Commercial Poem Ferments

In honour of my panic that it had been reformulated, here is my update post! Whilst being a very nice product that I enjoy using no end, the headline of this update is that I forgot that extracts could deliver specific results. The Black Serum has a variety of anti-inflammatory ingredients and that is likely to be the reason that it calms down redness for me. Why only The Black Serum works but nothing else must be down to the ingredients it has that other products don't or higher quality extracts than previous things I've tried with some of the same* The rest of this post is about why I'd forgotten this key fact. *A note: going back through Reddit posts, I've claimed a couple of times that other things have calmed my skin! However, a combination of drier skin, hard water and medication have totally borked my skin so now it's just The Black Serum (or other products from the range in conjunction with the serum). Highlights from the last review and link Link to Soorye

Following Odile's recent posts on retinol, and my general wish to switch everything to luxe, i ordered both Isa Knox products (partly because they were the cheapest and the LG heritage always grabs me). You can also find the ingredients in links on Odile's post so I won't duplicate them here. Link to Odile's main retinol post Link to Odile's post on the Isa Knox Age Focus Prime Wrinkle For All Serum  Link to Odile's post on the Isa Knox Age Focus Prime Polynoid Wrinkle Cream   Thankfully TesterKorea comes through again with sample options of both. The serum has cedrol in addition to the other ingredients. I've been very pleased when something I already use or happen to have purchased has cedrol as it's one of the key ingredients in the Whoo lip cerin. Link to my review of the Whoo lip cerin  if you want to read more about it. Is cedrol the thing that makes the lip cerin so effective? I don't know but it's an interesting ingredient and it's a

This is a meandering post on face creams, it's not a review as such but some general comparisons of beautiful creams - mostly about textures. (If anyone wants swatches, please comment. I personally don't find them that helpful but the real reason I haven't done them is that I'll never actually get this post up otherwise! I may be going largely photo-free in future because it's even more time-consuming than the writing...) I'm slightly obsessed with categorising products as I like a framework that I can slot creams into because it refines my thinking about products.  I find it helpful to think about how textures compare as it narrows down what I'm looking for and gives me something a bit more defined to work with when I'm making comparisons for people. Naturally, my categories are a personal shorthand and if you have thoughts on how to name these, let me know! Some of these creams may straddle more than one category so I've gone with the predominant f

Little bottles of the Sooryehan Hyobidam Fermented Emulsion in a plastic package, on a cute potato cushion. Not my finest photography but too cute not to use Introduction  So, I've obviously written at length about my love for the Sooryehan Bon Firming cream. Several times now! Link to the Bon Firming cream first impressions post Link to follow up post on the Bon Firming cream And I'd tried an emulsion before, I thought it was fine as a first moisturiser for my neck but I didn't think it had any dramatic benefits.  The problem is that my neck is a tricky beast - very little seems to please it beyond. So I try not to judge neck products on efficacy, just on whether they irritate me. Woe is my neck is not what I came here to write about... This Sooryehan emulsion is very well formulated and a decent emulsion that now has permanent slot in my routine as my AM summer cream.  Or at least it did, until the hard water affected my skin and now I need much more moisturising product

TL;DR: I decided to try an entirely fermented routine (apart from actives and SPF, I may yet try SPF). This is a compilation of the quarterly follow-up posts, including longer term reflections and products I've tried since Link to the original all ferment routine blog post . This is a best of the updates but leaving out most of the updates on the original routine, as I basically moved on immediately to new shiny and this post is already super long! However, if anyone wants the updates on the original routine, I can post them separately - just let me know in the comments. The original update posts included thoughts on the tested products as I had used them longer - for example, a product might have multiple further updates across the different posts. To make it easier to digest, I've put them together, noting the date on each. You'll notice that the reviews become seriously more luxe-heavy as time goes on. Most of them were sample sachets or mini bottles for reference. Also,