The weather has been so hot lately that pimples are popping out like no body’s business. I have been keeping these three Oxy products for the emergency days and it seems like the days is NOW. My skincare routine is so complicated that when I was handed just three products for a pimple free skin, you bet I froze. I did not know what to do with simplified skincare routine. Lucky for me, this is not rocket science and the result has been good so far.

Combating a breakout regardless a minor or major breakout can be simple. First you need to figure out the right facial wash, spot treatment cream, and lastly pimple mark prevention. The last step can either be achieved with a whitening cream or a special product like the below.

Deep Cleansing Wash (RM8.50 / 50g or RM13.90 / 100g)

I have talked about numerous Oxy cleansing wash before and so far each of it has been kind to my skin, without over-drying it. Some anti-pimple facial wash can be a little too drying when used for a duration of time. This one? It does not do all that. Deep Cleansing Wash contain Isopropyl Methylphenol and Salicylic Acid to help remove dead skin cells and to remove impurities from the pores. Unclogging the pores will help to prevent pimples.

OXY 10 (RM11.50 / 10g or RM19.90 / 25g)

I remember during my high school days I love Oxy pimple cream. Those days there are just one variant from OXY and if I remember correctly it is in brown colour. The OXY 10 helps to kill acne bacteria without drying the spot like other pimple treatment product. The cream is light-weight, comes in a milk white shade, and it does not have any chemical strong scent. It took me about two applications (or 2 nights) to get the pimple fully subsided. What I like about this OXY 10 is that it does not force the gunk to surface up. Usually in this case extraction is needed to get the pimple to go down. To my surprise, my pimples subsided without any extraction needed!

Anti-Pimple Mark (RM14.80 / 12g)

I have reviewed the Anti-Pimple Mark Gel and talked about it so many times on my Instagram so I am not going in detail with this. Just click on the link to read my review . This is the one product which I have repurchased about 10 times by now. It is a product not only used to lighten pimple marks but also to smoothen skin, prevent future blemishes and revitalizes skin cells. I also found out that this gel can be used on top OXY 10. More reasons to love this gel more.

Combating a breakout should not be complicated or expensive. Even affordable and trusted brand such as OXY works as well

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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I don’t have good skin all the time. I used to have a skin that can take every single skin care products but that changed after a few skin allergy episode in 2012. I still remember the first time I had a “good skin state” is early this year and it went hay wired after trying a new skin care. A month ago, my “good” skin returned and you know what that means…it’s time to test out some new skin care

Today’s skin care review looks like any ordinary skin care products. Not quite for me because I call this Black Silica Salt a bizarre beauty. Why, what, how, who, when and where? This you have to find out below!

Black Silica Salt is a skin care brand brought in all the way from Japan by a Malaysian company, Mihada in early 2014. Black Silica Salt was originally developed by Reimei Japan since 2005. The founder are very protective about having their homegrown brand and product out from Japan so it took Mihada quite some time persuading Reimei to let them spread the benefits of the product of out Japan and to Malaysia especially. I’m glad Mihada managed to brought this brand into Malaysia as there is no other place to purchase this product but from Japan directly.

What is Black Silica?

I bet you are as confuse as I am when I first heard about black silica, what more the products. This skin care range – Black Silica Salt is made from 100% natural derived ingredients and it contain two main ingredients that are so easy to recognize as it’s all in the name. You’ve guessed it right. The main ingredients are Black Silica and Salt.

The black block thingamajig you see above is Black Silica. Black Silica originates only in the mountains of Hiyama in the Kaminokuni region of Hokkaido, Japan. It is a precious and valuable discover because Black Silica was formed during the very beginnings of life hundreds of millions of years ago at the bottom of the ocean and is recognized as one of the world’s rare natural ores. It is often referred to in Japan through its nickname “phantom ore” due to its scarcity. Black Silica is acclaimed to contain many healing attributes that many in Japan feel that its characteristics can save the earth. Black Silica is the trump card for rebuilding the earth’s contaminated environment. Currently, there is only ONE US company that hold the North American and Caribbean exclusive rights for the distribution and sale of Black Silica rocks from the Kaminokuni region of Hokkaido, Japan. And Black Silica Salt uses Black Silica extracted by this company. It is the only skin care that uses Black Silica as ingredient.

I was told that the Black Silica Salt range is a simple but yet powerful for those who want a healthier skin especially problematic skin. As simple as the key ingredients are, the key benefits are the same as well. Just two and these two is enough. You don’t need 100 promises for a healthier skin. So I was told!

