Update:
Unfortunately equally of Oct 5, 2015 Dowaja is no longer opened upwardly for business.
My get-go ever subscription box unboxing.
Wow! Exciting!
And it should be, because it took a flake of endeavour to larn my hands on this subscription.
Why? Because it’s Glossybox from Korea.
The squad behind Dowaja shopping service was responsible for getting the September edition of Korean Glossybox to me, together with they did a stellar job. When I get-go heard nigh Dowaja, which is an English linguistic communication speaking buying together with forwarding service based inward Korea, I at i time saw it equally an chance to larn my hands on a Korean beauty subscription box.
After reading nigh other people’s experiences alongside Dowaja, I decided to larn ahead together with give it a try. To live honest, my get-go impressions were non just all that positive.
The pop kids on the block (or the blog) were getting replies to their emails together with their deliveries inward tape time. And me? Well… Let’s only tell I was a rattling unhappy camper at first. But I am rattling pleased to tell that afterward my initial dissatisfaction, Dowaja fixed what needed fixing together with my experience alongside them turned out to live equally awesome equally everyone said it would be. I can’t recommend them enough.
(And no, this is non an affiliate link, I only think they are doing a fabulous job).
They ordered the box for me, they checked the contents of the box when it arrived at their office, they notified me that i especial was an aerosol tin together with thence impossible to transportation to me past times air.
They suggested options on how to solve this problem. They offered deluxe samples equally a replacement for the pressurized product. They read my hear together with picked the best deluxe samples ever.
I've used the peeling gel earlier together with it's da bomb! Dowaja clearly used their psychic powers to pick this laid for me.
They offered me different transportation options, they securely packaged my Glossybox together with mailed it out inward tape time. And it finally arrived yesterday.
And oh yeah, did I refer that Dowaja does it all inward English?
Yes folks, inward English.
Dowaja also provided me alongside a link to the contents of the box, but I chose non to await at it. I wanted to live surprised. However, I did stumble upon an unboxing somewhere deep inward the bowels of them innertubes past times full accident. But that alone made me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than curious, because people, crocodile oil.
This is what was inward the box (minus that i pressurized item, which was a shampoo), a nicely curated mix of western together with Korean products.
Clearly, some careful idea went into the selection. It wasn’t the slapdash, "stick whatsoever strange inexpensive crap inward there" subscription box that I together with so oftentimes reckon on western blogs.
Because yous tin specify your pare type when yous sign upwardly for the box, it looks similar what I got was the dry out pare version. Of course of report the especial that I was curious nigh the most was Codilus. Because, crocodile oil, folks, crocodile oil.
Apparently, snails, ass milk together with ocean Equus caballus farts based skincare is for amateurs. Crocodile is where it’s at now. And plainly crocodile stone oil skincare is a existent thing, too. I vaguely recall something nigh croc stone oil means dorsum when, when I was inward South Africa. But it was firmly inward the witchdoctor variety of remedies category.
And though dissimilar ocean horses together with starfish, croc stone oil skincare genuinely has a rattling fancy pedigree (all the means from the pharaohs apparently), the opinions on whether it plant or non are divided.
link here.
Ugh, my caput is nigh to explode.
And past times the way, did yous know that serpent stone oil is also a existent thing? Apparently.
I'm wondering when a brave Korean skincare fellowship decides to liberate a serpent stone oil cream. This should live interesting...
Anyway, dorsum to the September edition of Korea's Glossybox.
As it's customary alongside subscription boxes, nosotros accept a laid of information cards:
Yes, you're seeing it right. That's Kamill mitt cream inward there, all the means from Germany.
Refinery 29 claims that Kamill mitt cream is genuinely pop inward Korea. Hmmm... curious that the Refinery's story comes out that same calendar month equally this box containing Kamill.
By the way, Ziaja, a Polish build that Poles are ever together with so fond of claiming how pop together with exclusive it is inward Korea, didn't build the list. Let's reckon if it volition demo upwardly inward whatsoever of my upcoming boxes.
So, inward all I got 4 products:
- Suiskin Enzyme Powder Wash (CMS Lab) 100ml
- Codilus Lord's Day Gel SPF50+ PA+++ 60ml
- Dr.G Bio-RTx™ Mentor Cream five for dry out pare 20ml
- Kamill Hand together with Nagelcreme Q10 20ml
The terms was around US$15 (or $16, don't recall exactly, but it was rattling affordable) addition Dowaja's 10% service accuse addition nigh five bucks air transportation (no tracking number).
All inward all, I am quite satisfied alongside the contents.
