September Korean Glossybox Featuring Codilus

Update: 

Unfortunately equally of Oct 5, 2015 Dowaja is no longer opened upwards for business.

My commencement ever subscription box unboxing.
Wow! Exciting! 

And it should be, because it took a flake of seek to larn my hands on this subscription.
Why? Because it’s Glossybox from Korea.

The squad behind Dowaja shopping service was responsible for getting the September edition of Korean Glossybox to me, together with they did a stellar job. When I commencement heard almost Dowaja, which is an English linguistic communication speaking buying together with forwarding service based inwards Korea, I right away saw it equally an chance to larn my hands on a Korean beauty subscription box.

After reading almost other people’s experiences amongst Dowaja, I decided to become ahead together with give it a try. To live honest, my commencement impressions were non precisely all that positive.
The pop kids on the block (or the blog) were getting replies to their emails together with their deliveries inwards tape time. And me? Well… Let’s simply nation I was a rattling unhappy camper at first. But I am rattling pleased to nation that later on my initial dissatisfaction, Dowaja fixed what needed fixing together with my experience amongst them turned out to live equally awesome equally everyone said it would be. I can’t recommend them enough.

(And no, this is non an affiliate link, I simply think they are doing a fabulous job).

They ordered the box for me, they checked the contents of the box when it arrived at their office, they notified me that ane detail was an aerosol tin together with thence impossible to send to me yesteryear air.
They suggested options on how to solve this problem. They offered deluxe samples equally a replacement for the pressurized product. They read my heed together with picked the best deluxe samples ever.

I've used the peeling gel earlier together with it's da bomb! Dowaja clearly used their psychic powers to pick this laid for me.

They offered me different transportation options, they securely packaged my Glossybox together with mailed it out inwards tape time. And it finally arrived yesterday.

And oh yeah, did I cite that Dowaja does it all inwards English?
Yes folks, inwards English.

Dowaja also provided me amongst a link to the contents of the box, but I chose non to await at it. I wanted to live surprised. However, I did stumble upon an unboxing somewhere deep inwards the bowels of them innertubes yesteryear full accident. But that alone made me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than curious, because people, crocodile oil. 

This is what was inwards the box (minus that ane pressurized item, which was a shampoo), a nicely curated mix of western together with Korean products.
Clearly, some careful idea went into the selection. It wasn’t the slapdash, "stick whatever strange inexpensive crap inwards there" subscription box that I together with then oftentimes view on western blogs.

Because you lot tin specify your pare type when you lot sign upwards for the box, it looks similar what I got was the dry out pare version. Of course of report the detail that I was curious almost the most was Codilus. Because, crocodile oil, folks, crocodile oil.

image source: Codilus website



Apparently, snails, ass milk together with body of body of water Equus caballus farts based skincare is for amateurs. Crocodile is where it’s at now. And champaign crocodile crude oil skincare is a existent thing, too. I vaguely recall something almost croc crude oil means dorsum when, when I was inwards South Africa. But it was firmly inwards the witchdoctor sort of remedies category.

And though dissimilar body of body of water horses together with starfish, croc crude oil skincare genuinely has a rattling fancy pedigree (all the means from the pharaohs apparently), the opinions on whether it industrial plant or non are divided.

link here.


Ugh, my caput is almost to explode.
And yesteryear the way, did you lot know that serpent crude oil is also a existent thing? Apparently.
I'm wondering when a brave Korean skincare fellowship decides to unloosen a serpent crude oil cream. This should live interesting...



Anyway, dorsum to the September edition of Korea's Glossybox.

As it's customary amongst subscription boxes, nosotros accept a laid of information cards:

Yes, you're seeing it right. That's Kamill manus cream inwards there, all the means from Germany.
Refinery 29 claims that Kamill manus cream is genuinely pop inwards Korea. Hmmm... curious that the Refinery's story comes out that same calendar month equally this box containing Kamill.

By the way, Ziaja, a Polish build that Poles are ever together with then fond of claiming how pop together with exclusive it is inwards Korea, didn't build the list. Let's view if it volition demo upwards inwards whatever of my upcoming boxes.

So, inwards all I got iv products:

• Suiskin Enzyme Powder Wash (CMS Lab) 100ml
• Codilus Dominicus Gel SPF50+ PA+++ 60ml
• Dr.G Bio-RTx™ Mentor Cream five for dry out pare 20ml
• Kamill Hand together with Nagelcreme Q10 20ml

The toll was around US$15 (or $16, don't recall exactly, but it was rattling affordable) addition Dowaja's 10% service accuse addition almost five bucks air transportation (no tracking number).

All inwards all, I am quite satisfied amongst the contents.

