Serum Quiz: Find Your Serum

Find your serum

Serums are where a routine gets specific. Cleanser and moisturiser keep skin functioning; the serum is the concentrated step aimed at the one thing you most want to change — tone, firmness, hydration, clarity, or calm.

That framing is the quiz's first question, and the most important one: if one thing about your skin changed in three months, what should it be? One serum chosen well and used consistently beats three used occasionally. The remaining questions cover how your skin behaves, your appetite for stronger actives, and anything you'd rather avoid — vitamin C, exfoliating acids, fragrance.

Our serum shelf spans brightening actives, peptides and growth factors, hyaluronic hydrators and barrier-calming formulas, so the honest answer to the first question usually points somewhere quite specific.

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Not sure which active does what? The ingredient library is the place to start.

Every active ingredient we stock, explained. What it does, how it works, what the evidence supports, and where the marketing gets ahead of the research. Reviewed by the doctors of Epios Cosmetic Clinic.

Retinoids

Antioxidants

Acids and Exfoliants

Peptides

Brightening

Barrier and Hydration

N-Acetyl GlucosamineAmino sugar — hydration and tone Acetylated Hyaluronic AcidHumectant Alpha-Glucan OligosaccharidePrebiotic Beta-GlucanSoothing polysaccharide CeramidesBarrier lipids Colloidal OatmealSkin protectant and soothing agent Copper PCAMineral humectant EctoinHumectant and cell protectant Exosomes (Extracellular Vesicles)Signalling vesicles HoneyHumectant and soothing agent Hyaluronic AcidHumectant Lactobacillus Ferment LysatePostbiotic barrier support PDRN (Polydeoxyribonucleotide)Regenerative-trend nucleotide PetrolatumOcclusive Polyglutamic AcidHumectant PullulanFilm-forming polysaccharide RhamnoseSkin-conditioning sugar Saccharide IsomerateHumectant Sacha Inchi OilEmollient (Omega-rich botanical oil) Seabuckthorn Fruit OilEmollient (Antioxidant-rich botanical oil) Silk ProteinFilm-forming protein Soluble Collagen (Topical)Film-forming moisturiser SqualaneEmollient Tremella FuciformisPolysaccharide humectant

Congestion

Soothing