Dermalogy Real Ferment Micro Essence.

"It's still worth it. I actually got this at Ulta during their sale for half off, but I love it. I've repurchased this one. It's probably my fourth or fifth bottle I want to say. So I really do love it. In here we've got the bifida ferment, we've got sake ferment, which are two great anti-aging ingredients and skin protecting ingredients. We have green tea extract. And then we also have several amino acids. This has no fragrance in it. However, if you pick up the Neogen Real Ferment Micro Toner, that has peppermint oil in it. So you want to get the essence, not the toner."

"I really like this one because it's got wonderful ingredients and some people even call it like the more affordable alternative to the SK-II fermented essence. But what the name implies, it's got wonderful fermented ingredients and when you ferment ingredients you're getting the brightening benefits often and then the hydrating benefits and often the ingredients are much smaller so they absorb into your skin more readily providing those benefits that we just mentioned. Ingredient wise it's got high concentrations of fermented yeast ingredients including bifidus ferment lysate as well as saccharomyces ferment filtrate that both helps to strengthen your skin barrier, helps to support your skin barrier, improve skin suppleness, plumpness, skin hydration and supporting your skin barrier with the nutrients to help it repair itself overnight. Also has rice ferment that helps to brighten along with birch juice that's calming and hydrating. I really just aside from all the benefits I love the fact that it is just a very much like water and I can just pat my skin, pat it into my skin, absorbs really nicely without having to worry about that it may cause pilling or interaction with the rest of the products I use in the evening."

"I discovered the Neogen Real Ferment Micro Essence with 93% Micro Bioferment Complex. And I was like, this is my favorite one. This is the best one. And that's really because it has that 93% of fermented ingredients, which is what makes essences work. Essences really focused on fermented ingredients and brightening your skin tone and evening the skin tone. And that's what it did. The fermented ingredients, the Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate, focuses on brightening of the skin, it's got anti-aging qualities. It's also soothing, it's moisturizing, it's rich in Amino Acids. This is also the product that really got me into Niacinamide. When my skin was very oily, I would use this alongside Niacinamide and Zinc. And it just controlled my sebum production from going out of control like it used to all the time. I used this daily, twice a day, for years and years. And I really do think it's what kind of balanced my oils and why I still use Niacinamide to this day. And then we have Glycerin, Hyaluronic Acid, all those good things. I've started using this again. I've been using it for two weeks, actually, and a small bottle goes a long way."