Photography courtesy of Glow Recipe

It’s July, So We’ve Officially Hit Peak Facial Mist Season

Tsst, tsst, tsst. That's the sound that accompanies the wondrous feel of a fine veil of freshening moisture falling onto your face.

By Ashley Joseph

Date July 10, 2019

You’ve probably had your most skincare-obsessed friend preach to you on more than one occasion about the importance of sunscreen, alpha hydroxy acids, or a good Vitamin C serum, but face mists? These multi-tasking skin-boosters don’t tend to get the praise they really deserve. But once heat wave season hits, the sensation of misting something cool all over your face makes them worth toting around. Since we live in an age of glow-chasing—where glass skin is the ideal and it’s no longer uncommon to layer several products to get that coveted C-shaped orb from brow bone to cheek bone—face mists do the double duty of delivering a dose of hydration while giving you an all-over glow, without the need for an extra layer of makeup.

Whether you’re on an airplane, in the office hitting that 3pm slump or out for a mid-afternoon walk, here are the spritzes you can count on to give your skin a boost this summer.

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Best For: A Minimalist Approach to Misting

Kari Gran Rose Hydrating Tonic

($53, The Detox Market)

While pretty much all facial mists are cooling and refreshing, they’re certainly not all created equal. This version from Kari Gran (a recent addition at The Detox Market) contains no added water, relying instead on aloe juice to hydrate the skin. Add rose oil and vegetable glycerin to that equation, and you have an unbeatably simple and unfussy three-ingredient formula.

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Best For: A Luxe Travel Kit

Limited Edition Molten Metals Mist

($65 each, Omorovicza)

This summer, Omorovicza’s trusted facial mist is available in a trio of rose gold, silver and gunmetal travel bottles. It’s the same much-loved toning formula, which contains their signature mineral-rich healing concentrate—just in a snazzier-looking vessel.

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Best For: Drugstore Impulse Buys

Pixi Vitamin Wakeup Mist

($20, Shoppers Drug Mart)

God bless Pixi and their reliably effective yet affordable offerings. Pick up a bottle of this stuff on your way to the pharmacy checkout line for a boost to brightness (thanks to licorice root extract) and collagen (from antioxidant-rich arginine).

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Best For: Natural Skincare Splurge Buys

Hydrating Floral Essence

($124, Tata Harper )

From the queen of organic, from-the-earth skincare, this rose water-based mist bottles all the benefits of botanicals (aloe, lavender, radish root extract) without the use of any artificial fragrances or synthetics.

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Best For: A Spritz Under Your Makeup

Hydrating Priming Mist

($180, Valmont)

This Swiss-made line has been harnessing scientific innovation for high-performance products for more than three decades, and this mist is no exception. Apply it to clean skin to soak up all of its balancing and brightening ingredients and get that ideal canvas for the rest of your routine.

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Best For: Post-Pool Skin Soothing

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Ultra-Fine Mist

($37, Sephora)

This spritz falls into the category of “fog mists” in Korea, formulated to feel like you’re walking through an actual cloud of fog. Its blend of watermelon seed oil and watermelon extract makes it an ideal hydrating remedy after you’ve taken in a few too many rays.

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Best For: No-Nonsense Hydration

Jowaé Hydrating Water Mist

($19, Jowaé)

Another K-Beauty favourite, made with primarily natural ingredients (93% to be exact), Jowaé’s Hydrating Water Mist is exactly what it purports itself to be: a refreshing mist of water, plus a little antioxidant boost.

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Best For: Getting Your Daily Multi-Vitamin

Vitamin Nectar Antioxidant Face Mist

($58, Sephora)

Fresh counts vitamins E, C and B5 as key ingredients in this new mist, made without alcohol, parabens or phthalates. Consider it like Centrum for your face.

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