Garnier SkinActive Hydrating 3-in-1 Face Moisturizer with Aloe ($10) is one of three new moisturizers that the brand released which were created with 97% naturally derived ingredients. Each formula was created to use as a daily and nightly moisturizer or can be applied as a mask treatment to hydrate skin.
Typically naturally derived ingredients are taken from a natural source or may be produced with very minimal processing methods. If in fact the ingredients in this moisture are taken from nature that would mean they had very minimal processing and would not include synthetic chemicals. I’m not a chemist but I have my doubts that Garnier SkinActive Hydrating 3-in-1 Face Moisturizer with Aloe is as “natural” as they want you to believe considering the amount of fragrance that these products contain. That being said, I didn’t buy this moisturizer because it contained naturally derived ingredients. I purchased it because I liked the idea of a multitasking moisturizer that promised to sooth and hydrate drier skin.

At 6.8 oz this is a very generously-sized moisturizer that will give you plenty of product to use as mask and a moisturizer. I was pretty impressed by the size! The formula is quite lovely too with a soft, gel-like consistency which absorbs easily into my skin and provides fairly good hydration that wears well under makeup. I think the formula isn’t quite as rich as I like my nightly cream so be though and I stuck to testing/using it as...