15 Best Bakuchiol Products for Every Skin Type

This light, lotion-serum hybrid is one of the top bakuchiol products out there. It features all of the ingredient categories we want in a serum: hydrating agents, anti-aging ingredients, moisturizers, and skin brighteners.

The ant-aging effects come from wrinkle-fighting bakuchiol, of course, which is supported by the antioxidant and brightening effects of niacinamide. Hyaluronic acid and squalane hydrate and moisturize the skin, making for a comprehensive formula that works both in the short and long term. It’s excellent for all skin types, although there is a fragrance. Find it at Sephora! 

Key Features:

• Format: Lotion-Serum
• Size: 1 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, niacinamide, hyaluronic acid
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Citrus

With this moisturizer from The Inkey List, you can add bakuchiol to your routine without breaking the bank or complicating your skincare routine. It’s a simple moisturizer that you can use in the morning or night, with a light cream texture that works across skin types. On its own, it might be too light for those with dry skin, but that’s easy to remedy with another occlusive step at night.

This fragrance-free cream is simple and gentle, with non-comedogenic emollient ingredients like squalane and sacha inchi oil that moisturize the skin without feeling greasy. It also includes glycerin for hydration, making it a comprehensive moisturizer. There are no other active ingredients in the formula beyond bakuchiol, so it’s a lightly anti-aging and protective product that won’t complicate your life. Get it from Sephora!

Key Features:

• Format: Light Cream
• Size: 1 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: 1%
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, squalane, sacha inchi oil, glycerin
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: No

If you’re willing to invest in your beauty routine, this serum is a powerful option that justifies the high price point. This serum combines antioxidant and smoothing bakuchiol with multiple forms of vitamin C as well as melatonin.

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant in its own right, and it’s also famous for its skin-brightening effects. Finally, the last ingredient to mention is melatonin, a hormone associated with the sleep cycle. When it’s applied topically, early research suggests that melatonin boosts the skin’s resiliency against sun exposure and UV damage, making it a wonderful preventative ingredient. In combination, the bakuchiol, vitamin C, and melatonin make for a wonderful nighttime product that’ll keep the skin youthful over time.

The serum’s texture is light but a little oily, so while it can be used by all skin types, it’s ideal for dry and normal skin. Order it from Amazon!

Key Features:

• Format: Serum
• Size: 1 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, vitamin C, melatonin
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Yes

Bakuchiol is usually marketed as a retinol alternative, but the reality is that the two ingredients actually work very well together. Retinol is, of course, the gold standard when it comes to anti-aging cosmetic ingredients (aside from its prescription-only sibling, tretinoin). Retinol boosts collagen production and cell turnover, which helps with a very wide range of skin concerns, with photoaging and wrinkles chief amongst them.

Retinol is not a very stable molecule, though, so combining it with strong antioxidants like bakuchiol helps to stabilize it. This means that retinol remains potent for a lot longer! In this formula, there’s only 0.3% retinol, so it’s a lovely choice for newcomers to the powerful ingredient. If you’re looking specifically for something retinol-free, though, this won’t work.

The formula also includes skin-firming peptides and a whole range of soothing plant extracts. It’s fragrance-free, so it’s also a safe choice for slightly sensitive skin. Shop for it at Paula’s Choice or Nordstrom!

Key Features:

• Format: Serum
• Size: 1 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: 2%
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, retinol, peptides
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: No

If you’re not in the mood to introduce a new product into your routine for daily use, this sleeping mask can be a nice product for once in a while. It’s a sleeping mask that offers a serious dose of moisture, along with many skin-nourishing ingredients.

At 1%, there’s more than enough bakuchiol in this blend to help smooth out fine lines and to protect the skin from free radical damage. The blend also includes squalane, beta-glucan, and a probiotic fermented extract, for overall moisturization and skin rejuvenation. It can work for all skin types, thanks to a super light texture, but it’s especially ideal for dry and dehydrated skin.

This formula is fragrance-free, which, in this case, is a double-edged sword. For those with sensitive skin, it’s wonderful news. Unfortunately, the raw, natural ingredients do end up smelling a little off-putting without a fragrance to make them. Buy it at Ulta!

