Kikumasamune Japanese Sake Moisturizing Brightening Skin Care Lotion 500ml

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One thing to note: it’s absolutely enormous (half a liter!), so you can easily use this on your body in addition to or instead of your face. For size comparison, here it is next to a normal 12 ounce beer bottle:

Another study show**ed that sake extract inhibited tyrosinase, both in vivo (in a living organism) and in vitro, though it is unclear how many subjects were involved based on the abstract alone.⁶ In two weeks, my skin looked brighter and felt smoother, though none of my dark spots had faded. Unfortunately, like most products with ferments, it began to break me out after this time. The good news though is that it doesn't appear to break me out immediately, unlike every other ferment, and the smoothness lasted for a few days after I discontinued use, which means I may try to use it sparingly once my skin heals. The next ingredients on the list are ceramides 3 and 6. If you've been following my writings, you already know that ceramides are naturally found in the skin and help maintain the skin barrier. In fact, our skin's natural lipids are 35-40% ceramides. This lotion is easily the most popular Sake inspired product in the Japanese market. They paved the way for other brands that are now confidently formulating Sake into their products.

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As I mentioned earlier, I use this product as a toner either by dispensing through the pump or decanting into a spray bottle. Depending on how my skin feels, I use this either in my AM OR PM routine. It just works with any product with no conflicts. Plus it layers really well. These days, I layer it with my IUNIK Beta-Glucan Power Moisture Serum for my Autumn AM Routine. How It Worked Edit! - u/BerdLaw linked me t**hree studies on sake -- one specifically about sake extract. I've linked them all in the sources below.

So, if you’re curious about using Sake in your skincare routine or about Japanese skincare in general, I suggest you try out this product. Your skin will thank you and you will not be disappointed. Our results suggest that vitamins and SCE showed effects in [skin moisture] SM and [skin microrelief] SMR. Only formulations containing SC had long term effects in the improvement of SMR. Thus, these kinds of evaluations are very important in cosmetics development to evaluate the best risk and benefit correlation."¹ Sake is a fermented product made from rice, water, koji, and yeast. Ferments have been all the rage recently, with Saccharomyces cerevisiae (living yeast) extract and Saccharomyces ferment being the two I see the most. While I could not find any clinical dermatology studies done on sake as a ferment in skin, we may be able to glean some understanding into the benefits of sake by examining both ferments and koji (kojic acid) itself. Full Ingredients: Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol , Rice Ferment Filtrate (Sake) , Glutamic Acid, Arginine, Leucine, Ceramide 3, Ceramide 6, Placental Protein, Arbutin**,** ***Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate (Licorice Root Extrac****t)* , Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein, Maltitol, Methyl Gluceth-10, Peg-6 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Sodium Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Fragrance.Fun fact: Umbilical extract has precedent for unrestricted use in Japan, except for certain products.³ Kikumasamune High Moist Lotion contains Japanese sake, ceramide and placenta extract to highly moisturize, soothe and tone your skin. In addition, arbutin is also added to the formula for brightening the skin. It’s not all bad; this is easily the most hydrating toner-type product I’ve ever used. The hydration really lasts and kept my skin feeling soft and supple all day, even when I skipped my beloved Scinic Honey All-In-One Ampoule. Plus, there’s just so much of it. Conclusion Slightly more exciting is placental protein. Derived from animal placenta ( in this case, horse), it is considered to be a safe ingredient that does not deliver any metabolic or endocrine activity. Again though, there was not much precedent that I could find on the benefits of including this ingredient specifically, however egg whites have been used for centuries on skin to make skin temporarily feel tighter and appear smoother. I saw on reddit that a lot of people really like the kikumasamune products, so I decided to do some research and I saw your blog post right away and I absolutely love you, because I am into diy and have read your posts and formulas and I always learn something new! So I had to see what you thought. I am thinking about skipping these products because I recently bought Mizon snail repair cleanser, toner, essence and cream and I started noticing white heads in areas that don’t usually breakout, plus I have been on tret for awhile and I don’t think it was purging because of the location and it wasn’t typical for my skins purging.