Neogen’s Fermented Micro Essence Hydrated & Brightened My Pores and skin

Once you paint your nails, you do not simply glob on polish and name it a day. Skinny layers work higher to create a shiny, even coat of colour. I take the identical strategy to hydrating my oily pores and skin. As an alternative of slathering on a thick cream and clogging up my pores, I desire to construct up moisture with three steps: toner, essence, and moisturizer. 

After double cleaning, I swipe toner on with a cotton pad earlier than I attain for the Neogen Dermalogy Actual Ferment Micro Essence. Though it appears like a mini bottle of Voss Water (and feels prefer it on pores and skin), the essence is much from glorified water. If something, it is extra like somaek (a.okay.a. a beer and soju/sake cocktail) to your face. The clear fluid is spiked with a myriad of ferments, together with these of the rice and yeast varieties. In truth, roughly 93 % of the system is made up of them, if you wish to get mathematical. 

However why does your pores and skin want some somaek you ask? The ferments on this Korean essence — that are usually present in alcoholic drinks, yogurt, and cheese — enhance our pores and skin’s microbiome. Consequently, pores and skin locks in hydration higher whereas changing into brighter, smoother, and plumper. They will additionally assist desensitize infected pores and skin. So with the Neogen Dermalogy Actual Ferment Micro Essence, you are not simply getting a concentrated layer of moisture or serving to your different skin-care merchandise take up higher. It additionally strengthens your pores and skin general.  Brightening niacinamide and soothing allantoin additionally make welcomed appearances on its ingredient listing. Each work wonders for serving to clear up my pores and skin after a hormonal breakout. 

Sometimes, I sprinkle the essence, which has the faintest scent of sake, into my hand and pat it onto my face for peak absorption. Then, I proceed with the remainder of my skin-care routine: a retinol and a hylauronic acid serum adopted by a light-weight gel-cream moisturizer. The essence binds all these layers of hydration collectively whereas serving to my pores and skin look more healthy and extra radiant, so I can proceed having confidence in my makeup-free pores and skin whereas sheltering in place.

You will discover the Neogen Dermalogy Actual Ferment Micro Essence in our November 2020 Attract Magnificence Field.

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