Skinfood Rice Mask Wash Off

With it's ground rice texture and rice extract ingredients, this wash-off mask is meant to brighten, soften, and moisturize your skin.
It retails in Korea for 7,700KRW. You can get it at Koreadepart for only $6.44. ^^





Simple! 1) Massage over dry, clean face.   2) Leave for 15 minutes.   3) Wash off.
Skinfood recommends using it with the black sugar mask for maximum effectiveness.





It’s your typical Skinfood tub packaging: plastic, sturdy, sticker labels, includes an inner lid, etc. No spatula included! Also, it was practically filled to the rim when I got it.




[ cap diameter: 7.8cm | height: 6.6cm | base diameter: 5.6cm ]









It smells just like the Egg White Pore Mask: somewhat…floral? Floral as in flowers, not roses.





Here’s a video that takes you through scooping it, applying it, and spreading it out. I’m a total newb at videos, but hopefully it’ll give you some sort of idea about the texture! Youtube decided to change the lighting and make it REALLY dark and weird, but I decided to leave it since the mask shows up better this way! ^^


As you can see by the glisten, the mask is very moist. It also spreads very easily, but because of its grainy texture, it doesn’t spread evenly.

It’s thick in a sense that it's goopy and sticky like congee, but in no way is it heavy like how emollient creams are.

Here are some photos to show you details:




(↑ Those little bubbles you see are the rice bits!)





Amount Needed: Because of the texture and its uneven spreading, I tend to use a lot each time, even though I only apply a moderately thin layer.

How it feels: When I first apply it, the small bits of rice feel mildly exfoliating, but only at first! After I start massaging, they soften and feel more like clumpy congee instead. As it sits on my face, it feels decently moisturizing, especially as time goes on. However, given the sticky, gooey texture, it doesn’t give that hydrating feel that sheet masks do.

Gradually it absorbs, and I’m left with a thin layer of oily-ish residue that reminds me of natural sebum. It's almost as if the rice bits melted...? I have no idea. -.-






Don't mind my weird hairline...

(↑ This was taken right before I rinsed. This is the "sebum-like" residue I was talking about.
It really looks and feels like sebum to me!)

(↑ That shine is actually water I hadn't wiped off.)
Not really much visible difference, really.

Brightening/Whitening: I know many others have testified to a brightening effect, but I see none. Although the pictures suggest a bit of softening of my blemishes, I hardly notice anything in real life, to be honest. Though to be fair, I rarely ever experience brightening effects... T^T

Moisturizing Ability: It's got the type of moisture that washes off easily when you go to rinse. After rinsing, I still feel a little more moisture than I began with, but it’s light.

Softening: My skin didn't feel any softer than it usually does.




I will admit that the natural ingredient-type feel of this washoff mask is quite refreshing--but then again that’s probably just Skinfood’s marketing scheme, haha! The sebum-type feel was quite interesting, but I must be honest: I’m not really keen on using “natural and organic” products--been around too many chemicals to care at this point--so for meeee, there’s not much incentive to buy this. It didn’t really stand out to me. I prefer the Holika Holika Sheep Milk Yogurt Mask :) But it seems to be quite the steady seller in Korea, so maybe it's just not my cuppa tea!


Many thanks to Koreadepart for sponsoring this, alongside many of my other recent reviews! ^3^



Anyone else tried this mask, or other similar rice products? How'd you find it?

Skinfood Egg White Pore Mask Review

If my nose were a garden, my pores would be gopher holes, and my blackheads would be the fat gophers living inside. But thankfully I've come across this pore mask, which I am just loving!

Brand: Skin Food [스킨푸드]
Name: Egg White Pore Mask [에그 화이트 포어 마스크]
Amount:100g
Price in Korea: 8,000KRW

Basically, this wash-off mask claims to do two things to your pores: 1) cleanse, and 2) shrink. They say: It penetrates deep into your pores, binding to and removing any blackheads and pore-clogging oil. The albumin-rich egg white extract promotes firmer skin and smaller pores.

▼ It comes in a sturdy, medium-sized plastic tub lined with stickers. You can peel the cap sticker open to find the ingredients!

The container might seem modest in size at first, but it actually holds quite an abundant amount inside, enough to last me at least 7 months or so! Inside you'll also find a thin, plastic inner lid: ▼

Off-white in color, this is a creamy, soft, and buttery paste that smells of flowers. It’s quite moist for a paste, though not in the least bit runny. (It dries up once you apply it, actually!) The moisture-shine is a bit exaggerated in my photos...it's actually quite matte in real life! Me bad~ ^^;





Application is very smooth. It practically glides onto your skin! Soon afterwards it begins drying. It dries into a soft, powder-like veneer over your skin.


It feels very gentle on my face. Sometimes I get a "spicy" warm feeling, but it's benign. I have normal/dry skin and I don’t find the mask drying for my skin, nor does it make my skin feel tight. I mean, I do feel *the mask* drying up, but not as though it’s taking moisture from *my* skin, you know?

So how well did it live up to its claims?

1.) Cleansing/Blackhead Removal: It does indeed noticeably pull out my blackheads! See how in the After photo my blackheads look like they're peeling a bit? Those are actually the heads poking out! (I'll have you note that the blackheads in the second row are deep and usually veryy hard to remove!)

This time there was only a slight difference, but back when my pores/blackheads were ginormous it would pull them out about a 1/4 or 1/3 of the way! It was enough to see them poking out with the naked eye, yet not enough that they could be easily removed with mere exfoliation. Plucking maybe... It's a double-edged sword I suppose~

2.) Shrinking: Again, back when I had larger pores, I saw very noticeable shrinkage (about 30-40%), but lately I've noticed less change since my pores are smaller now (although I can't say that's due to the mask though, since I don't use it regularly).

So instead, here is a photo of my boyfriend's results, since his pores show up better on camera:
Notice how much smoother his pores are after; you can even see his blackheads poking out a bit at the bottom!

Usually within a day or so my pore size returns to normal. As of right now I can't comment on possible long-term results, but I'll update this post once I reach a conclusion!


[Update 8/17/12: Two months later, my pores are noteably smaller, even on bad days. (Of course, I can't be compleeetely sure this is due to the mask though!) Also, as I mentioned before, with smaller/less clogged pores, come smaller results. You'll also want to make sure you exfoliate for maximum effectiveness!]

[Update 9/23/12: Yep, it's affirmative! Now that my pores are smaller and much less clogged--they used to be over-the-top clogged, but now they're only about halfway clogged, if that makes any sense--I see barely any 'pulling out of blackheads' and just a wee bit of pore size shrinking.

So in conclusion, bigger pores, blackheads --> bigger results! smaller pores, blackheads --> smaller results]



I really really like it! This is the first mask that actually visibly reduces my pore size and removed my blackheads! (Well, kind of removed.) You know how all these skin products always talk about minimizing pores, but meh, I never notice anything...! And even though this doesn't fully remove my blackheads, I still think the partial extraction is a good prep to complement any subsequent methods of blackhead removal! :)
Whew, hope that helped! So what do you think? What's your Pore TLC regimen?

*PS, just a reminder to join my giveaway! I can't believe most of my followers (prior to the giveaway) haven't joined! You're practically already in, you know! What, you no like my choice of goodies? :(