First review of the site will be an April Skin’s Magic Stone review! A very popular cleansing product in Korea, which I assume most of you have seen from YouTube videos and/or Ulzzangs. After seeing tens of Ulzzang videos on YT, I started to grow suspicious as it is obviously a marketing move by April Skin, as they uploaded every video on their own YT channel. Then I started to look for reviews, but I could personally not find any review helpful for me, so I wanted to write one, which I hope can be of use to you.

[Introduction]

What is April Skin’s Magic Stone?

April Skin’s Magic Stone is a hard soap, which has a similar texture to a hand soap bar. The product can be found for $6. The hard sop contains natural ingredients and zero chemical ingredients, which is perfect for my sensitive skin. List of ingredients can be seen here:

Ingredients looks pretty good, so I could not wait to try!

So there is a black and white version, where you use the black in the morning and white/normal at night. The black has the same ingredients, but charcoal is added. Right under are the effects of both hard soaps, which sounds a bit too good to be true, but let’s give it a try anyway.

[Using the product – Day 1]

I started with using the white one at night and what amazed me was the poor cleasing! You could feel your face being more tightened and overall more refreshed. It seemed like my face would dry out though because of the tightening, but it didn’t! However, it seems like it was on the verge of being dry and leaving flakes, but just make sure to use some sort of face cream.

[Using the product – Day 2]

After sleeping excited after the white one, I couldn’t wait to try the black one. I did have the same feel of my face being refreshed and my face tightened, but it didn’t feel as dry compared to the white one, which made me more calm. I applied my face cream and it made me feel overall refreshed.

No interesting development until day 4.

[Using the product – Day 4]

At night day 3, I was in a hurry as I was tired so I wanted to sleep fast. I applied too little soap on my hands, so when I was rubbing the soap on my face it did sort of a strecthing thing on my upper cheekbones near my eyes, which made it hurt very badly. I washed to soap off my face and my upper cheekbones near my eyes became red and a bit puffy. This was my theory for the redness and puffyness. Also an important note is that I have pollen allergy, which started mid day, which made my eyes itchy, which could have some relation to the redness and puffyness?

Day 4 morning, I woke up and it became more red and a bit more puffy. I wondered if it was because of the stones, but I was still so happy for it effects so I decided to use the stone again, but not on the red area.

Day 4 night, no change in things so I decided to use the white stone while not on the red areas.

[Using the product – Day 6]

Day 6 morning. I kept using the stones with same method and the redness and puffyness was almost gone, so I decided to use the product on the before red area.

Day 6 night. The red area didn’t get any worse so I tried with the white stone on the red area.

[Using the product – Day 7]

Day 7 morning. Redness was less than the night before and everything seems fine. Magic Stone still works amazing, but I will keep you updated.

[Conclusion]

Overall a great product, but could be too drying for some people and could trigger same redness if you have pollen allergy. Just make sure to apply enough soap and everything should be fine. Please share your experiences, if you had similair problems and we could try to solve this together. Nevertheless, the product does what it says, but not so much on the brightening side with my face unfortunately.

Product ♥♥♥♥♥

Price ♥♥♥♥♥

Repurchase rate ♥♥♥♥

Overall ♥♥♥♥♥

If I didn’t experience the redness situation, then the repurchase rate would be 5 hearts, but I am still not 100 % sure about the reason for it, therefor a bit hesitant about repurchasing. If the redness situation does not occur again, then repurchase rate would be 5 hearts.