an issue or sometimes they're pilling and things like that. But this one is in my opinion very similar in a lot of ways to the one from Pharmacy with the exception of the fragrance and it's much more affordable."

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Peter Thomas Roth Potent-C Power Serum

"I really was all over this when it came out. I still enjoy it. It's really expensive and it got more expensive the more time went on. So I liked it when I used it. I think I repurchased it once. When I repurchased at this point, probably not. It's just the more expensive things get, it's like, you know what, then I demand more results. If it's going to be eight times the price, it better be eight times as good, and usually it's not."

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81%of gurus approve

All 3 takes on Potent-C Power Serum

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"I don't have a direct quote about Peter Thomas Roth Potent-C Power Serum in this transcript window. The reviewer discusses other vitamin C serums (a dime hyperlow serum and Dr. Whitney Bastasy Defense Serum) but does not mention or review the Peter Thomas Roth product."

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"Peter Thomas Roth, I haven't been enjoying this one. This one's a different type of vitamin C, it's not ascorbic acid, it's a derivative. So just keep in mind the derivatives, they've been studied a little bit, but more studied by the manufacturers of each derivative than actual peer-reviewed journal studies like SkinCeuticals did. Some of them might be great for one person and not work at all for the next. The derivatives, I'm not so sold that those are totally gonna do the trick."

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The Ordinary Matrixyl 10% plus Hyaluronic Acid

"The Ordinary Matrixyl 10% plus Hyaluronic Acid is cruelty free and fragrance free. It contains hyaluronic acid as well as matrixyl peptides for anti-aging. This one retails for ten dollars and if you're looking for something with a really light serum texture, this stuff is wonderful."

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Theramid Copper Peptide Serum

"There's a brand I absolutely love, Theramid. I discuss them quite often. Last week I did a video discussing their Copper Peptide Serum and I thought I would let you guys know. I did that video of copper peptide versus between Theramid and The Ordinary discussing that."

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"My favorite product of all time at Theramid is their Copper Peptide Serum. It's wonderful. We've got copper peptides, bid ferment epidermal growth factor in here, it's really lovely. It's got a gel texture, really nice product, not necessarily for the morning routine but at night it's wonderful. The extra large size is 54 bucks but it lasts a long time, the regular size lasted a long time to begin with."

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"It's got buffa ferment. It's got the melatine peptide which is a great brightening peptide. The thimolin 4 peptide, the prolene peptide, epidermal growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor. And it is definitely very blue."

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"With the 10 being a perfect score, this one at 10 it's a winner. I absolutely love it."

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"This one has a silicone base in it with several different silicone ingredients, so instead of having a watery texture like all these have, it has more of a lotiony texture to it. If your skin does not like thicker products or silicones, that's something to be aware of. Personally, I find this one to be really nice to use during the winter when my skin gets a little dry. It uses 3% copper peptide and also contains several epidermal growth factors as well as fibroblast growth factor peptides. It's nice for nighttime use. Personally, I don't use this one during the daytime because I found with some of the silicone ingredients in here, it has a tendency to either peel up under my sunscreen or make my sunscreen peel up over it. So I will use this typically at nighttime because of that. It's fragrance-free. In my opinion, I would say this one's a great one for people with dry skin or a damaged skin barrier."

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"The Theramid feels very nice and calming on your skin, with a very silky feeling. It helps with wrinkles and firming up skin. The most benefits I notice is on my neck, which gets saggy and crepey skin, and it helps lock hydration in. I wish this one contained argireline or snap eight to help with some of those Botox-in-a-bottle type wrinkles. But overall, it's very nice and silky. I really like this one during the winter when my skin needs a little bit extra hydration. I can tell a difference on my skin when I use this."

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"I really like using this one. It helps with wrinkles, firming up skin. The most benefits I notice is in my neck, which gets saggy and kind of crepey skin, and it helps lock hydration in. It's very silky. I really like this one during the winter when my skin needs a little bit extra hydration. It's very beneficial for skin and wound healing, especially. I love that I can use this one with microneedling to help fade the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. I appreciate the combination of the additional peptides they threw in here and amino acids. It's really great for your skin. I can tell a difference on my skin when I use this. It's a game changer. It's a unique product with so many additional beneficial ingredients. It's a game-changing product and it's definitely in my top five products."

Theramid Clinical Vitamin A Serum

"It's got retinal so we've got three different retinoids in there, we've got vitamin E, we've got JABA esters. It's pretty affordable at 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."

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Neutrogena Hydro Boost Serum

"The ingredients on the new one are much more exciting. I think the new version looks a little less shiny than the older version. The new version it looks like doesn't contain the titanium dioxide, the ultramarines or the mica, so I'm a big fan of that because I just don't like putting titanium dioxide and mica on my skin at night. The amino acids are great for your skin, they're the building blocks of your skin, so it really helps your skin stay plumped, and helps it repair things like that. Looking at the two ingredient lists, they are two different serums, very different serums."

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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."

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All 3 takes on Red Bean Water Gel

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"This one's 17 bucks and it's got quite the gel texture. Really nice product, a little bit goes a long way. So we've got that red bean extract, we've got beta glucan, we've got sunflower seed oil, we've also got several amino acids and several peptides. For my opinion, great for dry, oily, sensitive, and acne-prone skin. I think this is one that works well for most skin types. Not a lot of these are, I can say that for, but this one in my opinion pretty good for all skin types. Really nice, and I really do like that candy smell."

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"This one has almost a candy smell to it from the red bean, so it's not like a scent from fragrance or essential oils. It's a wonderful gel texture geared towards normal to oily skin types, or it works great for drier skin types in the summer or more humid weather. I really love this, and I just love when something smells good but it's actually a good smelling ingredient. In this one we've got red bean extract which is a good skin soothing and antioxidant, licorice root, beta glucan, sunflower seed oil, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate which is a promising vitamin C derivative, several amino acids, and then also a ton of peptides in here as well. It's a wonderful product, great for oily skin. I love the texture of it, love the slight scent of it as well."

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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."

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All 12 takes on Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream

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"The Drunk Elephant Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream is $69. It's got the shea butter, the jojoba oil, ceramides, palmitic acid, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, and it's a good option if you're looking for a richer moisturizer."

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"The Drunk Elephant Bora Barrier cream feels like putting a mask on to me, and with my dry skin I should like that, but I don't. It is so thick. Other people didn't have that same issue so I don't know, maybe I'm just overdoing it, but I'm going to try and finish it."

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

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"The Bora Barrier Cream is probably my least favorite of them. I just found it to be a little bit thick, not enjoyable to use, and I didn't find myself benefiting much from it. However, if you have a damaged skin barrier, irritated skin, flaky skin, things like that, a lot of people really like it for that."

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"It doesn't quite have as much slip to it. It doesn't really have the slip of the other creamy one, but it's not as thick as a la la cream either. I feel like this is going to be one where a little bit does not go a long way. It doesn't feel greasy or anything though, feels kind of nice, feels fine. I just don't think one pump is going to be enough for an entire face because one pump was enough for about half my face. It feels like sunscreen's going to pill unless you give it a minute to soak in. That's the only thing I found that helps with certain moisturizers under sunscreen, and the only thing I found that helps is giving them five to ten minutes to soak in before you put the sunscreen on, otherwise it pills."

Drunk Elephant Skincare 🐘🆕🐘 Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream with 6-Butterlipid Complex Moisturizer

"I'm not so crazy about Drunk Elephant anymore. A lot of people love this moisturizer and I don't know, I for once I think I disagree with the masses. They say this reparative formula nourishes skin with glucosides, ceramides, beta cells, and zinc and copper salt minerals to encourage the natural synthesis of healthy collagen, vital lipids and hyaluronic acid in skin, promoting elasticity, soothing skin and supporting healthy barrier function. Some things I didn't love."

Drunk Elephant Skincare 🐘🆕🐘 Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream with 6-Butterlipid Complex Moisturizer

"I'm bummed with this moisturizer but it's got some good things going for it. Some things I didn't love, which is usually a love-hate relationship with Drunk Elephant."

Drunk Elephant Skincare 🐘🆕🐘 Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream with 6-Butterlipid Complex Moisturizer

"It's super thick and I just could not get over the thickness. I have super dry skin so I really appreciate something that's thick and hydrating, but this stuff is just over the top. It feels almost like applying like a wax to your skin or Vaseline. Instantly for me, daytime use of this one is almost out of the question. It's way too thick. It will peel up under sunscreen and things like that. It feels like you're wearing a mask on your skin. It's hard to apply it in your routine if you already are using other products because then those other products start to peel, they start to slide off your skin. I woke up with just pills everywhere of just product. Once it's applied it's okay, but I wake up with little pills of product, and I just did not enjoy using it or applying it. It's shiny and feels very mask-like."

Drunk Elephant Skincare 🐘🆕🐘 Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream with 6-Butterlipid Complex Moisturizer

"I kept trying it and I woke up with just pills everywhere of just product it was just gross. Something on this one for me is just lost, but other people absolutely love it. This is just so thick I just don't love it. I can't make any promises but I just did not enjoy using it or applying it. Once it's applied it's okay, but again I wake up this morning with little pills of little blue pills of copper peptide things. It's shiny it feels very mask-like, but I guess for super dry skin I guess it's not a bad thing. I don't love this so much when other people do. It's so thick I couldn't imagine using this one in my daytime routine. What Drunk Elephant really had going for was their products are expensive but very enjoyable to apply unlike things like the ordinary where they're very thick or pill. Things have changed and like they're proteiny now anytime I use it over almost anything it foams. Something's changed."

Drunk Elephant Skincare 🐘🆕🐘 Bora Barrier Rich Repair Cream with 6-Butterlipid Complex Moisturizer

"In terms of performance, it promises to repair skin, promote elasticity, soothe skin, support a healthy barrier function. I think it delivers on all those accounts. Despite having a thick texture, it does deliver on all of those accounts. It's a nice option probably for very dry and dehydrated skin types. For acne prone skin, I would be cautious. There's a lot of acnegenic ingredients in here. In terms of the price, this retails for 69 bucks, so it's freaking expensive."

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"The Drunk Elephant Bora Barrier cream, I didn't love it. It felt thick, it felt mask like on my skin. They change something in it because it foams up on me every time I apply it over anything. This stuff felt super thick and just mask like, it felt like I was wearing a thick mask that was meant to rinse off. For me it just was a bummer."

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"The Drunk Elephant Bora Barrier Cream is on the thicker side, kind of in the middle between the protein and the LA cream. It's fragrance-free, so that's nice, so no further irritation."

Purito Deep Sea Pure Water Cream

"This one's got chamomile for soothing, alantin 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."

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"It's a really nice gel lotion texture. It's really nice for your morning routine because it's not super greasy. It feels lightweight but still moisturizing enough. It works really nice under most sunscreens."

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"The texture is really nice to see and it's friendly for most skin types. With the 10 being a perfect score I have this one a 10. I really love it, I'm really happy I picked it up. Purito is one of those hip brands and when they get really hip like that I tend to not buy from them as much because I figure they're just being overhyped, but this one really made my day and it lived up to the expectations. They did a good job with this one."

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"The M love the glow maker is very nice it works well for a lot of people"

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"They've been calling this fragrance-free and marketing as great for sensitive skin. But it has no fragrance, it does contain fragrant extracts even in small amounts. For so long, this brand's let everyone say they're fragrance free, this product is fragrance free and great for sensitive skin. Meanwhile, they've snuck in four ingredients that they are now disclosing are in this product: geranium oil, citronellal, geraniol, and linalol. None of those ingredients have any benefit to skin. There are certain ingredients that can have a scent that are actually good for your skin, but geraniol, linalol, geranium oil, they are not benefits for skin whatsoever."

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"The first few times I used this did not go so great my face was very angry however I kept uh took a little bit of time off and then I went back to it and now my skin seems to handle it better"

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"It's really nice for morning or evening for most skin types I think it'll work pretty well"

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"I'm having a lot of problems with a new one from Purito their honey Essence uh the the opening of that one is just too small really I have to put all my effort into getting it out and it's kind of annoying"

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"I still love a lot"

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"This happens to be one of my holy grail products. Their midnight blue calming cream is wonderful."

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"The numu in number one purple moisturizer is really nice it's really soothing really calming"

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"The V green reishi Skin Barrier really nice really light you just put it on right after cleansing and toning I put it on this morning just seems to give my skin a little bit of extra moisture"

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"This is still uh a really nice nice One although I will say slowly I've kind of been phasing this one out"

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"Really wonderful K Beauty serum it's super nice and I I really love that hyene natural Repair Serum"

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"A lot of people that use tolan at night follow up with this product to keep it hydrated and calm, and panthenol is a great skin soothing, wound healing antioxidant which is what you want in your products. It's really good."

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"This one's a really nice cream so it's got panthenol, squalane, bamboo extract, and salicylic acid and it's in a pretty big jar, 3.38 ounces or 100 milliliters. This one I would say is a little bit more friendly for oilier skin types so a little bit of it goes a long way, it sets to a nice finish, and it's worth checking out and affordable."

Oldies but Goodies - Skincare Products That Stand the Test of Time!

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"I typically use this one on my neck and sometimes my arms when they get really dry in the winter time this one's really nice no scent to it really effective product"

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"It's got the eucalyptus oil in it which gives it a cooling feeling but can also be very irritating for skin. When they say they market to sensitive skin and then add eucalyptus oil, it's like what are you doing? It makes no sense."

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"I just love this one so much. The in Beauty they have a whole lineup of stuff and I haven't tried a lot but their slushy serum and this stuff are really nice so well worth checking out."

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"V Green Reishi Barrier Serum won favorite hydrating serum. The reviewer noted it is also the most affordable option in the category and mentioned they used it right before the awards."

Bioma Moisturizing Gel Cream

"This one's a glycerin based gel. I would say this one's better for normalish skin types or dry skin types. It sets to a really more of a matte finish. 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."

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CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with Urea

"The CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion is 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 actually layer this on days when my skin is really dry. I'll layer this underneath thicker creams because this has that urea in it which gives it the extra moisture and smoothness, and then layering it with something that's even a little bit thicker gives my skin more moisture."

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"CeraVe plays much better with other body care products such as anything with peptides or retinoids. It spreads really easy and a little bit goes a long way. Once it sets and dries, it's not tacky and sticky like some other products."

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"The CeraVe spreads really easy and a little bit goes a long way. Once it sets and dries, it has a much more silky smooth elegant texture and feel to it. Non-tacky. The CeraVe does have quite a few isopropyl palmitate, cetyl alcohol, stearic acid, sorbinolate, carbomers, glycerol, steareth-one and then two fatty acids and vitamin E. So it's got 10 total ingredients that I would consider comedogenic or pore clogging potential. If you're using this all over your body, not so much your face, it's not going to be as big of a deal. But for some people, it really can be an issue like on their back and things like that."

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"For the survey, great for sensitive or dry skin or very, very dry skin that is not acne prone. Great for layering over other products, especially products that have actives on barrier repair and long lasting moisture."

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"This one's got water, glycerin, some fatty alcohols, ceramides, cholesterol. This is the one with the urea in it. You can kind of see it's thick, but still kind of lotiony. It's one of my top recommendations for very dry skin days or very dry skin or very dry cold weather."

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"The urea they used in here is really nice. It really does feel nice and hydrating and it does soak in pretty quickly. It's definitely light, more lightweight. It's got more of a gel texture. It's a nice hydrating ingredient. We've got hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, phytosphingosine which is a skin-identical ingredient, the ceramides, sodium hyaluronate, squalane, cholesterol and alanine."

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"This one instantly plumped up the skin here, which is very dry. It feels nice, it doesn't feel tacky, it feels silky smooth. It has more of a shiny finish. If your skin is super dry, there's nothing wrong with this. The urea in here is great, it's a wonderful ingredient. Overall, very nice."

Vanicream Enhanced Moisturizer

"Vanicream 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. This one's really nice. 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, and then I'll apply my moisturizer. 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."

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La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5

"It's got dimethicone, shea butter, vitamin E. It also contains mitoicide, which is derived from Santella, which has a lot of great skin soothing benefits for skin. It's 21 bucks at Ulta. It's really nice, pretty thick but nice and protective. And no fragrance or scent to it either."

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"The L Ro Posay to me is more like a moisturizer, a thick moisturizer. I tend to use L Ro Posay more as a treatment or more as a moisturizer. You can't go wrong with it, it's wonderful."

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"It does not contain any drying types of alcohol and it's also fragrance free with no noticeable scent, which is really wonderful. It's made in France. It's got a really nice gel texture that I absolutely love. 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. The finish is kind of shiny. You can use this for hydrating purposes with retinoids, or after procedures like lasers or microneedling. It protects and relieves chapped, cracked, and shaved skin, comforts and soothes skin, and helps soothe a disrupted skin barrier. It's sensitive skin friendly, so you can use it if you overdid it on retinoids or exfoliants."

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"It's super hydrating, super calming, and it feels so nice on skin and really not as sticky as you'd think. Simple ingredient list. I like the fact that there's no fragrance, there's no potential irritant in it. I find it works well in chapped areas, dry areas, and irritated skin, especially nice for after laser treatments. Pretty friendly for all skin types including sensitive, dry, oily skin. For acne prone skin there's only panthenol and vitamin E of note, so really nothing too concerning. Very nice simple product, a good soothing, hydrating product that doesn't feel terribly greasy on skin."

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"I really can see so many different uses with this one: calming breakouts, dry chapped winter skin, after skin procedures, hydrating skin, using with retinoids, using it with eczema or itis cases. I love gel products, I have super dry skin and gel texture products are my favorite. I really think this one is worth a try for a lot of you. With a 10 being a perfect score, this one is a 9. If it were cruelty-free it would be better, but as long as these giant brands own all these other brands, I guess this is just where it's at."

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"I have super dry skin and gel texture products are my favorite so I really think this one is worth a try for a lot of you."

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"La Roche-Posay Cicaplast contains zinc, which is a great calming ingredient, and also includes panthenol, copper, and magnesium, which are all great for soothing. The main difference in this one is the zinc because for some people zinc has worked as a very great calming ingredient. Some people find a lot of mineral sunscreens calm their skin, which is probably from maybe some of the zinc in there. It's worth checking out."

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"La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 is used by a lot of people that use tretinoin and strong retinoids. They'll apply their tretinoin, let it soak in for a minute, and then they apply this, and so many people just swear by that combination. It's not really designed as a mask per se, but it's being used by a lot of people like a sleeping mask, and it really does have wonderful properties in terms of hydrating skin and calming it. Centella asiatica is amazing for calming red, irritated, flaky skin down, so I think that's why this is such a favorite by so many people."

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"This is their Cicaplast Baume B5, which probably is one of their bestselling products. It's great for using with retinoids. It's pretty affordable."

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"The balm is better for dry skin or winter, or a lot of people just use this for layering underneath or over their toner or retinoids to prevent skin from getting too dry. It is on the thick side. If you use retinoids, this one's really nice to layer or sandwich them. For the sandwich technique, you apply a moisturizer such as this one, then you apply the retinoid product, and then you apply another product over it to kind of sandwich in between two hydrating layers. So this one's nice for that."

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"The La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume is really nice and a lot of people use this with retinoids and things like that. It's got centella derivatives, shea butter, and panthenol and a short ingredient list as well."

Astera Ado Barrier 365 cream

"The Astera Ado Barrier 365 cream, which is 32 bucks. This one's got squalane, demethylone, vitamin E, and caveides. This one's nice. This one works well for me for daytime. It's just not quite as occlusive as some of the other ones, but it's really nice and hydrating. It has no scent to it."

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CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"My next favorite moisturizer comes out which is the CeraVe PM moisturizing lotion."

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"My next favorite moisturizer comes out which is the CeraVe PM moisturizing lotion."

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"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."

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"This one is a basic moisturizer although I do notice people with extremely sensitive or easily irritated skin, I've been noticing people can have some issues with this brand in general. I'm not exactly sure if it's the preservatives or the base of it or something else. It's just so simple and basic which makes it great for a lot of people but if you're looking for something a little more exciting or anti-aging then there's other stuff that's better. But just for a simple basic moisturizer if you don't have any skin concerns like acne or hyperpigmentation or wrinkles or anything like that then it's fine."

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"The CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion is a pretty simple moisturizer, doesn't have a lot of frills. It's basically ceramides and niacinamide, which is simple. It's great for a lot of people that have super sensitive skin. No fragrance. However, the older I get the more I need in terms of helping with brightness, anti-aging, helping with fine lines, helping with my melasma. The simple ones are better for younger people that don't have all those issues going on."

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"CeraVe PM Moisturizing Lotion, which a lot of people love but I have some ones that are some of them are more affordable some of are a little bit more beneficial some a little bit more hydrating."

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"The CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion has the ceramides in there, it's got the niacinamide and it's got sodium hyaluronate in there."

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"The Cave PM moisturizing facial lotion is just a nice simple moisturizer. What I don't like about it is the ingredients are very simple, so if you don't need a lot of anti-aging or brightening or antioxidants, it's going to be a very basic simple moisturizer with ceramides. But if you are getting older and need more help with anti-aging and texture and brightness and things like that, you're going to want to use this with something else. It's a nice simple moisturizer, but it's so hit or miss for people. A lot of people have good luck with it, and then there's a whole lot of people that have issues with it. A lot of people have allergic issues with it. It did the trick for me for a while."

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion

"The Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion came in a clear bottle. I always thought my skin was dry and it would always be flaky and I'd put this on and then it would be flaky and oily. So it wasn't really a moisturizer I liked. I probably used it for a year solid, not quite realizing that just putting oily moisturizer on your skin isn't enough sometimes. I had issues with dryness, so I'd apply this moisturizer and for me it didn't work. It would make my skin feel moisturized, but then still flaky and red and itchy. I'm not really recommending it per se. I'm sure there's some people that it works for, but that was a good year, year and a half of using that where I just couldn't figure out why my skin was always still looking red and flaky."

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"It's basically probably my first moisturizer I ever used and the only one really I used up until I started getting into skincare. It was affordable and fragrance-free, although to be honest I don't think it was really made for my skin type. It always felt kind of greasy and shiny. It seems to work well for a lot of people, but for me I guess it was good enough to get me into skincare."

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."

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"This one I've repurchased multiple times. It's a great one to mix in with other products. The original is really wonderful. Since this came out they've released a couple different versions of it, the phytoceramide version and the beta glucan version. The phytoceramide version seemed very greasy to me, but the beta glucan one has a nice gel texture. These are all pretty friendly for acne prone skin overall. When people ask me for a moisturizer for acne prone skin, if you're looking for something very budget friendly, the Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA seems to do the trick for a lot of people and work well. It's really darn affordable and it's in a big bottle too."

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"The original version has a lotion texture, a little bit thicker than the other one. A little bit of it goes a long way, it soaks in pretty nicely, and it sets to a matte finish once it soaks in. I will say under certain sunscreens it can pill up occasionally. You can see the shininess and the matteness on that."

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"The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA is a really nice duper alternative at 11 bucks for a big 3.3 oz size. It's still an alternative to the $69 Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream, and honestly I prefer this one. Every time I apply this it foams up unless I apply it on dry skin with nothing else on it, and even then it foams up. I don't know why something changed, but I used to love this stuff and would go through it so fast, and now I'm still working on the same jar for like a year or two years because it just foams up every time."

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"Good molecules B5 hydrating body serum was good for summer but it's not quite hydrating enough on its own"

The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + Beta Glucan

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

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"This one has just a wonderful gel texture to it. A little bit goes a very long way, it can come out pretty fast. This is vegan and cruelty free. This one is a great option for oily skin types as well as acne prone skin. Exciting ingredients in this I've got beta glucan, amino acids, a lot of amino acids which are natural moisturizing factors, urea, sugar derived humectants, and allantoin."

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"It's a little bit thicker, a little bit of it goes a long way. It soaks in pretty nicely and sets to a matte finish once it soaks in. Under certain sunscreens it can pill up occasionally. I just love gel formulas, even with my dry skin I really appreciate the gel version. A little bit of this one goes a long way and it feels very nice on skin. Nice gel texture, feels nice on skin, soaks in quickly and sets to a natural finish. It's not shiny, it's not matte. Works well for me during my daytime routine and under most sunscreens. The beta glucan is kind of a compromise between two extremes, whereas one version is super greasy and shiny and the original version is very matte, the beta glucan is right in the middle with a natural finish."

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"The beta glucan I really love this one. It's geared towards oily skin types with its gel texture, but my dry skin just absolutely loves it. I love this texture, I love the ingredients, it feels really nice on the skin. It works well under sunscreen, it works well in the daytime routine, and in my evening routine I absolutely love it. In terms of performance, I hands down gave it to the beta glucan. I absolutely adore it, it's an amazing, wonderful product. The beta glucan is 13.50, which is pretty darn affordable, especially for 100 milliliters."

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"In terms of performance, I hands down gave it to the beta glucan version. I absolutely adore it, it's an amazing, wonderful product. It's got the amazing gel-like texture, the amazing amino acids, the beta glucan. It seems to be one that will work best for most skin types, including oily skin. My dry skin loves it, sensitive skin I think the beta glucan's a great soothing ingredient. I'm really impressed with it. It works well under sunscreen, it works well in the daytime routine, and in my evening routine I absolutely love it."

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"Beta glucan has a slightly larger molecular size, but the smaller fractions of beta glucan penetrates the skin even into the dermis, which is the thicker middle layer of the skin, and after eight weeks there's a significant reduction of wrinkle depth and height, and skin roughness was also improved. So beta glucan is soothing, hydrating, anti-aging. There's no reason not to include beta glucan in your skincare. It's an amazing ingredient. It's got a nice gel texture to it. I prefer to use this one at night or when my skin is really dry in the mornings. I use this one a lot on my neck, and it's really calming it down a lot. This one may just look like a simple moisturizer that's great for soothing irritated skin, but it's also anti-aging, and it's really affordable, so it's a nice product."

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"This one is totally underrated in my opinion. It's got a nice gel texture, kind of like a serum, but it soaks in really nice. A little bit of it goes a long way. It's super affordable and it's got beta glucan in there which is great for soothing. This one in my opinion is great for dry and sensitive skin. And $13.50 for a full-size moisturizer, you just don't see that very often."

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"Out of them my favorite is the beta glucan. It's got a gel texture which I just love, so if you have oilier skin it's really nice. Gel textures, I just love a good gel textured moisturizer because they're just so nice, they don't feel greasy, they soak in properly. At 10 bucks you can't beat that. In here we've got glucose, urea, sodium PCA, allantoin, vitamin E, and then we've got beta glucan which is a wonderful humectant. It also has skin soothing and wound healing properties and is also being studied as an anti-aging ingredient to fight wrinkles. What is not to love about beta glucan? Compared to sodium hyaluronate which is kind of boring, beta glucan is my jam. I love it, and maybe if it's anti-aging it's even better."

Clinique Moisture Surge 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator

"They've got the Clinique Moisture Surge, the current version. I think they're on, well, since I've been doing skin care, I think this might be the fourth incarnation of it with some slight changes."

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"They've got the Clinique Moisture Surge, the current version. I think they're on, well, since I've been doing skin care, I think this might be the fourth incarnation of it with some slight changes."

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"It's really nice, liquidy gel texture, soaks in really nicely. I eventually moved on from this one because I don't think this texture and ingredients is enough for dry skin during a dry winter. But I did go through a fall, spring, and summer of using this and it was really nice and elegant feeling, silky feeling on the skin."

Tatcha Water Cream

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

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"Both products are lovely I've used them both extensively"

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

Beauty of Joseon Dynasty Cream

"It's fragrance free. Their initial version of this did not was not fragrance-free, which turned me off to the brand for quite some time, but I'm back on board now. We've got rice bran water, ginseng water, sunflower seed oil, coconut oil, and ceramides. So for acne prone skin, it depends on how you react to coconut oil. That is always one that's you never know. Some people's skin loves it, some people's skin hates it. This stuff's quite nice. I'm glad they made it fragrance-free. This one's great for dry skin."

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"The Beauty of Joseon Dynasty Cream is great too. I just, it wasn't as strong as some of these to me."

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"This is a really nice, very rich cream. It's not so much a daytime cream for me, it's more of an evening type, kind of last step type cream because it is so, so thick. It's thick but it's lovely and it plays well as a last step evening type moisturizer. I like the reformulated version better than the original version."

Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream

"Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream is great. I love the fact that it's priced affordably."

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"This one's 2.1 oz for 26 bucks. Fragrance free, alcohol free, cruelty-free. Sodium hyaluronate, ceramides, peptides, vitamin E, beeswax, shea butter. It's really nice. I've repurchased this one a bunch of times too. It's been a long time favorite. It's definitely one of my most repurchased moisturizers."

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"Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream is great. I love the fact that it's priced affordably."

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"My absolute favorite product from Klairs hands down is their Midnight Blue Calming Cream. I talk about it a lot, it's wonderful, it's really great. There's no fragrance in it. It initially had fragrance and then a couple years ago they changed it up and took the fragrance out and made it really lovely."

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"The midnight blue calming cream soaks in a little bit faster. The nice thing is once it soaks in it isn't sticky whereas the calming cream tends to stay a little tacky after you finish it. I love the amount of peptides in them, and I love the fact that Klairs eventually made this fragrance free. When I first tried it for the very first time it had fragrance in it and now it is unscented. It's on the affordable side. So far so good, I like it. It seems to work nicely and I think it'll be nice for people with oily or acne prone skin types as well."

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"I was expecting to really love it because I love my cream, my calming cream, but I just didn't love this one. I would have liked to see more antioxidants and more soothing ingredients. The mint is a big issue for me. If they had eliminated that, it would do much better."

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"Light layer of the Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream. I'm pretty well hydrated but I just can't see myself doing a routine without it because I just love the ingredients of it so much, so I don't really see any benefit for me to just not use it."

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"The Klairs Midnight Blue Calming Cream, absolutely amazing. I use this in conjunction with the Cosrx snail cream at the end of my evening routine. Full of good ingredients, peptides, anti-aging ingredients, still calming and soothing, absolutely amazing, and still pretty affordable. And if you have the choice between this and the jar, get the tube version. It's a little bit more and you'll thank me later because the jar is messy and painful to use."

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"I've been taking a dollop of it and applying it to my face and neck at the end of my evening routine and only my evening routine because I do find it looks a little greasy and too greasy to be using in the morning routine especially if you're using sunscreen over it. It takes a while to sink in so I prefer using it in your evening routine. I apply it after I've applied everything else and I apply this as my very last step or sometimes I'll pat on an oil afterwards but typically I make this my very last step. It is very shiny, so you're going to want to use it as an evening product. I use it like a sleeping mask but with a nice texture, and it soaks in as I sleep."

Cosrx Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream

"I kind of consider it almost like a mask, but leave on mask. I kind of use it as a sleeping mask more than moisturizer. But when it gets really dry in the winter, I do use it as a moisturizer. It's fragrance free, alcohol free. It's got snail mucin, panthanol, alantin, adnosine. It's got a creamy lotiony texture to it. It's goopy and it takes a long time to soak in."

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"Finished up a COSRX Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream, love this stuff, purchased it multiple times. I already have my backup on my countertop."

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"Another great one I failed to mention is the Cosrx Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream. I don't really, sometimes I use this like a sleeping mask as a last step but typically this is the step before. But a lot of people just use this as their last step too."

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"I finished up the tube of the snail cream which I absolutely love. I've already got my backup right here because you got to have a backup of this stuff because it's so wonderful. 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."

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"Cosrx Advanced Snail Mucin Cream won No BS Beauty's favorite product of the year. The reviewer has been using it for years, describes it as a winner, and states No BS Beauty loves it repeatedly. They encourage others to try it."

In Beauty Project Extreme Cream Firming and 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."

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Anua Rice 70 Intensive Moisturizing Milk

"The Anua Rice 70 Intensive Moisturizing Milk is a thicker lotion version of the toner, which is really nice."

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"No denatured alcohols, no fragrance, made in Korea. Very easy to use, good ingredients, good antioxidants, and no animal testing. On the performance side, the price is affordable and it definitely has the it factor. So I gave it a 10 out of 10."

Anua Skincare 🆕 Rice 70 Intensive Moisturizing Milk Review, How to Use, Dupes & Alternatives

"You can use it morning or evening. If you have oily skin this might be enough as a moisturizer for you as opposed to using another cream. For my skin I use this one underneath a thicker moisturizer at night and then during the daytime I'll use this over my vitamin C serum and then go onto my sunscreen after it. It has a very nice lotion texture and sets to kind of a natural slightly radiant finish that is just a little bit tacky but not terribly so. The texture is wonderful. You can use this all over your face and neck. I really like this one for my neck and décolletage area because it feels really nice on those spots. The neck is tricky, if you use something too thick it'll end up peeling during the daytime and if you use something too thin then it ends up feeling kind of dry or itchy. So it feels very nice for that. The beneficial ingredients include rice bran water which is a hydrating ingredient, niacinamide which is a skin brightening anti-acne ingredient, metal foam seed oil which is an emollient and antioxidant, and coconut oil which is an emollient but a lot of people don't love coconut oil."

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"This one's nice, it's lightweight, it's hydrating, it feels nice on skin. For spring and summer this would probably be an all-in-one product. For me it works well over my vitamin C serum, and it's been kind of hard to find a good moisturizer that works well with it but this one seemed to work great for me. For what this product promises to swiftly hydrate and nourish skin with abundant moisture, promoting a glowy complexion and brightening a dull complexion and preventing moisture loss, I would say this delivers on most of those. However, there's really no brightening. I mean we've got niacinamide in there but in terms of brightening, there's really no other brightening ingredients in here, so I think that's a little bit of an over-the-top promise. It's not going to brighten your skin. Niacinamide will help but in terms of really brightening your skin, this isn't going to be a product that I would recommend if you have severe hyperpigmentation or melasma or dark spots. It's not going to hurt but it's a little bit over the top in my opinion. It's friendly for most skin types with the exception of acne prone skin. For acne prone skin we've got coconut oil, ceto alcohol, glycerol, carbomer, sorbitan isostearate, squalene, vitamin E, palmitic acid and stearic acid, so nine acnegenic ingredients is a lot. If you have very acne prone skin or even slightly acne prone skin just be cautious."

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"Very nice lotion, works great as a light moisturizer, very good value for the price. It'll last quite quite some time. Works well under a hydrating toner to help seal in moisture. It's a lovely product. I love it."

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"The Anua Rice 70 Intensive Moisturizing Milk is a thicker lotion version of the toner, which is really nice."

CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion

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

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"The CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion is very nice. It's got shea butter, mineral oil, niacinamide, grapeseed oil. The mineral oil in particular is really hydrating, so that stuff's really nice. It's a bit thicker than some options, but this stuff is really nice."

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

Alrino Lotion

"I love the Alrino lotion. This is prescription. 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 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."

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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."

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"I don't feel like I need a serum underneath it. I feel pretty hydrated. This stuff's so expensive, but it's nice."

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"I couldn't find it so I'm going to use this drunk elephant de bronzing drops mixed with the skinfix moisturizer this is the one for dry skin."

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"I really like this stuff. If it were like half the price, I'd buy it more, but it's really really expensive. This little tube is probably got $40 worth of product in it, but it's really nice and really hydrating and has no scent, which I love."

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"I have a handful of these little samples now so I'm going to have to use these up because this product is ridiculously expensive so I can't afford it."

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"The Augustinus Bader Rich Cream retails for 180 for one ounce. I've had the pleasure of using it, it's nice, but I can save you guys some money here."

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"It's got some really nice ingredients, got Resveratrol, pomegranate, it's got peptides. It's just a really nice hydrating serum. I really like this."

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"I love this stuff but it's so darn expensive. It's very tiny, 7 milliliters. I really like it, I just can't per mentally purchase it again because if I'm going to spend that much money it's going to be the Skin Medicics TNS serum that I'm going to buy and not this. But this is nice too, and if people love it and it works for them, go for it."

