su:m37 Flawless Regenerating Eye Cream review

Recently I finished my last sample of su:m37 eye cream, so it's time to review! It's my first su:m product and I was encouraged to try it by few very positive reviews on other blogs, including My Asian Skincare Story. Let's see how it worked for me.

Product description: Eye cream with fermented ingredients, smooths and regenerates eye area.

Why fermentation is such a big deal? In general fermented (in other words broken down) ingredients nourish our skin better than normal ingredients and are able to penetrate our skin better. Our body is home for over a 10 thousand different microorganisms - some of them are using fermentation to help cells get energy. Su:m37 has copied this process and created a fermentation complex, that includes five types of microorganism fermentation: Sphingobacterium, Sphingomonas, Corynebacterium, Lactobacillus and Bacillus.

Except of microorganism fermentation we can also find many other fermented ingredients in this cream, like fermented extracts of rice, licorice, Ginkgo Biloba, lavender, thyme, raspberry, soybean, olive... and many many more. There are also oils: anise, rose, lime, clove, rosemary, May Chang, Ylang-ylang. And since we are talking about fermentation they couldn't skip Saccharomyces, type of yeast, one of the best known fermented ingredients, famous thanks to"first essence" type of products, like SK-II Treatment Essence or Missha First Treatment Essence.

Full list of the ingredients you can find here.  

For me the full size version of this product is very expensive, so despite of positive reviews from people I trust, I still wouldn't buy full size straight away. I ordered set of 10 samples from Tester Korea, which has been recommended to me as a reliable source of genuine samples. Samples are also available on e-Bay, but not from any of my trusted sellers, so I didn't want to take the risk.

The cream itself has great texture, thick and rich. I love rich eye creams, I like to feel my eye cream under my eyes. Despite of thick texture, cream absorbs into skin quite well, it takes about a minute or so, giving us a little bit of time for gentle eye massage. After is absorbs fully it doesn't leave any residue or film on the skin, so it's perfect to use with make up. Cream is very moisturising and nourishing. It has very characteristic, herbal scent, which I don't mind, but some people may find it unpleasant. In general it was nice to use and I enjoyed testing it out.

As for the results, I wasn't really sure if it did anything for me except moisturising, so I decided to take a picture and make a little comparison:

As you can see I have three major concerns with my eye area: dark circles, under eye bags and two horizontal lines under lower eyelid. My dark circles were always there, since my childhood.  It's just the blood vessels being close to the skin surface and causing the purplish cast on the skin, there is no fix to this, eye cream won't help. My under eye bags turned out to be a "tear through", a lack of tissue underneath the skin on the eye socket line, causing the illusion of puffiness. Again, eye cream won't solve this problem, only filling will, for example hyaluronic acid injections. At the moment I'm using special creams with non-invasive filling substances, which I will write more about soon. The third problem of my eye area are wrinkles, which been there for a while. Actually the deeper one, the one closer to the lash line has been there always, I found it even on pictures where I'm 13 years old. So again, no eye cream will fix this, it's just the part of my feature. The only concern that eye cream could help with is the lower wrinkle, that is actual sign of ageing.

So, did su:m37 addressed my wrinkle problem? I'm not sure to be honest. Firstly I was sure, that there is no difference, now when I look at this photos I may see a subtle difference, the wrinkles seem shorter on the newest photo. What do you think, can you see any difference there?

What I'm sure of it's that su:m37 kept my eye area moisturised and restrained my wrinkles a little bit (when skin is dry wrinkles appear deeper). I wonder if effect would be any better if I would continue using this cream for longer - I may come back to it one day, but at the moment I've already started testing another eye cream. It may be good to use as a prophylactic, to prevent my wrinkles from deepening, but I must admit that I'm a bit reluctant - if I start using such an expensive product i my twenties, what would I use in my forties, pure gold?

Price: from £80 for 20ml jar. I bought set of 10 samples, 1ml each, for approx. £2.

Pros:
+ moisturising and nourishing
+ rich texture
+ absorbs easily
+ keeps my wrinkles restrained
+ impressive list of ingredients
+ a little goes a very long way - 10 samples lasted me for two months of use

Cons:
- pricey
- popular among counterfeiters - you need to be careful and make sure you buy it from reliable source
- a bit odd smell

Summary:
I'm glad I could test this product and put something higher end on my face, as usually my skincare regimen is build on much cheaper products. But even though I quite enjoyed using it, I won't buy full size version - at the moment I simply cannot afford it, also I'm not sure if I liked it enough to spend £80 on it. Still, I think it's worth to buy some samples since quite a few people claim it to be miracle product. With less than £2 for two month supply in samples it's worth checking out. For now I say goodbye to Flawless Eye Cream, but I do plan buy some other su:m37 samples.