CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea

What the gurus are saying.

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✓Yay

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

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"This one has urea in it for some added moisture. This one is more of a lotion, I would say. So this one's a little bit on the lighter side. This one absorbs a little bit more quicker, but it's not quite as hydrating, but it's a really nice product. It's got urea, glycerin, shea butter, ceramides, no fragrance, all that good stuff. Really nice product."

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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, sorbitan oleate, carbomer, glycerol stearate, and 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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"This one's got water, glycerin, some fatty alcohols, ceramides, cholesterol. If you have very sensitive skin, this might be the one to go for just because the short ingredient list. It's thick, but still kind of lotiony. It's one of my top four for very very dry skin days or very very dry skin or very very dry cold weather."

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

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"The urea they used in here is really nice. It's in some moisturizers for your face and things like that but 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 got more of a lightweight gel lotion texture and it feels really nice. The urea in here is very nice, it's a nice hydrating ingredient. We've got hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, we've got phytosphingosine which is a skin identical ingredient, we've got the ceramides obviously, sodium hyaluronate, squalane, cholesterol and alanine."

Kelly Driscoll

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✓Yay

"I absolutely love this especially for hand care. Hand care becomes increasingly important to me in the winter time because this season causes my hands to feel really dry, dehydrated, sometimes even itchy, irritated, and I get rough skin around my nail beds and hang nails. What's different about this than the original moisturizing lotion is the intensive version includes 5% urea. This is such an amazing ingredient that gives this moisturizing lotion the edge that I personally need for hand care in the winter because the 5% urea is an amazing humectant for the skin and a natural moisturizing factor."

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"I absolutely love this especially for hand care. Hand care becomes increasingly important to me in the winter time because this season causes my hands to feel really dry, dehydrated, sometimes even itchy, irritated, and I get rough skin around my nail beds and hang nails. What's different about this than the original moisturizing lotion is the intensive version includes 5% urea. This is such an amazing ingredient that gives this moisturizing lotion the edge that I personally need for hand care in the winter because the 5% urea is an amazing humectant for the skin and a natural moisturizing factor."

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"This stuff, it's so good. It's got this great lotion texture. It sinks in so quickly. It's just like the original moisturizing cream texture in my opinion, but the 5% urea really helps the hydration deep down in your skin. It lasts a long time. It also helps to soothe on contact that itchiness that I can get in my hand. It's not greasy, but really nice and moisturized and soothed as well."

Dr Dray

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✓Yay

"CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea plus the backbone of the typical CeraVe moisturizers with ceramides, hyaluronic acid. Both 5% and [...] 10% urea are great for hydrating dry skin. [...] This one is a little spicy, urea can burn, sting, tingle a bit, especially if you [...] have atopic dermatitis and you're in the early stages of a flare-up where things are a little raw and rashy. Sometimes that sting, that tingle is uncomfortable, but sometimes it kind of tricks the little itch nerves and you get some relief from itch. [...] Even with my atopic dermatitis not flaring, it's well controlled, but it's still a little spicy, especially on my hands where I get dyshidrotic hand eczema. [...] This one in particular really has a nice noticeable effect on skin firmness. It's not going to restore lost volume, [...] but on the forearm especially, it gives you that youthful forearm bounce, which is underrated. Plus, the urea can help brighten up the appearance of little age spots through hydration and gentle exfoliation."

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"CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea plus the backbone of the typical CeraVe moisturizers with ceramides, hyaluronic acid. Both 5% and [...] 10% urea are great for hydrating dry skin. [...] This one is a little spicy, urea can burn, sting, tingle a bit, especially if you [...] have atopic dermatitis and you're in the early stages of a flare-up where things are a little raw and rashy. Sometimes that sting, that tingle is uncomfortable, but sometimes it kind of tricks the little itch nerves and you get some relief from itch. [...] Even with my atopic dermatitis not flaring, it's well controlled, but it's still a little spicy, especially on my hands where I get dyshidrotic hand eczema. [...] This one in particular really has a nice noticeable effect on skin firmness. It's not going to restore lost volume, [...] but on the forearm especially, it gives you that youthful forearm bounce, which is underrated. Plus, the urea can help brighten up the appearance of little age spots through hydration and gentle exfoliation."

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"With the CeraVe 5% Urea, that stinging sensation in contrast does not happen at all. Texture-wise it doesn't leave a sticky residue on the skin which I really like. I put it on at night after showering and the following day my skin is moisturized, firm, and that hydrated skin that I appreciate. The softness, the suppleness, the firmness from better moisture retention, it's pretty long lasting into the next day for about 48 hours. If I skip moisturizing with this the next night, my skin does stay moisturized for the next day. There's no fragrance, no aroma of the urea. Urea can have sort of an off-putting sour aroma to it, but these don't have that, at least not that I detect. It has shea butter in the backbone which is a nice moisturizing formula. It doesn't have niacinamide, and many of you find that niacinamide burns, stings, or irritates your skin, so if that's you, these do not have it."

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"I have officially finished the CeraVe 5% Urea. Really enjoyed this. Didn't have the bite to it that the Lactic Urea one, the 10%, had a little spicy tingle. This did not. Really liked it. Would repurchase."

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"Urea, like I mentioned at the start of the video, is excellent for moisturizing the skin longterm. You know, can help with improving skin texture, water retention. You may find for some people that the combination of tretinoin and urea ends up being maybe a little too irritating, but I don't generally see that happening with urea. It's pretty well tolerated at 5%. So yeah, as long as that's tolerated, the urea can help with dryness. Great ingredient also to bring in in the colder winter months for optimizing water retention in the skin."

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Doctorly

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✓Yay

"I would make the argument when it comes to a body moisturizer that I actually like the experience of their Intensive Moisturizing Lotion the best of between the regular lotion and the regular cream. I kind of like that lipid slip that stays around a little bit longer. It feels a little bit greasier, more of an oilier afterfeel, more of a slip, but I like that feeling when I'm moisturizing the body. It feels more like the lip barrier than any of the other products from CeraVe. I do actually think it's okay for the face and the body, but I prefer using that on my body than my face. It does have 5% urea in it which is going to have multiple benefits, but you really want to see if you want a strong exfoliating benefit, it really needs to be 10% or greater."

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What the evidence says.

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

Urea

Urea both holds water in the skin and gently loosens dead surface cells. At higher strengths it has good evidence for very dry or thickened skin.

Source: DermNet

Ceramides

Ceramides are part of the skin's own barrier, and moisturisers built around them have evidence for holding water in and settling the tightness and flaking that come with a damaged barrier.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Frequently asked.

What is CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea?

A lightweight body moisturizing lotion formulated with 5% urea, ceramides, glycerin, and shea butter to hydrate and soothe dry skin.

Is CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea worth it?

Yes. All 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 89%.

What is CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea's Guru Score?

CeraVe Intensive Moisturizing Lotion with 5% Urea holds a Guru Score of 89%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.