Medicube Red Succinic Acid Serum

Read the list on almost any serum sold for breakouts and alcohol is somewhere near the top, because alcohol is the cheap road to a matte finish. This one arrives at the same finish without it, and that single absence is what lets you use it morning and night instead of three evenings a week.

A 30 ml fluid at the serum step, straight after the lotion, built for blemish-prone skin that cannot take a drying formula.

• A dose set for daily use rather than weekly: sellers print 1% succinic acid and 0.2% salicylic acid. Succinic acid is thirteenth on the list, low enough that nothing flakes off and high enough that the oil and the grain shift over a few weeks.
• The ring around the spot evened out: the niacinamide blend is given at 5%, and niacinamide itself is third, behind only water and glycereth-26. The red halo that outlines a blemish loses its edge as the weeks pass.
• The barrier kept up while the acids work: panthenol is sixth, with squalane, ceramide NP, beta-glucan and macadamia oil further down. Skin supported like that takes an acid better and holds fewer marks afterwards.
• Nothing added to make it smell of anything: the faint scent is a geranium oil at the very end of the list, and no perfume appears anywhere in the formula.

The texture mattes within seconds and stacks under a cream or a sun product without pilling. Foundation goes over it flat.

Recommended for combination to oily skin that breaks out, visible pores on the chin and nose, marks left by old spots, and anyone put off by serums that dry the face out.

Step 6 · Serum

two presses after the lotion, morning and night.

• Dot the two presses across the forehead, both cheeks and the chin.
• Pat it in until nothing is left sitting on the surface.
• Add a light cream before the skin has dried off completely.
• In the morning, close with sun protection: a face working on its marks gives that ground back in daylight.

Four presses across a day empties the 30 ml in about two months, and three weeks is a fair point at which to judge it. For a faster change in the grain, the Red Succinic Acid Peeling Pad carries the same acid in a form that sweeps the surface as well.

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Eau, Glycereth-26, Niacinamide, Glycérine, Butylène Glycol, Panthénol, Triglycéride caprylique/caprique, Éther de dicaprylyle, Arginine, Laurate de Polyglyceryl-4, Stéarate de Polyglyceryl-10, Laurate de Polyglyceryl-6, Acide succinique, Copolymère d’ammonium acryloyldiméthyltaurate/VP, 1,2-Hexanediol, Diéthoxyéthyl succinate, Bétaïne, Propanediol, Hydroxyacétophénone, Copolymère d’acrylate de sodium/acryloyldiméthyl taurate de sodium, Acide salicylique, Polyisobutène, Extrait de feuille de Melia Azadirachta, Copolymère acrylique C10-30, Extrait de fleur de Melia Azadirachta, Squalane, Allantoïne, Extrait de racine de Curcuma Longa, Trométhamine, Adénosine, Hydroxyéthylcellulose, Gomme xanthane, Disodium EDTA, Oléate de sorbitan, Glucoside caprylyl/capryl, Copolymère d’acrylate de glycéryle/acide acrylique, Extrait de feuille d’Ocimum Sanctum, Extrait de Monascus, Huile de graine de Macadamia Ternifolia, Dextrine, Extrait de Corallina Officinalis, Huile de géranium maculé, Céramide NP, Tocophérol, Phytosphingosine, Extrait de fruit de Morinda Citrifolia, Bêta-Glucane, Extrait de fruit de Momordica Charantia, Lécithine hydrogénée, Extrait de fruit d’Hibiscus Esculentus, Extrait de racine de Lithospermum Erythrorhizon

List provided by the supplier and translated. The composition printed on the pack is authoritative.