Review: Tatcha's The Deep Polish

Greetings, my friends!

Bottom Line - I will not repurchase this exfoliant again because I found it to be too harsh on my face.

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 Deep Polish:

Note Bene: I tried all of Tatcha's enzyme exfoliants in an effort to find the right one for me, and I can say without any qualms that this is definitely not the right polish for me. 

The Deep Polish is meant to be use by people with combination-to-oily skin and/or acneic skin to reduce your pore's appearances, refine your skin's texture, clarify, and prevent breakouts - but I found that it was too harsh on my face. In fact (as I've stated before), I find that a lot of products that are designed for people with oily or acneic skin tend to be a little harsher than products designed for people with sensitive or normal skin. It makes sense in theory - if you have oily skin, you have a thick layer of sebum that the product has to cut through to treat your skin, but by using slightly harsher ingredients - it actually dries out your skin and causes more sebum to be produce. 

That's exactly what I found with this product. Even with ingredients like Japanese wild rose, Japanese leopard lily, Okinawa mozuku algae, and Akita rice (which are nourishing, moisturizing, and balancing ingredients) - my skin was still squeaky clean (which I don't like), tight, and a little shiny (like when you've removed all of the oil from your skin) after I used it. I bought the travel size version of this, so I didn't feel too bad after I realized it was too harsh for me. I ended up using the rest of the bottle on my arms and legs until it ran out.

Stats:

If you'd like to give this a try, 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