Geek and Gorgeous Happier Barrier

"Their happy barrier moisturizer is great for drier skin types. It's got nice repairing ingredients and hydrating ingredients and some soothing ingredients in there as well."

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"Their happy barrier moisturizer is great for drier skin types. It's got nice repairing ingredients and hydrating ingredients and some soothing ingredients in there as well."

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"I really enjoy their Geek and Gorgeous Happier Barrier moisturizer. If you have oilier skin or acne prone skin, Hydration Stations probably the way you want to go, but for drier skin, damaged skin barrier, things like that, irritated skin, this is a wonderful moisturizer. It's also affordable."

SkinFix Hand Repair Cream

"This is their hand repair cream. I keep one at my nightstand. I keep one at my dad's house and this is a great gift. It's really nice, effective hand cream, very hydrating and non-greasy."

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"SkinFix Hand Repair Cream, little sample tube that expired like a year ago."

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"SkinFix Hand Repair Cream, I love they changed the packaging. This stuff is really thick and I just put it literally like I'll put a dab on and just rub the back of my hands because otherwise your fingerprints and palms get all greasy and slimy. I hate that feeling so I'll just put a little bit on the back of my hands and rub them together like that and get my nails and then my paws stay oil-free and my backs and my hands get moisture. It's unscented but it does have lemon extract in it, which is a fragrance ingredient, but it's not like lemon oil, so there's a difference between unscented and fragrance-free. This would be unscented but not fragrance-free because of that lemon extract."

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"This is their hand repair cream. I keep one at my nightstand. I keep one at my dad's house and this is a great gift. It's really nice, effective hand cream, very hydrating and non-greasy."

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"I started finding these at TJ Maxx and every time I went to TJ Maxx I'd see one or two I'd buy them all. Cameran likes it for his hands I love it for my hands I keep it on my nightstand. My brother-in-law loves it for his hands and he's got diabetes so his skin is really dry and he absolutely loves SkinFix and he loves this product specifically."

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"A little sample of the SkinFix Hand Repair Cream which is awesome. I love this stuff. Every time I see it I buy it. I love this stuff so yeah it's wonderful."

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."

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"The Vanicream Moisturizing Lotion has a very short ingredient list with petroleum as the main ingredient and sorbitol, so it's interesting that they have like ten ingredients in there. They recommend applying it to face, hands, and body, but I wouldn't use this on my face. If your face isn't super sensitive or reactive you could probably get away with it, but my face is too high maintenance for that. I think especially when winter time comes, and especially if you can use your moisturizer right after you get out of the shower as soon as possible, before your skin dries off completely, it locks in that moisture and gives you some more hydration, which is always a good thing."

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"The Vanicream Moisturizing Lotion comes in a giant bottle and it's $14 at Target. It's a really nice simple moisturizer with probably about 10 ingredients. It's really nice for skin that's really sensitive. You can use this on your body, neck, face, wherever you want. I use it mostly on my body, my arms, and my neck area because it's just so nice."

Vanicream Moisturizing Cream

"The Vanicream one is pretty nice for spring and summer. Can be on the drying side."

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"The Vanicream one is pretty nice for spring and summer. Can be on the drying side."

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"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."

Tretinoin Cream

"I tried one like 10 years ago and I'm like that I'm never touching another retinoid again. The next day my skin was just on fire. It was a bad experience. It was terrible. But I've found formulas that are more hydrating and more beneficial for dry skin as opposed to the formula I tried which is just the original generic one with a lot of alcohol in it."

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"Tretinoin, which is my prescription tretinoin that I use, and this stuff is wonderful. I tried prescription tretinoin a long long time ago, it was a different version and it was very drying. However, if you have dry or sensitive skin, the tretinoin version of it I've had great luck with it, so I think that one is worth checking out as well."

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"Tretinoin, which is a prescribed retinoid, is worth checking out. Retinoids are going to be our biggest friend the older we get if your skin tolerates it, go for it."

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Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream

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

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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."

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"A little bit of it goes a long way. It's got a really nice texture, it works well over vitamin C serums and it works well underneath sunscreen. No pilling. It's not terribly thick so when you end up applying makeup or anything over it, it doesn't feel like some moisturizers can feel too thick, especially when you add sunscreen onto it and that almost feels like you're wearing a mask. I don't have that at all with this one. Sets in really nicely, doesn't feel greasy. It's a little tacky but not terribly so. Very nice, wonderful, easy to use, very elegant texture and just works nice. This one became perfect for my morning routine."

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"This doesn't contain sodium hyaluronic so there's no issues with it and it's not terribly thick so when you end up applying makeup or anything over it, it doesn't feel like some moisturizers can feel too thick, especially when you add sunscreen onto it. That almost feels like you're wearing a mask. I don't have that at all with this one, so this is a really nice option for a daytime routine. I personally prefer this in the daytime routine. This one just became perfect for my morning routine. It sets in really nicely, doesn't feel greasy. It's a little tacky but not terribly so. Very nice, wonderful, easy to use, very elegant texture and just works nice. The main star of the show is obviously licorice. They've got a couple different types of licorice extract that they use in here and they're both great for calming skin. The first one is licorice urea root extract, which is a skin conditioning extract. We've got chlorella algae extract, which is actually skin protecting, which makes it great for use during the daytime when it protects your skin from pollution and things like that."

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"In terms of what this promises, it promises to calm skin and help brighten skin, and in my opinion this delivers on both. It'll help with newer, less stubborn hyperpigmentation issues, but it's not going to help a ton with old hyperpigmentation or stubborn melasma. It will certainly help, but licorice on its own can't do all that. For newer types of dark spots or things like that, it will certainly help or may be able to treat those better. It's nice, simple, calming. It helps with my redness as well during the daytime. It's really nice to layer with other products. This one's simple yet effective, and I really enjoy this during my daytime routine."

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"Overall in my opinion worth checking out especially if you're looking for a lightweight gel texture daytime cream. With a 10 being a perfect score, this one's a 10. It's got everything going for it. I can't find any faults with it. I look for faults in products and I just with this one didn't really see any."

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"The I'm From Licorice Calming Cream is 22 bucks at Yes Style. We've got licorice, we've got panthenol, we've got ceramides in here. This one's got a nice lightweight texture to it, so I would say this one will work well for most skin types because it's got kind of that gel lotion texture to it. Soaks in nicely, it works well under sunscreen and makeup, no issues with peeling anything like that. It's a great option for most skin types."

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"This feels really nice, the cream feels very wonderful actually on my skin. It's more of a gel cream, so which I prefer when it's hot out in the summer months or if you have oily skin. A gel cream is the way to go because it just soaks in easier, it's not as thick and it tends to play well under sunscreen. I prefer the finish of the I'm From to other options because it's not as shiny."

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SkinFix Skin Fix Barrier Balancing Water Cream

"Barrier Balancing Water Cream, which is 54 bucks, although it's currently on sale at Sephora. We've got squalane, niacinamide, acetyl hexapeptide, heptapeptide 4, and zinc PCA for oilier or acne prone skin. Really nice gel cream texture to it. Soaks in really nice. No scent to it. Really nice packaging. They knocked it out of the park with this product because I didn't really think they could include a new moisturizer in their lineup without changing the lineup too much and they included this and it seemingly fits in perfect with all their other stuff. So I love this brand. They're on the pricier side but wonderful."

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"This stuff's nice. It's new. It's a really nice option from Skin Fix for normal or summer skin or if you don't have dry skin."

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Cocoakind Electrolyte Water Cream

"The Cocoakind Electrolyte Water Cream 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."

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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."

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Drunk Elephant Lala Retro Whipped Cream

"The Lala is great for winter time when your skin is super dry. I like using it for that. The LA cream has a really nice light whippy texture to it."

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"The Lala is great for winter time when your skin is super dry. I like using it for that. The LA cream has a really nice light whippy texture to it."

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"The Lala is great for winter time when your skin is super dry. I like using it for that. The LA cream has a really nice light whippy texture to it."

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, fragrance-free option, and really nice for normal and combination skin types and pretty friendly for acne prone skin."

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COSRX Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizer

"For acne-prone skin, I think the chances of a breakout are going to be higher than the benefits of using this. There's nothing superstar, no antioxidants or anti-aging, it's just a moisturizer and it's a simple, plain moisturizer. It feels slimy and slippery, and I don't think you'd like the feeling of this one, especially during the daytime. It feels like it's going to peel, which some hyaluronic products are prone to. I'm not loving the feeling of it, and if it were a hot day, I just can't imagine the feeling of that underneath makeup and things like that, so it might be a better nighttime option. It's on the thicker side."

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"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."

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"I feel like some of those fatty acids are going to be a bit too much, but there's a lot of ceramide skin barrier moisture creams that tend to work well for me. Nothing screams hero about it, just seems simple, no frills, basic moisturizer. It's a nice big bottle, might be better for my neck and décolletage area than my face. The sunscreen worked okay over it. It didn't peel up, but it did feel like if I put a little bit more on it would start peeling."

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."

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"I find a brand called First Aid Beauty, and I really get into them. Their Ultra Repair Cream. I switched to this. My skin didn't react the best. I think I had a little bit better luck with the thickness of the tiger grass cream, but First Aid Beauty says they're great for sensitive skin. Well, there's eucalyptus oil in most of their Ultra Repair Creams. So this one was a short phase, but it was a moisturizer that I used for probably six or seven months and ended up now using it on my body to finish them up."

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"First Aid Beauty really made their name off of this Ultra Repair Cream which is supposed to be sensitive skin friendly, yet at the same time they put eucalyptus oil in it. I had an allergic reaction or some sort of dermatitis or eczema reaction to it, but a lot of people use this without any issues, so just because I had a reaction doesn't mean most people that use it are going to. Everyone's sensitive to one thing or another, and maybe eucalyptus oil isn't the trigger for most people. It's very individual."

PSA Skin Silver Lining Moisturizer

"The PSA Skin Silver Lining is a nice moisturizer that's great for acne-prone skin. It's not very thick, it's kind of water-based serum, so it's nice for spring and summer too. You can use it morning and evening. It's great for acne-prone skin, or if you have skin that's prone to blackheads and things like that. It's a really nice morning moisturizer and it doesn't contain anything that's going to upset your skin and cause more breakouts."

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"The PSA Skin Silver Lining, it's great, amazing ingredients, just too light gel texture."

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"Their Silver Lining moisturizer is absolutely amazing. I'd say it's geared more towards normal oily skin but during the summer this texture and everything is wonderful, so highly recommend checking them out."

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iN Beauty Extreme Cream

"The iN Beauty Extreme Cream is $48. In here we've got squalane, peptides, ceramides, rice bran oil, mushroom extract. You notice the commonality in a lot of these products they all seem to have peptides and ceramides in them which are two of my favorite ingredients. This stuff's really nice. It's more of a moisturizer. I like their packaging. Very nice moisturizer."

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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"

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"In my opinion it's great for dry oily or sensitive skin type"

CeraVe Ultra Light Moisturizing Gel

"The CeraVe Ultra Light Moisturizing Gel is an option if you have sensitive skin, but it's not particularly effective for very stubborn hyperpigmentation and dark spots. A lot of body lotions already contain niacinamide, so you've probably already been using something similar to this."

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"Super light texture, I love the gel, really nice and works pretty friendly for all skin types with the exception of, you know, super sensitive or acne prone. Nice product overall, but I wish they were cruelty-free. I'd get more excited about it but they're not cruelty-free, so it's probably nothing I would repurchase. I'd much rather support one of those other brands that is cruelty-free."

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"Super light texture I love the gel really nice and works pretty friendly for all skin types, with the exception of super sensitive or acne prone. It must be the ceramides and vitamin E."

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"In terms of performance it does a nice job hydrating skin, it leaves it feeling nice and soft and smooth and supple but not greasy and not sticky. I would say this is best for oily to normal skin. I couldn't imagine relying on this as my only source of moisture for like my super dry skin in the middle of winter, but for like fall or summer spring it seems to be okay. For super sensitive skin I would be cautious of one ingredient of note which is behentrimonium methyl sulfate, which is more of a cleansing ingredient. It helps oil and water combine better, but it's more of a cleansing ingredient than anything else, so some people will look at this product and some people will be irritated, not have any idea what it is. I think most people probably won't have an issue but it might be for some people, so keep that one in mind."

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"It does have a really nice gel texture and a little bit of this one tends to go a long way, so one full pump is enough to cover my face and neck, which is nice. It has a wonderful gel texture. It absorbs really quickly, and once it soaks in it sets to a natural finish. It's not super matte but it's not shiny either. Once it soaks in it looks more natural or almost slightly matte. It's nonsticky and it works nicely over vitamin C products, which is a good thing because a lot of vitamin C products make other products either foam up underneath them or disintegrate or turn watery or mushy. It works well under sunscreen and foundation without any peeling issues."

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"It feels nice on my face, doesn't have a terribly shiny finish. I'd say it has more of a natural finish. The product size is 1.75 ounces, which is about the standard size for CeraVe products. It actually feels pretty nice on my skin. I think most people are pretty opinionated on CeraVe, most people either love it or they hate it most of the time."

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"It does feel nice on skin. I mean it has a little bit of a tacky finish but you're probably gonna be applying something over it such as a sunscreen or a sleeping mask or retinol things like that."

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"For me I look for something exciting in a moisturizer, maybe anti-aging, maybe soothing, obviously hydrating, maybe something that helps with hyperpigmentation. I really look for something that makes the product stand out. CeraVe makes their products for the masses and they will work well for the majority of people, but will this help with fine lines and wrinkles, help brighten your skin up? No. It's not going to do any of those things. It's a basic, simple hydrating moisturizer. It's got a little bit of niacinamide in there which will help, but I look for things with peptides or just something more exciting. CeraVe is not super expensive but they're not as affordable as some other brands that might have more exciting moisturizers with more benefits for redness or anti-aging. It does feel nice on skin and has a little bit of a tacky finish, but you're probably going to be applying something over it like a sunscreen or sleeping mask or retinol."

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"CeraVe came out with this ultra light moisturizing gel, which is a really nice gel textured product. This is one 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. The majority of people that are younger and don't have any issues and are just looking for a basic, affordable, simple moisturizer, this one fits the bill. For me, it's okay. It's nothing. Personally, I need more. I need more firming ingredients, I need more brightening ingredients, I need more peptides. I need everything. So for me, it's not necessarily up my alley."

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Glossier After Balm

"The Glossier After Balm is really thick. I've been using this for my winters now, a couple years well really since it came out and I've still got a bunch of it left. There's a lot of waxes in here and oils, thick oils, so it's great. You can certainly use it in your daytime routine or evening routine. It will last you forever. It's not terribly expensive to begin with, it's like 27 bucks and a little bit goes a very long way."

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Prequel Skin Utility Ointment

"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

75%of gurus approve

The Outset Moisturizer

"This has a long list: coconut oil, hops extract, sunflower seed oil, avocado oil. 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. It feels nice though. I could see this one being really nice for winter."

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80%of gurus approve

Cerx All-in-One Snail Cream

"I've repurchased this many many times. It's really nice for calming skin down, use after micro needling, after laser, things like that. Very nice product. Snail mucin is great for your skin."

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81%of gurus approve

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"I've repurchased this many many times. It's really nice for calming skin down, use after micro needling, after laser, things like that. Very nice product. Snail mucin is great for your skin."

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"I really like a lot of their stuff they have a real lot of nice options a lot of different products for soothing skin caling irritated skin"

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."

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"The CeraVe Healing Ointment is more like an ointment, more like Vaseline. It's a lot thicker. I use it more to protect, especially around my mouth when I use tretinoin or acids, things like that, because I have a tendency at irritation in the corners of my mouth from being dry. I tend to use this one more as like a protective one, like Vaseline. It's wonderful."

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Dr. Jart+ Ceramidin Cream

"It has soothing and antioxidant ingredients which are really nice to see and it's friendly for most skin types. With a 10 being a perfect score, I have this one a 10. I really love it, I'm really happy I picked it up. This one really made my day and it lived up to the expectations."

~Mixed

66%of gurus approve

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"The Dr. Jart+ Ceramidin Cream was really thick and has fragrance in it, bergamot oil or some herbal oils. I didn't find the scent to be overwhelming but I really liked the thick texture of it because my skin was super dry. If you're looking for an all-in-one product, this was thick enough to do the trick for a long time. It was good, but it has a lot of fragrance in it so I kind of eventually evolved away from it."

CeraVe Moisturizing Cream

"CeraVe Moisturizing Cream for your body this one's really nice because it's pretty thick it's great for winter. I wouldn't necessarily recommend so much on your face I'd recommend more their face products but it's very nice for your body."

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"The pump is pretty useless. The pump lasts like the first five uses, then after that you have to dig in with your hands. To be honest, it's still so short it really didn't do much, so the pump was a waste."

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"Probably behind that it's probably be the cerx cream"

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"The one in the jar is a little bit thicker. I finished that one up a couple months ago and it's really nice."

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"The CeraVe moisturizing cream is a really nice body lotion. I typically use it as a body lotion down my face because I found some of the ingredients for my face were a little bit poor clogging, but for the body this one's nice and it really leaves your skin feeling super soft and smooth and hydrated and calmed."

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"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."

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"CeraVe, this is their size moisturizer tub from Costco. It went from 539 G down to 453 G, so that's quite a significant change there."

A'pieu Madecassoside Cream

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

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80%of gurus approve

The Inky List 10% Urea Moisturizer

"The Inky List, and this one I've got is their 10% Urea Moisturizer. Urea is a great hydrating ingredient for skin. I also love their lactic acid serum, the rose hip oil, 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. This one's 20 bucks."

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80%of gurus approve

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."

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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. It contains an updated lipid barrier complex and then also contains several peptides, green tea, squalane, folic acid, no fragrance. Anytime I'm at TJ Maxx or Marshalls I see SkinFix, I'm instantly going to buy it no matter what and I will find a use for it myself or from somebody I know."

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73%of gurus approve

Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Comfort Cream

"The Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Comfort Cream is really wonderful. It's very nice and hydrating, especially for dry areas like my mouth which has been really dry lately and needs a little bit of extra TLC. This one's $43. It has ceramides, oatmeal, several amino acids which are great for repairing the skin barrier, mugart, and centella. It's technically not fragrance-free because it contains gardenia florid extract, but my sensitive skin handles it well."

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77%of gurus approve

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"The Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Comfort Cream for $43 has the ceramides, the squalane, the sodium hyaluronic, and the omega fatty acids."

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"This one feels more spreadable and lighter so feels nice. The interesting thing is none of these feel really greasy or shiny or radiant. You'd think with a lot of those fatty oils and ceramides it'd feel greasy or look shiny and none of them really do. It's got squalane, ceramides, shea butter, urea which is another good one, watermelon seed oil that's another good one."

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"The Peach and Lily Rescue Party Barrier Comfort Cream, I'm actually really enjoying it. It's got a lot of good things going for it. One slight change and it could be almost Holy Grail status. The fragrance isn't like a strong floral scent that will give you a migraine, but I still would rather it be fragrance free."

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."

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82%of gurus approve

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."

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Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Cream

"It feels nice and non-greasy. It's got a peptide in there and I'll take more peptides any chance I get."

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79%of gurus approve

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"It feels nice and non-greasy. It's got a peptide in there and I'll take more peptides any chance I get."

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"The Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Cream, this one I'm just working on finishing on my neck. I liked it, I wouldn't repurchase it, but it's nice. This product's really expensive."

The Inky List Bioactive Ceramide Repairing and Plumping Moisturizer

"The Inky List Bioactive Ceramide Repairing and Plumping Moisturizer is 20 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."

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86%of gurus approve

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"The Inky List Bioactive Ceramide Repairing and Plumping Moisturizer, it's 20 bucks, it's really nice, it's pretty thick. It doesn't have the most exciting ingredient list but it is fragrance free. It's great for dry or dehydrated skin types."

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"Very nice texture of this one, not greasy, very creamy, no scent which is nice."

Polish Choice C5 Super Boost Moisturizer

"The Polish Choice C5 Super Boost Moisturizer, this one's $45. It uses tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate and it's got glutathione in there, which is great for brightening skin. It also uses three O ethyl orb ic acid, it's got peptide in there, it's got watermelon oil, which is a great antioxidant and protecting ingredient, then it's also got polyglutamic acid. It's a really nice moisturizer."

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80%of gurus approve

DRMTLGY Soothing Recovery Cream

"One of my absolute favorites is their soothing recovery cream. It's nearly empty so I'm definitely repurchasing this one. It's 20 bucks and the packaging is a little bit different now, it's in a squeeze tube which is nice. Thick cream, it's great for areas of dehydration as well as irritation. A lot of times I've been using this one on my neck or certain areas. I've been exercising a lot and I get certain areas like around my elbows and behind my knees where it's getting kind of irritated, so I like to use this one as a first line defense before like hydrocortisone or anything like that. Contains cactus, panthenol and vitamin E. It's fragrance free and 20 bucks. I mean, that's half the price of almost any Olay product or half of the Neutrogena ones out there now too."

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77%of gurus approve

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream

"This is my current go-to moisturizer at night time, the La Roche-Posay Lipikar Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream. It's really nice, although I will say it's kind of sticky. My pajama pants get stuck to it and the sheets get stuck to it, but it's still super hydrating and moisturizing. It's got Shea Butter, water, niacinamide, rapeseed oil. It's great for sensitive skin, but it is kind of tacky. I still want to repurchase it multiple times."

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84%of gurus approve

La Roche-Posay Posthelios Gel

"The gel is wonderful with pantenol, 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."

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84%of gurus approve

Bubble Slam Dunk Hydrating Moisturizer

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

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81%of gurus approve

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"The Bubble Slam Dunk is great for normal to dry skin types. It has aloe, avocado oil, glucose, pea protein, chamomile, arginine, and vitamin E. It's vegan."

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"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."

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"At a 10 being a perfect score, this one's a six, seven. It's okay. In terms of Bubble products, it's not my favorite."

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"The cinnamon scent in here isn't very noticeable but you will notice a little bit of a scent when you apply it. Some companies contend that this extract has antioxidant benefits but the fragrance and the potential irritation in my opinion outweigh that benefit. I just think you're better off not using products with that instead of thinking you're going to have some benefit from it because it's more likely you'll probably be irritated from it than have any benefits from it, and especially when there's so many other good antioxidants that don't have a fragrance component to it. They didn't have to include it and they probably shouldn't have. It's got a lotiony slightly jellish texture and it does smooth into the skin pretty nice. It ends up having a slightly tacky finish and for me I preferred using this in my evening routine."

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Goodall Vegan rice milk cream

"I use this almost every night. It's in a paper tube so it's more recyclable. It has rice bran oil, rice extract, ceramide, and vitamin E. This one's really nice and thick but not terribly thick. Really nice product."

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81%of gurus approve

Polish Choice Barrier Repair Advanced Moisturizer

"Very spreadable, probably the most spreadable one of all of them aside from the serum. This one's a little more shiny than the others. Feels nice. This one also has some peptides in there. They recommend using it once or twice daily, typically in the evening."

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78%of gurus approve

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion

"The L'Oreal Posay Lipikar Lotion moisturizer, I don't use this so much in the spring and summer because it's super thick and hydrating, but during the winter and fall I really love this stuff. The bottle's huge, so the fact that I repurchased it says something because this bottle does last a long time. Although it's super thick, so a little bit doesn't go as far as you'd want. But this stuff, you apply it and then you go to shower the next day and you still feel moisturized and soft. I love that, and this provides that."

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84%of gurus approve

Illiyoon Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream

"I really enjoy this stuff, it's great. It's nice to layer as well. Now that winter's here, I'll layer this over a lighter serum or body lotion. The bottle's huge, it's pretty affordable. There's no fragrance or anything like that in there, so that's worth checking out."

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81%of gurus approve

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel

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

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87%of gurus approve

Calamine Lotion

"Calamine lotion day in and day out on your skin is going to wreak havoc. It'll take a long time to fix. Calamine lotion is not meant for mass use, it's meant for small areas of irritation, not to be used as a primer."

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Copari Moisture Whipped Ceramide Cream

"The Copari Moisture Whipped Ceramide Cream has a super creamy and super thick texture. 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 baobab 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."

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80%of gurus approve

Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream

"This one is wonderful. It's got a nice texture, almost like a gel lotion balm texture, and it feels really nice without looking greasy or anything like that, so it makes it really good for daytime. It's great for eczema-related skin or any other skin that's kind of dry or damaged or irritated. It's a little bit on the thick side, but it is really really nice. This one's great for day or night, though I would say it's a little bit better at night because it is a little bit on the shiny side. It's got squalane, phyto-squalane, vitamin E, and allantoin, great skin soothing ingredients. This stuff is well worth checking out, especially during the winter months."

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89%of gurus approve

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."

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Summer Fridays Rich Cushion Cream Ultra Plumping Moisturizer

"The Summer Fridays Rich Cushion Cream Ultra Plumping Moisturizer is wonderful. It's great for dry skin. It's got some nice fruit ingredients in there: some squalane, watermelon, lentil, apple, ceramides. It's just a wonderful thick cream that soaks in nicely, doesn't feel greasy, but still super hydrating and calming for skin. I've been using this every night for months."

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75%of gurus approve

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"With the 10 being a perfect square of this one, a seven. It's nice, not a repurchase, not a must have, but it's a good product overall. I think for very very dry skin and dry climates, it's worth a try."

Neutrogena Daily Facial Moisturizer

"For acne prone skin we've got carbomer and dimethicone which 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. 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. I think for most sensitive oily acne prone skin this product will probably be a winner."

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Peach and Lily Glass Skin Water Gel Moisturizer

"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Water Gel Moisturizer is a nice source of kiwi and it's a really nice moisturizer overall. If you haven't tried this, I recommend checking it out at least give it a try once."

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80%of gurus approve

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel Cream

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

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85%of gurus approve

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"Neutrogena did a really good job with their new formula of their Hydro Boost water gel cream. I was impressed with it. It's 27 bucks so it's still kind of expensive, but it's now in a glass jar so it's recyclable. In here we've got over 10 different amino acids which is really nice for your skin barrier and things like that. It's got urea in there, it's got sodium hyaluronic. In my opinion it's great for oily sensitive and acne prone skin. Very nice product, great for pretty much most skin types."

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Isntree Onion Newpair Gel Cream

"It's my personal favorite product of the line because it really has a lovely gelish texture to it, it's just amazing. It's a gel cream containing onion bulb extract to calm and help strengthen the skin barrier, and it's got that onion bulb extract in a very high amount. It kind of sets to a shiny finish, which I actually really like using this in my evening routine or sometimes underneath a mattifying sunscreen. If a sunscreen has a lot of alcohol in it, this seems to work well underneath it because when you use it on its own it kind of has a shiny finish, which I think a lot of people with oily or acne-prone skin might not totally love. But it does tend to soak in and work well under other products, which is nice. The texture of it is just amazing and it soaks in pretty nicely."

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80%of gurus approve

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"It's got kind of a shiny finish which I actually really like using this in my evening routine or sometimes underneath a mattifying sunscreen. Sometimes if I use a sunscreen that has a lot of alcohol in it this seems to work well underneath it because when you just use it on its own it kind of has a shiny finish to it which I think a lot of people with oily or acne-prone skin might not totally love. But it does tend to soak in and tends to work well under other products which is nice. If you apply it just on its own you might not be totally in love with it, but the texture of it is just amazing and it soaks in pretty nicely. The exciting ingredients are sodium ascorbyl phosphate which is a vitamin C derivative, neem extracts, sorbitol which is a humectant, niacinamide, tranexamic acid, eggplant, turmeric. They've got the onion, niacinamide, tranexamic acid and then turmeric as kind of the main stars of the show but they're all wonderful ingredients and they all really work well together."

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"The Remedy for Dark Spots is a great one. In addition to transexamic acid, it's got mandelic acid which is an AHA exfoliant that is rumored to help with hyperpigmentation. It has glutathione, another great brightening ingredient, kojic acid, turmeric, licorice root, silymarin extract, and then retinol and green tea. So this is a great do-it-all kind of covers a lot of different areas of ingredients. If you haven't tried this one and you have hyperpigmentation or dark spots, this one's a great one because it just covers a lot of bases with a lot of great ingredients."

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Elastin Restorative Skin Complex

"It's got some peptide complex in here. I really enjoyed it. Nice and hydrating. I don't think I'd spend over $100 on it, but it was nice."

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Ultraviolet Lean screen

"Ultraviolet's lean screen, which is a mineral sunscreen, cost $52 for 75 milliliters. They advertise this at 50 plus. It came in at an SPF of four. So four is very, very low compared to what they're advertising. They thought that 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. So this was also ironically the most expensive out of all of the sunscreens they tested and ended up doing the worst."

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Geek and Gorgeous A-Game 20

"I've talked about this a lot but I still love it. It's still really affordable and what I like is there's three versions. This is the A-Game 20 and it goes all the way down to the A-Game 5 which would be the weakest and the 20 would be the strongest and this is a serum that contains retinyl, which is a little bit stronger than retinol. It's got 2% retinyl. It's also got ectoine, which is a great ingredient. It works great with other actives. Ectoine plays well with vitamin C, retinols, exfoliants, everything. It's a great protecting and antioxidant and soothing ingredient. This has also got allantoin for soothing, panthenol and vitamin E. If you are experienced retinyl retinol user, the A-Game 20 is where I would recommend. Really nice texture to it. It's a really nice serum. No fragrance in it. Really nice soothing supporting ingredients."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous A-Game 20 is my retinoid product. It's fluorescent yellow. I typically like to go through actives, so one night I'll use my retinol, one night I'll use my exfoliant, and one night I'll use my salicylic acid. I kind of rotate them through."

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"Very affordable, fragrance-free winner. We love Geek and Gorgeous, as you can tell. They've got a great brand."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous A-Game 20 is the strongest version of their A-Game line and uses 20% retinal. Retinal is stronger than retinol and right up there in terms of strength, not as strong as tretinoin but the next step up underneath that. It's stronger than retinol and much stronger than all of those retinol derivatives like HPR."

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"I like the Geek and Gorgeous A-Game 20. If you're new to retinoids, start with the five and work your way up, but they're all great. You can't go wrong with them."

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"This one contains 2% retinal. It also contains ectoin, alantonin, and panthenol for soothing your skin. It's cruelty-free and vegan. This stuff is really wonderful and pretty affordable."

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"There's a little bit higher amount of retinal in it and free shipping at 60 bucks."

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"This one contains 2% retinaldehyde, and it also contains ectoin, alantin, and panthenol for soothing your skin. It's cruelty-free and vegan. This stuff is really wonderful and pretty affordable."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous A-Game 20 is their strongest retinoid product on the market. It contains retinol, nectoine, retinol, firm, and even vitamin E and panthenol for soothing. It's really nice."

Paula's Choice Paula's Choice

"Paula's Choice has become a focus of a class action lawsuit. If you look at this Paula's Choice bottle from a couple years ago, you will see the Leaping Bunny logo on there. And then if you look at one of their more recent releases, there is no Leaping Bunny on it. So a lot of people are making allegations that Paula's Choice has been testing on animals or has been selling where testing is required and not really telling anybody or disclosing it. Paula's Choice is now owned by Unilever. It does seem misleading to kind of lead your customers into believing that you're cruelty-free when you are indeed not."

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"Paula's Choice, not every product's a winner. They're pricier but they're certainly not $300, and a lot of their products are very good for sensitive skin, so I think Paula's Choice is still worth trying."

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"Paula's Choice, the prices are going through the roof."

COSRX COSRX

"Cosrx was removed from PETA's cruelty-free list as of 2024. Cosrx responded to an email saying they are unable to confirm whether their raw material suppliers or distribution partners conduct animal testing independently. Basically, we don't really know if the people they're buying their product ingredients from test on animals. And where it's sold, they started selling in China as well. So they're not really cruelty-free, but they don't like testing on animals. That's just where they are because money is typically more important in some ways."

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Geek and Gorgeous Hydration Station

"The Geek and Gorgeous Hydration Station moisturizer is just a nice basic simple moisturizer. I would say if you have drier skin, I would go with their Happy Barrier. If you have normal to oily skin, their Hydration Station is 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. Really nice texture to it. Ends up being a nice non-sticky finish."

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"Hydration Station, which is meant for oilier or normal skin types. It's a very simple but very nice moisturizer."

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"For dry dehydrated skin as well as damaged skin barriers, it's also vegan and for exciting ingredients in here we've got squalane, ceramides, green tea, visible A, and it's just a wonderful moisturizer. So if you suffer from dry skin or dehydrated skin, it's a wonderful moisturizer. No fragrance in it, no scent in it. Lovely product."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous Hydration Station, which is great for oilier skin, is a really nice moisturizer. If you have oilier skin, check out the Hydration Station, which is more geared towards oiler skin."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous Hydration Station is a nice moisturizer. This one contains ectoin, alantin, bizibu, vitamin E. It's a really nice kind of gel lotion moisturizer with no fragrance, very affordable. Really nice, really easy to fit into your routine, and it's not too fussy, which is what I like."

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"The Hydration Station from Geek and Gorgeous has a gel texture and a very simple formula with no pore clogging ingredients, so it's really nice to apply before bed. It works well in conjunction with other products, especially if you're using things like Differin or BHA. It makes using your moisturizer every night even more important because you don't want your skin to get dry, flaky, and things like that."

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"Geek and Gorgeous Hydration Station is a really nice moisturizer."

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Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex

"Estée Lauder released their Advanced Night Repair serum in 1982, which is still around in its current formulation today. Estée Lauder made anti-aging a mainstream beauty category really with the release of this and it markets itself as DNA repair for your skin. It's been reformulated several times and still in 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, things like that. So to have products that are still very similar to the original one is not very common."

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"It does have some nice ingredients in there which I like. I think a lot of people really enjoy some of the ferments, the Bifida ferment. It has denatured alcohol in it, which I prefer not to use as little as I can, and it also has fragrance in it with citronella and lemon. One of the closest dupes is probably going to be the Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum, but it's the same price so it really doesn't help much with the price if you get this one."

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"There's a great soothing probiotic, skin UV protecting ingredient, peptides, chamomile which is a great soothing ingredient, bisabolol a nice calming hydrating ingredient, and squalene which is a skin identical ingredient similar to ceramides. It's a little bit pricey but it's still a pretty good product, one that I have yet to find a really close dupe or alternative to. This one works very good for a lot of people, so it might be worth checking out for you if you haven't tried it."

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"It's a holy grail for a lot of people, it's full of good ingredients, it's fragrance free. One ounce of it retails for eighty dollars."

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"They've also got the Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum, which is certainly worth checking out at half off. It's got some really good ingredients and ferments in there."

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"I love this stuff. It's got algae in here and then a lot of good hydrating ingredients, ginseng, things like that. It's wonderful. It's been around for a while. It's expensive, I should do an alternatives list, but I still have yet to find a really really really really good dupe. I found some very similar dupes but they had fragrance in them so that was an instant no-go for me. But this stuff is really nice, it's very reparative, it's got some nice peptides in there and ferments. It's a really good product overall. It's expensive, but it's a good one."

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"The Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum is really nice. I like it. It's got some nice ferments and repairing ingredients."

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Aquafor Aquafor

"Aquafor is just such a gentle product, but it is an ointment texture, so it's very, very thick. I apply it to specific dry areas or dry patches. Occasionally, like in the winter, the insides of my elbows sometimes will get dry and red, and a little bit of this does the trick and it seals in everything else underneath it. It's also a nice treatment for after peels and laser treatments because it's so gentle. It's got mineral oil, ceresin, lanoline alcohol, panthenol, and glycerin, so it's very low on the irritant scale and a little bit of it goes a long way. A tube like this will last a long, long time."

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"Aquafor is a really nice product with a very minimal ingredient list, so it's great if you did like a laser treatment or had an aesthetician peel or something like that. After I did one of the laser treatments, I had these little boxes and I tried to put on something else to soothe it, but I think the preservatives or slip ingredients in it caused it to be irritating, so I wiped it off and I put the Aquafor on and then it was all good."

