Face Moisturizer

Keeping skin hydrated is crucial, but not just any moisturizer will do. From years of research, we’ve found that skin at all ages needs key restoring and replenishing ingredients to prevent moisture loss, plus antioxidants to strengthen and protect.

All Paula’s Choice moisturizers are created with these ingredients, so you get a complex formula that addresses more than just hydration.

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The Best Moisturizers for Dry Skin

A creamy swatch of a Paula's Choice moisturizer In addition to the key elements above, dry skin needs extra emollients and skin-softening ingredients to restore a hydrated, supple look and feel. Today’s best face moisturizers help dry skin do a better job of retaining its own moisture with ingredients like ceramides and peptides.

SKIN RECOVERY Replenishing Moisturizer – Creamy-rich texture softens skin while treating it to a mix of emollients, peptides and antioxidants.

CLINICAL Ceramide-Enriched Firming Moisturizer – Featuring five essential ceramides plus a potent blend of vitamin C and retinol, this lotion fortifies skin’s protective barrier.

C5 Super Boost Moisturizer – This cream gel, featuring 5% vitamin C, goes beyond hydration to strengthen skin's barrier, improve dullness, revive firmness, and smooth texture.

Daytime Moisturizers with SPF + Natural Face Moisturizers

Sun protection is vital to shielding skin from damaging rays in order to keep it looking its best, and the right natural ingredients work with sunscreen to boost environmental defenses. Be sure to apply your daytime moisturizer with SPF liberally and find all of our sunscreens and daytime moisturizers here.

Our EARTH SOURCED Antioxidant Enriched Natural Moisturizer works beautifully underneath your sunscreen and treats skin to a potent combination of natural antioxidants and replenishing ingredients to revitalize skin.

The Best Oily Skin Moisturizers

People with oily skin tend to shy away from face moisturizers because they can feel greasy or worse, they used one in the past that lead to clogged pores. Once you find the right moisturizer for your skin type, though, that will be a thing of the past. Replenishing skin with lightweight hydration is essential for balancing oily skin so it looks and feels healthier—all without clogging pores.

SKIN BALANCING Invisible Finish Moisture Gel – Refreshing, weightless-gel hydrator with pore-reducing niacinamide, pollution-defending antioxidants and restorative ingredients for visibly refined skin.

CALM Rescue & Repair Weightless Moisturizer – Hydrates skin with a lightweight, non-greasy formula featuring skin-soothing ingredients.

CLEAR Oil-Free Moisturizer —Specially formulated for blemish-prone skin, this sheer lotion features skin-plumping sodium hyaluronate, strengthening ceramides and pore-minimizing niacinamide.

The Best Anti-Aging Moisturizers

A bottle of Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Advanced Moisturizer with a blue background While the formulas above do an amazing job for their designated skin types, we also have dedicated anti-aging moisturizers if that’s your goal. Our complex anti-aging formulas are packed with research-based ingredients that restore the building blocks of healthy, youthful-looking skin.

RESIST Anti-Aging Clear Skin Hydrator – Ultra-light cream-gel for combination to oily skin that targets blemished skin tone and enlarged pores, while delivering vitamin C and other potent anti-agers.

RESIST Barrier Repair Advanced Moisturizer – Replenishing lotion for all skin types featuring ceramides, watermelon seed oil and palmitoyl tripeptide-5 to support the look of firmness and elasticity.

Pro-Collagen Peptide Plumping Moisturizer – Elegant gel-cream uses three star peptides and hydrators to help balance skin and restore a bouncy, healthy, firmer look both in the short and long-term.