MY FAVORITE HUMECTANT SERUMS FROM PAULA'S CHOICE, THE INKEY LIST, GHOST DEMOCRACY AND MORE - BEST HYALURONIC ACID SERUMS, BEST HYDRATING SERUMS
Winter in New York City was always going to be really weird this year. One of the very few outdoor activities I can bear in the extreme cold is not exactly outside.
I’ll always, always, always meet friends for dinner in all kinds of weather. That’s a diehard rule. No wimping out. Not in a torrential rain, not in a blinding blizzard. I’ll get there through the intense humidity and the icy cold.
I even manage to make it with a migraine.
This year, this winter, the pandemic in NYC is so bad that restaurants have been forced to close indoor service yet again. While that worked just fine (and was actually lovely!) during the more pleasurable warmer months, sitting outside in the chill seems unconscionable. Like what?!
But this is New York and some restaurants got creative! The City blocked off entire streets and sidewalks, permitting restaurants to construct outside dining areas complete with heat lamps, lighting, even blankets.
Just up the block from me in Fort Green, Brooklyn, one restaurant secured a small plaza adjacent to their establishment and constructed enclosed plastic sheds that seat up to four people. This past week, my friend Charlotte and I enjoyed a dinner of Jamaican jerk chicken wings, fries and a healthy kale-apple salad enclosed in a New York netherworld. It was lit!
Making our way through the pandemic takes resolve, supreme caution, and more than a bit of creativity.
That’s what it takes to make moments of pandemic pleasure possible…
The skincare stuff starts here.
Throughout the colder months between October and March, I really struggle with keeping my skin from becoming dry and dehydrated.
In November, I kicked off the annual dry skin season with a pair of articles on the best face creams for dry skin and all skin types in the cold, leading with a piece titled, Winter Moisturizers Part I – Some of the Best Face Creams for Dry Skin and All Skin Types in Cold Weather. A week later, I rounded out my list of the best dry skin moisturizers in Winter Moisturizers Part 2 — available to read here.
In mid-December, I followed those up with a piece on my favorite hydrating face mists titled, Favorite Face Mists For Keeping Skin Hydrated In The Cold – Best Face Mists, Best Hydrating Toners For Dry, Dehydrated Skin.
Richer face creams and hydrating mists are indispensable, essentials in every winter skincare routine. And, at least with the moisturizers, are fairly common. But the one true essential for maintaining skin health in the harsh cold months is a really good humectant product, usually a Hyaluronic Acid serum.
While Hyaluronic Acid is far and away the most popular and most sought-after of humectants, it is by no means the only one. Humectant ingredients that are also effective at preventing trans-epidermal water loss and subsequent dehydration include: Beta Glucan, Butylene Glycol, Centella Asiatica, Polyglutamic Acid, Glycerin, Aloe Vera, Snow Mushroom and even seaweed.
I think it’s just that Hyaluronic Acid was the new, sexy humectant popularized in one-note serums — treatments focused on a single potent active ingredient. Brands like Deciem’s The Ordinary and The Inkey List were founded on ingredient education and super affordable one-note serums. Among the most sought after are The Ordinary’s $6 Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% and the $8 Hyaluronic Acid Serum from The Inkey List — which I include in the line-up below.
Maintaining proper hydration levels year-round is essential if skin is going to function at its peak. Healthy functioning skin is better able to defend against external aggressors like pollution, UV, and free radical attacks. And healthy skin is better fortified against aging. So while it may seem slick to say that a humectant serum that helps keep skin hydrated is an effective anti-aging product, it’s not really a stretch at all.
Dry, dehydrated skin is certainly unhealthy; it can’t behave as it should. You may be asking yourself, as I once did, what the difference is between dry skin and dehydrated skin. Well, permit me to explore those differences.
What’s the difference between dry skin and dehydrated skin?
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.
With that, let’s take a look at a few of the best humectant serums for keeping skin optimally hydrated day after day…
Derma E | Ultra Hydrating Alkaline Gel Booster
One of my latest brand crazes of the young new year is Derma E — a clean, natural affordable skincare brand with some really cool innovations. I’ve been having so much fun trying out their broad range of clean skin care that I feel like a kid in a candy store! This past weekend, I enjoyed the Derma-E Vitamin C Instant Radiance Citrus Facial Peel for #selfcaresunday. If you didn’t see the video, you can catch it here. Derma E’s Vitamin C mask is literally infused with citrus pulp and is a real pleasure to use!
