URBAN ECO - Harakeke Firming Seed Cream + picture review

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)

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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

Cucnzn & Baimiss (picture review)

Cucnzn & Baimiss (picture review)

Now I'm showing these embarrassing pictures to show you more clearly the effectiveness of the products that I was talking before.

                                before                   after 3 days                 after 13 days

MORE FOCUSED

The forehead

and my MAIN problem, the right cheek 

Right now it's less but I still have the scars. In a few weeks, I'm gonna do another review about a product that I ordered from Korea and I'll let you know :)

Ah! Anyway if you have any suggestions about products that you think/hear are gonna work, just let me know and I'll try them (if the prices are not too much high). See you! ❤

Baimiss

Baimiss

This is another product that I used together with Cucnzn.

I bought it together and I put it after the moisturizer.

Fortunately, this product has English instructions.

Baimiss is a whitening blemish serum moisturizing for who suffer acne, it works also as a face cream.

It came as a little bottle with a rubbery spout separated.

Follow this to put the spout on top.

Baimiss: Repair skin cells,

Chudou India pale scar,

Boycott of acne and Delay skin aging.

Ingredients:

	1. High Quality Raw Material Origin: white jade snail from Chile, snail mainly leaf plant, stem, natural pollution-free.
	2. 100% Extract: without adding more, secure, snail mucus contains high protein and various vitamins are from nature, without any added.
	3. Powerful repairing the tender and the white contains high collagen, can dilute dry lines, fine lines, uneven face tone, safety care for damaged skin, inhibit melanin, etc.

The consistency of the product is a little bit jelly, in appearance it seems sticky but actually blends really well, but it takes a lot more to absorb. It helped me just a little bit for my acne scars because the instruction recommends using 3 bottles of it to see big differences. It was worth it, but I won't buy it again because I wanna try some products with the same function, to make a comparison in the future.

Summary:

Pro: It doesn't smell, it helped to reduce the redness/blackness of my acne.

Con: It takes a little bit more to absorb, It took a lot to see differences.

Price: 2.10€ - 2.40$

Vote: 5/10

Cucnzn (hyaluronic acid original fluid)

Cucnzn

(hyaluronic acid original fluid)

A new product to talk about!

2 months ago I suffered for the first time a severe breakout. It was shocking to me because I used to have a nice skin (not perfect as some other Asian) with some little breakouts but never as much as this. So for the first time, I tried to shop online some Asian's products, more specifically Chinese. I hadn't so much money before so I bought only affordable things. I found this and read a lot of reviews about this and someone said that is also a nice moisturizer for oily skin. Here's the description of the product.

It was all written in Chinese and unfortunately, I can't understand. I searched online but nobody tried to translate it, but I assure you that it didn't ruin my skin. If some of you can understand Chinese, can you please translate me this?

Now let's focused on the product's function and effects.

The product inside the box it's like this with the rubbery spout aside.

Once opened you have to put the spout on the little bottle.

And it has to be like this after.

Ingredients:

(sorry I can't translate but it's easy to guess)

The consistency of the product it's similar to the water but a little bit dense. I applied on the back of my hand, as you can see the difference it's little. It's really perfect for oily skin because it's really light and you can't feel it. For me, it was perfect because it didn't irritate my skin and plus it hadn't a strong smell.

Perfect for summer ;)

Summary:

Pro: It moisturizes

Con: not whitening

Price: 2.62€ - 3$

Vote: 7/10

Essence get BIG! Lashes (volume curl mascara)

Beauty product!

Essence get BIG! Lashes

( volume curl mascara )

"Curly lashes! the large, curved fiber brush offers maximum volume,

a gorgeous curl and thickens your lashes

while the black texture ensures an intensive look.

opthalmologically tested."

❤MY FEEDBACK:

Without writing too much, I'll just show you the effects.
I'm asian and I have straight lashes,
so sometimes I find difficult to find mascaras perfect for me.

But anyway it's a great product, not the best but in complex

it's very cheap but satisfying. 

Without Mascara

First Application

Second Application

Without mascara

First Application

Second Application

After 9 hours

INGREDIENTS:

❤AQUA (WATER)

❤PARAFFIN - is a petroleum, created through distillation.

