SKINFOOD

SKINFOOD (also written Skin Food) is a Korean cosmetics brand. According to the brand, its idea fits in one sentence: "Treat your skin with food". In other words, care for your skin with ingredients you know from the kitchen. The easiest way to grasp it is to read the product names: rice, black sugar, honey, carrot, acorn, banana, pink grapefruit, muscat grape. Each food name opens a family of skincare.

This page helps you find your way. It sums up the SKINFOOD selection at Ma Petite Coree by family, without listing everything, then guides you by need. Each product page then gives the directions and the ingredient list provided by the brand.

To help you find your way, we grouped the SKINFOOD products in our selection by name, based on their titles. Here are the families that are easiest to spot, without claiming to be exhaustive.

• Black Sugar: the Black Sugar Perfect Bubble Foam cleanser, the Black Sugar Perfect Cleansing Oil and the Black Sugar Perfect Essential Scrub 2x, built around black sugar.
• Rice Brightening: the Rice Brightening Toner, the Rice Brightening Serum and the Rice Brightening Cream, with rice and "Brightening" in the name.
• Royal Honey: the Royal Honey Propolis Enrich Essence, the Royal Honey Propolis Enrich Toner and the Royal Honey 100 Hour Moisture Cream, with honey and propolis.
• Carrot Carotene: the Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad and the Carrot Carotene Soothing Toner, with carrot and "Calming" and "Soothing" in the name.
• Banana PDRN: the Banana PDRN Booster Serum and the Banana PDRN Glow Cream. PDRN is a polydeoxyribonucleotide.
• Red Bean Tranexamic Acid: the Red Bean Tranexamic Acid Toner and the Red Bean Tranexamic Acid Serum, with tranexamic acid.
• Acorn Pore Peptide and Egg White Pore: the Acorn Pore Peptide Ampoule, the Acorn Pore Peptide Cleansing Foam and the Egg White Pore Mask, whose names speak of pores.

Other families round out the selection, such as Gold Caviar, Blue Chamomile Hyaluronic, Yuja C, Pink Grapefruit AHA, Shine Muscat Cica, Basil Tea Tree or Peachy Zinc PCA. You will find all of them in the categories of the brand page.

Start from your need, then from the texture you like. If your skin turns shiny or your pores bother you, look at Acorn Pore Peptide and Egg White Pore, and at the selection for oily skin. If it feels tight, the Blue Chamomile Hyaluronic and Royal Honey families speak of hydration in their names: see also dry skin. If it is touchy, the Carrot Carotene pads put comfort in their name; the sensitive skin selection helps you compare.

For radiance, Rice Brightening and Yuja C are the names to look for. To exfoliate, choose between the Black Sugar scrubs and the Pineapple Peeling Gel, or toners with AHA or BHA, such as the Pink Grapefruit AHA Toner and the Shine Muscat BHA Toner. Introduce one active at a time and always read the directions. Cosmetic advice, not medical advice.

To learn more about the brand, read the blog article SKINFOOD, the Korean brand: Black Sugar, carrot, honey. You can also compare with neighboring brands: INNISFREE, NATURE REPUBLIC or THE SAEM.

What sets SKINFOOD apart is how easy it is to read. When you see "Black Sugar", you know black sugar is the featured ingredient. When you see "Rice Brightening", you understand it is about rice and radiance. The catalog is large, but easy to browse because each line keeps its food and its packaging color: brown for black sugar, gold for honey and caviar, yellow for banana, burgundy for red bean, green for water parsley and muscat grape.

The textures are varied too: foams, oils, soaked pads, ampoules, masks in jars or in sheets. You can build a complete routine without leaving the brand, or add a single product to a routine you already have.

Here are a few SKINFOOD products to start with, one per type of care. To cleanse, the Rice Daily Brightening Scrub Foam combines foam and exfoliation going by its name, and the Naju Bae Deep Cleansing Oil removes makeup as a first step. For the routine, the Peachy Zinc PCA Essence and the Lemongrass Niacinamide 20 Serum give two leads, one with peach and zinc, the other with lemongrass and niacinamide.

To hydrate, the Blue Chamomile Hyaluronic Cream and the Royal Honey 100 Hour Moisture Cream are creams from the brand. To protect from the sun in the morning, look at the Berry Smoothing Sun Cream or the Berry Moisturizing Sun Cream. For a pampering moment, the Sous Vide Mask Sheet are vegetable sheet masks, and the Universe Pad Kit gathers several pads to try. Each product links to its page, with the directions.