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Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream
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About this product

A nourishing moisturizer formulated with ceramides and vegan ingredients to hydrate and soothe the skin.

Full ingredients

Aqua, Stearyl Alcohol, Caprylic/​Capric Triglyceride, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Glycerin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Caprylate, Cetyl Alcohol, Ceramide Np*, Ceramide Ap*, Ceramide Eop*, Phytosphingosine, Cholesterol*, Calendula, Nobilis Flower Extract, Niacinamide, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Flour, Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-19, Althaea Officinalis (Marshmallow) Leaf/​Root Extract, Sodium PCA, Sodium Lactate*, Arginine, Aspartic Acid, Pca, Glycine, Alanine, Serine, Valine, Proline, Threonine, Isoleucine, Histidine, Phenylalanine, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin

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Guru Score

78%

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4 experts · Moderate agreement

What the gurus are saying

The matte finish and sticky, streaky application proved divisive, despite this cream's solid ingredient lineup of shea butter and niacinamide on paper. Some swore by it for winter use, while others found it underdelivered meaningfully on hydration for very dry skin, leaving it squarely in middle-of-the-road territory rather than something they'd feel good about repurchasing for themselves.
Synthesized from 4 expert reviews · most recent take March 2026

What they liked

  • Shea butter and niacinamide formula
  • Suitable for winter use

What they flagged

  • Matte finish may not hydrate dry skin enough
  • Sticky consistency, applies streaky

Type

MoisturizersCream

Key actives

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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What the gurus are saying.

