Life happens.
Bad, bad blogger!
And that's all you're going to become far lieu of apologies for my prolonged silence.
Today's review is long overdue.
Looong overdue.
Why? I ever guide maintain a difficult fourth dimension writing exciting things virtually solid products. You know what products I'm talking about. Those... you lot know... solid... ever dependable... boring... dependable... inwards uncomplicated packages... non public shattering holy grails, but just... you lot know... good... dependable.
DHC is such a build for me. Solid. Dependable. Boring. Doing what it's been designed to do. But utterly unexciting.
If I can't create upwardly one's remove heed what to use, I attain for DHC. I know it's non going to wound me. I know I can't become incorrect alongside it. I know I can... you lot know... depend on it.
DHC is similar a couplet of my favorite shoes. Comfortable, good worn, on my feet 24-hour interval inwards together with 24-hour interval out. Yeah, I guide maintain pairs of sexy heels, together with fancy sneakers, together with classic pumps, but it's the trusted, deadening couplet of Vans that I halt upwardly wearing every day.
So when i 24-hour interval before this twelvemonth I flora myself inwards remove of some emergency skincare, DHC was the default build I went out to buy. It helped that at that spot was a DHC sale going on, too, together with I could larn every production for to a greater extent than than 50% off. And every bit nosotros all real good know, inexpensive is ever good. And cheaper is fifty-fifty better.
DHC is a pretty basic build inwards Japan. It's available at most drugstores, supermarkets together with fifty-fifty some convenience stores, however, the alternative of products inwards stock inwards those locations tends to travel limited. For the total DHC assortment you lot remove to see its ain build stores, easily flora inwards most shopping malls, or club through the company's website or straight mailing.
If you lot desire to know a chip to a greater extent than virtually the company, here's a handy link to the "About DHC page" on their international website.
DHC Deep Cleansing Oil is good known together with loved past times beauty fans (even those unfamiliar alongside other Asian beauty products) all over the world. It helps that Lisa Eldridge sings its praises, too.
It's also i of my cleansing staples. I similar trying novel oils, but ever uncovering myself coming dorsum to DHC. So yes, perhaps it is my holy grail later all.
DHC inwards the West is considered to travel a mid- to higher-level build apparently. At to the lowest degree it seems together with hence judging past times the ridiculous prices. When I saw the products markups on the international website, I nearly wept. Holymotherofbatman! Speechless!
But every bit presently every bit I stopped weeping, I noticed that those DHC products that are no longer available inwards stores inwards Nippon (for whatever reason), are silent sold overseas.
Today's trio belongs to this category. I snagged it on sale, because, seemingly, it was beingness phased out of in-store assortment inwards Japan. I haven't seen it listed inwards the DHC straight mailing catalog either.
You can, however, silent club it on the Japanese DHC website. The query is whether or non you'd desire to, if you lot had to pay total cost for it?
So, let's endeavor to respond it. Shall we?
And alongside that inwards mind, I'd similar to innovate today's contestants:
DHC Kakonjuka (or Kakon Juka) line.
Yes, every bit you've belike noticed, I guide maintain this unhealthy habit of buying non only i production from a exceptional line, but the whole damn thing. All the bits, whether I remove them or not.
On i manus it's real convenient, because I tin meet whether the products function separately, or together, together with tin determine the best combination for the best results. If at that spot are whatever results, that is.
On the other hand, skilful grief! I guide maintain likewise much materials already! I don't remove to a greater extent than skincare products!
Still, I abhor piffling piecemeal, together with because they were all on sale, I only got the entire DHC Kakonjuka line:
- - DHC Kakonjuka Lotion (80ml)
- - DHC Kakonjuka Essence (25ml)
and
- - DHC Kakonjuka Cream (30grams).
What the eff is this Kakonjuka anyway, I hear you lot say.
It's pronounced ka-kon-ju-ka, together with agency “flower, root, tree, fruit” inwards Japanese (花根樹果).
With a cite similar that you'd await it to travel total of extracts together with good-for-you natural stuff? Right?
Some bloggers, similar Musings of a Muse, brutal for this clitoris a fast i on together with said that Kakonjuka is "all natural skincare".
Of course of didactics that's a crock of kaka, every bit nosotros volition shortly see.
Kakonjuka is "all natural" inwards virtually the same way that I am an innocent, blushing virgin.
Having said that, it's non a bad line. But is it every bit corking at DHC would similar us to believe? Heck no.
Let's initiative off alongside the DHC Kakonjuka Lotion - 80ml.
Some bloggers were confused why it's called a "lotion".
So hither you lot guide maintain it - it's called a "lotion", because that's what nosotros telephone band toners inwards Japan. It's non a lotion inwards the western sense. It's a toner. And every bit most toners, it goes on your confront later cleansing to prep the peel for the balance of your skincare products.
Kakonjuka Lotion is supposed to plump together with hydrate your face. DHC says that it contains vi Asian botanicals to "prepare your complexion for your moisturizer together with promote collagen for firmer peel together with fewer visible fine lines."
Those botanicals are: maitake mushroom, Platycarya strobilacea, corking burnet, purslane, reishi mushroom together with licorice.
The lotion has a pretty thick texture. DHC calls it "rich" together with "serum-like." It absorbs completely together with doesn't travel out a viscous layer. It has a vague earthy aroma together with is alcohol-free. So that's the skilful stuff.
Now for the bad. The botanicals are at the real halt of the ingredient list, which agency they practise diddly squat. I approximate the exclusively argue they are there, together with hence the companionship could say they are there.
