Sulwhasoo Lifting Cream

Posted by: beautyknot on: January 7, 2011

• In: Moisturizer | Product Review
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Sulwhasoo, a Korea herbal medicine brand, adopting the wisdom of nature and tradition through the philosophy of Sangseng. This Korea premium line by Amorepacific currently opened their Treatment & Spa store in Korea, Hong Kong and Macau only.

 

 

I had slightly over-budget so I did not step in the exquisite store when I passed over the location, however, you can still find few of their samples and trial sets in major beauty store. Regardless the genuineness of product source, I wanted to “collect” one.

 

 

This is it, a tiny 5ml sample of Sulwhasoo Lifting Cream. The small packaging indeed looked so nostalgically cute to me. According to Sulwhasoo, it enriched with Korean Medicinal Herbs to nourish skin inside out for healthy looking skin, as well as Jaeumdan and Jaeumboweedan to alleviate skin dryness that caused by aging, helping you reduce fine lines on the face as it tightens.

 

 

The cream has nice herbal scent, the texture is feeling resilient and moisturizing yet absorbing fast into skin. I could feel there was a protective film set on skin but no greasy touch nor looking shiny, just matte-looking with nice glow. What a surprise especially I was not excited to try it initially. While I do not normally like heavy fragrant skin care, I was totally pleased with the relaxing & soothing aromatherapy herbal scent, it did not smell cloying to me like typical floral scent.

 

 

I had been used it for nearly 2 weeks, it moisturized my combination skin well overnight in humid climate but sometimes can be slightly heavy for day wear (particularly underneath sunscreen and BB cream) that contributed a PIMPLE! On the other hand, it did not moisturize sufficiently for my balanced skin condition in air-conditioned room. Therefore, if you have dry/very dehydrated skin then you got to use it together with other hydrating/moisturizing stuff to boost up the moisture level.

 

 

As it called LIFTING cream, I especially paid attention to the face contour before and after. Honestly, No lifting miracle but, I would say the cream texture and the soothing scent, together with lifting finger massage, it did impart lift& firm “placebo” effect. That experience actually was nothing special to me because I had the very similar pleasant feeling with some other products too, such as Clarins Blue Orchid Treatment Oil, Estee Lauder Hydra Complete Cream, Shiseido Bio-Performance Super Revitalizer, Dr.Cilabo Photo-White-C Laser Plus etc.

Overall it reminds me of SK-II Skin Signature despite Sulwhasoo Lifting Cream offers aromatherapy pampering. The full size product is retailing at HKD600/75ml, Oops! Another similar feature – big tub like SK-II Skin Signature but with much lower cost.