22 Best Cruelty-Free Facial Moisturizers For Your Skin Type

Made with cica and argan oil, Acure’s Brightening Day Cream is the perfect facial moisturizer to use for those who feel their skin needs an extra boost. This moisturizer helps brighten your face overall. It also evens out your skin tone and really helps fight any dullness.

This moisturizer, while cruelty-free, is also made without any sulfates, parabens, formaldehyde, mineral oils, or petrolatum. So, it’s also an amazing moisturizer to use for those who want something without all these toxins!

Verdict: Best cruelty-free day moisturizer for those who need to fight dullness

Juice Beauty is an amazing organic skincare and makeup brand that many beauty bloggers and experts adore. Their Antioxidant Moisturizer is one of their best selling products, and for good reason.

Not only does it have age-defying ingredients — it also is perfect for all skin types! You can apply this amazing moisturizer to your face, neck, and decollete to help fight the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Verdict: Best age-defying natural moisturizer for all skin types

This lovely moisturizer comes in two different types: original (anise) and unscented. The original is amazing and great for all skin types; the unscented is perfect for those who have extremely sensitive skin or who simply don’t like scented facial products.

This Christina Moss Facial Moisturizer is free of all harmful chemicals and helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles while deeply moisturizing your face. This specific lotion is very concentrated, so a little goes a long way!

Verdict: Best moisturizer for those with extremely sensitive skin (or for those who want something unscented!)

GMO-free and cruelty-free, Nourish Organic’s Ultra Hydrating Face Cream is made with pomegranate and argan, giving it a lovely smell and leaving you with skin that feels soft and clean.

This moisturizer was made for all skin types in mind and contains 100% organic ingredients. This face cream hydrates your skin while also helping to relieve any signs of stress and fatigue!

Verdict: Best natural, organic moisturizer for those with stressed skin

Alteya Organics’ Day Face Moisturizer is made with Bulgarian rose oil, organic shea butter, and calendula extract. It was specifically created to help balance the skin overall, as well as reduce the appearance of any wrinkles and fine lines.

It’s great for those who have skin that is beginning to age, or for those who are looking to use age-defying lotion prior to developing mature skin.

Verdict: Best cruelty-free moisturizer for those looking to stop fine lines and wrinkles before they even show up

Made with — wait for it — honey, the Mario Badescu Honey Moisturizer is amazing. Many customers rave about Mario Badescu, as it’s one of the best skincare brands, especially for those who have slightly more sensitive skin. This moisturizer, in particular, helps deeply hydrate your skin and leave your face glowing.

Verdict: Best facial moisturizer that helps hydrate even the dryest of skins

f you haven’t already heard, Herbivore is one of the best clean skincare brands currently on the market. All the products they sell are amazing, even if they are quite luxe and expensive. However, they are well worth the splurge!

Their Pink Cloud Rosewater Moisture Creme, in particular, is absolutely amazing. It’s great for all (all!) skin types and helps with redness, dryness, dullness, and uneven texture. This natural moisturizer is quite lightweight, perfect for those who hate thicker creams. It leaves your skin feeling dewy, bouncy, and completely renewed!

Verdict: Best natural lightweight moisturizer that leaves your skin dewy

Another amazing clean skincare brand that customers have consistently raved about, Youth to the People is Clean at Sephora and absolutely amazing. Their whole line of skincare products is made from all-natural ingredients, leaving them perfect for those with sensitive skin!

Their Kale + Spinach Green Tea Moisture Cream is packed with superfoods to help fight fine lines, wrinkles, dryness, and any loss of firmness or elasticity. This moisturizer is pretty lightweight and great for all skin types.  

Verdict: Best natural moisturizer that’s full of green, lovely superfoods!

Boscia is yet another lovely skincare brand that offers amazing, clean skincare products — yet unfortunately at a bit higher price than your average drugstore range. However, much like some of the other brands we talked about above, the splurge is well worth it!

Boscia’s Cactus Water Moisturizer was created for normal, combination, and oily skins. It helps combat dryness, loss of firmness or elasticity, dullness, and uneven texture.

It’s a gel moisturizer, so it’s definitely more lightweight than some heavier, thicker creams you might find on this list. Some people don’t like gel moisturizers, but some do. It’s really all about your personal preference.

Verdict: Best clean moisturizer to use when you need some instant, quick hydration

Honest Beauty is an incredibly comprehensive beauty company that produces incredibly high-quality products. Their skincare line is no different. Their Soothing Daily Moisturizer does exactly what it says it does in the title — it soothes! Fragrance-free and cruelty-free, this moisturizer is especially perfect for those with very sensitive skin.

Specifically, this moisturizer helps skin that is feeling a bit stressed. It’s made for those who are using acne treatments and need instant relief.

Verdict: Best natural and organic moisturizer for those using acne treatments

Osea Atmosphere Protection Cream is an amazing day moisturizer to use before you go out and start your day. It was specifically made to help keep your skin safe from pollution, making it the perfect moisturizer for those who live in the city. However, it also helps skin from dehydration, as it greatly hydrates! Plus, it’s made with organic seaweed!

