Rice 7% Ceramide Hydrating Barrier Serum.

"This serum feels like 10 steps in one. When my skin is irritated, dull, basically over whatever I've done to it that week, I drop all actives, everything, and use this. It's kind of thick. It's a little bit gooey. It feels great. It makes it look like I've done a full 10-step skincare routine without the risk of irritating my skin or making my skin even worse. So in here we have rice brand water, honey extract, ceramides, hyaluronic acid, alpha butin. It really does have so many beneficial things in giving you brighter, glowier, bouncier skin and calm skin too. All those ingredients in making it look and feel like I've used five different products, toners, essences, serums, but I've just used one. I obviously love it. I've got backups of it. It's a little bit gooey and it feels absolutely fine. I like to spray my skin with a little bit of an ample mist or like just water, then apply this. I just find that it glides on nicer and kind of penetrates the skin a lot quicker. Without it can feel a little bit sticky but nothing that's going to interfere with the rest of your skincare routine. So if you are tired of your skin looking and feeling tired, give this a go if you haven't already. It'll be your fix without the irritation."

"All the hyped up reviews make it out to be, I don't find it to be like deep deep deep hydrating or like really plumping to the skin. I think it's just some nice surface level hydration that you feel, and when I say hydration I mean watery feeling right. But the rice and the honey do round that out, bring a lot of balance to the skin, hug that light hydration in, soften the skin. It's sticky. This was something I was like really, I couldn't believe how sticky this was. It reminds me a lot of a snail essence because when you get the texture between your fingers you kind of pull them apart you get that like mozzarella cheese effect, that string effect. You do get some of that here. It absorbs in the skin, I feel like the absorbency rate is good, but it's almost like it leaves a residue on top that starts to get really really tacky and sticky, like your fingers start to stick to your skin as you're patting it in and as it's absorbed, and it takes a minute for that feeling to go away. It actually really kind of creates that film on top of your skin. I did find that quite unpleasant and kind of surprising because definitely not a sensory experience that I personally enjoy in my serums."

"This is another new Anua serum, and I don't like it, I don't even like the packaging, mine is leaking, that sucks, and it's not even that cheap, which makes me so annoyed. I expected more because it says ceramide, and a ceramide based product should mean a lot more hydration and be good for dry, mature skin. At first it feels slippery like a snail serum, but it's gone so quickly. Anybody expecting their skin barrier to get better from using this will be disappointed."

"I like rice, it's a nice non-irritating ingredient, but I wouldn't say it's in my absolute favorites, though to be honest it works really well for me. Upon first pump of this product I found myself feeling shocked in the most joyous of ways because of the texture, which is much more like a high glycerin product. That texture is so reminiscent of my favorite serum to use with my Medicube device, and that's invaluable for me because I need serums that stay on my skin a bit longer. Now understand this may not be for everyone, it definitely has a bit more of a heavy feel to it, it's more of a reparative nourishing type of product than a lightweight one. It's meant to be a hydrating barrier serum. I am so so happy with this that I went back for more."