Augustinus Bader Face Oil.

Serums

About this product

A luxury facial oil formulated with grapeseed oil, jojoba oil, licorice root extract, peptides, and carrot to hydrate and nourish the skin.

Full ingredients

Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Orbignya Oleifera Seed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Corylus Avellana (Hazelnut) Seed Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Seed Oil, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Seabuckthorn) Fruit Extract, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Seed Extract, Pongamia Glabra Seed Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate, Bisabolol, Aesculus Hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut) Seed Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Root Extract, Lecithin, Glycerin, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Aqua (Water), Hydrolyzed Rice Protein, Lithothamnion Calcareum Extract, Pentylene Glycol, Alanyl Glutamine, Arginine, Brassica Alba Oil, Oligopeptide-177, Oligopeptide-6, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Hydroxide, Tocopherol

Guru Score

66%

Mixed

Early verdict · Few reviews so far

What they liked

Thoughtful ingredient formula without essential oils

What they flagged

Pricey at $225 to $265
Base oils available cheaply elsewhere

What the gurus are saying

The formula itself earns genuine praise (grapeseed oil, jojoba, licorice root extract, and peptides are all solid ingredients) but the $225 price tag is where both reviewers hit a wall. The oils inside are ones you can find for a fraction of the cost elsewhere, and for that investment, experts would build the formula differently. One reviewer points to Huda Beauty's rose oil at $70 as a comparable option with similar key ingredients but a far gentler price.

Synthesized from 2 expert reviews · most recent take March 2024

Best for

Dry skin

Type

SerumsOil

Key actives

Vitamin EPeptides

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

Sephora → Amazon → Google →

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What the gurus are saying.

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Hyram

4.34M subs

~Mixed

"For a Face Oil the ingredients are really good. Typically I don't like face oils because they have a lot of essential oils in them and they just can be really irritating and in my opinion don't necessarily do a lot for the skin, but this has a bunch of good ingredients. It's a packed ingredient list. [...] I like look at the formulas and I'm like wow it's a really nice formula if only the price point were nice too. $265, so expensive."

Cassandra Bankson

2.46M subs

~Mixed

"I love this, I just don't know how I feel about the price. It's 225 dollars for this oil. If it has a basic first ingredient like some cheap oil, I'm going to be so pissed. Let me see what's in here. Grapeseed oil and jojoba, both wonderful oils, but cheapest get yourself a six-dollar grapeseed oil from Trader Joe's. [...] Licorice root extract is good, but [...] we also have some peptides, [...] but again for the price of this I would do this entirely differently."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Peptides

Peptides are short protein fragments meant to signal repair. The evidence for them is thinner than for retinoids or vitamin C, and it varies a lot by the specific peptide, so the category is more promising than proven.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Augustinus Bader Face Oil?

A luxury facial oil formulated with grapeseed oil, jojoba oil, licorice root extract, peptides, and carrot to hydrate and nourish the skin.

Is Augustinus Bader Face Oil worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 66%.

What is Augustinus Bader Face Oil's Guru Score?

Augustinus Bader Face Oil holds a Guru Score of 66%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 2 expert reviewers we have collected.