Ok, hear me out, I literally finished using this product and ran to make a review, this is the first time I've done this! Sorry if there are grammatical mistakes, English is not my first language! First of all you have to use the product for around 3 minutes with some force in your skin so the texture you need shows up which are like little grains of salt stuck in it, I've always struggled with white heads in my chin and nose, the chin ones have always been a headache, I tend to rub them out with my face soap and my fingers to clean them out but it's never enough, I got this product to see if it could help since I saw it was an exfoliator basically and I've tried some kind of brushes before that didn't work. Anyways, this worked perfectly! It left my chin extremely smooth and I can't even see a single white head on it anymore, after using it I cleaned my face again with my soap and continued my skin care with my serums and moisturizer and my skin feels soooo soft. The texture does feel a little rough and CAN hurt a bit if you're too rough but I honestly appreciate the roughness, it took all that gunk out effortlessly! The package is also super super cute! I love the little octopus, the smell is a little weird, it's like herbal I guess? Salty? Oceany? Idk lol but it's not bad and it doesn't stay on the skin afterwards. Sorry for the super long review but I honestly 100% recommend giving it a chance if you're struggling with white heads like me, I've never had black heads so I don't know if this works for that but honestly after seeing how it took care of my white heads/prominent sebaceous filaments? I can say it could work perfectly for black heads as well! Read more
It works excellent to make all black heads pop out then wipe off. Leaves a beautiful shine on your skin Read more
These are great, it’s on my necessities list at this point. They exfoliate my face so well and leave it feeling clean and moisturized not dried out or stripped of oils. I have sensitive skin and this has never caused a reaction, no scent to it. I actually gave this to friends this year as part of a “favorite things” gift exchange. I think my only complaint is that the holder design prevents you from being able to use absolutely every last bit of the product so I find something to scrape out between the grooves. The holder though is cute and fun but also ergonomically practical, easy to hold while using without being too big. Read more
I genuinely feel like I’m using this completely wrong, because it does nothing for my blackheads and whiteheads. All it is is just a scrub. Genuinely it’s just a scrub. The only thing I found it good for was it has a weird wax part to it that helps GREAT with my oily skin. Ive noticed after putting it on my skin doesn’t feel oily, but also not dry AT ALLL leaves my skin feeling super nice Read more
This is ridiculous It WORKS!!! I have a client who has a ton of blackheads on her nose and cheeks and she hates extractions really has no tolerance for it. She ended ended up buying this and I saw her last week and I was shocked at how great her skin looked and she told me that she bought this and it’s a 10 out of 10 I don’t have a lot of blackheads on my nose, but I bought one anyways just to try it and I don’t have any blackheads on my nose now because of this thing and it really took them all out completely right to the bottom. It’s not like halfway it’s completely gone. Read more
I am a big fan of TonyMoly lip stains, and so while looking for something in the way of a cleanser, serum or mask to deep clean my pores, I ran into this cute little Tako product. The reviews were so overwhelmingly positive, and focused on blackhead removal that it seemed this product was a sure thing. Not so for me. While cute, this little tako (and I emphasize, it is tiny, keychain-sized) did not magically pull out blackheads, nor did it do anything at all about the one stubborn whitehead (comedone) near my nose (how could it? Beware of products that claim to 'scrub' or pull away whiteheads, which are cystic. A whitehead is not the same as a pimple that has come to a head; it is too far buried under layers of cells to be affected in any way by topical products). Sadly, this product, which is basically very rough salt in a stick form, could not be expected to perform the miracles I read about. At best, as a (very harsh) exfoliator, it removed oily residue and surface dirt, cleaning just a bit from the tops of my pores. I expect that younger, more hormonal customers may experience temporary breakouts with this type of exfoliant; it is so rough that it might, with frequent use, continually stimulate more oil to rise to the surface of the skin. A big concern I have with very rough exfoliant products, containing coarse salt (as well as sometimes pieces of apricot kernel or walnut shell--beware these products!) is that the exfoliating agent very well might widen the opening of pores, even tearing the skin open at a level that might not at first seem evident, but soon enough, pores treated this way enlarge and coarsen. Had I understood that the salt was this coarse, I would not have purchased it. The only safe exfoliant I have found is made of very fine grains of salt, (usually combined with salycic acid or glycolic acid) that melt away while working on cleaning the pores. I have never found an OTC product that magically deep cleansed then tightened the pores to appear much smaller. That second step needs a sophisticated astringent, usually formulated by a cosmetic dermatologist, which is where I will turn for my next facial products. Read more
