Urgh, can't live with this, can't live without this

I was pretty much falling back on my stable products after the Benton Aloe products, and I had return to my previous love item, Trader Joe's Antioxidant Moisturizer, which was much cheaper in the store itself ($5.99 instead of the 11 something on Amazon),it did my skin great while I was living in California, and I had been using it for almost three years. It wasn't enough to quench my skin after my move back in Indiana, and I had stopped using it after the vitamin E cream. I tried using it again during my time with the honey ampoules, but it still wasn't enough. I heard about the snail products, and thought, why not.

The few snail products I have my eyes on are MIZON snail repair, MIZON Black Snail cream, and Tonymoly Snail Gel, which I was hoping to help with my sensitive, dry/oily skin. I did tried the Benton Steam Cream first (which was the product that gets me interested into snail products), but unfortunately, there's just something about Benton products that gets my skin really irritated, so I wasn't able to enjoy the products as much. A damn shame, because Benton line has such great reviews.

Why does my skin is so weird? Why can't it just behave normally? Why can't it appreciate the efforts I'm putting in?

T_____T

Anyhow, back to snail items.

Ingredients: Snail, Alcohol, Glycerin, Tangerine Extract, Tangerine Peel Extract, Orange Peel Extract, Sodium Carbomer, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Carbomer, Thomethamine, Sodium Polyacrylate, Citric acid, Water, Acrylate Polymer, Coco-Glucoside, Benzoic Acid, Disodium EDTA, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin, Capryl Glycol, Ethyhexylglycerin, Fragrance.

I ordered the Tonymoly Snail Gel first, because I'm trying to stay in budget and if it works, I'll just stick to it. High snail content, big amount, decent price. I hoped it would work for my picky skin.

Not so much. Or at least, it's not working as well as I thought.

This is my first day using it, and I'm a bit annoyed by how my skin reacted. At the same time, I'm not sure if the snail gel is completely to blame.

I've heard of sheet masks, and how it hydrate your skin as well as deliver nutrients, so I've bought a set from Tonymoly while waiting for my other variety sheetmasks from Innisfree website (which is also doing a buy 5 get 5 free promotion). I did just a little research on the sheetmask before I ordered them, though I wasn't doing enough research, as only after the Tonymoly sheetmasks arrived did I realized they contained dimethicone in them. I tried my best to find products without dimethicone, as it is bad for your skin, and my skin is already sensitive enough without the silicon polymer clogging it further. However, it had already arrived, and I'm too lazy to return it, so I thought maybe dimethicone now and then wouldn't be that bad.

I was wrong.

Ingredients listed for one of them: Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Mineral Oil, Allantoin, Polysorbate 80, Carbomer, Chlorphenesin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Xanthan Gum, Dimethicone, Phenoxyethanol, Tromethamine, 1,2-Hexanediol, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract, Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract, Snail Secretion Filerate, Propanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Disodium EDTA, Fragrance.

Between the mask (I was using the Sea Weed Purifying one) and the snail gel, my face was bright red and itchy.

 My face is like an itchy tomato. I should have research on what was in those masks, as well as using one thing at a time (though I doubt that I really have learn this lesson, as I'm impatient to just smother my face with supposed goodness instead of trying to see what it does). I didn't actually know what was in those mask until I was looking up ingredients for this blog. Well, according to COSDNA, the Seaweed Purifying that I was using doesn't contain mineral oil nor dimethicone, so I guess I did picked the least problematic of them all; still didn't go well with my skin, and I'll have to return these masks now. Mineral oil and dimethicone DOES NOT belong on your face. I have heard good things about tonymoly, and I like their egg face products, but this doesn't impress me. On the contrary, I'ma be cautious about their products now.

Why Tonymoly, why?

No more sheetmasks from Tonymoly for me, though I'll give the snail gel another chance and see how my skin likes it tomorrow morning.

If it doesn't go well, I'll have to see how well the Mizon snail does.
 Of course, I'll have to wait for the product to arrive, meanwhile, I'll have to fall back onto the vitamin E cream and hope it won't break my out much.