We’re breaking down the differences, benefits, and key ingredients of our serums. This is your guide to finding your perfect serum match!
Serums are the most potent form of skincare. We need cleansers and moisturizers for our skin’s health, but serums are where we can really choose formulas dense with active ingredients that deliver the skin benefits we’re looking for. Plus, some serums absorb more quickly and deeply into the skin due to the molecular size of the formula. While cleansers wash away and creams tend to sit on the skin longer to protect, the ingredients in your serums dive deep into your skin.
Because serums are designed to target specific concerns, including everything from fine lines and wrinkles to skin congestion and texture, they’re the most customizable part of your skincare routine. That also means you’re inundated with a ton of serum options on the market to choose from, making it hard to know the right one (or ones) for you.
We might be biased, but at Graydon we think everyone should have a gentle serum suitable for daily use in their repertoire.
Take a look at our daily serums to find one that aligns with your #skingoals!
When it comes to using serums, consistency over intensity is always the best approach. You'll see the best results by consistently using the same product, and by choosing one that's clinically tested for sensitive skin, you'll ensure it's gentle enough to use everyday without any adverse reactions or compromising your skin barrier, yet effective enough to get the visible results you’re looking for.
But let me make a case for why everyone, not just those with sensitive skin, should use products that are formulated and clinically proven to be gentle. It really comes down to one thing: inflammation. When you use products that constantly set off your skin’s inflammatory response, you can damage your skin barrier, develop hyperpigmentation, get breakouts, and more.
While most serums are fine to use on a daily basis, serums that contain exfoliators or traditional retinol can’t be used every day. There’s also certain ingredients, like hyaluronic acid or L-ascorbic acid vitamin C, that can irritate some people’s skin.
These are all ingredients that many dermatologists and skincare experts love and recommend, so it can feel frustrating to have skin that can’t tolerate it. We’ve heard from many people who have rosacea or aging skin that wish they could use retinol or exfoliants, but their skin just can’t tolerate it.
What’s amazing is that there are options formulated to be gentle on sensitive skin while delivering results–and that type of serum is something we at Graydon Skincare specialize in.
Our serums have carefully crafted blends of natural ingredients that offer multifaceted results.
We love gentle, effective, daily serum formulas that are packed with ingredients that deliver healthy, calm, and great looking skin. Unlike some companies who focus on one or two key ingredients in their formulas to deliver results, we carefully craft blends of natural ingredients that offer multifaceted results.
Supermoon Serum is listed as a water-based serum, but in reality water (or “agua”) is nowhere to be found in the ingredients list. Instead, we use both maple sap water and malachite-infused water in this serum. Why? So even the “water” part of this serum is packed with skin-loving ingredients that add more hydration and protection from free radical damage to the skin.
Just like how James Bond is also known as 007, we consider Supermoon’s code name to be 6-in-1. That’s because we’ve identified 6 distinct skin benefits that Supermoon provides:
We also know that ingredients like dew bean and moringa don’t have the same immediate recognition as ones like retinol or vitamin C, so we thought it would be helpful to know some of the key reasons we chose these natural ingredients:
Supermoon also contains ingredients you might be more familiar with, like vegan collagen, hyaluronic acid, and peptides.
Jade Moon is your barrier’s best friend. The oils in Jade Moon replenish and protect the barrier. It’s also an occlusive, allowing your skin to lock in nourishment and hydration.
Fun fact: many of the hydrating oils in Jade Moon are extracted from the seeds of fruits, such as prickly pear, cranberry, blueberry, raspberry, goji, and more.
Fun fact: many of the hydrating oils in Jade Moon are extracted from the seeds of fruits, such as prickly pear, cranberry, blueberry, raspberry, goji, and more. This means that alongside these oils being rich in omega fatty acids–which are deeply important to the skin barrier and overall skin hydration–but they are also filled with antioxidants and vitamins that protect skin from oxidative stress and improve skin’s overall health and appearance.
We’ve identified these unique benefits to Jade Moon:
Jade Moon was designed to deliver healthy, smooth, and bouncy-looking skin while providing a boost to the skin's lipid barrier. Just like for Supermoon serum, we also wanted to break down what some of these ingredients in Jade Moon actually do for your skin:
Moon Boost is a brightening, multivitamin oil serum made to deliver brighter, firmer, and healthier skin with every drop. Moon Boost offers deep moisturization without feeling greasy—it’s both an emollient and an occlusive, but it’s still suitable for oily skin because the linoleic fatty acids in the serum also regulate sebum production.
Featuring vitamins A, C, D, E, F, and K—which you can learn more about here—Moon Boost takes a multifunctional approach to brightening, as well as your skin’s overall health. Many of these vitamins boost collagen production, speed up cell renewal, and protect from the free radicals that damage your skin. These three benefits in combination are what keeps your skin looking firm, plump, smooth, and radiantly healthy.
Plus, Moon Boost is the first product in Canada to use Torula Oil, a highly sustainable and innovative bio-designed oil packed with skin-loving sterols and carotenoids. It’s made through “precision fermentation”—think kombucha or yogurt—in a lab by harnessing natural components like yeast and microorganisms. It’s an exciting blend of natural sources and lab refinement.
Moon Boost has these unique benefits:
Moon Boost has a ton of incredible ingredients, so here’s some insight into the benefits the major ingredients in the serum offer:
What do Supermoon, Jade Moon, and Moon Boost have in common? They’re all vegan, cruelty-free, sustainable, and sensitive skin friendly.
All our products are Leaping Bunny Certified Cruelty free, and Supermoon and Jade Moon’s formulas are 100% vegan. Even the collagen in Supermoon comes from a vegan source!
We also clinically test all our products to ensure they’re suitable to use on sensitive skin–serums included.
As for sustainability, we use upcycled ingredients in all our serums. We’ve also partnered with sustainability initiatives like Pact, and have transparency reports from Provenance and Bluebird on each of our product pages.
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