Hello... It's me...
Is in that place anyone withal reading this blog?
I am dorsum as well as hopefully, this time, I volition rest back. I mean, I volition rest here. Blogging.
So...
What was I doing when I wasn't here? Many things. Mainly working.
Cleansing. Applying toners as well as serums. And creams.
And, of course, sunblock.
I am 1 of these super annoying women who apply sunscreen pelting or shine. Go ahead, loathe me. I tin accept it.
Contrary to what many, maaaany beauty bloggers think, UV protection is of import fifty-fifty on cloudy days. Even inwards winter. Even when y'all are at abode or inwards your car, but your windows are non covered yesteryear UV blocking coating or curtains.
Paradoxically, clouds tin fifty-fifty heighten UV exposure. Scientists figured it out dorsum inwards the 1960s as well as it's actually surprising that this fact is non to a greater extent than widely known. It's also surprising that UV forecasts practise non accept the cloud enhancement of UV (as it is scientifically known) into line of piece of work organisation human relationship when well... forecasting UV stuff.
The American Scientist did a whole write upwards on this paradox hither - Sunshine on a Cloudy Day. Don't worry, they used tardily English linguistic communication as well as avoided long, scientific words whenever possible.
So yes, in that place y'all receive got it. Even on a cloudy hateful solar daytime it's of import to slather on that sunblock.
But don't halt reading merely yet.
Guess what?
It gets worse.
You yell upwards y'all are rubber sitting nether a beach umbrella, or carrying a UV parasol? Nope. You're not. The sun's rays are reflected off other surfaces, similar sand for example, as well as withal larn to you. I told you, hold slathering on that sunblock.
Empty beach inwards Antigua - my favorite kind
You yell upwards y'all are rubber inwards wintertime as well as tin skip UV protection then? Unless y'all live higher upwards the Arctic Circle as well as pass your wintertime months inwards total darkness, y'all can't. If it snows a lot where y'all live, y'all are shit out of luck as well as should live using sunscreen daily. Why? Because snowfall as well as H2O ice bounce dorsum almost 80% of the rays. But it's cloudy, I take heed y'all say... OK, as well as thus click on the link above, the 1 almost what clouds practise to UV rays, as well as read it 1 to a greater extent than time.
And don't give me those lame excuses that clueless beauty bloggers are thus fond of. That using sunscreen volition give y'all vitamin D deficiency. Oh please...
This is a mutual misconception. First, most people don’t apply sunscreen good plenty to forbid peel from producing vitamin D. Second, y'all postulate much less fourth dimension inwards the Sun to build adequate levels than y'all mightiness think. If your peel merely kept making vitamin D inwards reply to sunlight, it would accomplish toxic levels, explains Day. After fifteen minutes or so, the organisation overloads as well as production stops. Being tan isn’t a skillful indicator of salubrious vitamin D levels, says Ronnie Klein, MD, assistant professor, Yale Dermatology. One classic written report of Hawaiian surfers flora that although all participants were tanned, many were withal vitamin D deficient. “You tin larn plenty vitamin D from a mix of diet, supplements, as well as incidental Sun exposure,” says Klein.
Quote from here.
So yeah, y'all volition non larn rickets if y'all purpose sunscreen. What y'all volition larn if y'all DON'T purpose sunscreen is peel cancer. And that's a fact.
And oh yeah, y'all volition also facial expression aged, wrinkled as well as splotchy.
Your choice.
Obviously, amongst all that inwards mind, choosing a proper sunscreen is a big deal. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 very, real big deal. And yes, I know that theoretically "sunscreen" as well as "sunblock" are ii dissimilar things, but who cares? For the sake of clarity, I volition purpose both words interchangeably. Because fifty-fifty "sunblock" may non practise what you've been told it does, but that's a theme for merely about other post, merely about other time...
Anyway, where were we?
Ah yes, choosing sunscreen.
Because skillful UV protection is real important, choosing a skillful sunscreen is also important.
Unfortunately, today's contestant is non 1 of them.
Koh Gen Do Watery UV Gel SPF 50+ PA++++
Or Koh Gen Do Lord's Day Protect UV Spa Gel SPF 50+ PA++++, or whatever the fack the official nurture of this damn thing is. I wishing Japanese companies would larn their shit together when it comes to naming their products. Sometimes it tin live surprisingly hard to figure out what the official nurture is.
First things first.
I'm a HUGE Koh Gen Do fangirl. I love their stuff. Because 99% of the fourth dimension their stuff is awesome. This is, unfortunately, that remaining 1%.
I bought my subway scheme of Koh Gen Do Watery UV Gel SPF50+ PA++++ lastly summer. And threw inwards the Koh Gen Do UV Cut Spa Lip Treatment y'all tin run into above. Mercifully that abomination has been discontinued every bit of this year. It was vile as well as horrible, as well as if yesteryear "treatment" Koh Gen Do meant "we're going to dry out out as well as destroy your lips", as well as thus they definitely did their job.
Anyway, dorsum to the sunscreen.
Koh Gen Do Watery UV Gel SPF50+ PA++++ a.k.a. Koh Gen Do Lord's Day Protect UV Spa Gel SPF 50+ PA++++ has been raved almost on the Asian Beauty subreddit, proclaimed to live a "holy grail" of sunscreens as well as all sorts of other wonderful things.
The companionship was waxing poetic almost it on their website, too.
Here y'all receive got the mangled google chrome translation of the Japanese page:
Waterproof, they said.
No white cast, they claimed.
Magical onsen H2O from Izumo inwards it, they proudly announced.
The side yesteryear side generation sunscreen, they boasted.
The side yesteryear side generation? They went from null straight off to warp ix amongst this stuff.
The bar has been laid real high.