❤SYNTHETIC BEESWAX - are tan waxy solids. The ingredients help to form emulsions by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified. They also help other ingredients to dissolve in a solvent in which they would not normally dissolve.

❤STEARETH-20 - is a polyethylene glycol ethers of stearci acid. It is a waxy compounds and reduce the interactive forces between molecules of other liquids so that an emulsion is formed.

❤CARNAUBA (COPERNICIA CERIFERA) WAX - is obtained from the leaves of the Brazilian tropical palm tree, It helps to keep an emulsion from separating into its oil and liquid components. The waxes stiffen but do not harden the product, and the flexibility and plasticity of the waxes facilitate application.

❤ALCOHOL DENAT -  is the alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. It functions as antifoaming agents, cosmetic astringents, solvents and viscosity decreasing agents.

❤STEARETH-2 - ( look STEARETH-20 )

❤GLYCERYL BEHENATE - is a sugar alcohol that can be obtained from natural sources or can be synthesized. It works as emollient and as emulsifying agent.

❤CETYL ALCOHOL - Its functions as a skin-conditioning agent and emollient.

❤TOCOPHERYL ACETATE - It's from the Tocopherol, or vitamin E, a fat-soluble vitamin is a naturally occuring antioxidant which can be isolated from vegetable oil. It functions as an antioxidant and also as skin-conditioning agents - miscellaneous.

❤TOCOPHEROL - ( look TOCOPHERYL ACETATE )

❤JOJOBA ESTERS - a liquid wax that is produced in the seed of the Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) plant, a shrub native to southern Arizona, southern California and northwestern Mexico. It functions as a stabilizer.

❤METHYLPROPANEDIOL - is a diol, belonging to the category of the glycols. It is in the form of colorless viscous liquid, hydrophilic, highly soluble in water, free of odor. It retains water evaporation and prevents the drying process.

❤HYDROXYETHYLCELLULOSE - It's from the Cellulose, a naturally occurring component found in the cell walls of plants. It functions as binder, stabilizer, film former and as viscosity increasing agent.

❤CAPRYLYL GLYCOL - is a glycol compound. It functions as preservative.

❤SIMETHICONE - is a grey, viscous liquid. This ingredient  is used to reduce the tendency of finished products to generate foam when shaken.

❤POLYURETHANE-14 - is a copolymer formed from isophorone diisocyanate, dimethylol propionicacid, and 4, 4'-isopropylidenediphenol reacted with propylene oxide, ethylene oxide and PEG/PPG-17/3. It functions as film former.

❤AMP-ACRYLATES COPOLYMER - It's from Crylates Copolymer, a general term for copolymers of two or more monomers consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or one of their simple esters. It functions as binder, film former, hair fixative, suspending agent and as viscosity increasing agent.

❤AMINOMETHYL PROPANEDIOL - is a alkanolamine, which means that this compound has a hydroxyl group (-OH) and an amino group (NH2). It is either colorless liquid or crystalline solid, though it may sold as paste. It is used a pH adjusters.

❤AMINOMETHYL PROPANOL - ( look AMINOMETHYL PROPANEDIOL )

❤ISOPROPYL ACETATE - is used to dissolve other substances in cosmetics and personal care products. It is also used to decrease the thickness of liquids and to reduce the tendency of finished products to generate foam when shaken.

❤BHT - As in Butylated Hydroxtoluene, is a white to yellowish-white, crystalline solid. It acts as an antioxidant by preventing or slowing the deterioration of cosmetics and personal care products caused by chemical reactions with oxygen.

❤PHENOXYETHANOL - is an oily, slightly viscous liquid with a faint rose-like odor. It prevents or retards microbial growth, and thus protects cosmetics and personal care products from spoilage. 

❤CI 77499 (IRON OXIDES) - Iron Oxides used in cosmetic products is an inorganic compound consisting of any one or combinations of synthetically prepared iron oxides that includes hydrated forms of iron oxides. It imparts a color to cosmetics and personal care products. Depending on the specific Iron Oxides or mixtures of Iron Oxides used, the color will vary from orange, red, yellow to black.