Face oil for dry skin

Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil has the best record for dry skin, with 27 of 27 shoppers saying it left their skin hydrated and comfortable. The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil (44 of 45) and Fresh Seaberry Face Oil (26 of 26) sit right behind, with every oil here running from 95% to 100%. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have dry skin.

  • 237 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Aug 2018 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Did it keep dry skin comfortable? What shoppers said
  1. Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil 27 said either way
  2. The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil 45 said either way
  3. Fresh Seaberry Face Oil 26 said either way
  4. Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil 35 said either way
  5. Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil 23 said either way
  6. Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil 22 said either way
  7. Elemis Superfood Facial Oil 12 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for 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.

Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil Best record Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil 27 of 27 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable See price & reviews on Amazon
What stands out

Every oil here picks up mentions of a glow, from 8% of The Ordinary's reviews to 21% of Drunk Elephant's.

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 Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil

Sunday Riley

Luna Sleeping Night Oil

27/27 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable

Shoppers mention a glow in 14% of its 43 reviews. Price draws complaints in 12%, smell in 7% and stinging or irritation in 7%.

What buyers praise

  • Gives a glow 14%
  • Good value 7%
  • Gentle on skin 5%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 12%
  • Stings or irritates 7%
  • Strong smell 7%
  • Breaks skin out 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 6 of 6
  • Sephora 21 of 21
  • Brand site 8 of 8 shown, not counted
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light11 of 11
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 5
2 The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil

The Ordinary

Rose Hip Seed Oil

44/45 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable

More shoppers with dry skin stated a result for it than for any other oil here, 45 in all. Smell draws complaints in 14% of its 49 reviews, while 12% call it good value.

What buyers praise

  • Good value 12%
  • A little goes far 10%
  • Gives a glow 8%

What buyers complain about

  • Strong smell 14%
  • Breaks skin out 4%
  • Stings or irritates 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 17 of 17
  • Sephora 27 of 28
  • Brand site 5 of 5 shown, not counted
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light13 of 13
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 5
By age (reviewers who gave one)
  • Under 404 of 4
  • 40 and over4 of 4
3

Fresh

Seaberry Face Oil

Best for good value

26/26 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable

Good value comes up in 23% of its 30 reviews, and 10% say it works under makeup. Smell draws complaints in 7%.

What buyers praise

  • Good value 23%
  • Gives a glow 20%
  • A little goes far 13%
  • Works under makeup 10%
  • Gentle on skin 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
  • Strong smell 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 26 of 26
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light16 of 16
  • Light-medium to medium9 of 9

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

4 Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil

Drunk Elephant

Virgin Marula Facial Oil

Best for making a bottle last

34/35 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable

Of its 42 reviews, 19% say a little goes far, while price draws complaints in 10%.

What buyers praise

  • Gives a glow 21%
  • A little goes far 19%
  • Good value 5%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 10%
  • Breaks skin out 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 11 of 11
  • Sephora 23 of 24
  • Brand site 14 of 15 shown, not counted
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light14 of 15
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 4
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 3
5 Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil

Biossance

Vitamin C Rose Face Oil

22/23 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable

A glow gets mentioned in 17% of its 30 reviews. Price draws complaints in 10%, and 10% say it broke them out.

What buyers praise

  • Gives a glow 17%
  • Gentle on skin 7%
  • A little goes far 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Breaks skin out 10%
  • Too expensive 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 22 of 23
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light9 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium7 of 7
6

Josie Maran

Pure Argan Oil

21/22 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable

In its 30 reviews, 17% mention a glow and 7% say it works under makeup. Price draws complaints in 7%.

What buyers praise

  • Gives a glow 17%
  • Works under makeup 7%
  • A little goes far 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 21 of 22
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light10 of 11
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 3

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

7 Elemis Superfood Facial Oil

Elemis

Superfood Facial Oil

12/12 say it left their dry skin hydrated and comfortable

Just 12 shoppers with dry skin stated a result for it, fewer than for any other oil here.

What buyers praise

  • Gives a glow 15%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 2 of 2
  • Sephora 10 of 10
  • Brand site 17 of 17 shown, not counted

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 26,096 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for dryness and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Aug 2018 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. Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil Ulta and Sephora (43 reviews counted)
  2. The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil Ulta and Sephora (49 reviews counted)
  3. Fresh Seaberry Face Oil Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  4. Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil Ulta and Sephora (42 reviews counted)
  5. Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  6. Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  7. Elemis Superfood Facial Oil Ulta and Sephora (13 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which face oil works for dry skin?

Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil has the best record (27 of 27), followed by The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil (44 of 45), Fresh Seaberry Face Oil (26 of 26), Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil (34 of 35), Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil (22 of 23), Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil (21 of 22) and Elemis Superfood Facial Oil (12 of 12), in that order.

How many shoppers are behind each record?

The second number in each record is the group size. It runs from 12 shoppers for Elemis Superfood Facial Oil to 45 for The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil. Group size is built into the order, so a lower share can rank higher when more shoppers are behind it, as The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil (44 of 45) does above Fresh Seaberry Face Oil (26 of 26).

Do these records test what is in each oil?

They don't. The counts are what shoppers with dry skin said after using each oil, not a test of ingredients or of how skin reacts, so follow the label directions.

Which of these oils are sold on Amazon?

Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil, The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil, Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil, Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil and Elemis Superfood Facial Oil are sold on Amazon by the brand or Amazon itself, and Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil is both the leader and the best pick sold on Amazon. We found no official Amazon listing for Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil, and we could not confirm an Amazon listing for Fresh Seaberry Face Oil, so neither has a buy link here.

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