147 Barrier Cream.

"You could use it as a calming cream and then top it off with a heavier moisturizer. It really is formulated for calming the skin. That's what really made me fall in love with this cream when I first started to use it last year. I was really surprised at how soothing it felt right on contact, but it just does it in such a nice lightweight cream texture. Very soothing on application, very gentle on the skin with a nice kiss of moisture. I really love the texture of this. I think it's very soothing and healing. I think it has a lot of flexibility for different skin types and different uses. I will say more people need to talk about this cream, especially if you have some sensitive skin or irritated skin because it is something that just kind of flies under the radar, but it's actually such a good moisturizer."

"If I had to name the best product from Dr. Althea that's currently available at Ulta, I would have to say it's the 147 barrier cream. This is just a really great example of a medium light moisturizer that's great for strengthening your skin barrier and soothing irritation. They're using six different types of ceramides. We have cholesterol and fatty acids, which are those three main lipids that make up your skin barrier, and those are the ingredients you want to be using if your skin barrier is weak or damaged. They're also using guaiazulene, which is an extract, the biologically active compound found in chamomile. The extract itself is used for soothing inflammation and irritation and calming down inflamed skin, and the active compound in that extract is guaiazulene, so they've just gone straight to the source. They've pulled out the extract and they're just using that biologically active compound, which means it's going to be more reliable, it's going to soothe the skin better in a smaller quantity. Guaiazulene also imparts a very faint hint of blue to this cream that you're going to see, that's where it's coming from. There's a couple of other soothing extracts in here that are going to help reduce inflammation, and there's a little bit of oil content in here."

"The Dr. Althea 147 Barrier Cream is one that I personally gravitate a little bit more towards than the more popular 345 cream. Dr. Althea really likes to market the 147 Barrier Cream on the soothing extracts and moisturizing extracts that they're using in the cream because it's all about the barrier. They do call out the peony flour extract in the formula, which is a floral extract. You may want to keep your eye on this if you do have sensitive skin because a floral extract may have trace amounts of fragrant compounds which could cause irritation on the most sensitive skin, though I'm not really sensing a lot of scent from this. They claim that this extract can help soothe and hydrate the skin. They're also calling out the argan and green tea seed oils which help to bring a lot of moisturization to the skin. They're using 10,000 parts per million each, so 1% each of mugwort extract, kale extract, and avocado fruit extract, all of which bring soothing to the skin, with the avocado also bringing some moisturization."