SKIN ALPHABET 2% HYALURONIC MOISTURE CREAMSERUM

This product review was originally part of my blog article titled, Super Lightweight Summer Moisturizers SS21 Part 2 – Best Brightening Moisturizer, Best Face Creams for Oily Skin (and All Skin in the Heat!). You can catch the full piece here.

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As I do each summer, I’m publishing my two-part series of what I consider the best lightweight moisturizers of the season. These are the ten or so face creams that I’ve found ideal for the hot, humid days of July and August.

Some are perfect for very oily skin, a few best for very dry skin — and all of them perfectly effective for most skin types in between.

Two weeks ago, I featured five of my favorite warm weather face creams in an article titled, Super Lightweight Summer Moisturizers SS21 Part 1 – Best Brightening Moisturizer, Best Face Creams for Oily Skin (And All Skin in the Heat!).

The initial article featured one of the best face creams for oily skin, the Glossier Priming Moisturizer Balance. And when temps are in the 90s, we’re all oily, making Glossier’s lightest moisturizer perfect for just about everyone with skin.

SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT SUMMER MOISTURIZERS SS21 PART 1 – BEST FACE CREAMS FOR OILY SKIN (AND ALL SKIN IN THE HEAT!)

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On the opposite end of the oily-to-dry skin spectrum is Wander Beauty’s Sight C-er Vitamin C Concentrate. Introduced in the spring, the brand’s new Sight C-er is more of a rich lotion powered by Vitamin C, Niacinamide and Squalane for a veritable cocktail of skin-health goodness. During the colder months, I’ve used it as a layering serum. In summer, it’s the perfect moisturizer for normal and dry skins.

PRODUCT REVIEW: WANDER BEAUTY SIGHT C-ER VITAMIN C CONCENTRATE - BEST BRIGHTENING FACE CREAM VITAMIN C

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Speaking of Vitamin C, I also featured Kat Burki’s Vitamin C Intensive Face Cream — an excellent option for brightening the complexion. In fact, all of the Kat Burki formulas seem ideal for getting a dull complexion glowing. And Kat’s little pot of brightening goodness is a personal fave.

Rounding out those first five were Good Science Beauty’s 004-Br Skin Brightening Cream (an antioxidant powerhouse of Vitamin C, Melatonin and Glutathione) and my favorite summer hack — the Skinfix Redness Recovery+ Antioxidant Redness Treatment Overnight Mask. Even though it’s called a mask, it’s a remarkably effective daily face cream for sensitive skin — and a hidden skincare gem that I wish more people knew about.

PRODUCT REVIEW: SKINFIX REDNESS RECOVERY+ ANTIOXIDANT REDNESS TREATMENT –

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What’s the Difference between Dry Skin and Dehydrated Skin?

Many people confuse the two. They’re not the same thing and it’s helpful to understand the difference in order to advance your skin health. For the answer to that vexing questing, as I most often do, I turned to the experts on the Paula’s Choice Research Team for insights. There’s a superb piece on the Paula’s Choice site titled, What is Dehydrated Skin & How to Choose the Best Products. Here is an excerpt:

Dehydrated skin often looks and feels like dry skin all over your face, but there's a major difference between the two: dehydrated skin is usually a temporary concern (with various surprising causes) and dry skin typically doesn't change over time. If you have dehydrated skin, your skin may also produce a normal or even excessive amount of oil on its surface.
"Dehydrated skin" is something we’re asked about frequently. It seems there’s a lot of confusion about what this skin concern is about. A major part of the confusion is that the term "dehydrated skin" is often used interchangeably with "dry skin" or "combination skin" but they are not the same! Dehydrated skin can occur in all skin types and is not exclusive to those with dry skin or combination skin.
The Difference Between Dry Skin and Dehydrated Skin
Having classically dry skin is easy to recognize. Dry skin frequently feels tight and dry, with no oil anywhere to be seen. This situation rarely fluctuates; skin feels dry all year long. The dryness might get worse depending on the climate, season, or activity, but regardless of those things, without great skin care products, the uncomfortable dry, tight feeling will persist.
As mentioned above, dehydrated skin can look and feel similar, but there’s a major difference: Dehydrated skin tends to come and go, it does not persist.

Today I’m presenting the second part of my SS21 series on lightweight summer face creams. It features one of the best anti-aging face creams yet and a personal go-to, the Paula’s Choice 0.3% Retinol + 2% Bakuchiol Treatment. It’s the rare wrinkle innovation that’s formulated with both Retinol and the Retinol alternative, Bakuchiol. And it’s a genius formulation. Call it what you will, it’s a perfect summer moisturizer!