Geek and Gorgeous A-Game

"It helps with fine lines and wrinkles, smooth texture, maybe helps with skin tone a bit, skin elasticity, skin firmness. I would even say they may have underpromised a little bit. I find this one works pretty good with fine lines and wrinkles. The nice thing is this will work well for most skin types, including dry and oily. For acne-prone skin, there are a few ingredients of note though, haba oil, vitamin E, cetyl alcohol, stearic alcohol, glycerol, and carbomer, some of those are very comedogenic, so if you have acne-prone skin, this may not be the best, although the retinyl may kind of cancel some of those out. At $35 for 1.7 oz, this is pretty in line with the price of alternatives when you do an apples-to-apples comparison."

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All 3 takes on A-Game

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"I really have a preference for the Geek and Gorgeous A-Game. It's a little bit larger size than this one but it's still overall affordable. The Geek and Gorgeous A-Game comes in 5 and 10 in terms of strength. My preference to all of those alternatives is the Geek and Gorgeous A-Game."

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"I love the Geek and Gorgeous A-Game. It's wonderful, and if you like to repurchase it, it's very affordable and super effective and efficient. I really enjoy this brand."

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May Love Glow Maker

"My indie pick is the May Love Glow Maker, which is about 33 bucks from May Love. This one's got the trifecta again, 15% ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, vitamin E. Then it also includes grape seed extract. It's fragrance-free and alcohol-free, and I think it's a holy grail for a lot of people. It's really nice and if you haven't tried it, certainly worth giving a whirl."

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SkinMedica TNS Recovery Complex

"The SkinMedica TNS Recovery Complex has more exosomes and more growth factors than the advanced serum, but if you don't like fragrance, get the advanced serum instead because this one smells terrible. I got it on a really good sale thinking I'd suffer through the scent because of that good ingredient, but I still haven't opened it after five months. I thought maybe I could cover it up with several layers of products and hopefully the smell would dissipate, but yeah, that smells terrible."

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"There's really no other real beneficial ingredients in this one. I don't know why they added so much fragrance to it. If they made this fragrance-free, I would buy this one all day every day. The TNS Advanced Serum has a lesser amount of the human fibroblast conditioned media, but it's more expensive. If they took the fragrance out of this one, I would buy it every time, but they haven't. It's strongly scented. I don't recommend it. I will try and layer it under something so I don't smell it, but it smells strong."

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"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 if you can handle it, it's worth it, but I just can't handle the smell."

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Geek and Gorgeous AAME 5

"If you are newer to retinoids, their Aame 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 Aame 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."

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Helioare Helioare

"Helioare or any supplement with polypodium lucumis is a great antioxidant and it helps protect your skin from sun and UV damage. I take this every single morning. I've been taking it now for probably close to a decade. It's really wonderful. It really helps protect your skin. There's no harsh side effects to it. It's pretty affordable. The serving size of this is two. This version contains niacin as well as the fern block, which is what Helioare's trademark polypodium lucumis is. I just trust it because I've been using it for so long. No issues or anything. The capsules are not large pills. You can easily take that. No issues."

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"I do take this year round. I take two capsules every morning. I've been taking this year round since I found out about it, probably 10 years ago or so. It uses polypodium lucatus, which is a fern and there's published research proving that this helps your skin and helps protect your skin from UV damage. There are generic versions of polypodium lucatus you can buy. It is a little bit more expensive, but I do trust this brand in particular. If I had to pick one skin supplement, this is it."

Peter Thomas Roth Skin Injection

"The Peter Thomas Roth Skin Injection is a really nice product. If you have acne prone skin, I would not recommend this because it does contain a high amount of dimethicone which for some people can be kind of skin suffocating. For me with my super dry skin, I actually don't mind it. I actually really like it. In addition to the dimethicone, it's got a lot of good peptides in here: argireline, matrixyl, matrixyl synthesis, all this good stuff."

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Medicube Zero pore pad

"This product contains a ton of bergamot oil, rosemary oil, lavender oil, orange peel oil, grapefruit peel oil, and lime, orange, and lemon extract. It also contains denatured alcohol as the fourth ingredient after the lactic acid. I have a feeling this product could probably do much more damage and irritation to skin, especially acne-prone skin, than it would be beneficial. The ingredients are very drying, and in addition to all of those essential oils which can be very irritating, they include denatured alcohol and then on top of an exfoliant. Lactic acid should be paired with another soothing ingredient or used in a routine with another soothing ingredient. I really think this product could do much more damage than good. I would caution against using this at all."

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Geek & Gorgeous Aame 10

"If you're new to retinoids, you can start out with their AAME 5. It's got 0.5% retinol. This is a great one to start up with. Start using it at night. Use a good moisturizer along with it, after it, before it. Sandwich it in between two moisturizers. Then after your next step, you can work up to the AAME 10, which is wonderful. It's pretty affordable. If you compare it with The Ordinary retinol, it actually becomes a little bit more affordable because The Ordinary comes in half the size. It's also got ectoine in there for soothing. Their retinoids are outstanding."

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The Ordinary Aloe 2% + NAG 2% Solution

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

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"For using this for just over a month, I didn't really notice any crazy results, any benefits, any difference in dark spots or hyperpigmentation. However, some of these ingredients based on the studies that were done were based on eight weeks, so that's probably not a great judge of it. A lot of ingredients you need to use three, four, five, six, seven, eight months. Things like azelaic acid take three, four months, retinoids again three, four months. So it might not be the best judge. I guess it depends on what you're buying this for. If you're buying this as a soothing product because of the aloe, then eight weeks isn't a big deal, but if you're buying this for hyperpigmentation and dark spots, then that's a totally different reason to purchase it."

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

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, dimethylone, 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."

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SkinFix SkinFix

"I love this brand. They're amazing. It's a privately held company founded by Amy Gordinir in 2014. They've been through multiple iterations, started on QVC, then were at Ulta for a while, then disappeared there, now they're at Sephora. They've been through many packaging changes, many branding type changes. They've got a lot of goodies out there. They're kind of expensive, but anyway."

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"I love Skinfix. They've got really good stuff."

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"SkinFix they're getting more expensive but again nowhere near some of the prices these other ones and most of their products are very good for sensitive skin and very effective and some of their body and face lotions are amazing."

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Topicals Like Butter

"Topicals Like Butter is great."

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All 6 takes on Like Butter

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"Topicals Like Butter is pretty versatile, it's meant to be a moisturizer but you can use it as a sleeping mask or rinse off mask or moisturizer. It's really got some good ingredients in here and it's pretty affordable. It's sold at Sephora. It's got H squalane, shea butter, green tea, turmeric, ceramides, and then several amino acids that are nicely hydrating. I typically use this one either as a sleeping mask or as a rinse off mask. As a sleeping mask or anything like that it's really nice, so it's worth checking out."

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"Topicals Like Butter is a really nice multi-functional product you can use as a mask, a moisturizer, a sleeping cream, last step product. Very nice hydrating, calming, very nice on skin."

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"It's got green tea, metal case aside, turmeric, rhubarb, ginseng. I use it in a variety of different ways so some nights I'll use it as a leave-on mask at the end of my routine I'll apply this and rinse it off the next morning. Sometimes I will apply it like a moisturizer when my skin's feeling dry or super sensitive. And sometimes I apply it like a traditional mask and then rinse it off in the shower after it sits on my skin for 20 or 30 minutes. Or sometimes you can just use it as a mask and then blot it off. This stuff is really lovely. It does get very hydrating so I don't necessarily find it's great during the daytime per se, but in the nighttime it has so many great benefits for your skin and it's really lovely. And a little bit of it goes a very very long way."

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"Topicals Like Butter is great."

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"I really like Topicals Like Butter. They're faded until they changed the formula and added fragrance to it. I really loved it before then but I didn't love it otherwise. If they hadn't changed it, probably would still be on this list. But that being said, Topicals Like Butter is wonderful. You can use it as a moisturizer, a rinse off mask, or a sleeping mask. It's got green tea, metal casside, turmeric, rhubarb, ginseng. It's amazing. It's pretty affordable and I love the fact that it's got multiple uses, so it makes it a winner instantly because I like things that you can use for different purposes or different ways."

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"Topicals Like Butter which is $34 for 1.7 ounces it contains squalane shea butter ceramides and fatty acids"

Olaplex Olaplex

"If you do not have damaged hair that's permed or color treated or damaged from heat objects like curling irons and things like that, Olaplex could actually do more damage for your hair than good. Apparently hair that is damaged has less protein and keratin in it. That's why you use things like Olaplex or K18 mask to help heal those damaged bonds. But if you don't have damaged hair, you have healthy hair, you don't color it, you don't really heat treat it, using Olaplex for too long can actually make your hair worse, can make it more breakage, break at the ends, split ends. If you have hair that's not been treated by color, bleaching, things like that, you're probably better off just going with a normal shampoo and conditioner as opposed to some of these protein building shampoos because you can really get your hair over proteinized and then it makes it more prone to breaking."

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"I think there's going to be a lot more hair care products coming out, especially when it comes to bonding type products like Olaplex."

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"I've heard about a lot [of complaints about Olaplex] and it's probably just because it's so common and people start to think about that."

Pixi Pixi

"Pixi Beauty Los Angeles. I don't know. Too many products. And I just don't understand their lineup. Although, they did have a line of products with blue packaging that seem to work okay with a fragrance. But pretty much everything else in this lineup is overly scented. Too expensive. And you know what? My pocketbook is happy that I don't really like most of their stuff because their stuff is pretty expensive. A lot of their stuff is I just thought it was overrated. Most of their stuff and a lot of it scented."

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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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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."

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All 2 takes on Laser

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"The Moxy for some reason, I really, it was painful. I was tearing up the whole time. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, and it was still very painful. I love how they say this fast and easy, low to no downtime, it's an over lunch procedure, but I hate when companies do that stuff. You don't want to go back to work after that. For the first two hours, I finished a bottle of pain relief within probably half an hour of my car ride home and had to stop at Walgreens and buy more. It's not really a lunchtime procedure. I guess if you have a very, very, very high pain tolerance and you've done it before, then maybe consider it, but I just don't think most people want to feel like going back to work afterwards."

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SkinCeuticals H.A. Intensifier

"It's definitely vitamin C. It smells like vitamin C. The only thing I can't get over is when I get my Geek and Gorgeous vitamin C, it's clear, you know what I mean? This stuff, although I guess it was mailed to me in December so it's already a little old, so I guess I should give it some slack for that. But it's nice, it's fine. It's got good ingredients in it."

~Mixed

79%of gurus approve

Geek and Gorgeous A-Game 10

"Geek and Gorgeous has the A-Game 10 and the A-Game 5, which are both more gentle. Always be very cautious starting it, start it slow in your routine, use it with moisturizers. The sandwich method is a great one: in your evening routine you apply a thick moisturizer, then you apply your retinoid, and then apply a thicker sleeping mask or a thicker moisturizer over it to prevent dryness. Start out slow. If you're newer to retinoids, mixing one of these with a little bit of moisturizer is not a bad way to start. Slow is the way to go with it. You don't want to start too fast because you don't want to irritate your skin."

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80%of gurus approve

All 2 takes on A-Game 10

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"The geek and gorgeous A-Game 10 uses 10% retinal. Great product overall, you can't go wrong with it. Geek and Gorgeous just does a wonderful job, so really nice product, so you can't go wrong with that one."

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Alastin Restorative Skin Complex

"Alastin Restorative Skin Complex, it's expensive, it's nice. This one's fragrance free. I like it, but if I had to pick between the two I'm picking the other one. They're somewhat similar in price, actually I think this one's a little bit more affordable, but if you're going to spend the big bucks, I don't know what's a little bit more to get the best of them."

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78%of gurus approve

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"It's expensive but it's got a lot of good ingredients in here. It's got a ton of peptides, an antioxidant called ornithine, olive fruit oil, soybean oil, shea butter, sunflower seed oil, and then all the good peptides. It's supposed to be a restorative product, similar to peptide growth serums. It's got a creamy texture to it. After I had microneedling done about a week ago, I used this one a lot along with other serums to help my skin heal up from that."

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"I like the Alastin Restorative Skin Complex that also uses growth factors and it is also worth checking out. It's pricey, but I think it's worth the money."

May Love Hydrator

"The MAY Love Hydrator is really nice, it's a very simple serum with five ingredients and resveratrol and panthenol are the two exciting ingredients."

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78%of gurus approve

Frownies Facial Patches

"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, but 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."

~Mixed

72%of gurus approve

Sunday Riley Products

"Sunday Riley was caught bold face doing this with their employees. Their employees were required to go and post glowing reviews about a certain product at the time, and they were actually found liable for this. I believe they ended up having a class action lawsuit because this breaks FTC rules."

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67%of gurus approve

All 2 takes on Products

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"Some individuals have reported experiencing skin irritation or sensitivity from certain products of the brand Sunday Riley."

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Beauty Blender Original Sponge

"I used to get a lot of uses out of these like sometimes these would keep going after like a year but the last time I went to use this one I was all ready for the day and I look in the mirror and there's black specks all over my face which is from this degrading that was a bummer. Usually these last forever I don't know if it was something with the color or something but yeah these are normally kind of expensive."

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73%of gurus approve

All 4 takes on Original Sponge

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"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."

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"My other generic beauty blender was just much better. It didn't absorb as much product and it felt like it had a more natural finish. I picked up two of these and it's disappointing. I don't remember beauty blenders being this thick. I was instantly disappointed even getting these on sale. I could have got the generic and probably got 10 of the generic ones and I like the generic ones better. They just don't soak up as much product. They feel fluffier, they absorb more water. I don't get it."

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"I got a beauty blender sponge online when it was on sale the other day and that thing is just, compared to this one, it's terrible. I thought beauty blenders were like the best sponge but that one just all it does is soak up product. I had much better luck with this one."

Drunk Elephant TLC Sukari Baby Facial

"The Drunk Elephant TLC Sukari Baby Facial was very strong for me."

~Mixed

63%of gurus approve

NIOD Re:pigment

"The Re Pigment is a brightening serum that fights hyperpigmentation with several ingredients. It's a nice water-based serum that smooths into skin. It has an asic acid derivative, Geno white peptide, the retino peptide 189 which is a retinol like peptide, Bright Now peptide, and the beta white peptide. The star of the show for this one is the white fermented shiitake, which is a very interesting ingredient. It's actually used as an eco-friendly way for factories to break down dyes and waste streams, so it's been used a lot in the textile industry."

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88%of gurus approve

All 2 takes on Re:pigment

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"This one's got some different ingredients than the other ones so we've got fermented shiitake extract which is known for its brightening, we've got azelaic acid derivative, potassium, we've got the Genoway white peptide, we've got the tetrapeptide 30, the B white peptide and then Brightol. So it's got a lot of good ingredients in here that aren't in any of these other ones. If you tried other brightening products and maybe weren't overly impressed, this one might be worth trying because it contains a lot of other ingredients that aren't shown in a lot of other products. Maybe your skin just doesn't respond to azelaic acid, maybe that does nothing for you, but maybe some of the things in here might work a little bit better. It's worth a try."

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Helio Care Helio Care

"my Helio Care of course and my skin restoring ceramides that's what I take for my skin and body and so far it's so good"

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75%of gurus approve

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"my Helio Care of course and my skin restoring ceramides that's what I take for my skin and body and so far it's so good"

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"Helio Care, great supplement, polypodium leucotomus, well-studied plant fern extract that helps your skin protect itself from sun damage better. I take at least one of these year round. They recommend taking two capsules. I take two in the summer and one in the winter because to be honest in Minnesota in the winter there's really no sun, there's a little bit here and there. So anyway it's a great supplement, recommend checking it out."

E.l.f Halo Glow Liquid Filter

"The ELF Halo Glow Liquid Filter is way way way more affordable, and they're so similar to higher-end dupes that you really don't need to spend money on the Charlotte Tilbury one. They're both nice, but the ELF one is just virtually the same."

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77%of gurus approve

Hero Cosmetics Mighty Patch Original

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

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78%of gurus approve

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

84%of gurus approve

Naturium Products

"Naturium was sold to Elf, I believe either at the beginning of this year or late last year. For a long time I wasn't purchasing Naturium because they started out really kind of in a fraudulent way with the owner of the brand pretending she was getting these products and didn't know what they were and raving about how great they were, and then like a week later it's like, oh surprise, it's my brand, I've been talking about without disclosing for like a week or a month or whatever. So they've been sold to Elf, she got her money, she's worth hundreds of millions of dollars now, so if you want to support that brand, go for it. Maybe I'll give them a try, I don't know, we'll see."

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81%of gurus approve

Verse Weekend Glow Daily Brightening Solution

"For a nice alternative for 15 bucks is the Verse Weekend Glow Daily Brightening Solution. In here we've also got the AHC acid we have a exfoliant, glycolic acid, and then instead of sorbic acid in here we've got Magnesium ascorbyl phosphate. So this one is about 20 bucks less and it's really nice. It's also got some fruit extracts, bearberry extract and things like that. If you're looking to brighten things up, it's also got nice niacinamide, bearberry, green tea. It's very nice."

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80%of gurus approve

Geek and Gorgeous Geek and Gorgeous

"I love this brand. They have many different actives. They have three different liquid exfoliants, there's a great one for every skin type. Their power peptides I've already got a back up of. Their apad serum is wonderful. Their vitamin C serum I just gave to my sister-in-law to test out. They've got a lot of great products and they're very affordable as well, which is nice."

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92%of gurus approve

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Hyaluronidase

"The benefits are that they can be dissolved with a special solution so if you don't like them they can dissolve them, and what they use to dissolve them is hyaluronidase, which is actually something that I'm more scared of than the fillers themselves because some people have had really really drastic results from it. Some people probably a lot, probably most people have it done with no issues, but hyaluronidase is meant to suck out the hyaluronic acid and remove the filler, but some people have had drastic reactions to this where it has some major side effects on their entire face and body. It ends up sucking it from everywhere, so you lose like all your moisture and your skin ends up looking and feeling wrinkled, dimpled, just older, even major pain and things throughout the body. I've seen some pictures and things like that. There has been more than enough cases that make me nervous about it."

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65%of gurus approve

Allies of Skin Allies of Skin

"Allies of Skin, they're expensive, but they have some really wonderful products if you get them on sale. A lot of times they do buy one get one free or buy one get one half off things like that."

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81%of gurus approve

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"Allies of Skin, they're expensive, but they have some really wonderful products if you get them on sale. A lot of times they do buy one get one free or buy one get one half off things like that."

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"Allies of Skin, great product options they have some really nice peptide products and they're releasing a lot of new stuff lately. Most of their new releases are well over $100. They're freaking expensive. Most of their products are fragrance free if not all of them. Although it might be worth checking out during the winter time, black Friday and things like that because they offer buy one get one free deals that's really the main time one makes to buy from them."

Fenty Beauty Fenty Beauty

"Fenty Beauty, I would say, is one of the most common ones in my opinion, the ones that are here to stay."

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77%of gurus approve

JLo Beauty JLo Beauty

"Jennifer Lopez 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."

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54%of gurus approve

Rare Beauty Rare Beauty

"I have a feeling Selena Gomez and Rare Beauty probably doesn't have much to do with it besides being the face of it. It's owned by the company that owns Sephora."

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80%of gurus approve

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."

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83%of gurus approve

Tatcha Rice Polish

"I found it to be harsh and gritty, that's the Tatcha Rice Polish. However, they have four different versions of it and I still to me find the original version of it is a little bit drying for me. However, this gentle version has been very nice. I keep it in my bath in my shower now. I found I like this version of it and it works pretty nicely and not as drying. So if you're interested in this, I know a lot of people absolutely love it. I didn't love it at first, but the gentle version is much more gentle."

~Mixed

89%of gurus approve

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"Tatcha has four different polishes. The ones that come in these jars I found to be too harsh and a little bit drying. However, the calming version I found to be a little bit more friendly for sensitive skin and a little bit finer grit to it. So if you have sensitive skin I would recommend it. If your skin is very flaky or very dry but not sensitive you can certainly check out the other versions, but I just found it to be too harsh. But the gentle version was okay for me."

Kosas BB Burst

"I really am enjoying the Kosas BB Burst."

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56%of gurus approve

Biossance Skincare

"Biossance got bought by the Hut Group and since then Biossance came with a new product that I didn't love it was very expensive and I just don't think they're going to be able to do anything."

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68%of gurus approve

Proactive Proactiv Solution

"Proactive up to 12 times the amount of benzene exposure per day, and additionally the parts per of benzene significantly increased when the acne products were tested at higher temperatures."

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46%of gurus approve

All 2 takes on Proactiv Solution

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"Proactive, a popular acne treatment, faced lawsuits from customers lodging complaints about the products because of irritation, burns, and other adverse reactions, and the loss of inadequate warnings or failure to disclose potential side effects."

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"Proactive up to 12 times the amount of benzene exposure per day, and additionally the parts per of benzene significantly increased when the acne products were tested at higher temperatures."

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."

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55%of gurus approve

Generic L-Theanine

"I have problems sleeping at night so there's a couple supplements I've tried that I think have helped. L-Theanine along with magnesium oxide, I take two of these and one of these at night and I sleep much better. I usually, before I started taking this, I would sleep for an hour then I'd be awake for 20 minutes, I'd sleep for an hour then I'd be awake, and anyway so it became a long drawn out process. I think both of these help. There's research backing both of these that they help with sleep. For me these two were definite winners."

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80%of gurus approve

VT Reedle Shot 100

"You're supposed to start with a 100 box bottle and when you finish that move up to the 300 bottle and then when you finish that move up to the last one and your benefits supposedly increase with each bottle. This product is supposed to help with brightness, texture, soothing your skin, and have anti-inflammatory benefits. It's got different CA extracts in it. People when they use this will notice a tingling, which is probably more from one main ingredient, and that ingredient is hydrolyzed sponge. When the sponge, I think it's taken from sea life like a sponge that grows in the oceans."

~Mixed

66%of gurus approve

Bakuchiol

"Bakuchiol is a great alternative to retinoids, which is shown to have some of the same benefits as retinol."

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81%of gurus approve

Glow Recipe Products

"I don't feel comfortable even selling Glow Recipe Products because of the BHA in it."

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57%of gurus approve

NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid

"The NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid is one of the few products that my skin just breaks out to, it hates it. I repurchased it and thought I'd give it another try during the NIOD sale and same thing happened. The first time I tried it was a couple years ago, so I thought maybe things had changed or it was a fluke, but I tried it again and same result. I'm not going to get a third time because now I know it just doesn't agree with my skin. Something about the formula does not agree with my skin. There's only one other real product that ever breaks me out, but those two things, something in them my skin just doesn't like."

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65%of gurus approve

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"The NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid is lovely. It's got squalane in there, sea algae. It's really nice, but it's expensive though. I didn't realize it had crept up to $93 when I reviewed it initially. I believe it was $73 that was four years ago, so obviously the price has crept up since then. It's expensive, although a little bit of it goes a long way. This is the half an ounce size, so yeah, it's expensive. If you're on a budget, that's not going to be the most friendly one."

CeraVe Products

"CeraVe is one of them where a lot of people have great luck with it and then there's a rather bigger percentage of people that just for some reason the products irritate them. I'm guessing it's probably they probably use a lot more preservatives than some other brands do because of how long products sit from manufacturing to shelves to the customer's shelf before they use it. I have a feeling some of these brands probably use a heck of a lot more preservatives than some other brands do."

~Mixed

74%of gurus approve

Mario Badescu Mario Badescu

"steroids and Skin Care should not be a thing"

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49%of gurus approve

Glossier Glossier

"Glossier is another good brand with some nice products. They're not the most exciting brand, but they are very affordable, cruelty free, and they make a lot of nice options for most people."

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72%of gurus approve

Drunk Elephant B Goldie Bright Drops

"The B Goldie 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 setting out products for review."

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66%of gurus approve

Drunk Elephant Rosy Drops

"They released the Rosy Drops which is like a blush drop, but there's no reason I would ever need to add any more red or pink red tones into my skincare because I'm always pink and red. Most people that are red try to use foundation to kind of hide it. I guess maybe it was more meant to be a blush drop, so that one didn't seem to do as well."

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56%of gurus approve

Clarisonic Clarisonic

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

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58%of gurus approve

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."

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72%of gurus approve

Drunk Elephant Skincare

"Drunk Elephant is a clean beauty brand that emphasizes using effective ingredients without potentially harmful additives. They offer a range of skin care products including serums, moisturizers, and cleansers."

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63%of gurus approve

The Ordinary Products

"The Ordinary is itself known for affordable, effective skin care products."

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71%of gurus approve

L'Oreal L'Oreal

"L'Oreal they faced criticisms for allegations of unethical animal testing practices and controversies surrounding their marketing campaigns."

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53%of gurus approve

La Roche-Posay Products

"La Roche-Posay is hit or miss either it's wonderful and great for my skin or it's absolutely horrible and overly fragranced. I mean half their stuff is great and the other half is just so scented. Their sunscreens are some of the best."

~Mixed

67%of gurus approve

Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow

"I'm still loving the Geek and Gorgeous C Glow. My favorite and the most affordable one out there conveniently happens to be the Geek and Gorgeous. This stuff's really nice, no scent, water based, a little bit goes a long way. And it feels nice and non-greasy. There's a lot of vitamin C serums that tend to kind of feel kind of greasy. This one does not. It's like 14 bucks. You can see how fresh it is. It's crystal clear. Which a lot of other vitamin C serums, by the time they arrive, sometimes they're oxidized or not as fresh, and this stuff is always very fresh. So, feels really nice on my skin."

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85%of gurus approve

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"My first one is my budget pick and that's the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. It's about 14 bucks. This one's great. 15% ascorbic acid. It's got ferulic acid, vitamin E, which is the trifecta for vitamin C, ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, and vitamin E. Those three apparently are the powerhouse trio you want. This one's fragrance free and alcohol-free, and it's always fresh. If you're on a budget, this was one of the most affordable."

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"I normally go for the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. This one soaks in really quick. Normally when I do my routine I apply all my serums and stuff and sunscreen then I do my hair which takes about 10 minutes and then it all soaks in. Sometimes vitamin C takes a little bit of time to soak in, but this one soaks in really quick."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow uses actual sorbic acid, I think it's going to be a better pick."

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"I find this serum is really easy to apply liberally because I can apply one layer let it soak in for a second and then apply a little bit more and it doesn't peel up. The texture of this stuff is just really nice, feels nice on the skin, worked well under my sunscreen with no pilling or anything like that. Once you apply it, it doesn't look super greasy, has kind of a radiant finish, but it does feel light and it's easy. The fact that this doesn't have fragrance in it I think helps."

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"It's the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. They make it fresh every week. You don't have to worry about it being delivered and shipped old and oxidized. It's wonderful and affordable and it's a great part of every routine."

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"My favorite product from them is their C-Glow serum. This stuff is amazing. They manufacture it weekly, so when you buy this you know you're getting a fresh vitamin C serum with ascorbic acid. You don't have to worry about going bad before you have a chance to finish it, and it's super affordable. The formula is absolutely amazing. It fits into any routine and really helps brighten up skin and protect it from free radical damage."

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"I do like the delivery system and the packaging in this one. For some people that want a boost of brightening, it's a nice option and you're getting a fresh product from it all the time. It's really wonderful and I really enjoyed it. I gave it a nine out of ten. The main issue is going to be the freshness of it. It's meant to last about two weeks and that smell some people just won't like."

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"This has got the trifecta that you want to see. Ascorbic acid, vitamin E, and ferulic acid. Those are the three. It's the trifecta. That's what you want to see in a good ascorbic acid serum. And this has got that all in good amounts. I've used dozens of vitamin C serums, ascorbic acid serums, and this hands down out of all of those, if I had to pick one, regardless of price, it would be this one. Every time they manufacture it regularly, so it's always fresh, and if you store in your fridge, that's even better."

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"This is my favorite out of all of them. They manufacture it weekly, it's very fresh. It's 13 bucks, it's got 15% ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, vitamin E, and this one has a super light water texture. It absorbs really nicely, doesn't set to a terrible finish, and works well under sunscreen. This is certainly worth trying out. It's probably the most affordable one on the list and in terms of being fresh, it's wonderful. If you haven't tried anything with ascorbic acid, this is going to be my favorite."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow is far better because of one major reason: they make it fresh. I've heard a lot of customers complaining that they've purchased the SkinCeuticals serum recently and it's already oxidized or turning brown, which means it's not as good, it's not as effective as it once was. Geek and Gorgeous manufactures theirs weekly so you can rest assured it's always gonna be fresh and it lasts. It stays clear up until I typically have a chance to finish it. If I had a bottle of SkinCeuticals and Geek and Gorgeous, everything else being equal, I'd probably pick the Geek and Gorgeous just knowing that it's gonna be fresh. It's 12 bucks and it's amazing."

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"I just used it this morning, the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. I love it. They manufacture it regularly and it's half or third the price of the Timeless."

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"Geek and Gorgeous, amazing brand they manufacture theirs every week. I like Geek and Gorgeous better than Timeless."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow is my most recent purchase of the serum. I love it. I've repurchased it multiple times. Every time I open a new bottle, it reminds me of my friend who purchased a different vitamin C serum that's over $180. If you drop this one on the floor, it's only 13 bucks, so you don't have to worry about it so much. I mean, it still sucks either way, but you're good."

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"I love this stuff. I've repurchased it now I don't even know how many different times. It's a great vitamin C serum at $13. It contains 15% ascorbic acid, which is not a derivative of vitamin C, it's the proven deal. It's prone to be very unstable, so manufacturers that sell it need to manufacture on a regular basis so it stays clear. This is a newer bottle and it is totally clear. When I've tried Skin Ceuticals, it usually comes already kind of yellow or golden in color, which means it's getting old already. This stuff, they may manufacture regularly so you're always getting a fresh bottle. It also contains vitamin E and ferulic acid. If you're looking for a nice vitamin C serum, this stuff is a bargain, very similar to Skin Ceuticals without the $200 price tag on it. It's made fresh, so in my opinion, if I had a choice between the two, I would pick Geek and Gorgeous."

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"I'm using the C-Glow serum which is still the best dupe that's ever been created for anything ever. I think it's like 13 bucks."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow, I love this one. It's 15% L-ascorbic acid and a really nice water serum made fresh, super affordable."

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"I love it, it's my favorite vitamin C serum."

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"It's in the proper pH, it's got 15% in the sweet spot of absorbic acid, and it's got ferulic acid and vitamin E. This hits all the criteria. It's manufactured regularly. This is the best in my opinion vitamin C serum I have tried. The nice thing with the price of this one, if for some reason I go out of town and I forget it on a counter and I'm gone for two weeks and I come back and it's not as fresh, I don't feel like I lost a ton of money. And it does stay fresh pretty long. This is my favorite one. I have yet to dislike a product of theirs."

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"This is the best most affordable vitamin C you can get. It's $13 and it's Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. They manufacture it fresh once a week. The vitamin C serum is a highlight. You can't beat the serum and it's made fresh and it's always very clear and lasts a long time."

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"It has furulic acid and vitamin E, which are also known for brightening your skin. It blocks tyrosinase and helps prevent dark spots and helps brighten skin up. That's probably the best thing you can do under sunscreen is apply a good vitamin C serum. I prefer ascorbic acid, but some people's skin is more sensitive than others, so it might be a different type of vitamin C, but on a daily basis, the Geek and Gorgeous is my go-to and it's super affordable and I store it in the fridge and it lasts forever."

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"This serum contains age inhibitors, ferulic acid and ascorbic acid. They're both great antioxidants as well as anti-glycation end products. It's great for daytime preventing damage from oxidative stress. It's also great for brightening your skin. If I had to pick one of these to try or recommend, I'm probably going to pick the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow."

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"I love the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. I love that stuff. This one's got ethylhexyl ascorbic acid, which is a vitamin C derivative. Hyaluronic acid, panthenol, superoxide dismutase, ergothionine, plankton extract, some algae types of ingredients, turmeric, some brightening ingredients. Looks pretty nice."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow is a water-light serum that contains 15% ascorbic acid which is great for collagen production deep down in skin, it's great for brightening your skin up and it's great for helping your sunscreen work better. It also contains the ferulic acid and vitamin E trifecta, that's the trifecto you want. You want to see ascorbic acid, ferulic acid and vitamin E, those three together are going to be the most protective three ingredients you can use on your skin, and if you can use them under your sunscreen in your morning routine that's going to be the way to go. Lovely product, really affordable."

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"I typically like my Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow, but on days when my skin is feeling super dry or sensitive, this one's just really nice and hydrating and it kind of gives your skin a boost of moisture as well, which is nice."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow is a water-light serum that contains 15% L-ascorbic acid which is great for collagen production deep down in skin. It's great for brightening your skin up and it's great for helping your sunscreen work better. It also contains the ferulic acid and vitamin E trifecta, which is the trifecta you want. You want to see L-ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, and vitamin E together because those three are going to be the most protective three ingredients you can use on your skin. And if you can use them under your sunscreen in your morning routine, that's going to be the way to go. It's a lovely product and really affordable."

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"Geek and Gorgeous their C-Glow is Holy Grail status for me, absolutely love this vitamin C serum. This is another brand where I have yet to try anything that I've been disappointed with. Every single thing I've tried from them I have enjoyed and most of them I've really loved including this one. This is one of the few skincare products where I tested it out and I noticed a difference very, very quickly, and there's not a lot of brands out there that have done that, but this is one of them."

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"Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow, in my opinion I can use that every day no issues and it's got the same amount of sorbic acid in there. The price is much better and it's always fresh because they manufacture it regularly."

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"I love my Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow Serum. It's ascorbic acid. It's 13 bucks. Made fresh."

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"My favorite is the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. I would recommend cleanse your skin, dry it off, use a toner, whatever you use, apply a vitamin C serum, and then give it a little bit of time to soak in. It will reset to the natural pH of your skin over a few minutes. Then apply the peptide serum or whatever. Give it a break in between to let it soak in, let your skin's natural pH go back to normal because vitamin C serums are typically pretty low pH, which is why sometimes they can be irritating or drying for skin."

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"It's got ginseng in there and then a little bit of vitamin C. You can see it's pretty clean and clear. I bought this before our trip, so this bottle's probably a month old now and it's still clear and fresh and effective."

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"It's amazing, a vitamin C serum with ferulic acid 15% and other antioxidants. They make it fresh, can't go wrong with it. If you offered me this or the Skinceuticals serum I would take this every single day if you were charging me the same price. I love this stuff."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow is awesome and it's my favorite. It's super affordable. For an awesome vitamin C product you can't beat the price. It's so affordable."

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"This is currently my number one favorite, I just reordered it. The Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow, this is my number one vitamin C recommendation. I love it, it's amazing. It's 15% L-ascorbic acid, ferulic acid, and vitamin E. If I had to pick one for the rest of my life it would be that version. The nice thing with Geek and Gorgeous is they manufacture theirs weekly, so you know it's going to arrive fresh and new."

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"That's why I do love that brand specifically because their vitamin C, they manufacture it, I think, weekly. It's a fresh batch. So, I have yet to ever purchase from them and have it received not super clear. And that's when you know ascorbic acid is fresh. It's clear. The older it gets, the more brown orangish it gets and the less effective it is. So, the second it's made, it starts degrading."

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"Their vitamin C serum, their C-Glow serum is a pretty darn close dupe to the Skin Ceuticals vitamin C serum that's upwards of $200. Geek and Gorgeous manufactures their vitamin C serum fresh weekly, so you know it's going to be nice and fresh by the time you get it and it'll last a long time. Whereas with Skin Ceuticals, I think they got so big and they're owned by such a huge company that they have problems keeping their stock fresh at all these locations where they're sold. Geek and Gorgeous, up to now, I've never had an issue with that. They're 100% cruelty-free and I think almost all of their products are vegan. Their products are pretty straightforward about what they hope to achieve, the ingredients in it, and the price isn't ridiculously expensive."

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"This is their C-Glow Serum is 13 bucks. I absolutely love this brand. Their C serum is amazing. I've gone through I don't know dozens of bottles of it probably at this point. It's great, it's worth checking out. The Ordinary in my opinion they have some vitamin C serum options but none of them compare to this one."

