Product Review: Green Tea & Enzyme Powder Wash by Wishtrend

Both winter and summer do require specific skin care measures and products, but keeping the right balance between intensive care and a healthy skin break is not always easy. Therefore, I am trying to include into my daily routine healthy, natural and eventually cruely free products which make a difference both to my skin and to the environment and the world around. 

As in the last month and a half I tried various Asian products, I continued my journey with an exquisite innovation by Wishtrend: Green Tea&Enzime Powder Wash. That I am a great supporter of everything green tea is no secret, but I keep being surprised by the diversity and impressive effects of this ingredient into skin care products. 

Recommended to all skin types - but especially to oily and acne prone skins - Green Tea&Enzime Wash is distributed into a simple and elegant 70g. bottle with a lovely green-lime colour. It is very easy to use, as a low-acid moisturizing cleanser with immediate effects - velvet-like skin within minutes - and no allergic reactions or irritation. (Obviously, if you have specific skin allergies, the use of the product should be started only following medical advice). The delivery box contains directions in both English and Korean.

I introduced this product into my daily skin care routine in the evening, when make-up was cleaned and I was ready for the evening program. I spread a pinch of green powder into my hand mixed with warm water and rubbed it gently all over my skin. You should be careful to avoid contact with the eyes. Clean the face with warm water and dry with a wipe with a dry clean towel. That's all and the effects are visible at least for the next 24 hours, as it maintains a proper pH balance of the skin preventing the casual dryness following the usual cleansing.

This cleansing powder includes besides green tea - a powerful antioxidant rich in vitamins such as Vitamin A, C and E, a main Asian tip for calming and improving the skin tone - baking powder and papain. The baking powder operates as a soft and gentle scrub agent, excellent for skin care and eliminating easily the blackhead, while the papain eliminates old keratin and dead skin cells, improving significantly the skin texture. 

Overall, my experience was positive and looking forward to keep using regularly this product for my skin care 

Disclaimer: Products offered by Wishtrend in exchange for an honest review. This post might contain affiliate links but it does not influence your reading experience; it only keeps this blog sharing more and more interesting products and ideas that I love and I am happy to introduce to my readers.

The Unique Ingredients of Mitomo Masks

I mentioned in a previous post about Mitomo masks that there are some special ingredients used for the creation of the face sheet masks, mostly familiar to the Asian audience. For instance, horse oil, a concept that I haven't heard about before.

My next batch of Mitomo face sheet masks involved a lot of unknown for me ingredients, that for sure, for the European ears and eyes might sound quite unusual. Take, for instance, snail+EGF. Snail stands for snail slime - or mucus and EGF for Epidermal Growth Factor, a protein formed in the body which stimulates the cell growth. The sheet face mask based on those is very wet and after the 20-30 minutes traitment, it gives to the face a completely fresh and healthy look. One of my favorite, so far.

Another creative combination uses placenta and platinum. For a long time already placenta is used as a base for various anti-wrinkle regeneration creams and skin.care products therefore it was not a completely new idea for me. Platinum was though, as the only 'metal' I was familiar with in masks was gold. And I also knew about precious diamonds. Platinum is quite a new ingredient, but which acquired easily a place in the beauty industry. It is assumed to improve firmness, skin elasticity and offer a proper hydration. The combination looked good on my skin as well, with at least 24 hours of happy glowing skin.

As kids, we knew that bee venom is very healthy in fact, despite the harm of the swallowing, as it is supposed to offer a good anti-rheumatism protection. But there are good features of this bee product for the skin care industry as well. The Mitomo mask I've tried combined bee venom with gold, which sounded as a match made in heaven. The been venom is also called the 'botox of nature' and is extensively used by Hollywood stars like Gwyneth Paltrow which are happy with its features: increase of blood circulation, filling the fine lines and wrinkles or firming the skin. 

Last but not least, the last mask I've used from this special batch included another cryptic and first-time read/heard for me ingredient: Syn Ake. It stays for: Dipeptine Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, a substance which prevents skin aging and smoothens and tightens the skin, conferring to the skin firmness. The masks combined this peptide with the previously mentioned EGF. The effect was good on skin, but I experienced a little bit of rush. 

What I also liked about those masks was the glowing special packaging, which makes you think before even using it that you are offered something unique, which is exactly what happens during and after using the face sheets.

With a new batch of masks ready to be used in the fridge, I can't wait to test them and share my impressions. The ingredients are more usual, at least in the everyday life.

Disclaimer: The face sheet masks were offered by Mitomo for review, but the opinions are, as usual, my own