The Inkey List - Snow Mushroom - First Impressions

 I cannot stand product pilling! 
You think you have a lovely skincare routine all lined up - it's going beautifully - you're all soft-skinned and glowy and looking forward to finishing off with a gorgeous facial oil - and then suddenly - it's all ruined by the facial oil pilling on your skin and everything feels all bitty and undone!

It's taken me several months, but I think I have uncovered the mystery of why some facial oils pill in my skincare routine. 

I think the culprit is Hyaluronic Acid!
Again, not all products including Hyaluronic Acid, but some - there doesn't seem to be any more rhyme or reason to it than that!

So, what to do? Products containing HA are an absolutely vital skincare step for me personally. I need that extra layer of deep hydration that HA affords. And facial oils are also an essential step in my routine - I can't imagine not including a gorgeous oil every morning and/or evening. But - I really cannot abide that feeling you get from product pilling and would rather leave out the HA step.

I think I may have discovered an alternative - I can still get my hydration and enjoy facial oils in my routine without them pilling.

The Inkey List - Snow Mushroom
£9.99 for 30ml.

I first encountered the use of Snow Mushroom (Tremella Fuciformis) in skincare via the Pure Savvy brand. Pure Savvy use Snow Mushroom in their Eye to Eye Serum and also in their Come Hell or High Water Micellar Water.
I was instantly smitten and seriously impressed by the hydrating qualities of these products - you absolutely cannot beat Eye to Eye for under eye hydration.
You can read my reviews of Come Hell or High Water* here and the Eye to Eye Serum* here (*PR Samples).

After reading up about Snow Mushroom, I was mightily impressed by it's powers!
Snow Mushroom acts in the same way as Hyaluronic Acid, which can hold up to 1000 times its weight in water, but Snow Mushrooms particles are even smaller than HA, so it can penetrate the skin easier.

So when I saw that The Inkey List offered a Snow Mushroom hydrator, I leaped at the chance to buy it and try it out.

Claims
The INKEY List Snow Mushroom is a super hydrating, lightweight jelly moisturiser, that helps to soothe, calm and reduce the appearance of redness while providing an instant cooling effect.

Ingredients
Aqua (Water/ Eau), Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Caproyl Prolinate, Lecithin,Tremella Fuciformis (Mushroom) Extract, Carbomer, Madecassoside, Sodium Hydroxide, Ethylhexylglycerin, Glyceryl Polyacrylate, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate.


First Impressions
A light gel texture with no discernible scent. Apply before using your preferred serums in your Am and/or Pm routines.

The Snow Mushroom serum is less runny than the hyaluronic acids that I've used, so to me, it already feels more substantial on my skin. However, despite it's slightly firmer texture, it feels like it absorbs into my skin so much better. In fact, it absorbs completely - there is absolutely no tacky residue after using the Snow Mushroom serum which is something that I've noticed happens after using most products which contain HA.
My skin just feels totally hydrated and very at ease and ready to receive any other serums or treatments in my routine.

 It's an incredibly soothing and cooling sensation on application, which makes it the ideal serum if your skin is feeling sensitive or out of sorts.

 But the best thing? No pilling when following up with facial oils. I even used my most 'difficult' facial oil that I've found incredibly hard to fit into routines due to it's propensity to pill and was delighted to find out that it applied beautifully without any pilling whatsoever. Result!!

 Finding The Inkey List Snow Mushroom has been a real skincare epiphany. I'm absolutely delighted with how quickly and easily it's slotted into my skincare routine. I'm loving these initial results. But moreover, I feel so happy that I may have finally solved that perennial riddle of product pilling!

Comments

  1. rendezvousgreen14 August 2019 at 11:35

    Wahou I never of this before! If it penetrats the skin even better than HA I have to try!!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Reana PK15 June 2022 at 23:11

    inkey list retinol with vitamin C, benzoyl peroxide, and AHA/BHA acids. AHA and BHA acids are exfoliating, which can dry out skin and cause further irritation if your skincare routine already includes retinol. As for benzoyl peroxide and retinol, they cancel each other out.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Morning Skincare Routine - May

Image
  For the past few weeks I haven't been washing my face in the morning! I'm a great fan of the double-cleanse method, but then I read somewhere about not needing to double-cleanse in the morning if you double-cleanse at night. It was advised that you start your morning routine with the toner step, skipping out oil cleansers and foaming washes (or whatever double-cleansing products you use) altogether. Now it's not like I'd jump off a cliff if the internet told me to, but this made a bit of sense to me - why add more potentially drying/stripping/exfoliating products when there was no make-up to remove?   And this has worked out brilliantly well for me personally. I'd go so far as to say that I could currently change my skin status from combination/oily to NORMAL! I've noticed that by just toning in the morning, the oiliness on my face has calmed right down. And better still, I haven't had to blot in the day and very rarely use any type of powd...
Read more

Flower Beauty ~ Light Illusion Foundation ~ First Impressions

Image
  Flower Beauty ~ Light Illusion Foundation £12.99 at Superdrug BUY HERE   I'd never heard of Flower Beauty before, let alone that it was a cruelty-free makeup range by Drew Barrymore. And I'll be honest, I bought it because I liked the look and sound of it! It took a while to get my hands on some too. Superdrug announced that they would be stocking the brand, although it must be available only in the bigger stores as it's not yet reached Norwich and I had to buy this online - completely without testing it first or even being sure about a colour match.   The shade I opted for, 'Nude', was unavailable for ages online but as soon as I got the notification email that it was back in stock, I ordered right away.   I'm not generally keen on buying foundations online without having first at least gotten a colour match - usually, this spells disaster and a product that I end up discarding quite quickly. But I struck gold with choosing the 'Nude...
Read more

TonyMoly ~ The Fresh Phytoncide Pore Gel Cream Review

Image
TonyMoly  ~The Fresh Phytoncide Pore Gel Cream   I'm coming to the end of this pot of pore gel cream which I have been using everyday, both morning and evening since I opened it nearly two months ago. But typically, there seems to be very little information about this online and it doesn't seem to be readily stocked and easy to buy!   I picked this up from T.K Maxx, which could explain why it doesn't seem like a popular product online (and I mean popular in readily available) as it was possibly an end of line product, hence the reason why it ended up in T.K Maxx.   The product   The Fresh Phytoncide pore cream gel is a lightweight gel cream in the same vein as the water/aqua gels. It contains 100% pure Hinoki Cypress Water instead of distilled water. The cream is suited for oily/combination skin and acne troubled skin and enlarged pores.   Ingredients The writing on the pot is all in Korean but I found a list of ingredients on th...
Read more