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"I absolutely love Geek and Gorgeous, this is their C-Glow serum, it's 13 bucks. I absolutely love this brand. Their C serum is amazing. I've gone through dozens of bottles of it probably at this point. With this one it's well done, affordable, and cruelty-free."

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"Their vitamin C serum is amazing. They list the percentages of actives in each product, which is really wonderful. The brand manufactures their vitamin C serum on a weekly basis so it's always fresh for the customer. I still have yet to find any other brand that does that. If you're looking for a really great vitamin C serum, check them out. Their products are fragrance free and very affordable."

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"I love this brand. Everything about it is wonderful. I've yet to try a disappointing product. It's really nice. 30 bucks may seem initially a little bit pricey, but this bottle lasts forever. No fragrance or anything else like that. Wonderful product from them."

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"I really like the Geek and Gorgeous C-Glow. If I had all the money in the world and I could only pick one, I would still be the Geek and Gorgeous. So love that stuff."

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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."

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"This is the Allies of Skin Molecular Silk Amino Hydrating Cleanser. This one is a little bit more lathering, and it's really nice. To remove makeup and sunscreen you massage it on dry skin, add water and massage it, or for just a regular cleansing massage on damp skin. And then for extra silkiness leave it on for one to two minutes."

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."

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"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."

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"I'm using the Dr Sam's Flawless Cleanser as a second step."

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"I had this one in my stash for a few months before I finally gave it a try and I really came to enjoy this one. It's very nice, it's a great second step or morning cleanser. Light lather, rinses clean but not squeaky clean. It's very gentle. It's got a short ingredient list with aloe, vitamin E, BHT preservative. I really focus on very affordable cleansers because they spend the least amount of time on your skin. A good, well-formulated affordable cleanser is going to be just as good as a really expensive one. As long as the cleansing agents are gentle and the formula is well-formulated, it goes down the drain. But if you have something that's really harsh, you will notice it. So spending money on a good one that's affordable but gentle is the way to go in my opinion."

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"The flawless cleanser is great. Um, the dark spots also really wonderful. So, if you haven't checked any of those out, it's certainly worth checking out. Um, yeah. So, I like a pump bottle. It's one of my favorites to keep in the shower if it's got a pump on it."

DHC Deep Cleansing Oil

"It's actually just a pretty simple formula. So it's got a little bit of scent from the rosemary oil and then it's got basically olive fruit oil and vitamin E, very short ingredient list but it really does a nice job for super stubborn makeup and things like that. So I really enjoy it."

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"It does have rosemary oil in there. So if you're sensitive to that, just FYI. I've gone through multiple bottles of this. When I first got into skin care, DHC was one of my favorites. This one's really wonderful. This will be my next oil cleanser once I'm finished with my current one."

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"It's got a nice ingredient list. Got olive oil, vitamin E, very short ingredient list. It's really nice. It is on the pricier side. It's a pretty simple formula, so I think people with super sensitive skin have good luck with it because it is pretty simple formula."

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"This is my third or fourth bottle, well, it's a lot. I've been through a lot of them. This stuff's really nice. It's got a really short ingredient list. It does have a slight scent from rosemary in there. But otherwise, it's basically an olive oil cleansing oil. It's really nice for winter or for dry skin. When your skin gets so dry, this stuff does the trick. Cleanses it really nicely. Removes makeup great."

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"DHC Deep Cleansing Oil, which is expensive at $31.50, so for a K Beauty brand this one's kind of expensive, but this is my second or third bottle of it. It's really nice, it's pretty gentle, but it does a really good job removing makeup, and I typically use another cleanser afterwards and it does a nice job."

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"DHC Deep Cleansing Oil. They're all great. Cleanse on dry skin first and then after you rinse off the oil, then just use a gentle cleanser."

Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Cleanser

"You just want to smooth it on your skin for about 30 to 60 seconds and then rinse it off. It removes makeup, everything else. For ingredients, we've got sunflower seed oil, yam root, sweet almond extract, and rice extract. No fragrance. It's a really nice, gentle cleanser. Leaves your skin feeling soft, hydrated, plump, not feeling dry or irritated."

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"It took me a while to warm up to the Isntree Yam Root Vegan Milk Cleanser. I really didn't like it the first few weeks I tried it, but now I really grew to love it and I end up using a lot and it's almost empty. I really do enjoy this one, and sometimes if there's days where I've used sunscreen like on my arms or legs before I get in the shower I just smooth this on and use it and it does the trick for that too. So it does a nice job cleansing as well as removing a lot of sunscreen. I struggle sometimes with stubborn eye makeup, but overall it's pretty effective and efficient."

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."

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"I love this. It's a nice product. You just apply it to dry skin and then emulsify it with water and rinse off. It's great for removing sunscreen, lightweight makeup. It struggles a little bit with waterproof makeup, so you might want a separate makeup remover for that. But otherwise, it's just a nice cleanser. It leaves your skin feeling supple, plumped up, and not dry or dehydrated or flaky like a lot of other cleansers can. Out of all their cleansers at The Ordinary, I didn't love any of them except this one."

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"The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser, another one I absolutely love from them. It's a great makeup removing cleansing balm. I just love it, it's really wonderful."

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"Their squalane cleanser is amazing. I finished it and that is one I've repurchased."

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"Some of my favorite cleansers are The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser, the Geek and Gorgeous Jelly Joker Cleanser and the Pre-quill Facial Cleanse."

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"The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser is $10 in the 1.7 ounce tube or now I've got a giant tube that's $20 or $22 something like that. It's a great makeup remover, sunscreen remover, and it rinses clean with no residue. It does everything and it's really affordable. Nice ingredient list. It leaves skin feeling soft and hydrated and smooth and pretty much removes most things, maybe with the exception of super stubborn eyeliner, but otherwise it does a really good job removing everything. It's a bargain in my opinion."

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"If you have light makeup or sunscreen on, it does a pretty good job removing that. If you have heavy makeup or eye makeup or waterproof makeup, you probably might want a general oil-based cleanser for that. But this one's just really nice and lightweight. It's fragrance free. It's got squalane, sucrose, vitamin E, really nice cleanser. I prefer it for the morning cleanser, but it's just really nice, lightweight, and feels nice. Your skin doesn't feel dry at all after you rinse it off or stripped at all."

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"Out of all their cleansers, my favorite is still their original Squalane Cleanser. I love this. You can just apply it to dry skin, rinse it off with water and it does a great job removing makeup, sunscreen, oil, anything you can think of. The Squalane Cleanser is great at removing makeup. You just apply it over dry skin and rinse. I kind of just like oil cleansing and really cleansing and things that are gentle, and The Ordinary does have that."

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"The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser is really lovely and really does a pretty good job, especially with my makeup and things like that. There's no scent to it, it has a nice texture. You just apply it to dry skin, smooth it over, and then rinse it off with water and you're good to go. It does a pretty good job and is pretty affordable if you get the big size."

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"The Ordinary has some nice affordable alternatives. They've got lots of good oils, rose hip oils are wonderful, and the cleansers, the Squalane Cleanser is my favorite. They came out with a couple new cleansers this year and I didn't love either one of them, but I just like their Squalane one. That's the one I like."

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"The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser, which I ordered I'm probably on my third bottle of it or so. Squalane is a really nice ingredient. It's a nice gentle cleanser that's not drying. It does a good job removing makeup and sunscreen, and when you rinse it off your skin still feels soft and supple. A lot of people with rosacea were mentioning that they really found it nice."

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"Their squalane cleanser is 16 bucks. It's a really nice cleanser, a gentle cleansing balm that works to remove makeup and sunscreen. You apply it to dry skin and it rinses pretty clean but doesn't leave skin feeling like it has any residue to it, and it does a pretty good job removing anything on your skin. It has squalane, sucrose stearate, and vitamin E in it. I will repurchase it during the sale."

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."

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Lancôme Lancome Makeup Remover

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

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Geek and Gorgeous Jelly Joker Cleanser

"Some of my favorite cleansers are the Ordinary Squalane Cleanser, the Geek and Gorgeous Jelly Joker Cleanser and the Pre-quill Facial Cleanse."

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"Some of my favorite cleansers are the Ordinary Squalane Cleanser, the Geek and Gorgeous Jelly Joker Cleanser and the Pre-quill Facial Cleanse."

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"I absolutely love their Jelly Joker cleanser. This stuff is a great gentle cleanser and it does a pretty good job as a second step cleanse or use it in the morning to kind of clean skin out. A lot of people in the morning just splash their face with water because they're afraid of it getting dry, and you can use this in its place and it still won't dry your skin out."

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"For a gentle cleanser, the Geek and Gorgeous Jelly Joker is super gentle, fragrance-free, and has no real harsh surfactants or anything like that. A lot of people found this to be very good for their skin."

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"I'm going to wash with the Geek and Gorgeous Jelly Joker Cleanser really quick."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous Jelly Joker doesn't get any better than this. It's 10 bucks, it's a very gentle pH balance formula so it won't irritate your skin. It does a pretty good job removing most makeup and things like that. It's got panthenol and alantin."

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"Their jelly joker cleanser is great as well."

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"Their Jelly Joker cleanser is amazing. It's one of the few brands where every product is just amazing. I love them all and they're all good for what they list. The brand makes all their products very affordable, so those are absolutely worth checking out. They're all very affordable, their products are fragrance free, and their cleanser is wonderful. I've yet to be disappointed with them."

Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm

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

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The Ordinary Cleansers

"I don't love any of their cleansers. They've come out with their foaming cleansers. I don't love them."

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"Their cleansers are just so freaking drying with the exception of the squalane one, which was the one that Brandon Truax actually developed when he owned the brand."

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"I don't love any of their cleansers. They've come out with their foaming cleansers. I don't love them."

Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm

"For me, just a little tiny amount of this, maybe like a teaspoon is enough to remove all of my sunscreen and makeup. This one's priced right and it will last a very, very long time for me."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous cleanser is really nice. It's no fragrance in it. A little bit of it goes a long way. It's a really nice cleanser. Just takes a minute to smooth it over everything and allow it to break down the oils on your skin."

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"For me, just a little tiny amount of this, maybe like a teaspoon is enough to remove all of my sunscreen and makeup. This one's priced right and it will last a very, very long time for me."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous cleansing balm is 13 bucks and it's also really nice and sensitive. It only has seven different ingredients, comes in a little purple jar. It's one of the best for being gentle on your skin."

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"This is their Mighty Melt cleanser. You can use it to remove makeup and sunscreen at the end of the day. It's really nice."

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"This is really nice, it's super affordable and it's gigantic so you get a ton. It's a 100 milliliters, 3.38 ounces. I think this is a very short ingredient list for a product. I think it's got like eight different ingredients and they all seem to do a good job."

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"I really like that cleansing balm and there's really no residue on it so that's not bad."

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"I'm pretty happy with it, it's impressive. It does a great job, removes pretty much everything, does a great job with sunscreen. And if you do use it with the Jelly Joker, it's even better. So I'm very happy with it."

Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser

"There's no real major red flag ingredients unless you have acne prone skin because some of those fatty acids can be really problematic for acne prone skin, but it feels really nice. It's affordable. It's a big bottle. It feels really nice on the skin, which is hard to accomplish."

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"I really enjoy it. This one's really nice. The bottle's huge, it's like 13.5 ounces, so this is a face or body or both cleanser and I've been using it kind of on both. There's not much of a lather but a very light lather I would say."

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"This one really nice product. It's very simple formula with beta glucan, aloe, oat flour. Very gentle, no scent."

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."

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"It's a great second step cleanser, it's great for sensitive skin types and it does a really nice job, gives you a nice lather. Short ingredient list, not a lot of ingredients to mess around with. I think it's probably got 15 ingredients. It works well for a lot of people. At 13 bucks, it's worth trying to see if it works for you."

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"This is another one I've repurchased. It's very gentle, the ingredients are probably 11, 12 ingredients in here so it's a very short ingredient list. It's very foamy, it does foam up a lot. Some people like foam, some people don't as much, but it's very nice, very gentle. Sometimes when the weather is really dry, I use it on my body as well. Very gentle on the rest of my body, so this one's really nice."

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Prequil Cleanser

"Prequil has some really nice affordable cleansers. This one's 13 ounces and it's really affordable. They tend to be sold at Target, so you can pick it up at the same stores you would pick up Cetaphil and CeraVe. They tend to avoid fragrances, which is nice. And they have a nice range of gentle cleansers and moisturizers. This is their cleanser, which is a great morning cleanser. Some people prefer to rinse their skin off in the morning, but some nights if you use a thick sleeping mask or something like that, sometimes a nice gentle wash is nice, and this is great for that."

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CeraVe Cleansers

"Their cleansers are fine. I don't love their actives or their face products, but their cleansers are just fine. No issues with those."

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64%of gurus approve

Unknown Cleansing oil

"Then at night, I have this cleansing oil. And you can use this on your body and face if you like. It has no scent to it. Just apply it to damp skin. Rinse it off. It's really nice, light, non-drying at all."

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"This one's really nice and she can use it all over and no scent. It rinses off clean non-drying and it'll remove the sunscreen."

Claire's Gentle Black Fresh Cleansing Oil

"The newer one, the one that comes in the clear bottle is really nice cleansing oil. It does a nice job removing it. Has no fragrance in it. This one's nice and it goes well with them. And it's a really pretty big 4.73 ounces. This one will last me forever because just a little bit of it is enough to clean everything, so it lasts a long time."

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Bioma Creamy Jelly Cleanser

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

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"The Bioma Creamy Jelly Cleanser does a pretty good job as a nice morning cleanser. It removes some makeup and sunscreen but it's not tenacious enough to remove all of it. You can use this as a second step cleanser or morning cleanser and it's very nice for both of those. Overall it was very nice and affordable, and the packaging is kind of fun."

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

The Inky List Oat Cleansing Balm

"The Inky List Oat Cleansing Balm, a lot of people absolutely love this stuff. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it at first and then I changed to not loving it but not hating it. It's pretty effective at removing makeup, but I did find this leaves a film for me if I don't use it with a washcloth to rinse it off. And I found you have to ignore the directions on this and don't do what it says because it says to apply to a dampened face. I highly disagree with that. You have to apply this to dry skin. If you apply this to damp skin it doesn't do a good job at anything, but if you apply it to dry skin it does a better job for me. It leaves a little bit of a film, but for a lot of other people it doesn't. In terms of affordability, it's really affordable, so if it ends up working great for you, it's worth it."

~Mixed

81%of gurus approve

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."

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

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"It did a pretty good job. It feels nice and fine and my skin feels nice, 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, eye mascara, as well as leave my skin feeling soft and not super dry or tight. And no strong scents. The lather is nice and gentle. I think this would be a nice one to use with a handheld silicone face cleaner device. It feels nice, no issues at all, enjoyed it."

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

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."

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Prequel Pre-Gleanse Cleansing Oil

"This stuff is pretty affordable. We've got sunflower seed oil, rice bran oil, a couple of fatty acids, centella in here, and then vitamin E, so it's got a nice short ingredient list with no fragrance. It's an oil-based cleanser you apply to your skin when it's dry and massage it on your dry skin and then rinse it. The theory is oil attracts oil, so oils on your skin, oils in your makeup, oils in your sunscreen will become attracted to this and therefore when it soaks it up it removes it."

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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 pretty gentle, non-drying but still good enough for oily skin too and my dry skin likes it as well. This one has been a go-to for me."

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"The CeraVe Foaming Facial Cleanser is 19 bucks in a giant bottle with a pump on it. It's a wonderful cleanser, and though it's geared towards oily skin, my dry sensitive skin doesn't have any issues with this one at all. It does a nice job as a great morning cleanser or second step cleanser. It doesn't do the best job with stubborn makeup or stubborn sunscreen, but if you use it with one of those Foreo sponges it's strong enough to do the trick. Otherwise you're going to want to use a makeup remover first."

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"This is 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. It's very gentle with a short ingredient list, it's very foamy it does foam up a lot, and it's very nice and very gentle. Sometimes when the weather is really dry I even use it on my body as well."

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"It's not scented but it is drying as heck. It's one of those cleansers where you rinse it up and your skin squeaks, and that's not a good thing. Squeaky clean is not a good thing, that means you might have damaged your skin or overdried it out. Something in here just dried the heck out of my skin. I just don't like that squeaky clean feeling. Too clean is not a good thing for skin. You don't want to damage your microbiome."

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"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."

The Ordinary Glucoside Foaming Cleanser

"They also have their glycolipid cream and their glucoside foaming cleanser and I didn't really love either one of these. I found these to be too drying. I mean they're not terrible products but for my skin that's super dry I just found this to be too drying."

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"I think the foamy cleanser is slightly drying."

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Kose Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil

"It did a pretty good job. My skin feels nice and clean. I have to say I think that one did a pretty darn good job on its own actually. I'm really impressed with it and the fact that it has no scent and it's like super affordable makes it even better."

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Dermalogica Special Cleansing Gel

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

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Garnier Cleansing Balm

"Their big hits were Garnier Cleansing Balm, which it looks good. I haven't tried it yet, but I really like the Garnier micellar cleansers."

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72%of gurus approve

Tatcha Indigo Cleansing Balm

"Tatcha Indigo Cleansing Balm, this stuff was okay. I'm glad I didn't buy the full size because the full size of it was really expensive and it was just kind of average to me. I didn't hate it, I just didn't love love it."

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"Their Indigo Cleansing Balm is nice."

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"I've got one sample of the Tatcha Indigo Cleansing Balm and I picked up another sample size of it and anyway it wasn't anything special for how much they charge for it."

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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."

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73%of gurus approve

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."

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"Another version of a Dove body wash went from 24 oz down to 22 oz. That's roughly a 10% reduction. They're very clever."

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"The Dove Deep Moisture Body Wash went from 24 ounces down to 23 ounces. That was a Costco version."

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."

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"I'm going to start with the Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Cleansing Oil as a first step, and then I'm using the Dr. Sam's Flawless Cleanser as a second step. This will help get my mascara off. It's a tubing mascara so it's kind of stubborn."

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"For the first cleanse I'm going to go with the Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Cleansing Oil. Both these are great, they're gentle, they're fragrance free, and very efficient and effective. I say about two and a half pumps of this is good for me."

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"If you want a cleanser that rinses off sunscreen, makeup, oil and things like that, the Beauty of Joseon ginseng cleansing oil is great and it's also super affordable. I massage this onto dry skin at the end of your day, give it 60 seconds, rinse it off, and your sunscreen's gone. Or you can follow up with another cleanser to do a second cleanse. Both of these bottles will last you a long, long time if you're using them normally."

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."

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Bioma Milky Oil Cleanser

"The Bioma Milky Oil Cleanser made my skin feel super super dry and tight and it had a strong rosemary oil scent to it. I actually bought it and returned it, one of the very few things I've returned this year. Even for 14 bucks it's bad."

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PSA Reset Cleanser

"I love the PSA reset cleanser. It works really well on both damp skin as well as dry skin. It's out of stock everywhere apparently, coming out with more, so I don't know when, but I wanted to mention this one."

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"The PSA Reset Cleanser is very nourishing and hydrating, has vanilla in there, and it does a pretty good job removing things. It's also very gentle so if there's a day where my skin is feeling dry or sensitive I use this one, and it does a great job."

Peach and Lily Ginger Cleansing Oil

"The Peach and Lily Ginger cleansing oil, 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. Really nice product, so that is definitely worth picking up on sale."

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Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Refreshing Cleanser

"The Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Refreshing Cleanser is one of my favorites for sensitive skin. It's fragrance free and contains some soothing ingredients such as green tea, houttuynia cordata leaf, and blueberry. It's a really nice product. When I bought it, I was thinking green plum sounds like it's going to be very scented and irritating, and it's not, so they did a good job with that one."

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79%of gurus approve

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Cleanser

"This one's fragrance-free and contains an ingredient that is supposed to prevent oiliness and help absorb oil on skin. It's nice, and I use this one more during the Spring and Summer. It's a little bit too much for me during the winter when my skin's already dry, but this one is a really nice option and pretty affordable."

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68%of gurus approve

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."

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La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser

"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Cleanser is really nice and non-drying, with a little bit of suds which is nice. It's a hydrating cleansing product for face and body, and you can use it for shaving your legs and stuff like that as well. It's unscented, but it does have lemon extract in it, which is a fragrance ingredient, so it's unscented but not fragrance-free because of that lemon extract. I've repurchased this one."

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75%of gurus approve

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"This one's very gentle, it's very affordable, it comes in a giant bottle which is nice. In terms of ingredients, it's got a really short ingredient list: panthenol, vitamin E, and ceramide at the end of it. Super gentle cleansing ingredients and agents, and it does a pretty good job as a second cleanse or a morning cleanser, or if you're not wearing makeup it does a pretty good job with that. And it's super affordable."

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Necessaire Body Wash

"This one is really nice and non-drying and a little bit of sudsy, which is nice. I've repurchased it. I will say this is unscented but it does have lemon extract in it, which is a fragrance ingredient but it's not like lemon oil. So there's a difference between unscented and fragrance free. This would be unscented but not fragrance free because of that lemon extract."

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The Inkey List Oat Cleansing Balm

"The Inkey List Oat Cleansing Balm, I didn't love or hate it."

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62%of gurus approve

Minimalist Oat extract cleanser

"This one's got oat and glycerin, you apply it on wet skin and massage and rinse off thoroughly. It doesn't really have a lot of anything, it's a very short ingredient list, so super affordable. I'm excited to play with this one. It comes in a pump bottle, which is even better. I don't see any foaming ingredients."

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74%of gurus approve

Drunk Elephant Beste No. 9 Jelly Cleanser

"This person reached out to Drunk Elephant directly and asked which products of theirs are safe for children, and they said their only products that are safe for kids are the bronzing and Rosy drops, virgin oil, laa whipped cream, and the jelly cleanser."

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"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."

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."

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La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil

"La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil won favorite oil-based makeup remover and cleanser. The reviewer notes it is a new product this year and describes it as amazing. They use it every day and noted all nominees in this category are great products they have repurchased."

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"I've been testing and I am just absolutely loving it, the La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil, and this solved a major problem for me. I've been putting a lot of sunscreen on, especially on my arms and the backs of my hands, and at the end of the day when I shower at night, my typical body cleanser just doesn't quite get it off because it's a pretty thick sunscreen. This one is getting the job done removing the sunscreen from my arms before I go to bed."

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"I picked it up and I was covered in sunscreen and it did a great job and it removed the sunscreen within like one light layer. With this you can apply it to face or body. They recommend applying a pump of it to damp skin and it foams up really nicely and cleanses really cleanly. It rinses off nicely and doesn't leave your skin feeling dry in the least, which is also nice because lately I've been having to put body lotion on the second I get out of the shower because it's been so dry, but this stuff just was amazing. The ingredients in here use sodium laureth sulfate, which is the gentle version, and cocoa betaine, which is another gentle cleanser, and then we've got niacinamide in here and shea butter in there."

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"I was covered in sunscreen and I used this guy and it did a great job and removed it within like one light layer. You can apply it to face or body. They recommend applying a pump of it to damp skin and it foams up really nicely and cleanses really cleanly. It rinses off nicely and doesn't leave your skin feeling dry in the least, which is really nice because lately I've been having to put body lotion on the second I get out of the shower, but this stuff just was amazing. The ingredients in here use some gentle cleansers. They use sodium laureth sulfate, which is different than sodium lauryl sulfate. Sodium laureth sulfate is the gentle version; sodium lauryl sulfate is the one that's kind of irritating for some people. And then it uses cocoa betaine, which is another gentle cleanser. There's also niacinamide, shea butter, and glycerin in there as well."

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"You can apply it to face or body. They recommend applying a pump of it to damp skin and it foams up really nicely and cleanses really cleanly. It rinses off nicely and doesn't leave your skin feeling dry in the least, which is also nice because lately I've been even in the summer having to put body lotion on the second I get out of the shower because it's been so dry, but this stuff just was amazing. The ingredients use sodium laureth sulfate, which is the gentle version, and cocoa betaine, which is another gentle cleanser. There's niacinamide and shea butter in there. Water and glycerin are the main ingredients. There's nothing super irritating like fragrance or any strong surfactants, but it still does an amazing job rinsing everything off."

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"The main ingredients are water and glycerin, so there's nothing super exciting and nothing irritating though, such as like fragrance or any strong surfactants, but it still does an amazing job rinsing everything off. I've been using this on my face and body for a few weeks now and one pump is about enough to do my whole face and body. The bottle's gigantic, 13.5 ounces I think, it retails for 19 which is also pretty darn affordable. This one's a good one, worth mentioning."

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"This stuff is just amazing. One pump is about enough to do my whole face and body. The bottle's gigantic, it's 13.5 ounces, and it retails for 19 which is also pretty darn affordable. I've been using this on my face and body for a few weeks now and you can see it's barely been really touched."

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"I'm really just happy with this one, impressed it's got a minimal formula but it's affordable still. I wish it was cruelty free because then I'd be even more excited about it, but as far as foaming cleansing oils go this one has been one of my favorites and I've been a game changer. I love the fact that I do use it on my face and body and I don't really feel like guilty, like I'm doing something wrong, because a lot of times when things say face and body it's like it's only going to be used on my body, but this one I don't feel guilty about. So it's one of my favorite most exciting purchases I've made in the last couple months. The Lipikar care line is pretty great for sensitive skin."

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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."

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PSA Skin Reset Cleanser

"I love this cleanser so so so much it's so versatile you can apply it to dry skin it'll take off makeup and sunscreen or you can almost use it like a second step cleanser after regular cleanser use it on wet skin and it's amazing. The first like couple weeks I tried this I hated it I think I probably even did a video on how much I hated this cleanser and then that just goes to show you know what two weeks isn't enough you gotta keep trying things unless you have a reaction or something but keep trying things. I just sat down and reordered two more bottles of it because I love it so much."

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90%of gurus approve

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."

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Skin Aqua Tone Up UV Essence

"This is one of the very few tone-up sunscreens I actually liked. I have probably tried at least a dozen tone-up sunscreens and I've hated them all, but this one actually did a nice job. It gives you 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 can also act as a waterproof makeup base. It's got titanium dioxide so it's got a mineral filter and then it's got a ton of chemical filters: Tinosurb S, Juvénat Plus, Tinosurb M."

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85%of gurus approve

La Roche-Posay Sunscreen

"La Roche-Posay, very solid sunscreen brand."

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70%of gurus approve

All 4 takes on Sunscreen

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"La Roche-Posay, very solid sunscreen brand."

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"I go with my La Roche-Posay sunscreen, which is great for the average day. It's got beta glucan and then it's also got the argireline botox in a bottle peptide. Lovely, no scent, totally invisible, great, feels nice on your skin. Highly, highly recommend this sunscreen. It's amazing."

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"If you're open to chemical sunscreens, La Roche-Posay, they have a lot of research. They've invented a lot of filters. I tend to trust them and Bioderma are a couple brands right off the bat that I pretty much trust almost implicitly. No brand is totally perfect when it comes to sunscreens because it's so complicated."

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"La Roche-Posay makes some great sunscreens as long as you don't buy the ones that they have in the US. I don't love those, but La Roche-Posay is great for sunscreens."

Geek and Gorgeous Zero Feel SPF 50

"This Geek and Gorgeous stuff just feels like absolutely nothing on your skin. It's mattifying, and I have a feeling it's geared towards oily skin since it leaves a very matte finish. I love it. It just feels so nice on my skin. If it's very sunny, very hot out, this one's nice. I also love if it's sweaty and humid out. Make sure you're applying it liberally. If you're not applying it liberally, you are not getting the protection you think you are."

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"It has four different sunscreen filters in it. So, I love that they did this. I wish every brand would do this. So filters in here, we've got Avobenzone, Octinoxate, Tinosorbcarbonate, and Enzo Enelozone, which is a chemical UVB filter. And then other beneficial ingredients, we've got vitamin E. It's a pretty short ingredient list, but I'm really loving this stuff."

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"Geek and Gorgeous sunscreen, I'm loving it. It feels like a nice sunscreen that's easy to apply liberally. We've got all the good chemical filters in here. We got vitamin E, we've got ectoine, sodium hyaluronate, we've got the PDRN in here, which is great. There are studies showing it's great for wound healing and skin soothing and anti-inflammatory. If you do like lasers or microneedling or peels, I think PDRN is a great product ingredient."

Neutrogena Pure Screen Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid

"Neutrogena has a really nice tinted sunscreen."

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Tatcha Silk Sunscreen SPF 50

"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."

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All 13 takes on Silk Sunscreen SPF 50

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"Tatcha Silk sunscreen, which is great. It's got two ultraviolet sunscreens in it."

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"The Tatcha Silk Sunscreen, it's expensive and they finally repackaged it because the old packaging had issues with flaking off and getting on your hands. This one uses 10% zinc oxide. It's really nice, it's a lovely sunscreen. It has a little bit of a tint to it so you can get away with just setting it with powder and going for the day. It is expensive, but I do love this. This is probably one of my favorite mineral sunscreens."

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"It's really elegant and it feels really nice on the skin and it looks really nice on the skin. It has no scent, it really feels nice on your skin, and it's actually enjoyable to wear. I'm glad they finally fixed the packaging because everyone was having issues with it cracking and peeling and then flaking. It is expensive, it's $64, it's stupidly expensive, but otherwise this is an amazing product. I absolutely love it."

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"I love the Tatcha Silk Sunscreen. It's so elegant and light, it just gives your skin a really nice glow and it works great under foundation. It's expensive, but it's just so lovely."

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"The silk one, that's the other one I keep putting in out of my cart and then I don't buy it and then I think I don't need more stuff but it is a really nice mineral sunscreen and there's not a lot of, oh, people have been finding..."

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"The Tatcha Silk Sunscreen is great, but the Tatcha one in the blue bottle that's I think a hybrid too and that one's pretty friendly if you don't like a shiny finish."

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"This one is so hydrating. The packaging is just awful. It's got a slight tint to it, zinc oxide 10%, so it's got a slight tint to it and very hydrating, great for these dry days. I really enjoy the sunscreen itself. I hate the packaging, I hate the price of it, but I really love the formula."

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"The Tatcha Silk Sunscreen, it's 62 bucks. I really enjoy it. The packaging's a mess, it falls apart, people use tape over it, but I dig the formula. I love it. It's super lightweight, it's fragrance-free, it's a mineral sunscreen but it applies so transparently and it just feels lightly hydrating so it doesn't really feel like you've got a sunscreen on. It's invisible enough but it gives your skin just a little bit of evening out. Usually when I use this one I just put powder on over it and go with it. Even though it really doesn't have much of a color, it just has a little bit of pigment in there to even it out and make your skin look nice and bright. It's expensive, the packaging's a mess, but it's a really good product."

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"Their silk sunscreen is really nice. That sunscreen is really nice, but again, it's really really expensive and there's a lot of K beauty sunscreens that I really would like to use as opposed to that."

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"The Tatcha Silk Sunscreen, I absolutely love this stuff. It's now $64, which is a lot of money for sunscreen, especially when you're applying it liberally and if you're applying it properly a bottle like this should probably last you maybe about a month. It is bigger than it looks though, it's 1.7 oz. The Tatcha has a really nice friendly tint that in my opinion will work well for most skin types. If you can afford the Tatcha and you like it, go for it."

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"It contains zinc oxide and vitamin E, visibil, alantin silk extract. It's fragrance free. This is probably my third bottle of it. In the winter and when I'm not out for very long and my skin is very dry, this one's a really nice sunscreen. It has a little bit of a tint to it. Leaves skin feeling nice and soft, a radiant finish. Very nice for when your skin is dry. In the summer, it's a bit much in terms of hydration, but in the winter when I'm not out a ton and my skin is dry, this one's pretty nice."

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"I really do love this sunscreen a ton. It's just super hydrating, gives you a nice glow, really looks nice under foundation. I got so many compliments when I was wearing this sunscreen underneath my foundation."

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."

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All 2 takes on Universal Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46

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"It's a really nice sunscreen. It's got zinc oxide as well as octanoate, so it's a hybrid mineral chemical sunscreen. It's got a pretty nice universal tint to it and once it smooths into skin it just gives skin kind of a nice glow and feels really nice on the skin. No fragrance or anything like that, so it's pretty friendly for most skin types. Really nice foundation-free sunscreen."

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."

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Banana Boat Sunscreen

"I read the other day about a couple people, well, it was probably a list of like eight or nine people have been using this Banana Boat sunscreen and all got burned. So, I'm not totally certain. There could be some places are still selling these sunscreens. So, do your due diligence when you're buying it because it's nothing to mess around with. You don't want to get burned."

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All 3 takes on Sunscreen

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"Banana Boat, all of the sunscreens that they found Benzene in. I believe on a CVS shelf of 200 different sunscreens Benzene was tested and found in 78 of them, which ended up being around over 30% of the sunscreens sold by CVS online and in the store containing some amount of benzene which was not disclosed."

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"Banana Boat SPF 50 came in at 26. These are pretty low scores. You're still better using sunscreen than nothing. But when you're thinking you're getting 50 protection you're putting on 5. It's almost like what's the point there is a point. You're better off having 5 than nothing. But when you think you're getting really strong protection, that's not what you're getting."

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."

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All 6 takes on Mineral Sunscreen

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"Naked Sundays is 22.5% zinc oxide, their mineral version. It's thick, and you need to make sure to apply it liberally to get anywhere near the protection that they promise. It does have a feeling like you feel it a little bit throughout the day if you're out sweating a lot, so this probably would not be my recommendation if that's your situation. But it has a nice finish and on a lot of days if I'm lazy I just set it with powder and I'm good to go. The tint is pretty fair and there's no fragrance in it, it's quite nice."

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"If you're going to do one product, I'm just kind of surprised that they don't actually make it. That's your one thing. You don't make serums. You don't make cleansers. You don't make anything else. You make sunscreen. And you don't even make it yourself. It's kind of disappointing all the way around. And then to hear that Naked Sundays might be using the same base formula. So that's a red flag right there. I just wonder how many other people are walking around without real sunscreen on without really knowing that they might not have SPF 50 on. Their formula is the same formula being sold in the US as it is everywhere and Australia is supposed to have some of the strictest sunscreen standards. So it's kind of concerning because a lot of people probably around the world are wearing it without knowing it."

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"This one used 22.5% zinc oxide as its filter. Naked Sundays is one of over 30 brands that have recalled their sunscreen due to concerns about the products not being as effective as claimed."

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"Naked Sundays is among the sunscreens implicated in the SPF testing scandal where the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia found that 16 of 20 popular sunscreens failed to meet the SPF claims on their labels. Naked Sundays used Princeton Consumer Research to test their SPF, and PCR is run by people with a history of ethical concerns around fraudulent testing practices."

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"This one also did terrible and is using some of the similar base formulas. It may be a zinc supplier is what this comes down to. The brands may not have known, but anyway, Naked Sundays kind of skated under it for a while. Now they're finally being called out and these formulas are available in the US and Australia."

Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF 50

"This one's got licorice root, niacinamide, aloe, and centella. It's really quite nice and pretty affordable. They've got the same filters, so they're pretty effective. If I would be on a boat for five hours, this is the one I'm going with."

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All 4 takes on No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF 50

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"It's a newer product packaging name of their sunscreen which is actually really quite nice and very invisible and non-greasy feeling. It feels really nice on my skin. I've been using it for the last few days and I'm really enjoying it. It just works really nice over moisturizer and vitamin C and isn't drying at all."

Avene RetrinAL Ceramide Lipid-Replenishing Balm & Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence

"It's really quite nice and very invisible and non-greasy feeling. It feels really nice on my skin. I've been using it for the last few days and I'm really enjoying it. It just works really nice over moisturizer and vitamin C and isn't drying at all."

Avene RetrinAL Ceramide Lipid-Replenishing Balm & Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence

"It's actually really quite nice and very invisible and non-greasy feeling, it feels really nice on my skin. I've been testing it out and I'm really enjoying it. It just works really nice over moisturizer and vitamin C and isn't drying at all. This sunscreen I've been really enjoying. It's very nice and very gentle."

