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If your skin feels tight, flaky, or easily irritated your barrier is begging for repair. This list includes dermatologist-approved products that rebuild, hydrate, and protect your skin barrier for a soft, glowy, healthy complexion.
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items Whether you’ve over-exfoliated, had a breakout reaction, or just want dewy, calm skin, this list will help you heal your skin barrier and maintain that hydrated glow.
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Gentle Cleansers 🫧
Barrier repair creams 🧈
Skin Serums 🧴
Hydrating Essences + Toners 💧
Barrier Balms + SPF ☀️
Gentle Cleansers 🫧
Gentle hydrating facial cleansers for sensitive and dry skin ✨
Use this Vanicream cleanser to cleanse and repair your skin barrier
Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser Pump 8oz
Cleanse daily and nightly with this cleanser 🧼
La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Cleanser
This cleanser is really good if you have bumps on the back of your arms and acne on face!
CeraVe Salicylic Acid Cleanser 8oz
Cerave hydrating facial cleanser is amazing and so affordable
CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser for Dry Skin
Eucerin is perfect for dry flaky skin
Eucerin Advanced Cleansing Body & Face Cleanser
This soft cream facial wash is a rice wash that provides a glowy luminous texture to your skin ✨
TATCHA The Rice Wash Soft Cream Cleanser 4oz
La Roche Posay purifying foaming cleanser is one of my absolute favorites 🩵
La Roche-Posay Toleriane Purifying Foaming Cleanser
It Cosmetics Confidence in a Cream is the holy grail of skin care ✨ this cleanser and lotion feels so smooth and smells amazing
IT Cosmetics Confidence in a Cleanser - Hydrating Foaming Face Wash
I use this anytime I feel like I have dry spots or cracked skin. I also apply this to my lips if they’re dry and cracked 👄
Aquaphor Healing Ointment, 14 Oz Jar
My favorite glass skin collagen face mask 🎀💓
medicube Salmon DNA PDRN Pink Collagen Mask
I love The Ordinary Clarifying charcoal and clay mask 🩶
The Ordinary Salicylic Acid 2% Masque 1.7oz
Snail Secretion Filtrate repairs and rejuvenates the skin from dryness and aging. It improves skin vitality by reducing dullness and soothing dehydrated skin.
COSRX Snail Mucin 96% Repairing Essence 100ml
Natural and organic under eye cream to help reduce wrinkles, fine lines, eye bags and dark circles
Eight Saints Wonder-fill Plumping Eye Cream
Barrier repair creams 🧈
Rich moisturizers packed with ceramides, peptides, and soothing ingredients to rebuild and strengthen your barrier.
Daily Hydrating moisturizer that is a lightweight plumping facial cream with Hyaluronic Acid and Squalene
belif Aqua Bomb Niacinamide Hydrating Cream
Ultra repair cream with intense hydration 💦 Clinically proven to strengthen your skin barrier in 7 days
First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream 6 oz
Use this if you want your face to feel like a glazed donut 🍩
medicube Collagen Jelly Cream Niacinamide
I’m OBSESSED with any Tatcha products ✨ holy grail right here
TATCHA The Dewy Skin Cream 10ml
Amazon has this adorable Avène starter kit if you don’t want to pay full price for the singular Avène recovery cream.
Avène Sensitive Skin Starter Kit
Murad hydration is so good! This will leave your skin feeling so hydrated and it’s perfect to repair your skin barrier
Murad Nutrient-Charged Water Gel Moisturizer
Vanicream moisturizing cream can be used for everything!
Vanicream Moisturizing Skin Cream Pump 16oz
This is my favorite Lightweight oil free facial moisturizing lotion that i like to use at nighttime 💤 🌙
CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion 3oz
✨ Cerave is my favorite affordable moisturizer 🧴 you can also use this as a daily and nightly moisturizer
CeraVe Moisturizing Cream for Dry Skin 19oz
Korean Ceramide Cream Skincare with 100 hours of lasting hydration
Illiyoon Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream 2.53oz
5 Ceramides strengthen the skin barrier. Vitamin-derived Panthenol increases moisture and reinforces the skin barrier for more water retention. Glycerin to deliver moisture to dry, tight skin.
Dr.Jart+ Ceramidin Face Cream Moisturizer
Triple lipid peptide cream that hydrates and restores dry, sensitive skin 🫧💦
Skinfix Triple Lipid-Peptide Cream 1.7oz
I love confidence in a cream! It is so hydrating and nourishing. It also smells amazing 🤩
IT Cosmetics Confidence in a Cream - Hydrating & Anti Aging Moisturizer
✨ Another recovery cream you can use on your face to help repair your skin barrier
Avène Tolerance Control Soothing Cream 1.3oz
Clinique is such a wonderful brand especially this moisturizer surge to add moisture to your face ✨
Clinique Moisture Surge Intense 72H Hydrator
Skin Serums 🧴
Lightweight layers of hydration that help calm redness, plump fine lines, and prep the skin for moisturizer.
My perfect go to glass skin regimen serum! 🫧💦 Anua hydrating barrier serum is the perfect Korean skincare serum you need
ANUA Rice Ceramide 7 Hydrating Serum 50ml
Once you feel like your skin is more moisturized after using the other products, you can start using this serum. ✨
Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 Serum 30ml USA
Ceramide barrier serum that is Hydrating and reduces redness and dryness
Cocokind Ceramide Barrier Hydrating Serum
First Spray Serum will give you that hydration and radiant skin you’re looking for 💛
d'alba Piedmont White Truffle Spray Serum
I use this Soothing and Barrier Support Serum everyday for my morning and night routine to help repair my skin barrier. I have already noticed a difference. ✨
The Ordinary Soothing & Barrier Support Serum
Dark spot corrector with Anti Aging Melasyl. Perfect for Sun spots, discoloration, age spots, and post acne scars.
La Roche-Posay Mela B3 Dark Spot Serum
I LOVE this brand. So nourishing and will give you that soft glowy feeling 🧡💖✨
Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum
Hydrating Essences + Toners 💧
When your skin is angry, these are your rescue heroes. Ideal for post-peel, sun irritation, or barrier damage.
Step 2 ✨ Spray this thermal spring water before you hydrate with lotion. I love spraying this on my face. It’s very lightweight and hydrating
La Roche-Posay Thermal Spring Water Face Mist
Step 2 ✨ Apply when your skin is damp
Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray 4oz
This dark spot, wrinkle, and dull skin facial treatment is viral for a reason! I love Korean skincare! It seriously is the best!
Jiyu Toning Polish Pads - Dark Spots & Wrinkles
Witch hazel facial toner
THAYERS Alcohol-Free Unscented Witch Hazel Toner 12oz
Barrier Balms + SPF ☀️
Daily SPFs and Barrier Balms that protect your healing skin without clogging pores or causing stinging
More affordable sunscreen that helps restore your skin barrier 🧴 (MAKE SURE TO SELECT YOUR CLOSEST SKIN TONE)
CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30 Tinted
Step 4 ✨ One of the best sunscreens to apply daily to help restore your skin barrier 🧴
EltaMD UV Daily SPF 40 Tinted Face Moisturizer
Step 3 ✨ After Thermal Spray, Apply this barrier cream to your face.
La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Balm B5 Healing Ointment