Soothing & Barrier Support Serum.

"This has good ingredients to hydrate and repair that skin barrier. It's a cheaper alternative, and I love it. This doesn't get enough hype, but the people that talk about it get it. They just know how good this is. If you haven't tried this, you're truly missing out. It's good to have on hand for when your skin is angry. It just works so well to bring your skin back to that normal state. If you want something for hydration and skin repair, this is great."

"The Ordinary Soothing and Barrier Support Serum, which will be 13 bucks. It's a pink serum and it's a really nice repairing and hydrating serum. It also helps with signs of redness on the skin. I repurchased it, so I purchased it initially and then I repurchased it a second time during the last sale which is in November. It's got asiaticoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic acid which are all active derivatives or compounds from centella, which are great for soothing skin. They also help with wound healing and skin regeneration. Really great active ingredients there. We've got bisabolol which is great for soothing, and then EGCG for hydrating and soothing. So I really enjoy that stuff."

"I don't actually use this all over my face. What I do use it for is post shaving. So when I shave, I'll get red marks, I'll get some rashes, a little bit of bumping on the skin. This takes it down like that. So I'll shave, I'll put this on and honestly it just makes for the best post shave experience. It's designed to be a caring and soothing serum that you can use all over the skin, and you can absolutely do that. For me, I think some of the other serums that I use in my routine deliver that. This though I save in reserve for when I shave. It's beautiful, it's hydrating, it's calming, it's soothing, and it doesn't have a really funky scent like some calming and soothing serums can do. I use it two or three times a week when I shave, and that is like the perfect way to end your shave routine."

"With the winter, with sensitivity, my skin has just been not the happiest and I've been relying a lot on this serum to keep it hydrated and reduce inflammation and irritation. That is their newest Soothing and Barrier Support Serum that costs $17. It's a serum that is meant to strengthen and repair damaged irritated skin barrier, calming the skin barrier. It is a pink watery serum that is also hydrating, absorbs really quickly, not greasy, not heavy, really suitable for all skin types. Ingredient-wise, it contains vitamin B12 that has some anti-inflammatory properties and it's what gives the serum its characteristic pink color. It also contains gallic acid derivatives, which is basically another antioxidant anti-inflammatory compound derived from polyphenols that we commonly find in green tea. It also contains ceramides along with 2% niacinamide."

"The Ordinary has thought outside the box and decided to mirror ingredients together to create a multi-ingredient story, which makes my heart flutter when you are looking for skincare products you want to look for multi-ingredient stories to really streamline your routine. This one is their soothing and barrier support serum for $7. The name tells you what it does: it helps to calm your barrier and to repair your barrier. It has vitamin B12, which helps to support your skin barrier by reducing dryness and visible redness. It also has centella asiatica and gallic acid. If you are a real nerd, you know that gallic acid helps to target redness associated with external stressors on the skin and by reducing water loss, so it's a very interesting product for your barrier."

"My favorite of the year has to be The Ordinary's Soothing & Barrier Support Serum. I've been trying it for ages. I've gone through, I'm on my fourth bottle now because I use it twice a day, every single day. My skin loves it. My rosacea loves it, my skin barrier loves it. This contains some really nice ingredients that I think are kind of new for The Ordinary, including Centella Asiatica, Ginger Root Extract, Bissabol, Niacinamide, Vitamin B12, and Ceramides. There's something about this combination and this formulation that my skin just absolutely loves. It's extremely hydrating. According to the website it's a quick action serum that starts working within 2 hours. I didn't see results until like a week, but that's usually a lot quicker than when I usually see results with serums in particular, which takes about three to four weeks. Within a week I could see that the redness on my skin was going right down."

"The soothing and barrier support serum contains lipids, ceramides, and other epidermal barrier repair ingredients. This is going to go on your skin after you cleanse, put a little bit on, and you can put a moisturizer over it and repair your skin day and night. You can use this up to twice a day. It's a very great price point and you can use this to reset your skin barrier without breaking the bank."

"I like this a lot more than I wanted to. I kind of wanted to hate this formula coming in because it was going viral and it was pink and it's a barrier support product. I do actually feel after using it for a long period of time that my skin did feel more calm, less red, less irritated than it had prior. I felt like it layered really well with my other skincare products whether I was using it at night or in the morning. It was easy to integrate into my routine because it doesn't really conflict with any other products that I was using. I don't think it's a necessary skincare product, especially if you have a moisturizer that's going to already bring in a lot of these ingredients, but it's definitely approved. I like the product a lot. They put the coloring in to grab your attention but they followed it up with a functionally great formula. The Ordinary nailed it with this one."

"Looking into The Ordinary Soothing and Barrier Support Serum, this is very expensive for The Ordinary range, they're almost breaking three of the five and ten single actives with this particular product. It is expensive for The Ordinary but it does actually make sense if you do a deep dive into the ingredients. Fifth ingredient here is niacinamide which is good because it means it's in that 2 to 5% range which is what we're looking for. They've got imoan and humant in this, so the soothers in this product are babassu which I love, it's got galactaric glucoside, it's got zingiber root extract too, so three different soothers, plus they've added phospholipids which is a skin identical ingredient, especially if you strip the skin of fats it's good to reload with fats. I like that this product is NPA safe as well, meaning no denatured alcohol which dries the skin, no fragrance which can lead to contact dermatitis and no essential oils which can sensitize the skin."

