Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturizer

For ages I'd been putting my moisturiser – Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturiser with hyaluronic acid and ceramides, this one – on DAMP skin, then waiting 10 mins or so before applying La Roche Posay Anthelios Ultra SPF50+ (in the mornings) or 0.05% tretinoin (every other evening). This was fine, but not GREAT. My skin often still eventually felt tight and flaky during the day, and I always had redness. Recently I tried putting the Vanicream on, um, SOPPING WET skin. Like, dripping wet from the shower. Just mixing the moisturiser in with all the water, doing a little massage, and then letting it dry. Now, is this messy and a bit annoying? Yes. Does it take a good 15–20 minutes to dry? Also yes. But: my god! My skin just slurps it all up! It's like a cactus that has not seen rain in 200 years! Even just doing this at nighttime, my skin looks and feels so SO much better. SO MUCH BETTER. I am humbled by it, yet furious. A lot of my redness and irritation has gone away. My skin feels much smoother and softer and breakouts have calmed down. Even my hyperpigmentation somehow looks better. I've started doing the wet face routine in the mornings as well, making myself late, but my skin has got even better so I simply do not care.

Team Vanicream checking in. I use it head to toe.

I’ve tried cerave and vanicream in the past and they don’t work for me.

The Vanicream tub, and for me there isn’t even a remotely close second.

My current routine AM leaves my skin pretty dewy when it’s humid out (micellar water, Hada Labo Shirojyun Premium, Cos de BAHA AZ, SeoulCeuticals Day Glow, Cos de BAHA CH, an TO’s Niacinamide + Zinc, then a Sephora eye cream + Vanicream Daily Moisturizer).

I switched to La Roche Posay gentle cleanser and love it. I also use Vanicream daily facial moisturizer and love it

Vanicream, CeraVe, La Roche Posay, and Cetaphil all have good options.

My routine currently looks like this: ... Vanicream moisturizer ... I have LOVED the Niacinamide serum. ...

Vanicream is great because it truly is gentle, basic, and most people would be able to use it. It has a short ingredients list and no real actives. I liked it when I was starting tret but I found it wasn’t enough when I started to use tret nightly and when I moved up in strength. I was still getting peeling and irritation with it despite how heavy it was.

The Vanicream line is pretty harmless and relatively cheap