It’s here. The Cerave Healing Ointment is now available in Canada and I have Aquaphor to compare it to. I’m comparing it to the Aquaphor because both have a thick texture, and both products are balms that you could use to seal in moisture or treat dry irritated skin.
While I like both, I admit I don’t reach for my Aquaphor much because of how thick it is, but the Cerave is thinner and melts more easily. I’m applying it on the days I’m using my retinoid, and I’m finding that it’s a little more moisturizing and not as sticky as the Aquaphor that I sometimes use. It could be because the Cerave ointment has hyaluronic acid in it or the ceramides but I find that my skin is just slightly happier when I use it, as compared to the Aquaphor.
The Cerave ointment is a more packed formula so it is more expensive, but I find that a tube lasts such a long time so for me, it would be worth it. Both are petrolatum-based products like Vaseline, but the Cerave has more skincare-helping ingredients. The hyaluronic acid is good for hydrating and the petrolatum in the formula seals that hydration.
You can see that my bottle of Aquaphor doesn’t have an ingredient list, I’m not sure why, maybe I bought it in Europe or something, but we know that this is a petrolatum-based pomade or balm and it’s got ingredients such as glycerin and lanolin in it, both of which are great for making skin soft. Lastly, the Cerave Healing Ointment says that it’s not greasy right on the bottle, but this is a pomade, so it is definitely greasy. It does absorb into your skin after some time and doesn’t stay greasy forever, but it’s not a matte or satin-finish ointment and nor do we want it to be because then it probably won’t work!
