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Home » Natural » In love with the Melvita Apiscoma UHT Soothing Cream for helping my sensitized irritated skin get back on track

In love with the Melvita Apiscoma UHT Soothing Cream for helping my sensitized irritated skin get back on track

May 22, 2017 Paris B 10 Comments

I don’t generally have sensitive or easily irritated skin, but sometimes, I do silly things to my skin that results in my skin throwing a fit. This usually results in bumpy, dry and flaky skin for me. What I’ve learned to do then, is to take it easy.

I went through one such episode recently, and unearthed from my stash the Melvita Apiscoma UHT Soothing Cream, a product I fell in love with and knew I just had to tell you about it!

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Melvita is a brand you may be familiar with. It’s a French brand of certified organic skincare, with its roots in honey and the bee. My favourite product from them has been the Floral Water Mist, which is lovely, soothing and hydrating, and I also liked their Nectar Supreme La Creme moisturiser.

While the Nectar Supreme La Creme is a good cream, I do think it serve a better purpose for those with more matured skin (and slightly deeper pockets). This Apiscoma UHT Soothing Cream however, is suitable for most, and especially, those with sensitive skin or those undergoing a bout of sensitivity – it happens! 🙂

I find the texture of the Apiscoma UHT Soothing Cream a little thick, but it has a lovely, non-greasy nor tacky texture, that sinks beautifully into the skin. For this reason, I believe that this is suitable for any skin type. In the day, I use one pump (I have normal-dry skin) and in the evenings, I use 1.5 pumps. If you have oily skin, just use a little less. It is easy to spread on skin.

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The slim bottle has a twist-to-lock pump, and the pump is fairly easy to control to determine the amount you need.

What the UHT stands for in the name, is pretty much as you see on the side of milk cartons – Ultra Heat Treated. The formula is treated, just like milk, to ensure a longer shelf-life and to ensure the contents do not spoil. The product is packaged within an airless pump, that is hermetically sealed, to ensure no air gets in, to affect the contents.

The formula includes a patented 3-honey complex (acacia, orange blossom and thyme honeys), shea butter and sunflower oil. What you get therefore, is beautifully lush cream, that feels like velvet on skin and does an amazing job at soothing and calming irritated skin. In just 2-3 days, I found my skin responding, the flakiness went away, the roughness smoothed itself out, and although I no longer have the problem, this is now my new favourite moisturiser for both day and night! It seems to help my normal-dry skin normalize, so I don’t actually need a heavy moisturiser at all. This seals in all the lovely goodness of my serums and lotions, and my skin feels amazing.

It doesn’t feel greasy, nor does it oil up, so it sits well to protect my skin during the day. During the night, I use a little more, and it’s the same – non-greasy nor oily, and is sufficiently moisturising for me to wake up with soothed, smoothed skin.

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However, it is not all rainbows and light. There is one thing that bugs me about this cream, enough for me to maybe not use it too often. That’s the scent.

The scent is all natural, but I find the creamy floral scent unpleasant. If you are fine with floral scented products, then it will sit well with you. For me, I find the underlying creaminess too gourmand for my tastes, and that puts me off. It’s not to say that it’s bad, scent is so personal. For this reason, I will use this cream to the last drop, but I will hesitate to repurchase unless I experience another skin flare-up, in which case, this will be my SOS skin soother!

IN A NUTSHELL

The Melvita Apiscoma UHT Soothing Cream is a moisturiser targeted at soothing sensitive and irritated skin. The formula is flash sterilized the same way that milk is, for longer shelf-life and efficacy. The cream, although a little thick, absorbs very easily into the skin without any greasy, oily or tacky feeling. It is very comfortable and it did an excellent job at soothing my sensitive skin, hydrating it to remove flakiness, smoothing out bumpy skin and soothing dry patches of skin. It is beautiful and effective. The only thing that doesn’t sit well with me is the scent, which is natural, but too floral and gourmand for my preference.

PROS: Soothes and calms skin very quickly, Hydrates and moisturises skin to heal and treat sensitive and irritated skin, Treats flaky and dry skin, Makes bumpy, dry and flaky skin smooth and comfortable

CONS: Scent is too gourmand for my preference

WHO WILL LIKE THIS: Anyone with sensitive or irritated skin that needs soothing and hydrating

PRICE: RM195 | €29.90 | £30 for 40ml

WHERE TO BUY: Melvita stores and online, Naturisimo

For those interested, here is the ingredient list for the Melvita Apiscoma UHT Soothing Cream.

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Have you tried this Apiscoma Soothing Cream? Do you have any Melvita favourites?

