The main truth here that cannot be dismissed is that our skin needs to be taken care of so we can look and be healthy.
Let’s pull up a table with some differences between serums and moisturizers
| Serums | Moisturizer |
| Serums are created to go very deep into the skin cellular level to treat the issues causing aging and skin problems. Face serums mostly have good ingredients like antioxidants, nutrients, and vitamins that operate together to fix the skin cell composure which enhances skin radiance, smoothness, and suppleness. | They are mainly manufactured to enhance the hydration of the skin by amplifying or clogging the natural moisture in the skin. However, moisturizers do help with aging skin and sun damage, its main purpose is to amplify skin hydration. |
| Serums don’t have sealing elements like petroleum and mineral oils. These ingredients are what help keep the water in your skin from going into thin air. They also have little filler, thickness, and slicking ingredients. | Moisturizers help seal the skin so that you don’t have to be worried when you are under the sun. It keeps the hydration ingredients in your skin. |
| This makes serum look more effective because it has smaller particles that don’t find it difficult to make their way into your skin into the deep cells. | Moisturizers only work on the other layer of the skin because it has bigger particles. |
| Serums don’t have the sealing particles | Moisturizers seal up after hydrating your skin. |
| Serums penetrate easily with their highly concentrated ingredients and provide nutrients and hydration to the deepest levels of your skin. | Moisturizers don’t work to help your internal layers, they just work on the top. |
Let’s see how they both work and how effective they are.
How Is Serum Effective?
Face serums have little weight on your skin when you apply these products to your skin, it doesn’t feel like you have put on anything, unlike the makeup you wear.
It is made to make its way deep down into your skin and gives the ingredients used to make it some privilege to fight against the free radical damage, pigmentation, aging acne, and scarring. It does all this by taking nutrients and vitamins straight into the skin cells.
Serums have delivered antioxidants, peptides, hyaluronic acid, and vitamin C have a good and smooth influence on skin radiance by brightening, exfoliating, and increasing hydration.
How Is Moisturizer Effective?
A moisturizer in my experience is mostly in lotion or cream form that possesses skin hydrating ingredients and creates a physical obstacle that enhances skin hydration.
Moisturizers come with bigger molecules that are not small enough to penetrate the skin but they help seal in the nutrients and moisture.
Moisturizers have thicker and heavier ingredients that help seal up your skin nutrients. Another good thing about the ingredients is that they work to also lock active ingredients out of the skin, keeping them less useful.
Conclusion
With all that has been said here, it is safe to say that you need both these products because one can help you with nutrients while the other helps you keep the nutrient.
