Some skin turns tight again by afternoon no matter what went on in the morning. The water you added never gets held in place. This gel cream answers that problem with a number: 100 hours. The number itself comes from the brand's lab and cannot be verified at home, so we checked the next best thing: whether the 43 lines on the label are built in that direction.
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You cannot verify 100 hours, but you can verify a build made to hold water.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Brand | Clinique |
| Product | Moisture Surge 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator |
| Category | Hydrating gel cream |
| Core blend | Silicone film + humectant sugars + 3 forms of aloe, ferments and a vitamin C derivative |
Dimethicone sits 2nd on the label. The most abundant thing after water is a silicone, one that lays a thin film over skin so the water you just added cannot escape. A fitting seat for a product sold on lasting hydration.
The adding is done by sugars. Trehalose and sucrose sit 6th and 7th, both ingredients that wrap around water and refuse to let go. Add glycerin and a urea derivative and you have both hands accounted for: one adding water, one holding it. If the number 100 has a footing on the label, this pairing is it.
Aloe has long been used to add water and settle reactive skin. It appears here in 3 forms: leaf water, leaf extract and polysaccharides, the raw material of what the brand calls auto-replenishing.
There are 3 ferments as well: saccharomyces, lactobacillus and thermus thermophilus, a hot-spring microbe, supporting players that keep skin conditioned. Green tea extract, caffeine and hyaluronic acid share the same stretch, lending water and calm.
The name that stands out is magnesium ascorbyl phosphate in 34th place. It is a vitamin C derivative notified as a brightening active, but that late a seat is not a dose to pin tone hopes on.
Group the ingredients by what they do and they pile onto hydration alone. Sugars, hyaluronic acid and ferments stack layer upon layer of water-binding, faithful to the job of keeping skin hydrated.
What it does not do is just as clear. The brightening derivative and a peptide each hold one late seat, too far back to call a specialty, and there are no acids or retinoids. With almost no oil, it relieves inner dryness but lays down no oil film on top.
The formula is fragrance-free, so there is no fragrance to gauge amounts by. The preservatives cluster at the end instead, which leaves most of the named ingredients ahead of them. The last 2 lines are the colorants behind the gel's pink tint.
For how to read amounts from the order of a label, see the 1% rule on ingredient lists.
No fragrance, no listed allergens, no parabens, no mineral oil, no alcohol. If anything deserves a glance, it is the 2 colorants at the very end (Red 4, Yellow 5) and the silicones, both of which rarely trouble skin.
The target reader is oily or combination skin that wants water without oil, and sensitive skin that struggles to find fragrance-free moisturizers. The silicone film holds the water in, so the light gel lasts longer than it feels.
Very dry skin will not get its oil from this. Layer a cream on top, or switch to a richer texture in dry seasons.
So this is a fragrance-free hydrating gel that adds water with sugars and holds it with a silicone film. The number 100 cannot be checked, but the label shows a build aimed in that direction. If you are curious how your own moisturizer is built, the button below runs the breakdown.
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