Spoilers: As you can see, I've been going hard on this.

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Product Details

Why I accepted this product

Why I can't quit it

Demo - does it work?

Ingredients list

Final thoughts: pros and cons

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Unfortunately, Cremorlab isn't readily available: $32 from Peach & Lily (if you want a $10 off $50 referral code, you can use this link) or if you are willing to use a buying service (like Avecko or Boyah Shop) you can get it straight from Korean for 29,000₩ which is about $25 USD, and depending on whether any coupons are available and can be applied by the buying service, you may be able to get it as low as $20.

Just keep in mind that international shipping can be quite pricey, unless you are hauling enough to make the shipping brackets worth it. The hangul is 크레모랩 티이엔 리프레싱 클렌징 젤오일 in case you want to go hunting for it; beware of duty free store listings as they're not going to be accessible for your buying service!

Repurchase:

once I get down to the last 3rd of the bottle, I am getting a backup. With my own money of course.

Why I accepted this product

**Laocoon and the Serpents,aka

blogging ethics when it comes to press samples

[image credit blueboathome]

They clearly actually read my blog, because they conversationally managed to work in knowledge about my interests (like weird/unknown things, Hanbang, and snails) They mentioned specifics about my skin type and the kinds of products they had in mind, but most importantly They were very polite and non-pressuring about whether they expected a review in return.

Cremorlab: giving people a packaging boner since ... I have no idea. What's my name again? Mmmm, pretty Cremorlab.

Why I can't quit it

I love Cremorlab's aesthetic; especially their art design.

One pump of the gel oil, pre-emulsification, on my palm.

I believe this is actually a 'pool' cleanser, which is a new product type for me

Same pump of gel oil, emulsified with water.

Dry strip included above for a control, note the corner of the green square where it's still dry/non-reacted.

Cleanse off my makeup/sunscreen Emulsify and rinse cleanly Not break me out Be pleasant to use

Demo - does it work?

Don't laugh, it was the the easiest way to tell which product was which!

You can tell how easily it spreads by how quickly it's trying to drip off my hand before I can take the photo.

Fwoooosh! Ok, it doesn't make that noise, but sound effects are fun? Also I had to really contort my wrist to take this shot; the gleam of the gel oil was reflecting the light so bad that it was totally washed out otherwise.

Still wet from the rinse, not even wiped dry.

Ingredients list

Water, Methyl Gluceth-20, Sorbitol, Isohexadecane, Octyldodeceth-16, Glycerin, Cyclopentasiloxane, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Rose Flower Oil, Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Squalane, Carapa Guaianensis Seed Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Moringa Pterygosperma Seed Oil, Tocopherol

Made with Cremorlab's T.E.N. thermal water, evening primrose, and andiroba oils, this cleansing gel quickly dissolves makeup residue and skin impurities while also moisturizing and helping to improve skin's appearance.

Final thoughts: pros and cons

It gets the job done

Does not break me out

Emulsifies and rinses easily

Smells amazing

Low ingredient triggers

Has a rocking package design

Expensive

Difficult to source





So, there it is- the most reluctantly positive review I've written in a long time. I spent more time wrestling with the fact that I was deliberately trying to find excuses not to like it instead of just reviewing it impartially that it prompted me to change my mind about accepting press samples. I've been burned by oil cleansers so much in the past that this would have been near the bottom of my Cremorlab list, so I'm grateful for the twist of fate that put it in my hands. Now I have to figure out how to send a leak-proof decant to my mom.





