Our Best Foundations to Use for Dry Skin

Dream Radiant Liquid Hydrating Foundation is our best foundation for dry skin and offers a whopping 12 hours of hydration. This lightweight, medium-coverage, longwear foundation is formulated with hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin E to hydrate your skin and give you a naturally radiant finish. It also has SPF 30 to protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays.

Benefits:

• Hydrates skin with hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin E
• Gives you a naturally radiant finish
• Has SPF 30 to protect your skin from the sun

If you’re looking for a drugstore foundation that stands up to its prestige counterparts, delivering dewy, hydrated skin, look no further than Fit Me Dewy + Smooth Foundation. It has a lightweight feel but delivers intense moisture thanks to glycerin and vitamin E. The result: a dewy, natural finish. Plus, it’s formulated with SPF 18 for an extra boost of sun protection. Pro tip: apply on top of your daily sunscreen– dermatologists agree that more is more. 

Benefits:

• Moisturizes skin with glycerin and vitamin E
• Gives you a dewy, natural finish
• Has SPF 18 to protect your skin from the sun
• Best drugstore foundation for dry skin

One of the biggest concerns for people with mature skin is dryness, and while you want a foundation that will offer you adequate coverage, you don’t want something that’s going to be drying or settle into fine lines. 

Enter: our Instant Age Rewind Eraser Treatment. It’s a full-coverage foundation that packs collagen, hyaluronic acid, and goji berry to hydrate your skin, but it simultaneously helps to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and give you an overall more youthful look. Another top concern for aging skin is sun damage, so it’s super important to wear sunscreen; Instant Age Rewind Eraser Treatment offers SPF 15.

Benefits:

• Hydrates skin with collagen, hyaluronic acid, and goji berry

• Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles

• Gives you a more youthful look

• Has SPF 15 to protect your skin from the sun

• Best foundation for mature dry skin 

Say you don’t want a full coverage foundation and would rather use something that’s lightweight and more of a skin tint, but also has skincare benefits. You’ll love our Super Stay Up to 24HR Skin Tint with Vitamin C. Not only does it give you light to medium coverage, but it’s also hydrating. The piece de resistance, though, is that it’s formulated with vitamin C to brighten your skin and give you a more radiant complexion. What’s more, this one-and-done skin booster also has SPF 30.

Benefits:

• Hydrates skin with vitamin C
• Brightens your skin and gives you a more radiant complexion
• Has SPF 30 to protect your skin from the sun
• Best skin tint for dry skin 

Are you a no-makeup-makeup, girly? We love the no-fuss formula of Dream Fresh BB Cream. It offers 8 skin-loving benefits including hydrating, smoothing, and blurring for undetectable, sheer, and natural finish. It's perfect for those days when you want a little bit of coverage without feeling weighed down.

Benefits:

• Hydrates skin with glycerin and vitamin E
• Protects your skin from the sun with SPF 30
• Gives you a sheer, natural coverage
• Best drugstore foundation for dry skin

If you have dry skin, there are a few key ingredients that you should look for in your foundation. Hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin E are all great ingredients for hydrating your skin. Hyaluronic acid is a humectant that helps your skin retain moisture, while glycerin is an emollient that helps to soften and smooth your skin. Lastly, Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps to protect and repair your skin from damage. 

In addition to these key ingredients, it’s smart to look for foundations that contain SPF to help protect your skin from sun damage. It’s important to note that this doesn’t mean you should skip your daily sunscreen; using a foundation with SPF is just an added bonus. And if you have dry skin, it’s especially important to practice safe sun, as it can make your skin even drier and cause other cosmetic concerns like discoloration and wrinkles (in addition to more serious issues).