Ingredients:
Aqua (Water), Coco Caprylate/caprate, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Isodecyl Neopentanoate, Plukenetia Volubilis Seed Oil, Coconut Alkanes, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate, Polyglycerol-3 Polyricinoleate, Glycerin, Hexamethyldisiloxane, Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract, Tocopherol, Sodium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
I try to mark the sunscreen ingredients in red and other possible irritants in lilac. Learning as I go, google is my friend etc...
Thoughts:
- Pills to hell and back no matter how or how little I apply
- Definitely impossible to use during the day, even if you put only a little and pat it in: it will pill, if not now, then later with makeup; so only possible to use during night
- Still I'm not quite on the clear if this cream causes little bumps, it could be Advanced Retinoid on my chin area, but everything also can be hormonal, however nothing goes into "safe list" unless I'm 100% sure it's safe
- Silicones...
+ Doesn't irritate skin at all, just like putting normal cream
+ Spreads evenly to skin, nice and easy (but why does it start to pill immediately when it dries?)
+ Don't have to build tolerance to it, it feels so mild it's possible to use it almost every day... er, night
+ Strangely, I noticed after a little while of use that my milia (? not sure what it is, a skin colored spot on my cheek I've had a while) halved in size! Not even AHA had helped those! Now it's down to 1/3 or 1/4 in size
+ I think I have to credit this product some of the new brightness/glow I have, not sure how much because I do play with AHA, Advanced Retinoid and Niacinamide as well, but I feel like they all contribute to slightly different things
- Definitely impossible to use during the day, even if you put only a little and pat it in: it will pill, if not now, then later with makeup; so only possible to use during night
- Still I'm not quite on the clear if this cream causes little bumps, it could be Advanced Retinoid on my chin area, but everything also can be hormonal, however nothing goes into "safe list" unless I'm 100% sure it's safe
- Silicones...
+ Doesn't irritate skin at all, just like putting normal cream
+ Spreads evenly to skin, nice and easy (but why does it start to pill immediately when it dries?)
+ Don't have to build tolerance to it, it feels so mild it's possible to use it almost every day... er, night
+ Strangely, I noticed after a little while of use that my milia (? not sure what it is, a skin colored spot on my cheek I've had a while) halved in size! Not even AHA had helped those! Now it's down to 1/3 or 1/4 in size
+ I think I have to credit this product some of the new brightness/glow I have, not sure how much because I do play with AHA, Advanced Retinoid and Niacinamide as well, but I feel like they all contribute to slightly different things
* I chose MAP as my first vitamin c products because I wanted something that wouldn't irritate and would be stable
* The Ordinary has just introduced more strong antioxidant products: it's very difficult to tell, if I should just move to those instead of vitamin c derivates
* I'm suspicious of Coco Caprylate/caprate and Coconut Alkanes, it seems like Tonymoly Sun Oil had coconut oil and that one gave me little bumps as well: however they were mostly on my cheeks but I don't know if it makes difference. Also nothing else I'm using has coconut things
* I'm suspicious of Coco Caprylate/caprate and Coconut Alkanes, it seems like Tonymoly Sun Oil had coconut oil and that one gave me little bumps as well: however they were mostly on my cheeks but I don't know if it makes difference. Also nothing else I'm using has coconut things
* This product convinced me that antioxidant products are useful and you never know the results, YMMV is so true even though I hate that acronym, as I haven't noticed that many people would have liked The Ordinary's MAP and here I am, thinking about buying it again!
* I'm open to searching other MAP formulas in case they work for me even better! However I have less free time to think about skincare during winter
Price:
9,60 €
Bought from:
The Ordinary website
Buy again?
Very much on the verge of maybe and yes, I would like to test other vitamin c products (stronger), but it is always a hassle with new things, it takes time and patience to make sure they work for my skin. If my new chin bumps go away after I run out of this product, I think I might not repurchase, or repurchase after a while to see if the same happens again.
Worth the money?
Yes, I think so. It delivers what it promises plus it's the first product so far that gets rid of maybe-milia-or-some-other-bumps!
Yes, I think so. It delivers what it promises plus it's the first product so far that gets rid of maybe-milia-or-some-other-bumps!
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