DHC Kakonjuka Lotion ingredients:
water/aqua/eau, dipropylene glycol, glycerin, propanediol, pentylene glycol, butylene glycol, phenoxyethanol, glycosyl trehalose, acrylates/C10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer, hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, arginine, grifola frondosa fruiting trunk extract, maltodextrin, xanthan gum, aureobasidium pullulans ferment, hydrolyzed platycarya strobilacea fruit extract, hydroxypropyl cyclodextrin, polyquaternium-51, glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice) foliage extract, sodium hyaluronate, ziyu glycoside I, portulaca oleracea extract, olea europaea (olive) foliage extract, ganoderma lucidum (mushroom) stalk extract, ethylhexylglycerin
My opinion:
I noticed decent hydration together with null plumping. Firmer peel together with fewer lines? Hahaha!!! Surely you lot didn't accept that production blurb seriously.
So, does it practise anything? Yes, it does. It's a real basic, alcohol-free toner that does what a basic toner is supposed to. It's perfectly serviceable, it doesn't build my confront erupt inwards angry cysts, together with its fragrance doesn't build my eyes water. In fact, the earthy aroma is sort of refreshing.
But if you're expecting fewer wrinkles together with other bells together with whistles, you lot are looking at the incorrect product.
Next upwardly nosotros have: DHC Kakonjuka Essence - 25ml.
We guide maintain the same vi botanicals at the real halt of the ingredient list. And nosotros guide maintain the same lofty promises of firmer skin. Hahaha!
I'm non going to give you lot a detailed summary of what each extract is supposed to travel doing, because trust me, at that spot isn't plenty of whatever of them to practise anything. Except, only similar inwards the illustration of the lotion described above, justify the product's cute name.
The bottle is tiny, it holds exclusively 25ml of product. But at to the lowest degree it has a pump.
The essence is off white inwards color, has the same earthy aroma together with is alcohol-free. It provided my peel alongside only plenty hydration to rest sane during the ridiculously hot together with humid Japanese summers.
It didn't intermission me out, it absorbed completely. It worked alongside the cream from the same line, every bit good every bit alongside a dissimilar laid of products. In short, zip to complain about.
DHC Kakonjuka Essence ingredients:
water/aqua/eau, dipropylene glycol, glycerin, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, propanediol, ethylhexyl palmitate, pentylene glycol, dimethicone, glycosyl trehalose, glyceryl stearate, limnanthes alba (meadowfoam) seed oil, hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, butylene glycol, bisabolol, behenyl alcohol, polysorbate 80, PEG-75 stearate, phenoxyethanol, carbomer, arginine, grifola frondosa fruiting trunk extract, maltodextrin, hydrolyzed platycarya strobilacea fruit extract, hydroxypropyl cyclodextrin, tocopherol, polyquaternium-51, citrus grandis (grapefruit) seed extract, glyccyrrhiza glabra (licorice) foliage extract, ziyu glycoside I, portulaca olearacea extract, olea europaea (olive) foliage extract, ganoderma lucidum (mushroom) stalk extract
My opinion:
DHC Kakonjuka Essence is a basic, no-frills essence that gives basic, no-frills moisture. Any additional benefits are, to a greater extent than probable than not, purely a placebo effect.
And in conclusion nosotros have: DHC Kakonjuka Cream - thirty grams.
DHC Kakonjuka Cream intensive confront moisturizer "features vi nourishing, antioxidant-rich botanicals—used for centuries inwards Asia—to plump together with hydrate your complexion. Promotes collagen for firmer peel together with fewer visible fine lines together with wrinkles." That's what DHC says.
The cream is i time to a greater extent than off white together with has a "natural" smell. Again, the vi draw
It turned out to travel a perfect 24-hour interval cream. It moisturized only enough, it absorbed completely, it left the peel feeling soft together with smooth.
It worked corking nether makeup, it didn't intermission me out together with I didn't notice whatever adverse reactions.
DHC Kakonjuka Cream ingredients:
water/aqua/eau, dimethicone, ethylhexyl palmitate, propanediol, behenyl alcohol, beeswax, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, glycerin, cylcopentasiloxane, glyceryl stearate, pentylene glycol, limnanthes alba (meadowfoam) seed oil, octyldodecyl myristate, PEG-75 stearate, polysorbate 60, butylene glycol, bisabolol, glycosyl trehalose, phenoxyethanol, hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, grifola frondosa fruiting trunk extract, maltodextrin, hydrolyzed platycarya strobilacea fruit extract, hydroxypropyl cyclodextrin, tocopherol, polyquaternium-51, arginine, sodium hyaluronate, citrus grandis (grapefruit) seed extract, glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice) foliage extract, ziyu glycoside I, portulaca oleracea extract, olea europaea (olive) foliage extract, ganoderma lucidum (mushroom) stalk extract
My opinion:
DHC Kakonjuka Cream, similar the balance of this line, is a decent, basic cream that serves a decent, basic purpose.
I wanted to attempt the moisturizing claims, together with I must say, I was pleasantly surprised.
Here you lot guide maintain the before together with later results when using the entire set:
Not likewise shabby, I'd say.
And if you lot are interested, here's this test:
Final thoughts on DHC Kakonjuka line:
The Kakonjuka trouble has turned out to travel precisely what DHC is famous for - a solid laid of skincare products that are depression key, efficient, no frills, together with doing, at to the lowest degree partially, what they're supposed to inwards that unassuming DHC way.
But the packaging... Oh gods, the packaging is awful. Just awful. Looks inexpensive together with trashy.
For all 3 products I paid the equivalent of US$25.00. There were cheap.
Will I repurchase?
If I guide maintain to pay the total cost - no.
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