I am late on updating my blog but never too late to review products.
So as I said in my last post-New
Delivery!
I'm gonna review
URBAN ECO - Harakeke Firming Seed Cream from the SAEM
URBAN ECO - Harakeke Firming Seed Cream
from the SAEM
It's one of the cream that G-Dragon (Big Bang) advertised before but also used by Key (Shinee), as he showed on his Instagram. I bought it from
Jolse, a shopping website where you can buy a lot of affordable products from Korea, click the name to see more. Now back to the product ;)
USE: Face
ITEM TYPE: Cream
BRAND NAME: the SAEM
FEATURE: Wrinkle Reducing
NET WT: 30 ml
INGREDIENTS: Phormium Tenax Extract, Glycerin, Cyclopentasiloxane, Cyclohexasiloxane, Phormium Tenax Seed Oil, Totarol, Panthenol, Honey, Calendula Officinalis Flower Water, Adenosine, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Extract, Monarda Didyma Leaf Extract, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Leaf Extract, Freesia Refracta Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Disodium EDTA, Ethoxydiglycol, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan, Olivate, Butylene Glycol, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Cross polymer, Carbomer, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Chlorphenesin, Potassium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Perfume.
SKIN FIT FOR: dry skin (I'm oily skin so you can use it too)
SEASON: Winter (I used between Spring-Summer, so it depends on the amount)
WHAT IT DOES: moisturize, give elasticity, tighten the pores
[HOW TO USE]: After using an essence, at the last step of your basic skincare regimen, apply an appropriate amount to your skin, and gently pat to enhance its absorption into your skin.
"The moisturizing elasticity cream increases skin's elasticity by tightly filling skin with the highly nourishing extracts from precious Harakeke seeds harvested from pristine New Zealand"
- as written on the description box
The product comes with a stunning orange glass case closed by a fake wood plastic cap. Inside the box, you can find also a little transparent spatula (picture from
Jolse)
.
Once you open it (if the product arrived safely), you see that it has a protection cap.
The smell is really good, it's not strong. At first, you can't really tell what it smells. What I find interesting about this product it's the Harakeke Seed (which I can't find in the ingredients but maybe later I'll check it more carefully) that you can find it only in New Zeland.
Harakeke Seed
It is commonly found in lowland wetlands and along rivers, and in coastal areas on estuaries, dunes, and cliffs. The oil extracted from the seeds has a high amount of linoleic acid, stearic acid, palmitic acid and oleic acid and in smaller concentrations, it has triacylglycerol’s, phytosterols and anti-oxidants. Phytosterols are steroid compounds similar to cholesterol, which are known to have anti-inflammatory and anti-irritation properties. They add shine to skin and hair and improve dry skin by reducing trans-epidermal water loss. Phytosterols can also help repair and normalize the turnover of skin cells and aid your own body in repairing itself from the sun, wound, keloid scars and radiotherapy damage. Our bodies do not produce “essential fatty acids” on their own so the extract of Harakeke can help relieving acne because it has these fatty acids that promote cell renewal (dissolving the fatty deposits that block the pores and cause pimples) and repair the skin damaged by acne and blemishes. -
more info (PICTURE: They seem black dragons with red tongue O.O)
The product on the skin gives a fresh feeling because somehow it seems like the gel.
It's not really recommended in summer because it's a little heavy but as for me (I went to the Philippines and stayed there for almost 2 months with a sticky-hot temperature) it was ok, I didn't break out that much. I used it as a night cream (but in Italy even as a morning cream) together with Moistfull Super Collagen Multi Stick from Etude House (another good product) as morning cream or as I called it "lazy cream". I have nothing else to say but here's some pictures review of this product.
(p.s. I don't have makeup here, just mascara and lipstick)
Summary:
Pro: it maintained my skin balanced. I will buy it again.
Con: Sometimes it feels oily because it wasn't a recommended for my skin type.
Price: ∼16€ - 17.49$
Vote: 9/10
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