How Natural Toners Hydrate Your Skin

Has all the transitioning from winter to spring got your skin feeling a little oily or itchy like a day at the beach, instead of dewy and refreshed like an ocean mist? An unfortunate side effect of sunshine and increased humidity levels can be temperamental skin, especially for those with already naturally dry or sensitive skin. What’s the perfect remedy for seasonal skin bliss?

First, consistent water intake is key. Next, add a hydrating toner (and SPF) to your daily routine!

Your toner and skincare should contain natural and organic ingredients for maximum nourishment. You might think, “what, now I have to add another product to my routine?” But try hearing us out! Once you get the scoop on hydrating skin with a toner, you’ll be off like a sea breeze to quickly add one to your skincare routine!

What Does Toner Do, and Why Do You Need One?

You’re probably familiar with the conventional and harsh chemical toners advertised for oily and acne-prone skin. While these toners can provide an instant but short-term desired result, they are NOT good for dry skin. They’ll make dry skin worse by stripping the skin’s protective barrier of moisture and natural oils, causing irritation or breakouts.

The type of toner that’s great for dry skin will gently sweep away any remaining dirt, debris, and makeup after cleansing the skin. For skin behaving unpredictably or feeling very dry, a acts as the first burst of hydration after cleansing the skin and can be a game-changer in your skincare routine.

A natural toner promotes balance by infusing moisture into the skin and preserving its natural barrier. Some skincare products might leave residue in your pores, preventing your skin from fully absorbing the nutrients and actives. Adding a natural toner as one of the essential steps for a skincare routine can fully cleanse and balance your skin. And it will maximize the performance of your skincare, revealing the glowing goddess that you are!

How Toner Enhances Each Step of Your Skincare Routine

Toner is often overlooked but it plays a crucial role in keeping skin healthy and balanced. After cleansing, the skin’s pH can be disrupted, leading to dryness or excess oil production. A , keeping skin resilient and less prone to irritation or excessive oil.

What Does Toner Do in a Routine?

Acts as a primer for serums and moisturizers:

When the skin is hydrated properly with a toner, subsequent skincare products absorb better, allowing your routine to reach its maximum potential. A toner acts essentially like a smooth canvas or primer for the next layer of products to adhere to like serums and moisturizers.

Helps balance skin’s pH and prepares skin for better absorption:

Toners gently renew and purify the skin while restoring pH, without stripping it of its natural moisture or disturbing its protective barrier. When the skin is hydrated properly, it absorbs products more effectively, allowing your skincare routine to work at its best. Applying toner before your serums and moisturizers ensures they penetrate deeper for better absorption.

Removes leftover impurities post-cleansing:

Even after washing your face, traces of makeup, pollution, and dead skin cells can remain. Toner acts as a second cleanse, sweeping away any lingering residue to ensure your skin is truly clean. This deep-cleansing step helps prevent clogged pores and breakouts.

Steps for a Skincare Routine with Toner

Incorporating for maintaining balanced and healthy skin. Here’s a step-by-step guide to an effective regimen:

#1. Cleanse – Use a gentle, non-stripping cleanser.

Begin by removing dirt, oil, and impurities with a gentle cleanser. The offers a hydrating, non-stripping formula that cleanses while promoting a smoother complexion.

#2. Tone – Apply toner to balance skin and refine pores.

What does toner do? The features witch hazel plus humectants to restore your skin’s pH balance and prepare it for subsequent products. Its anti-inflammatory properties nourish, hydrate, and purify without stripping skin.

#3. Serum/Treatment – Deliver active ingredients deep into skin.

Using a natural toner as one of the steps for a skincare routine will help with the effectiveness of a serum. With the help of rose hydrosol, the skin-plumping combines the soothing, cooling effects of aloe vera with fragrant, redness-reducing rose. Toning white tea and plumping hyaluronic acid complete this recipe for dewy, youthful-looking skin.

#4. Moisturize – Lock in hydration and nutrients.

A hydrating moisturizer locks in essential hydration without clogging pores. The provides intense hydration, softens, and promotes suppleness. It features

hyaluronic acid for deep hydration, rose water for soothing, and cucumber for added freshness.

#5. SPF (AM only) – Protect skin from environmental damage.

Protects against UV damage that worsens scars and hyperpigmentation.

One of the most crucial steps for a skincare routine – sunscreen! In your morning routine, conclude with sun protection to shield your skin from UV damage, premature aging, and hyperpigmentation. The offers broad-spectrum protection in a convenient mist form, enriched with antioxidants from yerba mate tea leaf.

6 Hydrating Natural Toner Ingredients

So, what ingredients should your toner have to make a positive impact on skin? 100% PURE toners feature humectants, plant gels, and other quality hydrating components. This means they’ll restore skin and sustain hydration, rather than just providing a temporary splash of water to dry skin.

