Beta glucans for the win! This really did wonders for my dry skin. I feel like it does more than HA alone. I have combination skin and eczema and I did not experience any issues regarding acne or irritation.

I am loving this serum! Jen recommended this to me as a way to move away from moisturizers and creams. It is helping so much with redness, acne, and PD. My skin feels happier.

There is absolutely nothing that can replace this in my routine. My skin absolutely loves the oat serum and my skin hates everything. This is a must buy! I use it every day.

This facial serum has completely healed and cured my skin! Around 2018 I began to develop perioral dermatitis/fungal acne/Malassezia folliculitis. Out of the blue, the oils/moisturizers/sunscreens/facial cleansers I had been using and loving no longer worked. It seemed that everything I was using fed or aggravated my skin. I tried product after product looking for something fungal safe but nothing worked. So I went for years with dry, dull, tight, flaky, red and uncomfortable skin, especially in the winter. One day, doing another internet search for a moisturizer on Reddit I saw that someone mentioned Garden of Wisdom, praising their clean products and small sample sizes. I went there immediately and set up an appointment for a skin analysis. A few products were recommended to me and I've been using them now for 9 months. The product that made the biggest change in the shortest time was the Oat Enriched Serum. First of all, I have to say, this product is amazing at healing and nourishing the skin, BUT it does not feel like a normal serum or moisturizer and you might initially feel like it isn't moisturizing or doing the job. You might even feel like it is just sitting on the top of your skin. But give it a week or so and you will find that it heals and nourishes deeply. I am telling you, within a week or two, all my redness, dullness, irritation, bumps, tiny whiteheads, flakiness were GONE! My skin glows! In fact I went back to school to become an aesthetician at age 51 and all the young girls were always telling me how beautiful and soft and glowy my skin is! This after years of struggling. I have three daughters who now use this product and they too were initially put off because it doesn't feel like your typical moisturizer or serum, but with a bit of time they have come to love it too. It's crazy how many toxic ingredients are in so much of the skincare we use. Turns out a lot of those ingredients were in the so-called safe products I was using to try to heal all my skin issues. The combination of cutting those ingredients out and finding a clean serum to nourish my skin has made a world of difference! I LOVE GofW and am so grateful to them for making affordable, clean products! Buy this product, give it a few weeks, I think you'll love it too!

I bought this to help mend a damaged skin barrier and, oddly enough, it seemed to soothe and moisturize things for me at first - until it ceased to. I was liking this serum so it's a shame. I was around 4-5 weeks into using it when, sadly, it began to irritate my skin (stinging sensation, increased blotchiness and an overall, 'slapped' look to my cheeks). I tried applying it three separate times and got the same results each of those times. Maybe 'tis the honey? The seaweed? Who knows?!

Because my skin is 'ailing' right now and is being a temperamental beast, I may not be the most objective judge of this product. After all, I'm aware this is quite a popular healing product here at GoW.

Bear in mind, this serum has something of a 'fishy' smell (no doubt due to the seaweed in the product). This didn't bother me, however, and I prefer fragrance-free skin products (outside of hydrosols which are natural!). I was more bothered by how my face seemed to stick to my pillowcase/pillow (likely due to the inclusion of the honey).

I'm thinking I will be trying the Decadent Oat Enriched Emulsion next in the hopes it will be like the Banana Healing Serum has been (so far) and seem to work for me in the longer run.