Suki is a line of “responsible” skincare. Their business practices are pretty impressive. They do everything from sourcing ingredients locally to ensuring their ingredients come from companies with the same ethics. Their products are made by hand, leaving virtually no carbon footprint. Packaging is recycled and recyclable glass. Even their product labels are printed using vegetable inks.
Suki’s products are pretty impressive, too. We gave the 21 Day Detox Kit a spin. This travel-sized collection includes exfoliate foaming cleanser, concentrated balancing toner, balancing day lotion, bio-resurfacing facial peel, and bio-active purifying face serum. The Detox Kit aims to return balance to your skin in the same sense that a cleanse detoxes your system. I loved how the Detox Kit left me feeling clean and soft, with skin that felt smooth – like it had been resurfaced (but not nearly as scary as that sounds). I will say that I wasn’t crazy about how many products you are supposed to put on – toner, then serum, then moisturizer. It just felt like too much. Not heavy or suffocating, but a touch sticky. I usually just use moisturizer.
While Suki’s goal is to produce products that are suitable for even the most fragile, delicate skin, everyone’s skin is different, and I found the entire system to be too much on my skin. I was pretty impressed with the results of using the system, but by day two or three of the full regiment (except for the facial peel, which I did not try), my skin was red and blotchy. Not itchy or uncomfortable – just a little red. I cut it down to once every 2-3 days, and did much better on that schedule.
My favorite product was the foaming exfoliator. It starts as a sugar scrub, then melts into a fab cleanser. Plus it smells like sugar and lemons (kind of like Fresh’s skincare line).