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SUPER JELLY DUO
A clinically proven, barrier strengthening duo that might make you give up moisturizer. This ultra nourishing, yet lightweight, combo floods your skin with deep hydration, replenishes your skin barrier, and locks in moisture. Layer them to “micro-slug” or mix them together for the perfect lightweight moisturizer (trust us). The result? Deliciously juicy, jelly-coated skin.
- Barrier Supporting
- Deep Hydration
- Irritant Protection
The Super Jelly Duo comes with:
Super Saturated Barrier Support Serum
Buffer Jelly Barrier Boosting Oil-Gel
Super Saturated is a barrier support serum with 30% glycerin– aka your skin’s fave hydrator. At higher percentages glycerin goes beyond hydration to unlock its unique barrier replenishing and soothing properties. This one-of-a-kind saturating blue goo also has supporting ingredients like polyglutamic acid, bisabolol, prickly pear extract, and niacinamide.
Buffer Jelly is a daily "micro-slugging" oil-gel that coats your skin in a jelly-light layer of barrier boosting protection. 3% petrolatum works synergistically with 0.5% ceramide NP, free fatty acids, and acai sterols to target multiple pathways of barrier repair for serious results in a deliciously lightweight formula, suitable for any skin type.
You can use both products in so many ways… alone, layered, as boosters, mixed together. Feel free to experiment to find your favorite way to use them!
Super saturated.
On clean, damp skin, apply 1-2 pumps. Follow with your favorite moisturizer or oil to lock in the hydration. You can use Super Saturated AM and PM.
Buffer Jelly
Apply a thin layer to your face as the last step in your routine to semi-occlude your skin.
Super Jelly
Mix Super Saturated and Buffer Jelly together to create a nourishing yet weirdly lightweight custom moisturizer. Is your skin oily? Use more Super Saturated. Dry? Use more Buffer Jelly.
Super Saturated Ingredients: Water, Glycerin, Propanediol, Niacinamide, Diglycerin, Squalane, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Allantoin, Phenoxyethanol, Bisabolol, Sodium Polyacrylate, Methylparaben, Polyglutamic Acid, Tocopherol, Disodium EDTA, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Malachite Extract, Ethylparaben, Caprylyl Glycol, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract.
Buffer Jelly Ingredients: Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Squalane, C13-15 Alkane, Dextrin Palmitate/Ethylhexanoate, Petrolatum, Jojoba Esters, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Oil, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Tocopherol, Panthenyl Triacetate, Ceramide NP, Euterpe Oleracea (Acai) Sterols, Ethyl Linoleate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Wax, Naringenin, Linoleic Acid, Oleic Acid, Linolenic Acid.
In a 33 person clinical trial, after 2 weeks of using Buffer Jelly:
— 63% reduction in skin dryness
— 38% reduction in skin roughness
— 31% increase in skin radiance
In a 30 person clinical trial using Super Saturated:
— INSTANTLY: 96% increase in skin hydration
— AFTER 4 WEEKS: 32% increase in skin’s natural hydration levels
Are Super Saturated and Buffer Jelly vegan?
Yep! Both products are vegan and do not contain any animal derived ingredients.
Are both these products lightweight?
Buffer Jelly is like if a facial oil and an ointment/balm had a baby… so it’s going to feel a teeny bit heavier than a traditional oil, but much lighter than a balm! The finish is soft, emollient, and glowy, without feeling greasy, sticky, or thick like traditional slugging ointments.
Super Saturated is a more concentrated hydrating serum with high levels of humectants. This means it has a richer texture, and a little goes a long way.
When you mix these products together, you get this really nourishing, yet lightweight custom moisturizer. Pretty cool if you ask us!
Is Buffer Jelly suitable for oily, acne-prone skin? How about on top of my acne treatments?
Buffer Jelly was created specifically to relieve dry, sensitive, compromised skin, but we kept all skin types in mind when formulating. All ingredients were screened for comedogenicity, but it’s always safe to patch test if you’re unsure!
Because Buffer Jelly is semi-occlusive, it doesn’t completely ‘trap’ actives and enhance penetration/irritation like pure petrolatum. However, everyone’s skin is different so again, we recommend patch testing if you have particularly sensitive skin.
- Skin Type Dry + Sensitive
Morpheus 8 - post treatment
Use 3 times a day after Morpheus 8. This will help protect your skin barrier during the days of healing after your treatment. My skin is extremely reactive, sensitive and prone to atopic dermatitis so I must be cautious and Super Saturated is a HIT!
- Skin Type Combo + Acne Prone
New staple in my skin care routine!!!
New skin staple in my skin care routine! This stuff is truly amazing! My skin recently broke out bad due to stress and hormones and I just so happened to see super saturated on instagram. I read and saw some reviews and decided to try it. This stuff really helped heal my skin from all of the breakouts that I was dealing with and it also helped with the dryness of my skin. I love how it leaves my skin supple and glowy. I use this day and night. I love it and will continue to use it!
- Skin Type Combo
I’m loving this product....
I’m loving this product. My grandmother had a glycerin hand lotion she made herself that was amazing. Unfortunately I didn’t get her recipe before she passed on. The things you don’t know you’ll want or need until the opportunity has passed. In the meantime this is awesome for my skin.
