Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel Review

Lucky lucky me, to nab this in the last Beauty Vault. I had read with interest the previous BR trials, as I had not considered using a gel moisturiser before. I'm so glad I have discovered this, especially in summer!

The best time I've found to apply this is about five minutes after showering and toning. It glides on beautifully, has a lovely fresh fragrance, and sinks in straight away.

The best thing about it, IMO, is that it leaves such a smooth silky base, that it acts like a primer as well. I love that!

I will start off with this stuff is nothing less than amazing to me. I was one of the lucky few to pick this up in the last Beauty Vault. I am almost at the bottom of this pot and going to definitely be buying myself another one. I had a few lovelies suggest using a gel when I noticed my usual moisturiser was starting to make my skin oily as the weather heated up.

The container is a cute little blue pot (to emphasise the 'hydration' aspect). The down side (of all pots) is you need to dip your fingers into the pot to get the gel out. There is a decent amount of gel in the pot, as it is deeper than it seems. I have been using it daily on this big face and I am going almost 2 months before hitting close the bottom (I still have 2 weeks or so left).

I have never used a gel before so I was a bit surprised with the texture (NOTHING like a cream...don't know what I was expecting haha). It absorbs really easily and doesn't leave a greasy feeling that I was getting from my old moisturiser as we were coming into summer. There is a small perfumed smell, but nothing overpowering.

I have combo skin (Oily in my forehead, nose and chin, dry as the sahara everywhere else...) and since I have been using this I have stopped breaking out and my dry patches are gone. It's insane. My skin has now become more normal (Still a slight, but VERY slight, oiliness on my nose, but other than that everywhere else feels so nice to touch). Which brings me to my next point, this stuff makes my skin feel like silk.

UPDATE: Pot lasted me THREE months. I brought a new one last week and I'm still scraping stuff out of the bottom of the old pot. It never ends!!

Love this, my skin just soaked this up leaving it soft and smooth, not greasy at all, light, just opened my second pot and have started using the eye roller,

I've been wanting to try this for a while, it gets such great reviews. I've been after a good moisturiser because of this acne cream I'm on - I can only use a moisturiser during the day under my make-up, so I need a really good one to try and help with dry patches that have come up from the medication.

There are a lot of things I really like about this gel. It smells really nice, a mild baby-powder-ish smell, not over powering at all.

It looks really soothing and pretty in the jar and the jar is awesome - it's a solid, plastic pot that you can easily get the get out of and won't break if you drop it.

One of the big points for me was that it doesn't leave a tacky feeling like you'd expect from a gel. All my experiences with gel have been that it's sticky and tacky once applied, but this absorbs really, really well.

You can feel that it's worked after you apply it - I know a lot of moisturisers you don't really feel a difference, with this I can tell what areas I've applied the gel to and which ones I haven't - not because I can feel the moisturiser but because I can feel how soft my skin is.

Overall, this is a great product. The only downside for me is that it isn't as moisturising as what I need - it hasn't really done much for helping with the dry patches. That being said, it isn't really advertised as being for very dry skin, so it's possible my expectations are a bit unreasonable. It does work very nicely on regular skin and it sits underneath make-up like a dream!

I was really excited to receive this product in the beauty vault from a mystery box. I had seen the superheroes at the time trialing this range and I was itching to get my hands on It! I wasn't totally sure when this product was supposed to be used for. I prefer my day creams to have sunscreen in them so I decided to use this at nightime instead.

My first impressions of the jar is that it is a beautiful blue color and the jar just looks luxurious. It definitely doesn't look like a cheap product, it more reminds me of something high end. When you open the pot, you see a light blue substance (which is actually white, the packaging just makes it look blue), and it has a really nice fragrance. It's light and fresh and slightly sweet.

When you look at the gel, it's half opaque white and half see through. I was expecting something like Aloe Vera gel but it just seems like a light cream. I find you only need a really small amount to do your whole face and it absorbs so quickly. I can touch my face 2 minutes Ater I've applied and it isn't sticky at all and just feels soft.

initially I was just using this on its own as a night cream. For the first hour after applying, my skin feels nice but then I find my face starts feeling a bit tight and dry. I do have dry to very dry skin. I decided to start using it as a primer instead before applying some richer face cream after. I've used about half the jar doing it this way and I think it works well for me. I haven't had breakouts from it and is enjoyable to apply in the evenings.

I'm not totally sure if I'll buy this exact product again but I wouldn't mind trying a different product from the same range out. I think this range is probably suited more for oily skin, not skin as dry as mine. So I would recommend to someone with oily skin to give it a go and see if it works out.

I have oily skin and this is so amazing! It feels super luxurious and moisturising. It sinks in right away and doesn't feel heavy at all. I think this has become my favourite moisturiser of all time. And the packaging is really pretty and looks expensive and high quality

To begin I should tell you my skin type: I am oily - dehydrated, slightly enlarged pores through cheeks, nose and forehead. I have some redness and old acne scarring (though not too bad). My skin's texture is very rough and dull.

I was gifted this product from a friend, had I not been gifted it I probably wouldn't have brought it myself simply because I was all about the mattifying aspects of life. I often strayed from products boasting hydrating claims but that was before I knew better. This little tub of cream/gel is wonderful. I adore the texture, it's very light weight and sinks in beautifully. It's actually perfect for my skin even though I'm oily - I used it as a night cream and didn't wake up looking like a total grease ball. Now this didn't do any wonders for my redness, scarring or pores but it didn't claim to, it did exactly as it said - hydrated. My skin looked fresh all day after having this applied at night, it wasn't too much dewy-ness for my liking which is one of my biggest pet peeves with hydrating products. Will I buy this again? No, not at this time simply because I have started an entirely custom made routine but if I was ever in a pinch and needed a good night cream I would definitely pick this up!

I got this in my mystery box from the last beauty vault. Firstly the product comes in a nice blue jar, it looks quite flash like a high-end product which I liked. The product was really nice and cooling to apply to your skin, it felt very refreshing. I also really liked the smell of the product, it also has a nice refreshing smell to it. I found this product really moisturizing and left my skin feeling soft and smooth.

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel is a very lovely product, it really is quite refreshing and silky and easy to glide on the skin. My skin drinks it up in seconds and can't get enough of it!

I like using this as my base moisturizer, kinda like a serum, because this is a water based product, it is more hydrating rather then moisturizing, I feel like I needed a layer of moisturizer to coat over it, and it does work well with a moisturizer over it.

I purchased this a few weeks ago now as my skin has been getting increasingly drier due to the colder weather. I had read mostly good reviews about it so decided to give it ago over my usual moisturizer.

The packaging is attractive and sturdy, and looks high end despite the low to middle price. The product itself is pale blue and quite heavily fragranced (which was the first negative for me).

This gel feels nice on the skin when you first apply it, though it does semi feel like you're rubbing water all over your face rather than a moisturizer haha. It soaks in quickly and my skin felt nice for ten minutes or so, but after that it just got progressively drier and drier, resulting in drier skin than I had before!

I tried this several ways, reapplying, using in conjunction with other moisturizer, etc and unfortunately I just couldn't get it to work with my skin type. It did also end up breaking me out in a pimply type rash - lots of little red bumps under the skin, which is likely attributed to the ingredients that create the strong fragrance.

All in all, I'm really disappointed that I couldn't get this to work! I still want to try the eye gel version but I worry that it will just make my fine lines worse :(