I don’t know why it’s taken so long for me to review this, since it’s on high rotation in my facial cleanser carousel (I have 9 different face cleansers in my shower at the moment, and uses whatever my skin feels like that day… yeah, I probably have a problem). As you can see from the worn-off label, I’m a big fan of this one:
Laneige Strawberry Yoghurt Peeling Gel is a cellulose-based peeling gel. Laneige is a Korean brand, and from what I can gather, it’s a cellulose-filled gel with an exfoliating enzyme in the soft red beads. Other than that, I can’t find any specific info in a language I can read on what’s in it.
To use it, you spread a good dollop over dry or damp skin (smooshing up the red bits), then wait about 30 seconds. Next comes the fun part – you rub the gel over your face and it all bunches up into white stringy clumps, kind of like eraser bits or what happens when you rub a wet tissue between your hands and it falls apart (or the white clumps whether you extract DNA from fruit – some geekery for you all! :P). This acts as a gentle physical exfoliant and your dead skin gets caught up in the fibres.
Freshly squeezed dollop (about 1/3 of how much I usually use for my whole face) – you can see the dark pink bead in the middle:
Spread out:
Rubbing it makes it bunch up:
I also sometimes use it on flaky skin in the shower, such as around my nose in winter – this somehow gets rid of all the dry white flakes, way better than any other exfoliating scrub!
It’s very gentle, but very effective. It seems to exfoliate my skin more evenly than grainy scrubs, leaving me with a post-exfoliation “glow”, and it leaves my skin unbelievably soft, “can’t stop touching, probably giving myself pimples”, counterproductively soft. Plus it smells delicious, like a strawberry milkshake.
There are a few similar products, which seem to be very popular in Korea (e.g. Cure Aqua Natural Gel, Skin79 Crystal Peeling Gel, The Face Shop Smart Peeling Water in Pomegranate, Missha Super Aqua Detoxifying Peeling Gel, Skinfood Pineapple Peeling Gel), but since my tube has lasted me ages, I haven’t had a chance to try them yet. But since it’s been discontinued (why, Laneige, why??!) I’ll be checking those out soon.
Have you tried a peeling gel before? What’s your favourite?
Oh me want!!!! This looks so freaking cool! 😀
It is! I’m going to have to find a replacement pretty soon 🙁
Wow I’ve never heard of this before! I will definitely try out Skin Food’s version of it…my skin is very dry so this should be nice.
Hope it works for you! 🙂 I’ll be ordering the Skin Food one soon I think…
I was so sold on this until the end when you mentioned it is discontinued. WHY MUST YOU MOCK ME?! *shakes fist skyward*
BECAUSE I HAVE SOME AND YOU DON’T. MWHAHAHHAHA!
Seriously though, I’m starting to see this as a good thing. The cheapest I’ve found for the Laneige is $30/120 mL, whereas a lot of the other Korean gels are in the $10-15 range, so I’m glad I’m not impoverishing anyone here 😛
I’m using Ginvera’s Green Tea Peeling Gel(: It works for me.
Ooh, haven’t heard of that one before, I’ll check it out, thanks! 🙂
Do they have any other products as a peel but newer? Damn, Laneige.
They’ve put out a Multiberry Peeling Gel to replace it, but apparently it doesn’t work as well. On the bright side, Laneige seems to be massively overpriced anyway compared to other Korean cosmetics, so it’ll make me branch out 🙂
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Thank you for the great review! But i am 5years late??? I was actually searching for a review on Laneige multiberry yogurt peeling gel and/or the clear c peeling serum+mask. Please let me know if you know anything?