Commercial Poem Ferments

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