• Emit Natural Far Infrared.
  Far Infrared absorb by cell helps in improving blood circulation, speed up metabolism and help to eliminate unwanted wastes.
• Emit Natural Negative Ion.
  Negative ions are a type of antioxidant that are present in nature. It reacts with and break down toxins in the bloodstream system.

The whole regimen is simple, just three simple steps with three products. Just so you wanna know, Black Silica Salt range only consists of three products at the moment

Black Silica Salt Facial Soap (RM99 / 50g)

Of all three products, I had the toughest time with Facial Soap mainly because it carries more prominent Black Silica scent comparing to the other two. Bear in mind Black Silica Salt is a skin care range that is with 100% natural ingredients with no artificial fragrance in it. It is not a secret that I’m guilty of liking skin care that are properly scented. It’s unhealthy for my skin, I know

In fact, Black Silica Salt Soap natural ingredients was only developed after stringent selection. That is because of consumer’s perception of facial soap bar that will cause skin dryness therefore Black Silica Salt recognized this matter and only wanted to come up with a cleanser that will moisturise the skin and prevent skin dryness at the same time. The packaging is also kept simple to coincide with the brand’s concept. All Black Silica Salt products are completely made, packaged and imported from Japan itself.

Facial Soap contain a black color 50g bar of soap together with a foaming net. At the beginning I thought it is so troublesome to use a foaming net to produce foam as the soap itself is able to product sufficient foam on it’s own. After a few days of using without the foaming net in the middle of my trial, I realized that my soap became smaller in a faster rate. A lesson learnt. Use the foaming net included!

Now comes the fun part. This is how you use Facial Soap together with it’s foaming net.

(1) Place the soap into the net.
(2) Wet the soap with some water.
(3) Push the soap to the middle, grab both ends with both hands and start scrubbing.
(4) “Pull” the foam out from the net, add some water if necessary to make more foam or to make the foam more denser. I would usually just produce enough foam and apply directly.

You will notice that the foam is in grey due to the Black Silica ingredient in it. Rinsing is quite easy as it’s foam instead of a cream or gel. Normally if I leave any cleanser on my face for too long for photo shooting, my face will get drier and drier by second. That’s not the case with Black Silica Salt Facial Soap. It doesn’t dry my skin and doesn’t irritate or tingling on my skin. The only downside for me is the all natural scent lol. But most importantly, my face is surprisingly clean, bouncy and looks great!

Important Note: Right after rinsing with water, DO NOT towel the face dry. That is because the water on the face is needed for the second step / product – Facial Esthe.

Black Silica Salt Facial Esthe (RM199 / 180g)

The second product from Black Silica Salt happens to be my top favourite of all and also the saltiest of all. Oh yeah you heard me right. It’s very salty. You will taste it on the lips when rinsing . Facial Esthe is an interesting product. It looks like a mild scrub but the gel-like texture said the otherwise.

What makes Facial Esthe one of it’s kind product is because it contain natural ingredients with unique penetration ability. The product is able to thoroughly improve skin pores and also promote skin metabolism as well as immunity. In fact, I can’t pinpoint exactly what this product is. You can say this is a mild scrub (minus the harsh beads) or you can say this is a product that deep cleanse and prep the skin for the next step. All I know is my skin feels extra smooth, soft and bouncy after using it. If you’ve read my review on Philosophy The Microdelivery Peel, Facial Esthe gave me the same result as that. I thought it looks familiar until I realized hey, this is so much like the Philosophy one!

Using this Facial Esthe is simple and straight forward. Right after rinsing Facial Soap foam with water, do not wipe the face dry. Immediately dispense some Facial Esthe and apply all over the face. The water on the face earlier is needed for the face massage and to help melt the product down. This is also why I said it looks like a gel-like scrub but once I start to massage it all over my face, the gel texture broke down into a slippery substance and there is a slight warm on the face that promotes skin metabolism . I can feel fine beads at the beginning and that soon disappear when it melts. On my skin, this product stings a bit and gives slight warm feelings that helps promoting the metabolism of the skins. The feeling tingling is due to the reaction of suit towards the acne scar which will enhance skin immune system and help scars to regenerate faster. I thought I used too much or it’s too salty for me. I was wrong. Turns out my skin condition is bad so the product was “working” on my skin.

