Lab M1: Find Your Best Sleeping Pack This Summer
Sometimes I really feel like Korean products are like wines.↖(^▽^)↗ There are many prestigious brand and famous products but at the same time, there are so many “cult-wine” like products in the realm of K-beauty. I mean, there are many unknown, economically priced brands with excellent quality and it is such a great fun to find those products and share with others. So Blog #M did a little experiment on these less appreciated sleeping masks. (*¯︶¯*) We picked up 3 sleeping masks and 2 sleeping mask substitutes. So here are our experiment subjects.
- LLang Redgin Magic Sleeping Pack $31.50
- BOTANIC FARM Black Soybean Milk Pudding Sleeping Pack $24.50
- Code 9 black volume cream $35.00
- Code 9 Super Seed Oil Mask $33.00
- Skinfood Lettuce Cucumber Watery Soothing Pack ?
Texture Test
For you, we have prepared tiny texture dishes below. Llang & Botanic Farm has jelly like texture but Llang has more watery, honey-like texture than Botanic Farm. Code 9’s Black volume has thickest texture among them. Code 9’s Super Seed Oil Mask has the butter like texture, and skinfood has the most watery texture, with only slight viscosity.
Spotting Test / Oil Chromatography
We prepared commonly used oil blotting paper and run the chromatography. (I know, it is not a real chromatography, but since we use the hydrophobic affinity of blotting paper, we can somehow consider it as chromatography process.) Anyway, if the oil circle spread winder from the spotting, it means that it contains more oil in it. By the way, I am not trying to say that oily sleeping packs are bad (But I personally prefer less oily sleeping masks for the summer.) rather, you can use this as a reference when you buy your next sleeping mask.
(Original)
As you can see, Code 9’s Super seed oil and Botanic Farm Soy bean mask have high oil contents. Llang’s Redgin has the least oil, and the texture maintained even after 2 hours.
(After 40minits)
Skin-gun Test
(before skin test number)
- After the cleansing my inner arm thoroughly, I ran the skin gun test. The oil index is 18%, and water index is 40.01%.
- I run the skin gun test, and see the chart below. Oil/Water change indicates the change from my initial skin condition. Redgin showed highest increase both in oil & water index.
|
Oil |
Water |
Oil % increase |
Water % increase |
|
|
Redgin |
23.60% |
52.50% |
67.38% |
67.20% |
|
Soy bean |
22.60% |
50.30% |
60.28% |
60.19% |
|
Black Volume |
22.10% |
49.30% |
56.74% |
57.01% |
|
Super Seed |
18.80% |
41.90% |
33.33% |
33.44% |
|
Lettuce Cucumber |
20.60% |
45.80% |
43.26% |
46.18% |
I run the skin test again after one hour. Oil/Water change indicates the change from the run 2. Still, Redgin showed the highest Water/Oil index in skin. Interestingly, Super Seed showed increase in number, both for oil& water index. (I guess it is due to Super Seed’s Oily texture because it absorbs really slowly.╮(╯3╰)╭)
|
Oil |
Water |
Oil % change |
Water % change |
|
|
Redgin |
21.90% |
48.70% |
-7.20% |
-7.24% |
|
Soy bean |
20.70% |
46.00% |
-8.41% |
-8.55% |
|
Black Volume |
20.80% |
46.40% |
-5.88% |
-5.88% |
|
Super Seed |
20.50% |
45.60% |
9.04% |
8.83% |
|
Lettuce Cucumber |
20.20% |
45.10% |
0.00% |
-1.74% |
Winner of the First Lab 0^◇^0)/
So, the winner of Blog #M’s first experiment goes to……………
☆ミ ☆彡LLang Redgin Magic Sleeping Pack !!!!!!! ☆ミ ☆彡
From both test, I could assure Llang’s sleeping pack is nicely formulated, giving fresh texture for hot & sticky summer but maintain oil and moisture index in my skin pretty well. If you have really oily skin, Skinfood’s Lettuce-Cucumber Watery Soothing Pack may be a really good choice as well because it effectively controls the oil in your skin, and maintain the moisture level nicely.
