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Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion.

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion
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About this product

A lightweight moisturizing lotion containing 10% urea designed to smooth rough skin texture and provide long-lasting hydration for up to 48 hours.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

82%

Yay

5 experts · Moderate agreement
5Gurus
5Yay
0Mixed
0Nay

What they liked

  • Silky texture without sticky residue
  • Hydration lasts up to 48 hours
  • Large bottle lasts a long time

What they flagged

  • Stinging sensation on sensitive or damaged skin
  • Too thick for warmer seasons

What the gurus are saying

Urea at 10% here delivers real keratolytic action, breaking down dead skin and working particularly well on calluses, bumpy arms, and keratosis pilaris, though some gurus report a noticeable stinging sensation on first use. The texture is silky and non-sticky, and hydration does carry over into the next day even if you skip a dose. Anyone with very inflamed or actively scratched skin from atopic dermatitis may want to patch-test first, since urea can sting on sensitive areas, though many find the formula gentler than other urea moisturizers they have tried.
Synthesized from 5 expert reviews · most recent take May 2026

What the gurus are saying.

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Yay
"La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10%. Urea is so great at drawing in water and also gently exfoliating dead skin cells. So I really love those products. Those are great to start off with, especially applying after a shower. It will help with those dry, ashy knees and elbows. And if you want to slug it and apply a product over that will really help lock everything in and you'll wake up with much smoother skin."
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"La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10%. Urea is so great at drawing in water and also gently exfoliating dead skin cells. So I really love those products. Those are great to start off with, especially applying after a shower. It will help with those dry, ashy knees and elbows. And if you want to slug it and apply a product over that will really help lock everything in and you'll wake up with much smoother skin."
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"La Roche-Posay came out with their Lipikar Urea 10%. And I love the texture of this. It's the roughness smoothing lotion here. Up to 48 hours of hydration. The texture is silky. For me, I'm weightlifting twice a week and I have these calluses on my hands, but I keep them down by using a higher percentage of urea, especially at bedtime before going to sleep. This also works well if you have really bumpy backs of the arms and thighs called keratosis pilaris. You see this more with people with eczema or atopic dermatitis. You can get these keratin plugs stuck up in the follicles and if you want to break those up with urea, this is a great start here. La Roche-Posay did a great job with their Lipikar because it has great keratolytic action. It's going to break up that dead skin with the urea."
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"I like urea in moisturizers. This is just a nice convenient way to go about it and a nice pump, large size, it's 400 ml or 13.12 fluid ounces. It has shea butter and allantoin. It's a nice hydrating and moisturizing and soothing lotion here, and I love how it just spreads on so easily."
Yay
"They came out with one with urea which is great for hydrating the skin. The main ingredients are water, urea, glycerin, shea butter, rapeseed oil, glycine, some fatty alcohols, and lanolin for soothing. It's almost as thick as the Lipikar, but not quite. It's light, but it's almost in the same vein, but I would say it's just a little bit more smoothing and a little bit goes a little bit further with this one. On days when my skin is really dry, I could probably layer this underneath that other one. I absolutely love it."
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"The side with the La Roche-Posay is kind of sticky. It's sticky. It has a much more tacky feeling. Whereas the other side is very smooth and silky smooth. So that's the main difference in terms of how these apply."
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"They came out with one with urea which is great for hydrating the skin. The main ingredients are water, urea, glycerin, shea butter, rapeseed oil, glycine, some fatty alcohols, and lanolin for soothing. It's almost as thick as the Lipikar, but not quite. It's light, but it's almost in the same vein, but I would say it's just a little bit more smoothing and a little bit goes a little bit further with this one. On days when my skin is really dry, I could probably layer this underneath that other one. I absolutely love it."
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"Urea is just a great ingredient for KP, for skin that's rough, for skin that's flaky. There's such a thing as flaky skin that's not super dry, I think it's more like dehydrated type of skin. So this one's really nice, it's got 10% urea, it's an amazing ingredient. You can use this over some of these or just as a daily moisturizer to help firm up skin as well and help soften it. La Roche-Posay does a pretty good job with a lot of their stuff overall."
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"I don't use this so much in the spring and summer because it's super thick and hydrating, but during the winter and fall I really love this stuff. The bottle's huge, and the fact that I repurchased it says something, because this bottle does last a long time, although it's super thick so a little bit doesn't go as far as you'd want. Someone was requesting something thinner and I'm like, this is really good stuff, I can get you something thinner but it's not going to be nearly as hydrating and protective. This stuff, you apply it and then you go to shower the next day and you still feel moisturized and soft. I love that, and this provides that."
Yay
"Use a moisturizer that has niacinamide in it. Niacinamide helps to address hyperpigmentation. It's also great for the moisture barrier, cutting down on irritation in the long run. La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion has niacinamide. It's a great option. You can put moisturizer under your arm. In fact, after you shave, when you get out of the shower, if it's a night that you're not putting on antiperspirant, go ahead and apply some lotion. That fragrance-free body lotion from La Roche-Posay with niacinamide can be a great option."
