Here, I think that if you want to splurge a little for a rich, reparative face moisturizer for sensitive skin featuring ceramides, it’s hard to do much better than the A.
I’ve mentioned them before, in the Niacinamide Serum and Vitamin C Serum posts. Florence is really my main choice for any kind of reparative or sensitive skin care.
Although Ceramedx has balanced them out a bit with added linoleic acid (a non-comedogenic fatty acid, good for acne-prone skin), I would still be a little wary if your skin is especially acne-prone.Ĭeramedx Ultra-Moisturizing Cream is available from a variety of sources, including iHerb and Amazon, for just under $3/oz. The only downside is that the specific aformentioned oils and butters tend to be comedogenic. That said, why not give your skin some nice juicy fatty acids and help it out a bit on the path to restoration?īesides the nice oils and butters, the Ceramedx cream also includes Olivem 1000, which also has soothing and barrier-repairing qualities, along with some nice extracts and other skin soothers like allantoin. This is great, I suppose, if your goal is to just leave your skin alone - which, often enough, is in fact the goal when someone turns to CeraVe after years of overexfoliation or other types of skin damage. This is not only because it is a product of the problematic oil industry, but because it does literally nothing for your skin besides being an occlusive. I strongly prefer products that use oils and butters like these over products that use petrolatum.
#Cerave serum free
Here’s a quick “table of contents” for this post (it’s a long one, so feel free to jump around to the parts that interest you!) But I will also take this opportunity to also suggest some products that I think are similar to, but actually better than, CeraVe - even setting the issue of their cruelty-free status aside. Other than that, the closest “dupes” will be affordable products that contain not much of anything else besides ceramides and perhaps some sodium hyaluronate and/or salicylic acid where appropriate. In choosing these products, I am using two main exclusionary criteria: (1) the product must not contain “fragrance” (or essential oils), and (2) the product must contain ceramides, or at least other strong barrier-support ingredients.
#Cerave serum plus
“emollients, fillers, and preservatives plus ceramides.” Given those choices, the latter is clearly the superior option. When you’re in the skincare aisle at the grocery store, your options are largely “emollients, fillers, and preservatives plus fragrance” vs. There’s not actually anything magical about CeraVe: it’s just that (1) they (rightly) jumped on the ceramides train before most other U.S.-based brands, and (2) for the most part, they have very little else going on.
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