La Roche-Posay UV Mune 400

"This one's hardworking. It is for my sensitive skin. It's not a daily driver because my skin would start to get very dry if I use this every day in a row for many days. If I'm going to be out a lot, it's very humid, very sunny out, this is what I'm going for. It's got eight filters total, and additional beneficial ingredients including vitamin E. Hardworking, great sunscreen."

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"On the hottest sunniest days I'm going with La Roche-Posay UV Mune 400. That's it, this one's great though for most other days, but on the hottest day the La Roche-Posay is the one I trust the most."

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"I used La Roche-Posay UV Mune 400 from time to time but I think the denatured alcohol in this kind of dried my skin out a little bit. So many people don't have any issues with alcohol but I think that's why my skin's gonna be flaking a bit."

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"I love this one from La Roche-Posay. They're UV Mune 400. It's amazing. It does contain a lot of denatured alcohol. It can be drying if you have dry skin and you wear it multiple days in a row. If your skin tolerates it, this is always going to be, in my opinion, one of the hardest working ones. Nothing wrong with using it during the winter if your skin tolerates it. But for me, I typically find this to be on the drying side. So I typically use it on the days I'm going to be out the most, the highest sun rays, sweaty days, things like that."

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"This is their UV Mune which uses the European filters in it. My first bottle didn't have this but this bottle has a little bit of graininess but no matter how hard I shake I feel a little bit of the grains. It's not a ton but it's a little bit. It's enough that I do notice the little grains in there but once I smooth it in the skin that feeling kind of goes away. I just notice like two or three tiny grains and then it kind of just soaks in, so it's not a huge deal. Sometimes in tinted sunscreens you'll notice that more from iron oxides or titanium dioxides in there."

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"The La Roche-Posay UV Mune. This one's a great high strength one. So, if it's very sunny out or if I'm going to be out a long time, this is a great one."

Canmake Mermaid UV Gel

"This one's a combo sunscreen of mineral and chemical. It's got octinoxate, juveno plus, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, and tinsorb S. It's also got hop esters and arganine in there for beneficial ingredients. So this one's quite nice. I love the combo. If you suffer from melasma, which is a specific type of hyperpigmentation, you may understand that mineral filters may be better at protecting your skin from the melasma getting worse. So using a combo or mineral might be a great way to help prevent that from getting worse. But anyway, this one's really nice, very effective and efficient."

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"I'm using the Canmake Mermaid UV Gel, which I think this one is the clear one. I got my mermaid UV gel, I look shiny but I will mattify it when I get to the makeup part."

Ultraviolet Mineral Sunscreen

"Ultraviolet was shown that their mineral sunscreen had like four to seven SPF protection as opposed to like the 50th states. This one used 22.5% zinc oxide as its filter. So keep that in mind."

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Medik8 Medicate Sunscreen

"Medicate has one [recall]. So this one used 22.5% zinc oxide as its filter."

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All 2 takes on Medicate Sunscreen

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"Medicate has one [recall]. So this one used 22.5% zinc oxide as its filter."

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"Uh, Medicate has a sunscreen there. Crave Beauty, Super Goop, a lot of sunscreens are implicated in this one now"

Super Goop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40

"Including some American brands. Um obviously this one's not an American brand, but um or some American sunscreen such as Super Goo, Goop, um Crave."

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Purito Daily Soft Touch Sunscreen

"Anybody remembers the Purito one from and the whole K beauty one from about was it five years ago?"

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"Anybody remembers the Purito one from and the whole K beauty one from about was it five years ago?"

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"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 YouTube videos vouched for it, wrote up the whole thing on their page about how great it was and how light it was, and I thought there's no way I know more than she does. Sadly I was right, I wish I'd been wrong. But how do we know when a brand doesn't even disclose what percentages of filters are in them? We don't. We're going by blind faith."

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"There's a company in Korea that went and tested some of these sunscreens and we found out that they're nowhere near SPF 50, they're more like SPF 19, which is not great at all. And then just anecdotal notes from other people that tested it out and mentioned, you know, I'm getting hyperpigmentation using this time and time again. So if lots of people are saying that they're getting hyperpigmentation and dark spots and things like that from using it, it's something to think about."

Unknown Sunscreen

"It's been great. I love it. It doesn't have any scent, and this whole thing made my face feel great. It soaked right in."

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"Then after that, use this sunscreen. It has no scent to it. It's got really good filters in it. I think you'll really like it. It has no scent. No chemical scent at all either because a lot of like US sunscreens have that smell to them. Does not have that at all."

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"It's been great. I love it. It doesn't have any scent, and this whole thing made my face feel great. It soaked right in."

Kinship Self Reflect Mineral Sunscreen

"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."

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"I love this one, I've talked about it a lot and demoed it in a lot of videos. It uses 22.4% zinc oxide, it's got a tint to it but it's pretty friendly for most skin types and it does set to kind of a natural finish. So if you have oilier skin this might be a mineral sunscreen that would work well for you, especially if you just set it with a little bit of powder it's wonderful."

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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."

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La Roche-Posay Anthelios Mineral SPF 50

"I picked this one out and I thought L'Oréal Posay, that's not very lux, although in the US this is lux. This is like, because it's the good one, it's the one made in Europe with the good filters. So yeah, so at home this is lux but in, well most people watching this, it doesn't come off as lux."

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Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Aqua Fresh SPF 50

"This sunscreen is really nice, it's just a chemical sunscreen with no scent to it and a really nice texture. I'm really loving it because it just sinks right into your skin. In addition to those filters, it's got some good ingredients: rice, oat, artichoke, green tea. And it's only six bucks. Hands down, I will repurchase this, no doubt. I really am happy with it. I love it."

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All 8 takes on Relief Sun: Aqua Fresh SPF 50

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"I haven't had any issue with sensitivity in terms of my eye area in terms of redness or watering. Yesterday I didn't have any eye issues in terms of sensitivity and towards the end of the day it didn't end up looking shiny or anything so it was actually pretty nice. It's got two L'Oreal filters in there and in terms of UV filter I'm pretty confident in these ingredients. In terms of feel, it felt really nice the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. It is more hydrating and throughout the day it ends up looking a little bit more shiny but using it all day was fun, it was nice, felt good, it worked well under makeup and worked well over my serums that I applied it over. It's 18 bucks so it's pretty friendly for most skin types. The filters in here look good. I have a feeling this has pretty good UVA protection, probably better than almost any American sunscreen. These filters are going to be much better. I'm impressed with it, I'm happy with it, it feels nice on my skin."

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"It's 18 bucks so it's pretty friendly I think it's going to be pretty friendly for most skin types. The filters in here look good. I have a feeling this has pretty good UVA protection, probably better than almost any American sunscreen no matter what they put in. These filters are going to be much better. I'm impressed with it. I'm happy with it. It feels nice on my skin. The original version uses two filters in common: the Uvinul A+ and the Uvinul T-150. The newest version uses Tinosorb S, which tends to have a little bit of a white cast which is in the original version, but doesn't, you don't see any white cast or anything. They both feel very nice, no issues."

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"Both of them are fragrance free, there's no scent to it at all. The new version soaks in really nicely. If you have oily skin and the original version didn't work, it might be worth checking out the new version if it's in your price range. The original version is definitely thicker and takes a little bit more finesse to apply, a little bit more effort. But once they both soak in, they seem pretty similar in terms of their appearance on skin."

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"A little bit goes a long way. It's got a really nice serum gel texture though which I really like so it's not too watery and it's not too thick but it's got a nice texture where just a little bit goes a super long way. I will say if you use a lot of thicker sunscreens, I did notice that the Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Aqua Fresh SPF 50 pilled a little bit, not a ton but a few days I used it it did peel, actually mostly around my forehead. Once it soaks in it sets to a radiant finish that is just slightly tacky but it definitely has a radiant finish to it. For beneficial ingredients, it's got a pretty short ingredient list so we've got polyglutamic acid which is a great humectant ingredient and it's also film forming so it forms a little bit of a film which seals in moisture so prevents transepidermal water loss. We've got eosine which is a pollution and light protection ingredient, also soothing, and baicalin, a great repairing ingredient showing up in all these products as the star ingredient. We've got hibiscus extract which is a plant with hydration and antioxidant benefits, erythritol which is a sugar derived humectant, and then vitamin E which is an antioxidant."

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"I just love this one, it's just really nice and I've been using it a lot lately. It's very friendly, it literally has no scent at all, and probably much better UVA protection. The Aquafresh version is much more natural looking and it literally has no smell, whereas the US version is very tacky. This version is not quite as tacky, still a little tacky and sticky. Typically you want to give it 15 minutes to soak in so that shouldn't be as big of an issue. By the time I'm done with my hair, my sunscreen is soaked in and it's easier to apply foundation over."

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"It has no smell, it's not as sticky, and it's got some better ingredients and better filters in it than we have in the US. This one's already soaking in, it feels not as tacky. It's fragrance free, but vitamin E being the last ingredient is the most exciting thing you have going on in a sunscreen, which is kind of a bummer. Definitely a very shiny finish."

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"I'm going to use the Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Aqua Fresh, it's currently my favorite. It feels good."

Beauty of Joseon Matte Sun Stick

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

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All 2 takes on Matte Sun Stick

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"The Beauty of Joseon Matte Sun Stick is clumpy, thick, and does not apply very easily. It does not reapply very nicely over products. I wish I had better news for you, but I'm trying to finish it up and it's painstaking. I just hate the thought of things going to waste."

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

Beauty of Joseon Daily Tinted Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40

"In terms of ingredients, it's just got a bunch of slip ingredients and silica and glycerin. To me it feels like a money grab. SPF 40 is okay, but if it's a very sunny day out, honestly I wouldn't rely on this. If it's SPF 40, the UVA protection is not going to be very high either. It feels a little bit greasier. Vitamin E being the last ingredient is the most exciting thing you have going on in a sunscreen. It's kind of a bummer."

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All 3 takes on Daily Tinted Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40

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"It applies okay, it looks just fine, but honestly the UVA protection probably can't compare to hardly any of these. This one definitely feels greasier on my skin. The US version feels kind of greasy and shiny, it's very tacky, very tacky, and it's quite sticky. You kind of want to give it 15 minutes to soak in so that shouldn't be as big of an issue, but it's easier to apply foundation after it's set rather than just applying this, giving it 10 seconds, and applying foundation over it."

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"It feels a little bit greasier. The vitamin E being the last ingredient is the most exciting thing you have going on in a sunscreen, which is kind of a bummer. It has a very shiny finish. I'm not a fan so far."

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

"Beauty of Joseon came out with a new sunscreen but it looks like it uses filters and I still ordered it anyway."

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83%of gurus approve

All 7 takes on Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++

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"I grew to love this one more though and it's geared towards more oily skin, this one's geared more towards dry skin. It feels nice on my skin. I didn't have any issues using it in Europe with no issues with sunburn, redness, or freckling. For what this promises, they promise a more hydrated version of Beauty of Joseon's best-loving sunscreen, protects all skin type users from strong UV rays, enhance skin's moisture barrier, offers instant calming effect for irritated and dry skin, gently nourish skin and promote a healthy looking and plump complexion leaving a refreshing finish without any white cast or sticky feeling. I tend to agree with most of those promises and the ingredients in this product back up those claims. It protects you from the strong UV rays. It's got skin-identical ingredients, it's got soothing ingredients, it's got skin-protecting ingredients, antioxidants, vitamin E, and ferulic acid. So I tend to agree with those claims."

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"Oh here's another sunscreen the beauty of joelson I don't know I must have like thrown these in at the last minute I'm not sure why"

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"I really really used to hate this stuff and this winter towards the end of this winter I found myself using it and actually not hating it. When I used it initially I thought it was kind of on the greasy side, but my skin's gotten a little bit drier in the last few months, especially with some laser treatments I've been doing at home. It does take some blending and smoothing to get it right, and it has a little bit of white cast, but overall I've ended up liking it and now I've been reaching for it lately. I love that it has no smell at all."

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"I still hate this for your face however I found I like using it like in the summer if I'm going to go out for a walk outside. I like applying it on my arm and the back of my hands. I find the flat tip for it is easier for that. I don't like using it on my face and I won't use it on my face because I don't like the texture. I find it hard to smooth in and it's got a very like a silicone texture to it which makes it not very nice feeling on the face but for the back of my hands and my arms I liked it for that."

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"This one is the Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++. I loved it."

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"Beauty of Joseon came out with a new sunscreen but it looks like it uses filters and I still ordered it anyway."

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"I'm retesting the Beauty of Joseon sunscreen."

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."

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Neutrogena Collagen Bank Moisturizer SPF 30

"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."

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Transparent Lab Sunscreen

"This is their Transparent Lab sunscreen, water and sweat resistant, anti-pollution, alcohol free, fragrance free, SPF 50, PPD 33. It's really nice. It's got a really nice lotiony texture, it smooths into skin really nicely, it's got some good filters in there, and once it soaks in it feels really nice and light on skin and transparent. It's got great filters in it. The bottle is huge too, it's 100 mls, 3.3 to 3.4 ounces."

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Tatcha Mineral Sunscreen

"The Tatcha Mineral Sunscreen is probably the most luxurious sunscreen. I really enjoy it. There's no fragrance in it, it's got a really nice silky texture to it. They changed the packaging, which is good. It does have some alcohol in it, so I don't use it daily, more like if it's very hot, very sunny, or I'll be out sweating or swimming. I can use it like two or three days in a row and I'm good, but if I use it four, five, six, seven days or more straight, then my skin starts to get dry at the end of the day."

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Trader Joe's Daily Facial Sunscreen 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 to thirty-five bucks. It also has shea butter and vitamin E, so well worth checking out if you're at Trader Joe's."

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Summer Fridays Shade Drops Mineral Milk Sunscreen

"The Summer Fridays Shade Drops SPF 30 is a mineral sunscreen with zinc oxide. It does have a little bit of a white cast but it's not terribly so. It smooths in the skin really nicely and feels nice. Once it soaks in it has a little bit of reflectiveness but once you apply foundation over it it really is nice. We've got lots of nice hydrate ingredients, we've got glycerin in here, we've got shea butter, vitamin E, no scent to it. Really nice product."

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IOPE Sunscreen

"I tried their sunscreen after sunscreen Armageddon happened a few years ago, they had one of the few sunscreens tested well. It was a very good sunscreen except for the fact that it was overly scented, very strong."

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Black Girl Sunscreen SPF 30

"It has four chemical filters that are US based so they're not going to be the exciting ones like Uvinul A+ or Tinosorb that are really super protective. It also has a little bit of that sunscreen scent to it, which is probably from Oxybenzone. It also has aloe, avocado oil, and coco seed oil."

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Neutrogena Sunscreen

"Visher was also the one that tested the sunscreens from Neutrogena Johnson and Johnson and found the Benzene in there. Brands that made me really question all of this, obviously first off Neutrogena Johnson and Johnson, Banana Boat, all of the sunscreens that they found Benzene in. I believe on a CVS shelf of 200 different sunscreens, Benzene was tested and found in 78 of them, which ended up being around 30% of the sunscreens contain some amount of benzene which was not disclosed."

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Purito Deep Sea Pure Water Sunscreen

"This stuff is wonderful, full of good UVA and UVB protecting and it's really high on the UVA protecting, which UVA rays are the ones that age us. UVB rays are the ones that burn us, so UVA damage you don't really notice it until like the end of the summer or the next year, and there's not a lot of great sunscreens, especially in the US, that really protect from it. This is just amazing. The formula is great, it applies really nicely, and it just works great under foundation or if you don't want to use foundation, it works great under that or without it too. And no fragrance in it."

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Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Moist Sun Serum SPF 50

"I love this one, I'm very impressed with it. What I'm super impressed with is I can use this and at the end of the day I feel like I look like I just put on the makeup. It doesn't look greasy, it doesn't accentuate dry spots, it seems to actually soak up a little bit of oil. I've been using it after sweating and exercising outside in 85 degree heat and my face at the end of the day still looks just the same, looks great. It still looks non-greasy. A lot of times ones that are very mattifying end up accentuating dry patches, but I didn't have that at all. It looks just like I initially applied it. I'm very impressed, especially in the heat and humidity. This is a full size 1.7 ounces for 21 dollars. It doesn't get any better than that."

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All 4 takes on Ginseng Moist Sun Serum SPF 50

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"It's a clear gel with a really lovely textured, wonderful gel texture. It applies very transparently so no white cast at all. It absorbs pretty quickly so it's also really easy to apply it liberally because of the texture. Works great over other products, works well over moisturizers and serums, works nicely under foundation, easy to apply a liberal amount. When you initially apply it, it does have a slight tackiness for a couple seconds, probably more from the fragrance than anything else. It's got niacinamide which is anti-acne and barrier repairing, ginseng root extract which is an antioxidant and emollient, ginseng stem extract for skin conditioning, olive oil as an emollient and antioxidant, adenosine as a cell communicating ingredient, vitamin E as an antioxidant and photo protector."

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"I was really excited about it because Beauty of Joseon has some interesting sunscreens there. This one came out and I didn't even look at the ingredients list, I just ordered it, and then when it came in my first test of it, it had fragrance in it so I was a little bit disappointed by that. They say this nourishing serum features SPF 50 plus PA plus plus plus to protect skin against harmful UV rays, infused with 30 percent ginseng extract, the anti-aging formula enhances skin elasticity and keeps skin hydrated, formulated with two percent niacinamide to brighten skin for a glowing appearance and a lightweight texture that just goes onto the skin without a sticky after feel. In terms of ingredients, it does contain alcohol as the sixth ingredient, and apparently they included the fragrance to cover up the smell of the alcohol, which I'd rather they didn't do since alcohol really doesn't have much smell. It has an initial smell but it goes away within seconds."

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"It uses US filters and it sucks. It smells and it's less effective than their other sunscreens which are wonderful. It's got fragrance in it, I don't love the scent, but it's got a really nice texture. It's not going to compare to any other sunscreens sold anywhere else."

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

"Round Lab, I've tested a lot of their sunscreens and I've loved them all so far. I haven't found one that's a disappointment yet. This one's really nice. It's lightweight. It's got chemical filters in it. No scent, no alcohol. Applies pretty transparently. I really enjoy it. If you're looking for a nice sunscreen, I've yet to get burned using it, so I can't say the same about some other sunscreens, but this stuff is nice."

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"The Round Lab Birch Juice sunscreen comes in at about $19. This stuff is wonderful. I've been using this one a lot ever since it came out and I've been really happy with it ever since. A lot of days when you see me in my videos, I'm wearing this very sunscreen just because it's so nice and hydrating but not feeling greasy or anything like that. It soaks in really nicely. It feels super light, feels natural on your skin, and works great under makeup or if you just want to go makeup-less. It works really nice and doesn't look greasy, and you probably won't even need to set it with powder because it's so nice and light feeling. It's super affordable."

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"Really nice uh round lab's going to come up one other time"

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"Their Birch Juice sun sunscreen is great. These are all nice. They're all sensitive skin friendly. None of them have any scent to it, which is nice."

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"Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++ is a 16 dollar sunscreen that's fragrance and alcohol free with a lotiony texture that smooths into skin quite nicely. It has a little bit of a white cast when you first apply it and then once it soaks in it goes away. It's slightly moisturizing so it's nice for winter too. It has four different chemical filters and also contains porcelain, vitamin E, licorice root, and chamomile for soothing. It's nice because it's hydrating but not greasy so it makes it nice for fall and winter."

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"It has a lotiony texture and smooths into skin quite nicely. When you first apply it, it has a little bit of a white cast and then once it soaks in it goes away. It's slightly moisturizing so it's nice for winter too. It has four different chemical filters and also contains porcelain, vitamin E, licorice root, and chamomile for soothing. This stuff is great."

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"The Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sunscreen is worth the hype. It's amazing, super hydrating, applies clearly, no fragrance, no alcohol, nice chemical filters, and does a nice job really leaving skin feeling soft, hydrated, and works really nicely under foundation. It's one of the nicest mineral or chemical sunscreens I've used and I love the fact that it's hydrating without any fragrances in it."

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"Their Birch Juice sunscreen is great. No scent to it. They tend to be unscented and tend to not have a ton of alcohol in them, which is nice for winter when your skin gets super dry."

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"Their Doo sunscreen and Birch Juice Sunscreen are wonderful though if you haven't tried those they're super wonderful sunscreens."

Isntree Onion Newpair Sunscreen

"The sunscreen just didn't look really up my alley. It just didn't seem exciting. I have better sunscreens and I didn't pick it up. It uses all US filters, so I was kind of like what's the point."

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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."

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Rhode Glazing Milk

"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 though. It feels nice. It's a little tacky, but you're going to be applying it underneath another serum anyway, so that's fine. 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 -- most people probably feel the other way around. I just got it, so I'm opening it up now. The packaging has a QR code, which I assume is for authenticity verification. This one is the matcha variant. It has some PDRN in it."

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75%of gurus approve

Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence

"It's a watery toner. Super light watery texture. No issues at all with that. I love it. Fourth or fifth bottle. That says a lot because so far I've repurchased everyone I've talked about, but some of these I haven't tried enough, and a lot of the other ones I've tried, it's like, well, I use them once and I like it, but it wasn't like, oh, I need to repurchase it. But this was one I'm like, yes, I need to repurchase that."

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"The Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence. I love this stuff. This is probably my third empty bottle. I cannot wait to repurchase it at half off. It's normally 38 bucks on the sale. It's going to be 19 bucks. I'm very excited for this one."

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"Here's a nice toner that I really like, the Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence. I'd do a little pH test on that one here and this one I would say it's probably five exactly. So that is right where we want it."

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"Right when I'm done I'm going to use a toner, a nice anti-aging toner. This one is the Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence."

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"It's got saki ferment, which is great for anti-aging. It's got green tea, another great antioxidant. Aspergillus ferment, allantoin, and then it's got 15 plus amino acids. Amino acids are great for barrier repairing. They're great for dry and dehydrated skin. I love this stuff. The essence is a win-win."

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"The essence version is great. This product's got a lot of goodies in it. It has no scent to it. It has 93% microbio ferment complex with peptides and all that good stuff in there. I've repurchased this multiple times."

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"The Neogen Real Ferment Micro Essence is really wonderful. It's full of amino acids, sake rice ferment, Bifida ferment, Saccharomyces ferment, allantoin, calcium carbonate, sodium hyaluronic acid, and adenosine. It's amazing. This is my repurchase of it, I think I've repurchased it three times now. Be cautious though, because they have a serum version of it which is wonderful, but the essence, I believe the mist version of it has fragrance in it."

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"This one's got Bifida ferment, saki ferment obviously we all know saki ferment from SK-II which is ridiculously expensive. The other nice thing in here we've got several amino acids, we've got green tea and adenosine, a cell communicating ingredient. So this stuff is wonderful. I've repurchased it multiple times and I'm never disappointed. The serum is also absolutely amazing, so if you haven't tried the serum version, this one it's also worth checking out in my humble opinion."

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"The Neogen Real Ferment Micro Essence, this stuff is great. It's full of peptides and amino acids, it's really nice for your skin. This is probably my fourth or fifth bottle of it, and the fact that I repurchase this says a lot. Most skincare products I purchase once, I test them, I review them. If I like them I'll finish them, if I didn't like them I'll hand it down to somebody to finish. But for me to actually repurchase it multiple times says a lot because I've got so many other things to try, but I keep finding myself coming back to this one. I love it. No scent in it, but if you get the toner version from this brand it has fragrant oil in it. This does not have a scent."

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"The Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence is great. I've repurchased it multiple times. I want to mention this because occasionally people get confused there are several products in this lineup. The essence is great, the serum is great, both those don't have a scent to them. However, if you get the toner or I believe there's also a Mist, those two have fragrance in it and the toner has peppermint oil in it. So sometimes people are confused when I talk about this product and mention that it has no scent and that's fragrance. Feel like no, it has peppermint oil in it. I swear there's two things: the essence and the toner. That's why I've never recommended the toner nor have I ever purchased the toner, but got the essence and I love it."

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"Their Real Ferment line is wonderful. Their Real Ferment Micro Essence is great. The essence is great. Some of their products have fragrance in them. It's hit or miss, but the ones that don't have a scent to them are wonderful."

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"I also absolutely love the serum version of this. Neogen has done a great job. When I first got into beauty and skincare, Neogen was almost a no-go zone because almost everything they made was too scented for me to use, and now in the last couple of years they've made some really nice fragrance-free options and this is one of them. This essence is really nice. I mean it's got lots of ferment, bioferment complex, amino acids, things like that. It's wonderful."

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"I love this stuff. I'm going to keep this bottle though because I think I should be able to get a little funnel and refill it for travel because this was the perfect travel size for me and I love this product and I have a big bottle of it."

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"I love the Neogen Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence. The essence version is wonderful. It's a little bit pricey as far as toners go but it's amazing, it's got really good ingredients in it. I'm definitely going to repurchase it. Just make sure you get the essence, not the toner version, the toner has peppermint oil in it, but the essence does not."

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"Neogen Real Ferment Micro Essence won favorite fermented skincare product. The reviewer notes the serum version is also wonderful."

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."

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Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water

"This is my second bottle, the Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water. It's 16 bucks at YesStyle. I picked up my most recent bottle at TJ Maxx and it is not the same. It somehow oxidized or something, it's old stock or there's something else going on with it because it didn't remind me of the original version. But otherwise it's really nice, fragrance-free, alcohol-free. It's a watery, non-sticky toner. It's got ginseng, which is really great for anti-aging for your skin, several different types of ginseng actually, as well as panthenol, a soothing ingredient, allantoin, a soothing ingredient, and cocoa extract, which is really great for anti-aging and protecting your skin from oxidants. I wouldn't repurchase this one from TJ Maxx. I went to use it the first time and I'm like, something's off. It's like almost musty. I don't know what happened."

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79%of gurus approve

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"The Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water is a really nice light toner essence you can use like a toner or an essence. It's got ginseng, niacinamide, cacao, and ginseng ferment in it. I've actually repurchased it now, I believe this is my second, maybe third bottle."

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"This is my repurchase of the Beauty of Joseon ginseng Essence water which is 14 bucks. In here we've got ginseng, a couple different types of ginseng actually, we've got panthenol, we've got allantoin. It's great for soothing, hydrating. Ginseng is a great antioxidant, anti-aging ingredient for your skin. So really lovely product overall. I will say this one I picked up from TJ Maxx has a little bit of a different scent than the original one, but the expiration date on it is not expired. However, the scent is off to this one, that's why I haven't dug into it more. So I am going to repick this one up from Yes Style because something's off with it."

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

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"Cosrx snail cream is a must-have. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it."

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"There's no denature drying types of alcohol, there's no fragrance, it has no real noticeable scent which is what I prefer. The texture is goopy, it's creamy, it's messy. A little bit of this one goes a long way to cover my whole face; one pump does more than enough. It's kind of slimy but it does soak in, and once it soaks in it sets to a slightly radiant finish so it gives your skin a little bit of a glow. If you have drier skin, I typically use this most often in my evening routine, but certain days in the morning when my skin's feeling dry I've used some actives during my evening routine it feels nice to use. But for oilier skin, I have a feeling that using this in your morning routine, especially if you're going to use it with sunscreen and anything else, it could be a bit over the top and a bit too much. It does take a little bit of time to soak in. If you have oily skin, using it at night is great, then you just let it soak in while you're sleeping. Once it soaks in it sets to a kind of radiant finish which is nice and glowy."

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"I probably wouldn't repurchase it again at full price but I would definitely purchase it again at the price I got it for."

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"This is the OG snail product. It's 18 bucks for 3.4 oz. A tube of this lasts a long time. 18 bucks might seem a little bit pricey, but this stuff lasts a long time. It's awesome. A little bit of it goes a long way. And it uses real snail mucin. Short ingredient list. Love this stuff. I've used it for a long time. Decade probably now. And if you haven't tried it, you are missing out."

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"The snail mucin product, which is kind of in a bigger container. It's absolutely wonderful."

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"The Cosrx Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence is on sale for $7.50. It's regularly $25."

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"It does not contain any denaturing drying types of alcohol, it's also fragrance free and has no real noticeable scent to it. It's more of a serum than an essence with a goopy texture similar to the CosRX snail cream, which is really nice. A little bit of it does not go a super long way unless you apply it over other serums and products. You want to apply this after cleansing, after your toner if you have one, and before thicker serums or moisturizers. It has a really nice finish and feels really silky on skin. It works well under most products, although with the exception of a few thicker sunscreens I found it can peel up a little bit. I don't know if it's from the glycerol or the sodium hyaluronate in here, but with a couple of thicker mineral sunscreens I used it with, I found it pilled a little bit, but it's not really a big issue. Once it soaks in it sets to a slightly radiant finish that is nice. I'm using it right now underneath my sunscreen and makeup and it sets to a non-sticky finish that is kind of shiny but not terribly radiant. Very nice, very easy to use, love the texture and the feel of it."

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"One more thing, no routine would be complete, at least no routine of mine would be complete without the snail cream. I love it and I like it because my eyelids get dry and I can use it there too."

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"This one combines two of my favorite ingredients azelaic acid and snail mucin. It's great for helping with rosacea prone skin, redness, pigmentation, dark spots, melasma. Snail mucin is great for hydrating and soothing and calming skin. This one's got it, the combination. So this one is an absolute winner. And it's $15 and a little bit goes a long way, it will last you for a long time."

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"This has been a love of mine for years. This stuff is amazing, it's super hydrating. I use it in my evening routine towards the end of it, and there's also times in the winter where sometimes my skin is so dry I use this in the morning. This stuff is a really nice formula. If you haven't tried snail mucin, it's worth trying."

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"The caser X allinone snail cream or Advanced snail cream in a tube worth checking out it's 18 bucks"

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"I don't see substantive discussion of COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence in this transcript window. The reviewer discusses a COSRX all-in-one snail cream, the Estera 365 Barrier cream, and other products, but does not review the Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence."

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"The CosRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence, the crazy thing is I sleep on my back so nothing dries off on the pillow or anything but when I wake up this will all be soaked in."

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"The COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence at 11 bucks, I love this stuff. I've been using it for a long time now. It's a great fragrance-free hydrating essence serum, great for soothing, great for repairing. It's wonderful. I use it a lot at night time and occasionally during the daytime when my skin gets really dry or it's really dry outside I will use this during my daytime routine. But it's really nice, wonderful product, snail mucin great for your skin."

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"I've repurchased this six times this year. I tend to go through it pretty quickly and it's just really nice, fragrance free, still pretty affordable. It has 1% copper peptides and tons of other good ingredients in here, so I really like it. It has a wonderful jelly liquid texture, soaks in really nicely, and it's friendly for most skin types."

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"I've been using it for the hydrating benefits, but I find it really beneficial for my skin if I stop using it. My skin kind of ends up looking more dry and has more texture, so I found using it at night is really wonderful. I'm really happy they repackaged it because it makes it so much more easy to use. It's goopy, so you don't have to get in that big jar, and it really makes it nice. I tend to use this in my evening routine as the last or second to last step."

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"I think I've got five or six of them, is galactomyces ferment filtrate, which is a byproduct of saki, uh, which is what the SK2 initially uses in, uh, their patera. So, it brightens skin up, especially dull skin."

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"The beauty of Jose Dynasty cream which is a newer formula the original formula of this had a little bit of fragrance in it this version has no scent to it which is really nice and no fragrance ingredients it's a really nice thick cream"

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"Snail mucin is awesome. It's lovely. If you haven't tried it, I'm not going to talk about too much more but I will link to the tube version. They have a jar version and a tube version, the tube version is what you want, it's much easier to use."

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"It really works well and it's really good at repairing the barrier and hydrating skin. If you didn't like it at first, there's a lot of people who found it too greasy initially but then ended up using it in their evening routine and they really like it."

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

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"I love this stuff, it's one I always have on hand and it's still pretty darn affordable."

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"The snail cream, I know this one's been around for a while because I've been using this one since I got interested in skin care. This has been a Holy Grail product for me. I use it at night every single night. This one's really wonderful, it's really calming and really soothing. Snail mucin is great for calming your skin, soothing it, wound healing, really great ingredient and perhaps even helping with anti-aging."

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"This has been a Holy Grail product for me. I use it at night every single night. This one's really wonderful, it's really calming and really soothing. Snail mucin is great for calming your skin, soothing it, wound healing, really great ingredient and perhaps even helping with anti-aging as well. So you can't beat that, really nice product, and now it comes in a tube so it's even better."

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"This one's been a Holy Grail product for me. I use it at night every single night. It's really wonderful, really calming and really soothing. Snail mucin is great for calming your skin, soothing it, wound healing, really great ingredient and perhaps even helping with anti-aging as well. So you can't beat that, really nice product, and now it comes in a tube so it's even better."

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"This has been a Holy Grail product for me. I use it at night every single night. This one's really wonderful, it's really calming and really soothing. Snail mucin is great for calming your skin, soothing it, wound healing, really great ingredient, and perhaps even helping with anti-aging as well. So you can't beat that, really nice product, and now it comes in a tube so it's even better."

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"This has been a Holy Grail product for me. I use it at night every single night. Snail mucin is great for calming your skin, soothing it, wound healing, really great ingredient and perhaps even helping with anti-aging as well. So you can't beat that, really nice product, and now it comes in a tube so it's even better."

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"The COSRX snail essence, I enjoyed this. It's a travel size I brought on my trip with me, really love it. I need to get some more little travel sizes like this because it's perfect for traveling and you don't have to carry the whole giant bottle with you. And if you haven't tried it, it's lovely too."

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"This is one I still use pretty much every night. I love this stuff. It has to be on my list because it's amazing. I still use it pretty much every night so it's still amazing. I still love it."

NIOD Superoxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist

"I like the fact that they used a tinted plastic to package this to protect the ingredients. However, the nozzle on this is terrible. It's awful. I don't know why they picked this nozzle, especially if they're working on it for 3 years. The nozzle is a main issue of this. It's not up to the quality of the old nozzle. A lot of other products that are much more affordable have a much better nozzle as well. There's no denatured drying types of alcohol. There's no fragrance ingredients, but this does have a distinct scent and it's not a pleasant scent, I would say. It's somewhat herbal. It does dissipate, but it makes using it not as pleasant as it could be. I'm not exactly sure which ingredient it's from. I don't know if it's from the ergoanine which may sometimes give products a sulfury scent or if it's a scent from the fermentation process, but it does have a strong scent. It does dissipate, but it does make it slightly unpleasant to use. Ease of use is my other main issue."

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"The directions state to use this morning and evening. For me, I typically will use this in the daytime. What I loved was using this midday to give my skin some moisture and refresh it. But this mist cannot be used over makeup at all because it is like a super soaker to the face. It is a highly concentrated mist versus a fine even mist. The mist is so uneven and nonfine that it makes it so I would almost rather this be a serum or a toner, because the mist is useless to me, especially if I spray it directly to my face then I still have to smooth it all over anyway. I'm very bummed with that. The previous mist was so fine I could just easily apply it any time of day over makeup, under makeup, nighttime, morning, whatever I wanted. But this one you really can only apply it on clean skin and pat it on with your hands. Unless you want to use a ton of it and just soak your face wet, but that's not the best option."

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"The mist is so uneven and nonfine that I would almost rather this be a serum or a toner, because the mist is useless to me. If I spray it directly to my face, I still have to smooth it all over anyway. The previous mist was so fine I could easily apply it any time of day over makeup, under makeup, nighttime, morning, whatever. But this one you really can only apply it on clean skin and pat it on with your hands. Unless you want to use a ton of it and just stop your face wet, but that's not the best option either. There's a definite downgrade in terms of usability. I like being able to use this in the morning and evening and over makeup, and this one does not give you that option at all. So it's a big bummer."

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"It's a good formula. Their execution is lacking in my opinion. It'd be much better packaged as a toner or a serum or something since the mist feature of it is terribly executed. Not a repurchase at this point. I give this one a five out of ten. They downgraded it big time. It was a great product and while they upgraded it, they downgraded at the same time."