Prior to that, I first highlighted the brand in my earlier piece on the best face mists for dehydrated skin with the Derma E Hydrating Mist. It’s such a well-formulated face mist — and super refreshing for a quick pick-me-up on the driest of days.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Derma E brand, permit me to share some background on the indie brand.
Derma E got its start in 1984 with a single product, a Vitamin E cream sold at a small health food store in Southern California.
A clean beauty pioneer, the Derma E brand is perhaps best known for their “Refuse to Use” list of toxic ingredients and potential allergens that has helped to move the entire skincare industry forward. It’s the most extensive list I’ve come across with 2,700 “nasties”.
The Derma E Refuse To Use™ List
The DERMA E “Refuse to Use ™ List” is a comprehensive list of over 2700 common ingredients that have actually been found to be toxic to both people and the environment. DERMA E has been building this list of ingredients to ban in their products since their inception in 1984. This extensive list includes familiar ingredients like: parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde donors, animal ingredients, synthetics fragrances, and more. Many of these ingredients are banned in the EU and other countries, but are still found in products within the US.
Today, Derma E offers an extensive range of clean, natural, vegan and cruelty free skincare powered by beneficial actives, from antioxidant Vitamin C and Pycnogenol to peptides and Dimethyl MEA (DMAE) — an intriguing derivative of Vitamin B with skin benefits that’s also purported to enhance brain health.
In the Derma E collection are some of the best natural face creams, best natural anti-aging serums and even best natural cleansers for sensitive skin. Among my faves of the brand’s natural offerings is the Derma E Ultra Hydrating Alkaline Gel Booster.
In my experience, there are two types of humectant serums — thick, pulpy and velvety formulas and lighter, runny and more easily layered ones. With its super watery texture, Derma E’s Ultra Hydrating Alkaline Gel Booster falls into the latter bucket.
The clean, natural formula is comprised of three humectants including vegetable-derived Glycerin, Sodium Hyaluronate and Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate — both of which are salt forms of Hyaluronic Acid that are more skin compatible.
But the Ultra Hydrating Alkaline Gel Booster is a superb antioxidant serum as well with Green Tea Leaf Extract and Superoxide Dismutase — a powerful antioxidant naturally occurring in that helps to protect human skin cells against free radical damage. There’s also Copper PCA, Panthenol (Vitamin B5) and even Palmitoyl Tripeptide-28.
Ultra Hydrating Alkaline Gel Booster has become one of my favorite pro-skin health treatments and a product that I look forward to using, an indicator of its superior quality.
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Paula’s Choice | Hyaluronic Acid Booster
I’ve experienced so many firsts from Paula’s Choice. In fact, the brand was my first serious foray into well-formulated skin care! Today, several Paula’s Choice products are daily go-to’s for me, including the Paula’s Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster — one of the best anti-aging serums ever made.
For my full review of the best Niacinamide serums, have a look at my recent blog article titled, Niacinamide is the Game Changer You Need to Defend Against Skin Damage and Maintain Optimal Skin Health — available to read here.
Other faves from Paula’s Choice include the brand’s C15 Super Booster and the CBD Oil + Retinol — one of the best anti-aging serums with CBD. Right up there as a skincare go-to is the Paula’s Choice Hyaluronic Acid Booster — my first dedicated humectant serum.
I have long been fascinated by how Hyaluronic Acid works in the skin and by the multiple forms of the active, among them Sodium Hyaluronate — the salt form of HA that’s the most compatible with the skin.
You’ll find some form of HA in just about every serious moisturizer, hydrating treatment and anti-aging serum. Every skinfluencer and serious skincare junkie has a dedicated HA serum. As I’ve said previously, hydration is key to maintaining skin health. And a well-formulated Hyaluronic Acid serum is essential to any pro-skin health regimen.
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It’s a fascinating ingredient; and while there are multiple humectants available for inclusion in skin care, including Beta Glucan, Glycerin and Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Hyaluronic Acid seems to be every formulator’s go-to.
Paula and her information-rich websites aren’t my only source for legit ingredient information. I do a lot of googling. But, again, there’s a lot of misinformation out there, so you have to be discerning.
What is hyaluronic acid for skin?
I recently found an excellent albeit wonky article on Hyaluronic Acid titled, Why Science Says Hyaluronic Acid Is the Holy Grail to Wrinkle-Free, Youthful Hydration.