Check out the ingredient breakdown of our natural toners, and learn how they work well for any skin type, especially for dry skin.

Hyaluronic Acid:

This skin hydration hero is a carbohydrate molecule that can actually be found in the human body (primarily in the joints to keep us loose and limber). is a super liquid that can retain up to 1,000 times its weight in water. Vegan sources of hyaluronic acid are both Japanese sweet potatoes and seaweed.

Featuring hyaluronic acid in a protein-rich and super hydrating base of chia seed water, this aquatic-inspired toner helps soothe even the most reactive skin. Superstar ingredient hyaluronic acid pulls water into the skin and locks it there. This hydration hero amplifies the moisturizing power of the other hydrating ingredients in this toner.

Organic glycerin, moisture-locking algae, and nutrient-rich sea kelp join forces with a soothing blend of florals and essential oils. Love it morning, night, and any time in between. Using this vegan toner means you’re just a splash away from improved skin, especially dry skin.

Seaweed:

Bring a little deep-sea magic to your skincare routine with this nutritious, mineral-rich ingredient. Seaweed is rich in , and calcium. It helps to brighten the skin for a mermaid-like glow. We source our seaweed from unpolluted waters, which makes its hydration, inflammation-reducing, and anti-aging benefits more powerful.

Sodium PCA:

Did you know this moisturizing ingredient is already a part of our bodies and is naturally found in human skin? Sodium PCA helps maintain the skin’s natural moisturizing factor (NMF), which keeps the skin hydrated and supple. It’s one of a few key components to healthy, smooth-looking, and soft skin.

Vegetable Glycerin:

We love this ingredient as a natural and cruelty-free humectant. This product is lightweight and seals the skin for longer-lasting hydration. also helps fight many skin conditions such as excessive dryness and helps aging concerns like fine lines and wrinkles.

Looking for a little more oomph from your toner? While created for all skin types, this toner also packs a huge punch of citrus powers to liven up dull or lackluster skin. This all-star formula also features sake, a gentle yet powerful brightening agent. Sake also adds some moisturizing properties to promote skin hydration and plumping.

Organic glycerin seals in all the hydration goodness, and locks in the skin-moistening effects of sodium PCA and sodium hyaluronate, which is a form of hyaluronic acid that attracts moisture. Sodium hyaluronate is naturally found in the body (primarily the joints and eyes) and acts as a humectant and a binding ingredient for collagen.

are often used interchangeably on 100% PURE product labels. These ingredients essentially function the same way and are similarly sourced, so you’ll get all the H-acid power with a slightly more complicated name.

Tea Tree Oil:

You may have heard that tea tree oil is suitable for oily and acne-prone skin. This superstar ingredient has mega antimicrobial and antiseptic properties to remove impurities from the skin for a clear and refreshed complexion. But tea tree oil also moisturizes skin! That’s right – it helps to balance oil and water ratios on your skin for a clear complexion.

Whether you have dry or oily skin or a combination of both, your skin needs to maintain a healthy balance. Excess oil sitting on top of your skin can be a symptom of skin that needs more moisturizing because your skin is trying to compensate by producing too much!

Tea tree oil is an effective natural moisturizer and is an ingredient that makes our toner such an effective cleanser that doesn’t strip or dehydrate skin. Rosemary, parsley, and witch hazel give this toner potent skin-balancing power for a soothed, softened complexion.

This soothing face toner uses rose water and other floral hydrosols like calendula hydrosol to quench thirsty skin cells and reduce redness. Rose water has a pH level that falls within the ideal range for healthy skin, so its application helps get your skin balance back to normal after a deep cleanse.

Botanical-based hyaluronic acid hydrates while delivering nutrients deep into the skin. This formula is alcohol-free and contains organic witch hazel instead to purify your pores. This formula helps to balance excess oil production for skin that’s bouncy and glowy, without getting greasy or dried out.

Lavender Oil:

Gone are the days when lavender was nothing more than grandma’s secret weapon for freshening the powder room. From milk tea to marshmallows, cleansers to masks, it’s safe to say that this singular purple bloom is bigger than ever – and has been hailed a hero in the skincare world.

not only boosts potent anti-inflammatory properties but is also ultra-soothing for skin with a therapeutic scent. If you’ve been itching away at dry skin with no hope in sight, turn to lavender oil for some much-needed relief. It does a stellar job of balancing your skin’s moisture barrier so that it isn’t too oily or too dry.

With its stellar reputation as a skin hero, it’s no wonder we feature lavender oil in several of our toners! This pore-minimizing tonique deep cleans and purifies facial pores while lessening their appearance without stripping or dehydrating the skin.

