2. Etude House Wonder Pore Wipping Foaming.
3. Meishoku Bigansui toner.
4. OST Original Pure Vitamin C20 Serum.
5. Innisfree Bija anti trouble lotion.
6. Mizon All in one snail repair cream.
7. SKIN79 White Reviving Skin Radiance Eye Serum
8. Skinfood Salmon Brightening Eye Cream.
9. Skinfood Peach Sake Sunscreen Lotion.
10. Etude House Eye'S Cream Mint Cooling.
This was my daytime skincare routine two years ago. The only product I still use from these is the C20 Vitamin C Serum and Meishoku Bigansui Toner on special occasions, only for drying some pimples if they appear. My routine has changed a lot with the time and it is still changing for better. I will explain some things I've learned from asian skincare products:
1. Ingredients. Ingredients are very important, in the past I didn't pay so much attention to them, I was attracted to a product if it said "Contains snail mucus" and didn't really care if it was 1% or 60% of its composition. Now I always check COSDNA to see the safety of the ingredients, if there are irritants or acne triggers...
This was a fail when I bought the Skinfood Salmon brightening eye cream. I read "salmon" and thought it was a fancy ingredient that any other cream had and went for it, to discover it didn't do nothing for my dark circles...
2. Natural. Go for the most natural and the products that has little but effective ingredients. Stay away from parabens, mineral oil, artificial fragrances or coloring and alcohol. This is why I kept the OST Vitamin C Serum in my list!
3. Reviews. Read maaaaaaany reviews as you can before buying a product. Check for "best sellers" or "most popular products" in asian products seller websites. Also be aware that what works for a reviewer maybe doesn't work for you. I read really good reviews about Skinfood Peach Sake Sunscreen Lotion from people saying it was their holy grial sunscreen and for me it leaves your skin sticky and white.
4. Packaging. I know cute packagings are appealing but it doesn't mean they are good products. Don't let them seduce you! Etude House Eye'S Cream Mint Cooling is a good example. It doesn't have any effect, I just used as a sunscreen for my undereye skin.
5. Too many products. As you can see when I started my journey into asian skincare I used way too many products.
- You don't need an emulsion and a cream together. Just one.
- Buy "ampoules", "essences" or "mask sheets" and apply them when you see a problem has become worse instead of using many different serums. One serum is enough. I was using SKIN79 White Reviving Skin Radiance Eye Serum and apart from it's unfficacy in removing dark spots, you don't need an eye serum till you are 25-30, cream is enough.
6. Some fails.
- I have combination skin but last winter my face become extremely dry because of the weather. I had dry skin patches on my nose. So I thought it was good to but a dense cream to help it restore it's moisture. What happened? Acne. Big pimples appeared on my skin. This is because dense creams are not suitable for oily/combination skin. Instead of this, I've learnt that in winter I should use of one these: a hydrating serum/ hydrating mask sheets/ hydrating ampoule. And I chosed the last one because I can use it for a week and I resolves the problem.
- Mixing wrong ingredients. Be careful what ingredients you mix! Some ingredients don't work together.
- Some ingredients like Vitamin C needs sunscreen or some dark spots can appear. This happened to me when I used the OST serum...
- If you have oily skin, using too many alcohol products will lead to breakouts. Alcohol deshydrates the skin and it promotes more oil production, so avoid alcohol and too harsh products like Meishoku Bigansui Toner.
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