Proper skincare is in season all year round, but your body’s largest organ also needs TLC during the summer. To help keep skin hydrated and protected from the sun’s damaging rays while addressing your skin concerns, you’ll need a regimen of products that contain the right skincare ingredients.
While we’ll never stop you from browsing our full range of skincare solutions, we’ve done some of the legwork for you to pinpoint Clinique’s stand-out products that deliver big on these key ingredients. The best part? Many of our choices feature more than one of these powerhouse skincare ingredients for healthy-looking skin.
Meet our favorite summer skincare ingredients
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Meet our favorite summer skincare ingredients
Sunscreen ingredients.
SPF, or sun protection factor, is important even when it’s cloudy and temps are low, but it’s vital when the sun is at its brightest and hottest. Products offering broad-spectrum protection help protect skin against harmful UVA and UVB rays. Clinique has a wide range of products with SPF, whether you’re applying makeup or going makeup-free for the day.
Skin concerns: Sun damage, premature aging
Key products:
Even Better Clinical™ Vitamin Makeup Foundation SPF 45
Even Better Clinical™ Vitamin Makeup Foundation SPF 45: Our newest liquid foundation has a dermatologist-tested, vitamin-infused formula that helps energize, brighten, and protect your skin from the sun. The hydrating SPF foundation offers a high level of sun protection for such a light formula. Its sheer, buildable coverage comes in 28 shades, ranging from light to medium to deep.
How to use: Apply to skin starting in the center of face and blend outward with fingertips or our Foundation Brush.
Sunscreens for face and body
Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen Oil-Free Face Cream, Broad Spectrum SPF 50 Sunscreen Body Cream, SPF 50 Mineral Sunscreen Fluid For Face
Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen Oil-Free Face Cream: This oil-free, smooth-as-velvet formula layers easily and helps protect skin.
Broad Spectrum SPF 50 Sunscreen Body Cream: The full-body version of our oil-free face cream is our highest level of SPF to help protect against UVA/B rays.
SPF 50 Mineral Sunscreen Fluid For Face: This ultra-light formula blends well, is virtually invisible on all skin tones, and works as a great makeup primer.
How to use: Apply liberally to skin prior to sun exposure. Reapply every two hours or after swimming or sweating.
Hyaluronic acid.
Hyaluronic acid offers a mega boost of hydration to restore the skin’s natural moisture barrier, resulting in plump, dewy skin that looks and feels healthier.
Hyaluronic acid helps hydrate to support the skin’s natural moisture barrier, resulting in plump, dewy skin. With hydration, your skin will appear refreshed, plumper, glowing, and visibly healthier.
Skin concerns: Dehydration, dullness, fine, dry lines
Key products:
Moisture Surge™ Active Glow Serum, Moisture Surge™ 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator
Moisture Surge™ Active Glow Serum: One of the key ingredients in this serum from our most-loved Moisture Surge collection is hyaluronic acid, a moisture-binding ingredient that helps infuse skin with plumping hydration. Formulated with powerful actives, it exfoliates, hydrates, and brightens to give skin an instant and continuous glow.
How to use: Use morning and night on clean skin. Start with 3 drops, adding more if preferred. Make sure you use sunscreen and limit sun exposure while using and the week after.
Moisture Surge™ 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator: Our dermatologist-recommended moisturizer contains aloe bioferment and hyaluronic acid and delivers hydration that soothes in 3 seconds and lasts 100 hours. It also delivers a potent blend of vitamins C and E to help defend your skin against daily dehydrators.
How to use: Apply morning and night after cleansing; can also be used over makeup as a dewy highlighter. For a refreshing mask, apply liberally over skin, then tissue off after five minutes.
Vitamin C.
Vitamin C can help fight against premature aging.
It's not just for the cold and flu season—vitamin C in skincare has a lot of benefits. This powerful antioxidant can help retexture skin, brighten, and boost its radiance.
Skin concerns: Dullness, dark circles, fatigued-looking skin
Key products:
Clinique Fresh Pressed™ Daily Booster with Pure Vitamin C 10%, Clinique Fresh Pressed™ Renewing Powder Cleanser with Pure Vitamin C, All About Eyes™ Eye Cream with Vitamin C
Clinique Fresh Pressed™ Daily Booster with Pure Vitamin C 10%: A couple of drops of this potent serum added to your moisturizer helps make your skin look brighter from the first application.
How to activate: Leave cap on and remove foil. Press inner bulb twice, then shake for 15 seconds.
How to use: Shake before every use. Morning and night, apply two drops to skin alone or with your favorite Clinique moisturizer, making sure to avoid eye area. For best freshness, use up product within seven days.
Clinique Fresh Pressed™ Renewing Powder Cleanser with Pure Vitamin C: This water-activated powder cleanser refreshes and purifies skin for a brighter, more refined texture without dryness.
How to use: Dispense powder into wet hand. Add more water and lather. Massage over face, being sure to avoid eye area. Leave on for one minute to get the full benefits of vitamin C, then rinse well.
All About Eyes™ Eye Cream with Vitamin C: This lightweight formula helps reduce the look of puffiness and dark circles under the eyes. It's dermatologist and ophthalmologist tested.
How to use: Morning and night, apply a small amount to eye area and massage in gently with ring finger.
Niacinamide.
Niacinamide works well with vitamin C to brighten skin.
Niacinamide is a form of vitamin B3 and can help address skin concerns like hyperpigmentation. It works to help brighten skin and reduce the look of dark spots.
Skin concerns: Dark spots like post-acne marks, dullness
Key products:
Even Better Clinical™ Dark Spot Clearing Serum
Even Better Clinical™ Dark Spot Clearing Serum: This dermatologist-developed serum brightens as it visibly soothes skin and reduces the look of dark spots like post-acne marks, sun spots, and age spots. The light, oil-free formula absorbs quickly and is appropriate for all skin types.
How to use: Morning and night, pump once or twice onto fingertips and apply all over face, being sure to avoid the eye area. Follow up with your favorite Clinique moisturizer and sunscreen.
Whether you’re looking to moisturize dehydrated skin, brighten the look of dark spots, help protect skin from the sun, or a combination of them all, Clinique’s got you covered this season.
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Even Better Clinical™ Vitamin Makeup Broad Spectrum SPF 45
Lightweight foundation with SPF 45 and a vitamin-rich formula for more vibrant, healthy-looking skin.
