The Ordinary Soothing & Barrier Support Serum, Redness-Reducing & Hydrating Solution for Skin Barrier Recovery

Perfect Dr Jart dupe
As a retinol and chemical peel user, this is clutch. My favorite barrier serum is the Dr Jart Cica Repair but it is expensive, I found this works just as well for even less than half the price. I use this every morning in my routine and I find it absorbs really well, doesn’t have a weird smell, and starts soothing within the first hour for sure. I naturally have dry and sensitive skin so I always need a product like this and it is definitely worth the money and time. I mix this with Good Molecules Vitamin C powder and I have no irritation, redness, or stinging from the vitamin c. 10/10 would recommend.

Unbelievably Great
This serum is CRAZY good. So I use tretinoin and even after months of nightly use I still get quite dry skin, especially this winter season. I thought I was moisturizing enough, but clearly not because I’d wear makeup and the dry patches were just on full display.I got this product after seeing that my skin barrier is clearly a mess and I need to fix it. Dude, within the first night of use I noticed a difference the next morning when I applied my makeup.I have been continuing to use this product 2x a day: morning and night. I do not notice any issues with pilling to be honest. I also have no experienced pink stains of any sort left over on my face and I use an entire dropper of product on my face.It doesn’t really smell like much of anything. It’s a bright pink color. Soaks right into the skin and spreads easily.I pair this product now with a thick cica balm at night and I think the combo works. I literally still use tretinoin in the midst of all of this and absolutely ZERO issues.Here is my full night routine: Oil/balm cleanse. Regular cleanser. Milky toner. TO Barrier Serum (wait at least 10 minutes), tret (wait at least 10-20 minutes), thick cica balm (I use avene) and let that really sit for a few minutes and soak into your skin. After I will add a lighter moisturizer of any kind or I will use an overnight mask (I use the Kiehls overnight recovery mask). This may seem excessive but I find it has been working great for my barrier, not kidding. Makeup has improved so much.For morning I lightly cleanse to get the oils and all that moisturizer off of me or I will break out. I then use that same milky toner (I use laneige). Then this serum. A moisturizer and then sunscreen and proceed with day or makeup.If it helps, I just turned 28 and my regular skin without tret is still pretty dry like normal-dry, acne prone for suuuure and with tretinoin it’s sahara-level dry and still acne prone but meh. I use tret for aging reasons, not acne!I hope this helps someone!!

FIRST USE REVIEW WILL UPDATE
1/4/2025- I got this product today, and used it this evening. I’ve been suffering a MAJOR skin barrier issue that resulted in a ton of flaking and acne and in general my face had every issue possible happening. I’ve had the same routine for several years but something changed I guess. Tonight I washed and toned as usual, then used this serum and sealed it with rose hip oil on my dry patches (because my normal moisturizer hurts my acne spots rn I’m usually bone dry). This product on first use feels very nice. The past few nights of just using rose hip oil on my dry patches left me feeling really tight and this kind of closed the gap. I will update in a week with hopefully great news and pictures 😍Update 1/23/2025- I got sick so it took a little bit longer to update and see results than I’d have liked but wow I’m in love. I added before and after pictures. I’m not 100% clear yet but a part of that is that I can be a little heavy handed with the moisturizer during the winter. But my flaking and redness has cleared a lot. I really didn’t know what to expect from this especially with the redness reducing bc it’s pink, but this is a very nice addition to my routine. My skin feels a lot healthier and like it’s just functioning in the way skin is supposed to!

Great for my rosacea
I have super sensitive skin and rosacea that flares. This serum help reduce my rosacea. It doesn’t dry out my very dry skin. I’ve gone through two bottles so far and will continue to keep it in my daily routine.

Bien

Love it, obviously the pink colour is cool lol 😆, but it’s a fantastic skin barrier repair serum !.It’s perfect for use after microneeding.

Ottimo prodotto se si cerca un effetto lenitivo, rinfrescante e idratante. Unica pecca, è un po’ troppo corposo per una pelle grassa/mista, quindi lo consiglierei come impacco notturno piuttosto.