And what?
And well...
Nothing really.
It felt prissy on the skin. It was real cosmetically elegant amongst merely the slightest hint of whiteness. It moisturized. It felt similar a serum.
As y'all tin run into below, it's indeed real watery upon application. They didn't lie.
But that's almost it.
As a sunblock it was woefully inadequate. Inadequate to the betoken of sunburn.
I'm non a sunscreen virgin. I practise know how to purpose them. I accept my Sun protection real seriously. I've been applying sunscreen for to a greater extent than years than merely about of my readers receive got been alive. I know when a sunscreen does what it was formulated to do, as well as when a sunscreen merely looks awesome inwards a subway scheme as well as does nil on the skin.
In all fairness, I should receive got stopped using it when I outset had a nagging suspicion that it did nothing. But... it was Koh Gen Do,and I love Koh Gen Do!
So I stupidly stuck amongst it until my confront was tanned as well as discolored.
It took a blunt comment from an assertive friend to finally confront the reality.
And the reality correct at nowadays is such that I volition postulate Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation handling to withdraw the discoloration. I've already booked my engagement for the outset circular of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation therapy. At to the lowest degree it's an excuse to larn to Tokyo...
So yes, this is my story amongst the Koh Gen Do Watery UV Gel SPF 50+ PA++++, which turned out to live a costly as well as totally ineffective dud.
Use at your ain risk.
What? No airless pump? For that form of money, I expected better.
I withal love Koh Gen Do, but I am going to give their Sun protection a broad move yesteryear from at nowadays on. Once burned (literally inwards this case), twice shy.
You desire to run into what's within this thing?
My pleasance (and my translation).
Koh Gen Do Watery UV Gel SPF50+ PA++++ ingredients:
a.k.a.
Koh Gen Do Lord's Day Protect UV Spa Gel SPF 50+ PA++++ ingredients:
This "spa water" is something that is worth taking a closer facial expression at. It's listed every bit "onsensui" above, translated to "onsen water".
Onsens are Japanese natural hot springs. They are everywhere here. You tin literally poke the solid soil amongst a stick as well as hot H2O volition come upwards out. You don't fifty-fifty postulate to live named Moses.
Proof - hot H2O shooting upwards from the solid soil correct inwards the middle of my favorite onsen town - Kusatsu inwards Gunma prefecture. The H2O is bloody hot, reeks of sulphur as well as makes the whole town odour similar the gates of hell. Yet they withal purpose it their local skincare products.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 for certain skincare build from Singapore that has "onsen" inwards its nurture volition elbow grease to tell y'all that solely THEIR products incorporate the solely hot saltation H2O approved for purpose inwards cosmetics yesteryear the Japanese government. That, of course, is utter bullshit. Onsens are regulated yesteryear private prefectures, as well as quite a few pop hot springs receive got their ain skincare lines every bit well.
Yep, that's where Izumo is.
I haven't been to Izumo (but I desire to! Izumo Taisha is calling my name!) as well as I don't know anything almost the hot saltation where Koh Gen Do sources its H2O from. But I'm for certain it's suitably fancy for a fancy build similar Koh Gen Do. However, here's something interesting almost "onsensui" inwards full general - regardless of its chemic composition, it's withal water. After talking amongst a cosmetic pharmacist almost the naming rules for hot saltation water, I realized that no affair how unique the brand's PR materials larn far sound, H2O is withal water. And inwards the EU, it's withal listed every bit "Aqua", mayhap amongst a side explanation that it came from a hot spring.
But what does Koh Gen Do do?
It lists "normal" H2O every bit the outset ingredient, as well as and thus downward the line, betwixt hydrogen dimethicone as well as birch sap, there's our onsensui. So basically, they listing "water" twice inwards their factor list. How special!
Also, maybe I am blind (very possible, I practise postulate novel contacts ASAP), but I could non respect anywhere the chemic composition of this magical hot saltation H2O from Izumo. Without that, I don't give ii shits almost where that H2O is from. I desire a printed as well as confirmed analysis. All licensed onsens are required to build the chemic composition of their H2O populace as well as shipping service it inwards a house where their clients tin easily run into it.
Otherwise, this H2O mightiness receive got come upwards from the tap at Koh Gen Do's real ain swanky Azabu Juban salon as well as we'd live none the wiser.
So yeah, my love favorite brand, if you're claiming magical hot saltation H2O inwards your Spa line, I desire to run into the chemic analysis. Receipts, or it didn't happen.
My lastly sentiment almost Koh Gen Do Watery UV Gel SPF50+ PA++++ a.k.a. Koh Gen Do Lord's Day Protect UV Spa Gel SPF 50+ PA++++?
Hahaha! You gotta live kidding me, KohGenDo! What is this nonsense as well as why is it thus expensive?
You had plenty mutual feel to discontinue the abomination known every bit Koh Gen Do UV Cut Spa Lip Treatment, thus at nowadays practise something almost this damn sunscreen!!!
Ok, speaking of Koh Gen Do UV Cut Spa Lip Treatment (it tin withal live flora inwards merely about stores)...
This is probably, hands down, the most horrible UV lip protector I own. Fancl comes inwards every bit a unopen second, but KohGenDo definitely claims the top prize.
And it was supposed to live thus lovely...
It's horribly drying. Horribly, intensely drying. It sucks the life out of your lips. But amongst a hint of color.
Looks nice, doesn't it? Sadly, looks tin live deceiving.
And hither a swatch:
See? Just a hint of color.
No ingredients for you, because it's a discontinued production anyway. But if y'all run into it somewhere as well as create upwards one's heed to purchase it, don't complain subsequently on. You've been warned.
As for the sunblock, meh... There are improve choices out there.
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