Konnyaku (Konzhak Sponge): Feedback

The modern market of cosmetic products is regularly updated with novelties intended for delicate care of a delicate skin of the face, among which today entered konzhak sponge. Reviews about it with a huge speed spread among the owners of a delicate sensitive derma, because its natural composition is like absolutely everything. In addition to the usual cleansing function, this applicator gently cares for the skin, massages it, has a rejuvenating effect. Most of the advantages of the konjac sponge are due not only to the natural properties of the material itself, from which it is made, but also by qualitative additional impregnation from extracts of green tea, turmeric or bamboo charcoal, red or pink clay, lavender, berries, and various herbs.

Perennial plant Amorphofallus cognac and its processing

On the slopes of mountains and hills of southeast Asia, in the tropics and subtropics of Indonesia, in the southwest of China, in the eastern part of Japan and in Thailand, there is a unique perennial plant Amorphofallus cognac, or konjaku, whose tubers are used in cooking for the preparation of flour for shirataka Noodles) or as a component to salads. The roots of the "snake palm", or "diabolical language" (as the local population calls Amorphophallus konjac (lat.)), Are rich in glucomannan - plant fiber. More than half of this jelly-like product (up to 60%) is dried in glucomannan filaments, from which a fine cosmetic conch sponge is obtained. The reviews praise the tenderness and delicacy of the applicator in the treatment of the skin, because thanks to the properties of vegetable wolves, it cleans the epidermis qualitatively, allows for accurate peeling, moisturizes the dermis, and has a noticeable lifting effect. Sponges for washing from tubers to horseback are universal: they have long been used by oriental beauties to care for any type of skin.

Forms and varieties of cosmetic sponges from vegetable filaments with a high degree of purification

Popular today konzhak sponge, reviews that encourage fans of Asian cosmetics when buying to give him preference, can take the form of an oval, a heart or hemisphere. This does not affect the quality of the skin treatment and the degree of its purification with natural fibers, but it allows the holders of the unique sponge to choose a convenient applicator so that it is comfortable to hold it with your fingers, caring for the face and body.

Variants of color sponges to a horse

A natural konjac sponge, whose reviews say that it is safe even for infants and older children, contains only natural fibers and is white in color. The green applicator (with green tea extract) perfectly cares for dry and sensitive skin.

Black-and-gray sponge konyaku (with bamboo charcoal) treat the fat and problem skin. Yellow sponge with glucomannan fibers and turmeric extract is excellent for age dermis. Applicator brick-colored horse (with red clay) experts recommend for thin, sensitive, as well as prone to irritation and mature skin. The pink sponge Konjac has the combined properties: konjakovyh vegetable fibers and pink clay (a mixture of red and white kaolin). Rich in silicon colored sedimentary rock is designed for dry skin type. Sponge, which contains pink kaolin impregnation, perfectly copes with the restoration of the skin and the stimulation of the work of epithelial cells, removes irritations, tones all layers of the dermis and improves the blood supply of tissues. The pink sponge is also good for problem skin: removes greasy sheen, cleans it of comedones and perfectly exfoliates deadly particles.

Common properties of all konjac sponges

The characteristics of any gluconicannan fiber applicators, promised by the manufacturers, include: soft, delicate exfoliation, ensuring the return of the natural radiance of the skin; Anti-inflammatory effect, eliminating acne; Balancing the pH-balance of the dermis; Guarantee gentle care for sensitive and irritated skin; Natural moistening of the epidermis and deeper layers; Ideal match for a hypersensitive dermis and affected by atopic skin ailments. Each konzhak sponge for the face (reviews of its hypoallergenic relevance) is available without dyes, preservatives and chemical additives.

Pale-jade sponge in the form of a heart or hemisphere

A buckwheat with a shade of green tea is popular with women and girls with a mixed or dry type of skin. This impregnation of the applicator for the face and body provides dermis treatment with the best natural antioxidant containing ascorbic acid, tocopherol, kakhetins and natural polyphenol.

It helps to tonicize small vessels, strengthening them. Praise comments accompanying the sponges with tea extract are advised to use them for dermatitis and acne. With regular washing, cleansing from make-up with konzhak sponge with pale jade hue, the turgor, color and health of the skin improve significantly after 3-4 weeks.

