15 Serums for Mature Skin to Help Minimize Fine Lines and Wrinkles

When it comes to a skincare routine for your mature skin, there are so many products in the skincare aisle to try. From cleansers and exfoliators to eye cream and moisturizers, choosing what’s right for you can be a struggle. But one of the most important skincare products, according to dermatologists, is serum. This powerful product is able to address a wide variety of skin concerns for all skin types, including mature skin. Whether you're hoping to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, fade sun damage, create a better foundation for makeup, or boost cell turnover for a brighter complexion, there's a serum packed with the ingredients your skin craves and to suit your skin type. Acne-prone, dry, or sensitive, there's a serum waiting to help you achieve a more youthful, radiant complexion.

Below, we rounded up the best serums for your mature skin to add to your skincare routine and (hopefully) achieve the skin of your dreams.

1. Best Anti-Aging Serum Overall:

ESTÉE LAUDER Advanced Night Repair Serum Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex

There's no denying it, this is one of the best anti-aging serums around. Formulated with patented Chronolux Power Signal Technology, this nighttime serum is heralded as the No. 1 serum in the U.S. What makes it so great? The oil-free serum boasts 72-hour hydration, 8-hour antioxidant power, and strengthens the skin barrier in as little as four hours. Your skin will not only look more youthful, but it will feel that way as well. It will help firm, tone, and boost the overall glow of your complexion. See you later, dull skin!

2. Best Vitamin C Serum:

SKINCEUTICALS C E Ferulic® with 15% L-Ascorbic Acid

This daytime vitamin C serum is adored by dermatologists, beauty influencers, and just about everyone who happens to try it. The potent blend of vitamin C, vitamin E, and ferulic acid deliver a powerhouse of antioxidants that work to decrease the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while also protecting your complexion from environmental aggressors. Free radicals can wreak havoc on your complexion. Thankfully, this serum can help undo most of it.

3. Best Serum to Improve Skin Tone:

KIEHL'S Micro-Dose Anti-Aging Retinol Serum with Ceramides and Peptide

Small but mighty perfectly sums up this face serum. There are a ton of powerful ingredients packed into such a small tube. Pure retinol is the star, with ceramides and peptides rounding out the supporting acts. Together, they reduce wrinkles, improve firmness, refine texture, and even out the skin tone. An added bonus? It's paraben-free and fragrance-free.

4. Best Hyaluronic Acid Serum:

PAULA'S CHOICE SKINCARE Hyaluronic Acid Booster

As we age, our body produces less hyaluronic acid, which is responsible for keeping skin plump and supple skin. With help from this serum, you're able to add back the hyaluronic acid your body can no longer create for you. In addition to the acid, ceramides and panthenol help lock in moisture to keep your skin extra hydrated and wrinkle free.

5. Best Serum for Dry Skin:

EAU THERMALE AVÈNE Hydrance Intense Rehydrating Serum

This hydrating serum will replenish your dry complexion the second you rub it into your complexion. What makes it so incredibly hydrating is its patented lipidic trio, which hydrates and prevents water loss by reinforcing your skin's natural barrier. The brand's signature spring water also works to smooth, soften, and calm an irritated complexion. So if you're looking for all-day hydration, you've found the perfect serum for you.

6. Best Serum for Stressed-Out Skin:

DR. DENNIS GROSS B³Adaptive SuperFoods™ Stress Rescue Super Serum

Feeling stressed can do quite a number to your complexion. Don't panic, you’ll find relief in this miracle elixir. Hypoallergenic and non-comedogenic, this anti-stress face serum uses niacinamide (B³), superfoods, and adaptogens to combat signs of stress-induced aging. Just because you're stressed, it doesn't mean your skin needs to be.

7. Best Retinol for Mature Skin:

ELIZABETH ARDEN Retinol Ceramide Capsules Line Erasing Night Serum

There's more than meets the eye to these retinol ceramide capsules. Noted as being more potent than unencapsulated retinol, each pre-measured capsule delivers a single dose of retinol that will minimize the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, pores, and dark spots, while also boosting skin's texture and radiance. These are one of the easiest serums to apply, given they take the guesswork out entirely. One capsule a day keeps the wrinkles away. They're even TSA-approved, so you never have to be without them when you travel.

8. Best Serum for Sensitive Skin:

TULA SKINCARE Firm Up Deep Wrinkle Serum

Formulated without parabens, sulfates, phthalates, mineral oil, and a slew of other ingredients that can irritate your complexion, this lightweight serum is ideal for sensitive skin types. Packed with a powerhouse of probiotics and superfoods, it gently targets signs of aging to firm out your skin and help your complexion maintain its elasticity. Healthier skin starts from within.

9. Best Sunscreen Serum:

DR. BARBARA STRUM Sun Drops SPF 50

Perhaps the most important product for your mature skin, sunscreen, is a necessity for ensuring the cocktail of anti-aging products you apply actually work. When applying another product can seem like too much of a hassle, use these drops to not only protect your complexion from the sun, UVA, and UVB rays, but also oxidative damage and irritation. The milky serum doesn't feel too heavy or oily on the skin and it's gentle enough for sensitive skin types to use it as well.

10. Best Serum to Boost Collagen Production:

ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Super Serum Elixir

This anti-wrinkle concentrate plumps, smooths, and nourishes your complexion using a unique blend of intelligent active ingredients. Tri-peptides, African birch bark, red seaweed, and padina pavonica aid in firming, tightening, and improving elasticity, while hyaluronic acid and omega-rich camelia oil act as a moisturizer to plump and smooth.

11. Best Brightening Serum:

TATCHA Violet-C Brightening Serum

Want a complexion that looks dewy and luminous? Maintain your back-from-the-beach glow with this serum. Vitamin C and AHA combine to make one dynamic skincare duo. The pair gently softens and smooths your complexion to even out your skin tone, get rid of wrinkles, and banish dullness once and for all. Known as being a kind-to-skin formula, even those with sensitive skin can benefit from this brightening face serum.

12. Best Serum for Oily Skin:

NEOGEN DERMALOGY Real Ferment Micro Serum

This gel serum contains 61% natural fermented ingredients and active ingredients that work overtime to moisturize your complexion and reinforce your skin's natural barrier. Strengthening your complexion with each application, you'll notice your skin's oil production start to steady with time. Eventually, your complexion will be so rejuvenated, not even the environment can ruin it.

13. Best Serum for Hyperpigmentation:

NATURIUM Alpha Arbutin Serum 2%

Alpha arbutin is the ingredient you didn't know your skincare routine was missing—until now. Derived from hydroquinone, otherwise known as one of the most effective ingredients for fading dark spots and hyperpigmentation, alpha arbutin works wonders to even out the overall tone of your complexion. But not only does it help get rid of the dark spots you already have, it prevents new ones from even forming.

14. Best Plumping Serum for Mature Skin:

TATA HARPER Rejuvenating Serum 2.0

Boasting intense age defense, this rejuvenating serum is fortified with micro-smoothing technology to minimize signs of aging like fine lines, loss of firmness, and dryness. All it takes is one to two pumps applied to damp skin for this multitasking serum to work its magic. Even better, 100% of the ingredients are from natural origin.

15. Best Exfoliating Serum for Mature Skin:

DRUNK ELEPHANT T.L.C. Framboos™ Glycolic Night Serum

Buff away dead skin cells in seconds with help from this high-tech AHA/BHA gel serum. It gently exfoliates to leave you with a softer skin texture and a brighter complexion. You'd be surprised how big of a difference soughing away those dead skin cells on the surface of your face does for the overall appearance of your complexion.

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