I
first saw the TATCHA products on QVC around a year ago when Vickie Tsai
introduced her brand. Her skin was so damaged from testing cosmetics for
science that she sold all her possessions and bought a book on the skin secrets
of the Japanese Geisha. This book, supposedly, holds the secrets she used to
fix her skin and share with the world how Geishas keep their skin perfect. It
is a very expensive line and the travel size of products would sell out
immediately so I could never get my hands on them to try. Then, one day I was
looking around the “aisle of doom” in Sephora (all the travel size products
lining the checkout line—my favorite place to look, actually) and saw the
Classic Rice Enzyme Powder in a travel size and snatched it up ($15 for 0.35
oz). I immediately went home and checked Sephora.com and found the travel-size
Pure One Step Camellia Cleansing Oil ($12 for 0.8 oz). The cleansing oil and
rice enzyme powder are supposed to be a one-two punch for cleansing your skin,
and improving it. TATCHA is a cruelty-free brand and these products are
formulated without parabens, phthalates, synthetic fragrance, mineral oil, DEA,
etc.
The
Pure One Step Camellia Cleansing Oil is supposed to remove your most stubborn
makeup while cleansing your skin. It contains vitamins to nourish the skin, camellia
oil to remove makeup and HADASEI-3 complex (a blend of ingredients to protect
the skin). You pump about a quarter-size amount of the product onto dry hands
and massage it onto your dry face and then rinse. To me, this didn’t do the
greatest job at removing my makeup. Granted, I usually wear a full-coverage
foundation, but the hype is that this will take off your waterproof,
long-lasting makeup. I still had a bunch of makeup left on my face and always
had to use a normal cleanser after to get the rest of my makeup off and
actually cleanse my skin. It did leave my skin feeling super soft.
The
Polished Classic Rice Enzyme Powder is a chemical exfoliator. That may sound
scary, but I actually prefer chemical exfoliators to physical ones. Physical
exfoliators have beads in them that I find to harsh for my skin, and they are
bad for the environment because they do not breakdown. Chemical exfoliators
don’t have the same scrubbing sensations, but use enzymes and other ingredients
to exfoliate your skin. This exfoliator contains rice bran and papaya extracts
to exfoliate, decrease hyperpigmentation and breakouts and even out skintone,
pearl to condition the skin and HADASEI-3 complex to protect the skin. For the
Rice Enzyme Powder, you pour about ½ a teaspoon of the powder into your wet
hands, add water to create a foam, then massage it onto your wet face and
rinse. This is a gentle exfoliator and it did not irritate my skin at all. I
used this in the morning to wash and exfoliate my face. It left my skin smooth,
as the cleansing oil did, but again nothing earth-shattering.
For
two products that are on the skin for such a short amount of time, I wouldn’t
purchase the full size of either the cleansing oil ($48 for 5.1 oz) or rice
enzyme powder ($65 for 2.1 oz.). Though both left my skin feeling nice, my less
expensive skincare products achieve the same results. I would be interested to
try her skin care items (e.g., serum, moisturizer), but they will cost you $100
and above…
Have
you tried any TATCHA products? Let me know your thoughts on TATCHA!
Disclaimer:
All products are purchased by me or my lovely husband unless otherwise noted in
the post. All opinions are 100% honest and my own. I do not provide positive
reviews for payment. Products that work for me may not necessarily work for
you. This post is not sponsored.
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