Bottom Line - despite the cost, I absolutely plan to buy this again once I run out of my current nightly moisturizer.
Tatcha:
Tatcha is an American beauty company founded by CEO Victoria Tsai in 2009. Their skincare products are rooted in geisha beauty practices and focus on powerful natural ingredients, such as abaca leaf, green tea, seaweed, red algae, oatmeal, rice bran, and Japanese wild roses. Tatcha employs scientists in both the US and Japan to create products from scratch using these ingredients, which led to the foundation of their products - Hadasei-3™, a trinity of anti-aging superfoods born from the Japanese diet, and the basis for the original geisha beauty rituals: green tea, rice and algae. Every ingredient is carefully selected and minimally manipulated to be gentle and safe with maximum effectiveness. In short - their principle is quality products that focus on less doing more.
The Silk Cream:
This cream made my skin feel like cashmere and created a subtle healthy-looking glow that lasted throughout the day. Although this is designed for people with dry, normal, combination, or sensitive skin, I had no trouble using this product with my oily skin. It deeply hydrated without leaving my skin feeling oily, greasy, or heavy. My skin was impossibly soft and smooth after using this weightless cream. I was quite surprised by how well this cream worked on my skin. I also loved that it came with a small gold metal spoon which I found to be naturally cold so I used it to spread the cream over my orbital bone (which I think helped constrict the skin around my eyes causing them to be less puffy). The last thing I want to let you know is that this formula is noncomedogenic, non-irritating, non-sensitizing, dermatologist tested, and cruelty-free. Also it doesn't have parabens, sulfates, phthalates, mineral oil, synthetic fragrances, sulfate detergents, urea, DEA, or TEA - which is awesome!
Stats:
So as I alluded to at the beginning, this is an expensive product. The 1.7oz (50ml) version costs $120 (which breaks down to $2.40 per ml), but they do have a travel size that is .34oz (10ml) which costs $30. I recommend buying the travel size first to see whether you like the product. Tatcha is really good at making travel size versions of all their products. (Yay Tatcha!) The travel size I received did not have the gold spoon, but I still think it was well worth the $30.
You can buy this on Tatcha's website (www.tatcha.com), but it is also available at Sephora, QVC, Barney's (you know it's expensive if it's available at Barney's), and JCPenny's. QVC has the best price point, but Tatcha has the best freebies with purchase. So it depends on what you're looking for when you go to purchase. Personally, I love me some freebies.
I do not recommend buying high-end beauty products from Amazon or eBay. While I love Amazon and eBay and most sellers are legitimate with quality products - beauty products tend to be highly susceptible to fraud. If you're going to spend your hard earned money, make sure you're buying what you think you're buying. Because it would really suck to spend say $80 on this product on Amazon or eBay (which sounds like a great deal), to later find out that it's expired or that someone just filled an old Tatcha container with Jergens or Aveeno. You won't really have buyer's recourse to adjudicate your purchase because how will you prove that the product has expired or that you didn't get the same cream you thought you'd ordered.
That's it. Let me know if you have any questions.
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