Review: Tatcha's The Water Cream

Greetings, my friends!

Bottom Line - I will absolutely repurchase this cream and plan to make it my go-to nightly moisturizer this summer.

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.

Tatcha's The Water Cream:

This is a great go-to hydrating cream when you need to hydrate your face, but don't want to use a more expensive cream. For me - I think of this as a nightly summer cream because I tend to use hydrating moisturizers like candy in the summer to help balance my oily skin during the hot sunny humid months on the East Coast. What I really like about this cream is that it does not feel greasy on my face, tightens my pores, and helps control oil production while gently clarifying my skin. The last thing I'm going to say about this fantastic product is that because it's a Tatcha product, it has their signature Hadasei-3 foundation (which is their anti-aging trinity of green tea, rice, and red algae) which not only works to combat aging, it also restores a youthful radiance to my skin after a long hard day trying to dodge the sun, heat, and humidity. 

Stats:

This is quite reasonably priced (compared to their The Silk Cream) at $68 for 1.7oz or 50ml (which translates to $1.37 per ml). I think they used to have a travel size version of this, but I can't seem to find it on Tatcha's website. But if you were interested in trying their Starter Ritual for Normal-to-Oily skin, this is included in their set (in a travel size) along with Camellia Cleansing Oil, The Deep Polish, and The Essence for $59. 

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 $30 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.
JessiPedia