Peptide Moisturizer - Daily Face & Neck Hydration - 1.7 fl oz (50ml) Face Cream with Copper Lysinate/Prolinate, Aloe & Witch Hazel

Somewhere in your forties, your skin stopped holding on to water the way it always had.

Oil production drops, the surface gets thinner, and the cream that carried you comfortably through a whole day at thirty-five now runs out by mid-morning. The neck goes first and it goes fastest, because there is less of everything down there to begin with. This is the life stage doing it, not your routine failing.

Here is what is in the jar:

• Copper lysinate/prolinate: a copper amino acid complex, ninth of twenty-six on the list, used in skincare for skin that looks firmer and more resilient.
• Methylglucoside phosphate: sits immediately ahead of it at eighth, and the two are formulated as a pair.
• Aloe leaf juice and witch hazel water: gentle hydration and skin comfort, which is the part you feel rather than the part you see.
• Cranberry, moringa, neem and eclipta: a botanical stack that leaves the complexion looking fresher and more comfortable through the day.
• Vitamin E, as tocopheryl acetate: an antioxidant that helps skin look less affected by a day outdoors.

Skip it and the tightness is back before lunch, foundation clings to the dry patches instead of sitting on top of them, and your neck starts telling a different story from your face.

VERA Peptide Moisturizer is a twenty-six ingredient cream, 1.7 fl oz / 50 ml, applied dime-sized to face and neck and massaged in, morning or night.

What you get:

• Skin that stays comfortable from morning through to evening.
• A face and a neck that look like they belong to the same routine.
• Make-up that sits flat instead of clinging.

💧 The tight feeling goes first

That happens on the first application and it happens every time. Surface hydration is not a slow build, it is the one part of this you can judge on day one. If your face still feels pinched an hour after you put it on, this is not the cream for your skin and you will know that immediately rather than in six weeks.

⏳ Why the look lags behind the feel

How skin feels is about the surface, and the surface responds immediately. How skin looks is about the whole renewal cycle, which runs around four weeks at twenty-five and stretches out as you get older. Comfort arrives in a minute. Appearance is a month.

🔍 What a good fortnight looks like

Foundation stops catching on the patch beside your nose. The skin under your jaw stops feeling like a different material from your cheeks. You stop reaching for the jar at three in the afternoon. Quiet things, and they are the right things.

🧴 What this is not

It is not a serum, so it is not doing a serum job on tone. It is not an eye cream, and the eye area has its own formula for a reason. And it is not a treatment for any skin condition. It is a daily cream for face and neck, and that is the whole remit.

👤 Why your skin may not behave like your sister's

Two women the same age, in the same house, get different results from the same jar. Climate, how often you wash, what else is in your routine and where you are in the transition all move the outcome. That is worth knowing before you decide it is not working.

This is a cosmetic. It changes how your skin looks and how it feels, and every claim on this page is written to that line deliberately.

Here is the honest limit of what we can tell you. No percentage is printed on this pack for copper lysinate/prolinate or for any of the botanicals, so we state none. What we give you instead is the position each one holds on a twenty-six item list, which you can check against the box. We also hold no clinical testing on this formulation, so you will not find a study, a panel or a percentage of women anywhere on this page.

One thing worth knowing before you buy: alcohol is on this ingredient list, twentieth of twenty-six. That is low down and it is common in creams of this type, but if alcohol in a leave-on product is a problem for your skin, you now know before you have opened it rather than after.

Patch test first, on the inside of your forearm, left for a day. And take it further when it belongs further: persistent redness, itching that will not settle, patches that scale or bleed, or a mole that has changed are questions for your doctor or a dermatologist, not for a moisturiser. VERA would rather you asked them.

It was made for women in their forties, fifties and sixties whose skin changed faster than their routine did.

It's especially for you if:

• Your face feels tight by mid-morning however much you put on at seven.
• You have started noticing your neck in photographs before your face.
• There is a drawer of half-used creams and you could not say what any of them did.
• Foundation has started clinging to the same two dry patches every morning.
• You would rather one cream did one job properly than ten things vaguely.

Twenty-six ingredients, made in the USA, no fragrance on the list, and an olive-derived base rather than a mineral-heavy one.

It is not for you if you need something for a diagnosed skin condition, if you are after a dedicated eye product, or if alcohol anywhere on an ingredient list rules a cream out for you. It is on this one, twentieth of twenty-six.

Chances are, this is the daily cream you have been looking for.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If VERA isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.