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"With the 10 being a perfect score, I give this one a five. They downgraded it big time. It was a great product and while they upgraded it, they downgraded at the same time."

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"NIOD Super Oxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist won favorite face mist. The reviewer loves it, described it as amazing, and uses it every day."

Neoen Real Ferment Micro Essence

"The winner is the Neoen Real Ferment Micro Essence. Not the toner, the essence. The essence is fragrance-free. I think this is a two-time, maybe even three time award winner."

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"The winner is the Neoen Real Ferment Micro Essence. Not the toner, the essence. The essence is fragrance-free. I think this is a two-time, maybe even three time award winner."

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"This one I repurchased I believe this is my third bottle might be my fourth. In my opinion it's great for all skin types. It's got Buida ferment which is that soothing and hydrating ferment, Saccharomyces ferment and then also rice ferment so it's got three of the ones I love the most. It also contains a whole list of amino acids which are great for skin repairing as well. Love love love this stuff. I also love the serum version of this and I've repurchased that multiple times as well."

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"The Ferment Micro Essence has buffita ferment, saccharomyces ferment, saki ferment, green tea, and a whole ton of amino acids in it. It's really nice for your skin, great for hydrating skin, great for barrier repairing. Lots of good ferments in here which make it absolutely wonderful. It doesn't have any scent in it."

Mary and May Vegan Blackberry Complex Cream Essence

"The Mary and May Vegan Blackberry Complex Cream Essence is 20 bucks right now. It's got blackberry essence, centella, fig, camide, vitamin E. It's a really nice essence. You can pat it onto skin or use it with a cotton pad. It's a great antioxidant. It's still liquidy enough where if you wanted to, you could apply it with a cotton pad or you could just pat it on the skin. It's got no scent to it. I like this one from them. I like that lineup, too."

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Mix Soon 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."

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SKIN1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule

"My first experience with this brand was their Centella Ampule and their Centella toning toner, which was kind of right when I was starting to get really interested in K beauty stuff."

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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."

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"Tower 28 makes an SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray which in the main ingredient here is hypochlorous acid, which is an acid that fights bacteria in your skin and works to disinfect it. A lot of people have found this helps with breakouts, acne, and also some people found it helps with rosacea."

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"If you're prone to fungal acne, adding in a hypochlorous acid spray isn't a bad thing. Tower 28 has one. Just misting this on your skin once a day, that hypochlorous acid helps kill the things on our face that create an environment for acne, breakouts, fungal acne, things like that. So it can be a nice thing to add into your routine for spring or summer or maybe you always have it in there."

MISSHA Time Revolution First Treatment Essence

"This was one of the second product I ever got into when I got into K beauty. And that's the MISSHA Time Revolution First Treatment Essence. It's 23 bucks, so it's pretty affordable. The bottle is 150 milliliters. This one contains saccharomyces ferment, niacinamide, adenosine, and ceramide in there. You can pat it on, put it on with the toner, whatever you prefer. No scent, really affordable, lots of good ingredients in here and it really fits into any routine really easily."

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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."

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"SK-II Facial Treatment Essence retails for $190 for the original size. A little bit of it goes a long way so it lasts a long time, but $200 for a product is expensive."

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"It's a very simple yet beloved and legendary product. It's fermented ingredients and a lot of people love it for adding moisture and brightness to their skin but it's also very expensive."

VT PDRN Essence 100

"One of my favorite products and it's amazing and I repurchased that one many times. In terms of performance, 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 helps form a radiant skin moisture barrier and create a post-glow effect to provide healthy glow and elasticity to skin. I would say it helps with most of those benefits. Not exactly from the PDRN that they're naming the product off of, but more from the ceramides and the ginseng that they used. It's not super friendly for acne prone skin types. It has isopropyl myristate, polyglycerol, ceramide 3 dioleate, vitamin E, and squalane. 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."

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"The VT PDRN Essence uses 100,000 parts per million of low molecular ginseng derived PDRN, it's vegan, and it's enriched with five types of ceramides, polyglycolic acid, panthenol, squalane, and allantoin. It's a little bit more on the expensive side, but it's got a really nice serum kind of gel texture to it. A little bit of it goes a long way. They call it an essence, but it's more of a serum moisturizer I would call it. Very nice product and worth checking out."

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"With a 10 being a perfect score, I gave this one an eight. It's pricey and it's not the most original product, but it's a good one. And it does give your skin a nice feel. Very nice product overall. And I think a lot of people that have tested this have had really good luck."

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."

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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."

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Topicals Faded Mist

"Topicals Faded Mist is meant to be used on the body and this one has a lot more beneficial ingredients than this one. It contains COGIC 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."

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Tatcha Essence

"I absolutely love the Essence. I've repurchased this one multiple times. It's wonderful."

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"It's got saccharomyces ferment which is a great probiotic soothing ingredient, green tea ferment, and then it's got Okinawa algae. Algae are great for protecting your skin from especially light damage, UV, radiation, sun damage. Those are the main functionary ingredients of it. It's a wonderful essence. It's really expensive. If it were like 30 bucks, I'd probably still buy it. Really nice, really lovely, really light texture, but there's just so many other options. At this point, if I were going to spend 110 bucks on a toner, I would probably save the 110 bucks and put it towards something like the Skin Medicinca TNS serum or something that gets a little bit more beneficial ingredients. But it's still wonderful. Really liked it, used a lot, went through a lot of bottles of it."

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"I had a feeling it might not be for me but they came out with a small size a 2.5 oz 75ml bottle and I picked that one up and I thought it was a good chance to give it a try because I have had good luck with some Tatcha products. The sunscreens are great, the essence I really enjoy, some of the moisturizers are quite nice. Not everything from Tatcha is a total win but some of the primers and things like that have been really nice."

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"It currently retails for $110 for 5.1 ounces. It's got rice ferment, green tea, and Okinawa allergy. In my opinion today, compared to back in the day when this first came out, I personally don't think this one is as relevant anymore. I found an alternative that's $22, so it's like $88 less. The one thing that is nice about the Tatcha is the short ingredient list, but then again we're paying $110, it's a lot of money."

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"I absolutely love the Essence. I've repurchased this one multiple times. It's wonderful."

Dr. Ceuracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence

"The Dr. Ceuracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence at 26 bucks is really hydrating. It's very similar in my opinion to the Mary and May Idon Blackberry Complex Essence in terms of texture and hydration benefits. In the Dr. Ceuracle we've got green tea, we've got saccharomyces ferment, we've got centella, we've got fig. It's really hydrating and it's really good at repairing the barrier and hydrating skin. There are a lot of people who found it too greasy at first and then ended up using it in their evening routine and found they really like it. So if you didn't like it at first, I'd recommend giving it a second chance."

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Pharmacy Honey Milk 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. It doesn't have any scent that I noticed. It's got aloe, fermented honey, ceramide, chamomile, and panthenol."

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I'm From Mugwort Essence

"I'm From Mugwort Essence - I literally think it's mugwort that's the ingredient. I just didn't love it. A lot of people with acne-prone skin or irritated skin love mugwort, but I didn't notice any benefits from this one. I didn't get irritated from it, but I didn't notice anything great happening from it."

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"A lot of people absolutely love that essence, but it didn't do anything extraordinary. It didn't bother me either. It came in little bottles so it was convenient for travel."

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Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist

"Tatcha Silk Serum Retinol Alternative won the disappointing product award. The reviewer felt it was not an alternative for retinol or anything else of value, and questioned losing about 100 dollars on it."

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"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."

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"My main pick from Tatcha is their Luminous Dewy Skin Mist. I love it and it's 30 off. It's a steal in my opinion."

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"Very scented, very strongly scented with a lot of different fruit, a lot of different fragrances. In terms of exfoliation and smoothing, it just doesn't even touch other products at all. It's also ridiculously expensive, like a hundred dollars for the full size."

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Manyo Factory Bifida Biome Complex Ampoule

"The Manyo Factory Bifida Biome Complex Ampoule is really wonderful. It's a lot lighter feeling and it soaks in a little bit better and it's easier to fit in routine. It's got some similar ingredients but in my opinion the texture of this one is a lot lighter. It works well for a lot of people, and it's super affordable and it's cruelty-free so there's no guilt there at all."

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Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream Mist

"I use the Aestura Atobarrier 365 Cream Mist which is lovely and the mister on this is so fine it's amazing, feels so good. I love that stuff."

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Masks & Peels23 reviews

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."

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"It's kind of a mask cream. You want to use this in your evening routine. It's got 10% azelaic acid, 1% salicylic acid. Then it's also got ferulic acid, vitamin E, ceramides, rice bran, and pomegranate extract. So, it is really nice. If this one were more affordable, I'd repurchase it again. This is expensive, but it's pretty nice."

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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial Mask has azelaic acid 10% and 1% salicylic acid. It runs upwards of 64 bucks."

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"The Drunk Elephant Bouncy Bright Facial is 69 bucks and that one's got 10% azelaic acid, 1% salicylic acid, ceramides, vitamin E, squalane, marula oil. It's really nice, it's expensive. In my opinion, all these other ones I mentioned are also wonderful, so I don't necessarily need to spend a ton to have a nice azelaic acid product."

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"It's a very close dupe as well"

I'm from Honey mask

"I really love their I'm From Honey Mask. It's really nice. Uh if you haven't tried it, really nice face mask."

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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."

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"I really enjoy this one. It absorbs oil but it also does a nice job with a little bit of exfoliation physically and chemically. I've already got a backup of it."

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"The salicylic acid two percent mask is amazing, it's really wonderful. It's charcoal, so it applies like a big thick heavy charcoal base, but it's got some salicylic acid in there. You leave it on for a few minutes, rinse it off, and your skin feels really really really nice. This is my favorite."

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"It comes out black and it's got salicylic acid and charcoal in there and it actually is very gentle and exfoliating. You can apply it to your skin in your evening routine, applying to wet skin and not leaving it on for more than 10 minutes. I typically leave it on for like five or six minutes and then rinse it off and it's a nice gentle exfoliant that leaves your skin feeling soft and smooth. The salicylic acid in there occasionally is a nice exfoliant that leaves your skin nice and glowing and soft. It's 13 bucks and it's really nice."

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"This is just a rinse off clarifying mask with 2% salicylic acid in there, it also has Kaolin in there and squalane. When you dispense it, it looks almost like a charcoal mask, and then you rinse it off and your skin feels really nice and soft. I repurchased this, this is probably my fourth bottle of it, so it's one of my favorites because it's super affordable. Some masks you can spend upwards of 100 more on, and for something you're going to rinse off, save money on that and spend money on a good sunscreen or a good moisturizer that you like, because it doesn't spend much time on your skin and it goes down the drain in the end, just like cleanser."

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"It's a charcoal based mask. It's 14 bucks. It's got salicylic acid, kaolin, squalane, and then charcoal powder. So it's meant to be oil absorbing as well. So it kind of soaks up all the oils on your skin and just leaves skin feeling nice and clean. It's got a little bit of a grit to it, but not too much. I usually leave it on for five minutes. Use once or twice a week."

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"Their salicylic acid mask is really nice. It's charcoal and salicylic acid, and it kind of does a nice job gently exfoliating skin without being too harsh."

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"This one's fragrance free, alcohol-free. It's a charcoal and kale based mask. So this makes it great for oilier skin as well as acne prone skin. It's got a small amount of salicylic acid at the amount of 2%. You apply it to your skin. It's very dark. You leave it on your skin for about 10 minutes and then rinse it off and your skin feels nice and soft and exfoliated but not dry or anything like that. A lot of charcoal or kale based masks will leave your skin feeling dry. This one doesn't do that. I've repurchased it three or four times now and it is wonderful."

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."

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"It's really soothing. It does have grapefruit extract in it. It doesn't have a scent, however if your skin is super super sensitive keep that in mind there's no scent but it is in there. I probably wish they would have just left it out but anyway worth checking out for most people especially oily or dry skin."

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Polish Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"This one's their 2% BHA liquid exfoliant. It just uses 2% salicylic acid and it's a liquid toner. You can apply it with a cotton pad or you can just pat it on the skin. This would be great for people who have acne prone skin, 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."

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"A bottle like this will last you six, five, six months if you use it at night, so a little bit goes a long way. You can put it on a cotton pad if you want, but if you just pat it on the skin like you would a serum, you still get the good benefits. There's a lot of dupes and alternatives to it, however this one in my opinion is still relevant and still works well for a lot of people. It's not crazy price, it's expensive but it does last a long time."

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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."

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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."

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"Their leave-in conditioner mask is nice. One thing I want to mention, I haven't repurchased this more than a couple times because I use such a small amount of this. The bottle is 1.7 oz, so I literally use almost a pea size, which I can't get away with doing almost pea size with almost anything, but with this one it works well. It's the K18 hair mask, it's really nice. It's expensive, but literally I've been working on this bottle for probably a year now. So it would be repurchased if I used a ton of it at a time, which I don't. It's very nice and I like to use a good clarifying shampoo before this because I feel like it soaks in more and works better. So it's just a leave-in product, so you rinse with shampoo, don't apply conditioner, and then apply this."

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"The K18 hair mask is always very expensive in Canada, it's over a hundred dollars for this mask. I got this for my hair stylist for I think 50 bucks which I thought was a lot. I mean it does last a long time because you use such a small amount, but 101 dollars for a hair mask, I mean it's a good thing it's a good product, but there's no way I could ever justify a hundred one dollars for a hair mask. I mean the ingredients in here aren't like anything. I mean sure they had to do research and development things like that, but something just in there in my gut thing makes me think there's something else going on there."

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."

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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."

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"The initial version of it had peppermint oil or was it corn mint oil, almost same difference, and a lot of people are irritated by it. Now this version is fragrance-free and unscented and now it's nice and hydrating. You can use it as a rinse off mask, you can use it as a sleeping mask, you can use it as a moisturizer. It's very, very nice. It's a little bit pricey. The fact that they changed this formula made it usable for me, whereas the initial product I think I actually returned it because it was just irritating."

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"It does get very hydrating so I don't necessarily find it's great during the daytime per se but in the night time it has so many great benefits for your skin. This is the Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask. They've reformulated it. The initial formula, people had complaints, irritations. I think most of it was about the peppermint oil that was in there. This newest version has no fragrance in it, has no scent. They've taken out those irritating ingredients and they've left us with a really great product. The ingredients in here are great. It is kind of on the thick side but I really enjoy it and I've repurchased it multiple times. I can't remember what number bottle I'm on but I really like this. I'll use it as a mask, sometimes I'll use it as a sleeping mask, sometimes I just use it as a moisturizer to hydrate my skin so it's really nice. I'm glad that they reformulated because the first version was so close to being a winner and then that little bit of peppermint oil was irritating."

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"The jet lag mask is wonderful and it's a pretty good deal if you can get it for 20% off."

Beauty of Joseon Apricot Blossom Peeling Gel

"This is their apricot blossom peeling gel, which is a super gentle physical exfoliant type scrub. You apply it to wet skin, and it's just a very gentle physical exfoliant compared to like harsh scrubs or harsh powders. Super gentle. So, if you haven't tried it, at first I did not like these types of exfoliants. Uh, and it finally took me a few years to warm up to them and now kind of appreciate them and their gentleness without being too harsh or scrubby. So, I do like that."

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COSRX BHA Blackhead Power Liquid

"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."

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Cosrx AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner

"The Geek and gorgeous aame serums are very nice"

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"The Geek and gorgeous aame serums are very nice"

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"This is the Cosrx AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner which is 19 bucks. So in here we've obviously got AHA and BHA which is great for so many things. I love it, 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 and dark spots. My acne got a lot better when I started using this. I highly recommend everyone try AHA and BHA at least once. And this one also has some nice ingredients like snail mucin, centella, niacinamide. Wonderful product from Cosrx and pretty affordable as well."

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant

"Paula's Choice 2% BHA liquid has been around forever and this is a holy grail for so many people. It's really great for acne prone skin preventing breakouts. Use it in your evening routine. It's still relatively affordable. You can just pat it on skin in your evening routine after cleansing or you can use a cotton pad. It's really nice just to prevent breakouts. I know a lot of people swear by it. It's still been around forever and still a great product. The pH is spot on, there's no fragrance in it, it's great for sensitive skin types as well."

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"Polish Choice has so many great products"

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"For acne prone skin, blackhead prone skin, milia prone skin, this is great. The bottle's gigantic, four ounces, and a little bit of it goes a long way, so this bottle will last you if you use it every night, I'd say last six months. It might look a little pricey at first, but it's really affordable and well formulated with proper pH and a good percentage of BHA. In my opinion this one deserves the hype. It is the real deal. If you have acne prone skin, I think it's worth considering trying this, especially on a price basis, because a little bit goes a long way and you've got a super big bottle."

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"Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant is currently $35 for 4 oz and it's pretty expensive. It used to be 19 bucks back in the day. A little bit goes a long way though, if you just pat this on your skin it'll last a while. But still, if you can save money you might as well. The main ingredient is 2% salicylic acid."

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"You can just pat it on skin in your evening routine after cleansing or you can use a cotton pad. It's really nice just to prevent breakouts and things like that. I know a lot of people swear by it. The pH is spot on, there's no fragrance in it, and it's great for sensitive skin types as well. It's still relatively affordable and it's been around forever and still a great product."

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"Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exiliant is one of the holy grails. It's 4 ounces for 37 bucks, so it's actually not terribly expensive when you figure that 4 ounces of a liquid exfoliant, you can just pat this onto skin or use a cotton pad. The main two ingredients are salicylic acid and green tea. It's got a rather short ingredient list, but I've got a very close dupe and that is the Walgreens 2% BHA liquid exfoliant, which is also got 2% BHA, salicylic acid to fight blackheads and acne, has a pretty short ingredient list and it's got the proper pH. They're very similar."

The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution

"Their AHA BHA peel I don't love it, it's way too harsh for me."

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"They have another peeling product that people absolutely love, the AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution. It's very strong. I have not repurchased this one because my skin didn't like it so much, but a lot of people absolutely love it and use it regularly, or some people use it on their heels of their feet. I've read they have a lot of interesting different uses for it."

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"The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution, the red peel they call it, this stuff was one of the first products from the Ordinary I tried and this stuff irritated my skin, it burned my skin, it left my skin feeling dry and I hated it. I'm somebody that exfoliates a few times a week so maybe if you don't do that maybe this works better, I don't know, but I just wouldn't really want to put it on my baby soft cheeks."

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"Their AHA BHA peel I don't love it, it's way too harsh for me."

LED mask

"I use I love my LED mask I think it's great."

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

"It does not contain any of those drying types of alcohol, it has no fragrance and no noticeable scent to it."

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

"It does not contain any of those drying types of alcohol, it has no fragrance and no noticeable scent to it."

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

"This product promises to improve sun damage, improve dullness and fine lines, reverse a compromised skin barrier, renew skin below the surface for healthier cell turnover and radiance, and be gentle and effective for all skin types. I agree with a lot of those, but I don't think this will reverse a compromised skin barrier. I don't think adding exfoliance onto a compromised skin barrier is a great idea. Typically if your barrier is damaged, I recommend not using any actives or exfoliants or retinoids, things that could irritate it. I don't think this will do that. It will help with skin cell turnover and things like that. It is pretty effective. It's more gentle than some exfoliants and less gentle than others. It delivers on some of those promises for the most part but not all of them. It will definitely help with anti-aging and things like that. It's pretty friendly for all skin types including acne-prone skin, which is wonderful. No issues at all with that. This product is 3.8 ounces at 37 dollars, putting it on the cusp of being too pricey."

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

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

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"So with a 10 being a perfect score this one an eight"

Bubble Moonwalk Gentle Exfoliating Serum

"For what this promises it promises to soften skin for delicate exfoliation improve the look of congested pores hyperpigmentation patches of uneven skin after just one night it basically doesn't deliver on any of those really. It's delicate because the pH is off so they've got that going for them, almost nothing will work in one night, maybe a very strong peel that you could do in a dermatologist office might work in one night but this definitely doesn't. I didn't really notice benefits."

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"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."

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."

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67%of gurus approve

PSA Skin Follow the Light Mask

"It's 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's got glutathione, 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."

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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."

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"It promises that it's going to be smoothing, hydrating, soothing, and brightening. I think this delivers on hydrating benefits, but there wasn't enough in here to brighten skin. There's a couple of ingredients in there to soothe it, but they're far down and not a lot of them. I wasn't totally disappointed, I just wasn't overly impressed. I didn't really notice any additional benefits in my routine. For acne-prone skin, it's not the most friendly product. We've got squalane, we've got ceto alcohol, we've got glycerol stearate, we've got stearic acid, hexylene glycol, and isostearate, so six acnegenic ingredients in a short product list. For acne-prone skin, I'd probably avoid this at this point. The price is pretty good, this is 1.7 ounces, 50 milliliters, and retails for about $20. I wasn't overly impressed. I didn't hate it. I'll definitely finish it, but I wouldn't repurchase it."

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"I really like this. I like the texture if you're somebody that applies a lot of layers before this one's really easy to apply at the end of it because the texture of it is kind of a lotiony texture as opposed to like a super heavy thick cream so that's nice, you can just add it on at the end of your routine. The only thing I dislike about this is it does have a fragrant essential oil in it. It's not super strong, the scent isn't terribly noticeable and does dissipate, but it is there so if you're sensitive to scents that might be a pass. But otherwise it's a super affordable brand and most of their stuff is fragrance free or unscented which is nice."

Cosrx AHA BHA PHA LHA 35 Peel

"Cosrx released a peel that's actually a little bit stronger than The Ordinary. They say it's 35% peel with AHA, BHA, PHA, and LHA so you've got all of them going on here. The one from The Ordinary is 3% AHA and 2% BHA. However, I will mention that the LHA and PHA in here are going to be super gentle, much more gentle than 30% AHAs. They recommend using it once a week, but if you use exfoliants regularly, I think you're better off using exfoliants a few times a week instead of just doing it once a week. It comes in a plastic tube and it's not coming out very easily."

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60%of gurus approve

St. Ives Apricot Scrub

"Saint Ives came up for its scrubs as one of the worst skincare brands for sensitive skin."

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Geek and Gorgeous Calm Down Exfoliant

"my favorite exfoliant from them the Calm Down. Their other exfoliants are amazing too."

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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."

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"The one I've played with the most so far is the one from The Ordinary. It's really nice. Overall it's really nice and I think it's like 15 bucks. So keep that in mind though because it's 15 bucks but you get half an ounce as opposed to where these are double the size. So sometimes you got to do the math with The Ordinary because sometimes it looks really really affordable and then when you factor in it's kind of little, it's not quite as affordable."

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"The Ordinary retinal emulsion [was nominated for best retinoid]."

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"The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion has 0.2% retinal and it's great for people looking for something strong but might not be ready for tretinoin or maybe you don't want to go through the hassle of getting a prescription. This is probably going to be one of your next best options. It certainly won't hurt, and otherwise it should help my skin, help fade wrinkles, help smooth skin. I think adding this into my routine, my skin certainly has firmed up a bit and helped tighten it as well. For the price, this is 30ml and retails for $23, which makes it pretty affordable. The closest dupe is The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion, which also has 0.2% retinal, and while it looks more affordable at $14 or $15, it's half the size of this, so you have to double that price and then it ends up being more expensive."

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"The Ordinary Retinal Emulsion, which uses 2% retinal, makes it a lot stronger. This one's really nice. Retinal is stronger than retinol, it's right up there, not as strong as tretinoin, but it's the next up, right underneath tretinoin. It's stronger than retinol and much stronger than all of those retinol derivatives like HPR. When it comes to anti-aging, retinol, retinal, and tretinoin are all great."

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"The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion is great. It increases cell turnover and with that brightens up skin. So that'd be another something to use at night. And alternating with retinoids and exfoliants, not using them together."

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"The Ordinary Retinol Emulsion, that's great too. You can't go wrong with them."

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"The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion contains 0.2% retinal, which is one of the stronger retinoids. It also has bisabolol in it and ginger root extract and vitamin E for soothing. It is on the more affordable side, though keep in mind this is 2/3 of an ounce. If you compare it to other retinals at 1 oz, they end up being pretty close priced, but this one's nice also for travel."

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"The Ordinary Retinal Emulsion also has 0.2% retinal. It contains a sensitive, which is an ingredient molecule that stops the reaction of feeling of stinging and burning sensation on your skin. So if you use something that's really irritating, this ingredient kind of stops it in its tracks. It also contains ginger root, which is going to be beneficial for your skin. The Ordinary may look cheaper, however if you compare it on a price per milliliter, it ends up being a consideration because the one from The Ordinary is a very tiny bottle, it's half the size, so if you're going to compare the prices, take that into account."

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"The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion, this one's 15 bucks, it is a smaller size of a bottle, half an ounce. If you're just looking for something where you're able to use just a tiny pea-size amount, it's really nice. It's also nice for travel as well, it's just a nice small compact little tube. It's got 0.2% retinal in there so it's great for anti-aging."

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"The Ordinary came with their Retinal 0.2% Emulsion which is very nice as well. The bottle is a little bit tiny but it's a weaker version at 0.2%, so it's a very nice serum. I've tested it and reviewed it recently and it's still really nice product."

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"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."

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"The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion feels a little bit more greasy, a little bit more hydrating. It does help with fine lines and wrinkles. The morning after I apply this one, my skin looks smooth, a little bit smoother. Skin tone is improved. After using this for a few months, I didn't notice as much benefit with wrinkles and fine lines as I did with another retinol product, but the active, the retinal, is the same in both. I didn't have issues with dryness or flakiness with it, which was nice. The performance really is subjective and the benefits are going to be in general very similar."

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"The Ordinary Retinal 0.2% Emulsion is very strong, so even if you're experienced with retinoids I recommend starting out very slowly with this one. It has oat and vitamin E in it. It's very nice and layers on nicely. I've been using it, and I've noticed my face around my mouth is getting more and more droopy and saggy looking, so I've been using this especially around those areas."

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"It's in between the retinol and retinoid acid, so it's strong, not as strong as tretinoin and stronger than retinol. It's proven to help with wrinkles, fine lines, firmer skin, more elastic skin. It is fluorescent yellow so you're going to want to use this at night anyway. Very nice product, strong though, so if you're not familiar with retinoids, start slow and use a good hydrating product with it. This one is my favorite."

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"It's got a lot to do a lot to like about it. It's pretty nice product. Definitely will finish it. I do like the fact that it's a little bit bigger packaging. Yeah, and it's pretty darn nice and it's a good product overall."

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"The Ordinary Retinal Emulsion is great, it contains 2% retinal, which is a great strong retinoid vitamin A. You can't go wrong with it."

Peach and 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."

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"The Peach and Lily Retinol for All is a great one. It's a little bit more expensive, but these products are amazing. If you don't use retinol, it's worth incorporating into your routine, maybe a couple nights a week switching up with other products. Retinoids are great for your skin, it's vitamin A basically and it helps your skin firm up and it helps it re-heal and things like that."

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"A little bit of it goes a long way. I'll use it right after my toner and before my moisturizer. It works great paired with their Retinol for All. In the winter this will be nice because my skin gets pretty dry in the winter. Beneficial ingredients in this one include hydrolyzed rice protein, which is an emollient that helps with skin barrier repair and plumps the skin, also helps soothe redness. We've got soybean protein which is an emollient. We've got verselin which is a proteoglycan that's involved in maintaining elastic fibers. Helps firm skin and boost elasticity. It helps plump skin by helping skin hold on to water and may reduce the appearance and depth of wrinkles which is an amazing ingredient. We've got centella which is an antioxidant soothing ingredient."

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"the Retinol for All Serum is totally underrated. It is on the expensive side, so now it's half off."

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."

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Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Night Retinol Serum

"Overall with a 10 being a perfect score, I gave this one an eight. Definitely finish it. Probably wouldn't repurchase it. There's so many other similar products to this, but it is still pretty travel friendly and pretty affordable. The nice thing is it's actually vegan and cruelty-free, so that gives it a little bit of an advantage compared to some of the other products."

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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 got 1% retinol, which is 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. This one would be a nice nighttime oil with a nice oil texture to it. 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."

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"Their retinol one percent in squalane I've repurchased a few times and it's really wonderful. I use tretinoin or prescription retinoids, but I slowly work my way up using products like this. The retinol and squalane is a little heavy, but if you're using it in your evening routine it doesn't become as big of a deal because you're going to sleep usually after you do your evening routine, so the aesthetic feel of it in my evening routine isn't as big of a deal as opposed to if it were in my morning routine."

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The Ordinary Retinol

"The Ordinary is a great brand that is affordable and effective and they've got a retinol. When I don't use it for a couple weeks and I go back to using it, my skin looks much better within a day."

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"The Ordinary is a lot of ones that are really nice and moisturizing so you don't end up with super dry skin because if you use a too strong a retinol on skin that's not used to it or acclimated to it it can cause some issues like redness, flakiness, dryness things like that. So start out slow."

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"The Ordinary is a great brand that is affordable and effective and they've got a retinol. When I don't use it for a couple weeks and I go back to using it, my skin looks much better within a day."

Differin Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"If you're in the US, you can get this over the counter now. It's fragrance-free. This size tube will be 33 bucks, but nowadays a lot of stores have their generic versions of it, which are about half the price, and the formulas are the same. It contains adapalene, which basically helps to fight acne as well as dead skin cell formation, which helps prevent breakouts and may help with skin tone and texture as well. It's got a pretty simple formula with like five ingredients: adapalene, a preservative, and some type of purified water and things like that. Some people have found this to be on the harsh side, so I'd recommend sandwiching it in between moisturizers if you can. Apply a nice light moisturizer, apply your retinoid product, and then apply a thicker cream to help prevent dryness and things like that."

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"The Differin Adapalene Gel, they also have this in generic forms, La Roche-Posay has their own form, Walgreens has their own version of it, so you don't necessarily have to buy Differin, but I think for a while Differin was the main game in town. It's adapalene, it's great for acne. I typically use this one more for anti-aging purposes, although adapalene hasn't been researched a ton for that, but I found it very helpful. For so many years the Differin did a nice job for me. So if you, it's hard to get a prescription or something like that, the Differin is a great one to try, especially for breakouts and pores and things like that. I recommend it. It's still very affordable, a little bit goes a long way, and it's wonderful."

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"Adapalene is the star of the show and I was able to add this in without any dryness. But if you have dry prone skin start out slow and use a good moisturizer with it to prevent flakiness and irritation. If you've used other retinoids in the past it probably won't be an issue, at least it wasn't for me. This one is definitely worth a try, especially if in the US it's easier to get. For some places it requires a prescription still."

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"This one feels really nice and very hydrating. If you're new to retinol, this one might be a nice way to get started. I've really been loving using it at night, and out of all the new goodies, I think this one's my favorite so far."

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Glow Recipe Blackberry Retinol Blemish Serum

"The Glow Recipe Blackberry Retinol Blemish Serum is really nice. It's just a gentle retinoid serum, but it does contain ectoin in it. It does have a little bit of fragrance in it, but that's neither here nor there."

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"It feels light enough and played well with the other products I was using it with. I like the combination of different retinoids and retinal. Glow Recipe is interesting because I really don't like fragrance in most of my stuff, but Glow Recipe tends to be an exception because typically with fragrance irritates me, it's usually the minty scent or the floral scent that really bothers me and can give me migraines. But if it's a fruit scent or a vanilla scent, usually I'm just fine with that. Glow Recipe has managed to be an exception to that. Although typically most of their stuff is pretty expensive and they're more about the cutesy packaging and the marketing, so you can probably get something very similar for much less without the fun packaging. But some people love it, and if it works for you, go for it. So far this one fared better than the other retinol I bought recently, which irritated my skin so much."

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"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."

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May Love Moonlight Retinal Super Serum

"The May Love Moonlight Retinal Super 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 0.11% retinyl aldehyde, also contains cloudberry seed oil and green tea."

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"The May Love Moonlight Retinal Super 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 0.11% retinaldehyde, and it also contains sea buckthorn cloudberry seed oil and green tea."

Aesop Retinal 0.1%

"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."

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The Ordinary Retinol 0.2% in Squalane

"It's a decent retinoid. It's got a lot to like but it's pretty pricey, especially with the new packaging. Overall it'll be nice for most skin types I think could handle using this pretty easily even though it's newer to retinoids."

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CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum

"The CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum is really nice. They have a couple different retinol products, and this one is my favorite, especially if you suffer from hyperpigmentation issues. It can help with brightening skin up, and the retinoids in here are great for anti-aging as well."

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"This one's got retinol, will help brighten your skin as well as great for anti-aging and preventing breakouts, and then it's good for dark spots and hyperpigmentation issues as well because it contains licorice root as well as niacinamide as well as several ceramides, which is kind of their hook. This stuff is really wonderful and really affordable. If you're an experienced retinol user, I would probably recommend something stronger, but if you're newer to retinoids or looking for help with dark spots and things like that, this is a great two-in-one type serum."

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"Both the ones from CeraVe are really good, the Skin Renewing Retinol Serum or the Resurfacing Retinol Serum, they're both good and very affordable."

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"The CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum is really nice. They have a couple different retinol products and this one is my favorite, especially if you suffer from hyperpigmentation issues. It can help with brightening skin up, and the retinoids in here are great for anti-aging as well. I have two different retinoid products and this is my favorite of the two."

A313 Vitamin A Pommade

"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."

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Bioma Sensitive Retinol Oil

"This is the Bioma Sensitive Retinol Oil, it's $19. If you have older skin or 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 HPR which is very, very, very gentle. It also has squalane in here, it's really nice, really affordable, no scent to it."

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CeraVe Skin Renewing Retinol Serum

"The ones from CeraVe are really good. The Skin Renewing Retinol Serum or the Resurfacing Retinol Serum, they're both good and very affordable."

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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."

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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."

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Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body and Face Lotion

"Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body and Face Lotion - I typically use this one more on my body but I do use this on my face occasionally. It's really nice, it has no fragrance and it's super hydrating. Gold Bond is cruelty free and you can't beat the price. It's got some peptides in there, vitamin E, phytosterols, jojoba oil, sodium PCA. It's a state of the art formula for what it is, really, and for the price, cannot beat it."

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Allies of Skin Retinol 0.05% and 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."

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The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 2% Emulsion

"In terms of retinoids they have several different retinoids that I've repurchased and the Granactive Retinoid 2% Emulsion is one of them. I've repurchased both of these a few times and they're really wonderful. If you're using your evening routine it doesn't become as big of a deal because you're going to sleep usually after you do your evening routine."

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"This one's great for people that have sensitive skin types or haven't used a lot of retinoids before. It doesn't have a super long ingredient list, which is nice, and it's got a couple of antioxidants and retinoids that help with aging. If you're new to retinoids, it's nice. If you're experienced with using lots of retinoids, then I would probably pass on it and get something else."

Aveeno Retinol

"I'm giving them the Aveeno Retinol, it's also really wonderful. It's very hydrating, contains some nice soothing ingredients, so if you're looking for some nice anti-aging, this is really nice."

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Numbuzin No.9 NAD+PDRN Glow Boosting Toner

"This one's great for brightening skin. It's fragrance free. It's alcohol free. It does have a little bit of a thicker texture to it. So to me it feels more like a lotion than a toner, but it contains the sim white antioxidant which is just an antioxidant known for brightening skin up. It's got tranexamic acid, another brightening ingredient. Alpha lipoic acid, brightening ingredient. Aloe glucosamine, brightening ingredient. We've got vitamin B12, which is a great soothing and hydrating ingredient. We've got ectoine, which is great for everything. Soothing, protecting, regenerating skin, brightening skin, hydrating skin. It does everything literally. And then last but not least, we got a scalable glucoside and licorice root."

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"My skin has a nice glow after I use it. It's very unique. I cannot find any close dupes or alternatives at all to this one. If you want something with NAD plus, resveratrol, and 50 peptides, this is it. I love the inclusion of 50 peptides even in small amounts. I'm a big fan of exposing your skin to as much of these ingredients that are beneficial. Unless you have very reactive skin, definitely do a patch test with the TBU alcohol. But overall, great product and I gave it a 9 out of 10. It's really wonderful. Definitely will finish it and certainly will repurchase it."

