First Impression: W-Lab Black Kill Pore Cleaner

Hi! As promised, I will be doing a per-product first impression review of the contents of my [first] Althea beauty box. It arrived last Monday, April 25, and on that same night, out of excitement, I started using the Black Kill Pore Cleaner from W-Lab!

Below, you can see the infographic on the Althea website regarding the product. You can also click the image and zoom into it for a better look (I'm not sure it's going to show up at its full size on my blog).

Here is my actual photo of the pore cleaner:

This contains 20mL of product has a 12-month shelf life. I only took a photo of the front since all the needed info was already on the website and everything else on the label is in Korean.

The packaging itself is very sleek and likable. As you can see, it's got a matte black body and a soft of black-tinted cap. The cap is very secure and its size makes it very easy to store alongside other cosmetics. 

Here you can see the silicone brush boasted of in the first image. True to its description, it was not harsh at all on the skin and felt like I was giving my face a micro-massage of some sort. Despite its softness, I definitely felt its exfoliating function.

Reiterating what the infographic says, this pore cleaner contains 51% seawater as well as charcoal powder to help discharge waste from the skin and control blackheads and sebum production. The texture of the product felt like a foam cleanser. My face was barely damp, but it lathered up very nicely and I believe one to two pumps would be enough to handle the entire nose and surrounding areas. 

My skin felt very relaxed as I massaged using this pore cleaner. The cooling effect was very noticeable and I did feel like the silicon brush was giving my pores a deep cleanup.

This is meant to be used twice to thrice a week, thus for now I can only give my first impression. Before I end this review, below is my before-and-after photo. The original photos had very different lighting (I don't know why the lights in our house are so difficult to angle to get the same photo tones even during the same time of day and in the same location!), so I increased the brightness a bit for the first photo:

I'm feeling really ashamed of my nose right now, but whatever. 

As you can see, in the top photo ("before"), my pores look quite clogged, not just on my nose but also on the skin on the sides of my nose. It just looks generally dirty.

The "after" photo shows improved skin texture and shrunken pores, again not only on my nose but also on the surrounding areas. 

Obviously, the effects aren't ultra dramatic, thankfully because my pore situation isn't quite as severe as those in the product's official "before and after use" photos. However, that is just from one use. I believe that this product will be able to deliver even better results over time, just judging from the effects of a single use!

Were I to gauge this, its results are similar to the Body Treats Charcoal Nose Strips, except instead of having a limited area of your face to treat and having to wait 10-15 minutes, you have all the liberty to target any area of your face with the W-Lab pore cleaner, and you can be done in less than five minutes. You don't have to "sacrifice" those tiny areas of your nose that won't be covered by a pore strip, and you get to clean those hard-to-reach corners of the nose that are so difficult to target using pore strips (I actually used this on my chin and forehead, too!).

So from my first impression, is the W-Lab Black Kill Pore Cleaner worth a try? Definitely━especially at its current sale price of Php720.00 on Althea Korea (the original price is Php1,030.00).

The product is not disappointing at all, but would I repurchase once I run out? For now, I am still undecided. Time will tell.

P.S. Before I forget, here is a picture of my beauty box, as promised in my last post━check out the free samples!

Thanks for reading!

<3 Mizsheee