Review: Skinfood Peach Sake Pore Serum





Let’s start this review out with something that will only be news to my newest followers:

I am oily.

Really, really oily.

And not just the kind of oily that comes from dehydrated skin and a dry climate. I mean oily just for the sake of being oily. My face produces so much grease, Danny and the rest of the T-Birds keep chasing me around trying to rub their hair on it.

Anyway.

This product was originally suggested to me by the good people over at the AB subreddit as an oil-control product. I’d heard of the Peach Sake line before, mostly the toner, but the serum was new to me. I figured it was at least worth trying, although I already knew I wouldn’t be able to repurchase it due to Skinfood’s animal testing policy. (Although, since Korea passed the ban on animal testing, I’ll be able to buy as much of this as I want by 2018! :D)

Product Description: A pump bottle of thin, milky, fast-drying serum with a noticeable peach scent. Spreads quickly and easily, although you don’t have very long to work with it before it dries down. It’s hard to get a sense of size from the pictures online, but the bottle is actually fairly small (I think it’s actually small enough that it can be brought in an airplane carry-on).

My first comment on this product is that it’s really more of a primer than a serum. It dries down quickly, but forms a (thin, barely-noticeable, matte) film rather than absorbing completely. For this reason, pat it on, rather than trying to rub it in! You only have about 15-30 seconds between when you apply it and when it’s too dry to mess with, and if you keep rubbing after that, you’ll actually make it ball up and flake off. You don’t need a ton, either; I use less than a pea-sized amount each time.

That said, once it’s applied, you’re pretty much golden. It forms a nice base for my makeup (Tarte Amazonian Clay BB Cream), and honestly in that regard it seems to work better than most of the actual primers I’ve tried. It also doesn’t seem to clog up my pores at all, although I would encourage the use of an oil cleanser or makeup remover to take it off. It’s fairly silicone-heavy, from what I can tell, and probably wouldn’t remove completely with just a normal cleanser.

If you’re like me, the main effect you’ll see is oil control. I initially applied the serum all over my face, but have since switched to only using it in my super-oily T-zone. It seems to really tame the oil production; like, I’m definitely still oily/dewy, but not to the point where I feel like I could rub my nose on household appliances as a substitute for WD-40. Sadly, this isn’t a lasting effect - if I skip a day, I go right back to my normal oil production - but hey, I’ll take it.

Overall: In the end, this product’s whole name is kinda a misnomer: it’s not really a serum, and it doesn’t do anything magnificent for my pores (though it certainly doesn’t hurt). However, it is a pretty incredible oil-control product, and in that respect I’m not sure if I’ll ever find anything better.

Review: 5/5

1: “I will never use this product again and intend to immediately throw it away or return it”

2: “I’m not a big fan of the product, but I’ll probably use it once in a while”



3: “I’ll use up what I have, but don’t plan to repurchase this product”

4: “I really like the product, and will keep using it unless I find a better replacement”

5: “I absolutely love this product, and will probably never look for a replacement unless it’s discontinued or the formula changes”