Water cream is one of your skincare staples that will last you throughout different seasons. Anyone who’s fond of these bottles of magic know that they’re just really darn amazing. And it seems the skincare industry knows this as well. With so many water creams out in the market, what are the winners that actually work? Here’s a few standout water creams that Fel and Ro love and recommend.
But First, What is a Water Cream?
To put simply, they’re lightweight moisturizers with unique cloud-like textures. Contrary to moisturizers, which contain oils that give it a whipped-cream texture, water creams are water-based so they sink into the skin while delivering a burst of hydration. Sounds amazing, right?
Product Recommendation
1. Tatcha Water Cream
What is it?
This water cream gave Fel and Ro quite the impression the moment they discovered it. It’s a luxury style moisturizer that gives a “water-bursting” sensation as you apply to your skin.
Key Ingredients
Tatcha is famous for their use of Hadasei-3. This is a blend of rice, red algae, and green tea, all of which are considered beauty secrets used by Japanese Geisha to maintain beautiful skin.
2. Kiehl’s Calendula Serum Infused Water Cream
What is it?
This water cream is one of Fel’s favorite moisturizers because of its calendula extracts. For her, this cream works well to calm irritated skin and even out her skin tone for a brighter looking complexion.
Key Ingredients
To put simply, calendula is an antifungal and antimicrobial ingredient. It calms inflammation, is great for reducing the appearance of enlarged pores, and controls sebum production.
3. Make P:Rem Hydrate Me Micro Tension Cream
What is it?
This is Ro’s well loved moisturizer that she obsesses over. The reason? This micro tension cream works wonderfully for quenching her dry and parched skin. The texture resembles Tatcha’s Water Cream, which makes it an effective and great affordable dupe to purchase.
Key Ingredients
Botanical extracts and oils make up the majority of this product. To name a few, this product contains arctic raspberry, ceramides and macadamia oil, which are great for the rebuilding and strengthening the skin barrier.
4. Belif
What is it?
If you can portray a burst of water in a moisturizer, this brand does exactly that – give you a cooling burst of water on your face. It’s refreshing lightweight consistency makes it perfect for quenching the most dehydrated skin and leave your skin feeling ultra soft and supple.
Similarly, the moisturizing bomb is a great alternative for anyone leaning on the drier skin type. This product has a slightly more whipped texture and contains skin softening ingredients.
Key Ingredients
Belif is known for their Napier’s formula which is a blend of herbs that work to soothe the skin. Among the Napier’s formula is the Lady’s Mantle. This ingredient is an anti-inflammatory and an astringent that works to lessen the appearance of enlarged pores.
5. Purito Deep Sea Water Cream
What is it?
Next to Make P:Rem’s moisturizer, Rowena loves this cream for its lightweight yet deeply moisturizing properties. Finding moisturizers tackling dry and dehydrated skin is a struggle. But with this cream, Rowena finds it hydrating enough to apply it once. Besides hydration, this cream is great for evening out the complexion and even claims to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Key Ingredients
Deep Sea Water is a primary ingredient that the brand confidently discloses. The reason? Apparently deep sea water closely resembles our own skin’s moisture levels. The fact that this product uses 60% of deep sea water instead of plain ol’ agua definitely makes it promising.
6. Whamisa Organic Flowers Water Cream
What is it?
This cream is unlike anything you’ve seen. With new technology and skincare innovation, this water cream has an unusual texture that resembles natto. Its stringy and bouncy texture that resembles Japanese fermented soybeans while the cream itself is very lightweight and quick absorbing.
Key Ingredients
Natto Gum is one of the star ingredients in this cream. Having natto gum seems interesting, but there’s a reason for everything. Like other fermented ingredients found in skincare, natto gum is rich in amino acids and essential vitamins that work to rebuild the skin barrier and brighten the skin’s overall complexion.
7. Krave Beauty Oat So Simple Water Cream
What is it?