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No BS Beauty
No BS Beauty
89k subs
✓Yay
"The Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream is 1.7 ounces for 15 bucks, so this one will save you $27. This stuff is wonderful. It's got shea butter, ceramides, sodium PCA, amino acids. It's one of the few fragrance-free products from Pacifica. This line from Pacifica I just absolutely love. So, highly recommend checking it out."
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"It's the Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream, it's 17 bucks. I really love this line from Pacifica. I don't know why it didn't take off more, but their cream is wonderful, the lotion is wonderful, the serum is wonderful, the oil is wonderful. I didn't love the cleanser or the eye cream, but the other products from this line from Pacifica I just love because it was fragrance free, there's no scent to it. I find it also really nice, affordable, cruelty-free."
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"This one's got ceramides, shea butter, it's got peptide amino acid, it's fragrance-free. Great for dry, barrier-compromised, and normal skin types, and for acne-prone skin it's pretty friendly. It only contains cetyl and cetearyl fatty alcohols."
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"The Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream which is $15 for 1.7 oz, this one also contains shea butter ceramides and amino acids"
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"The Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream is 1.7 ounces for 15 bucks, so this one will save you $27. This stuff is wonderful. It's got shea butter, ceramides, sodium PCA, amino acids. It's one of the few fragrance-free products from Pacifica. This line from Pacifica I just absolutely love. So, highly recommend checking it out."
HotandFlashy
HotandFlashy
1.23M subs
✓Yay
"I love this cream, it's got so many great ingredients. It's got glycerin, niacinamide, it's got ceramides, it's got a peptide, it has hyaluronic acid, so there's a lot of good things packed in here and it's at a great price point. Super thick, it's super creamy but it almost has like a whipped up texture and it just melts into my skin. I apply this all over my face, lips and eyelids included, my neck, my chest and the backs of my hands."
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"The moisturizer I've been using lately is the Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream and I love this one. It has niacinamide and ceramides and hyaluronic acid. This one is also cruelty-free."
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"I love this cream, it's got so many great ingredients. It's got glycerin, niacinamide, it's got ceramides, it's got a peptide, it has hyaluronic acid, so there's a lot of good things packed in here and it's at a great price point. Super thick, it's super creamy but it almost has like a whipped up texture and it just melts into my skin. I apply this all over my face, lips and eyelids included, my neck, my chest and the backs of my hands."
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"My moisturizing cream that I've been using for a while in the morning is this Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream. This one has ceramides, niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, glycerin. I mainly use this in the winter because it's thicker. I put it on over my day serums but under my sunscreen."
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"I love both of these and I thought that they had identical ingredients just one was in a cream form and one was in a lotion form."
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"I seal it all in with [...] the Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream."
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"The first one is the Pacifica vegan ceramide barrier cream and this has lipids and ceramides it also contains niacinamide and hyaluronic acid and glycerin and it's a thicker cream so I like it like in the fall and winter for my morning moisturizer it's a really good one and it has more of a matte finish so I like the finish on this one better."
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"Another one I really like that has all those same ingredients is the Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Cream. This is a thicker moisturizer with a nice matte finish. I find it more hydrating, so I use this one in the winter months."
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"This is one of my new morning moisturizers and I really like this one. This has the same ingredients as the Sara Vpm, so it's got niacinamide and ceramides and hyaluronic acid and glycerin all packed in a nice little jar cream. I [...] really like this one, it's a little bit more matte and I love the ingredients in it. Have repurchased, I'm using that one as well."
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"I started using the Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Cream [...] over the winter because it's a little bit of a thicker cream. This is also a little more matte than the CeraVe. The CeraVe leaves me kind of with a bit of a shiny finish, but if I just want to be a little bit more matte, this is better for that. This has just about all the same ingredients, with niacinamide, glycerin, and ceramides."
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"This is a barrier repair cream and it has ceramides in it, and the ceramides are those fatty lipids. They're going to help to repair that barrier and help it to function better and keep the water in. I love this one because it feels so hydrating but yet it doesn't feel greasy on my skin. It's perfect for using in the morning and it dries a little bit more matte feeling but it's still really hydrating."
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"I've just felt very much like my skin needed more hydration this year even in the morning. This is a thicker cream, it's a little bit more emollient, but it also dries to more of a matte finish which I like. It doesn't fall and pill. It works really well with all my other things and it's got all the same ingredients as the CeraVe: the niacinamide, the glycerin, the ceramides, and the hyaluronic acid. So you're getting all the same stuff. It is a good price point."
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"It's vegan and cruelty free and it's a lot like CeraVe PM lotion because it has ceramides, it has niacinamide, it has hyaluronic acid. This is a really beautiful lightweight cream. A little goes a long way. It's a very nice moisturizer. What I love about this is it dries down to more of a matte finish than the CeraVe does and this just doesn't give me a ton of shine so I really like the finish on this. I've really been enjoying it in place of my Sarah B PM as my morning moisturizer."
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"I had been trying this Pacifica vegan ceramide moisturizer and I really really love this cream this contains all the same ingredients that CeraVe has it's got niacinamide it's got three ceramides it's got cholesterol it's got hyaluronic acid but it also brings a couple other ingredients to the table it's got some peptides in it it also has shea butter so it's a little bit thicker it's a little bit more moisturizing it just keeps my skin so moisturized and great looking the other thing I like about it is that it has more of a matte finish than the CeraVe."
Dr Dray
Dr Dray
2.69M subs
✓Mixed
"I was not too impressed with the moisturizer, I mean it wasn't bad, but for the price point I would go with ceramics products that are much better."
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"I was not too impressed with the moisturizer, I mean it wasn't bad, but for the price point I would go with ceramics products that are much better."
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"On paper I was really elated to see this with the shea butter and niacinamide. But performance-wise this was okay, not bad. I found this a little on the matte side as far as the finish. [...] If you have particularly dry skin I think you're going to find that there's just something missing. It has a bit of a sticky consistency and applies very streaky. [...] In my opinion this is kind of middle of the road. It doesn't wow me. It's not something I would buy again myself."
Cassandra Bankson
Cassandra Bankson
2.46M subs
✓Yay
"If you are someone who's super sensitive to skin care and you're using a retinoid but you're prone to having a damaged skin barrier, the Pacifica vegan ceramide one is one of my favorites. [...] It's such a nice, beautiful, fluffy formula and it has ceramides and things that are nourishing to your skin and skin barrier. This is a really great one if you are prone to irritation if you're trying to take it gentle."
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"If you are someone who's super sensitive to skin care and you're using a retinoid but you're prone to having a damaged skin barrier, the Pacifica vegan ceramide one is one of my favorites. [...] It's such a nice, beautiful, fluffy formula and it has ceramides and things that are nourishing to your skin and skin barrier. This is a really great one if you are prone to irritation if you're trying to take it gentle."
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"This one is 1.7 fluid ounces, fifty milliliters, whereas the eye cream is half a fluid ounce and only fifteen milliliters. [...] The moisturizer has a texture so similar to the eye cream that you could literally water down the full-size moisturizer and have almost the exact same product. [...] They work so well on the skin and they have many of the same exact ingredients. Why would you pay three times the price for the eye cream just because it's labeled as an eye cream?"
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"Pacifica actually came out with their Vegan Ceramide Cream. It is one of my favorites. It is so good. It is purple, it has ceramides, it is fragrance free, and it comes with little butterflies on it. Like hello, it is inexpensive, it is affordable, it is absolutely one of my favorites."
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"This is a phenomenal formula for the entire face and yes for the eye area. This moisturizer is 16 dollars for 1.7 fluid ounces, and the Pacifica eye cream also costs 16 dollars but it's for 0.5 fluid ounces. [...] This formula is super lightweight on skin, it has ceramides such as ceramide EOP, ceramide NP, and ceramide AP. It's also got cholesterol, marshmallow, oats, all of these are super hydrating and nourishing to the skin."
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"It is fragrance-free, which we've never seen from Pacifica. It is vegan, it has ceramides, and it is skin support. It literally has beautiful little butterflies on a purple package for 16 dollars. There's nothing in here directly that's gonna fight hyperpigmentation, but if you're looking for a nice thick cream that just absorbs into skin and provides barrier support, you could use this to seal in any of these products and have the time of your life."

What the evidence says.

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

Niacinamide

Niacinamide has evidence behind it for redness, uneven tone and supporting the skin barrier, and it is usually well tolerated even by skin that reacts to most things.

Source: DermNet

Ceramides

Ceramides are part of the skin's own barrier, and moisturisers built around them have evidence for holding water in and settling the tightness and flaking that come with a damaged barrier.

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

Frequently asked.

What is Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream?

A nourishing moisturizer formulated with ceramides and vegan ingredients to hydrate and soothe the skin.

Is Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream worth it?

Mostly yes. 3 of the 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 78%.

What is Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream's Guru Score?

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream holds a Guru Score of 78%. 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 Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream best for?

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream is generally suited to dry skin and sensitive skin.

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