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My Skin Barrier Was So Damaged Until I Found This $28 Serum on TikTok
Welcome to Deep Reviews —your one-stop destination to discover the absolute best products and brands the beauty industry has to offer. The Who What Wear staffers you already know and trust will research, test, and review the market's most sought-after and buzzed-about products to see which formulas (of the hundreds up for consideration) are worth your hard-earned money and attention. You can expect honest, uncensored feedback and no-BS recommendations our hard-to-please testers endorse without reservations.
The majority of our Deep Reviews will feature our editors' honest, ultra-hot takes on entire product categories or multiple products from a particular beauty brand, but every so often, we'll sprinkle in a special single-product format called Honestly, I Love It . As the name suggests, these reviews will hone in on one standout beauty formula our editors can't shut up about. This time around, I'm highlighting Experiment Skincare's Super Saturated ($28).
If you've dealt with extensive skin barrier damage like I have, then you know how frustrating it can be trying to find the right products to hydrate your skin. If your skin barrier isn't in great shape, it has a hard time holding on to moisture, no matter how much you apply. I've tried countless products that claim to repair the skin barrier with no luck, but I recently found a different kind of support formula that achieved the impossible for me.
To give you a bit more backstory on my skin, I've been dealing with severe dehydration and barrier damage. This happened after I used tretinoin for years without getting enough hydration. Back then, I fully believed the way to clear up my acne was by drying my skin out. I now know how seriously wrong that was thanks to a little education from dermatologists and aestheticians, but unfortunately, by the time I did learn, the damage had been done. I don't use tretinoin anymore and am a huge advocate for more gentle retinoids, but my barrier was left stripped, dry, sensitive, and reactive after that. I'm now (slowly, but surely) healing it by keeping things gentle and hydrating my skin at every turn.
As I mentioned above, though, it's tough for your skin to hold on to moisture when your barrier is so damaged—it takes a high concentration of hydrating actives to trigger those repair mechanisms. Luckily, TikTok-famous brand Experiment offers a $28 formula that does the trick. I began using it with low expectations since I'd used a lot of barrier repair formulas previously that didn't do much, but this serum is the real deal.
I'm really into Experiment and its approach because the brand doesn't do the obvious when it comes to formulation. Rather than putting out a hydrating serum that's like everything else on the market, one of the brand's co-founders Lisa Guerrera told me that they wanted to create a super hydrator that doesn't feature typical ingredients like hyaluronic acid. Instead, they decided to use a 30 percent concentration of glycerin, a well-tolerated and loved hydrating ingredient that when used in higher concentrations can repair the skin barrier.
As you can see in the "Before" photo above, my skin was pretty dull and dehydrated—it also felt a bit like sandpaper on the surface. After using Super Saturated for just three weeks, I started to notice a huge difference in my skin. It felt less tight and dry for starters, and even after just a few days of use, it gave me a serious dewy glow.
I know that repairing my skin barrier won't happen overnight, and it's still not perfect by any means, but this is a formula I actually believe can do the trick. It does have a thicker consistency that feels a bit tacky upon application so that's something to be aware of, but I find that it absorbs quickly. It leaves your skin feeling soft and hydrated, but no sticky after-feel. It's also amazing to use as a base for makeup. I noticed that every time I wore it under foundation, my makeup applied so smoothly and made my skin look extra airbrushed. It's true—great makeup application starts with a hydrating skincare base.
I also noticed that since I began using this, my skin holds on to moisture a lot better which is key for the repair process. I do sleep with a humidifier at night which also helps lock water into the skin barrier, but I credit this product as making the most difference so far. My barrier also just looks less red, angry, and dehydrated. Guerrera also shared a great pro tip with me that helps lock the formula in even further. You can pair Super Saturated with the brand's reusable sheet mask Avant Guard ($19) for your juiciest, most hydrated skin. I just apply a few extra pumps of Super Saturated than I would normally use and leave the sheet mask on for an hour. My skin feels so soft afterward.
I'll get into a few of the other star ingredients in this formula below.
Like I mentioned above, this formula features a whopping 30 percent concentration of glycerin. This is a lot higher than most other serums on the market that feature glycerin as an ingredient. In concentrations of 25% or above, glycerin immediately increases water content in the skin, enhances its ability to retain moisture, and even repairs the skin barrier. In addition, high molecular weight polyglutamic acid hydrates the skin's surface, giving it a plump, dewy appearance.
It also does a great job of soothing redness and irritation with ingredients like bisabolol (an active ingredient in chamomile) and prickly pear extract which binds moisture into the skin while protecting against irritation from stronger actives (like retinoids). Allantoin acts as another soothing ingredient that helps speed the recovery of stressed-out skin. It's also one of my all-time favorite ingredients since it works so well for my sensitive, acne-prone skin. Lastly, niacinamide rounds out the formula which does so many great things including controlling excess oil, improving barrier function, and lightening dark spots.
