I am always looking out for new eye creams to try. One day, I found the Heimish Marine Care Eye Cream on sale, so I decided to pick it up and try 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 Heimish Marine Care Eye Cream:
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are good for your skin:
- Ecklonia Cava Extract is a type of brown algae that is found in Korea and Japan. It contains phlorotannins which believed to possess antioxidant properties.
- 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.
- Macadamia Seed Oil is a known hydrator that is chock full of vitamin E and is known for its soothing and antioxidant properties
- 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.
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are “bad”* for your skin:
- Fragrance which shouldn’t be an issue unless you have an allergy
- Chromium Oxide Greens is a pigment that adds a greenish tint to the product
Who is this product good for?
- Those with dry skin
- Those who want to brighten their skin
K-Points: 9/10
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.
As a dry-skinned girl who frequently gets very dry, peeling skin on her eyelids, I really love how thick this eye cream is. It is incredibly hydrating and keeps my eyes moist all day. That being said it does have one caveat: if you put this on too close to putting your makeup on, it will make whatever product you put on your eyes ball up. So, if you are going to use this, just don’t do it right before makeup.
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, after digging through the app, this product doesn’t have any reviews on Hwahae which tells me that there aren’t many people who have tried this product in Korea.
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!
Which eye creams 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.
