Is Hero Cosmetics Rescue Balm worth it?

Yes. All 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 86%.

What is Hero Cosmetics Rescue Balm's Guru Score?

Hero Cosmetics Rescue Balm holds a Guru Score of 86%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.

Who is Hero Cosmetics Rescue Balm best for?

Hero Cosmetics Rescue Balm is generally suited to sensitive skin and acne-prone skin.

Hero Cosmetics

Rescue Balm.

Moisturizers

About this product

A lightweight peptide-rich balm designed to soothe irritated skin, support barrier recovery, and aid healing of compromised or damaged skin.

Full ingredients

Water/Aqua/Eau, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Dimethicone, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Panthenol, Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 Dimethicone, Beta-Glucan, Oligopeptide-32, Oligopeptide-29, Allantoin, Copper Tripeptide-1, Tocopherol, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Pantolactone, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Trihydroxystearin, Diisostearoyl Polyglyceryl-3 Dimer Dilinoleate, Polyglyceryl-3 Oleate, Polyglyceryl-4 Isostearate, Polyglyceryl-4 Diisostearate/Polyhydroxystearate/Sebacate, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Stearalkonium Hectorite, Aluminum Hydroxide, Zinc Oxide, PEG-10 Dimethicone, Magnesium Sulfate, Propylene Carbonate, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, 1,2-Hexanediol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Titanium Dioxide

Guru Score

86%

Yay

4 experts · Moderate agreement

4Gurus

4Yay

0Mixed

0Nay

What they liked

Tiny tube lasts a long time
Lightweight texture for irritated skin
Speeds healing of raw or open patches

What they flagged

Nothing. None of the experts who reviewed it raised a problem.

What the gurus are saying

This balm earns consistent praise for speeding wound and blemish healing, with one expert reporting it closes compromised skin roughly twice as fast as skincare alone and helps prevent hyperpigmentation from forming. The peptides and overall formula are built to support skin recovery, making it particularly useful for post-acne flakiness, razor irritation, or raw patches that need gentle mending. A little goes a long way; most find a tiny amount is all that's needed, and many pair it with pimple patches for extra support.

Synthesized from 4 expert reviews · most recent take November 2024

Best for

Sensitive skin Acne-prone skin

Type

MoisturizersBalm & ointment

Key actives

Vitamin EPeptides

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

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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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The Budget Dermatologist

723k subs

✓Yay

"It's by Hero, it's the Rescue Balm. It is a color correcting green cream that visibly evens the skin tone with the pigments in this product. I am very redness prone, that is part of what I deal with as my aging skin, so green corrects red. This is what I've been using so much during the day instead of makeup. It's a very subtle green, and then when you rub it in, it covers the redness. It is a very new to me product, it's actually a viral product, and for a good reason it works so well."

Kelly Driscoll

90k subs

✓Yay

"You absolutely could use this cream for cuts, maybe some accidents with the razor if you're shaving right on your face or anywhere really, bug bites. I think it can be particularly helpful for anywhere that you need skin healing. The peptides in this formula and the overall formulation really do support that. I particularly use this one [...] whenever there's that area on my face where the skin is raw, it's open, it's vulnerable. I am putting this on the area and it really does work. It really speeds up the healing like two times faster. If I [...] just did normal skincare, I think that it's a lot slower to mend up on its own. Using this cream, it closes it up so much faster. But it doesn't just promote the healing by closing the wound; it really does promote the healthy healing of that wound, that smooth skin. I think it helps to cut down on the hyperpigmentation if you suffer from that."

Nadine Baggott

164k subs

✓Yay

"This tube, which is teeny, lasts until you die. You put this on a red spot and just say goodbye. If you're feeling really hot and bothered, find yourself one of the pimple patches, put the tiniest dab on, less than you think you need, put the pimple patch over it and go get married. It's unbelievable."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

✓Yay

"I love the Rescue Balm. It's good for the dry flaky skin after a pimple goes away."

What the evidence says.

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

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

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

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