This hydrating formula features niacinamide, which evens skin tone while firming the skin. The addition of lavender hydrosol refreshes and soothes, while witch hazel balances oil production and reduces inflammation. This toner is the perfect blend for achieving that flawless, glowing skin!

Never miss a chance to refresh your skin even on the go with a spritz of our refreshing spray toner. Made with a blend of gentle botanicals that work to purify, hydrate, and soften skin, this tonique cleans and detoxifies pores while moisturizing your complexion.

Calming lavender soothes stressed skin, while aloe heals skin that is inflamed or irritated. DMAE firms, lifts, and lessens lines and wrinkles. MSM is an organic sulfur found in vegetables like broccoli and Brussels sprouts, which is known to promote a smooth, youthful complexion.

We knew this elegant bloom was more than just a declaration of love. It’s also an amazing skincare ingredient known for its hydrating, skin-soothing benefits. This made it all too perfect to feature in the face toner but also a few other that are sure to have you blushing!

Go beyond your average rose water mist with a super-boosted formula featuring hyaluronic acid, aloe vera, and white tea for a super-kiss of hydration. With its aromatic rose fragrance, this face mist offers additional support to reduce redness and condition the skin, plus the addition of hyaluronic acid supports a plumped youthful glow.

Our ultra-hydrating water mist naturally reinvigorates dehydrated skin cells and reduces signs of aging by locking in cactus juice, watermelon hydrosol, and hyaluronic acid. It also contains olive squalene, which is a cruelty-free, plant-based alternative to squalene harvested from sharks.

is a naturally occurring antioxidant compound found in varying amounts in both animal and plant sources. It is classified as a triterpene hydrocarbon (highly unsaturated) and is a natural lipid that is a major intermediate in the biosynthesis of cholesterol in the liver.

In nature, the highest levels of squalene can be found among olives, sharks, liver oil, wheat germ, and rice bran. The main animal source of squalene is sourced from certain deep-sea shark varieties.

Olive squalene can help repair dry, rough skin by moisturizing and softening it while also soothing redness or irritation caused by sensitive skin. It leaves you with a moisturized yet non-greasy feel – perfect for everyday use!

Ready to truly quench your skin? After cleansing and rinsing, make sure skin is still slightly damp. Using clean hands, pump into the well of your palm and press into the skin for an instant hydrated effect. If splashing isn’t your style, pump onto a cotton pad and sweep across the face, neck, and décolleté.

We hope you’ve learned a tone of useful tips about using natural face toners for hydrated, plumper, brighter skin. Happy hydrating!

FAQs: How Natural Toners Hydrate Your Skin

#1. What does toner do, and is it necessary for every skin type?

A toner primarily helps to balance the skin’s pH level, remove any remaining dirt or makeup residue after cleansing, and prepare the skin to better absorb subsequent skincare products; while not strictly “necessary” for every skin type, choosing the right toner based on your needs can benefit most people by optimizing their skincare routine.

#2. How does witch hazel benefit the skin, and is it safe for sensitive skin?

Witch hazel can help with a variety of skin conditions because it has anti-inflammatory properties and astringent qualities. Witch hazel has many benefits such as soothing minor skin problems like acne, combatting breakouts, and reducing post-acne scars. Witch hazel can help reduce or tighten pores, calm skin redness, and help regulate oil production.

Skincare products like toners, moisturizers, and cleansers that use very low concentrations of witch hazel can be used daily. Modern formulations with added soothing ingredients like rose water, witch hazel, and hyaluronic acid are gentle enough for sensitive skin.

#3. What are the key differences between hydrating toners and astringent toners?

Hydrating toners are milder and better for most skin types. What makes toners special is that they are built with a unique formula that helps hydrate the skin, leaving it feel smooth and soft. On the other hand, astringent toners are stronger and better for oily or acne-prone skin. They tend to contain stronger actives that can be harsh for sensitive or reactive skin types.

#4. Can toner replace a moisturizer, or should they always be used together?

A toner cannot replace a moisturizer and should always be used together with it in a skincare routine; toners primarily balance the skin’s pH level and remove any leftover cleanser residue, while moisturizers are designed to hydrate and lock in moisture, a function toners cannot fully achieve on their own.

#5. What are the best steps for a skincare routine that includes toner for maximum hydration?

For a skincare routine that prioritizes hydration with toner, the best steps are: cleanse your face, apply toner while your skin is still slightly damp, follow with a hydrating serum, and then seal with a moisturizer; remember to choose a toner specifically formulated for hydration, and always apply it after cleansing and before your serum and moisturizer. As your very last step, always apply a sunscreen.