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Average / Pricey Skin Refining Treatment
by SK-II

Sub-Brand: 
Category: BHA
Price: $140.00/1.7 ounces
Jar Packaging:   yes
pH:   ~2.3

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Claims:
Skin Refining Cream. Refines. Retextures. Brightens the skin. A luxurious smoothing cream with Beta-Hydroxy Acid and Pitera. Lifts away dull, dry surface layers to reveal a fresher, clearer, polished complexion.
 
Review:
I almost fell off my chair when I saw the price of this ordinary salicylic acid (BHA) cream. Other than Pitera—and I have no idea why every product has to have this ingredient—there is no reason to spend this much of your hard-earned money on what amounts to a decent, though basic BHA product. One word of warning: At 2.3, the pH of this product is unusually low, which means there is a high potential for irritation. Also, the jar packaging isn’t the best. But given that this fragrance-free product contains the teensiest amount of an antioxidant and some aloe water, even that can’t really make a difference.
 
Ingredients:
Water, Saccharomycopsis Ferment Filtrate (Pitera), Ppg-15 Stearyl Ether, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Salicylic Acid, Butylene Glycol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Tocopheryl Acetate, Dimethicone, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethiconol, Bht, Steareth-21, Steareth-2, Polyacrylamide, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Laureth-7, Disodium Edta, Methylparaben, Ethylparaben, Propylparaben
 
Last Updated:  12/10/2008
 
Product Tested on Animals?  yes
 
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