Everyday Care Lab

The Korean Skincare Order Mistake That Wasted My Money I Had All the Right Korean Skincare Products — They Just Weren't Working When I was living in Germany, I had a shelf full of good products. A Centella essence, a ceramide cream, a hyaluronic acid serum — all the ones that are supposed to work. But the results were inconsistent. Some days my skin looked great. Other days it looked exactly the same as if I'd done nothing at all. At first I thought the products were fake, or maybe a bad batch. Then I started wondering if my skin type had just changed again. The real problem was the order I was applying them in. Some days I'd put cream on before serum. Other days I'd skip toner entirely and go straight to essence. None of the packaging told me the right order, so I just applied whatever I grabbed first. Once I actually got the sequence right, the exact same products started working completely differently. The 10-Step Korean Skincare Order — Why Lightest Goes First...