10 Best Men's Moisturisers For 2021

A unique light gel formula, Nivea’s Intensive Moisturising Cream for men is an alcohol-free moisturiser that’s free of burning sensations and big on hydration.

Ideal for those who suffer from tight, dry skin, this combination of Aloe Vera, Vitamin E and active moisturisers is a winning trio that strengthens and nourishes your face with intense, long-lasting moisture.

Non-greasy in feel, this cream has the longest action of any on the market, helping alleviate dryness for an insane 48 hours, meaning those embarrassing hourly bathroom breaks to slather on a reapplication of cream are officially over!

Leaving you healthy and energized in appearance, this soothing balm may be the star that’s heavily lacking from your grooming routine line-up and quite simply a must-have for sufferers of raw and flaky faces!

For fellas with blemished, red skin who are prone to the odd pimple or two, War Paint for Men’s Tinted Moisturiser is a great way to clear up your face without resorting to actual cover-up or foundation.

Unlike foundation, tinted moisturiser takes just seconds to apply and is a light substance that gives a natural look which lasts all day.

However, most tinted moisturisers are generally creams mixed with a slight colour tint, whereas War Paint for Men is actually a foundation, moisturiser and concealer product all in one!

This means you’re going to get much more effective concealment of your blemishes without all the faff, time and money that venturing into the weird world of makeup will cost you.

Simply apply a pea-sized amount to your fingers and dot around the face before blending in with your fingers! No brushes, no contouring… just moisturiser.

It’s not makeup… it’s war paint.

Bulldog are one of the UK’s only skincare brands marketed specifically at men and they boast a range of moisturisers that provide natural and energising ingredients designed to enhance the male skin condition.

Our favourite of their range is this Oil Control Moisturiser, containing some special mattifying ingredients to help blokes say goodbye to grease and unsightly shiny noggins!

For those of you with oily skin, it can be frustrating how quickly your face looks like it’s been dipped in a vat of chip oil and putting on moisturiser may even seem counterproductive to your issues.

However, applying a quality non-greasy solution to your skin after cleansing will help prevent your mug from overproducing sebum (oil), improving shine-control and helping you feel fresh.

Bulldog’s Oil Control Moisturiser is fast absorbing and contains the natural ingredients of witch hazel, willow bark and juniper. These are all known to help with acne, blemishes and oily skin, leaving your face smoother and healthier looking.

Ideal for a lightweight hydration and giving a mattified finish, it’s the best option for keeping your boat soft, supple and sebum-free throughout the day.

In short, it’s the dog’s b****cks.

When you look in the mirror these days, it’s tough to work out whether you’ve been socked in both eyes the night before or whether you might generally just be transforming into the world’s first anthropomorphic panda.

With your life starting to resemble that infamous Trainspotting speech and long working hours keeping you down, a few late nights and early mornings is all it takes for your fatigue to start showing on your face.

Elemis’ Daily Moisture Boost can help fight the tired sap staring back at you every morning and welcome back the re-energized, reinvigorated and confident bloke we all know and love.

A powerful blend of Polynesian Green Tamanu Oil to combat your dry patches, the moisturiser also contains a trio of citrus oil to protect against skin-damaging free-radicals and chestnut and bamboo to promote supple, firm skin.

Ideal for aftershave soothing, it’s best ingredient is a cactus cerus flower extract, ensuring rough irritations post-shave are all given a studs up tackle that will put them out of the game for good.

If you’re really suffering from dry skin, browsing for male grooming products can often be a frustrating experience.

With so many of them stuffed choc-full of alcohol and fragrances to make them that bit more manly, they can often make your symptoms of redness and flaking worse rather than better.

If this rings true with you, we suggest getting away from the alpha male aisle and going for a more traditional non-grooming skincare product.

Developed by dermatologists, E45 is a rich and replenishing formula which is light and easily absorbed. It can be used all over the entire body and improves skin health through medilan, a purified, hypoallergenic form of lanolin with premium moisturising properties.

A trusted and revered product in the UK, it’s been prescribed to sufferers of eczema, psoriasis and other dry skin issues for 60 years, so you can trust it will get the job done over your classic manly body gel products.

Fragrance-free, you can also feel assured E45 is only ever doing the only job it needs to – moisturising your skin.

For years, we lads have never really known what Kiehl’s was, other than the odd shop on the high street where everyone wears lab coats and there’s a skeleton in the window.