In a world of skincare products that contain all sorts of active ingredients, the best choice for a moisturizer is one that does what it’s supposed to do: moisturize. For this one, the water cream is formulated in a way to become a compatible friend to active ingredients and moisture replenishing oils. You can definitely cocktail your fav facial oils or vitamin C serums to give your moisturizer an extra boost. Best of all, this moisturizer is fungal acne safe!
Key Ingredients
With simple comes soothing. And with soothing, comes oat water. Don’t be deceived by the ingredients list, this moisturizer is made up of oat water to soothe the skin barrier and retain moisture levels.
8. Dr. Jart
What is it?
Dr. Jart’s Biome Water Cream and Moisture Cream have ultra hydrating properties and are some of Ro’s go-to moisturizers. Its great moisturizing qualities work to strengthen the skin barrier similar to the Whamisa Flowers Water Cream. Rowena loves how hydrating the creams are despite its gel-like texture and lightweight consistency.
Key Ingredients
It can’t be moisturizing without hyaluronic acid and this product contains three types of them! For reinforcing the skin barrier, there’s the prebiotics and the moisture biome to balance out the skin’s good bacteria. Supplying your skin with good bacteria is a defensive measure against external aggressors and reduce inflammation.
9. Bliss What a Melon Water Jelly Hydrator
What is it?
Fel fondly calls this as a great start for teens who are just getting into skincare. Her reason? Skincare should be fun! This pink moisturizer smells delightfully of watermelon and its jelly-like consistency bursts into water once applied to the skin. Sounds refreshing!
Key Ingredients
Watermelon fruit extracts, brazillian sea water, and sodium hyaluronate work hand in hand to deliver hydration to your skin. Cucumber fruit water and extracts soothes and calms down the skin, and willow bark extract gives your skin mild exfoliative properties to keep your skin radiant and flake-free.
10. Tarte Drink of H2O Hydrating Booster Moisturizer
What is it?
Here’s a moisturizer that delivers hydration in a new way. This mint green moisturizer goes on clear and transforms into water as it glides across your skin. Rowena and Felicia are shook by how refreshing their skin felt after applying. Best of all, it’s vegan!
Key Ingredients
Hyaluronic acid and squalene are must ingredients for replenishing hydration to the skin. Squalene is found in our skin’s sebum, which makes it a great ingredient to use for maintaining moisture levels. Its electrolyte-balancing complex that works to restore the skin’s moisture levels while the algae and marine flower extracts soothe and soften skin.
11. Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Cream
What is it?
As the name says, this moisturizer has the consistency and texture of a cloud. With the amount of moisturizing ingredients included in this product, it’s no wonder that Felicia and Rowena love this product for quenching dehydrated skin.
Key Ingredients
Hyaluronic acid and ceramides make this moisturizer highly nourishing and hydrating for the skin. This product has sodium hyaluronate to moisturize, and five different types of ceramides to strengthen the skin barrier.
12. I’m From Vitamin Tree Gel
What is it?
This lightweight gel moisturizer is refreshing and perfect for oily combo skin types, like our very oen host, Felicia. She really enjoys this moisturizer for controlling her sebum production and soothing irritated skin.
Key Ingredients
Are you familiar with sea buckthorn? This ingredient is a Korean favorite! Also known as vitamin tree, its high vitamin concentration is known to repair the skin barrier. This fruit is also rich in antioxidants which works to repair and fight off free radical damage, and effectively slow down the skin’s aging process.
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Is Purito deep sea water cream a night cream or a day crean?
Heyyy Esther! You can use it as either night or day cream, depending on your skin type, it’s slightly heavier so it’s great for dry skin types but some people with oily skin types have also said they liked the product
Which water cream would be best for both winter and summer?
Ive oily combination, acne prone skin, and ive lately started feeling like my mizon all in one repair cream (my summer go to moisturiser) isn’t hydrating enough for my skin… im kinda like Fel’s skin type, would the purito deep water cream be ok for me to use?
Hi Bakhtawar!
Yes! The Purito Deep Sea Pure Water Cream is one of our favorites! It’s formulated with 60% Deep Sea Water, so it can really hydrate & replenish without it being too heavy for your skin type. If you try it, let us know what you think!