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Look, we get it; a lot of guys didn’t grow up practicing the kind of skincare routines that keep us looking fresh and rested. As we pay more and attention to the preventable conditions — both inside and outdoors — that can impact our faces, there’s no better time to start moisturizing than right now.
Whether you’re looking for the kind of everyday moisturizer you can rub in and forget or an SPF-rich lotion that saves you from the sun, finding the best moisturizer means finding out what’s best for you. Here are the nine best facial moisturizers for the men out there who are ready to give a damn about their skin.
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Lightweight, oil-free, and quick-absorbing, our very own Grooming Lounge Mug Moisturizer improves your skin’s overall appearance and health on contact. Soft without the shine, our moisturizer uses nourishing vitamins, retinyl palmitate, sodium hyaluronate, and chamomile flower and apple fruit extract to enhance your skin's moisture levels, elasticity, softness, and long-term prospects.
When the sun is shining and working overtime, going outside without some type of SPF protection is gonna make you burn like a pizza. Jack Black Double-Duty Face Moisturizer SPF 20 offers solid UVA and UVB protection while using blue algae extract to keep your skin soft under the sun’s harmful rays. Blue algae extract is known to protect the skin against “UVB-induced photoaging” while chamomile extract and lavender oil leave your face smelling impossibly good.
It’s a myth that guys can grow out of oily skin… luckily, that’s one of the few parts of your teenage years that’ll follow you into adulthood. Urth Antioxidant Face Complex Oil-Free Moisturizer’s super-lightweight and fast-absorbing moisturizer hydrates the skin while eliminating greasiness and fighting against signs of aging. The bevy of botanical extracts gently resurfaces skin to minimize and refine pores while aloe soothes and cools. Top it all off with a jolt of caffeine to revive tired skin, and the result is a face that’s smooth, refreshed, brightened, and ready to conquer the day.
Whether you’re protecting yourself from the sun, wind, or razor, Ursa Major Fortifying Face Balm protects and smooths the face without any of the harmful petrochemicals or toxins found in common drugstore brands. Formulated for the health-conscious (82% organically sourced), this hydrating balm uses witch hazel, aloe vera, and willow bark extract to give you immediate relief from the elements.
Pending the rare chance that Bill Gates and Elon Musk team up and put their billions together to find a cure, there isn’t much you can do to fight against the inevitability of aging. There is, however, plenty you can do to keep your smooth looking as young as you feel. Brickell Revitalizing Anti-Aging Cream is a skincare wonder that uses a combination of all-star ingredients to gently and quickly improve the health and complexion of any face for a younger, more supple-looking appearance. It all starts with DMAE (that’s shortened for some word we can’t even pronounce), a natural ingredient that helps underlying facial muscles to contract in order to tighten the skin and eliminate wrinkles. Then, MSM (just trust us) — a nutrient found in kale and spinach — to help even out complexions by reducing age spots and the inevitable pigmentation issues that some areas of the face experience. Last, but definitely not least, a surge of hyaluronic acid to reduce fine lines and wrinkles. So, before you start looking like an old catcher’s mitt, we recommend you get started using this anti-aging moisturizer.
In the fight against oily skin, Kiehl’s Oil Eliminator 24-Hour Anti-Shine Moisturizer has your back. This anti-shine moisturizer provides an out-of-this-world clean feeling by absorbing sweat and surface oil while reducing the appearance of pores and shine for the entire day. We recommend combining with Kiehl’s Oil Eliminator Deep Cleansing Exfoliating Face Wash and Shine Control Spray Tonerfor an all-around grease-fighting regimen that’ll keep you oil-free and smooth.
Finally, a moisturizing sunscreen you don’t have to spend the whole day reapplying. Jack Black Oil-Free Sun Guard SPF 45 offers sweat and water-resistant protection from the sun with a vitamin-enriched formula that lasts up to 80 minutes even in the most intense conditions. This non-greasy, oil-free formula instantly absorbs into the skin quickly and gives you protection without any greasy residue.
Connecting the dots between a moisturizer and luxury may not be the easiest thing for skincare beginners, making Molton Brown Ultra-Light Bai Ji Hydrator something you gotta feel to believe. Perfect for gents with normal-to-oily skin, this great-smelling moisturizer goes on super light and cool as a cuke to reduce shine and excess oil. Plus, this stuff makes a dynamite aftershave balm.
Wrinkles are an inconvenient part of life as normal as taxes or leg cramps. Malin + Goetz Advanced Renewal Cream is backed by advanced skincare technology to help you turn back the clock and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. A lipid complex, a hydrating fruit complex, and medicinal herbs increase the skin’s water retention and elasticity while stimulating collagen production, resulting in improved skin texture and firmness. Basically, sounds like a lot of science mumbo jumbo - but it smells great and it will make you look and feel younger, trust us.
A QUICK GUIDE TO MEN'S EXFOLIATION
To exfoliate or not to exfoliate? That is the question. Actually, the real question is what the hell is exfoliation? Briefly, exfoliation is the process of removing dead skin cells from the surface of the skin, usually accomplished with a ‘gritty’ type of scrub/tool. While a cleanser is necessary for every day cleansing on the surface, a scrub is typically needed 1-2 times per week and provides super deep cleansing into the pores.
HOW OFTEN SHOULD MEN USE THEIR SKINCARE PRODUCTS
Our Master Barbers and Skin Care Experts get inquiries all the time from guests asking, “Do I need to use this?” or, “Is this stuff any good?” But, one query we’re hearing more and more recently is, “How often should I use this product?” A simple question indeed, but tricky and complicated enough that we decided to break it down a bit.
Good skin shouldn’t be a sprint in the lifelong marathon that is men’s grooming — and finding a solid face wash shouldn’t be an exception. Whether you’re looking for the type of face wash that works on sensitive skin or the kind that could strip paint off the side of a house (pro-tip: don’t buy that), there’s more to finding a face wash than choosing the first manly-looking tube you see at the supermarket. To help guide you on your enduring journey, we’ve put together eight men’s face wash es for every type of skin out there.
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