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"I love the inclusion of 50 peptides even in small amounts. I'm a big fan of exposing your skin to as much of these ingredients that are beneficial. Unless you have very reactive skin, definitely do a patch test with the TBU alcohol. It's something to keep in mind to do a patch test. But overall, great product and I gave it a 9 out of 10. It's really wonderful. Definitely will finish it. Certainly will repurchase it."

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"I love this lineup from Numbuzin. Their number nine NAD+ PDRN boosting products. This is their toner. They're wonderful. They contain over 50 different peptides in small amounts. I just noticed my skin looks so plump after I use it. This morning for my routine, I cleansed, applied this as a toner, applied the essence as a serum, sunscreen, foundation, and my skin feels really nice right now and hydrated. I think this will be a real winner on really cold winter nights because your skin, after you applied it, instantly it looks plumped up and feels better, smoother, all that good stuff."

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"I just love it so much. It's just such a great combination of ingredients. I was a little surprised or taken aback when I saw the alcohol in the toner, but I probably would have still bought it anyway. It feels really nice though and it's not drying. It has no real scent to it which makes it a winner. It's actually pretty hydrating. I would say it feels pretty nice on your skin. It's got 50 different peptides, NAD plus PDRN plus 50 different peptides. In here we've got turmeric, we've got resveratrol, and then we've got a lot of different peptides. Most noticeably argalene is in there, adenosine is a great peptide, and I think copper peptide is in here."

Isntree Vegan yam root milk toner

"It's got yam root extract, which is great for hydrating skin. It's a plant-based alternative to snail mucin. Panthanol for soothing. Argan oil. Macadamia nut oil. Great fatty oils. Camide. Sweet almond extract. Oat kernel. Really wonderful. Milky toner as well."

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"The Isntree Vegan Yam Root Milk Toner is a little thicker than the average toner. It's got yam root, which in my opinion is very similar in a lot of ways to snail mucin. If you want some of the benefits from hydration as snail mucin but you're vegan or you don't like snail mucin, yam is a good alternative. It's got a nice kind of milky finish. It's a little bit pricey, but if you get it on sale it's a really good deal. It's fragrance free, really ends up feeling nicely hydrating on your skin and calming, with a non-greasy finish. I would say this is geared towards drier skin types but it has a non-sticky, non-greasy finish which is really nice."

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"The Isntree Vegan Yam Root Milk Toner, currently 13 bucks. In my opinion this one's best for dry to extremely dry skin. It's got a nice thick texture. So in here we've got yam root which is, for those curious, yam root is kind of nature's plant alternative to snail mucin in terms of how it benefits the skin and hydrates the skin. We've got panthenol, great for dry to very dry skin. I don't use this one so much during the summer, but when winter comes I've been loving it, as well as the moisturizer from that lineup."

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"It's got a milky texture to it which is quite nice. I've been using this a lot in my morning routine and evening routine and it's really nice. You can use it with a cotton pad and smooth it over your face or you can use it more like an essence and pat it onto your skin, either way it is great. I prefer using it with a cotton pad. The texture of this stuff is wonderful. I like the milky texture this has and it just feels nice and soothing and calming when you apply it to skin. You can certainly use this morning or evening routine, doesn't matter whatever is easiest for you, cotton pad or no cotton pad, you can use it like a toner or as an essence or both and it's just great. It's cruelty free as well as vegan, so that's wonderful."

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"The Isntree vegan yam root milk toner is really nice. If you're vegan and you prefer not to use snail mucin, yam root extract is nature's alternative or dupe to it. It's very similar in terms of the hydration and minerals it offers. We've got yam root in here, we've got panthenol, we've got argan oil, we've got ceramides, and we've got oat extract. It's really lovely. This whole line is quite nice, the cleanser at first I disliked it but I really end up loving it, the cream also wonderful, just great all around line from Isntree. They rarely let me down and they have not yet."

I'm From Rice Toner

"This one's got rice extract, a great soothing ingredient. It's got squalane, which is a wonderful antioxidant, rice bran extract, and then it's also got an extract which is a hydrating humectant ingredient. This stuff is really nice and pretty wonderful and pretty affordable. It works well for a lot of people. So it seems to be a winner."

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"I prefer the I'm From just a little bit because it's less tacky and I like the finish a little bit more once it sets."

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"I think when it comes down to rice being the title of both of these products, the fact that I'm From has more of the rice in its formula, I end up liking that one a little bit more. I like the I'm From more. It's a little bit more unique and I really like it, it's just a little bit more hydrating but doesn't feel greasy or sticky. I really like the I'm From, so it's really nice."

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"The I'm From Rice Toner is a classic. It's versatile and wonderful. I've repurchased this one a handful of times now. They're both affordable and you can't go wrong with it, but it just comes down on what your skin type is and what other products you use and when you use it."

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"The I'm From Rice Toner has a nice texture, it's just liquid toner. You can pat it onto skin or apply it with a cotton pad. A little bit goes a long way if you're going to pat it on the skin. It's very emollient. My skin prefers this at night. Sometimes, especially in the summer, if I use this in the morning, it ends up being a little too emollient and a little too hydrating for my skin, especially if I pat it on. But if I use it with a cotton pad, that's not as big of an issue."

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"The I'm From Rice Toner is a classic. I've repurchased this one a handful of times now. They're both wonderful and affordable."

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"I'm on my second or third bottle of it. It's 19 bucks, great for acne, oily and sensitive skin types. We've got rice, we've got niacinamide, purain, great antioxidant, then extract, which is another great skin conditioning ingredient and an antioxidant. This one's nice. This one is probably the original of all of these. I think they did so good with it that that's why everybody else decided to follow suit."

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"This is one of the few toners I've repurchased. It's the I'm From Rice Toner, it's 19 bucks and it's got a minimal ingredient list. Rice extract which is great for soothing, purling great soothing antioxidant, and then we've also got rice bran extract and some other emulsifying and hydrating ingredients in here. It's really nice, really minimal, no fragrance, great for sensitive skin, really hydrating. You can apply with a cotton pad or you could just pat it on your skin, whichever you prefer."

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"It's really easy to fit into both morning and evening routines. It gives you some nice hydration without looking or feeling greasy. It promises to brighten up skin while giving it moisture, but it does lack some other than the rice, it lacks some really science-driven brightening ingredients. But otherwise it hydrates skin and leaves it feeling nice and soft and ready for the next step and works well for most skin types. The texture of it makes it work well for morning and evening, gives skin moisture while not looking or feeling greasy."

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"It's really easy to fit into both morning and evening routines. It gives you some nice hydration without looking or feeling greasy. It promises to brighten up skin while giving it moisture, but it does lack some really science-driven brightening ingredients. Otherwise it hydrates skin and leaves it feeling nice and soft and ready for the next step. It works well for most skin types. The texture of it makes it work well for morning and evening, gives skin moisture while not feeling greasy on the skin. Great for those with weakened skin barrier, those who use a lot of actives."

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"I'm from Rice toner another repurchase of this one I absolutely love it. I come back to this one because I love it because it's super hydrating. I like using it during the winter time and it's really nice for that. Pretty calming short ingredient list no fragrance it's really nice."

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"I like the I'm From, it's really easy to fit into both morning and evening routines. It gives you some nice hydration without looking or feeling greasy. It promises to brighten up skin while giving it moisture, but it does lack some other than the rice, it lacks some really science-driven brightening ingredients. But otherwise it hydrates skin and leaves it feeling nice and soft and ready for the next step and works well for most skin types."

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"It's the I'm From Rice Toner, and I've repurchased it. So 19 bucks. In here we've got rice extract, we've got niacinamide, we've got percan, we've got adenosine. The first bottle I went through I thought it was a little bit on the too hydrating side. When I started testing this most recent bottle it wasn't as hydrating or greasy as I remembered feeling. So I just think it works well for most skin types."

Peach Slices Snail Rescue Blemish Busting Toner

"Peach Slices snail rescue blemish busting toner, it's $13.99. It's a hydrating toner. It's got snail mucin. It's got hyaluronic acid. And it's got Centella in there for soothing and antioxidant benefits. And snail mucin is so hydrating for your skin. So if you haven't tried it and you've got drier skin, I would consider this more of their hydration line. I'm on my third bottle of it now."

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Anua Rice 70 Glow Milky Toner

"A little bit of it goes a long way and it gives skin a really nice glow. It's really nice, really hydrating, really great for dry skin or winter time and pretty friendly for most skin types as well. If you have dry skin, really make sure you put a good moisturizer over it to seal in all those hydrants. A little bit much for summer. My main issue is I wish they would have left out the arnica because for sensitive skin, too much arnica for too long can be irritating, although some people won't have any issue with it. But if you have super sensitive skin, it is something that's important to note. With a 10 being a perfect score, I give this one an eight."

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"It feels really really nice, no scent. I've used it a couple times now and I really like the ingredients in here. They've got some different rice, rice water extract, rice protein which is nice, and they've got some nice soothing ingredients. So I would say this is probably geared towards normal, dry or sensitive reactive skin. Yeah, it might be worth checking out. Very nice, no issues at all with that."

Anua Rice Toner

"I'm going to use a little toner. Today I'm going with the Anua Rice Toner and a cotton pad from the DHC Silky Cotton. I love these because they're on the thicker side. My skin has been very dry this winter."

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"It's a nice watery rice toner. It feels so nice and has no scent."

Anua Rice Ceramide Toner

"The Anua Rice Ceramide Toner is great. Some of these are just really easy to kind of add in some extra moisture in addition to all these other steps."

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COSRX Hydrium Watery Toner Plus

"This was one when I first really got into skincare. This is one of the first few products I really used. It's 19 bucks."

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"In my opinion I would say this one's great for oily acne prone and sensitive skin"

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"This was one when I first really got into skincare. This is one of the first few products I really used. It's 19 bucks."

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."

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"So this stuff is beloved by so many people and I don't think it's worth the hype. In my opinion, if you're looking for a really nice AHA product, you could go with the Kinship Self Smooth Solution which is 10% glycolic acid or the Geek and Gorgeous Smooth Out with 12% AHAs which is going to be a little bit stronger. But if you're a little bit sensitive, I might look at the Kinship Self Smooth which is really nice and comes in a pink bottle. A lot of people love this one and if it works, go for it. But I just didn't think it was worth the hype."

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"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."

Beauty of Joseon Glow Replenishing Rice Milk Toner

"The Beauty of Joseon Glow Replenishing Rice Milk is 18 bucks, and in my opinion is great for oilier skin types and acne prone skin types. It has kinetin in there, which is kind of an oil absorbent ingredient, so that's why I say it's probably best for oilier skin types because it does leave it moisturized but soaks up all that extra oil at the same time. For exciting ingredients, we've got kinetin, rice extract, licorice extract, fig, and cocoa, so that makes it a nice option for the oily and acne prone skin type."

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"Beauty of Joseon is nicely hydrating and soothing. In my opinion, it's probably best for dry to very dry skin types. They say this one helps with pores but it doesn't, it won't. It may absorb oil a little bit but it can't purify pores or anything like that. I would say those with drier skin would probably end up enjoying this one a bit more than those with oilier skin. In terms of texture, it has more of a water-light texture and a hydrating finish that's slightly more natural. If you need a bit more moisture, this one is easy, you can just apply two layers of it and a lot of people have really good luck with it that way. It's easy to apply a couple layers of it without it ending up looking shiny or feeling greasy."

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"I like the Beauty of Joseon, they're both wonderful but it's a little bit more hydrating but doesn't feel greasy or sticky in the way that the Beauty of Joseon does. They're both lovely and they'll both work well and neither of them is a bad product, they're both great. If you want to try something new, the Beauty of Joseon is also nice."

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"The ingredients are mostly slip ingredients, which is typical to see, and then the first main ingredient is the panthenol, which is nice. Maybe a few more brightening ingredients might have made it a little bit more exciting than just relying on the licorice, but I get it. Overall it's nice, I like it, it feels nice on my skin, and I'll definitely continue to use it. I've already repurchased this twice, so that obviously says something."

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"This one's about 18 bucks, it's the Beauty of Joseon Glow Replenishing Rice Milk. So in here we've got rice extract, licorice root, cocoa camide, very nice. Thus far so good with this one. I'm happy I picked it up because I'm really enjoying it."

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"With a 10 being a perfect score, this one a nine. Very nice product overall, did a great job, and I'm really happy with it."

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"It's great for helping hydrate skin. It can't purify pores, there's really no ingredients in here that do anything with pores. They're promising two things that are totally different things, they're promised to hydrate but also soak up oil, which in a lot of ways conflict with each other. The feeling isn't greasy for this one but it is tacky. It doesn't look greasy but it's tacky. It definitely has a radiant finish. It delivers on some of those promises not quite all of them, but it's a really nice toner overall and I enjoy using it. In terms of acne-prone ingredients, this one's pretty friendly for acne-prone skin."

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"It's a decent toner, not a must have but a nice option for dry and sensitive skin types. The sticky finish is the biggest turnoff. When I use it in my morning routine it gives me enough hydration, especially now that we're in the summer, that I don't find myself needing to apply a bunch of serums or moisturizers to keep my skin hydrated. Typically I'll just apply this and then a sunscreen moisturizer and it seems to be enough right now. Obviously in the winter that's going to be different, but at this point for the summer it's pretty nice and I'm really enjoying it. I think those with oilier skin may differ on it."

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"Even after it's been soaking in for a while it's still tacky for a toner. It's not a huge issue for a moisturizer that's super tacky or a sunscreen that's super tacky, that's one thing, but typically most people don't just use a toner and then go. Typically most people apply a serum afterwards, not everybody but most of them, but if you're not, keep that in mind it is sticky sticky sticky. For beneficial ingredients we've got panthenol, skin soothing and wound healing. We've got hyaluronic acid, which is a urea derivative that's a humectant. We've got kaolinite, which is their sebum controlling powder, it's an oil absorbing ingredient. We've got rice extract, it's also oil absorbing and skin soothing. Rice extract can also be brightening too. We've got licorice root, skin soothing, brightening. We've got hydrogenated lecithin, which is an emollient. We've got Japanese goldthread, which is a soothing antioxidant anti-inflammatory plant extract. We've got mimosa extract, which is a humectant. It's also a photoprotective ingredient so photoprotective ingredients help protect your skin from sun and light damage, but there's never any replacement for sunscreen. We've got amorous extract, which is emollient rich in fatty acids. We've got fig fruit extract, antioxidant rich in phenol compounds. Centella asiatica, antioxidant soothing anti-inflammatory."

The Ordinary Saccharomyces Ferment 30% Milky Toner

"It's a decent product. This would be more of a winter product when my skin is drier, and because of the more radiant finish it's certainly geared more towards drier skin types than oily skin types unless used at night. It's still pretty unique and affordable. Overall with a 10 being a perfect score, I have this one a nine. It's very nice and well worth a try for most people. I think most will find benefits from it and enjoy it."

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"It feels nice and soft and supple and hydrating. It is on the sticky side but it does feel nice and hydrating and softening. Ferments over time are great for brightening up your skin, they're great for building up your skin barrier. So if your skin barrier is irritated or weak, using things like this ingredient over time will certainly help it. It helps the microbiome and things like that, so ferments are amazing ingredients."

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"Overall with a 10 being a perfect score I have this one a nine. It's very nice, well worth a try for most people. I think will find benefits from it and enjoy it."

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"They really have kind of over promised on this one. It will help with a lot of those things, but you can't really rely on one or two ingredients to do all of those things because there's very few and far between that do all of it. What this can do is give all day hydration because it's really hydrating once it soaks and it feels really nice on your skin. It can reduce the look of dark spots over time, but if you have strong, dark spots, stubborn ones, things that have been around for a long time on your skin, it's not going to do much for those. It will help a little bit over time, but for newer hyperpigmentation it will probably be more helpful. For very stubborn things you're going to need multiple ingredients to really do it. It can mildly exfoliate, very mildly, and it will help with the skin barrier."

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Toner Plus

"Coming in at 13 bucks, I'm almost done with it: the Hero Haare Black Right Hyaluronic Toner fragrance free version. They have two versions, one with fragrance, one fragrance free. This one's the fragrance free version which I prefer. This one has 2,384 five-star reviews, thousands of people love it. In my opinion, it's great for dry skin types. We've got rice extract in here, we've got hyaluronic acid, we've got beta glucan which is a wonderful humectant. This is just a really nice toner. It's easy to use, not super fussy, not a ton of ridiculous ingredients in it. So if you have sensitive skin or are sensitive to certain ingredients, I think this one is a nice option."

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"The Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Toner Plus retails for thirteen dollars and contains several different types of hyaluronic acid as well as peptides and centella. It does contain sage leaf and tea tree extracts which can be beneficial for skin but some people might be sensitive to them, so I wanted to point that out. But otherwise it's a really wonderful light serum ampule and it's just easy to fit in your routine and give your skin some added moisture."

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"There's really no scent to this, but 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. But if it works for you, go for it. There's nothing wrong with it. I typically love Isntree in most of their products, but this was one that I still just don't love."

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Good Molecules Niacinamide Brightening Toner

"I love the Good Molecules Niacinamide Brightening Toner. I just absolutely loved it, it was amazing. I'll definitely be picking it up again. Wonderful product, very effective and super affordable as well."

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Tirtir Milk Skin Toner

"This is a pretty nice toner. A little bit of it goes a long way. If I were in charge of this, I'd tweak a few things to make it a little bit more friendly for all skin types. If they got rid of that peppermint and fruit, it could be much more friendly for all skin types. It's got a lot of good things going for it and it'll work well for most people. For sensitive skin, just do a patch test and if you start to notice irritation, pull back, but overall my sensitive skin handled it pretty good."

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"There might be a little bit of scent but nothing I can actually identify as a scent, but then once you smooth it away you don't notice it. Feels nice on the skin though. I'm a big fan of peptides and ceramides and rice bran and centella and chamomile. It feels nice on the skin and it's on sale right now, normally like 30 bucks but I think it was like 14 bucks right now. The bottle's big and it'll probably last a long time. It did a good job removing rest of oil and stuff for my skin. I like it so far."

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"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 like witch hazel. I have super sensitive skin 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. There's a lot of unscented products that have fragrance in them. 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."

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"It's got a lot of brightening ingredients and some soothing ingredients. It's very hydrating. It's definitely on that tackier side but very hydrating for soothing. It will soothe most skin unless you're sensitive to some of those fragrance ingredients like witch hazel. I liked it. My skin is super sensitive and I'm very sensitive to fragrance. I didn't notice any scent, so I would say this product is unscented but not fragrance-free. This is pretty well suited to dry, oily, and acne-prone skin types. It's pretty suited for most skin types except for sensitive skin."

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"With a 10 being a perfect score, this one an eight. It's got a lot of good things going for it and it'll work well for most people. For sensitive skin, just do a patch test and if you start to notice irritation pull back, but overall my sensitive skin handled it pretty good."

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"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."

COSRX Hydrium Watery Toner

"The same brand that makes the snail mus and cream it's amazing uh they have some really nice moisturizers and toners and Essences"

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"I most often use it in my evening routine but certain days in the morning when my skin's feeling dry. It feels nice to use but for oilier skin I have a feeling that using this in your morning routine especially if you're going to use it with sunscreen and anything else it could be a bit over the top and a bit too much. Just pat it to soak it in but it does take a little bit of time to soak in. If you have oily skin using it at night is great then you just let it soak in while you're sleeping. Once it soaks in it goes to kind of a radiant finish which is nice and glowy. The beneficial ingredients in this one include rice bran water which is emollient, rice extract which is soothing and emollient, niacinamide which is anti-acne and skin brightening, hydroxyurea which is a urea derivative with humectant benefits, panthenol which is a great soothing and hydrating ingredient, sodium hyaluronic which is another good humectant, and Cornus officinalis leaf extract which is anti-inflammatory and really good for hydrating skin and I can't say I've ever seen it before in another product."

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"The same brand that makes the snail mus and cream it's amazing uh they have some really nice moisturizers and toners and Essences"

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."

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"I didn't love it, I didn't hate it, I didn't really think much of it. But a lot of people absolutely love it so nothing wrong with that. I will say I appreciate this toner a little bit more using that cleanser because that cleanser was harsh. It's not as harsh as other things but it pretty much did a good job removing everything."

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"I didn't love it, I didn't hate it, but I'm trying to finish it up now. It's so dry. I don't know, maybe some people have good luck with it or maybe you could probably spend an hour sitting there flooding your skin, but if you're going to spend an hour on your skin I don't know, I could think of other things to do."

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"I finished up the Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner. This toner was nice. There wasn't anything wrong with it. It doesn't have any scent to it, it's affordable, it's got some nice soothing ingredients in it which is nice, but it just didn't blow me away the way other toners have. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't like a game changer for me. However, it's a total game changer for a lot of other people, so don't necessarily take my experience to be what yours will be. My experience with it was it left a little bit to be desired, but it's pretty affordable so that's always nice."

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"I used it once and then I put it back in the box and I put it back on the shelf for a while. I didn't find it to be overwhelmingly exciting. It's got heart leaf extract, also known as houttuynia cordata, and then panthenol, bane sugar cane, chamomile, supposed to be very gentle, but I found it to be kind of average."

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"The Anua Heartleaf Soothing Toner, I came out of the same experience with that as I did with this one. It was nice, it wasn't overly exciting, but for some people who are looking for a very simple ingredient list, nothing wrong with that. It just kind of the same opinion in a lot of ways."

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"I'm going to use a light toner, and the one I'm going to use is the Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner."

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"This brand looks pretty interesting with a lot of sensitive skin-friendly and gentle products using different types of plant extracts. The Heartleaf Toner looked exciting to me, especially with the price and the size of it. It's got panthenol, sugar cane, chamomile flour, grapefruit extract, centella, and heartleaf, which is a calming ingredient that I really haven't tried too much. That's one to keep an eye on."

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"In terms of performance, I can't say I'm either impressed or disappointed with this one. I just didn't love it, I didn't hate it, I didn't really think much of it. I didn't really have an opinion on it. I didn't notice any benefits, I didn't get irritated from it. I guess it's hydrating. I didn't notice any redness, I didn't notice it helped with redness, I didn't notice it helped with irritation, but definitely didn't cause redness or irritation. It definitely didn't cause any problems. I think of it kind of like water. It has nice soothing ingredients, so that's nice I guess, but for as many five star reviews as this has, I was expecting to be amazed."

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"It's something I'll try and finish but I just have so many other great products that I want to finish up, it's hard to get excited to even finish this one when I didn't really notice any benefits. It's definitely not something I repurchase. It didn't irritate my skin and it has some nice ingredients, but it reminded me of water. Save your money. It just didn't bother my skin but it didn't do anything for me either."

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"I didn't really have an opinion on it, I just didn't notice any benefits. I didn't get irritated from it, I guess it's hydrating. I didn't notice it helped with redness, I didn't notice it helped with irritation, but definitely didn't cause redness or irritation. It has nice soothing ingredients, so that's nice. But I just, for as many five star reviews as this has, I was expecting to be amazed. Maybe my expectations were too high. In terms of performance, I wasn't impressed or bummed. The nice thing is for acne prone skin, there's no ingredients of note that would be problematic. It's going to be friendly for oily, dry, sensitive, and acne prone skin. It's simple, and maybe that's the good thing. Sometimes maybe just simple is good, so maybe that's what this is good for."

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Purito Deep Sea Pure Water 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 then beta glucan which is great for skin soothing, wound healing, and hydration. I absolutely love this stuff and it's well worth checking out."

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"They also have the cream toner version which is wonderful and a moisturizer version these are all wonderful"

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Purito Oat in Silky Toner

"The Purito Oat in Silky Toner is very friendly for sensitive skin. It's got a nice milky texture to it with oat seed water, metal foam seed oil, oat kernel, and beta glucan, which is great for skin soothing and wound healing. I absolutely love this stuff and have repurchased it a couple times now, which says a lot because I try and finish a lot of products but for the most part won't repurchase again because I have other things to try. Well worth checking out."

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"I've had it for a while and it's average, it's not exciting. It seems to be kind of similar to a lot of products that I've already tried. It's okay, but it's not super exciting and it's not terrible. I don't reach for it often. It didn't feel super hydrating to me. I mean, it kind of didn't do a great job as a toner. It's not great as an essence because it's not terribly hydrating. For me, this one was just kind of overall not terribly exciting."

Kane Combo Balancing Ampule Toner

"I've been testing out a little bit, it just came recently and so far I like it. The brand seems to be pretty friendly for sensitive skin but not totally everything, so check it out before."

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Klairs Supple Preparation Unscented Toner

"They've got a lot of good toners. Their Supple Preparation Unscented Toner is wonderful. I absolutely love it. It's one of my top four favorite products from Klairs. These are best suited and great for sensitive skin types, reactive skin types. You can't go wrong."

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Babe Lash Babe Lash

"Babe Lash is nice and it's got those prostaglandins. I have used Babe Lash and I really liked it."

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64%of gurus approve

Pat McGrath Labs Eyeshadow palettes

"I probably got a couple of Pat McGrath Labs eyeshadow palettes, the smaller ones because the big ones were like $200 maybe. They're very expensive and I'm not that great with eyeshadow. So, I'm not going to spend a whole ton on eyeshadow because I'm not very good at it."

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63%of gurus approve

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."

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64%of gurus approve

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Lash and Brow Serum

"So I've been using this lash serum. Now I'm losing a lash. It's normal to lose what did they say, five or six lashes a month or so. And so then they start to notice it more. And is it just because you're using this that you're noticing it more? Do you not notice it when you're not using it? So it kind of makes me question, are these results real or is it just a perception? I'm not totally sold on this being the it product. You could use it on its own or mix it in with like a castor oil or something like that, but it's got a very greasy oily finish. And I think a lot of people that have acne prone skin, this might not end up being their favorite product because I think it could make pores worse."

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70%of gurus approve

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"Their eyelash serum was another one I didn't think was the best. I've used other eyelash serums that were a little bit more effective and efficient, and that just wasn't the best."

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"It's helped with my eyebrow growth and it's got some nice peptides in there. I can put it on my lashes and I think it does help a little bit with lash growth, not as much as the other ones, but it doesn't give me the dry eyes like the other ones do, so that's a nice relief not to have that dry feeling all the time. It's not that I don't love love love it, but I like it more than I did before."

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"At first I didn't love this and I will say I typically use this now just on my brows. I do think it helps. It's a nice option though a lot of people have eyes that are sensitive to lash serums that contain prostaglandins and prostaglandins are typically the ones that are really responsible for fast lash growth however they can dry eyes out as well and sometimes some people don't want to use them because they have like blue eyes sometimes they can darken them and it may or may not be permanent. Some people say it's permanent some people say after I stopped using it my eyes got better went back to their normal color. I think it's been helping on my brows. I think it helped my brow area more than it did my eyelashes."

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"I use The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Lash and Brow Serum, which has typically become a lot more for my lashes."

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"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."

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"I like this stuff. I used to use the stuff with prostaglandins but it's started to really dry my eyes out. I can still use them occasionally, I try and do it because I think it does help my lash get longer than this stuff."

Tarte Tartlet XL Tubing Mascara

"I'm wearing it right now, the Tarte Tartlet tubing mascara. I personally I love tubing mascaras. This is very similar to other tubing mascaras, to be honest. I probably could switch between them and not notice the difference once they apply. Very nice. And right now it's 16 bucks, so it's 40% off."

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62%of gurus approve

All 2 takes on Tartlet XL Tubing Mascara

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"I've been testing this one out lately too. The Tarte tubing mascara I've been testing against the Thrive and I find them very similar. Actually I don't find much of a difference. I think the Tarte one maybe separates a little bit better."

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Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara

"I already had my repurchase of these in hand. 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, but I usually use them for six months. I haven't had any eye infections or things like that. There's still a ton of product left in there."

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90%of gurus approve

All 14 takes on Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara

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"I'll put some mascara on, which will be Thrive Cosmetics because it's my favorite."

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"Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, love this. I already have two backups of it."

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"Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara is my favorite mascara of all time."

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"Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions, it's ruined playing with other mascaras because it's so good. It's a tubing mascara, so tubing mascaras are awesome. They're kind of annoying to wash off but not as annoying to wash off as waterproof regular mascara is."

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"For mascara, the Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions. I haven't not used Thrive mascara in years. I'll try something out and then I always end up going back to this one."

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"Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions, I really enjoy this. My favorite mascara of all time and I already have my backup in place and I already have my other backup in my drawer."

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"I just got this tube of the Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, opened it yesterday and today's the first use. Love that stuff."

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"I'm still loving the Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions. I love it, love it, love it. I've got two backups of it."

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"I love their mascara, their Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara. I've been using it for years now. I took the fun out of testing other mascaras because it's just so good. Nothing else really compares."

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"This is my go-to mascara. I love it. It's wonderful and it feels nice and it washes off."

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"My mascara Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions, love this stuff. Now they have a bunch of different colors but I always just go with the black. One coat of this does the trick. I think curling the lashes makes it apply better, it makes it look better."

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"The Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, it's 26 bucks, I love this stuff, it's wonderful. I always have one backup. It's a tubing mascara so it doesn't run as easily as a non-waterproof mascara does. It has silicones in there that kind of wrap little spheres around each eyelash, so when they come out they come off like little tubes. It's easy to get a nice length of lashes with this one. I really like the brush they use. They also have many different shades of this mascara now, so if you don't like black they have a brown, if you don't like brown they have a plum. I've repurchased this one many times and I've gifted it many times as well."

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"Thrive Cosmetics makes my favorite mascara, the one I'm wearing today, the one I'm wearing pretty much most days, almost every day, the Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara. It's a tubing mascara, and they have it in several different shades. I used to love trying different mascaras out, but after using this one, nothing has compared to it. The only thing that's slightly compared is the Milani one. It's taken the joy out of testing any other mascara because nothing compares so far. I typically buy mascara from this brand a couple times a year, and this is always one of them."

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."

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78%of gurus approve

Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara

"I love the Thrive mascara. I've been testing it against the Tarte tubing mascara and I find them very similar. Actually I don't find much of a difference."

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85%of gurus approve

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"Thrive liquid lash extensions mascara"

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"I just use my Thrive mascara."

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"I love the Thrive mascara. I've been testing it against the Tarte tubing mascara and I find them very similar. Actually I don't find much of a difference."

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"My mascara is the Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions and I love it. Just a very tiny amount is all you need. I wonder if there'll ever be a mascara that I'll find that I like more than this. It's probably going to be very impossible to find because I really stopped trying new ones."

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"I love this. I've got my friend using it, she loves it now too, and I already had a backup of it. This is probably one of the longest makeup products I've been using, if not the longest single makeup product I've been using, for years. If you have not tried this, try it. I'm serious."

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"The Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara kind of ruined testing other mascaras because I ended up liking it so much. No other mascara can really compete. I've tried dozens of other tubing mascaras but for me nothing is as good. It's a love-hate thing because it takes the joy out of trying other things, trying to find the Holy Grail, but at least I found the Holy Grail."

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"Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, absolutely love love love love love. I was just looking at getting lash extensions done, and when I read how expensive it is and that you have to go back like every two weeks, and then after if you ever decide to take them out you're not going to have any lashes left, yeah I'm just going to stick with mascara for now or probably forever. I'm just not reliable enough."

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz

"The Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz, it's got a little spoolie at the end so you can brush it into your eyebrows so it looks natural. Sometimes I just use a Q-tip to put it on. This one has been discontinued and this is one I absolutely love."

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71%of gurus approve

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."

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81%of gurus approve

Rodan and Fields Lash Boost

"This is an MLM brand I will never buy this again. The thing is like completely dry, the spoolie thing on it. I don't recommend this brand. Rodan and Fields is not my favorite brand because they're an MLM and MLMs generally are evil unless you're the one at the top. Honestly the price of these is pretty similar to alternatives like a prescription generic Latisse from Nurx, and that's what I would do instead."

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Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette

"Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette from a few years ago that I've still been using. I opened it up a couple weeks ago and there was like a bug in it, and it's not even almost pan but it didn't make me want to use it again. It's kind of old so I'm on to one from like two or three years ago now. I've been using this one for a couple years and I can't finish it."

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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."

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80%of gurus approve

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"Lately I've been loving the Natasha Denona Retro Glam palette."

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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."

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Lip14 reviews

Paula's Choice Pro Collagen Peptide Gloss Balm

"I love this one. It's really nice for your lips. It feels so plumping. It has no real taste to it and it gives you a nice glossy finish. So I love this one for morning routine and evening routine."

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83%of gurus approve

Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm

"I love the Summer Fridays brand. They've done an amazing job. Their lip balms, I adore them. They're amazing. Although I will say the Polish Choice lip balms, once I got started on this, I kind of like this more because of the peptides and beneficial ingredients, but this one's still really nice and hydrating."

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65%of gurus approve

All 20 takes on Lip Butter Balm

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"Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, love love love love love this stuff. I've got it in all these little sample sizes so I've always got one in my purse or wherever I might need it."

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"I love this stuff. This is their lip butter balm. It's 24 bucks. This one is really nice. My preference is the vanilla one. It's clear. It's great for daytime. It gives lips a nice shine. This one gives a lot of shine and gloss. And it is slightly sticky or just sticky. It is tacky, but it's nice enough for the daytime. This one's got Mermaroo butter, shea butter, vanilla, vitamin E, and then the different flavors or colors have different tastes and scents to them. So, if you're sensitive to fragrance, I would get the vanilla one. You can get it in a gazillion different shades."

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"The Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, this one's 24 bucks. I love this so this is basically for the most part most nights this is what I use for my lip balm. I apply a pretty thick layer of it and I go to bed and for the most part I wake up my lips are still moisturized and hydrated. I still keep a small sample little one on my nightstand but overall this one's really wonderful. I love the vanilla because it's clear and it has vanilla scent to it. Some of the other colors have different tastes and things like that so if you're looking for a color I've got a few of them, but overall my favorite's vanilla."

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"I love the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. I love the vanilla one but I also picked up a set with a couple colors in it. This is the vanilla one which is the one I use at night, and then the Poppy one that I'm wearing right now. I love it. It's got shea butter, cocoa butter, vitamin E, and it's really nice lip balm. It probably sells out very quickly, but if you're in the market for a lip balm this is really nice."

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"I tend to like Summer Fridays a lot. Their lip balm is amazing, love it. I don't know, it's my third or fourth tube and I've given like dozens of them away."

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"Summer Fridays lip balm is vegan and it's amazing."

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"This stuff is just so nice and hydrating. I love this stuff, it just feels so nice on my mouth and it doesn't have a strong scent or anything."

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"Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, I love this stuff, it's really good. I've been using this and it's lasting me forever and it's just so good. It smells like vanilla if you get the vanilla scent. It feels nice. It's nice to throw some nice rejuvenating and soothing products in there such as the kombucha and the growth factors and the copper peptides."

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"For lip products this has become my favorite. This is the vanilla flavor of the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm and it has a light vanilla taste. It dissipates pretty quickly, it doesn't have a lingering like floral taste. They have different flavors though, they have like iced coffee or birthday cake and things like that, so if you like different flavors it's great. And they have different shades of it. This is my favorite, it's clear, it's wonderful. I use it every night before I go to bed, keep a spare in my purse, and then I usually have one on my nightstand as well."

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"I love this lip balm. Initially the price might look a little pricey, however I've been using this now nightly, once a night, every single night for probably three months now. It's the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm and they have it in different flavors and colors. I like vanilla because vanilla is clear, and vanilla as an ingredient is actually good for you. It might look expensive at first, but this stuff, I bet this tube with daily applying liberally, I bet this will last me six months. So when you look at it, it's 24 dollars, that ends up to being like 10 cents a day or something, so it's pretty affordable compared to some other lip balms that would go pretty fast."

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"Summer Fridays absolutely love my favorite from them now is their lip balm. I have multiples of these now, one I keep here, one in my purse. I got a couple of the sets that have some of the sample sizes so I could try some different colors and things like that. Really impressed with their lip balms."