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"This one is 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, rashy. Urea can sting. Sometimes that sting, that tingle, it is uncomfortable, of course, 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 been well controlled, but even with that, it's a little spicy, especially on my hands because I do get dyshidrotic hand eczema and putting it on my hands, it's like there's a little spice there. This one in particular really has a nice noticeable effect on skin firmness. It's not going to restore lost volume, set expectations to something more reasonable, but on the forearm especially, it gives you that youthful forearm bounce, which is underrated. Plus, the urea can kind of help brighten up the appearance of little age spots through hydration and gentle exfoliation."
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"The La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion has 10% urea, which is [...] helpful for moisturizing the skin and improving barrier function. I did experience quite a bit of stinging sensation [...] with this one. 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 hydrated. 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 or aroma of the urea, which is nice because urea can have an off-putting sour aroma to it. [...] It has shea butter in the backbone, which is a nice moisturizing formula."
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"La Roche-Posay's Lipikar lotion, for example, has niacinamide in it and is a great option."
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"I purchased this a while back. [...] I'm a huge urea lover, but let me tell you, urea it can tingle. Urea and lactic acid they can give a little bit of a tingle, burn, sting. If [...] you have atopic dermatitis you probably already know that, because if you've ever put it on skin that you've been scratching a lot, you know, trying to cut back on that and it's all red and maybe a little oozy, a little weepy, the acid moisturizers while great for atopic dermatitis, they can burn and sting. This bad boy, yeah I use a lot of urea moisturizers and I haven't had that tingle in a bit."
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"Use a moisturizer that has niacinamide in it. Niacinamide helps to address hyperpigmentation. It's also great for the moisture barrier, cutting down on irritation in the long run. La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion has niacinamide. It's a great option. You can put moisturizer under your arm. In fact, after you shave, when you get out of the shower, if it's a night that you're not putting on antiperspirant, go ahead and apply some lotion. That fragrance-free body lotion from La Roche-Posay with niacinamide can be a great option."
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"It does really well and the moisturized skin has that dewy bounce. It does last throughout the next day and even into the following day because I did skip to test out their 48-hour hydration claim and I have to say it actually does provide lasting hydration. The skin is supple, bouncy, glowy, smooth, doesn't feel tight or dry for a good 48 hours after applying. Now one thing I always complain about with these La Roche-Posay moisturizers is the packaging is so insufferable. The bottom third of moisturizer ends up tunneling out to the sidewalls and up, so you've got this full-on doughnut of lotion down there that you cannot access with the pump. You have to take the top off and bang it out into your hands. I don't like doing that because I find it annoying, I find it messy, and I find that you can't bang out the right amount of product. You end up using a ton or you don't get enough. It's just annoying."
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"Urea tends to be really good for keratosis pilaris. 10% or higher strength is keratolytic. La Roche-Posay has a urea cream that's 10%."
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"I need to get more La Roche-Posay Lipikar lotion. I'm just about out and I went on Amazon and it's no longer on Amazon."
Yay
"One of the newer moisturizers in this category and the one I've been using quite a bit this year is the La Roche-Posay Lipikar lotion with the urea. It really works well in locking in hydration to prevent dry flaky skin. It will strengthen the skin barrier making it more resistant to irritation. It has a lower percentage of urea compared to the other two products listed above so it's better for really everyday use and it moisturizes really nice, goes on super buttery soft. It contains urea, shea butter, glycerin, and niacinamide as well as the La Roche-Posay prebiotic thermal water."
Yay
"If you live in a very dry climate, I would prefer you use the La Roche-Posay Lipikar Lotion. It is lightweight, there is no scent, it gets absorbed very easily, and so somebody like myself who has no time after the shower to wait for their product to get absorbed, I like this one because it gets absorbed very easily and it feels very very smooth and slippery. The reason I like this is that it's loaded with shea butter which is extracted from the nuts of the shea tree, a plant native to West Africa. It has a high concentration of fatty acids in it so that's why you're feeling that really nice lightweight grease and vitamins for softening the skin and it also has anti-inflammatory and soothing properties."

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

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

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion?

A lightweight moisturizing lotion containing 10% urea designed to smooth rough skin texture and provide long-lasting hydration for up to 48 hours.

Is La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion worth it?

Yes. All 5 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 82%.

What is La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion's Guru Score?

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion holds a Guru Score of 82%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 5 expert reviewers we have collected.

Who is La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion best for?

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Urea 10% Roughness Smoothing Lotion is generally suited to dry skin.

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