This bit stood out to me, in particular:
“The benefits of hyaluronic acid on the skin has to do with its molecular weight and concentration. In this case, size matters! The molecular weight refers to its mass, or how big the HA molecule is. This is measured in something called unified atomic mass units — daltons, or kDa for short.
HA between 50 to 1,000 kDa is the most beneficial for skin, with about 130 kDa being the best, according to the most recent human studies. Anything higher won't make too much of a difference. Anything lower might cause inflammation. How did we get this number? When you look at studies, you'll see a pattern, but one of the most thorough studies looked at HA with different molecular weights, including 50, 130, 300, 800, and 2,000 kDa.
After one month, they found that treatment with 130 kDa HA was the most effective, increasing skin elasticity by 20 percent. Both the 50 and 130 kDa groups had significant improvement in wrinkle-depth and skin roughness after 60 days. All the other molecular weights still improved elasticity and skin hydration, just less so. You can read more about this molecular weight analysis from the original breakdown here.”
What makes the Paula’s Choice Hyaluronic Acid Booster one of the best Hyaluronic Acid serums — and a personal favorite?
First, I love the texture! It’s not as watery as Derma E’s Ultra Hydrating Alkaline Gel Booster or the much pricier option from Dr. Dennis Gross — the $68 Hyaluronic Marine Hydration Booster. But it’s also not as pulpy as the cheaper HA serums available today from The Ordinary and The Inkey List — which are a tenth the cost.
Paula’s Hyaluronic Acid Booster “contains a specialized matrix of skin-smoothing hyaluronic acid, skin-replenishing ceramides, and panthenol that penetrates skin’s surface to help lock in moisture, keeping skin hydrated and ultimately moisturized.”
The first ingredients immediately after water are the humectants Glycerin, Sodium Hyaluronate and Hyaluronic Acid, followed by three skin-replenishing forms of plumping, replenishing ceramides.
So you see, very often what seems like a straight-up HA serum is actually much, much more. That’s especially true with most serums from Paula’s Choice.
The Hyaluronic Acid Booster is a terrific formula and relatively affordable at $36.
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Ghost Democracy | Floodgate Hyaluronic Acid Serum
It’s rare to come across a Hyaluronic Acid serum where you know the precise level of HA in the formula. I recall that the Skin Regimen 1.85 HA Booster I reviewed on my blog here contains, well, a 1.85% concentration of macro, micro, and cross-linked Hyaluronic Acid.
And in a previous article on some of my top Vitamin C picks, I noted that the Purito Pure Vitamin C Serum is formulated with 84% Sodium Hyaluronate liquid. Of course, that’s simply a blend of Hyaluronic Acid and water. A concentration of HA higher than 3% would turn a formula into a gelatinous, unusable mess.
To call out a 2% concentration of an active isn’t all that appealing from a marketing standpoint.
Even so, Ghost Democracy characteristically shares that its Floodgate Hyaluronic Acid Serum is formulated with 2.1% Pure Hyaluronic Acid, which is a legit level of the power humectant.
But honestly, I don’t really know what the functional level of HA in skin care is. I believe it’s between 1.5-2%. But I love to venturing down a Google rabbit hole!
In one of the most insightful articles I’ve found in Hyaluronic Acid titled, Why Science Says Hyaluronic Acid Is the Holy Grail to Wrinkle-Free, Youthful Hydration, I found these additional insights:
“Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a naturally occurring glycosaminoglycan found throughout the body's connective tissue. Glycosaminoglycans are simply long unbranched carbohydrates, or sugars, called polysaccharides.'
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HA is the main component of what gives your skin structure, and is responsible for that plump and hydrated look. You may have heard the chatter around collagen, but hyaluronic acid is where it’s at.”
That’s exactly why you read claims on Hyaluronic Acid’s ability to plump skin and treat signs of aging. Plump skin shows fewer visible fine lines and wrinkles. The opposite of plumped skin is sagging skin, which naturally shows deeper, more numerous, and more pronounced wrinkles. Fascinating, right?
But what about levels of Hyaluronic Acid, the unknown that lured me down the rabbit hole to begin with? I found this in the same article:
“If you're formulating your own products, or purchasing HA products that list the percentage, we recommend keeping the HA concentration below 2 percent. Why? A very low molecular weight of 5 kDA HA has the ability to penetrate the skin, which means it can potentially carry other unwanted ingredients, chemicals, and bacteria more deeply into the skin. If you have compromised skin, this might be bad news. Thankfully, on its own, HA tends to not cause allergic reactions since our bodies also make it.”