I am familiar amongst Dr.G Bio-RTx™ Mentor Cream 5 together with spell it's a perfectly serviceable product, my dry out pare prefers other options. It feels rattling plastic together with at to the lowest degree for me, it did non supply my pare amongst plenty moisture, fifty-fifty for solar daytime use. At nighttime fourth dimension I demand industrial strength moisture, together with then this cream was strictly for solar daytime use. And despite its "for dry out skin" tagline, it's definitely meant for pare that is less dry out than mine.

Update: This cream broke me out.

Dr.G Bio-RTx™ Mentor Cream 5 ingredients along amongst the analysis are hither - link.


Suiskin Enzyme Powder Wash is novel to me, though I've heard of the brand.
Suiskin website is here and hither is the intro to the brand as presented yesteryear Hope inwards a Blog.

The pulverisation is genuinely rattling finely granulated:

It dissolves completely, but I wasn't able to larn it to foam, no affair how difficult I tried.

Getting an accurate pH reading was tough. I wasn't able to practice it.
All I could determine was that the pulverisation is indeed inwards a low-pH cleanser category.

Suiskin Enzyme Powder Wash ingredients:

As you lot tin see, it contains Papain, together with then people sensitive to papaya extracts should non utilization it.
By the way, the ingredients for this launder on cosDNA website practice non stand upwards for upwards amongst the label. I'm going to trust the label.


And finally, the production I was genuinely curious almost it.

Codilus Dominicus Gel SPF50+ PA+++ Crocodile Oil together with Water Drop

As a sunblock fanatic, I was excited to view a novel (to me) sunblock inwards the box. As a rattling picky sunblock fanatic, I was disappointed to view a sunblock I knew zilch about.

All the information on the box together with the brand's website is inwards Korean. I asked Joan from nonsonoquitter to assist me decipher what was going on.

She determined that the croc used is of the Australian variety, together with that this sunblock doesn't seem to live waterproof.

I'm genuinely funny when it comes to creature ingredients inwards my skincare. I spend upwards to utilization snail slime, because I empathise amongst the pathetic snails that are forced to compass to run into the global slime demands.

I am reluctant to utilization Equus caballus crude oil skincare, because c'mon, horses!
Emu oil? Hell no!!!

But crocodiles? No such reservations.
Crocodile oil? I'm all yours.
Heck, give me proper hunting gear together with I'll become larn me my croc crude oil myself.

And amongst that inwards heed I unsealed the subway scheme together with acre tested on my arm. Yeah, crocodile crude oil is similar inwards composition to human pare together with shouldn't displace whatever allergic reactions, but improve to live security than sorry.

The commencement thing that hitting me was the smell. Of alcohol. This was definitely Biore UV Aqua sunscreen level of ethanol.

Then, the texture.
They weren't kidding when they said crude oil together with H2O drop.
This is precisely what it was.

Again, I view for certain similarities to Biore sunscreens.

Codilus Dominicus Gel SPF50+ PA+++ seemed rattling oily at first. Seemed, because at the same time, it wasn't.
Just similar Biore, it absorbed to lovely zilch leaving null stickiness, null white cast, together with null filmy residue.

But dissimilar Biore, it was deliciously moisturizing.
It was lighter than Anessa (Shiseido) together with Allie (Kanebo) sunscreens. It reminded me of Astablanc (Kose) daily protector. It felt similar a moisturizing cream masquerading equally sunscreen.

Today it was sunny, together with then I bravely slathered it onto my face. Despite the high alcohol content, it gave me no adverse reaction. For query purposes, I topped it off amongst foundation together with it worked bully nether makeup.

Honestly, this looks to live a rattling decent sunscreen suitable for dry out pare (if you lot don't heed the fact that it contains ethanol).

Through brute force, together with amongst the assist of several different websites (including All of Cosmetics, HwaHae app, the amazing element information amongst names inwards both Korean together with English linguistic communication courtesy of Sidmool, and this list) I translated the ingredients together with entered them into cosDNA.

Codilus Dominicus Gel SPF50+ PA+++ ingredients together with analysis are hither - link to CosDNA.
Because champaign CosDNA doesn't accept crocodile crude oil inwards its database, despite it having a valid INCI name, the crude oil dropped to the bottom of the list.
On the packet it's listed correct later on xanthan gum, for what it's worth.

I'm kinda curious almost that Codilus Saleoleum Balm (which is already available on ebay together with Gmarket) now. And the mysterious Codilus Magma Cream which won an honor at the K-Beauty Expo finally calendar month - link here, but can't live institute anywhere on line.



And that's it for my commencement Korean Glossybox.
Looking frontward to the Oct edition!

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