Let me know your HOLY GRAIL on this common skin concern given these actives (you may add some if I forgot to include):

Tranexamic Acid
Alpha arbutin
Kojic Acid
Azelaic Acid

Effective HYPERPIGMENTATION buster (fast or immediate results)

Since I'm a minimalist and a more lazy type person when doing skin care, more and more articles and infographs are showing the significance of double cleansing and I'm a little bit into convinced to do it. 

My AM routine is so minimal that I'm having a hard time deciding whether to do DOUBLE CLEANSING (consists of a gentle cleanser, vitamin C serum, moisturizer and a mineral sunscreen) would this be an enough reason to do so? please help me out😊

Double Cleansing

Filipino here, humid climate as always, any local sunscreen recommendations for a combination skin?

#TheTropicsNeedSPFToo

Hey there! fellow tropics!

This is just a hearsay anyway, since 2020 I somehow "religiously" started my journey into skin care primarily following advices from fellow skin care junkies and social media creator/influencers with related content, I find it as a "blessing from heaven" 'cause first it's free and others are promising which made my journey much more easier.

Anyway, I started from foreign brands since that time it was the hype, from The Ordinary, Inkey List, Paulacs Choice, Cerave you name it. Can't deny they're too expensive for my lifestyle but still I managed to splurge on such products for a self care investment, and I can't agree more to these products that they really had prove themselves to be effective for my oily/resilient skin type.

This one coworker (fellow skincare junky) surprised me (I'm from the Philippines by the way), by telling me that foreign brands seeping through the local market are just fake/illegitimate products since the trade with such products are made to be stricter and only the "Watson's Store" can deliver authentic products when it comes to foreign brands.

I just want to know your opinion with regards to such controversy (No idea if it is already widespread but since hearing this from a fellow enthusiast bothers me).

#FromThePH
#PinoySkinCare

Illegitimate products?

Hey, I just want your suggestions/recommendations for an OILY/RESILIENT skin type, humid to cold climate (in the tropics) and helps strengthen/repair my skin barrier. 

I'm currently using CERAVE Moisturizing lotion, the effects were great but still need to lower down my budget.

Badly needing a Moisturizer!

So far no bad things happened to me when I used this

1. Fragrance free
2. Soothing ingredients
3. Lathers up despite its gel based consistency
4. Non-stripping
5. CICA ❤️❤️❤️


Takes time to dry or be absorbed into skin and doubles the burden if you are sweaty

Smells good; gel-like consistency which is recommendable for oily&#47;combo skin; leaves a soothing and cooling effect; no irritation happened and breakout reaction.

1. I'm so very sweaty, I can't help but feel a minimal sting when my sweat mixes with the sunscreen but it really doesn't bother me at all since I usually work indoors

1. Cheaper option for a promising sunscreen
2. No whitecast (others may say it has toning up effect).
3. Easy to apply with its cream to gel consistency - good for my oily skin.
4. It also a moisturizer - I don't have to be bothered buying a separate moisturizer in my AM routine (super tipid)
5. Reformulated their SPF rating from 30 to 50
6. FDA approved and SPF tested on 2 different labs.
7. It is a LOCAL product ❤️

Nothing bad to say about this product, indeed it deserves the hype

✅If you like green tea scent then this would be satisfying✅ Adequate volume to suffice your budget ✅Recyclable container ✅Effective sebum control
I usually use this before my actives (retinol, aha, bha) to calm my skin to prevent possible or unexpected sensitivity (although my skin is resilient), definitely will be on my routine for the next years

My skin&#39;s resiliency tolerates the salicylic acid of this product

✔️Gentle and non-stripping*
✔️Non-drying*
✔️Good for chemical exfoliant newbies

VitaminZee