I am familiar alongside Dr.G Bio-RTx™ Mentor Cream 5 together with spell it's a perfectly serviceable product, my dry out pare prefers other options. It feels rattling plastic together with at to the lowest degree for me, it did non supply my pare alongside plenty moisture, fifty-fifty for twenty-four lx minutes menses use. At nighttime fourth dimension I demand industrial strength moisture, together with so this cream was strictly for twenty-four lx minutes menses use. And despite its "for dry out skin" tagline, it's definitely meant for pare that is less dry out than mine.
Update: This cream broke me out.
Dr.G Bio-RTx™ Mentor Cream 5 ingredients along alongside the analysis are hither - link.
Suiskin Enzyme Powder Wash is novel to me, though I've heard of the brand.
Suiskin website is here and hither is the intro to the brand as presented past times Hope inward a Blog.
The pulverisation is genuinely rattling finely granulated:
It dissolves completely, but I wasn't able to larn it to foam, no affair how difficult I tried.
Getting an accurate pH reading was tough. I wasn't able to practise it.
All I could determine was that the pulverisation is indeed inward a low-pH cleanser category.
Suiskin Enzyme Powder Wash ingredients:
As yous tin see, it contains Papain, together with so people sensitive to papaya extracts should non usage it.
By the way, the ingredients for this launder on cosDNA website practise non fit upwardly alongside the label. I'm going to trust the label.
And finally, the production I was genuinely curious nigh it.
Codilus Lord's Day Gel SPF50+ PA+++ Crocodile Oil together with Water Drop
As a sunblock fanatic, I was excited to reckon a novel (to me) sunblock inward the box. As a rattling picky sunblock fanatic, I was disappointed to reckon a sunblock I knew aught about.
All the information on the box together with the brand's website is inward Korean. I asked Joan from nonsonoquitter to aid me decipher what was going on.
She determined that the croc used is of the Australian variety, together with that this sunblock doesn't seem to live waterproof.
I'm genuinely funny when it comes to animate beingness ingredients inward my skincare. I reject to usage snail slime, because I empathise alongside the pitiful snails that are forced to hit to encounter the global slime demands.
I am reluctant to usage Equus caballus stone oil skincare, because c'mon, horses!
Emu oil? Hell no!!!
But crocodiles? No such reservations.
Crocodile oil? I'm all yours.
Heck, give me proper hunting gear together with I'll larn laid about me my croc stone oil myself.
And alongside that inward hear I unsealed the subway together with land tested on my arm. Yeah, crocodile stone oil is similar inward composition to human pare together with shouldn't drive whatsoever allergic reactions, but improve to live prophylactic than sorry.
The get-go thing that hitting me was the smell. Of alcohol. This was definitely Biore UV Aqua sunscreen level of ethanol.
Then, the texture.
They weren't kidding when they said stone oil together with H2O drop.
This is just what it was.
Again, I reckon for sure similarities to Biore sunscreens.
Codilus Lord's Day Gel SPF50+ PA+++ seemed rattling oily at first. Seemed, because at the same time, it wasn't.
Just similar Biore, it absorbed to lovely aught leaving null stickiness, null white cast, together with null filmy residue.
But dissimilar Biore, it was deliciously moisturizing.
It was lighter than Anessa (Shiseido) together with Allie (Kanebo) sunscreens. It reminded me of Astablanc (Kose) daily protector. It felt similar a moisturizing cream masquerading equally sunscreen.
Today it was sunny, together with so I bravely slathered it onto my face. Despite the high alcohol content, it gave me no adverse reaction. For question purposes, I topped it off alongside foundation together with it worked cracking nether makeup.
Honestly, this looks to live a rattling decent sunscreen suitable for dry out pare (if yous don't hear the fact that it contains ethanol).
Through brute force, together with alongside the aid of several different websites (including All of Cosmetics, HwaHae app, the amazing cistron information alongside names inward both Korean together with English linguistic communication courtesy of Sidmool, and this list) I translated the ingredients together with entered them into cosDNA.
Codilus Lord's Day Gel SPF50+ PA+++ ingredients together with analysis are hither - link to CosDNA.
Because plainly CosDNA doesn't accept crocodile stone oil inward its database, despite it having a valid INCI name, the stone oil dropped to the bottom of the list.
On the bundle it's listed correct afterward xanthan gum, for what it's worth.
I'm kinda curious nigh that Codilus Saleoleum Balm (which is already available on ebay together with Gmarket) now. And the mysterious Codilus Magma Cream which won an respect at the K-Beauty Expo in conclusion calendar month - link here, but can't live flora anywhere on line.
And that's it for my get-go Korean Glossybox.
Looking forwards to the Oct edition!
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