Key Features:

• Format: Cream Mask
• Size: 1.7 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: 1%
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, squalane, wild indigo extract, beta-glucan
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: No

Omorovicza is a luxury skincare brand from Hungary, and this face oil from them may be expensive, but it’s certainly sumptuous. It’s a lightweight and non-greasy yet deeply moisturizing formula with almond, apricot, seabuckthorn, and many other plant oils. These oils nourish the skin with fortifying fatty acids, although they do make the formula potentially unsuitable for acne-prone or oily skin. 

Bakuchiol gives this formula an added anti-aging touch and helps to stabilize the antioxidants in some of the natural ingredients in the formula. For those with dry skin, this could be a wonderful nighttime step either before or after your normal moisturizer. Pick it up from Neiman Marcus!

Key Features:

• Format: Oil
• Size: 1 oz.
• Skin Type: Dry and normal
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, almond oil, apricot oil, seabuckthorn oil
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Yes

This bakuchiol product might be a bit of a mouthful, but it’s also a welcome addition to the skincare world. It’s a super-hydrating moisturizer that works incredibly well on normal and oily skin. If you’d like the anti-aging effects of bakuchiol without feeling greasy or adding too many steps to your routine, it’s a lovely option. The texture verges on liquid-y, so it’s light, but it leaves the skin looking very dewy and moist.

It features hyaluronic acid, which pulls water into the skin. Yuzu seed oil is one of the other star ingredients here, and it adds a second dose of antioxidant protection. The formula also features dimethicone, which means that it helps seal moisture into the skin while also leaving a smooth canvas for makeup. It can be used either morning or night, although those with dry skin will want to add a heavier occlusive balm in the evenings. It’s available at Sephora.

Key Features:

• Format: Lotion
• Size: 1.18 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, hyaluronic acid, yuzu seed oil
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Yuzu

If your skin can’t get enough from probiotic ingredients, Tula is the brand for you. This gorgeous serum is light and milky (Tula describes it as an oil serum), offering the skin deep hydration and light moisturization. It’s a solid choice for all skin types, but we think it’ll be most beneficial to those with dry skin.

The main ingredients here are probiotics or fermented extracts that help fortify the skin’s microbiome and hydrate thoroughly. It’s a product category that’s fantastic for sensitive skin, so we’re also happy to mention that this serum is overall fragrance-free and unlikely to irritate. The only drawback to this serum is the slightly high price. Pick it up from Dermstore!

Key Features:

• Format: Milky Serum
• Size: 0.98 oz.
• Skin Type: All, but especially dry skin
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, probiotics, squalane, vitamin B6 pyriodoxine
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: No

This serum from Herbivore Botanicals has generated some controversy in the last couple of years, but we thought it still merited inclusion on this list. Despite being marketed as a bakuchiol serum, this product doesn’t contain isolated bakuchiol. Instead, it contains a respectable amount of Babchi extract, which is the plant from which bakuchiol is derived. As a result, it doesn’t have as much bakuchiol as other products on our list.

The misleading marketing is unfortunate since this is a nice product otherwise. In addition to bakuchiol, Babchi contains other beneficial compounds that have antioxidant effects on the skin. The serum also includes a wide range of soothing extracts and hydrating ferments, so it’s an overall lovely hydrating and lightly anti-aging serum. You can find it at Sephora.

Key Features:

• Format: Serum
• Size: 1 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Very low
• Key Ingredients: Babchi extract, PHA, tremella mushroom
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Yes

It can be complicated to use retinol around the eyes, where the skin is much thinner than anywhere else. That’s why, even if you’re happy to use retinol on your face, you may want to try something milder around your eye area.

This non-greasy yet moisturizing eye cream is a great choice. The gel-cream formula is very light and silky, with a touch of dimethicone that has an instant smoothing effect. Long-term anti-aging effects come courtesy of bakuchiol, as well as a few skin-firming peptides and orchid stem cells. There is also soy protein in the formula, which gives a skin-brightening boost!

Just be aware that some users find this product a little too heavily fragranced and that the price can be steep considering the small amount of product in a bottle. Purchase it from Sephora!

Key Features:

• Format: Gel-Cream
• Size: 0.5 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, orchid stem cell, peptides, soy protein
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Yes

We usually don’t look to our cleansers for skin benefits, but there’s certainly no harm in using a cleanser with bakuchiol. This fantastic face wash from Dr. Zenovia is thoroughly cleansing, but it’s also gentle and hydrating.

