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Stressless Serum.

Geek & Gorgeous Stressless Serum
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About this product

A lightweight calming serum containing beta glucan, centella asiatica derivatives, and peptides, designed to soothe redness, hydrate, and support skin barrier health.

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What the gurus are saying

The gurus who tested it praise this serum for its ability to calm redness and irritation while hydrating and plumping the skin, with beta glucan and centella-derived compounds standing out as the workhorse ingredients. One reviewer noted it's not quite the absolute top calming serum on the market, though it ranks among the best options and works especially well for sensitive or redness-prone skin. Most gurus suggest using it morning and evening for about a month to see the full hydrating and smoothing effect, and it layers easily with other actives, making it simple to slot into any existing routine.
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"Their stressless serum is great if you're looking for a calming and soothing serum."
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"My favorite would be the Stressless Serum. This is the best, like hands down the best calming, soothing, hydrating serum."
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"It's a compound that's found in centella asiatica which they've isolated, concentrated, and condensed out into these little balls that kind of burst on the skin and give you that calming and soothing effect. I love this because it means you can use this not only as your hyperpigmentation serum but also as your calming and soothing one too. You've also got a stabilized version of vitamin C which is great because it's going to have a super long shelf life and you don't have to worry about it oxidizing. You've got two percent concentration of tranexamic acid which is one of my absolute favorite pigment correctors because it works in two ways: it increases the rate of excess pigment being expelled from the skin but it also calms and soothes and is anti-inflammatory which will dial back the rate of pigmentation production in the first place. So you're kind of getting a two-pronged attack when it comes to fading dark spots and discoloration. Tranexamic acid is one of my favorite ingredients and it's really difficult to find, especially in that gold standard two percent concentration, but you have it in here. All of this is held within centella asiatica which is a wonderful calming and soothing ingredient, hydrates, and used alongside that vitamin C in here it's also proven to dial up the rate of collagen production, which is some great anti-aging benefit."
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"Their stressless serum is great if you're looking for a calming and soothing serum."
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"I would personally get a good soothing serum, my favorite is the Geek & Gorgeous Stressless. This will be great because this will really minimize any redness and any irritation. It's so cheap as well, I love it. It'll hydrate, it'll plump, it'll minimize redness. It's so so good."
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"One of my favorites is the Geek & Gorgeous Stressless Serum. There are so many different compounds in here which are going to calm the skin, minimize inflammation and irritation. This really is a wonder."
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"In here you've got calming and soothing ingredients minimizing inflammation redness and helping to smooth out the texture of the skin. You've also got those saccharides, those sugar molecules, which are really really important to deeply nourish and hydrate. If you're looking for plumping, having that saccharide action is really really important and you get it in here alongside that calming and soothing. This is quite honestly one of my favorite favorite serums and I use it every day in my skincare routine. It's so simple, doesn't break the bank, and the way that it's formulated means you can just slot it into your existing skincare routine and it works perfectly with all your other actives so you don't need to change anything. This will work universally no matter what your skin type is, no matter what your skin texture or tone. I think genuinely this is the secret to glass skin in a bottle. You'll need to use it morning and evening for about a month before you start to see that true glow from within, that smoothness and that hydration, but it's worth it."
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"This actually contains beta glucans and madecassol, great ingredients to calm and soothe. Now do I think this is the best calming serum on the market? No, but it's up there amongst some of the other great options. It works really well, it's really well formulated. While I'm not going to declare it to be the best calming serum, top in class, it's definitely a great well formulated product that I think is great for redness prone skin, very sensitive skin. Use this and you'll just see that everything reaches an equilibrium that little bit quicker and your skin is less irritated. When my skin's going through it and feels a little sensitive, a little of this just works every time."
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"This is a wonderful beta-glucan and ceramide infused serum and it just does everything for your skin. I think it's just a great addition to any skincare routine. If your skin's going through it, here in the northern hemisphere it's winter, it's cooler, my skin tends to be more dryness prone, a little bit more irritated, this is like an instant fix for that. And it's one of the best calming and soothing serums on the market."
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"Their stressless serum is also great for sensitive skin. So, if you have sensitive skin that gets red, dry, flaky, anything like that, stressless is really nice. Betaglucan is also the secret anti-aging ingredient. Most people think of it as a humectant and a soothing ingredient, but its secret powers are also anti-aging, helping with fine lines and wrinkles, and it's actually been studied and shown to be efficient and effective for that."
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"I'm on my third bottle of it now and I really love this one. It's a simple formula so if your skin is very sensitive but you're also having irritation, sometimes more simple is the way to go, especially for easily irritated skin. In here we've got saccharide isomerate, we've got beta glucan, I love beta glucan, it is an amazing ingredient and it's great for soothing skin, it's a good humectant and also can help brighten skin up, amazing ingredient, and then last but not least we've got matrixyl 3000 which comes from Evonik that has skin healing, wound healing properties in it. The texture of this stuff is wonderful and it just soaks into skin super easily. A little bit of it goes a long way and it's really affordable. You can pretty much add this into any routine pretty easily. Beta glucan and matrixyl together are even better, they can help really protect your skin."
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"Coming in at 12 bucks is the Geek & Gorgeous Stressless Serum, a super lightweight serum you can use for daytime or evening or both. It's great to use in conjunction with other products because it's just got a super light texture so it layers well. I think this is my second or third bottle of it, so just a really nice lightweight gel texture serum. In here we've got beta glucan, which is great as a humectant, soothing ingredient, antioxidant. Then we've got madecassoside, which is a derivative from centella, a compound from centella rather, that's great for wound healing and collagen production, great for your skin."
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"Beta glucan is a star of this show with the Geek & Gorgeous Stressless Serum. Beta glucan's a great antioxidant with hydrating and soothing benefits. Even small amounts of beta glucan can help hydrate skin and even better than hyaluronic acid, and it also has soothing wound healing benefits to skin. Beta glucan in my opinion is superior to hyaluronic acid. I really prefer it in it because it's just got other good things that it does as opposed to hyaluronic acid, which is a great humectant, but beta glucan is that and it does other good stuff."
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"Their stressless serum is also great for sensitive skin. So, if you have sensitive skin that gets red, dry, flaky, anything like that, stressless is really nice. Betaglucan is also the secret anti-aging ingredient. Most people think of it as a humectant and a soothing ingredient, but its secret powers are also anti-aging, helping with fine lines and wrinkles, and it's actually been studied and shown to be efficient and effective for that."
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