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Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:26 am  |
I bought a micellar water which has these ingredients in it: Water, Dipropylene Glycol, Peg-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Methylparaben, Phenoxyethanol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Lactic Acid, Arginine, Butylene Glycol, Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Extract, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract, Perilla Ocymoides Leaf Extract, Betula Alba Juice, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Glycerin.
The lactic acid is supposedly a small amount and the water is considered "slightly acidic" as labeled on packaging.
I used it daily twice a day. I had to use a lot for when taking off makeup because it doesn't do the best job. I never seemed to strip my skin and I like the moisturizing effect I was getting.
I only had been using the product for about 2-3 weeks.
Now, I've noticed particularly around the right side of my mouth where my nasolabial fold is, that there is a strange shadowing, some slight pinkness which was never there before. This slight pinkess causes a shadowing and it makes the area around my mouth which used to look smooth and uniform and one tone, looks like I have this deep nasolabial fold because of the shadowing effect. This "illusion" has made me look older! I'm so upset and worried this pinkness apparently has stayed on my skin now for two weeks. I also was starting to slightly break out around the 2nd week of use but nothing too insane, like one or two pimples here and there, but that was upsetting as well. I'm more upset with this slight pinkness.
Can this happen with micellar water? Is it from too much glycerin or the other ingredients like one of the plant extracts that might be the culprit?? Or maybe too much of this dipropylene glycol?...I have not idea what that is.
I'm bummed out because I actually loved the micellar water and felt it was really moisturizing my skin and seemed to be slowly smoothing my skin out. |
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Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:17 pm |
| According to the order in which lactic acid appears in the ingredient deck(the upper third) tells you it's quite prevalent in the product.I would use a micellar without lactic acid as a makeup remover and use the other as a light exfoliating treatment. |
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Sun Mar 06, 2016 8:36 pm |
| Angelcat47 wrote: |
| According to the order in which lactic acid appears in the ingredient deck(the upper third) tells you it's quite prevalent in the product.I would use a micellar without lactic acid as a makeup remover and use the other as a light exfoliating treatment. |
Thank you for your response. Do you think that's the culprit as to what caused the pinkness?? I have used lactic acid as a peel before at 15% and also use yogurt masks almost daily. I didn't have an aversion to lactic acid that could cause this. I also use a sunscreen which contains lactic acid in the ingredients daily. I don't think my skin would react like this to lactic acid. Is there another ingredient in there that could be the cause of the pink spot? |
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coeywong88
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Mon Mar 07, 2016 11:52 pm |
| thanks for sharing... |
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Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:45 pm |
You have lactic acid in your sunscreen and micellar water. You exfoliate daily with yogurt masks(which has lactic acid) and have used lactic acid peels. All of this together is a lot of lactic acid. The pinkness is your skin telling you to back off a bit. I would stop the daily masks,use either the micellar water or the sunscreen and try a gentle moisturizer with no actives to repair/protect your skin's barrier. I live for chocolate but I wouldn't eat it all day every day.  |
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Thu Mar 17, 2016 7:07 pm |
Stop using exfoliating products and go back to as simple routine as possible, until your skin recover back.
Peeling horniness is good, but you also need a certain amount to protect your skin. If your have sensitive skin or thin horniness, you don't need to peel them at all, like me!
Most micellar waters are mild, but they usually have lots of surfactants,so they can remove the make-up products. If you use micellar waters, you need to wash them out after that. |
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