Verdict: Best moisturizer for those looking to protect their skin from pollution

Pai Skincare’s Avocado & Jojoba Day Cream was specifically created for those who have very sensitive skin that is easily irritated by factors like harsh chemicals. This moisturizer, perfect to wear throughout the day, is hydrating and really does help dry skin. It also helps restore softness, is free from any horrible drying alcohols, and is certified vegan and organic!

Verdict: Best organic moisturizer for those who have easily irritable skin

We’ve talked about Juice Beauty already, as this is the second moisturizer of theirs on this list. The brand is that great! This specific moisturizer is a little bit more high quality than the one we previously talked about, and we’ll tell you why.

Juice Beauty’s Stem Cellular Anti-Wrinkle Moisturizer is incredibly expensive, but well worth every penny spent. Vegan and cruelty-free, this moisturizer was created to help reduce fine lines and wrinkles, and boy does it deliver!

This moisturizer also helps improve the overall appearance of your skin, increasing brightness and luminosity, and greatly hydrates your skin. Basically, this moisturizer just helps make your skin feel and look 110% better than it did yesterday.

Verdict: Best organic moisturizer that improves your skin with immediate, amazing results

Looking for a little more Vitamin C in your life? Look no further! Avalon Organics’ Intense Defense with Vitamin C Moisturizer is wonderful for many reasons.

It helps give you skin some much needed vitamin C, while also brightening your overall complexion. It’s an amazing moisturizer to use for those who want to combat signs of premature aging!

Verdict: Best organic and cruelty-free moisturizer that helps with premature signs of aging

An incredibly luxe product, Josh Rosebrook’s Nutrient Day Cream was created to reduce overall redness and brighten your skin tone. It also has SPF 30 in it and is even said to almost act like a light makeup, as it leaves your skin looking more even (and overall just incredibly better) than before.

It’s a luxury beauty item that was made for all skin types, even sensitive and acne-prone skin. 

Verdict: Best luxe organic moisturizer

Made with all skin types in mind, Pacifica’s Coconut Probiotic Water Rehab Cream helps boost overall hydration and promote a lovely youthful appearance. It’s the moisturizer to choose for those who find themselves needing a little bit of a skin rehab.

If you experience lack of sleep, a bit of stress, and late nights, this moisturizer will become your new best friend as it helps reduce all signs of this! It also helps fight against outside elements like pollution!

Verdict: Best moisturizer for those who need something to save their skin after all these late nights!

Have acne-prone skin and looking for a moisturizer that actually helps? Look no further! Osea Malibu’s Blemish Balm Moisturizer was created for those who have acne. It both targets present blemishes, while also helping any future breakouts that you may experience.

It also helps reduce redness (which is common with acne-prone skin), soothes any irritation, and minimize your overall appearance of pores!

Eminence Organic Skin Care’s Bright Skin Moisturizer is the moisturizer to turn to if you, above all else, really just need to brighten your skin. This lotion helps to get rid of dullness and help bring back some bounce to your skin! It has a ton of vitamins and really helps get the job done.

Verdict: Best organic moisturizer that truly brightens your skin

Look — another Eminence Organic Skin Care product! Can you tell how much we love them? This night cream is, much like the previous moisturizer we talked about, absolutely amazing.

This Monoi Age Corrective Night Cream does much of what it says it does in the title. It’s an amazing age corrective night cream that helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while also helping bring deep hydration to your skin overnight. While this night cream is great for all skin types, it was specifically made normal to dry skin types, and especially mature skin.

Verdict: Best night cream for mature skin

Definitely a luxury beauty item, May Lindstrom’s Blue Cocoon Beauty Balm Concentrate is amazing if you’re willing to splurge for it. This moisturizer helps to deeply hydrate even the most stressed, troubled, irritated, or acne-prone skin. Those who have tried it swear by it, as they should because of the very high price point! 

Verdict: Best moisturizer for those who desperately want to hydrate their skin (and want a luxe item on top of that!)

Both a face and body butter, Kari Gran’s Essential Serum Skin Balm is cruelty-free, paraben-free, sulfate-free, phthalate-free, and organic! This moisturizer was created for all skin types as a go-to for those looking to lock in moisture and help with dehydrated skin. While you can use this lotion all over, its especially useful in more delicate areas, such as around your eyes, on dry patches on your neck, or even on your lips!

Verdict: Best organic moisturizer that you can use in various areas (face, body, and lips!)

Lilifox has created a cool jelly balm that is also a multi-use product! Their Natural Cupu-Cool Balm is a cleanser, moisturizer mask, and overnight treatment balm! However you decide to use this product, you’ll be met with amazing results. This is the product to go to if you need moisture, stat. It’s also made with lovely ingredients, as this product is cruelty-free, paraben-free, and made without synthetic fragrances.

Verdict: Best multiuse moisturizer for instant hydration