The collection features a second anti-aging innovation — One Skin’s OS-01 Topical Supplement. Powered by a new, proprietary peptide, the OS-01 Topical Supplement looks like some sort of crazy alien technology. I’m always on the hunt for alien technology I have a nose for it!

One of the best face creams to fix the microbiome, the Layers Immunity Moisturizer is a probiotic-powered formula with a beautiful, silky texture that’s such a pleasure to use. The Layers brand launched in the spring with treatments to help rebalance both the skin and gut microbiomes for a 360 solution for the skin-gut link.

LAYERS PROBIOTIC SKINCARE – BEST LACTIC ACID SERUM, BEST PROBIOTIC MOISTURIZER FOR MICROBIOME HEALTH

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Last is the Skin Alphabet 2% Hyaluronic Moisture Creamserum. If you’re unfamiliar with Skin Alphabet, it’s the latest of the democratically priced brands offering well-formulated skincare at rock-bottom prices. Skin Alphabet’s Hyaluronic Acid-powered moisturizer is just about $11.

Let’s have a look one of my super lightweight summer moisturizer picks for SS21 in part two of my two-part series…

Skin Alphabet | 2% Hyaluronic Moisture Creamserum

Two summers ago, I came across a truly innovative skincare brand from The Clean Beauty Co called The Clinical Beauty. To this day, the brand’s Moisture Cream is one of the most well-formulated moisturizers and best face cream for most skin types that I have ever come across. The stuff is no joke. But what’s so different about The Clinical Beauty’s Moisture Cream?

With an exceptional 2% concentration of humectant Hyaluronic Acid, the Moisture Cream is a clean, vegan formula, comprised of 93% natural and 81% organic ingredients. But the truly remarkable number is this one: 100%! The Clinical Beauty’s Moisture Cream is 100% “skin active”.

PRODUCT REVIEW: THE CLINICAL BEAUTY MOISTURE CREAM – ONE OF THE BEST ANTI-AGING MOISTURIZERS EVER!

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What that means is there’s nothing in the Moisture Cream formula — not a single ingredient — that doesn’t have a benefit for the skin. That includes water, or lack thereof. In a topical skincare product, water is useless for the skin. In fact, products — including $500 anti-aging moisturizers — can contain up to 70% water. It’s like the cantaloupe in a fruit salad: a cheap filler.

Water isn’t the only useless ingredient in skincare. Ingredients like stabilizers, preservatives, texture enhancers, and much of the formula base are worthless when it comes to the skin. None of them advance your skin health. They (usually) do no harm, but they also do no good.

The Clinical Beauty’s Moisture Cream is 100% goodness. That’s what’s different, what’s so exceptional about it.

So I’m excited to try the company’s newest brand, Skin Alphabet — a range of equally well-formulated skincare products that are democratically priced. Skin Alphabet is a clean, affordable skincare brand with the kind of “single-note” creams, serums and oils that have been popularized by brands like The Ordinary and The Inkey List.

Think products like The Ordinary’s superstar humectant serum Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 and the Bakuchiol Cream from The Inkey List — a superb anti-aging cream and one of the best Bakuchiol creams for face with one percent of the Retinol alternative. It costs just $9.99 at Sephora in the US.

PRODUCT REVIEW: THE INKEY LIST BAKUCHIOL CREAM – BEST ANTI-AGING FACE CREAM WITH BAKUCHIOL

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The Skin Alphabet 2% Hyaluronic Moisture Creamserum is just $11.65 for a one ounce bottle. With a light, creamy texture and infused with 2% Hyaluronic Acid, it’s ideal for most skin types year round, except perhaps very oily skins.

Like its sister brand The Clinical Beauty’s Moisture Cream, the Skin Alphabet 2% Hyaluronic Moisture Creamserum formula contains a bio-compatible lecithin base which allows the formula to melt more effectively into the skin, aiding in absorption of beneficial actives. And perhaps most importantly, it contains zero useless water; rather, the first ingredient in the INCI is organic Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice.

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In fact, the formula is 100% natural and made with 30% high-quality organic oils, including Olive Fruit Oil, Shea Butter and MCT oil. Skin Alphabet’s 2% Hyaluronic Moisture Creamserum is clean, vegan, cruelty-free and, of course, 100% skin active — making it one of the most efficient and effective face creams for the price.

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