A very low molecular weight of 5 kDA HA has the ability to penetrate the skin, which means it can potentially carry other unwanted ingredients, chemicals, and bacteria more deeply into the skin. If you have compromised skin, this might be bad news. Thankfully, on its own, HA tends to not cause allergic reactions since our bodies also make it.”
With its 2.1% level of HA, the Floodgate Hyaluronic Acid Serum also contains a nice, healthy level of 4.0% Niacinamide to help brighten skin and flush out pores.
Curiously, there’s also 1.3% White Tea Leaf Extract — something I find intriguing. You often see Green Tea Extract in skin care but white tea?
Ghost Democracy shares this about their reasoning behind it: “One of the least processed tea extracts, white tea retains more of the plant’s antioxidants than black and green teas. High concentration of polyphenol and flavonoid content helps to reduce oxidative stress and protect skin.” Now that’s good clean skin care with a twist!
The Floodgate serum has a thicker, more pulpy texture that’s not the least bit sticky, which I found surprising. Oddly, it has a somewhat unappetizing odor to it which reminds me of the “hot dog water” smell that many people complain about over The Ordinary’s Marine Hyaluronics, one of my all-time favorite humectant serums.
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Kosmetic Immunity | Beta Glucan Recovery Serum
I’ve been hearing more and more about Beta Glucan recently so I was naturally intrigued by an entire brand whose formulas are all infused with high levels of the irritation-soothing humectant. Yes, every Kosmetic Immunity (formerly known as JKosmmume) formula is based on Beta Glucan, including the brand’s signature Beta Glucan Recovery Serum, which contains a purported 97% concentration of mBeta Glucan. (More on that concentration below.)
My skincare muse Paula Begoun gives Beta Glucan her top rating as one of the best ingredients for the skin. Beta Glucan is defined as a “polysaccharide sugar derived from yeast or oats. It has some antioxidant properties and is a skin-soothing agent. Beta-glucan is considered an excellent ingredient for improving the look of redness and other signs of sensitive skin.”
If you’re curious like I was to compare it to tried-and-true Hyaluronic Acid, Beta Glucan has been proven to be 20% more hydrating than HA. Intrigued yet?
What is Beta Glucan?
I found an excellent article on the Byrdie website titled, Introducing Beta Glucan, A Little-Known Skincare Ingredient With Big Potential. In it…
“Better than hyaluronic acid” is a bold claim to make when speaking to any beauty editor, much less one at Byrdie. We take our hyaluronic acid—and all of our other hydrators—very seriously. So when we're pitched an ingredient like beta-glucans, which have been the subject of some seemingly far-flung claims, we do our research. And honestly, we're pleased with what we found. But beta-glucans don't occur naturally in the human body—so why would we need them? And what exactly are they? We spoke to Dr. Dendy Engelman; Dr. Michelle Wong, Science Educator and Content Creator behind LabMuffin; and Alicia Zalka, M.D. and Founder of Surface Deep to get the scoop.
What is Beta Glucan?
According to Dendy Engelman, "Beta-glucans, written as β-glucans, are polysaccharides (multiple sugars, starch, cellulose bonded together) found in yeast, bacteria, fungi, seaweed, and grains like oats." So you can ingest them in food, or they can be extracted and applied to your skin. It feels like we all take so many pills (and it's a lot to keep track of,) so we don't blame you if you're more invested in the effects of the latter.
“Beta glucan is a humectant moisturiser that attracts water to the top layers of skin,"“ Wong says. Accounts on the internet from people claiming that when used topically the ingredient boosted their hydration levels and skin barrier function were easy to find, drawing us in even further. An ingredient that does all that while decreasing the look of wrinkles, redness, and irritation seems almost too good to be true—or at least like it would be used in skincare more often if it were.
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So I’m naturally intrigued by the Kosmetic Immunity Beta Glucan Recovery Serum — and have gone through about a half dozen bottles of it since I first discovered the deliciously silky treatment in 2018.
It’s a silky smooth serum that’s not very watery, but not very pulpy either — unlike the vast majority of HA serums. It’s always one or the other depending on the size of the HA molecules in the formula.
