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For an oil cleanser that won’t strip your skin, end your day with the Skin Creamery Oil-Milk Facial Cleanser

July 2, 2018 Paris B Leave a Comment

Occasionally I stumble on a brand where I seem to love everything they put out. I love it better when they are small brands that are off the main grid because it’s always fun to discover something new. One such brand is Skin Creamery. When I tried the Skin Creamery Oil-Milk Facial Cleanser, I therefore expected to love it.

I’d been very impressed by 2 items I’d tried from this South African brand before this – their Everyday Cream and their Facial Hydrating oil. I still use them both and I’m still as impressed by them today as I was before. It’s taken me a while to expand my experience with their products, but this is certainly a case of better late than never!

The reason it’s taken me a while to get round to this, is because I have been a little averse to using oil cleansers. I learnt about double-cleansing through oil cleansers, but I also learnt from experience, that they are incredibly drying to my skin. Over the years, I have come across the odd cleansing oil or oil cleanser (slight difference) that do not dry or dehydrate your skin. They are few but they are available – and happily, I can now add another to that list! 😀

I only sampled the Three Aiming Cleansing Balm but it wormed its way into my affections as quickly as One, Two and Three!

May 28, 2018 Paris B 9 Comments

I recently shared with you one of my favourite cleansing balms, which naturally prompted rumblings of dissent over how hard it was to get hold of. I’ve come to be immune to such rumblings LOL! But I was thinking about it and remembered that I had recently sampled the Three Aiming Cleansing Balm, which had also captured my imagination, and which is easier to get hold of locally.

Three is a Japanese brand with an interesting holistic approach. If you are familiar with Japanese brands, you’d know there aren’t many that have this approach. The products in Three are made with botanical extracts using essential oils and have organic origins. To me, it comes across as having an aesthetic and story that feels different, from the normal scientific approach taken by most Japanese cosmetics brands.

I haven’t tried much from Three, so if you have, I’m naturally curious to know what you love about the brand and what I might try next. In my case, I have to say that my interest was piqued by my experience with a sample of the Three Aiming Cleansing Balm.

When is a cleansing gel not a cleansing gel? When it’s the Oskia Renaissance Cleansing Gel!

August 9, 2017 Paris B 17 Comments

I dabble a lot in cult skincare brands, as many of you realise, and one that keeps popping up at me over the years is the Oskia Renaissance Cleansing Gel. I resisted the temptation however, as I’d stopped using a cleansing gel for my skin for a while (too drying for dry skin).

However, a couple of months ago, I met the owner of local cult beauty website, Caliata (if you love cult brands, it’s a wonderful local resource!), and she kindly gifted me with a bottle, because it was one of her favourite products, and she was so excited to share it with me, I had to give it a go. Incidentally, I love talking to people who love their beauty products. Their passion is infectious!

The aesthetics of the packaging is stunning, with its crisp, white bottle, and a large, wide, pump. The down side of course, is that you can’t see how much you have left. That might be both a good thing or a bad thing for you. Good, because you don’t have to feel so bad about watching the levels drop; and bad, because you don’t know when you should replenish! LOL 😀

I have hummed and hawed over this product for a couple of months, and I’ve finally just made up my mind about it.

Affordable and Effective: The Bio-Essence Miracle Bio Water Jelly Makeup Remover is a one step cleanser

November 4, 2016 Paris B 14 Comments

When I saw that this Bio-Essence Miracle Bio Water Jelly Makeup Remover was selling in the UK for more than DOUBLE what it costs at a local pharmacy here, I confess to letting out a manic mad-scientist howl of laughter. I let out the very same howl of laughter when I came across the last Bio-Essence product that I thought was awful, nevermind the crazy raves it was getting, for reasons unknown to me.

But when I saw it on sale one day, I decided to give it a go. The idea of a “Jelly Makeup Remover” interested me, and I love nothing more than to debunk cult statuses of products 😀

And then I promptly forgot about it LOL! Oh yes, I’m kind of horrible that way.

It wasn’t until I got round to chatting with a friend, Suzanne, who told me that this was her holy grail makeup remover, that she stocked up on at every opportunity, sweeping pharmacy shelves clean of it whenever she spots it. I gave her the side-eye. Erm. Really? 😛

When I got home, I headed straight for my skincare cupboard, because at the back of my mind, I had that niggling feeling that I had this. I just needed to find the damn thing! And find it I did and I think I understand why she liked it.

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