The formula does include sodium laureth sulfate, which can be drying for some, although it’s mitigated by the presence of gentler surfactants that reduce SLES’ potential to irritate the skin. The formula as a whole, despite the SLES, is quite gentle and hydrating. In addition to bakuchiol, it also includes resveratrol, which is another potent antioxidant. It also features a range of skin-soothing and brightening extracts to give the skin a glow. It’s available at Sephora.

Key Features:

• Format: Gel Cleanser
• Size: 4 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, resveratrol, medical-grade actives, antioxidants
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Yes

Indeed Labs is a scientifically-minded brand that makes really cool skincare. These bakuchiol pads sit in their portfolio along with a retinol serum, and it’s clear that it’s not a ‘one or the other’ situation.

So far, most of our selection has focused on serums and moisturizers, but these pads are a great option for anyone who doesn’t have space in their routine for more moisturizing products. The pads are saturated with a liquid that’s more like a toner, to be used after cleansing and before serums and moisturizers.

Bakuchiol does the heavy lifting when it comes to anti-aging effects, but this formula has other benefits. It features a respectable amount of niacinamide, which helps to balance oily skin, brighten the skin, reduce breakouts, and even give an antioxidant boost. Just be careful not to use these in conjunction with other niacinamide products since you can have too much of this one good thing.

We recommend these pads to all skin types but especially oily skin. Get them at Ulta!

Key Features:

• Format: Pads
• Size: 30 ct.
• Skin Type: All, but especially oily skin
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, niacinamide, allantoin
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: No

If you’re a fan of clean or all-natural beauty, you’ll probably like this moisturizer. It’s a light, silky cream that sinks into the skin easily but provides dramatic hydration. The formula is positively loaded with hyaluronic acid for its water-attracting abilities.

It also includes a range of nourishing emollients, like coconut alkanes, apricot oil, and squalane. These ingredients help with long-term moisturization, but they also make this moisturizer potentially too rich for those with oily or acne-prone skin.

If your main concerns are dryness, dehydration, and aging skin, this moisturizer really delivers. It includes bakuchiol, of course, as well as vitamin C and centella asiatica, which boost the anti-aging effects. Buy it from Sephora!

Key Features:

• Format: Light Cream
• Size: 1.7 oz.
• Skin Type: Normal and dry
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, vitamin C, squalane, hyaluronic acid
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: Yes

If you’re a fan of natural products but you’re also on a bit of a budget, this is a fantastic bakuchiol product to consider. It’s ideal especially for dry skin, since, despite being advertised as a serum, it’s more of an oil.

The main ingredients in this blend are lighter oils, so it’s not too greasy, but it still might be too heavy for those with oily skin. The oils in the formula include linoleic acid-rich sunflower oil, skin-like squalane, and jojoba seed oil. This makes for a deeply reparative formula that’s nice even on sensitive skin, and that feels nice as it repairs the skin barrier.

It’s not the most potent anti-aging product on our list since the only dramatic ingredient in the formula is bakuchiol. If your routine is already quite intense, and you mostly need the added emolliency, however, then it’ll be a nice addition.

While it does contain some plant extracts that may not work for everyone, the formula is fragrance-free and should generally help those with sensitive skin. We’d still recommend patch-testing it, of course. It’s available at Ulta.

Key Features:

• Format: Oil
• Size: 0.5 oz.
• Skin Type: Dry and normal
• Bakuchiol Percentage: Undisclosed
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, sunflower oil, jojoba oil, squalane
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: No

Dual-phase serums are a pretty cool category, so if you haven’t tried one before, this is your chance! It’s a simple, gentle, natural serum that hydrates and protects the skin while giving it an anti-aging boost.

This formula features 0.5% bakuchiol, along with other skin-loving ingredients. It includes soothing turmeric and antioxidant eggplant extract. Dual-phase means that there are two layers to this serum. There’s a water layer that includes the plant extracts as well as humectants like glycerin and an oil layer that includes skin-softening jojoba oil.

To use it, you simply shake up the serum before dispensing. The two layers combine, so the skin gets all of the goodness. While the oils do give it a slightly greasy texture, the overall formula is non-comedogenic for most, so you can use it even with acne-prone skin. Pick it up from Ulta!

Key Features:

• Format: Dual-Phase Serum
• Size: 0.6 oz.
• Skin Type: All
• Bakuchiol Percentage: 0.5%
• Key Ingredients: Bakuchiol, eggplant extract, turmeric, jojoba oil
• Cruelty-Free/Vegan: Yes/Yes
• Fragrance: No