Proactiv Green Tea Moisturizer Review
My skin was pretty oily throughout my teens and twenties. It’s becoming drier now, but it still breaks out at a drop of a hat. Finding suitable moisturizer for oily and acne prone skin is not an easy task. It was even harder a few years ago. So I was thrilled to discover Proactiv Green Tea Moisturizer. It is a very light-weight gel moisturizer with light pleasant scent. It did a great job moisturizing my skin without leaving any kind of residue or causing breakouts. In addition to providing moisture, it contains anti-oxidants, including (obviously) green tea. It was nice to use in summer, but in winter it was a life saver.
Once I hit my thirties, my skin started getting drier. It got to this weird point where it feels oily, but it’s actually dry underneath all that oil (of that makes sense to anyone). Green Tea Moisturizer still works for me, but sometimes I have to apply it twice to get adequate level of moisture. I tried applying thicker layer, but then it doesn’t adsorbs as well as two thin layers applied twenty minutes apart.
Since applying and reapplying moisturizer is not my favorite way to spend a night. Also using moisturizer twice means I go through it twice faster than before, and this stuff isn’t cheap. Plus Guthy-Renker is not my favorite company to deal with. So I’m currently on a mission to find a substitute.
Proactive Green Tea Moisturizer is great for oily to normal skin, but for drier skin it just doesn’t provide enough moisture.
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It sounds like you have similar skin to mine, i.e. oily but prone to dehydration. I’ve had good luck with humectants, especially hyaluronic acid, and to a lesser degree, glycerin, in otherwise pretty light formulas like serums. Have you tried anything like that? Or you can combine that with a regular moisturizer and get the hydration while letting the moisturizer still absorb.
“oily but prone to dehydration” sounds exactly like me. My skin does respond well to humectants. However, my favorite part about Green Tea Moisturizer was that it was super light. I kind of like Paula’s Choice Skin Balancing Moisture Gel, but it feels a bit silicon-y on my skin. Paula’s Choice Hydralight Moisture Infusing Lotion feels very light, but I couldn’t stand the smell. Interestingly enough, no review I ever read mentioned the smell, so I wonder if something was wrong with my sample… maybe I should give this lotion another try. Both of these contain glycerin and sodium hyaluronate (derivative of hyaluronic acid), so you are definitely onto something here. Also, Paula’s Choice Resist Hyaluronic Acid Booster is in my queue of samples to try.
I’m really curious about Simple Ultra-light Gel Moisturizer, but the ingredient list doesn’t look particularly promising.