All the best,

-Cat





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So, last week I mentioned that I am giving up accepting Press Samples for testing and review, and the catalyst was the whopping 2 products accepted to date (which had me wrestling with reviewing ethics like Laocoon and the Serpents**) as I found myself trying to hate on products justthey'd been given to me for free.Today's review is one of those 2 products accepted for review, specifically the one from Peach & Lily, who contacted me back in May after we had a Twitter interaction to ask if I was interested in trying some of their products. I still haven't reviewed the other, and I likely never will, as I just ... well. Read on for myfeelings about press samples.As I am sure you can tell from the post title + the half empty bottle, despite all my efforts, I liked it. Saint Snail help me, I liked it a lot.Cremorlab T.E.N. Cremor Refreshing Cleansing Gel OilLike oil cleansers, this is a 1st cleanser made with oily ingredients to more easily break down the makeup/sunscreen/residue on your face before being rinsed away with water, and then followed with a 2nd foaming cleanser to clean the skin itself.Unf. The scent. THE SCENT. It's got a rose scent, but it's not that horrible fake rose floral, it's got a genuine rose scent that smells like I'm huffing petals. It's almost identical to the Lovemore Rosa Hybrida silk mask scent, if you've tried that. The smell is just incredible. In fact, I struggled to identify what the scent was at first, because my brain kept saying 'a real flower' and it couldn't connect it to the perfume-scent I associate with rose.Under 5.5, see photo below. Gel oil cleansers apparently are aqueous enough for pH testing, unlike their traditional oil cleanser cousins.150 ml4/5, with the cost knocking it down a bit, because Cremorlab is pricey.It's now available on, woo! It's also available onYep,Done! I have since, and it's such a relief!Now, before we go on, I should add that while bloggers may receive offers, most of us rarely take them unless there is some compelling reason.So my default answer to these requests is "No", but I have to say that Peach & Lily won me over on a few counts:Despite all my best efforts, I was impressed. I really like unusual Hanbang snails, so they definitely had my attention. They made suggestions, which I declined. I made suggestions, which included(on my wishlist forever) and, because I am all about that low pH life. ( Click here to read about Why the pH of your cleanser matters .)I also made a purchase at that time to snap up some backups of my favourite pH-adjusting toner, the out-of-stock Mizon AHA/BHA Daily Clean Toner () and when it arrived, it included thisalong with my goodiesI see what you did there, P&L. Well played.Well, I can't fault that they picked something that was exactly what I would have chosen for myself, if I wasn't exhausted from my string ofI tried, guys. I tried to hate it, in a furious determination to prove that Bloggers gladly rip products to shreds no matter what their origin. But no, I was thwarted, and now I'm leaking tears of resignation while I add a backup to my wishlist spreadsheet.As I mentioned, I have problems with oil cleansers. I have problems with sunscreen. I also have problems with ultra-easily clogged skin. This is acombination, and requires double cleansing. Double cleansing is not optional for me, especially since I favour low-pH foaming cleansers that just don't have the acid-mantle-nuking stripping powers that my old high-pH cleansers did. Even then, they still couldn't clean off sunscreen properly.Don't get me wrong, they clean my skin just fine, but expecting them to act like a makeup remover and tackle the thick layer of physical-only sunscreen + makeup is asking too much.I need to double cleanse, but oil cleansers break me out because the oil gets trapped in my pores, where it can't be emulsified by water, and clogs me up even worse.Interestingly, even though this product does contain oils and feels oily at first,. Update: apparently this is not a pool cleanser, it's a 'gel oil' which is yet another type of 1st cleanser. You can read more about pool cleansers on fanserviced-b's review of 15 first cleansers 'Gel oil' is actually pretty accurate here, because it'sthan any of the oil cleansers I've even tried, even my beloved LJH Dr's Care/Cellabel cleansing oil, which I loved enough to repurchaseand that's saying a. Why is that important?Oh, and the pH result? Perfect. You can't test lipid-based products with these at-home kits because they are measuring the pH of dissolved particles in an aqueous (aka water) solution, and oils are, well, not aqueous.However, as my ill-fated Goodal Trans Foam Cleansing Oil experienced taught me, pool cleansers are not oil cleansers, and they can and do have pH results because they're gel-based, not oil-biased. (Gel oils apparently do as well) Fanserviced-b didn't like the Goodal pool cleanser either , and my faceit. It also pH tested high, but that might have just as easily been an ingredient or the formulation.Mmm, delicious low pH, although with the blend of gel and oil ingredients, I don't really expect this to be all that important. Still, if therea pH, I'd like it to be in a good range, eh?Besides, I don't expect first cleansers to work solo. I expect first cleansers to do the following:Clearly, it knocks 2, 3, and 4 out of the park (that scent ...) so how about the most important trait?For me, it does, and it does a good job of it. It's aoil, not an oil, so it will get sticky/tacky if you work it into the skin too long, so it's not good for oil massage, but here's how it does on makeup and sunscreen:This is a 'full face' of makeup on my hand, including(therefore hardest to remove), BBpowder,pencil, two, liquid, a super pigmentedand aSo, on the gel oil goes:Like oil cleansers, you apply it to dry skin with dry hands, and massage it (gently) over the skin to dissolve the product:You can still see a faint impression of the brow pencil and liquid eyeliner, but I like to let my products do the work and not agitate my skin with scrubbing. When you emulsify, the rest should come right off:As you can see, even the brow pencil and liner were no problem. I will warn you that this product won't work for massaging pore clogs out of your skin like oils will, but I'm quite happy with it as a makeup/sunscreen remover.It's such a relief for me to have a 1st cleanser that I can actually usewithout clogging my pores, causing breakouts, or requiring me to vibrate the oil cleanser back out with a Clarisonic. I use a lot of chemical exfoliants in, so it's important that I minimize irritation to my skin. I pulled this from Peach & Lily's product page That rose flower oil. Did I mention the scent of this stuff is amazing? I feel like I have, but my memory is clouded with thoughts of petals dancing on the breeze in a garden, so things are a little fuzzy. Here's the Cosdna analysis page , where nothing scored above a 2, mostly oils, which makes perfect sense. The box also mentions that it contains, or, and while 'no parabens' normally makes methings, I'm pleased to see that therepreservatives in this product.Any time a Korean brand goes for a 'natural' marketing angle, I'm instantly wary of that translating to 'low, ineffective, or no preservatives' and while I'm looking forward to moving out of the desert and no longer losing lipsticks to the melting heat, I don't want to tempt fate.The description on Peach and Lily's product page mentions "T.E.N thermal water" but I just ... yeah. Let's not take that seriously, shall we?Well, "thermal water" questions aside, they'll get no argument from me about what it actually, which is clean off makeup and sunscreen.This is pretty straight forward; obviously I like it enough to repurchase it, and it works for me. Does that mean it will work for you? Not necessarily, and sadly it does not come in sample sizes that I've found. On the other hand, if you've been itching to get your hands on some Cremorlab, love the smell of roses, and struggle with oil cleansers, this might be something to keep on your radar.