I’m always on the hunt for new calming products to try, so when my FACEtory quarterly box arrived at my humble abode, I always look in to see what the box has in store for me. One of the past few times, the box had the Artemisia Balancing Light Facial Cream in there, and I finally got around to trying it. Keep reading to learn more about the product, the Koreans and my thoughts, and where you can find one yourself.
Things to know about FACEtory Artemisia Balancing Light Facial Cream:
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are good for your skin:
- Artemisia Capillaris Extract is the star ingredient of this product and it is known for improving dry skin and dermatitis
- Glycerin is an ingredient in many skincare formulas that hydrates the skin by attracting other water particles to the deeper layers of the skin.
- Niacinamide is a well-tested and proven ingredient known for it’s brightening and sebum-controlling properties. It can help reduce acne and reduce signs of aging. This ingredient also goes by another name: Vitamin B3.
- Shea Butter is an ingredient that excels at moisturizing, fighting inflammation, and is full of antioxidants. Plus, it’s high in vitamins E, D, and A. This allows it to be great at helping fade acne scars and hyperpigmentation, as well as soothe irritation.
- Squalane is a face oil that almost mimics the natural oils on the face. It calms inflammation, strengthens the skin barrier, and works well with active ingredients. It can also help soften and sooth the skin.
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are “bad”* for your skin:
- There is nothing in this product that is inherently “bad” for the skin, unless you have a known allergy to oils, like peppermint or honeysuckle
Who is this product good for?
- People in summer
- Those with Oily Skin
- Those with known skin irritation
K-Points: 8/10
So, for beauty reviews, unlike my album unboxings, I will be much harsher because this can directly impact your health, whereas buying K-Pop albums does not. It just impacts your wallet. As such, all of my beauty reviews will be out of 10 points. I will not be going over that number.
Honestly, I really like this face cream for summer. It is very light and refreshing. It’s not too heavy and it definitely won’t clog anyone’s pores. Will I say that this is a holy grail product? Absolutely not. Would I purchase it again? Maybe. The jury is still out.
What are the Koreans saying?
I was digging through reviews on 화해 (Hwahae)**, a Korean skincare app that lists out the ingredients of products from many brands for people to look through as well as post reviews. So, this product in not available in Korea at this moment in time, but it is sold at Target! There, it has 4.8 out of 5 stars. The reviews talked about how great this product is for oily skin, as well as how well it absorbs. They did all agree it isn’t some kind of miracle product, but it is nice.
Where Can I Buy It?
Whenever I buy K-Beauty, I do shop at a couple of different places. If you want to see all of the places that I shop at, you can check them all out here. Plus, with a number of places where I buy K-Beauty, you can also use Rakuten for cash back off of your purchases on their site.
What is Rakuten?
Rakuten is a cashback site that gives you money for purchases you may have already made. They even have an extension for multiple browsers so when you go to a website that uses Rakuten, it will automatically pop up the cashback button to make sure you are saving money. I use this all the time, and I got over $80 back from them for purchases I was going to make anyway. That’s about 3 more albums I can buy!
If you’ve never used Rakuten before, you can use this link to get $10 when making a qualified purchase of $25 when using Rakuten. You will also get whatever percent cashback is being offered from the site you are purchasing from. Sephora, typically has 4% cashback, through here. Ulta typically has 3%. These are just some of the companies on the website, but there are other major retailers on there as well!
Rakuten also has a Google Chrome extension that will tell you as soon as you log onto a site that has cashback with a little pop-up in the corner so that you can ensure you are saving money!
What calming products are your favorite, K-Nuggets? Let me know in the comments down below!
사랑합니다!
–Rachel
*I put bad in quotes here because everything is subjective. Just because an ingredient that may have some amount of research on it that it can cause issues in the skin exists in a product says nothing about how it is processed and refined when making the product. It also says nothing about where that particular ingredient came from and the quality of that ingredient. It’s just like with cooking you can have all the same ingredients to start, but depending on what you do with those ingredients, you can get two completely different end products. Liah Yoo, a YouTuber and now the owner of the brand Krave Beauty, made an excellent video talking about this.
**Note: 화해 still only exists in Korean, but some of the products can be searched for in English.
