The
product has quite a strong scent, it’s minty and quite chemically in my opinion.
Whilst it does contain jojoba beads intended to exfoliate the skin, there
doesn’t seem to be many of them and are much too soft to be effective. Whenever
I use this product I just feel like it is very superficial in that it doesn’t
do anything to benefit my skin and it leaves it dry, tight and dull looking (the
same can be aid for my husband’s experience of using it too). At the time I had
a couple of blemishes, I thought the product would help to clear these up
slightly but it really didn’t do anything at all. It also does a bad job of
removing my make-up as my towel has traces of make-up on it after washing my
face…don’t even think about getting it near your eyes it won’t do anything
except really sting! As for the pigmentation preventing antioxidants, I can’t
say that I have found this to be true either.
I honestly can’t think of one positive point about this product,
unfortunately I think it will just sit on my shelf and maybe used in an extreme skincare emergency.
My
next disappointing product is Mario Badescu’s drying lotion. I gave into the
hype about how great this product was and decided to give it a go. It is made
up of calamine, sulphur and salicylic acid so it’s potent stuff. It’s a strange formula with a watery
substance and a pink sediment-like texture at the bottom of a small glass
bottle. You have to dip a cotton bud into the pink stuff at the bottom and
apply it directly to your spot. It’s supposed to working by shrinking the
blemish by drawing out impurities from the skin. I have used it a few times now
and I’m not really impressed by it. It does slightly dry the skin which helps
the healing process but it hardly did anything to reduce the size of the
blemish. Another thing is that it seems to come off quite quickly, it forms a
bit of a crusty layer but I have found that it’s pretty much all gone after I
wake up the next day so I’m not sure it stays on long enough to really be
effective. As it is so potent, if you don’t like strong smells I think it will
put you off wanting to use this. I honestly think the Freederm’s fast track
treatment gel and Neutrogena’s visibly clear rapid clear treatment do a better
job at reducing the redness and size of my blemishes, plus they have a
transparent gel consistency so I can use them during the day unlike this
product (I don’t really go for the ‘pink splodges on my face’ look!). I will probably use it up but I doubt very much I would purchase it again.
Lastly,
it is Derma E Overnight Peel. Paula’s Choice has given this product 4 stars and
calls it a ‘well-formulated AHA lotion with 5% glycolic acid plus lower amounts
of the lesser-known AHA ingredients lactic and malic acids, all formulated at
an effective pH of 3.’ It claims to
reveal dramatically fresher, newer skin. With every use, skin tone becomes more
radiant, pigmentation is evened and age spots are visibly diminished. I saw
this product on Amazon for about £12 so I thought, given the great review, I
would purchase it. It is a gel formula which is to be applied as your last step
in your evening skincare routine. I definitely felt it tingling on my skin and
so I thought that it must be doing something, I had high hopes and used it on a
regular basis as recommend. Every time I used it, I woke up in the morning
hoping to see some improvements to my skin, even though I really tried to be
positive about it, I really couldn’t tell a difference in my skin even after
regular use. It did nothing to renew my skin or help with pigmentation in the
slightest and I just couldn’t understand what benefits came from using it. As a
result, I hardly ever use this peel now (sometimes I use it to give it another
chance) and I have come across far superior overnight peel products which are more
expensive but they actually work. Note
to self… Paula isn’t always right!
Have you tried any of these products? What did you think?
Xoxo
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