Trying out New Skincare

My mom gave me some Cocokind Skincare to try out. I love skincare and I feel to have flawless makeup. You need to have a good skincare routine. Plus in general skincare is self care to me. Taking care of yourself is important.

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Note: The information in this image is incorrect. They have since made the formula stronger. It is now 4% AHAs.

Brand: Cocokind

Product Type: Cleanser

Price: $18 USD

Size: 2.9 fl oz

✔️Clean Ingredients  ✔️Cruelty Free  ✔️Sustainable Packaging ✔️Vegan

Star Ingredients:

Hibiscus Flower Acids : Natural 4% AHAs that gently exfoliate

Fermented Grape Extract: Natural AHA + BHA to help exfoliate, decongest, minimize buildup, and decrease the appearance of pores

Betaine, Hyaluronic Acid, & Glycerin: Plump and soothe skin

Texture: Gel

Scent: 🌸🌸🌸

Smells sour and unpleasant due to the fermented grape extract. Vinegar-y.

Results: When I was wading through skincare blogs and articles, trying to figure out what might help my skin redness, chemical exfoliants kept popping up. When I found this cleanser, I thought I might as well give it a try. My makeup does look a lot better if I have some kind of intermittent exfoliant in my routine. Without it, dry skin starts to build up on the surface.

This is a pretty gentle AHA cleanser that I only use 2-3 times a week, alternating weeks with the Beekman 1802 Milk Bar, which also contains AHAs. This leaves my skin pretty dry. I have to do a lot of work afterward to put moisture back in. But it does do a good job exfoliating.

The smell, however; the smell is awful. It's vinegar-y. It's sour. Like wine that's gone bad. And I almost always wind up tasting some of it when I rinse off. It's not good. This is another product from Cocokind that just doesn't do it for me.

Brand: Cocokind

Product Type: Moisturizer

Price: $23 USD

Size: 1.7 fl oz

✔️Clean Ingredients  ✔️Cruelty Free  ✔️Sustainable Packaging ✔️Vegan

Star Ingredients:

Celery Superseed Complex: Loaded with fatty-acids from flax and antioxidants from celery extract. Works to support skin's structure, which then helps improve texture.

Squalane: A natural moisturizer found in skin. Hydrates.

Tsubaki Seed Oil: Contains antioxidants and fatty acids. Helps smooth fine lines and wrinkles. Supports skin barrier.

Ginseng Root and Peppermint Extracts: Brightening, stimulating ingredients.

Texture: Cream

Scent: 🌸🌸

This has kind of a funky, verging on unpleasant, smell. It smells like celery soda, if you've ever encountered that before. Like, imagine the smell of celery and make it about 10x stronger. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

Results: I'll be honest, this wasn't my favorite moisturizer, and I definitely won't repurchase. First of all, this moisturizer contains ginseng and peppermint extracts, which I didn't know when I bought it because they're not highlighted as "star ingredients." So applying this made my skin red and reactive, and at first I didn't know why. I had to go online and read the full ingredient list. It would have been helpful to know this contained brightening ingredients ahead of time because I probably wouldn't have purchased it.

Secondly, it takes some work to fully absorb this moisturizer. A lot of rubbing and massaging the product in until the white cast disappeared. Kind of annoying.

Third, and this is maybe a bit petty, but the smell of this cream is really an acquired taste. I talked about it above, but it really was an off-putting scent to me. I wish I'd known that ahead of time.

And finally, it wasn't moisturizing enough! My skin has recently changed from normal to dry, and I had winter dryness on top of it. There just wasn't enough hydration in this to compensate. I had to use two serums and an oil with it.

Oh, and I guess the big question is did it do anything for my texture? The answer for me was, sadly, no. I've got larger, more noticeable pores on my cheeks. I didn't notice any changes with that over the course of use.

Overall, I was unimpressed.

Comps: I think probably the closest comp you're going to find is Dermalogica Skin Smoothing Cream ($49/1.7 oz). Like all Dermalogica products, it's expensive. It has the same benefits though, if not the same ingredients.

PUR Cloud Cream ($40/1.7 oz) is similar in that the ingredients promise to hydrate and promote smoother texture.

Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream also purports to do the same, although I'm not sure where they are getting their skin-smoothing from in the ingredients ($39/1.7 oz).