Purito's Oat Calming Gel Cream solves a format problem that matters more in this climate than most.

Avena sativa - oat - is the ingredient dermatologists reach for with genuinely irritated, eczema-prone skin, and it has a long clinical history behind it. It almost always arrives in a thick, occlusive balm, which is appropriate in a cold dry winter and unwearable in Gulf humidity. People here end up choosing between calming their skin and being comfortable.

This puts the oat in a clear gel-cream instead. Oat seed water forms the base rather than appearing as an extract lower down the list, with panthenol working alongside it on reactivity and hyaluronic acid providing hydration without oils.

The result is a calming moisturiser light enough to wear in summer, under sunscreen and makeup.

Use morning and night. It suits a barrier-repair stretch, the week after too much sun, or as a permanent moisturiser for skin that finds richer creams too much.