Moisturizer Review: REN Evercalm Global Protection Day Cream

 Today's review will be for the REN Evercalm Global Protection Day Cream

Availability: This is available at sephora.com, spacenk.com, and bluemercury.com  as well as their physical store locations along with usa.renskincare.com. The retail pricing is $49 for 1.7 oz. (50 mL).

Would I buy this? I'm not sure.

What it is formulated to do:

According to sephora.com:
Which skin type is it good for?
✔ Normal
✔ Oily
✔ Combination
✔ Dry
✔ Sensitive
What it is:
A moisturizer that combats chronic discomfort, redness, and sensitivity to ensure skin glows with renewed health and stays looking younger for longer.
Solutions for:
- Dryness
- Redness
- Irritation
If you want to know more…
REN’s bestselling moisturizer offers soothing and antiaging benefits boosted with powerful antioxidants to hydrate even the most sensitive skin and protect from UV induced damage and premature aging. Evercalm Global Protection Day Cream is formulated for all skin types, but especially those with sensitive skin. Bio extracts of Roman chamomile and calendula oil soothe, calm, and heal the skin while reducing redness, and calming the senses. It's also boosted with a proprietary global protection complex, a powerful blend of anti-oxidants and free radical scavengers—formulated with seaweed, arctic cranberry seed oil and candle tree leaves—to protect the skin against UV induced damage and premature aging. The gorgeous texture absorbs immediately to leave skin hydrated, calmed, and soothed.
What else you need to know:
REN products are free from synthetic fragrance, pore-blocking petrochemicals, sulfate detergents, silicones, synthetic colors, animal ingredients, and parabens. In addition, REN products do not contain potential irritants including: glycols and diglycols (such as propylene glycol), PEG's, PPGs, urea, D.E.A, T.E.A, PABA and other synthetic sunscreens, aliphatic alcohols/hydrocarbons, phthalates, fumarates, amines, alkanolamines, synthetic AHAs/BHAs, polyacrylamide, metacrylate, elastomer, poloxamer, styrene, vinyl, polyquaternium, synthetic chelating agents, nylon, nitriles, nitrates, nitrosamine releasers, bromates, fluor, aluminum, or alumina. This product is cruelty-free, vegan, noncomedogenic, and formulated without gluten.
Research results:
In a Clinical Trial conducted on 21 women:
- 100% agree that skin feels less sensitive after 3 weeks of product use. (Combined use of Evercalm Cleansing Milk, Serum & Day Cream).
Clean at Sephora
When you spot our Clean seal, you can be sure we’ve checked that this brand’s product is made without the ingredients you told us you’d most like to avoid.
Clean at Sephora™ is formulated without:
Sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, triclocarban. All skincare, hair, and makeup brands with the Clean Seal have less than one percent of synthetic fragrances.

Does it contain any special/beneficial ingredients?

According to sephora.com:

-Omega 3 & 7 from Arctic Blackcurrant Seed and Arctic Sea buckthorn Berry Oil: Help to reduce skin inflammation and irritation.
-Roman Chamomile from Bisabolol: Soothes and calms redness.
-Global protection complex (Antileukine from Ochroleuca Seaweed, Tocotrienols from Arctic Cranberry Seed Oil, Kaempferol from Candle Tree Leaves and Leghemoglobin from Kudzu Zymbiozome): A powerful blend of antioxidants and free radical scavengers to protect the skin against UV-induced damage and premature aging.
It also contains various plant and flower oils/extracts which offer hydration, soothing, and anti-oxidant properties.

What is the texture like?

I'd say this has a whipped, buttery texture.

Is it scented?

This has a slightly sweet, slightly floral-ish scent.

My overall experience/comments on the product:

I haven't used this long-term enough, on my face, to comment on how it works for the redness there. That said, several years ago, I used this to treat an eczema patch and while it wasn't 100% effective I did find that it really helped soothe and hydrate the patch and didn't exacerbate the skin scales or itchiness. This patch was on my neck. All that aside, I think this works well as a moisturizer for the winter-time or night-time because of its thick, hydrating nature but for me personally it's just a touch TOO heavy where my skin doesn't quite fully absorb it. I also find that a little goes a long way - what you see in the above photo is a full pump and, in my opinion, that is entirely too much for a full-face application. I do about a quarter to a half pump.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Disclaimer: This was provided for testing purposes. I am under no obligation to, nor am I being compensated for, mentioning this on this blog.