Product Description
NARUKO Rose and Snow Fungus Aqua Cubic Complex is a compact collection of moisturizing and anti-aging skin care cream formula. It is a fundamental care that delivers different benefits, including hydrating, vitalizing and anti-aging for dry and dehydrated skin with fine lines and large pores. Contains unique white fungus extraction, it is able to let the fine water molecules penetrate into the underlying skin for deep moisturizing purpose. Added with Vitamin A and E, it can solve the problem of dehydrated skin which causes pores to appear larger. Being readily absorbed, it provides long-lasting moisture and improves skin from inside out, keeping your skin healthy and bright with tightened pores and softer skin.
This Aqua Cubic Complex is an essence which I bought from Taiwan last year. In Singapore, it retails for $26.90 in Naruko and Watsons. At 30ml, it lasts me for less than 2 months, based on daily morning usage. It comes with a dropper where 2 drops are sufficient for my whole face.
As what you see on the picture above, the glass bottle is a clear purple where you can see the remaining contents easily. The dropper is easy to use as you just depress on the button on the top of the dropper to hold the contents, before letting it go to release the essence on your palms.
Milky white in colour, the essence has a light translucent look that is sticky and has a lotion-like texture. It spreads easily on the skin and absorbs well. It is light and provides just enough hydration to my skin.
Even though I do like Naruko products, I am confused with the steps provided on their website. I have a poor grasp of Chinese language and I relied heavily on the English translation. However, after reading Niu-er "Beauty Studio" book recently, I am appalled by the heavy translation errors in the book, hence I have poor faith in their English translation now. I meant, if one wants to translate something, then get a good and proper translator! I paid for the book and I deserve good quality for it. At least, please show some respect for your readers. Urgh.
On the English website, its stated that this essence is to be used after your night time skincare. In their product range, this essence is shown to be used after your moisturiser. My understanding of an essence or serum is to be used before moisturiser but apparently its not the case here.
And if you refer to the Chinese website here, this essence can be used for both morning and night and not just for night only. And press each area for 3 to 5 seconds and not 3 to 5 minutes as what the English site claimed.
Nevertheless, I am currently using it as a day serum, before moisturiser because I like to include hydrating products in the morning, since I worked in an air-conditioned office. You can follow the massage steps indicated above, but I don't follow it that regularly since I am rushing for time every morning.
The rose scent is subtle and the overall experience of using it for the past 1 month plus have been pleasant, giving me less flaky skin. However, it does not combat seriously dehydrated skin. I still need something heavy for that. Other than that, I also did not see any visible improvement to the pores size or tighter and softer skin.
On good days with optimal skin condition, it helped to maintain the hydration on the skin very well, making it plumped with moisture and making soft and supple.
And here's the recycled packaging where you can make it into a small box.
Ingredients
Tremella Fuciformis Extract, Phytoferulin®, Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract, Panthenol, Ceramide, Encapsule Vitamin A Palmitate, Retinyl Palmitate, Encapsule Vitamin E, Tocopheryl Acetate, Serine, Alpha-Arbutin, Butylene Glycol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cyclopentasiloxane, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Hydrogenated Lecithin, PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate, Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Essential Oils of Rose (Rosa Damascena), Rosewood (Aniba Rosaeodora), Palmarosa (Cymbopogon Martinii), Petitgrain (Citrus Aurantium Var. Amara)
Source : Naruko
2 comments
hi Agnes
i agree, the translation should have been properly done than a sloppy work. i also chuckled at the way u expressed with a "urgh" sounds very cute :)
i think this 保湿精华液 should mean hydrating serum and should be used before nmoisturizer , looking at their site sequence of product, it is also placed before moisturizer. :)
Hi Tiffany,
Just disappointed with the quality of the book. :P Needed to vent it out somewhere. lol
Thanks for the clarification. I did take alook at the sequence of the products and I thought the 3rd product was meant as a moisturiser ( I think its refering to Rose and Snow Fungus Aqua Cubic Moisturizer) which was placed before this hydrating serum.
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