Greetings, my friends!
Bottom Line - I would buy this again, but I think it's better for people with dry-to-normal skin.
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 Pore Perfecting Sunscreen:
This is a really good sunscreen. It's SPF 35 with a PA+++ rating (which is pretty good.) It's also designed as a primer to make life easier for people who plan to apply make-up after putting their sunscreen on. Because it has silk extract in it, it actually leaves your skin both hydrated and smooth. The Japanese rose tightens pores while the loquat leaf extract protects and calms the skin. Last thing, it's also free of parabens, synthetic fragrances, mineral oil, sulfate detergents, phthalates, urea, DEA or TEA, and does not contain aminobenzoic acid, homosalate, oxybenzone or octinoxate.
While I really liked this sunscreen, it's not perfect (or my favorite). I found the consistency to be quite thick and it took a while to absorb into my skin. The reason I probably won't buy this again is that it left my oily skin quite shiny although it is supposed to have a matte texture once absorbed. I might give it another try in the winter, but I definitely wouldn't use it now (in late Spring approaching our hot and humid summers).
Stats:
It costs $65 for 2oz tube and $15 for .5 oz tube (travel size). 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!) 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.
JessiPedia
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