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Hydrating B5 Gel

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Weightless hydration that leaves skin smooth and supple.

Your skin feels tight or looks parched, yet anything rich feels heavy on you, especially if you run oily.

Hydrating B5 Gel draws water into your skin and helps hold it there, so your face feels smooth and supple without any oil or weight. It is a short, focused formula: hyaluronic acid to pull water into the surface and vitamin B5, which helps skin hold moisture and feel comfortable. Wear it alone on oily skin, or under your moisturizer for an extra layer of hydration.

Who It Is For

Every skin type that wants more hydration, especially oily, combination or dehydrated skin, and skin working hard with active ingredients.

Acne Safe

What You Will See, and When

Skin feels smoother and more supple as soon as it goes on. With daily use, it helps your moisturizer keep skin comfortable through the day.

How to Use

Morning and night, press two to three drops into face and neck while skin is still slightly damp. It goes on after your serums and before moisturizer, or on its own as your moisturizer if your skin is oily. In the morning, sunscreen goes on last.

The Science

Hyaluronic acid is a humectant your own skin makes. Applied topically, it binds water in the outer layers, which is why skin feels plumper and smoother right away. It works best with water to draw from, so damp skin helps.

Vitamin B5 has a long research history in skin care, studied mostly as dexpanthenol. Reviews of that research report that it helps skin hold moisture and feel comfortable.

Questions

Can I use it instead of a moisturizer?On oily skin, yes. Drier skin does best with a moisturizer on top.
Where does it go in my routine?After your serums and before moisturizer, morning and night. Sunscreen goes on last in the morning.
What does it feel like?A clear, lightweight gel that sinks in fast. Oil free and fragrance free.

Why a Routine Made for You Works Better

General advice is written for everyone, so it has to assume nothing about you. It can tell you what is safe. It cannot tell you what will work for your skin.

Skin changes when it is challenged just enough, then given time to recover and adapt. That amount is different for every person, and it moves as your skin gets stronger. Ask too much and your skin spends its energy recovering instead of improving. Ask too little and nothing changes. Finding that point for you, and moving it at the right time, is where results come from.

Where that point sits depends on:

  • Your skin: its history, how it reacts, and what it is doing today
  • Your health: hormones, medications, pregnancy and any condition that changes how skin behaves
  • Your lifestyle: sleep, stress, diet, sun, exercise and climate
  • Your routine: what you use now, and what has and has not worked before
  • Your goals: what you most want to change
  • Your expectations and timeline: how soon you want to see change, and what is realistic for your skin
  • Your consistency: how much time and how many steps you will keep up with, because the best routine is the one you actually do
  • Your treatments: what you have had and what you have planned

A skin therapist weighs all of this, builds a routine you can keep, and adjusts it as your skin responds. That is why we guarantee our products when they are part of a routine designed by one of our skin therapists. If you have been reading general advice, bring your questions. We will help you sort out what applies to you and what does not.

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Key Ingredients

Hyaluronic acidPulls water into the skin for lasting hydration
Vitamin B5Helps skin hold moisture and feel comfortable
Full Ingredient List

Aqua / Water / Eau, Phenoxyethanol, Calcium Pantothenate, Sodium Hyaluronate

References

1. Proksch E, de Bony R, Trapp S, Boudon S. Topical use of dexpanthenol: a 70th anniversary article. J Dermatolog Treat. 2017;28(8):766-773. doi:10.1080/09546634.2017.1325310

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