Kosmetic Immunity’s 99% pure, all-natural serum is a tight formulation, comprising just seven ingredients in all: Water, Glycerin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Beta Glucan, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract and Butylene Glycol. While I love the simplicity of the INCI, it doesn’t make much sense that the formula is composed of a 97% concentration of mBeta Glucan given that there are there ingredients with higher concentrations. Umm, okay then.
No matter, it’s quite an effective treatment and a perfectly acceptable alternative to Hyaluronic Acid with the added irritation soothing benefits of both the Beta Glucan and Centella Asiatica Extract. It’s clean, it’s simple and it’s effective. What more could I ask for? Except more Beta Glucan products in my life…
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The Inkey List | Hyaluronic Acid Serum
A Hyaluronic Acid or other humectant serum is essential to every healthy skincare routine. But that doesn’t mean it needs to be one of the priciest products in your regimen. As I’ve said many times before, I appreciate what brands like Good Molecules, The Ordinary and The Inkey List have done to make great skincare products accessible to everyone. There’s perhaps no better example of this than with Hyaluronic Acid.
Hyaluronic Acid is one of the least expensive and most effective actives and it’s indispensable to the health of your skin.
If you have the means and the desire, I’d certainly recommend a more well-rounded serum like the Paula’s Choice Hyaluronic Acid Booster — which delivers additional anti-aging benefits beyond a simple humectant effect.
But if you’re more interested in an affordable, one-note serum, at just $7.99, The Inkey List’s Hyaluronic Acid Serum is a terrific option. It’s an effective humectant serum with just a touch of additional anti-aging benefits to it. As with all cheaper forms of Hyaluronic Acid, Inkey’s Hyaluronic Acid Serum is a thicker, pulpier treatment.
Inkey’s Hyaluronic Acid is a clean, simple serum with an approximate 2% concentration of multi-molecular Hyaluronic Acid, including Sodium Hyaluronate — the salt form of HA that’s more skin-compatible.
With just seven ingredients in the INCI, The Inkey List Hyaluronic Acid Serum is not entirely a stripped down product. There’s a bit more anti-aging oomph to it than expected with the inclusion of a small amount of Matrixyl 3000 — a common dual peptide complex that helps support skin’s natural collagen production.
There’s also a bit of nourishing Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, which I wish replaced the water in the formula. That would elevate the treatment and pro-skin health benefits a bit more.
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The Inkey List | Snow Mushroom Cream
And that brings me to perhaps the most intriguing humectant treatment of the collection — The Inkey List’s Snow Mushroom Cream.
Snow Mushroom Cream sounds like something straight out of a fairy tale. Like if Cinderella had shown herself a little more self-love on selfcare Sunday, Snow Mushroom Cream might just be her favorite moisturizer.
In fact, wasn’t Cinderella dead broke? At just under $10, Inkey’s Snow Mushroom Cream is a superb, affordable humectant treatment which relies upon one of the alternative water-binding humectant actives, snow mushroom or tremella fuciformis.
If you haven’t heard or read much about snow mushrooms yet, it’s relatively new to me too. There’s a lot of great reading about the mysterious ingredient online. I’m not particularly wowed by exotic sounding ingredients in skin care — but if the ingredient works, I’m down.
What does snow mushroom do for skin?
I found a really interesting article on The Zoe Report called, Snow Mushroom Skincare Products Could Replace All Your Hyaluronic Acid Serums. From the article:
“Mushrooms are having what’s known as A Moment. The antioxidant-filled fungi are suddenly everywhere: Chaga and cordyceps mushrooms have made their way into adaptogenic smoothie supplements, powdered lion’s mane mushrooms are today’s healthiest alternative to coffee, and reishi mushrooms are the star ingredient in skincare products like Youth to the People’s Adaptogenic Moisture Cream.
But the latest ‘shroom on the block, snow mushroom, is arguably the best yet. With its capacity for locking in moisture, snow mushroom in skincare products is about to replace hyaluronic acid as the gold-standard.”
Wait. What? “With its capacity for locking in moisture, snow mushroom in skincare products is about to replace hyaluronic acid as the gold-standard.”
Wow, that’s a high bar. And it’s something to look forward to. In the meantime, Inkey’s Snow Mushroom Cream is ahead of the trend. With a relatively limited ingredient list — comprising 15 ingredients in all — it’s got a thick, translucent gel texture. It’s not watery and doesn’t absorb instantly like a more watery humectant serum.
