Join the WIMJ community to get skincare help and use personalized tools

Cheaper alternatives

Balea - Clean Skin Anti Pimple 24h Care Cream
Price: $3.49
Find out more
SCINIC - Snail Matrix Cream
Price: $13.6
Find out more

Product summary

"ELEMIS - Superfood Day Cream" is a well-rounded moisturizing product. To work well, any moisturizer needs to include a combination of water-binding and emollient ingredients. ELEMIS - Superfood Day Cream ticks this box. Humectants in this product (betaine, glycerin, methyl gluceth-20, butylene glycol and propylene glycol) help to increase the water content in the upper layer of the skin. (These ingredients do so by "capturing" water molecules from the outside air or from within the deeper layers of the skin). Emollients in this formulation (cucumis sativus oil, salvia hispanica seed oil, helianthus annuus seed oil, brassica oleracea italica seed oil and c12-16 alcohols) help to reduce the moisture loss from the skin. They also soften the skin surface and relieve the feeling of dryness and tightness.

Ingredient callouts

  • This product also contains Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid). It can be an effective active for anti-aging and evening out the skin tone, but in this moisturizer it is used for stabilizing other ingredients in the formulation. In this concentration (0.25% - 0.45%) it cannot have a noticeable benefit for the skin.
This product contains ingredients that could be beneficial, but their concentrations are too low in this formulation: vitamin e, lecithin, lactic acid and vitamin c

Irritation risk

This moisturizer contains a bunch of common irritants, including ingredients that do not provide any known benefit for the skin. It might not be the best choice if your skin is sensitive. We assess the overall irritancy of this moisturizer to be high. For a detailed overview of all potential irritants: click here

You can see the detailed formula review with the breakdown of all actives in the product and the full ingredient list with estimated concentrations in the tables below.

About the brand

According to Cruelty-Free Kitty "ELEMIS" is cruelty free and so is its parent company.

Price

The product retails from 23.94£ up to 930.00£ in the United Kingdom, from 27.00$ up to 54.50$ in the United States, for 60.80A$ in Australia, from 47.30CA$ up to 63.00CA$ in Canada and for 234.00HK$ in Hong Kong.

For a detailed price comparison: click here.