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Papa Recipe

Blemish Serum.

Papa Recipe Blemish Serum
Acne

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What the gurus are saying

James Welsh rates it highly; Cassandra Bankson is mixed. Cassandra Bankson: "This is a great serum, yes, but do I consider this a blemish buster? Shockingly no."
Synthesized from 2 expert reviews · most recent take May 2022

What the gurus are saying.

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"The Papa Recipe Blemish Serum is huge—150 milliliters compared to your average 30-milliliter ampoule size. What I like about this is it's got a whole concoction of amazing ingredients. While it's called a Blemish Serum, we're not talking hardcore AHA resurfacing kind of serum. We're talking like over time this is going to even out your skin tone, help with fine lines, texture, all that kind of stuff in a really nice gentle journey kind of way. It has niacinamide which can help with breakouts, even out skin tone, help with sebum production, and help minimize the appearance of pores. It has baicalool as an antioxidant that can potentially help against fine lines and wrinkles. Sodium hyaluronate for hydration. Soothing allantoin and adenosine again to help with fine lines. Galactomyces ferment filtrate, one of my favorite fermented ingredients, which evens out skin tone, brightens, moisturizes, hydrates, is anti-aging, and rich in amino acids. Galactomyces ferment filtrate for me is the ingredient—the anti-aging ingredient other than retinol—that helps the skin barrier and pigmentation. While this isn't a real hit-hard like we'll see you in four weeks without any pigmentation, this really gently gradually helps make those improvements on the concerns you're concerned about without compromising anything on your skin. This really enjoyed."
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~Mixed
"This is a great serum, yes, but do I consider this a blemish buster? Shockingly no. Although I did use this and although I think this is safe for acne-prone skin, there aren't any ingredients in here that I really feel fight breakouts. I don't feel like this is for someone who is struggling with acne and looking to get into K Beauty. This is for somebody who wants hydration, maybe you get a couple of pimples around your cycle or maybe if you get stressed out. This is a good product and I love the size, but this did not fix my back acne. I would say this is a product that I skin cared but my skin didn't care."
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