Snow Mushroom Cream is deceptively rich and quite a high-performance moisturizer with two of the most common humectants in skin care, Butylene Glycol and Glycerin alongside emollient, water-binding Lecithin. There are no added antioxidants in the formula — again, it’s quite simply focused on locking water and moisture in the skin to prevent dehydration.
Back to that assertion that Snow Mushroom has the humectant power of Hyaluronic Acid, the Zoe Report also reported this: “In a laboratory, hyaluronic acid can hold 1000 times its weight in water, and snow mushroom can hold 500 times its weight,” Dr. Tanuj Nakra, co-founder of AVYA Skincare, tells The Zoe Report. “However, snow mushroom’s gelatinous molecules are smaller than that of hyaluronic acid, so they penetrate the skin much better — leading to more noticeable, real-world results.”
Seriously, Cinderella would love it!
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That’s it guys! If you’re not already using a humectant serum or moisturizer in your daily skincare routine, I hope you’ll consider incorporating one soon. It’s simply one of the most effective (and easiest!) ways to elevate your skin health.
Stay hydrated, my friends.
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The Ingredient List of the Derma-E Ultra Hydrating Alkaline Gel Booster:
sii|h 0 0, Sodium Hyaluronate 
sii|h 0 0, Phenoxyethanol pres, Sodium PCA sii|h 0 0, Polysorbate 20 emu|surf 0 0, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-11 vc, Cellulose Gum vc 0 0, Copper Pca h, Superoxide Dismutase aox, Sodium Bicarbonate abrasive/scrub|buff, (Natural) Fragrance (Oil) 
perf, Panthenol so|h 0 0, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract aox|so, Ergothioneine aox, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-28The Ingredient List of the Paula’s Choice Hyaluronic Acid Booster:
sii|h 0 0, Sodium Hyaluronate (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) sii|h 0 0, Hyaluronic Acid (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) sii|h, Ceramide NP (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) sii, Ceramide AP (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) sii, Ceramide EOP (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) sii, Phytosphingosine (Hydration/Skin Replenishing) sii|cci|aacne|amic, Yeast Extract (Skin Replenishing) h, Adenosine (Skin-Restoring) cci, Cholesterol (Skin Replenishing) sii|emo 0 0, Panthenol (Skin Replenishing) so|h 0 0, Silanetriol (Hydration), Butylene Glycol (Hydration) h|solv|vc 0 1, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate (Hydration) emu, Carbomer (Texture-Enhancing) vc 0 1, Xanthan Gum (Texture-Enhancing) vc|emu|surf, Citric Acid buff, Sodium Hydroxide buff, Polysorbate 20 (Texture-Enhancing) emu|surf 0 0, Ethylhexylglycerin (Preservative) pres, Phenoxyethanol (Preservative) pres
The Ingredient List of the Ghost Democracy Floodgate Hyaluronic Acid Serum:
cci|sb|aacne|h, Propanediol solv|h, Sodium Hyaluronate (Hyaluronic Acid) sii|h 0 0, Tilia Cordata (Linden) Flower Extract, Camellia Sinensis (White Tea) Leaf Extract aox|so, Hibiscus Sabdariffa Flower Extract, Glycerin sii|h 0 0, Phytic Acid chel, Xanthan Gum vc|emu|surf, Phenoxyethanol pres, Ethylhexylglycerin presThe Ingredient List of the Kosmetik Immunity Beta Glucan Recovery Serum:
sii|h 0 0, 1,2-Hexanediol solv, Beta-Glucan so|h, Portulaca Oleracea Extract so|aox, Centella Asiatica Extract so|aox|h, Butylene Glycol h|solv|vc 0 1The Ingredient List of The Inkey List Hyaluronic Acid Serum:
sii|h 0 0, Butylene Glycol h|solv|vc 0 1, Sodium Hyaluronate sii|h 0 0, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer vc, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate amic|pres, Hyaluronic Acid sii|h, Carbomer vc 0 1, Polysorbate 20 emu|surf 0 0, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 cci, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 cci, Phenoxyethanol presThe Ingredient List of The Inkey List Snow Mushroom Cream:
sii|h 0 0, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer vc, Phenoxyethanol pres, Sodium Caproyl Prolinate h|surf, Lecithin emo|emu, Tremella Fuciformis (Mushroom) Extract h, Carbomer vc 0 1, Madecassoside aox|so, Sodium Hydroxide buff, Ethylhexylglycerin pres, Glyceryl Polyacrylate, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate chel
