MARGIN offers contemporary care products starting with a lightweight moisturizer. 

MARGIN creates skincare products designed to elevate your edges. 

Beauty Packaging Gets a Gender-neutral Makeover

Drew Stevens

Luxury

High quality

Cool look & feel

Worth the money 💸

Smells amazing

MARGIN

Personal Care

Skin Care

Men's Grooming

Dryness

I'm a notorious wish cycler. Can I actually recycle the bottle?

I am by no means a skincare expert. Can't really comment on the quality of ingredients and all I know is that moisture = less wrinkles (maybe) and that I have moderately oily skin. Mediterranean roots 🤷🏻‍♂️.

In the past I have tried A-System's Daily Defense Moisturizer and Overnight Rebuilding cream and was a regular user of The Ordinary's moisturizer. Loved the form factor and simplicity of A-System's products but they left my skin feeling fairly oily or "slick" at the end of the day/in the morning.

I've really liked using Margin's lightweight moisturizer because it leaves my skin looking matte (not oily or shiny) and the scent is to be fucked with. It's the right blend of cucumber / mint without coming across as synthetic. As a bit of a self-proclaimed packaging nerd, unboxing Margin's product is what I would expect if D.S. & Durga and Apple collabed 🤤

While the packaging is beautiful, it's slightly awkward to unbox the outside layer of packaging. 

I've used it for about a week now. It has a very mild cucumber scent that lingers after use. It's the first moisturizer I've used that makes my skin feel tighter for a bit after applying. I'll likely continue using my daily facial moisturizer with SPF when I'm leaving the house, and use this after showering to feel fresh.

I have never been one to splurge on my skincare but I am so glad I was introduced to this brand. I have fairly sensitive skin that will break out with new products but my skin has reacted very well to this lightweight moisturizer. It has made my skin smooth and even-toned. They also list their ingredients on the box which I really like. The company also shipped my order within hours of me placing my order! 

The box it comes in has an over layer thats kind of odd. The packaging is very nice aesthetically but trying to open the box was frustrating. 

I have been using this moisturizer for more than a week now and I really like it. This moisturizer doesn’t claim to be for dry skin so I wasn’t sure if it would be good for my skin type at all but I have really been liking it. I have very sensitive, extremely dry skin that usually burns whenever I apply moisturizer or other face products. This moisturizer does not make my skin sting at all! I can’t use this on its own because it’s not hydrating enough for dry skin (the brand says it’s best for normal/combination skin) but I put it on before I layer on any other hydrating products and this prevents my face from feeling any irritation from the other products and it seems to keep more moisture in my skin. 

The bottle appears to be made of plastic. I don't know if the company will be able to avoid single-use plastic or update the packaging to be more eco-friendly in the future. 



First off, the outside packaging (the box) has a minimalist design that's quite lovely. I love the very light, cucumber-infused scent of the moisturizer--it smells and feels fresh and goes on smoothly. I also like the clean design of the bottle.

Also, the shipping was free and fast. 

The outer sleeve was a bit snug on the box and therefore difficult to slide off. With such a beautiful box design and photography, I imagine I'm not the only person who would want to keep it, so the sleeve size should maybe be slightly adjusted.

I'd love to try a richer formula for dry skin.

I love MARGIN's branding, it's incredibly thoughtful and elevated. MARGIN is a light-weight moisturizer – as someone with sensitive, dry skin it's not enough on its own for me. With that said, I love the glow it gives off ☀️, didn't experience any breakouts, and appreciate the fresh cucumber scent 🥒 I'd definitely recommend it to people with oily skin / their skin does okay with lightweight products.

The outer box was a bit snug and was too pretty for me to want to rip it off lol

I ordered this for a thingdrop a month or so ago and entered the wrong shipping address that was undeliverable, oops! A few days ago i got an email from Drew who said it has been returned to him and asked for a new address and it arrived two days later (with a handwritten note!) -  A+ for customer service

The product details, branding, etc are great. The light cucumber sent felt fresh without being overbearing. It goes on super light and dries quickly.  Couldn't be more thrilled with the purchase!

When applying, it does not absorb super quickly, but almost lathers up. I have to work it into my skin which I don't love, but once I do, I love the midweight feel of it. 
The packaging is really lovely but I definitely broke the top when trying to figure out how to open it and spilled; this is operator error though.

I picked this up from a #ThingDrop and was thrilled about it; I'm a white woman in my 30s, so yes I am always on the hunt for a Holy Grail face product. The Margin moisturizer finishes really beautifully, a midweight, seasonal transition type finish, so I love it winter into spring, and summer into fall. 
Also the weekly emails are actually quite good and not super annoying! I read them regularly! 

There are two things that make it really hard for me to rebuy:
- the price to volume ratio seems really expensive
- the plastic bottle, pump and cap closure are all made of a thick plastic that can’t be recycled. As a young brand, I think Drew can really build environmental thinking from the foundation

The cucumber scent of this product is amazing. It creates such a nice daily moisturizing ritual. It is a lovely straight-forward skincare product (the moisturizer), which I really like about it. The packaging is simple and aesthetic. 

Hypothetically, would it be the case that they were subsumed into a faceless, soul-crushing mega-multinational holding company, I would still rock with Margin. Media ain't what it used to be, but in a "Top Shelf"-style editorial series, you would see a lot of Margin.

Woah, Canada. Lots of ink has been spilled on Margin's packaging + product design, so I'll only add that a moisturizer with a life-affirming scent and salicylic acid (which you figure is why it's popular with aesthetically-minded dudes), indeed, makes for a skin-renewing product.

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