Guerrera shared a bit more about Experiment and specifically why Super Saturated is such a starring formula. Being two chemists, Guerrera and her co-founder Emmy Ketcham want to carve out a new space in the beauty industry that's rooted in education and fun, experimental skincare. "Our main mission with Experiment is to reimagine what 'science' looks like in beauty and ultimately change how consumers relate and interact with science in their everyday lives," she explains. 'Science' in beauty has looked one way for so long: black and white, lab coats, dropper bottles, and sterile. While it builds trust with consumers, it doesn’t present science as something relatable, cool, [and] fun! That’s why Experiment focuses on really unique, fun, and deeply efficacious products to show science can be colorful, culturally cool, and kinda weird!"
Super Saturated is the perfect formula to showcase this. "Hydrating serums is such a crowded, undifferentiated category filled with serums that by and large feature hyaluronic acid as the primary hydrating ingredient and the star of the product formula—and their textures tend to be very similar across the board," she says. "What makes Super Saturated so unique is the high, 30 percent glycerin concentration in a water-based serum format with a stringy, gloopy texture that our community of self-proclaimed 'Lab Rats' love! Glycerin is a very common ingredient, but it's usually in smaller concentrations (less than five percent) in most of your skincare. [This is] because high amounts of glycerin can get sticky and tricky to formulate with… so Super Saturated was very hard to pull off formulation-wise. But it was worth it because, at concentrations above 25%, glycerin gains these really amazing irritation-protection and barrier-repairing properties. The texture isn’t sticky per se, but it's definitely a 'heavy-weight.'
While it wasn't easy to formulate, Guerrera and Ketcham knew they had something special on their hands. "I’m blessed to have an amazing co-founder, Emmy, who is the chemist and formulator behind all our skincare. We have an in-house lab that allows us to really experiment (pun intended) and find the best formulas. Our primary goal was to create the most effective hydrating serum that was essential in your routine and was truly bringing something new to the market. With Super Saturated, we wanted glycerin to be the star ingredient even though most beauty marketers ignore it as a 'boring' ingredient. We knew, as chemist founders, that glycerin is really one of the best hydrators we have and has so many other cool properties beyond hydration. I remember when Emmy came to me with the first formulation of Super Saturated, she [said], 'I was messing around in the lab and I made this 30% glycerin concentrate thing—not sure if it's a good idea, though,' and the second she said that I knew we had something our community would love . It took a lot of tweaking to get the texture just right, so we did over 40 iterations on the product."
Guerrera even shared a few ways she likes to use this one in her routine. "When my skin needs heavy-duty hydration and soothing I like to 'marinate' (that's what I call it) in Super Saturated. I do about four to five pumps of [it] and layer my Avant Guard reusable sheet mask on top and hang out for 30 minutes or more. Because of the ear loops on Avant Guard, I can do some cleaning around my apartment or do work without the mask slipping. The mask really force feeds your skin the serum and your skin is so plump and calm after. It can really heal any irritation quickly and it’s great for makeup prep too!"
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Shawna Hudson is a beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and travel writer with over 10 years of experience. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton, with a degree in journalism and has written for other publications such as Bustle, The Zoe Report, Byrdie, Elite Daily, and more. She is currently a beauty writer at Who What Wear and hopes to continue feeding her (completely out-of-control) beauty obsession as long as she can. Stay up to date on her latest finds on Instagram @shawnasimonee.
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Experiment Beauty Super Saturated Barrier Support Serum
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Product Sku: 84187939; Color Code: 040
Your skin’s new favorite hydrator, this blue goo serum by Experiment Beauty is formulated with higher percentages of glycerin that goes beyond hydration to unlock its unique barrier replenishing and soothing properties. This one-of-a-kind goo also has multi-molecular weight humectants like polyglutamic acid, and super soothers like bisabolol, prickly pear extract, and niacinamide to keep irritation at bay. Made vegan.
Features - Hydrating serum by Experiment Beauty - Formulated to help hydrate and soothe skin - Key ingredients: 30% Glycerin, Polyglutamic Acid, Bisabolol, Prickly Pear Extract, Niacinamide, Allantoin - Vegan
Content + Care - Ingredients: Water, Glycerin, Propanediol, Niacinamide, Diglycerin, Squalane, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Allantoin, Phenoxyethanol, Bisabolol, Sodium Polyacrylate, Methylparaben, Polyglutamic Acid, Tocopherol, Disodium EDTA, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Malachite Extract, Ethylparaben, Caprylyl Glycol, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract - Imported
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Super Saturated is a barrier support serum with 30% glycerin – aka your skin’s fave hydrator. At higher percentages, glycerin goes beyond hydration to unlock its unique barrier replenishing and soothing properties. This one-of-a-kind saturating blue goo also has multi-molecular weight humectants like polyglutamic acid, and super soothers like bisabolol, prickly pear extract, and niacinamide to keep irritation at bay.
- Key Ingredients: Water, Glycerin, Propanediol, Niacinamide, Diglycerin, Squalane, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Allantoin, Phenoxyethanol, Bisabolol, Sodium Polyacrylate, Methylparaben, Polyglutamic Acid, Tocopherol, Disodium EDTA, Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Malachite Extract, Ethylparaben, Caprylyl Glycol, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract
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