BB and CC cream for combination skin

Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream has the best record for combination skin, with 11 of 13 shoppers saying it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas, though that group is small. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer follows at 23 of 32, then Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream at 16 of 26, with the three IT Cosmetics creams behind them at 12 of 21, 10 of 17 and 6 of 10, a close call among themselves. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have combination skin.

Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream
Top pick Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream 11 of 13 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas
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  • 214 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Jan 2014 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Did it stay comfortable on both dry and oily areas? What shoppers said
  1. Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream 13 said either way
  2. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer 32 said either way
  3. Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream 26 said either way
  4. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream 21 said either way
  5. IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream 17 said either way
  6. IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow 10 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for greasiness or dryness. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream Best record Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream 11 of 13 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas See price & reviews on Amazon
What stands out

Coverage draws praise in 42%, 46% and 50% of the reviews for the three IT Cosmetics creams, against 26% or less for the other three creams here.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1 Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream

Maybelline

Dream Fresh BB Cream

Best for good value

11/13 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas

Shoppers call it skin-like in 36% of its 25 reviews and good value in 16%. Against that, 8% say a shade was hard to find and 8% say spots show through.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 36%
  • Good coverage 16%
  • No breakouts 16%
  • Tones down redness 16%
  • Good value 16%

What buyers complain about

  • Spots show through 8%
  • Hard to find a shade 8%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 11 of 13
2 Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer

Tarte

BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer

23/32 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas

More shoppers with combination skin stated a result for this tinted moisturizer than for any other cream here. Of its 55 reviews, 22% praise the skin-like look and 20% the coverage, but 11% say a shade was hard to find.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 22%
  • Good coverage 20%
  • Lasts all day 16%
  • No breakouts 11%
  • Tones down redness 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Hard to find a shade 11%
  • Too dark 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 8 of 12
  • Sephora 15 of 20
  • Brand site 3 of 4 shown, not counted
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light7 of 10
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 5
3 Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream

Clinique

Moisture Surge CC Cream

16/26 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas

The skin-like look draws praise in 31% of its 42 reviews and coverage in 26%. Reviews first posted on the brand's own site were less positive, at 2 of 7, and we show them but don't count them.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 31%
  • Good coverage 26%
  • Tones down redness 14%
  • No breakouts 14%
  • Lasts all day 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Hard to find a shade 10%
  • Too dark 5%
  • Breaks skin out 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 5 of 7
  • Sephora 11 of 19
  • Brand site 2 of 7 shown, not counted
4

IT Cosmetics

CC+ Cream

12/21 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas

Coverage is the draw, praised in 42% of its 48 reviews. Its 9 misses mostly said it turned greasy or separated on their oily areas, and a couple said it looked dry or flaky.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 42%
  • Tones down redness 19%
  • No breakouts 15%
  • Looks like skin 12%
  • Lasts all day 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Settles into lines 6%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 4 of 9
  • Sephora 8 of 12
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light5 of 6
  • Light-medium to medium2 of 3

Share of 48 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

5

IT Cosmetics

Mini CC+ Cream

10/17 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas

The Mini draws praise for coverage in 46% of its 26 reviews, while 15% say it ran too dark.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 46%
  • Looks like skin 19%
  • Lasts all day 15%
  • No breakouts 8%

What buyers complain about

  • Breaks skin out 15%
  • Too dark 15%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 10 of 17
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light5 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium2 of 5

Share of 26 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

6

IT Cosmetics

CC+ Nude Glow

Best for natural-looking coverage

6/10 say it stayed comfortable on their dry areas without getting greasy or sliding off their oily areas

Just 10 shoppers with combination skin stated a result for this CC+ cream, so its record rests on a small group. Of its 18 reviews, 50% praise the coverage and 39% call it skin-like.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 50%
  • Looks like skin 39%
  • Lasts all day 17%
  • Fine on mature skin 11%
  • Tones down redness 11%

What buyers complain about

  • Breaks skin out 11%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 6 of 10
  • Brand site 2 of 4 shown, not counted

Share of 18 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 6 products ranked here carry 41,314 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for greasiness or dryness and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Jan 2014 and Sep 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream Ulta (25 reviews counted)
  2. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer Ulta and Sephora (55 reviews counted)
  3. Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream Ulta and Sephora (42 reviews counted)
  4. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream Ulta and Sephora (48 reviews counted)
  5. IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream Sephora (26 reviews counted)
  6. IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow Ulta (18 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which BB or CC cream works for combination skin?

Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream has the best record (11 of 13), followed by Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer (23 of 32) and Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream (16 of 26). The three IT Cosmetics creams come after them.

How do the three IT Cosmetics CC creams compare for combination skin?

IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream got 12 of 21, IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream got 10 of 17 and IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow got 6 of 10. Their order is a close call, since the Mini and the Nude Glow show slightly higher shares but rest on smaller groups, which the ranking weighs against them.

Which of these BB and CC creams are sold on Amazon?

Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream, the leader, is also the best pick sold on Amazon, and like Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer and Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream it is sold there by the brand or Amazon itself. The three IT Cosmetics creams have no buy link here, because too few shoppers reported a good result for us to recommend them.

Are these records a lab test of each cream?

These records are not a lab test. The counts are what shoppers with combination skin said after using each cream, so follow the label directions on whichever one you pick.

Related problems

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