Black Silica Salt Natural Skin Water (RM199 / 150ml)

The last step in the regimen is none other than Natural Skin Water. I mistaken this for toner and it’s not quite. I call this the moisturizing water because this water is all you need to maintain the skin’s moisture.

If there is one thing I have to comment, it will be this pump. My advise is to pump the product out onto the palm at the sink because this spurt everywhere! Other than that there’s no complain from me on the whole range

Black Silica Salt believe that it is necessary to increase the osmotic component is miscible with sebum in order to promote skin metabolism. Natural Skin Water is made from slight acidic mineral Ion water, harvested from Mount Fuji. This type of water is the best to used when it comes to skin care. Together with Mount Fuji mineral Ion water, nano placenta is also added in. This concoction will improve metabolic function and amino acids that are constituents of the skin, mainly ceramide is a natural moisturizing factor. The texture feels just like water. It is absolutely lightweight and doesn’t put any burden on bare skin nor does it cover the pores.

I used this product just like I’m using a normal moisturizer. I don’t use any cotton pad as I prefer to pat the product into my skin directly. I usually pump two full pumps onto my palm like this

And I like to warm the product with both palm together. You can skip warming up product if you’re not into it but for me, I’ve been doing this for so many years so it’s quite hard for me to change the habit.

Next is to gently pat the product onto the face. I like to start from the inner face and move towards the outer, follow by the forehead and jaw . I usually repeat the step at least 3-times to ensure that I had the product fully absorbed into the skin.

My Experience + Before and After Photo

I’ve been using the whole Black Silica Salt range for more than a month and I’ve finished the whole range. It all went well with the exception of two incidents. I wasn’t told nor am I prepared for a breakout. Within the first week of using, I had a medium breakout incident. I thought it was just hormonal until the representative from the company called and ask on my progress. I met up with him and then only I found out that my skin was detoxifying. Now, this don’t happen to everyone. Majority users don’t get breakout and the handful of users who do get breakout, are getting a few pimples only. Mine was a medium size breakout that lasted for 2-3 weeks.

According to Mihada, my skin was seriously congested on the inside due to all the chemical products I put on the face. Black Silica Salt product reacts to it and starts to decongest thus eliminating all the toxic out. Usually this detoxifying is through breakout. Luckily for me my breakout stopped and even the marks cleared in a super fast rate. I was actually quite impressed!

Another incident was when I wanted to skip a few days of using the regimen and use my own skin care. I wanted to see what and how my skin will react to “normal” skin care. Boy I regretted it because what I used to use is now too harsh for my skin. A few pimples popped out but that too soon disappeared after I went back to Black Silica Salt regimen. This makes me realized just how much chemical is in our skin care and that really scares me.

My skin was probably not so healthy on the inside because I started to see promising results towards the last league of the regimen. Right before I ran out of product to use, my skin was back to the good self. I didn’t know my skin’s improvement state until I put up the Before and After photo side by side. Before I started using Black Silica Salt, I did mentioned that my skin was at it’s best state. It was a tad bit dry and was reinstated with the use of Natural Skin Water . Notice the red patch on my inner right brow on the Before photo? That was tamed down too.

The biggest improvement I say is on both side of my face. Somehow or somewhat, previous marks are lighten, complexion is more even toned and smoother.

I was kinda sad when I ran out of Facial Soap and Facial Esthe as my skin had just transformed to better. Honestly the last month was the happiest month for me as I don’t need to be stress about layering a few layers of skin care although I do enjoy layering but it’s good to not doing it and to have a good skin along the way. What I never expect is how moisturizing Natural Skin Water is. Don’t look down on the water because the water alone is enough to keep my combination oily skin hydrated and day by day, I can see that my skin is half less oily than before. The whole range is to be used day and night and it’s not heavy on the skin especially on day time, comparing to using a normal cream moisturizer.

I’ve seen the use of sugar or pepper in skin care and this is the first time I’ve tried product that uses salt as one of the key ingredient. Do you suffer for problematic skin? If your answer is yes, this is the answer to your problem. You can read more about other user’s testimonial at this link.

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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One of my biggest headache of all time is still pimple marks. I have no problem lighten the marks with whitening products but I can’t seems to get rid of it completely no matter what. It seems like I have a stubborn skin :(. Previously I bought and tried one of the acne scar gel from local pharmacy with a high hope but not only it doesn’t remove any marks but also gave me breakout.