Despite the scent, I do love this a lot, simply because I couldn’t believe how quickly it helps my irritated skin heal. This works incredibly well – almost as good or better than Tatcha Indigo cream that I love, but at a smaller pricetag! That said, I guess I should really stop irritating my skin in the first place LOL! 😀

Paris B

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  1. Kate says

    May 24, 2017 at 1:16 am

    Melvita is not readily available in Singapore yet, I think.

    My skin can go a little haywire when I apply the wrong products and I had to use the bare minimals to soothe the skin. I slap on a big amount of aloe Vera as mask and lots and lots of hydrating masks to replenish the water. And I like to use Clarins skin beauty repair oil to seal the goodness in.

    Unless the sensitive bout flares even worse due to allergy (usually animal fur or dust), I would then take oral histamines ?

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    • Paris B says

      May 29, 2017 at 11:44 am

      Oh I didn’t know it wasn’t available in Singapore! I believe the melvita.com.my website ships to Singapore, if you ever want to try (or you can always get it in store here if you’re ever in Malaysia 🙂 ) But like you, I sometimes have my skin go haywire for many different reasons. I used to get stressed about it, but these days, at least I know what I can do to correct the problem! Haha 😀 Oh you reminded me of the Clarins oils. I used to use the Lotus one – loved it! But I haven’t used any in years.

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      • Kate says

        May 29, 2017 at 10:50 pm

        I see! Probably will try this out the next time I visit KL, I think I saw the shop at sunway pyramid.

        Although I try a lot of products from other brands, I still go back to Clarins for some staple products. I loved their face oils for the scents, always use them with face mask last time.

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        • Paris B says

          June 3, 2017 at 9:10 am

          Oh yes I think there’s a Melvita at Sunway. Clarins isn’t bad in general. They were one of those who had facial oils before facial oils were mainstream, and theirs are good! You only need so little anyway, so a little goes a very long way 🙂

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  2. YZ says

    May 31, 2017 at 4:06 pm

    This has sadly been discontinued 🙁 and replaced with the Soothing Comforting cream at a slightly lower price point.

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    • Paris B says

      June 3, 2017 at 9:58 am

      Hey YZ I checked with the brand to confirm this, and am happy to report that it has not been discontinued! Locally, they have been out of stock which might be why you don’t see it in stores or online. But it is most certainly still available. I was devastated when you said so, as I love it so much! I had to confirm it haha 🙂 Keep an eye out for it, I’m sure it’ll go online once stock comes back in

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      • YZ Teh says

        June 3, 2017 at 10:02 am

        For real?? That would be great! Nothing beats getting a Tatcha indigo cream alternative which is available locally 😉
        I don’t have super-sensitive skin per se, though it is nice to have something on hand to help soothe the occasional flare-up 🙂

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        • Paris B says

          June 3, 2017 at 10:50 am

          Yep, got it straight from the horse’s mouth 😀 I too love Tatcha, but those prices are too much! This one isn’t as pretty, but heck, it does amazing things for the skin (even normal skin, and I find it’s more moisturizing than Tatcha) so I’m more than happy to stick with this 😀

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  3. Piou-piou says

    June 16, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    Hi dear!

    Thanks for your review! This cream sounds promising for my combination? skin, prone to eczema flakes sometimes.

    Being French myself (but living in Spain for years), I love reading your point of view regarding French pharmacy brands.

    I didn’t even realise Melvita was a French brand btw lol, but it seems to be well-known amongst our international beauty bloggers community ?

    About the scent, that’s something you can hardly escape from French cosmetics I’m afraid… Although I personally try to avoid perfumed products on my face, French women love their perfumes!!!

    That’s because they associate brands with their signature scents, which adds a sort of extra luxury value.
    You know that already regarding makeup, as far as the violet scent is concerned in Guerlain Météorites, for ex.

    Enjoy the weather, Paris!
    Here, it’s 28°C in Barcelona and not sure the sunscreen stash I’ve hoarded from Japan will suffice!!!! ?

    Cheers

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    • Paris B says

      June 28, 2017 at 10:06 am

      Hi there! Has the heatwave in Barcelona let up yet? 😀 It’s been quite nice here – hot but with the occasional thunderstorm, that cools down the temperature so we don’t burn up haha! Oh you lucky girl to have access to all the lovely French pharmacy brands! I guess we always want what we can’t have. I have access to Korean or Asian brands but have less of an affinity towards using them. I did notice that Melvita is not very prominent. In City Pharma where I visited a year ago, there was only a little shelf of products! I guess the competition is so great from other excellent French brands out there.

      Thank you for sharing the reason why French skincare brands tend to be perfumed. If there’s one thing I’d like for them to change, the scent would be it. Some of them are so strong! But I guess lifestyle plays a large part, and their target audience is of course, the French woman! How interesting! Hope you’re enjoying summer!

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