Malezia - Penrose review for 5% Urea Moisturizer

Oh, how I love this moisturizer. 🌹This moisturizer was created by f.c., the blogger behind Simple Skincare Science. The blog is perhaps most known for the Fungal Acne Treatment Bible, a compilation of the science surrounding malassezia folliculitis. This moisturizer was specifically formulated to be fungal-acne safe, but even if you don’t have fungal acne I would recommend this moisturizer. 🌹To give some context about my skin, I have normal to combo skin that is particularly prone to dryness since starting 0.05% tretinoin a couple of months ago. I had a bout of malassezia folliculitis/fungal acne in the past, which has completely cleared and hasn’t reoccurred. I try to keep my routine fungal acne safe out of precaution and because it seems to agree with my skin and help with my regular breakouts. 🌹I would describe the texture as a creamy gel. It spreads easily, so you don’t need a lot. It doesn’t sit in a thick layer on top of the skin. It leaves my skin feeling soft, supple, and velvety. My skin looks just a bit dewy, but not shiny or greasy. I use this as both my day and night moisturizer, and my skin loves it. It doesn’t break me out at all and it helped my skin get through the dryness and peeling I got when I started tretinoin. I used to used to use a different moisturizer containing urea, but this one has overthrown it. 🌹Urea is a superstar ingredient that I deserves so much more love than it gets. It’s part of our skin’s natural moisturizing factors, and has been show to have properties that are keratolytic (mildly exfoliating), hydrating, and increase permeability—all of which add up to great things for the health of your skin barrier. You can check out the “Urea for Skin Explained” post on Simple Skincare Science for more information, it really gets into the scientific studies surrounding urea. This formula also contains hyaluronic acid, glycerin, allantoin, and capric/capricylic triglyceride for moisturized and soothed skin. It’s fragrance-free and great for sensitive skin. 🌹It’s packaged in an aluminum tube for environmental sustainability. It also makes it quite easy to get every last bit of product. It’s not the most luxurious packaging, but I don’t mind. 🌹This formula is simple but effective, and I love having this as the anchor of my skincare routine as I experiment with more ingredients and actives in the other steps of my routine. I find myself buying multiple tubes simply because I don’t want to run out. I love being able to support an amazing creator and an amazing product.