"This is The Ordinary Soothing and Barrier Support Serum, it comes in at £7.50 for 30 mls. When I think of barrier support I don't necessarily think of a serum, and a lot of people naturally lean towards something a bit heavier, but for those who have oily skin but are prone to sensitivity there is something appealing about a more light textured product when it comes to layering, especially for a morning routine. The formulation leans heavily on elements found in centella asiatica, so three different components of centella, plus some niacinamide, and the bright pink color which is due to the inclusion of vitamin B12 or cobalamin. That's the part where I start to get a little bit hesitant because there isn't a huge amount of data for that particular ingredient, vitamin B12 certainly isn't one of the immediate ingredients I think of when I think of barrier repair, I've not really seen much about it in the literature, and I do think it's probably there to give it its very Instagrammable color. However the rest of the formulation is good, niacinamide is a great ingredient, particularly if you are oily but sensitive because it supports skin barrier function and it's highly anti-inflammatory, a reassuring ingredient if you're acne prone, and it could easily be layered, I'd almost say it needs to be layered with something a little heavier on the occlusives. I do think you'll need a little extra between you and your sunscreen if you want this to sit well on your skin all day. An interesting lineup of ingredients, a nice texture if you like something to layer, but I don't think it's going to meet the needs of anybody with a skin type that isn't oily, if you're combination or dry you're probably going to want something with a little bit more. Compared to the other two, this is probably not a full service barrier treatment, you definitely need some kind of occlusive in there, but it's more suitable for daytime than the Cicaplast and the Cicalfate."

"Their most recent launch is their Soothing and Barrier Support Serum, which aims to soothe uncomfortable skin, help heal and repair a damaged skin barrier, and calm redness. I started using this towards the end of the summer and I have the kind of reactive skin that turns red from too much heat, too much cold, when the wind blows. It's really soothing when my skin feels overheated. I love the texture of it, which doesn't have any oil in it but it does somehow feel lipid, kind of like it has a little bit of richness to the texture. A friend of mine who has oily skin during the summer actually used this in place of a moisturizer and she felt it was perfect. This has 2% niacinamide, Centella asiatica, and ceramides as well as vitamin B12, which is where this gets that bright pink Pepto-Bismol color from."

"The Ordinary's barrier Repair Serum is a great little serum for comforting the skin. It has 10 emollients and 6 humectants, so what's the difference between an emollient and a humectant? We need both to repair your barrier or to help with dry skin. Humectants are just like they sound, they attract water to the skin. Skin needs hydration and water to heal it up. It also needs an emollient, which means that it needs some lipids to create a barrier and protect it. So you need both emollient and humectant if you want to repair your barrier, and this has both. I really highly recommend this. The only caution I have with this is don't use a heavy layer. It's a pretty thick formula, a little bit actually goes a long way, especially if you're going to layer this with other skincare. It does get a little tacky if you use too much, so I would say use this sparingly and do it in layers if you think you want more hydration and more barrier repair. But at night you could layer it up with a few layers, put a facial oil on top, and wake up in the morning feeling so much better."

"I'm just trying to support my skin barrier and I want to add in all the moisture and hydration. I'm going to go in with this from The Ordinary, it is the Soothing and Barrier Support Serum. I bought this probably like a month and a half ago and I just started using it. You can see it has B12 in it that gives it this really beautiful pink tone to it, which I also just think is really fun, but it has other really nice soothing ingredients like Centella asiatica. So again, I'm trying to just make sure that my skin barrier feels really nice and strong and supported."

"I love that it's fragrance free and I actually love the blend of actives. The Ordinary has done this many times before they usually have that like single ingredient focus but this really was just a blend of everything that I was not expecting and I do love what it did for my skin. The phenoxyethanol burn is the only thing I didn't like but for me with my oily acne proneness I just love it. I love what this does to my skin, no irritation, phenomenal, really impressed for my oily prone skin. I feel like this is a serum that I can use as a moisturizer. But all of that being said this is not for everybody. This is for somebody who wants to repair their skin barrier but doesn't have overly sensitive skin. If you have overly sensitive skin I am worried that the phenoxyethanol or the blend of so many different ingredients might not work well for everybody. If you have oily skin you can use this serum instead of a moisturizer. If you have dry skin you're probably going to want to use this and then moisturize over the top. If you do have acne it did kind of sting my open blemishes when I first apply it and then it kind of goes down."

"Both this and Avene Cicalfate contain 4-t-butylcyclohexanol, which intercepts the irritation signal at the nerve level and stops stinging and burning on contact, making it exceptional for burning, itching, stinging skin. The Ordinary has a creamy emulsion texture with a hydrating element that sinks in deeper along with a moisturizing, slightly rich but not very greasy creaminess on top, making it a balancing serum great for those with a tiny bit of dryness or combination skin. Its pink color comes from vitamin B12, and it's a far more complex formulation containing niacinamide, centella, ceramide, vitamin B12, bisabolol, and the antioxidant EGCG, meant to address tightness, redness, inflammation, stinging and burning, while also rebuilding a weak or damaged skin barrier. The Ordinary is great for redness, tightness, and strengthening the skin barrier in a creamy formula that moisturizes dry areas, and it's also going to be your budget pick coming in at $17."