Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream: a Guru Score of 83%

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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"For days when my skin just feels really irritated, there's a lot of redness and rawness, and I just want pure comfort, then I really love Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream. I don't find this to be very rich, [...] but there's something so comforting about it. It's very moisturizing, which is exactly what my skin needs when it's feeling irritated and raw. This is one of my favorite drugstore moisturizers. It reminds me a lot of the Physio Gel moisturizer that I love so much, but yeah, this is just so comforting and I also think it makes my skin look really good."

Dr Dray

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"The Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream [...] is a really good rich facial moisturizer. It has avocado seed oil in it as well as hyaluronic acid."

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"The Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream [...] is a really good rich facial moisturizer. It has avocado seed oil in it as well as hyaluronic acid."

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"I also finished this one up by Cetaphil, their Rich Hydrating Cream, and I went through it pretty quickly. The consistency is not as heavy as CeraVe cream, it's more of a lightweight, fast absorbing lotion consistency. But this is a great product, no fragrance, and if you're just looking for a basic facial moisturizer, maybe for very sensitive rosacea prone skin, this would be a wonderful choice."

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"This is the Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream. Love this, as the name implies it is rich and hydrating, but it's a really fast absorbing cream consistency, almost like a splash in the face feel rather than a dense cream. If you have oily skin and you're dealing with a lot of irritation and skin barrier issues, try this out, you might actually like it even though it's marketed for dry sensitive skin. It is on the shiny side, but for a nighttime moisturizer who cares."

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"I like this product from Cetaphil, their Rich Hydrating Cream for dry and normal sensitive skin. This is a great option too to use."

Dr. Jenny Liu

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"You have to check out Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream for $15. This is an ultra-rich moisturizer that is formulated with wonderful ingredients to help support dry, sensitive skin, especially those with concerns of skin aging like fine lines and wrinkles. It contains hyaluronic acid, three essential ceramides, along with biomimetic peptides that help boost skin hydration and help restore and repair the skin barrier. With this rich formula, I love using it in the evening, especially during the winter, and it really complements your anti-aging routine. For example, if you're using a topical retinoid or even prescription tretinoin, all of us tend to get a little more dry and irritated during the winter when it's dry and cold outside. So this moisturizer makes a great complement because of the rich and nourishing formula, and it really helps to reduce the irritation and dryness that retinoids will impart on our skin."

Dr. Shereene Idriss

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"I absolutely love the Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Night Cream. It retails for approximately $16 and the reason I love this particular product is that it is extremely thick and rich as a moisturizer, and it contains zinc, which is a very good anti-inflammatory. If your skin is dry, cracked, and your barrier is broken, you want to look for a moisturizer with zinc, and this is one that I love to base my face in like a turkey on Thanksgiving morning. I usually put a thick coating all over my face in the dead of winter and I wake up to much smoother, hydrated skin. You probably won't want to use it during the day because it can leave a white cast."

All 2 takes from Dr. Shereene Idriss

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"I absolutely love the Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Night Cream. It retails for approximately $16 and the reason I love this particular product is that it is extremely thick and rich as a moisturizer, and it contains zinc, which is a very good anti-inflammatory. If your skin is dry, cracked, and your barrier is broken, you want to look for a moisturizer with zinc, and this is one that I love to base my face in like a turkey on Thanksgiving morning. I usually put a thick coating all over my face in the dead of winter and I wake up to much smoother, hydrated skin. You probably won't want to use it during the day because it can leave a white cast."

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"Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Night Cream retails for $8 and is a UK drugstore product. It has an excellent emollient cream formula. Because of its texture with white soft paraffin and light liquid paraffin, it goes on so light and whipped that it doesn't feel heavy like Vaseline would, and it gets absorbed so easily into the neck. If you have any kind of creepy neck or you're seeing your skin, this basically acts like temporary Spanx for the neck and really holds it all in, giving you the illusion of firmer-looking skin because it holds onto moisture."

Cassandra Bankson

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"The Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Night Cream is super popular and it's a good price at $16. I've heard a lot of people use this for underneath makeup. This is basically a less expensive, better version of things like Vaseline or petroleum jelly, or even La Mer in a twisted way. The main ingredient in here is water, then we have paraffinium liquidum which is what's in Nivea and La Mer. We do have some shea butter and some hydrolized soy protein, which we do like. The only thing that's in here that I'm not a super huge fan of for her is the perfume. But seeing as this is paraffinium liquidum, I feel like this would be better for the dry-skinned days, and there's a lot that she could use. I'm really glad that she likes this one, it's inexpensive and you know what, it works."

What the evidence says.

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

Retinoids

Retinoids are among the best studied ingredients in dermatology, with solid evidence for acne and for the fine lines and rough texture that come from sun exposure. Dryness and flaking in the first few weeks are common and usually settle.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin C

Topical vitamin C is an antioxidant with reasonable evidence for dullness and uneven tone. It breaks down in light and air, so how a product is formulated and packaged matters as much as the percentage on the front.

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 Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream?

A hydrating facial moisturizer formulated with hyaluronic acid and avocado seed oil, designed to nourish and comfort irritated or dry skin.

Is Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream worth it?

Yes. All 5 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 83%.

What is Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream's Guru Score?

Cetaphil Rich Hydrating Cream holds a Guru Score of 83%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 5 expert reviewers we have collected.