Calm Red, Dry and Oily Skin With These Facial Toners and Serums — Starting at $6

Published Apr 9, 2025 5:56 am ET


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Toners and serums are often overlooked in the skincare routine. While you might think that cleanser and moisturizer are enough, adding a toner and serum can do wonders for your skin. It’s especially important for aging skin with wrinkles, fine lines, crow’s feet or hyperpigmentation. Sometimes, there’s also not enough moisturizer in the world that can cure redness and dry, cracked skin. This is when you should turn to a toner or serum to add a little bit of hydration and prevent your skin from getting parched.

These toners and serums will take your skin’s mood from sad and dull to happy and bright. Plus, there are Korean beauty favorites and affordable options starting as low as $6.

  1. Exfoliate oil, impurities and dead skin cells with this Some By Mi Miracle Toner. It’s formulated with AHA, BHA, PHA and tea tree leaf water and leaves your skin clear, smooth and moisturized.
  1. These Biodance Collagen Gel Toner Pads boost your skin’s elasticity and give you a dewy glow. With key ingredients including hyaluronic acid and collagen, these pads perfect your pores and skin tone.
  1. Improve the appearance of hyperpigmentation, wrinkles and fine lines with this TruSkin Vitamin C Serum. The anti-aging formula supports your skin’s natural collagen production, reduces signs of aging and leaves you with a glowing, brighter complexion.
  1. If your skin is feeling dry or damaged, give it a hydration boost with this COSRX Snail Mucin Serum. It’s a reviewer favorite that delivers moisture deep into your skin while minimizing wrinkles and dark spots.
  1. Quench your dry skin with this CeraVe Hydrating Toner that locks in moisture and soothes rough patches. Over 20K people have purchased it in the last month alone!
  1. This Paula’s Choice Skin Perfecting Serum delivers powerful results by exfoliating away dead skin and impurities to leave behind a smooth surface and minimal pores.
  1. Cleanse away oils and dead skin cells with The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Exfoliating Toner, which evens your skin tone and gives it a radiant boost. Plus, reviewers say it also works great on other parts of your body!
  1. Struggling with enlarged pores? Shrink them with this Thayers Rose Petal Facial Toner. It’s clinically tested to remove impurities and even your skin tone.
  1. If minimizing wrinkles is your goal, go with this L’Oreal Paris Revitalift Triple Power Anti-Aging Serum. Amazon reviewers in their 80s say it makes them look 20 years younger.
  1. Get a radiant glow in as little as four weeks with this RoC Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle Serum. It treats fine lines, deep wrinkles, crow’s feet and uneven skin.
  1. For a multitasking serum, go with this Anti-Aging Retinol one from CeraVe. Not only does it moisturize and protect the barrier, but it also calms irritated skin, minimizes wrinkles and brightens your overall complexion.
  1. A No. 1 bestseller, these Medicube Zero Pore Toner Pads exfoliate your skin, reduce enlarged pores and battle oil and greasy.

  2. Give your skin a refresh with this Neutrogena Alcohol-Free Toner. Gentle on skin, it removes impurities without clogging pores and brings moisture back.
Lauryn Jiles

Lauryn Jiles

Author McClatchy Commerce

Lauryn Jiles is a Content Commerce Assistant at McClatchy. She is based in South Carolina and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. Lauryn has written for numerous brands and is well-versed in the fashion, beauty, health, and lifestyle verticals. She enjoys yoga, coffee, fashion museums, sushi, and traveling.

Abby Kass

Abby Kass

Editor McClatchy Commerce

Abby Kass is a Commerce Content Editor at McClatchy covering kids/babies, pets, beauty, and more. With more than seven years experience writing and editing shopping content, Abby has a strong understanding of how important commerce content really is and its important value to readers. She loves browsing online and finding innovative, unique, and just down-right cool products. Before McClatchy, Abby started her career working for Parents Magazine where she fell in love with writing about products. She then spent six years at BuzzFeed falling deeper into the shopping world writing more than 1,500 product roundups and reviews. She sees shopping as a sport and has worked hard at mastering it in order to help make people’s lives easier as they find cool and useful products.