CeraVe Facial Moisturizing Lotion - PM

I love this as a daytime or warm weather day and night moisturizer. I love the ingredients, especially because it combines in one product a few things that I want in my regimen (especially Niacinamide). Will definitely repurchase.

The reformulation is awful. I hate it, and my skin does too. Doesn’t soak in. Looks greasy and feels sticky. Worse of all I had a reaction. Red, stinging, peeling skin. This was my holy grail. I bought several at a time. I loved it far more than anything I had tried before. Even the prestige brands. It never felt greasy or heavy. If I was dry I could double the application and it soaked in without shine or stickiness. This might be the worst thing to ever happen to me.

Acne prone ane hated it. It caused more whiteheads.

I love this moisturizer, as it is lightweight yet occlusive enough to leave my combination skin feeling plump and comfortable. During the winter months, I apply after a humectant (rubbed on wet skin, after washing my face at night or splashing it with water in the am). During the hotter season, I use it by itself, normally at night, before or after my retinoid.

It wears well under makeup: it does not pile or break up the MU. It has not broken me out, nor does it sting, and it very feels nice on my skin.

Also I love the packaging, it comes with a pump that dispenses a small quantity of product. It is sanitary and not wasteful!

CeraVe has just launched in the country where I live. Before I would buy off Amazon. I hope that now I will be able to find it now more easily and hopefully a little bit cheaper! I plan to repurchase this moisturizer. I see that it has a new formulation. I hope that they have not screwed it!

I"ve been following Angie of Hot and Flashy on YT and this is her Holy Grail DAYTIME moisturizer that she layers under her sunscreen. I used it years ago and decided to give it a try again. I love it! It absorbs well, and I also put it under sunscreen. However, I don't think I will purchase it again after my next backup bottle because it contains parabens and I want to avoid those. So Angie suggested a substitute - Mad Hippie. I'll give that a try, but hate to spend the money. If parabens are not an issue for you, I recommend CeraVe PM - night or day.

They reformulated it and it sucks. It broke my skin out and turned my skin into a desert with large pores. Don’t waste your money.

I have personally used stratia liquid gold, TO Niacinamide with zinc, PC Niacinamide booster and recently this pm lotion. I find this pm lotion to be the most gentle Niacinamide option out of all of them as the other 3 gave me eczema type reactions on my face after using them for around a week. I feel that it may be because I use L Ascorbic acid in the morning. With all that said, the pm lotion used over tretinoin at night did seem to make me break out more if I use too much like 5 pumps on face and neck. That was unusual as I never break out since I was on tretinoin for almost a decade. I think the key to make it work is to use less only 1 pump which seems to not make me break out nor make my face red. I will update when I decide if the pm lotion is doing more harm than good.

Cerave PM is a moisturizer that I keep coming back to and now has an established spot in my routine. I have dehydrated oily skin that likes thin layers of moisture, so I like moisturizers that absorb and layer well. Cerave PM has great ingredients, smells neutral and doesn't leave a tacky layer behind. It also doesn't pill under my EltaMD Clear sunscreen, which is notorious for going on tacky. Overall Cerave PM is boring, but dependable.

I used it before and after any reformulation changes in 2018 and have not noticed a difference.

I've had mixed luck with CeraVe products. Some are super, and others not quite right for my skin. CeraVe PM has an amazing ingredient profile, packaging is sanitary, and air and light-proof, and there are no fragrances or dyes. It has a clinically effective quantity of niacinamide, and mutiple ceramides which are known to repair the skin. Its texture is light, so it works extremely well in the oily T-zone, moisturizing without being heavy or causing breakouts and clogged pores.

Here is where it falls apart. The product also contains hyaluronic acid. Lately it seems that almost everything has hyaluronic acid in it, so layering products which contain this ingredient like toner, serum, actives, and then night cream--it is hyaluronic overload for somebody like me who is sensitive to it. So, as much as I would love to love CeraVe PM, it is not a good match for my skin. I ended up using it as a body lotion, which worked well for areas where skin is normal to slightly dry. So...no repurchase for me, but it is definitely something to keep in mind since there is not another drugstore product like this one (that I am aware of).

I have purchased this product so many times and I couldn’t rave enough about it. I have been on Retin A for the last 3 years and this has been its best companion along with the Cerave eye cream and moisturizing cream in a tub. I also know that Niacinamide can be tricky for some people but it works great for my combo skin. This product is a HG for a lot I mean a lot of people coz it works! I use the AM moisturizer for my neck in the morning. Please don’t ever pull this out of the market ❤️