Medicube Hyaluronic Moisturizing Capsule Cream

The first properly cold week of the year. You come in from outside, the heating is going, and the cheeks sting for a minute. By Thursday a dry patch is catching on the foundation brush. September's cream has not changed. The air has.

A 55 g pot holding a thick gel-cream, with beads set through it that you break yourself. It goes on last, over everything.

• Water taken in at the level it can actually reach: the beads carry hyaluronic acid at 99% purity, cut short enough to pass between the surface cells instead of resting on top of them. The face looks filled out in the morning rather than simply coated the night before.
• Tone handled at the same time: niacinamide stands second, right behind the water. On a pot bought for comfort that is a genuine surprise, and it means the flat patches a long winter leaves get worked on while the dryness does.
• The door shut behind the water: jojoba oil, squalane and Ceramide NP make up the oily side, so what the beads bring in does not walk out again overnight into a heated bedroom.
• Stinging put down: panthenol, allantoin, betaine and arginine take the edge off skin gone touchy from cold and wind. Nothing perfumed and no essential oil appears anywhere on the list.
• Olive rather than silicone: cetearyl olivate and sorbitan olivate hold the emulsion together, and they are what give the cream its soft drag under the fingers instead of a slippery one.

This one is frankly rich. It sits on the face for a minute before it goes, and in January that minute is exactly the point.

Recommended for dry and dehydrated skin, cheeks that flake in the cold, faces that go tight coming out of the shower, and skin that turns touchy the moment the weather does.

Step 9 · Moisturizer

at night, last, with the fingertips rather than the whole palm.

• Scoop a thumbnail of cream, beads included.
• Break the beads between two fingers until the gel turns even again.
• Press the cream into the cheeks and the temples instead of spreading it.
• Hold warm palms over the face for a few seconds at the end.
• Shut the pot tight: unbroken beads keep better.

Half a dose at breakfast, a full one at night, and one pot takes you through a winter. If your nose shines while your cheeks pull, this will be more than the nose wants, and the Hyaluronic Ceramide Jelly Cream puts the same water in with far less fat behind it.

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Water, Niacinamide, Butylene Glycol, Methylpropanediol, Glycerin, Propanediol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glycereth-26, Arginine, Carbomer, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Panthenol, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Simethicone, Ethylhexylglycerin, Adenosine, Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract, Polyacrylate-13, Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract, Disodium EDTA, Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract, Polyisobutene, Hydrolyzed Sclerotium Gum, Glyceryl Stearate, Allantoin, Betaine, Aloe Barbadensis Flower Extract, Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract, Polysorbate 20, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Sorbitan Isostearate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract, Corallina Officinalis Extract, Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract, Squalane, Octyldodecanol, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Ceramide NP, Caprylyl Glycol

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