After over 9 months of use I finally used up Skin Food Salmon Eye Cream. I loved it and decided to try other eye cream from the same brand. Black Raspberry cream caught my attention as it looks just like pot of homemade jam!
Note: Black raspberry is not the same thing a blackberry. Black raspberry is type of berry native to eastern North America. Here is an article on how to tell it apart from blackberry.
Product description: This herbal medicinal anti-wrinkle eye cream contains black raspberry extract, and jayangboeumdan and cheongyeondan extracted from 12 kinds of oriental medicinal herbs that have traditionally been used by women to treat rough, dry skin. It provides deep miniaturisation to skin in eye areas. Anti-wrinkle adenosine adds resilience to skin, keeping it healthy-looking.
The original product is a cute looking, glass jar, containing 25g of cream. I ordered from e-Bay set of 10 sample sachets. One sachet lasts for 4-5 applications.
The first thing that I noticed about this product is it's weird smell. In general Skin Food is a little bit unpredictable with scents: Peach Pact has gorgeous smell of peaches, but Pineapple peeling gel doesn't smell like pineapple - but the scent's have always been nice, like Tomato serum or Salmon eye cream, that have lovely floral scents. But this cream is neither the raspberry nor anything floral. It has quite strong, earthy scent, hard to describe. I have very sensitive nose, so I could smell the weird scent all the way from opening the sachet, through application and the moment after. It is bearable, but not very pleasant. However after couple of uses I got used to it and now it doesn't bother me at all.
Cream has lovely, rich consistency, which I really like in eye creams. Immediately after use I can feel that my eye area is well hydrated, soothed and smooth. The cream is thick, but glides easily on the skin and what's really good - it absorbes into matte finish (the Salmon cream I was using before, was leaving skin shiny). Even though it's rich, it's not greasy.
As for the results - I am using this cream for just two weeks now, twice a day and skin around my eyes is in excellent condition - smooth and nourished. When I apply cream in the morning I don't experience any dryness of the skin during the day. When I apply in the evening skin still feel lovely in the morning.
Because I use it only from two weeks or so, it's hard to tell about cream's anti-wrinkle properties. I have only one wrinkle in eye's area - it's "smiling" wrinkle under the eye, starting from inside corner of the eye and stretching horizontally. It is there from always (I got it there even on the pictures when I was like 14 yrs old), so it's more part of my feature than sign of ageing, but when my skin area is irritated and/or dried out it appears much deeper. During the usage of this cream it appears neat and small ;)
Price: from £10 on e-Bay, I paid £3 for set of 10 samples.
Pros:
+ nice, rich texture
+ well moisturising
+ leaves skin smooth
+ reduces appearance of wrinkles by keeping skin moisturised and nourished
+ a little goes a long way
+ non-greasy
Cons:
- weird smell
- it doesn't do much about puffiness - but it doesn't promise to do so, so it's only like half-con ;)
In general I am very pleased with this product and I am seriously thinking about getting full size :)
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