Nacific is a brand that I started using a few years ago after Chanyeol of EXO became the model for them – there were exclusive photocards that as a fan, I needed. After that initial experience, I enjoyed the product and I tried enough to buy more. That is how I ended up coming across the Nacific Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence – which I just finished and I am ready to share my thoughts with you. Keep reading to learn more about the product, the Koreans and my thoughts, and where you can find one yourself.
Things to know about Nacific Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence:
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are good for your skin:
- Bamboo Extract is a sustainable antioxidant that can help heal skin
- 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.
- Sodium Hyaluronate is a moisturizing superstar, that holds 1000 times its weight in water. This ingredient is well researched and it’s benefits, including how it can prevent aging of the skin.
- Artemisia Absinthium (Mugwort) Extract is known for improving dry skin and dermatitis
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are “bad”* for your skin:
- The following potential allergens are in this product:
- Rosehip Oil
- Lemon Extract
- There are also a few other ingredients that are potential allergens that are more specific than the generic fragranced components above, so please check the full formula
Who is this product good for?
- Those who want to brighten their skin tone
- Those who do not have sensitive skin (although I have sensitive skin and had no issues with this formula)
K-Points: 7/10
So, for beauty reviews, unlike my album unboxings, I will be much harsher on 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.
So, I do have a few thoughts about this product. First, I like the immediate effect it has on my skin. It feels moisturizing. It gives my skin a nice glow. All things I like to see immediately after I put a product on my face. As to its whitening and brightening benefits, I would have to use this for more than just one bottle to see results. My skin does look good after using this though!
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. This product only has 3.51 out of 5 stars on over 348 reviews in Hwahae. They did mention that they saw the whitening benefits. The one thing they did mention that they didn’t like is that it stung for a few seconds immediately after putting it on (but this brand did get famous for their Fresh Herb Origin Serum – which I have reordered multiple times.
Where Can I Buy It?
Whenever I buy K-Beauty, I 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 brightening products are your favorites, K-Nuggets? Let me know in the comments 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.
