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Dec 10 PRODUCT REVIEW: MISSHA TIME REVOLUTION NIGHT REPAIR – BEST ANTI-AGING SERUM, BEST FERMENTED SERUM WITH PROBIOTICS

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MISSHA | TIME REVOLUTION NIGHT REPAIR

This review was originally part of my blog article titled, A Complete K-Beauty Routine with the Best Facial Skincare from Purito, Cosrx, Missha & More! You can catch the full piece here.

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Every die-hard fan of K-beauty knows that the Missha Time Revolution Night Repair is a dupe for Estée Lauder’s iconic Advanced Night Repair. In fact, they share 16 ingredients, including the star ferment, Bifida Ferment Lysate! (I told you I’d get to this in a minute!)

The Missha version of Advanced Night Repair is, however, a far superior formula to Lauder’s ANR — which seems dated by comparison. While both formulas contain several “nasties” including PEGs and Trisodium EDTA — a controversial substance which, while it’s no a proven skin irritant, is proven to be an environmental toxin.

Neither formula is clean; but this isn’t a blog article about clean skin care.

What truly differentiates the two, and what elevates Missha’s Night Repair, is the plethora of antioxidant botanical extracts and non-fragrant plant oils in the K-beauty formula.

While I don’t have the Lauder Advanced Night Repair handy now, I’m quite familiar with its lightly gooey, brownish texture. Missha’s formula is so similar that you’d be hard pressed to tell the two apart.

Both contain high levels of Bifida Ferment Lysate, as the second ingredient after water. Rated by Paula as one of the “best” ingredients for the skin, Bifida Ferment Lysate is “a probiotic ingredient derived from a specific type of yeast obtained by the fermentation of Bifida bacteria. Research on human skin explants (cross-sections of intact human skin) has shown this ingredient can help reactive skin become less sensitive to environmental aggressors via strengthening its microbiome. Doing so encourages skin to visibly repair itself and begin looking healthier.”

Missha’s Time Revolution Night Repair is packed with skin-nourishing goodness in addition to the Bifida probiotic. In all, there are eleven fermented actives including: Bifida Ferment Lysate, the hen-of-the-woods mushroom Grifola Frondosa (Maitake) Extract Ferment Filtrate, and even Saccharomyces/Viscum Album Ferment Extract — an extract of mistletoe!

Oh, and what’s an ampoule?

An ampoule is a supercharged serum with higher concentrations of active ingredients that you're meant to use for a finite amount of time as a booster or when you're having a skin crisis of some sort. [It’s best when] using them before your essence or serum. Ampoules usually come in smaller bottles with droppers.

When it comes to fermented K-beauty skincare, you gotta give it up for Missha’s Advanced Night Repair dupe. Not only is it the Lauder treatment on steroids, but at $52 for 50ml, you can get two for the price of one.

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