Review: Holika Holika Prime Miracle Snail Essence

Hello ♥

I will do a review for Holika Holika’s Prime Miracle Snail Essence today. It may be gross for some of you, that there is more and more products coming up containing snail slime. I received my first snail creme sample (from Missha) around a year ago and I really liked it a lot and I bought the full size cream from Missha as a present for my mum. I really want to try more and different snail slime products since then and that’s how we come to this product now: I bought a miniature of Holika Holika’s Prime Miracle Snail Essence and used it once to twice a day.

Here is the description from Holika Holika’s US web page. You can have a look at the full size bottle there, too.

The miniature has a nice, but simple packaging with swirly letters and a small snail pictured on it. It’s milky plastic, so you can see how much is left. The cap has a bright purple color. I guess the full size comes with a pump according to what I can see in the images. A pump would be at least great to control the amount of essence for each use. Since this is an essence you only need a little product.

The essence is clear, but not really watery. Because of the snail slime it’s more viscous and a bit sticky. It absorbs rather quickly nevertheless, but a slight stickiness is remaining. After applying moisturizer and BB cream and going off to work the stickiness disappeared slowly. The scent of the essence is surprisingly nice and soap-y, and not like one would imagine snail slime to smell :D if snail slime has a scent at all…XD

Now, I used this essence quite a while. Since this trial tube contains 5 ml and you really are not supposed to use much  of the essence each time, this tube is perfect for seeing the effects of the essence in a short period of time. I agree to the point that this product is giving you some additional moisture. Nevertheless I would recommend not to stop using your moisturizing cream, because the level of moisturizing is not the same as you have in a cream. A really liked about that essence that it didn’t give me any breakouts, and each time I thought I’ll get a pimple at some certain part of the face and I cleaned my face in the evening and used the essence, too, I didn’t get anything! So I can confirm that it does provide some kind of acne care. The stickiness of the essence confirms also, that it contains quite some amount of slime. At least I hope that this is a true claim Holika Holika has given for this product. I didn’t see any brightening effect, though. Wrinkle care is a bit tricky to evaluate, since you can’t remove wrinkles which already exist or make them go back. I only can say, that after my normal face routine in the evening, my skin looks plum and moisturized in the morning and fine lines appear less. But I can’t really say if it is just because of this essence or because of any moisturizing cream you put over night. And since I really don’t have a lot of wrinkles I cannot judge this point perfectly, either.

If you’ve been reading my blog before, you know that I did a review on Missha’s Time Revolution First Treatment Essence. I really liked Missha’s essence more, and even if it was just one sample I saw more instant effects. Holika Holika’s Prime Miracle Snail Essence costs US$ 48 for 45 ml on the official US web page or US$ 40.34 on W2Beauty. I think this is also really expensive for such a small amount of essence.

Missha’s Time Revolution First Treatment Essence costs US$ 53.67 for 150 ml at W2Beauty for example. Honestly, if I would by a full sized product and would have to choose between these two, I would go for Missha’s Essence. Also, I discovered a set on W2Beauty for the Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence 30ml + Time Revolution Night repair New Science Activator Ampoule 10ml for US$ 25.40 which I personally have listed on my wishlist and would like to try. If you use my link or sponsor code 088505 for W2Beauty you’ll get a 5 $ voucher upon registration.