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Calming Lotions

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The right lotion can make all the difference when it comes to your skin. Whether you have dry, sensitive, or acne-prone skin, there's a lotion out there that will help you look and feel your best. Here are some of our favorite calming lotions for all types of skin.

OriginsDr. Andrew Weil for Origins™ Mega-Mushroom Relief & Resilience Soothing Treatment Lotion

ITEM: 2564383

Size: 6.7 oz/ 200 mL

611 Reviews

$62.00

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It calms down my irritating skin very well. My skin is more clear and calm with an even texture the following day....Very calming...It has a slight cooling effect and calms my skin. I like to put this on a cotton round and press it into my face.

What it is: A watery lotion—now with ten times more reishi mushroom—to calm skin and visibly minimize pores.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Pores, Dryness, and Redness

Formulation: Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Plant-Derived Hyaluronic Acid: Moisturizes skin with weightless hydration.
- Reishi and Fermented Chaga Mushrooms: Visibly reduce redness and restore resilience.
- Adaptogenic Licorice Root: Helps skin adapt to and resist environmental stressors.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and comes in recyclable packaging.

$39.50

Calming...This is so calming ! I like to use this on days I’m oilier and especially in summer time when I’m shinier. ...Love this moisturizer as my night time routine after cleansing my face, I use this and it literally calms my face. I do not break out with this at all, and I feel it clears existing pimples and acne effectively.

Which skin type is it good for?
✔ Normal
✔ Oily
✔ Combination
✔ Sensitive

What it is:
A sheer formula that helps soothe and hydrate dry areas.

Solutions for:
- Dullness and uneven texture
- Oiliness
- Dryness

If you want to know more…
Relieve dryness with this easy-to-apply formula featuring plant-based squalene to help soften and nourish skin. It also contains hyaluronic acid to provide relief for dehydration and gentle botanicals including ginger, orange, and grapefruit to help protect the skin.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
- Sulfates
- Phthalates

$31.00

If you feel like you're missing something, it's probably Clinique's Clarifying Lotion I. I had always heard that toner was a necessary component of any skin-care regimen, but I never believed it until I tried this lotion--so mild and soothing it calms my sometimes red and sensitive skin, while at the same time preparing it for some serious moisturizing with Clinique's Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel. ...overall, great purchase. lotion is calming and soothing, and not irritating to my skin at all. it doesnt come with a pump, though, which means you can use it pretty liberally. it lasted less than half a year on my face, much shorter than i expected.

What it is: A dermatologist-developed liquid exfoliating lotion that clears the way for smoother, brighter-looking skin.

Skin Type: Dry

Skincare Concerns: Pores, Dryness, and Dullness

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Witch Hazel: Visibly refines skin.
- Acetyle Glucosamine: Balances and smooths skin.
- Salicylic Acid: Helps exfoliate the surface of the skin and enhance cell turnover.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES. It is also gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This gentle, refreshing formula is the difference maker for healthy skin. Clarifying Lotion 1 sweeps away pollution, grime, and dulling flakes to reveal smoother, clearer-looking skin.

First Aid BeautyResurfacing Lotion

ITEM: 2896900

Size: 1 fl oz/30 mL

220 Reviews

$46.00

The lotion provides great hydration and doesn’t clog pores at all. ...This lotion feels gentle on the skin and gives good hydration.

What it is: A lightweight lotion that visibly evens skin tone and texture from post-acne marks to hyperpigmentation, while providing 24-hour hydration.

Skin Type: Normal, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Pores, Acne and Blemishes, and Oiliness

Formulation: Spray

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Visibly fades post-acne marks and discoloration.
- Glycerin and Ceramides: Hydrate and support skin’s moisture barrier.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan

$256.00

This is my first time trying this lotion. It feels very refreshing, especially in the morning. ...It absorbs quickly and immediately soothe and calm my skin. Everything is great except the price tag.

What it is: A serum-strength watery lotion treatment that delivers a rush of liquid energy, all-day hydration, and visible youth-boosting benefits to skin.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Dryness, Dullness, and Uneven Texture

Formulation: Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Miracle Broth™: Supports skin oxygen capacity and energy to activate renewal.
- The Revival Ferment: Helps skin resist visible irritation for a calm, healthy complexion.
- Liquid Hydrogel: Active texture visibly plumps, protects, and delivers all-day hydration.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.

What Else You Need to Know: Thi

$179.00

It was super hydrating and calming. It made my skin look refreshed as soon as I used it. ...I really liked how moisturizing and calming this essence is. It absorbed easily and quickly.

What it is: A nourishing, next-generation essence-lotion that locks in moisture and supports skin’s barrier for enhanced strength and stability.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Dryness and Redness

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Postbiotic 12+
- Bio-Active Lactobacillus Ferment 98.9%

Ingredient Callouts: Free of mineral oil and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.