We all peered in for a few seconds and thought “meh, not for us.”

Turns out though, Kiehl’s are actually a very forward thinking skin, hair and body product shop, which originally started out as a pharmacy in 1851 (hence the lab coats).

And well… it just goes to show that you should never judge a shop by its window – as they’re pretty much the future of top-quality men’s skincare products as far as we’re concerned.

Brilliant for normal skin types, this Facial Fuel Moisture Treatment For Men is enriched with vitamins and is a non-oily cream which revitalizes and moisturises your skin.

Unlike other products out there, Kiehl’s have also used cosmetic technology to protect your face from the harsh environmental stress we face every day, with a ‘facial recovery accelerator’, which resists the sweat, toil and trouble of your day to keep you looking healthy and invigorated from morning till night.

Kiehl’s have even suggested popping it in the fridge overnight to help get an added cooling, energising effect after a steamy night on the tiles, making it the only moisturiser designed to help cover up a messy pub sesh. If that isn’t a purpose-built moisturiser for men, we don’t know what is.

We’re sorry for ever doubting you Kiehl son, you just simply can’t argue with 170 years of cosmetic experience.

Although we love men’s skincare products, we have to admit too many of them are concerned with scoring lad points and pumping your face full of irritating aftershave fragrances.

I mean, what’s wrong with wanting a male moisturiser that actually wants to protect and nourish our faces!?

Enter, Jack Black’s Double-Duty Face Moisturiser, a superior replenisher packed with simple and effective ingredients that improve the quality of your skin and nothing more.

No association to the tubby comedian and rocker, Jack Black’s products have been making men’s grooming routines a doddle for nearly two decades and their Double Duty moisturiser is easily their bestseller.

An emollient formula, the lightweight concoction combines antioxidants and vitamins with UVA and UVB protection to create the ultimate protective moisturiser, which hydrates without heaviness or oiliness.

Its SPF-20 helps shield the skin from premature ageing due to sun exposure, while blue algae extract and sea parsley provide natural ingredients which provide a rich source of Vitamins E, A and C to reduce inflammation and supple up the skin.

There’s also added rosemary to fight bacteria and phospholipids to support the skin barrier and retain moisture.

That’s it. Just good skincare and organic healing botanicals.

No fragrances, parabens, colourants or cruel ingredients. Exactly the way it should be.

Yes, believe it or not, Clinique can be for blokes too, and this Men’s Oil-Control Mattifying Moisturiser is actually one of the best shine-control products for oily skin on the market.

A lightweight formula, it’s an oil-free hydrator for those with more than enough sebum already, creating a matte and neat look without the use of irritating perfumes.

Its quick-dissolving texture means it gets to work at once, regulating your over-oil production and hydrating the skin to improve the strength of your natural skin barrier.

A great irritation soother after shaving, it also calms skin within seconds, leaving you looking sleek, sophisticated and most importantly, comfortable in your own skin!

Lab Series have a fantastic range of skincare products for men and our favourite of these is this PRO LS All-In-One face treatment, which can provide your mush with four essential boosts in just one smooth and simple application.

Designed to soothe, moisturise, repair and mattify your skin, this product is a jack of all trades… master of all. An MPD-8 Complex helps calm irritations and redness, while iMatte technology instantly absorbs excess oil issues to keep skin looking firm, polished and grease-free.

It also rebuilds and fortifies your moisture barrier with an instant replenishing of hydration and can even help diminish the appearance of lines and wrinkles!

Best applied after shaving, it’s also handy to throw on whenever you’re feeling a little dry or shiny, helping you to get fresh-faced, fast.

For those of you with sensitive skin, buying top-quality moisturisers and skin products can often feel like a never-ending game of trial and error, with most creams bringing you out in rashes or worse!

But this doesn’t have to be the case, especially if you aim for moisturisers with simple ingredients, as fragrance and alcohol stuffed products so often upset the skin.

Daily moisturisation and protection are even more vital when you have sensitive skin and so No7’s Men Sensitive Care Moisturiser can be a fantastic weapon to have in your grooming arsenal.

Providing 24-hour moisturisation for your face, the concoction offers soothing and calming effects thanks to helpings of Aloe Vera and Pro-Vitamin B5, while SPF15 gives 5* UVA protection to prevent sun damage.

An easy solution to your issues, No7 helps your sensitive skin to finally become strong, so you can survive the elements, stress and hardships you and your skin face every day.