When something similar but with a much more affordable price anti-pimple mark gel landed on my desk, I do not hesitate to give it a try. After all I seriously wanted to get rid of all those ugly marks!

I’m sure all of you have heard, used or know about Oxy. I still remember the old school days where I would buy Oxy anti-pimple cream for my pimples. That is what Oxy is famous for. Oxy Anti-Pimple Mark Gel is said to not only lighten pimple marks but also help to smoothen the skin while preventing blemishes as well as revitalizes the skin cells. With this new addition to the Oxy family…the anti-pimple skincare range is now complete!

Oxy Anti-Pimple Mark Gel contain high Vitamin C content and anti-oxidant which helps to lighten pimple marks and dark spots. This gel also contain Arbutin that is highly effective in brightening and rebalance the skin tone.

The tube is nothing fancy but yet easy to use. It’s good enough for me

As the name suggest the texture is none other then a clear, scentless gel. I think this smells much better than the one I tried previously.

Despite being a clear gel that are easily absorb in, I don’t suggest using more than you should. Try to be sensible when using this. Don’t get me wrong, not that it’s going to give you breakout or something. I feel that more might not be good. Sometimes less is better :D. Another tip – apply until it’s fully absorb. I normally apply this at the end of my skin care routine. So far so good. No breakout

Eager to see the result? Actually I took all the photo a few weeks ago, after using for 2 weeks. My face now is slightly better than this. Although it is said to be for pimple marks, I also apply onto pimple as well. Normally after pimple dries down the mark will appear and stay on. To prevent that I started early which is to apply onto pimple

Oxy Anti-Pimple Mark Gel can be applied on the pimple marks a few times a day before makeup. The best part is that it is suitable for all skin type. I have good faith with Oxy because of their reputation in the market.

Here is the ingredient list for those that are interested.

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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No you did not read wrong. This product that I’m about to talk to you today is a post acne gel specially formulated to treat our number #1 enemy – acne scars and dark marks. But why the title is about breakout? You are about to find out.

While Mederma doesn’t work at all for me, I was hoping this Hiruscar Post Acne Gel For Acne Scar and Dark Marks works better since it’s especially for post acne scars. I purposely drove to the nearest Watsons in the neighborhood to get this. There is a few variant and I settled with the most expensive and most promising one.

At the point where I bought this…my skin was in one of the best state I ever had. Breakout wave stopped for a good few weeks which I was happy about it. Previous acne marks on both jawline faded but there is still just a tiny bit of darker marks to take care of. Which is why I wanted to give this gel a try.

At RM38.80 this comes in a white plastic tube. When the tube was new and plump I need not to squeeze too hard to get the gel out. The gel also doesn’t ooze out when I unscrew the cap. As you can see the silver strip on the tube has faded gradually.

This gel is advised to apply ONLY on closed acne wound. If you had “freshly” pop a zit please avoid applying this gel on the wound. I am not sure why but when the product direction said so means there’s a reason for it. Apply on the acne scars 2-3 times a day in the morning and before bed. This can also be applied after any skin treatment products and under makeup. In fact is is recommended for better result.

Another advise is to wash your hands before and after using. Below is the ingredient list.

As the name suggest, Hiruscar Post Acne Gel is in clear gel form. It is quite thick with a strong medical scent. It’s definitely not herbal, not smelly but a scent is present. I cannot figure out what is it but it is familiar. You only will need just a teeny weeny bit of the gel. Just a thin layer will do. The gel is easily spread. It absorbed in almost immediately. It doesn’t look or feel like you had this gel on.

So. Let’s go back to the breakout thing that I mentioned in the title.

Within a few days after I used this I started to have breakout. I didn’t really suspect this gel because this gel is for acne scars and marks. But then I didn’t use any new skin care products at that time so I continue using until it hit the second week. By second week the break out is far more worse than when it started. It was huge, red and painful. What I notice is the more I apply (twice a day) the more worse it gets. I had posted my breakout pictures in this post.

The breakout beginning to subside when I finally realized it was Hiruscar Post Acne Gel that cause all the breakout and I stopped using immediately. Within a few days I didn’t get any new breakout. Then it was time to focus on getting rid of all the scars and marks….AGAIN.

I started off with a clear, good skin but because of this my skin gotten so much worse. All this happen before I started my whitening journey with Guerlain Blanc de Perle.

Could it be that one or more ingredient doesn’t suits me? I don’t know. This is a product that I regretted buying because it does more harm than good to me.

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored review. I bought the product on my own.

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