I am always looking to try new moisturizers. As someone with dry skin, they are products that I use on the daily – if not multiple times a day. So, when I find a new one that piques my interest, I have a habit of picking it up. Keep reading to learn more about the Skin & Lab Dr. Color Effect Red Cream, the Koreans and my thoughts, and where you can find one yourself.
Things to know about Skin & Lab Dr. Color Effect Red Cream:
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are good for your 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.
- Punita Granatum (Pomegranate) Fruit Extract can help regenerate skin and protect against UV radiation (not a replacement for sunblock). It is also an antioxidant that is good for dry skin.
- Allantoin is an incredibly well-known ingredient in K-Beauty for its hydrating and anti-inflammatory properties. It’s an ingredient that is excellent for acne-prone and damaged skin. Plus, since it is combined with hyaluronic acid in this formula, it boosts its hydrating properties.
This product is formulated with the following ingredients that are “bad”* for your skin:
- Fragrance and fragrant components which shouldn’t be an issue unless you have an allergy
Who is this product good for?
- Dry skin
K-Points: 3/10
So, for beauty reviews, unlike my album unboxings, I will be much harsher on because this can directly impact your health, where 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.
This is probably the thickest cream that I have ever tried and it isn’t necessarily in a pleasing way. It feels like it is suffocating my skin with the texture. Although I finished the whole thing, I’m not really sure if it did any good for my skin. On top of that the fragrance on this product was very strong. I smell like roses for quite
What are the Koreans saying?
I was digging through reviews on 화해**, 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 actually has no reviews from anyone on it, which tells me it isn’t incredibly popular.
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. I honestly do not remember where I purchased this, but with many of these sites, 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 skincare products have you tried and not enjoyed, 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.