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"For lip balm, Summer Fridays, love this stuff, love it, love it, love it, can't get enough of it. This is vanilla, which is clear."

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"Summer Fridays lip balm, I got a little set of minis, so these are really nice. I just keep one on my bedside. This was Vanilla. Highly recommend checking out, absolutely love it. This lip balm is really wonderful. I've tested a lot of them."

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"I picked up several sets of it over Christmas, they had one set with three large tubes and one set with four mini colored tubes, and now I've got them all everywhere, I've got them on my nightstand, I've got them in my purse, I've got them at my dad's house. I really enjoy this stuff. They're 28 bucks for the large size. My favorite is just the vanilla, it has no color, it tastes a little bit like vanilla, it doesn't have any mint or anything in there, but they've also got different shades like brown sugar. They're wonderful. I love it. My dad's using it now too and I got them for my nieces. I love this lip balm."

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"I'm still working on finishing up the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. I love this stuff. They have some sets now at Sephora for this so check those out because there's some sets where you can get, I think, like three full sizes for a certain amount, or I think they have a mini set too. The flavor I love is vanilla because it's clear. They have some tinted shades too and they have some other ones that look more clear. I just love this stuff. So if you haven't tried this lip balm, it's great. I absolutely adore it."

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"This is probably my fifth or sixth bottle. I've been using this off and on now for a few years. This stuff lasts forever. I have three full-size backups and three mini backups. I got one for my dad, getting one for my niece. I love it. This is the vanilla, they have colors but I'm just more into the vanilla."

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"Lip Butter Balm has a much better ingredient list in my opinion. It's got some better ingredients in there. It doesn't include the actual fragrancing. It breaks down the fragrance ingredients. And if you want the vanilla Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, you can still get that with just vanilla in it and no added fragrance. The Summer Fridays one is much more expensive, but in my opinion, it's a much better formulated product."

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"I really thought I found the best lip balm ever was the Summer Fridays and I still love the Summer Fridays."

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"I'm repurchasing the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. I love it. I'm getting vanilla. They have different colors and flavors. I just love the vanilla, it's wonderful. And if you want something with a little bit of a tint or a little bit of a taste, they've got iced coffee, birthday cake, they've got everything. It's a wonderful lip balm."

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."

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"The Ordinary's released dozens of new products, this lip balm. I don't know who likes it. It feels gross."

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"The Ordinary came out with a lip balm so I had to pick that one up and try it when it came to Ulta and so far I like it. The only challenge with this one is getting the cap off of it, it's hard to do especially the first few times, but then after that it's not too hard. It's not quite as thick as some but it feels nice, it's not as shiny as some other ones but it feels nice on the skin."

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"I hate their lip balm from The Ordinary. It just doesn't do it for me. I'm trying to hate pan finish it, but I'm not getting there yet."

The Inky List Tripeptide Plumping Lip Balm

"I didn't love the one from the Inky 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."

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64%of gurus approve

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"The Inky List also has a peptide lip balm which is also nice. If you're on a budget, the one from the Inky List is also worth checking out."

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 dimethylone, 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."

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All 3 takes on Peach Peptide Lip Balm

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"The Glow Peach Peptide Lip Balm is really nice. It's similar in my opinion to the Tatcha Kissu lip mask. I would call this a very similar alternative and it has really little to no taste at all, which is nice. You can apply it right before bedtime. Really nice product and I really like the fact that it doesn't have a heavy taste or anything. Works really nice at night before bed and the packaging is super cute."

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"It's really nice lip balm with some good ingredients in there for your lips. This is Peach and it has like no scent really hardly at all. It feels really nice on your lips so it's worth checking out. I don't think it was as affordable as some of the other K Beauty brands, some of them are really really affordable, this was a little bit more moderately priced, but it's really nice."

The Ordinary PHA 5% Exfoliating Lip Serum

"PHA is an interesting exfoliant. It's very gentle and it can also help with hydration. They meant this product to be applied under other lip balms, especially theirs. It's meant to be used under other lip balms."

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74%of gurus approve

Polish Choice Pro Collagen Peptide Gloss Balm

"I like this one. This is the one I use at night a lot now. This one's pretty nice."

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82%of gurus approve

Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask

"It's the Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask, it's 29 bucks. It's got part of the Matrix of 3000 peptide, it's got vitamin E, squalene, peach kernel, and lanolin. No noticeable flavor, although when I was looking at the ingredients it does contain fragrance but it has no scent to it. I like it. This is my holy grail for a long time, it's still really wonderful. Great nighttime mask with a thicker texture."

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86%of gurus approve

Polish Choice Hyaluronic Acid + Peptide Lip Booster

"The Polish Choice hyaluronic acid and peptide lip booster, it's 33 bucks and it's very tiny. It has a shiny finish. It's got the matrixyl 3000, hyaluronic acid, matrixyl synthesis peptide, and then we've got castor seed oil, cocoa butter, squalane, shea butter. No flavor but has a shiny finish. This one's got a metal applicator. This one's almost as shiny as the peach and lily."

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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."

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83%of gurus approve

Aquaphor Lip Repair

"Aquaphor Lip Repair, 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. After it fell on the floor in the middle of the night I'm not going to put it back on."

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64%of gurus approve

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."

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"Laneige, they're a big contender, a lot of people love Laneige, and I find them okay. Their Lip Sleeping Mask is probably their biggest seller. I find it okay. It's a holy grail for so many people, but I found it to be kind of average. I didn't love it. I thought the hydration kind of didn't last long enough, and I hate digging my fingers into a container."

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Fresh Sugar Lip Balm

"Fresh has some interesting ones. 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."

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Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lipstick

"Charlotte Tilbury is great. This brand has some really nice lipsticks and the thing I like about them is a lot of brands have like strongly scented or flavored lipsticks, what I found with Charlotte Tilbury is most of them taste like vanilla which is really nice and then it fades. I can't stand some of those florally scented lipsticks they just end up tasting awful after a while and some of them like if I'm gonna drink coffee or something it ends up kind of affecting that, so I really prefer not to have too much flavor in it."

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Eye Care9 reviews

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."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Eye Serum contains caffeine which helps with the circulation, it contains the iseral peptide as well as the cake peptides. It's a pain to use because the water texture is not my favorite, but it has some nice ingredients in here and a lot of people really have good luck with it."

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"It contains the synake peptide. It also contains caffeine. And then it also contains hydroxymethylphenol decanone which is an antioxidant from the ginger family. And it's claimed to be an anti-irritant and a hydrating ingredient. So maybe if you specifically suffer from the allergic type allergy type of puffiness, the anti-irritant in this can help. It's also great for anti-aging with the peptides in there."

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"Their multi-peptide Eye Serum, it was okay. I didn't love it."

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"The Ordinary Multipeptide Eye Serum is a nice option. There's no real other similar products that contain 50 peptides. Overall, it's still a good product with good ingredients. I'll definitely finish it. The packaging is a bit odd and takes up space in your drawer, not friendly to travel with, but I could consider repurchasing it."

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"It's got retinopeptide 189 which is a peptide that's claimed to help boost the skin cell turnover to promote the synthesis of collagen. And then it's got the synake peptide which is the Botox in a bottle type peptide that helps with repeated fine lines and repeated wrinkles from repeated movement. So like smile lines, crows feet, things like that. It's lightweight. It's got a really nice lightweight texture to it and a kind of hydrating texture. So I would probably recommend using this one at night. It is a little bit hydrating, but I think if you apply a moisturizer or a sunscreen afterwards or give it a minute to soak in, it'll be okay."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Eye Serum which is 19 bucks, one of their more expensive products but it's just a liquid serum you put around your eyes so if you're looking for an anti-aging eye serum, this one is 19 bucks and it's similar to the Clinique Moisture Surge 96-hour hydril concentrate which is $42."

The Ordinary Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG

"The Ordinary Caffeine Solution, which is N bucks. This is a liquidy serum. You can just pat under your eyes. You can use it morning or evening. It gives pretty quick results. The caffeine controls the microcirculation of the blood vessels in your eyes. Caffeine is also a great antioxidant. So, this one will help give you fast results. If you just want to use in the morning, that's probably just fine, too. It contains caffeine, hyaluronic acid, and EGCG, and the caffeine is the main active in this one. The main exciting ingredient. So, this one will help."

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69%of gurus approve

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"Their caffeine serum, I didn't love it because I found caffeine to be kind of drying on my skin, so all their EGCG 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."

Beauty of Joseon Revive Eye Serum: Ginseng + Retinal

"Beauty of Joseon Revive Eye Serum is really nice and really affordable and this one contains retinal in here retinal to help with skin cell turnover and smooth the texture on the eye area. I love this stuff, probably my tenth or twelfth bottle. You can use it on other areas of your skin too, so sometimes when I travel if I'm kind of lazy I don't want to bring the big tube with me, I'll just bring this and use it on certain areas."

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"The Beauty of Joseon ginseng and retinol eye cream is really wonderful. It's got retinol, ginseng, and adenosine, and it's got a peptide in there. It's marketed as an eye cream but it's more of an all over cream. You can certainly use it around your eye area, but the bottle is large so you don't have to feel like you should only use it around your eye area because it's 1 oz, the same as all these other ones."

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."

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65%of gurus approve

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."

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Cosrx Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream

"Cosrx Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream won favorite hydrating eye cream. The reviewer loves it, described it as amazing, and stated it is one of their most repurchased products of all time. It was later nominated for favorite product of the year."

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Mary and May Tranexamic Acid and 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."

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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."

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Stratia Lipid Gold Eye Cream

"It's kind of the sister product to its big brother Lipid Gold. In here we've got rose hip oil, we've got sea buckthorn oil, we've got ceramides, we've got peptides, and we also have an algae extract. Algae is great for protecting skin and works great as an antioxidant, so some really nice ingredients in here worth checking out."

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Haircare9 reviews

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."

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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."

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"The Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density is really nice. It has some proven or really studied ingredients to help with hair follicles. I like it because during the winter it keeps my scalp hydrated and it doesn't feel as dry. It's a nice option if you get really dry scalp issues. It's water-based and it doesn't feel greasy. I apply it when I get out of the shower on the part and then a couple other parts, once or twice a week during the winter. I typically don't use it too much in the spring and summer when my scalp isn't very dry, but it's nice for that. If you have issues with hair density, it's certainly worth trying."

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"For hair care, my most repurchased product is the Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density. I don't use it so much during the summer, but in the winter when my scalp gets dry, I use this every other night on wet hair, just a little bit, a couple drops on my scalp, and it does the trick. It prevents dryness and it really helps. This one's well worth checking out if you suffer from dryness issues on your scalp."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density has a water-like texture and I use this more as a hydrating product than a hair growth product because I find it gives my scalp just enough moisture so that in the winter it doesn't get dry and flaky. I didn't really notice anything in terms of hair growth, but that's not my main issue. My main issue is moisture in the scalp and this one has done the trick for me for winter."

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"I've repurchased this probably a dozen or so times over the years. The bottle is a little bit larger than the average serum and it's just got a nice water texture. I typically use this more in the winter when my scalp gets dry and I just apply a little bit to my part right after getting out of the shower, let it soak in and go. Nothing else you need to do. It's very hydrating and leaves my scalp feeling not dry or flaky."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Hair Density Serum, I use this one more for dry scalp than hair density, although nowadays my hair density needs all the help it can get as well. So this one's nice. If you didn't pick it up during the Ordinary sale, it's really nice. Fragrance-free. Copper peptides are great for the root and the hair follicle."

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"I used to use [The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density] on its own a lot. Not for hair density so much, just for dry scalp, and it really helps with that."

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"Their multi-peptide serum for hair density is really nice and hydrating on my scalp. It's $22.80 and it's got a couple of actual proven ingredients to help with hair loss and hair density. It's got biotin oil tripeptide one, which is an amino acid peptide where the collagen fragment is combined with biotin to help supplement for stronger nails and hair. It's got acetyl tetrapeptide-3, which stimulates the synthesis of key extracellular matrix, which is the gooey stuff in between the cells that make up the framework of our skin components in the scalp, resulting in stronger hair bed anchoring. It contains green tea and apigenin. It's a great product. There's no scent to it. It doesn't leave your hair scalp feeling greasy. I just put it in after a shower when my hair is wet, just a few drops."

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"I really enjoy this stuff. I just typically use it in the fall in Winter and maybe at the beginning of Spring, just a couple drops down my part and it helps my scalp stay hydrated and it prevents some flakiness and things like that. My scalp tends to get dry in the winter. I used to use it year round and now in the spring and fall it seems okay now without it."

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"If you have hair loss, you could buy the powder and mix it into something like The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density. That's probably what I would do. If you have issues with hair growth, I think that'd probably be well worth a try."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density, I found this stuff to be really lovely, non-greasy. I just apply a little bit, a couple drops to my part right after showering and it soaks in and feels nice. No hydrant, no dandruff, any itchiness, dryness or anything like that. It really helped make a huge difference. I use it maybe once a week and it really is nice. During the winter I'll use it more, right now it's summer I don't really have as many issues with dryness, but during the winter I use it usually every other shower. So it's really lovely, lovely product overall."

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"The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density is 17 bucks right now. It's a hydrating scalp serum that's meant to help with hair growth and slow hair loss. It's got a really light water texture to it so I just use this when I get out of the shower. I use it a lot during the winter. I apply this to my part and then let it soak in overnight and it's fine. In here we've got caffeine, we've got peptides, we've got pea extract, we've got skull cap root extract, we've got green tea, we also have a wheat germ extract which is a great ingredient used in many hair conditioners as well as face creams as a protecting ingredient."

Ollex Purple shampoo

"This is their purple shampoo for blonder hair. I think it might help brighten up my blonde a little bit. It doesn't really do that to the degree my hairdresser suggested, but it does help brighten it up a bit and kind of fight off some of the other tones in your hair, which can make it look dull."

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Head and Shoulders Anti-Dandruff Shampoo

"Head and Shoulders or any of those, or Selsun Blue or whatever those are, because they have a lot of scent in them. If you have dandruff, you'd want to get one that has no scent."

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Nizoral Ketoconazole 1% Anti-Dandruff Shampoo

"For some people that have fungal acne, they're 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."

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Living Proof Scalp Exfoliator

"The Living Proof scalp exfoliator I think I recall when that came out and it did not look the friendliest for sensitive skin scalps."

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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."

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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."

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Olaplex Clarifying Shampoo

"Their clarifying shampoo is great."

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Supplements9 reviews

VT PDRN Capsule Cream

"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. There's a little spatula in there. That's beautiful. I love if you're going to do a jar, include some hygienic way to use it because otherwise once you stick your fingers in it, it's all downhill from there."

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"It's quite a nice cream. I like the fact that it's pretty friendly for most skin types. The price is right at that tipping point where it becomes too expensive, but I think with the type of PDRN they used, I think the price is okay. I definitely would repurchase this and will repurchase this one again in the future. Out of all the PDRN products I've tried, this one is my favorite so far."

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"I've been using it now a few nights in a row and I thought I'd do a little review because so far I'm enjoying it. No scent to it, which is a good thing. I do like that they included a little spatula for you, which is nice, because I don't want to dig my dirty self-tanned fingers into it. The capsules are kind of easily break down. It is kind of fun looking, which between that and being fragrance-free drew me in. It has a really silky texture to it. It soaks in really nicely. I've been using this one at night, but you can certainly get away with it using it during the daytime depending on what you're applying it over or under."

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"It's not greasy. It feels pretty natural over skin, which is nice. It feels silky when you apply it. The major ingredients include slip ingredients up front plus niacinamide plus squalane, which are overall generally good ingredients. For acne prone skin, we've got fatty alcohols which can be not the best for acne prone skin, and squalane is very very low but it is slightly comedogenic. The main stars of the show are niacinamide, turmeric, ginseng, copper peptide. There's a lot of different peptides in here which are nice to see. Matrixyl 3000 is there. They are at the very end of the ingredient list quite literally with the exception of one ingredient. A lot of peptides work very well in very small amounts."

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"I'm really enjoying this one from VT so far. I like the fact that it's wearable without looking greasy, flaky, or peeling up because a lot of ones that are on the thicker side end up peeling or feeling super greasy or shiny or even at the end of the day, you end up looking too greasy. So this one doesn't do that, and I really like that. I also love the fact that it has no scent. And overall, it's pretty affordable at 26 bucks for 1.7 ounces. For acne-prone skin, it's a little bit in the middle there, so if you have acne-prone skin, just be aware of your specific triggers like fatty alcohols or sometimes oil for some people can be too much."

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"This one's more like a gel cream, but a lot of ones that are really thick end up peeling or feeling super greasy or shiny or even at the end of the day, you end up looking too greasy. So this one doesn't do that, and I really like that. I also love the fact that it has no scent. And overall, it's pretty affordable. 26 bucks for 1.7 ounces. So overall, so far it's a winner. For acne prone skin, it's a little bit in the middle there. So if you have acne prone skin, just be aware of their specific triggers like fatty alcohols or sometimes oil for some people can be too much."

Heliocare Polypodium Leucotomos Supplement

"I take this every day. Polypodium leucotomos, aka fern block, is their trademark name. This stuff helps prevent sun damage from your skin. So, I take it every single day and especially on days if I travel somewhere where it's sunnier out. I'm definitely not messing around with skipping a day of it. It helps protect your skin from sun damage and it's studied and researched and yeah, it's the real deal. I do feel better on the days I take it. If I skip it for a few days, I notice it."

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"Heliocare, there are studies that prove Polypodium Leucotomos prevent sun damage better than just using sunscreen alone. I've been taking this supplement now for over 5 years. I take one a day, or sometimes in the summer I'll take two, and I take them in the morning. It's proven there's PubMed research on it that it protects the skin, and by protecting the skin from sun damage you protect it from aging."

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"Heliocare supplement if you can tolerate supplements, that's a great one because it helps protect your skin from sun and things like that."

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides

"This one's specifically for hair, skin, and nails. It's got a little bit of protein in it, vitamin C, which is very important, collagen peptides, bioactive collagen peptides, hyaluronic acid, and cantaloupe. It's unflavored. You don't want to drink it with plain water because it kind of tastes bad. But if you mix it in with something else, you won't notice it. This is my repurchase of it."

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"Vital Proteins has done very well. They have a powder which I will link to below and then this is their collagen gummies they taste like grape they're wonderful they taste good you have to eat I think four of them and they've got collagen peptides from bovine. If you're vegan probably don't want the bovine collagen peptides but there's other options. It does have some sugar calories in it because it actually tastes really good. These have tested well with the consumer lab. There's also an unflavored collagen powder tested well. Actually most of the products from this brand have tested quite well."

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"I really dismissed these as not being super effective but now I've read it and heard it in two different places where these may actually be more effective than we realize. I got this one in a beauty box and you can tell I was really excited about it because it's still all there. I just I can't get past the taste. This study mentions it and I think it adds in some of these sources of proteins and rice. My brain is still very skeptical of them especially with the rapid pace of all these different brands releasing them. But this article mentions that they may be beneficial and I also heard Dr. Doris Day is a prominent dermatologist and she was interviewing someone on her show about them. Some people do notice benefits from this. It's got other vitamins in here so it's definitely not going to hurt you but with the price of some of these, I don't know."

Naked Sundays Collagen Glow Mineral Perfecting Priming Lotion

"Naked Sundays Collagen Glow Mineral Perfecting Priming Lotion uses the same formula also in both US and Australia. So, that's another issue to be aware of."

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Round Lab Camellia Deep Collagen Firming Sun Serum

"I think this will probably end up being another hit. Really nice, really nice feeling. Looks really natural underneath sunscreen. It has more of a natural finish than anything, but it's not matte, but it's not radiant. So, keep that in mind because some people like matte finish, some people like radiant finish, and then there's everyone else. If you're picky about it, just be aware of that. If you've liked the other Round Lab sunscreens, you'll probably enjoy this one as well."

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"There's literally no scent to it, which was nice. It feels pretty nice on my skin. It's more of a natural finish. There's no pilling feeling or anything like that. It contains niacinamide, adenosine, and HPR retinoid, which is so weak it probably won't do much of anything. It also contains antioxidant quercetin and camellia, which is an antioxidant or soothing ingredient that feels really nice on my skin. There's no real silicones in here. It feels nice with no peeling."

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"The sunscreen really feels nice. It doesn't feel greasy. It doesn't feel absorbent like a lot of sunscreens that contain dimethicone or too many silicones and then feel thick or heavy on your skin. This one does not at all. It feels pretty nice on my skin and seems to layer well over other products. I love the fact that they include five different chemical filters, non-US filters. The makeup feels like it applies pretty naturally over it. I would say most skin types will probably appreciate this. There's not a lot of acneic ingredients for acne-prone skin. There's no thick silicones or harsh alcohols in here, which is nice. And there's no scent at all. Not a fragrance scent, not a chemical scent, not an alcohol scent, none of that."

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"This one feels really nice. The makeup feels like it applies pretty naturally over it. Most skin types will probably appreciate this. There's not a lot of acneic ingredients for acne prone skin. There's no thick silicones or harsh alcohols in here, which is nice. And there's no scent at all. Not a fragrance scent, not a chemical scent, not an alcohol scent, none of that. It layered really nicely underneath my sunscreen. It has a little bit of a radiant finish, but once you put a little bit of powder over it, it ends up just looking really nice."

Vital Proteins Collagen gummies

"Vital Proteins collagen gummies. 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 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."

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"Collagen gummies are showing to be beneficial. I use the Vital Proteins collagen gummies."

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"This one contains protein, iron, collagen peptides, and then several amino acids. I'm still kind of torn on it, but it's kind of starting to show that some of these collagen gummies when they use certain peptides can be beneficial. I'm not exactly sure how beneficial, but it's looking like there's anecdotal evidence that it might be. I don't know, it wasn't too bad, and I guess going with the iron and protein in here wasn't a bad thing. And they're not that expensive."

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"Vital Proteins has done very well. These are their collagen gummies, they taste like grape, they're wonderful, they taste good. You have to eat, I think, four of them, and they've got collagen peptides from bovine. It does have some sugar calories in it because it actually tastes really good. These have tested well with the consumer lab. Most of the products from this brand have tested quite well."

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Paula's Choice Pro Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster

"It's not a bad product. Just the Paula's Choice peptide booster. But compared to some of the newer things these days, I'm not as impressed with this one as I once was when it first came out. But I have repurchased it several times."

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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."

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78%of gurus approve

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."

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81%of gurus approve

Tools8 reviews

It Cosmetics Brushes

"IT Cosmetics has really nice brushes. They're really thick. I use one for my all over powder and another one for my bronzer which is the same. Their highlighting brush is really nice. Their brushes are topnotch I would say. I have a lot of them for eyes. Their brushes are great. Their brushes are really wonderful, high quality."

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75%of gurus approve

All 2 takes on Brushes

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"I've had good luck with their brushes though no complaints. I bought some of them a long time ago and they're still going strong."

Shark Beauty Shark FlexStyle

"I love the Shark FlexStyle. 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."

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85%of gurus approve

IT Cosmetics Brush

"I use my IT Cosmetics brush, which I love. It's got a little fun tint in there. I would say this is more, well I guess if you applied it with the buff buffer pad might be more oil absorbing. I find it just to be very lightly mattifying. Just enough where your skin looks even but it doesn't look like super matte."

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80%of gurus approve

Beautyblender Beautyblender

"She created the original pink sponge back in 2003. Now it's got all different shapes and colors and color-changing ones which she owns a patent on. She owns a patent on a lot of things. What she created was amazing and all the patents. I like supporting her. She's brilliant."

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84%of gurus approve

Beachwaver Curling iron

"I've got my Beachwaver curling iron. Beachwaver, it's awesome. Yes, beach waver curling iron is the best idea ever."

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77%of gurus approve

Omnilux LED devices

"Omnilux, which is a company that makes LED devices, has been accused of this."

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NuFace Trinity Microcurrent Device

"The NuFace Trinity 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."

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"I tried the NuFace Trinity after using it off and on for a long period of time and I wasn't super impressed with it. I stopped using it after a while. I just didn't find it continued to do anything great for me."

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"Red light is great for anti-aging, however I would be very cautious with a device that has red light and near infrared light on it. I do not recommend using the infrared light setting on your face. The infrared light, especially if you're prone to hyperpigmentation or melasma, it leaves a little bit of an opening there for that. You might get more hyperpigmentation using the infrared light. I'm comfortable using red light on my face. I'm not comfortable using infrared light on my face because my experience when I have tried the infrared light setting, my hyperpigmentation gets worse. When I just use the red light setting, it doesn't. However, there's some people who may be prone to hyperpigmentation from either one, so use with caution. Pay attention to your skin after a couple sessions. If you notice things changing for the worse, stop using it and be very, very cautious."

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72%of gurus approve

Foundation6 reviews

Dr Jart BB cream

"My favorite is the Dr. Jart. This probably more repurchased than the Purito, but it took me a couple years after Dr. Jart reformulated to find my next foundation that I liked."

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84%of gurus approve

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"Feels very nice. Nice light combo of ingredients and products. I love this Dr. Jart BB Cream. I've now got I think four friends that use this stuff. The one thing I will say, I hate the packaging of it. It's a hard plastic bottle, so you can't just squeeze to get the rest left. And it's a little bit on the pricey side."

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"My favorite is the Dr. Jart. This probably more repurchased than the Purito, but it took me a couple years after Dr. Jart reformulated to find my next foundation that I liked."

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"Dr. Jart BB Cream. Just reordered a tube of it the other day. This has become my new favorite since they cancelled their other one."

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"The Dr. Jart BB Cream, which was also discontinued but I love this so I picked up three backups of it before it was totally gone. It's just so fuss, I don't have to mess with it a ton and it's got some sunscreen in it which is nice."

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"I had one back of this one left and I love the stuff they have have a new version of it at Sephora."

Morning Skincare & Makeup Routine - Low Maintenance, Winter, Dry, Sensitive Skin

"I stopped making this for a while but I picked up like three more tubes. At this point I have two tubes left and I still have other foundations I like but this one's just so easy. I feel like I don't have to fuss with it versus other foundations I feel like take more effort and more blending and more powder or more, they settle in wrinkles and fine lines and this one is just super easy and natural looking."

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"Dr. Jart+ BB Cream, love this stuff. Discontinued, yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do when I run out."

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"I literally got like three more days out of my Dr Jart BB cream out of it because of this little spatula."

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"The packaging of this makes it very hard to get the last like week, two weeks of uses out of it, but I can't let it go to waste."

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"I really enjoy this stuff. This is the fair light shade. I repurchased in this shade and I really enjoy it. There's no strong scent. There is fragrance ingredients, but there's no real noticeable scent to it. And I find the color to be pretty easy to work with based on your skin tone. It's pretty flexible."

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"I love this BB cream from Dr. Jart. They sell versions similar to this everywhere. However, I have found the formula is not identical. So, I really like the specific formula at Sephora. It's got a little bit of zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, a couple chemical filters in it. I really like the shade light, medium, or fair to light depending on my spray tan situation. But I love this. No scent. It has fragrance in it, but it has no scent. I think the fragrance in there covers up the sunscreen kind of smell that you could get. I love this foundation. I've been using it since it was in the previous packaging and I still love it."

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"I've got a few bottles of this and actually someone was very nice enough to send me one because it didn't work for them, the Dr. Jart BB Cream. I was just like really really happy because they don't make it anymore. I picked up as many as I could find when I knew it was discontinued. So I think I still have two tubes left and one of you guys was nice enough to send me one so it will not go to waste I can promise you that because I love this stuff."

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"The Dr. Jart BB Cream, I really like this stuff. They reformulated it again. This is still my favorite."

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"For my sun makeup BB cream Dr Jart, I really like this. It's just easy, it's no fuss. But it's just more full coverage than I like on a daily basis. So unless I've got something some big deal going on, I just I don't feel the need for super heavy heavy coverage."

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"I'm still loving this Dr. Jart+ BB cream. For summer I think I like the Dr. Jart+ one a little bit more because it also has sunscreen. I don't apply it liberally enough in my first step, at least in my foundation step I'll get a little bit. I've got my dampened beauty blender and this is where the magic happens. All my hyperpigmentation and melasma are mostly covered, not always totally cover but they go a lot away, a lot better."

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"I've been switching between the Mac serum powered foundation and the Dr. Jart+ BB cream and I'm almost done with this. The nice thing is when after I applied that moisturizer with a little bit of bronzer in it you don't really need a ton of foundation because it kind of just evens out my skin tone enough or it evens out all my hyperpigmentation and melasma."

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"I prefer the tint in this one a little bit more, and it has four different shades, so it's a little bit easier for everyone to find an option. It's pretty translucent, you can make it work. I've loved this one. I've been using it for so many years."

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"Even if it's not a high SPF like the Dr. Jart one, I think it's 40. I'm not sure how I apply this I'm not getting anywhere near 40 because I'm not applying it thickly like you would a sunscreen. But over my other sunscreen I'm just looking for a little bit of mineral filters to help protect the sun from making the melasma worse."

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"For foundation I'm going to try and finish this last one up of the Dr Jart BB cream. Once I finish that one then I will officially make the transition to their newest version which I've been using a lot lately too."

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"This is my new foundation, Dr Jart BB cream, and I'm really liking it."

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"I'm finishing up my very very last bottle of the Dr. Jart BB Cream. Although Dr. Jart did replace it with something very similar, but it's just not quite the same to me."

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"I've repurchased this one many times and I've gifted it many times as well. The Dr Jart BB cream doesn't exist anymore, they changed the formula, but my friend who loved this one now uses the updated formula and likes that one as well."

Dermatology Universal Tinted Moisturizer

"The Dermatology Universal Tinted Moisturizer is very nice. This is another combo mineral chemical one. It's got a very nice finish and it applies with a tint to it. So it applies kind of like a light foundation or a color correcting cream."

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81%of gurus approve

Missha 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. It does look like it has a decent amount 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 a toner, a serum, a moisturizer, a sunscreen. So it's basically my fifth layer. 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."

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78%of gurus approve

The Ordinary Foundation

"They've re-released their foundation, which I tried and wasn't overly impressed with, but maybe it works well for some people."

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70%of gurus approve

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."

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78%of gurus approve

About Face Foundation

"She's got the About Face brand which is at Sephora. I actually picked up the foundation from them and it was okay."

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68%of gurus approve

Body & Tan5 reviews

Loving Tan Self-Tanner

"Loving Tan brand has selftanners, but most of their selftanners 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."

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68%of gurus approve

Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream

"I like the Neutrogena Norwegian Formula hand cream is great."

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88%of gurus approve

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"The Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream, fragrance-free. I think they must have a fragrance version, but I always get the fragrance-free one."

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"I like the Neutrogena Norwegian Formula hand cream is great."

Necessaire Body Lotion

"The Necessaire Body Lotion is wonderful. It's fragrance free and it's got peptides in it, vitamin E, panthenol. It's really nice. The bottle's big enough where you could use it on certain areas of your face as well that get dry, and sometimes I use it on my eyelids too which get dry sometimes. It's 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."

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69%of gurus approve

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"The Necessaire Body Lotion, I really enjoyed this stuff, it was really nice. I don't know if I'd pay full price, I think I got this in a beauty box or something like that. This stuff was very nice. I like the fact that they have unscented options, which made it really nice. Very thick and creamy."

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Necessaire Body Serum

"The Necessaire Body Serum, this is a nice lightweight quick product and no scent to it."

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80%of gurus approve

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."

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80%of gurus approve

Acne4 reviews

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"

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78%of gurus approve

Dr. G R.E.D Blemish Clear Soothing Cream

"At first I hated this stuff and now my skin appreciates it a little bit more. At first it really was suffocating my skin, but now I really appreciate it. I love copper peptides, it's really hydrating. Using it on my face, neck, and décolletage, it's wonderful."

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77%of gurus approve

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."

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83%of gurus approve

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."

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72%of gurus approve

Fragrance4 reviews

Geek and Gorgeous Liquid Hydration

"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 lantern. 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. I believe this is my third bottle of this one."

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87%of gurus approve

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"I'm going to put a little mist of this on Geek and Gorgeous Liquid Hydration and then I'm going to pat a little bit of this essence on it to kind of soak it in."

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"I'm going to use the Geek and Gorgeous Liquid Hydration which is a mist kind of a toner. You can use this either way, apparently at first when it first came out it was in a toner bottle and now they repackaged it as a mist because apparently a lot of people requested it to be as a mist. I kind of let this do the heavy duty work because sometimes if I use a lot of products the night before I'll use a light mild cleanser in the morning but my skin tends to get pretty dry so I find a splash with water and then using a toner works well for me."

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"The Geek and Gorgeous liquid hydration is really nice for hydrating your skin. It was initially a toner when they released it and then they changed it up and turned it into a face mist. 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 or things like that it works well for that. No fragrance. Really affordable option. It's really nice for calming skin. After I did a BBL treatment and a Moxy laser, my skin was very unhappy, red, irritating for two to three hours. But anytime I misted this, my skin instantly calmed down. It's a pretty simple product with their thermal spring water which has some benefits."

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"Geek and Gorgeous Liquid Hydration is very similar in a lot of ways. The ingredients that they've chosen are very similar. It's simple, no fragrance, no alcohol, very affordable, and easy to fit into any routine. I'm really enjoying it."

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"Their liquid hydration is a toner that they put in a mist bottle. I've actually been using this a lot lately. I'll mist my face the second I get out of the shower now that it's winter and it's a little bit drier. So the second I get out of the shower, before I pat my face off, before I dry it, I mist it with this. And usually my face kind of dries as I'm putting my body lotion and getting prepped for that. And this adds some moisture to it. Fragrance-free, really nice gentle formula."

Strate Lipid Gold

"The Strate Lipid Gold is 27 bucks. I just finished up my last tube last night. So, I love this stuff. It's fragrance free. It's got a lotion texture. It's got a nice lotion texture to it. And it's fragrance-free and it is kind of yellow due to the seabuckthorn oil in here. So it's got ceramides, rose hip oil, cranberry seed oil, which is a super good antioxidant, green tea. I'd say this is great for dry, normal and dehydrated skin. And for acne prone skin, we have dimethicone, cetyl alcohol, squalane, and vitamin E. So pretty friendly for the most part depending on what you're sensitive to."

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82%of gurus approve

Minimalist Minimalist

"Minimalist, in my opinion, one to watch for next year. It's fragrance free, it's got some interesting xylol, amino acids, vitamin E, oat kernel, salicylic acid, and multi peptides. I love salicylic acid and I love peptides."

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65%of gurus approve

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."

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56%of gurus approve

Powder & Setting4 reviews

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter

"I really loved just using this plain on my skin. I did say the Charlotte Tilbury ones weren't bad. I really like this, but then I remember her telling me it's not a foundation. So, then I kind of just slowed down and stopped using it so much because I'm like, well, maybe it's not giving me enough coverage. I've got melasma, hyperpigmentation. I want to cover all of that up."

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70%of gurus approve

MAC Fix Plus Setting Spray

"For setting makeup, the MAC Fix Plus is nice. It doesn't have any scent to it. I'll sometimes dampen 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."

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68%of gurus approve

Hourglass Veil Powder

"I'm going to put on a little bit of the Hourglass Veil Powder. I've been changing up my powders a little bit lately. I do think that's why I didn't like all that Bea of Jose Foundation or sunscreen that was too shiny, but if you set it with a really strong setting powder it's not as noticeable."

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78%of gurus approve

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"Hourglass Veil, they're pretty good, they're coming through for me today."

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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."

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Blush & Bronzer2 reviews

Omnilux Contour Face

"Omnilux is a pretty scummy brand. They're offering money to remove content they don't like."

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72%of gurus approve

Hourglass Blush

"I'm just going to use the Hourglass blush in here. 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."

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85%of gurus approve

Ingredients1 review

Geek and Gorgeous Azelaic Acid

"Azelaic acid really helps me with my redness a lot and my hyperpigmentation. Azelaic acid for the win for almost every skin issue I have."

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94%of gurus approve

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