Conjunctive sponge with bamboo charcoal

Reviews of the washcloth on the basis of glucomannan wolf coal (black and gray) colors are full of grateful words about the quality care for the oily and problematic dermis, prone to rashes and the formation of pimples and comedones.

Despite the pleasant soft structure of this sponge, it is very effective: it helps to remove deeply and effectively from the pores subcutaneous fat, narrow them, thereby preventing further ingress of dirt and cosmetics inside.

Natural body sponge from a plant to a horse

A natural exfoliant, helping to cleanse any skin contamination, is considered a konjac sponge for the body. Reviews about it indicate that the size of such an applicator is much larger than the sponge for the face. But its effect on the skin is exactly the same.

Extra-exfoliating, abrasive materials for the epidermis are not required when using sponges. Comments of users of such sponges are advised to wash and massage the skin of the body without the use of scrubs. But a soft gel during the procedure, suitable for this type of skin, will be very welcome.

How to use a fashionable konjac wonders

Sponges of glucomannan wolf can be sold packed, in a moist environment, or unpacked and dry.

The first is a loofah with a soft and delicate texture, which when completely dried becomes a solid pebble. When placed in warm water, it again swells and increases in size, restoring its original softness. Unpacked konjac sponges have initially a solid structure, during which the applicator is doubled and softened, as well as its soaked and packaged "brother".

Popular brand of sponge cuffs from European and Asian producers

Washcloths with natural glucomannan fibers conquered girls and women in all corners of our planet. The geography of manufacturers of cosmetic sponges extends from Asia to Europe. Companies from France (Clarette) and Korea (Tony Moly, Ecotools Pure Complexion Facial Sponge and Holika Holika), Japan (Boscia) and China (Valori) can be found in the catalog of well-known brands of sponges. It should be noted that any konjac sponge reviews (Valori among them) get admired.

According to the main parameters of quality and skin care, all the sponges of the horse are almost identical. European applicators differ from their eastern "brethren" only at a price. Japanese and Korean sponge can be both budgetary at cost, and quite expensive. Their price varies from a small (160-200 rubles) to a double on a French applicator Clarette and more (700-900 rubles). The Clarette closter sponge, whose reviews are often left to grateful customers, miraculously cleanses the face and massages it as well as any eastern counterparts, while it has a price that is affordable for most consumers. The sponge sponge from China (Valori), judging by the comments of users, is not inferior in its properties and reliability to both Japanese and Korean sponge, and French.

Conjunct sponge: reviews

With bamboo charcoal, with green tea extract, colored clay, turmeric, lavender or berries, a cosmetic scouring gives a tremendous amount of foam when washed, which helps to take care of the skin qualitatively, cleaning it from dirt and cosmetics. Expanded pores become narrower, greasy gloss disappears even without the use of special tools.

But the comedones (black dots), judging by most of the comments, the sponge from the glucomannan fibers are not subject to control. Washcloths are only slightly lightened, but they can not radically fight against them. To eliminate this cosmetic defect, additional drugs and procedures will be required. Adolescents suffering from acne should also be entrusted with treatment of the disease to the doctor and strictly follow his recommendations. But at the stage of post-acne, when the acute phase of the disease is passed, spots on the acne are perfectly removed on the affected parts of the epidermis with the sponge of the acne. Sponge with gel or mousse for washing deeply cleans the skin by foaming means and qualitatively removes makeup (including tonal basis). The buyers of konjac woolen cloths of the majority of manufacturers note that, with a careful attitude, the applicators serve no more than two to three months. Experienced users of sponges are advised not to keep them permanently moist in the factory packaging, since pathogenic bacteria can appear and multiply in the porous structure.

After each use, the konjac sponge should be washed in running water and hung on a special rope provided by the manufacturer for drying. By the way, on the same rope the girls hang the sponge on the water tap to the water tap so that the applicator can soak the water before the procedure. It should be noted that in the rating of the sponge for washing, the natural exfoliant from the plant fibers of the roots of the horse is predominantly the topmost position.