[Review] innisfree – Orchid Enriched Cream + Orchid Intense Cream + Orchid Hand Cream (15th anniversary limited set)

I am loving innisfree products – both skincare and makeup 🙂  Ever since I had a good experience with their Green Tea line (see Green Tea Seed Cream review here), I couldn’t wait to try their anti-aging Orchid line and there is no better time than now.  Saw this 15th anniversary set (limited edition) and just had to buy it instantly!

Brand:    innisfree
Product:  15th anniversary set (limited edition)
          Orchid Enriched Cream 50ml
          Orchid Intense Cream 20ml
          Orchid Hand Cream 35ml
Price:    SGD43 (or USD29)
Type:     Moisturizer, Hand Cream
Origin:   Made in Korea
Website:  innisfree 15th anniversary page

THE PACKAGING

Comes in a 15th anniversary special box 🙂  This is sold at the price of 1 full-size Orchid Enriched Cream, so consider the mini Intense Cream and full-size Hand Cream to be bonus gifts ^^

Love the purple. So gorgeous.

Their usual 50ml plastic tub design for innisfree moisturizers.

Orchid Intense Cream is also sold at full-size 50ml but this limited set comes with 20ml mini tub.  Not bad at all considering almost half of the original product, and I always find sample or mini packaging so cute!

THE PRODUCT

From the Orchid Line brochure:

“Jeju Orchid has the amazing vitality to blossom in severe winter condition and through years of research and development, it is formulated into Orchid Elixir.  An excellent antioxidant, the Orchid Elixir works together with functional skin-activating ingredients to rejuvenate tired, aging skin and to restore its natural self-defense power.  This results in healthy skin with a radiant glow.”

About Orchid Elixir:

“According to a chapter on Prescribing Natural Medicines in the Eastern medical encyclopedia titled Donguibogam in Korean, the orchid moisturizes the skin and clears blockage stacked up inside the body over time.  Among 60 kinds of orchid native to Jeju, AmorePacific R&D Centre has chosen Jeju Cold Growing Orchid due to its great antioxidant effects.  The previous Orchid Elixir is then obtained through a hot-water extraction process”.

Wow, Jeju Cold Growing Orchid.  I saw the TV commercial on this line and they featured this plant surviving in harsh winter snows.  Kudos to AmorePacific R&D Centre, I have no doubts on their research capabilities XD

Enriched Cream = Total anti-aging care. Moist cream texture. For normal to dry skin.

Intense Cream = Intensive aging care. Nutrient rich cream texture.  For very dry skin.

You can see the Enriched Cream is more of a gel-like texture similar to Green Tea Seed Cream; and the Intense Cream is a white richer cream which is signature texture for drier skin.  Both are easily blendable and quickly absorbed into the skin.

Comparing Orchid Enriched Cream (anti aging) vs Green Tea Seed Cream (deep moisturizing), the Orchid one is slightly richer and thicker which I expected because typical anti-aging lines are richer in texture than pure moisturizing ones.

And oh, the scent!  Love love love.  There is just something so refreshing about innisfree cream scents.   I typically don’t like fragrance as an ingredient but am not so concerned as there is the innisfree 5-free system!  Free of parabens, artificial coloring, mineral oil, animal raw material, and ethanol.

THE HAND CREAM

I love the purple tube and the fact it has SPF 15 PA+.  Very pleasant scent as expected.  But nothing over-the-top-amazing for me as I have tried more moisturizing hand creams from Loccitane or Crabtree & Evelyn.  So this will probably be more like a normal hand cream that I use as back-up.

MY VERDICT

Pros

• Skin feels hydrated and plumped upon application
• No sticky feel
• Enriched cream very moisturizing (have to try longer to judge its anti-aging properties)
• Intense cream has helped to reduce appearance of fine lines and rich texture good for dry skin (I almost want to use it as an eye cream XD)
• Refreshing and soothing scent
• 5 free system (free of parabens, artificial coloring, mineral oil, animal raw material, and ethanol)
• Cheap! Includes 2 bonus products if you get the 15th anniversary limited set 🙂

Cons

• Although no sticky feel, can still feel a layer of product on skin – a bit like a sleeping pack? (a plus for some, and not for some)

And I love getting cute little freebies when I buy something, don’t you? ^^

[Review] innisfree – the green tea seed cream

My first review on skincare! I will share something that I love (^_^)

Brand:    innisfree
Product:  The green tea seed cream
Price:    SGD33 
Type:     Moisturizer
Size:     50ml
Origin:   Made in Korea
Website:  innisfree green tea line

THE PACKAGING

Very simple and eco-friendly ‘feel’ plastic tub – a standard look for all innisfree moisturizers. Besides the korean words which I can’t read, the front says:

“100% JEJU GREEN TEA. Enriched with fresh green tea seeds and squeezed green tea from the pure Jeju island to deliver abundant moisture and nourishment deep into your skin.”   Sounds good, eh?

Have you been to Jeju? I’ve been once in Oct 2014 and oh… it’s awesome.  So full of pure beautiful nature and yes, I went to the innisfree/O’Sulloc green tea fields where the exact ingredient is harvested! Made me love the product even more lol XD

THE PRODUCT

See, I am almost finishing the whole tub! I have very very sensitive and acne-prone skin and I usually can’t tell whether the product is good or bad until I have used it for quite a while… so almost finishing the tub is a good sign!

A small dab of the white product onto the back of my hand. The texture is very light-weight and gel-like.  Perfect for oily combination skin like mine.

Contrary to its light-weight texture, it actually promises deep moisturizing properties. From the website:

“The vitality and condensed moisture of green tea grown from the organic green tea fields of the pure island of Jeju refines the skin for clarity and suppleness.”

Everyone knows green tea is good for health from its anti-oxidant properties, so naturally a green tea SEED should follow the same, right? (just my logic haha)

Lightly blended.  Quite water-like and super easy to spread.  Skin feels instantly moisturized.

Fully blended into the skin.  You can see a light sheen on the skin which feels like a moisturizing barrier.  The good thing is – NO sticky feel.  For me, I blend and tap into the skin until the product is fully blended in.

MY VERDICT

Pros

• Very moisturizing, yet very light-weight gel-like texture
• Lovely mild scent (I don’t know how a green tea seed smells like, but this scent certainly delights me)
• No breakouts from using at all (this itself is a big plus for me already)
• Simple, practical and clean packaging

Cons

• Can’t think of any at the moment! It’s not even pricey as there are tons of more expensive moisturizers in the market but did not work well on my skin.

Overall

Highly highly recommend to try this!  I was going to repurchase this, but got attracted to their new “Orchid Enriched Cream” 15th anniversary set – which is another much-raved-about anti-aging moisturizer from innisfree and I got that instead!  Can’t wait to try that out soon~