What Else You Need to Know: See your skin glow with visible vitality. Specially made in Japan, this fast-absorbing essence-lotion enhances skin’s first line of defense against external aggressors and soothes to minimize the look of redness.

$180.00

I have been using the Hydro-Softening Essence Lotion and I really enjoy how calming and hydrating it feels on my skin. ...My skin feels soft and calm after applying it...I’ve been using the Clé de Peau Beauté Hydro-Softening Essence Lotion both morning and night, and I honestly really enjoyed it.

What it is: An essence lotion for normal to dry skin that provides intense 24-hour hydration, strengthens the skin barrier, and enhances smoothness and radiance.

Skin Type: Normal and Dry

Skincare Concerns: Dullness, Dryness, and Uneven Texture

Formulation: Serum

Highlighted Ingredients:
- NutriHydro-Stock Technology: Drives absorption, nourishing skin from within while supporting smoothness and hydration.
- Radiant Lily Extract: Improves moisture and enhances skin’s innate ability to repair and defend itself against environmental stressors.
- Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract: Inhibits oxidative damage and smooths skin for a moisturized, nourished effect.

What Else You Need to Know:

$180.00

The Hydro-Clarifying Essence Lotion was amazing to use. It absorbs very well into my skin, and it provides that instant glow and hydration. ...Good essence lotion...Feel skin so calm and smooth . So hydrating . Love it . I received this product from top box review marketing for review purposes

What it is: An essence lotion that provides intense 24-hour hydration while strengthening the skin barrier to renew clarity and smoothness for normal to oily skin.

Skin Type: Normal and Oily

Formulation: Serum

Highlighted Ingredients:
- NutriHydro-Stock Technology: Drives absorption, nourishing skin from within while supporting smoothness and hydration.
- Radiant Lily Extract: Improves moisture and enhances skin’s innate ability to repair and defend itself against environmental stressors.
- Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract: Inhibits oxidative damage and smooths skin for a moisturized, nourished effect.

What Else You Need to Know: In partnership with expert Japanese craftsmen, Clé de Peau

MoroccanoilSmoothing Lotion

ITEM: 2030575

Size: 10.2 oz/ 300 mL

732 Reviews

$49.00

It has helped nourish my hair and it calms the frizz. I have tried so so many products so it is very refreshing to find one that works...Nice hair lotion...Even next day my hair is calm and smooth. Gifted by moroccanoil

What it is: A nourishing styling cream that controls frizz, increases manageability, and provides flexible hold.

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Medium and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Frizz
- Hold and Style Extending

Key Benefits:
- Instantly smooths frizz and flyaways
- Conditions and nourishes dry hair
- Provides flexible hold and all-day definition

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Argan Oil: Antioxidant-rich natural oil that nourishes.
- Argan Butter: Natural conditioning agent that leaves hair soft, nourished, and shiny.
- Polyquaternium-70: Patented conditioning agent with exceptional humidity-defying properties.

Ingredient Callout

$48.00

Great as a quick sweep toner to make sure all impurities were gone after cleansing, but didn't do much at all to keep my skin calm....I'm a Clinique girl through and through and while I think that it's weird that they call this stuff lotion, it's really calming for my skin, which pretty much hates every other face product.

What it is: A dermatologist-developed liquid exfoliating lotion that clears the way for smoother, brighter-looking skin.


Skin Type: Combination and Oily


Skincare Concerns: Pores and Oiliness


Highlighted Ingredients:

- Witch Hazel: Visibly refines skin.

- Salicylic Acid: Helps exfoliate the surface of the skin and enhance cell turnover.


Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES. It is also gluten-free.


What Else You Need to Know: The gentle, refreshing formula is the difference maker for healthy skin.

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“I’ve repurchased many times and find the scent is also lovely during the day even though I find the lavender and jasmine with citrus to be fairly calming. I wish this was the scent of the new perfume”
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“I'm absolutely in love with this body lotion! Its quick absorption leaves my skin feeling wonderfully moisturized and soft”
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“I just colored my hair and went blonde and sustained a ton of breakage and the thickening lotion saves my hair every time! It looks full and healthy full of volume - its AMAZING a must have for thin and or frail hair”
Skin Care Lotions
“Most importantly it does not aggravate/cause acne (does not react to any other skin care products I have either/layers well with other products”
Calming Night Cream
“Lovely formula of vegan collagen that get in my early face lines smoothly and restore them during the night my couture and neck area, grape seed oil is an amazing scent ingredient that magically calms you down, love this firming evening cream”
Lotion With Aloe Vera
“I needed a new exfoliating toner when my previous favorite "improved" their formula by adding aloe, to which I am very allergic. This works well and the price isn't terrible”
Thick Lotions
“I absolutely love it because I hate when my hands feel slimey, wet, or tacky after hand lotion. If you want something really, really thick however, this might not be the product for you”
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“Honestly one of my favourite masks ever! I'm concerned about my pores and can see a difference after each mask”

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