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The Pixi Nourishing Cleansing Balm made me fall in love with face flannels again

March 25, 2019 Paris B 9 Comments

I am an avid user of cleansing balm or balm cleansers. You all know that. I have a whole repository dedicated to the ones I’ve tried, because I’ve tried and used so many over the years. Some I love, some I don’t.

You may notice I haven’t been talking about them lately. There’s a good reason. I’m trying to be good about using up my skincare, and all that takes a while. So, when I love a product, I don’t want it to go bad, so I spend more time on it.

But when I was using up my latest ones (Innisfree Cleansing Balm and Elemis Pro-Collagen cleansing balm) I realised that I’d strayed a little further than I thought from my favourite TYPE of cleansing balm.

Newer formulations of cleansing balms tend to emulsify with water, which makes them easier to rinse off. This makes cleansing balm more acceptable to many people, because it is easy to use, and familiar if you’re coming from the world of cleansing oils.

But truth be told, as convenient as it is, it isn’t the TYPE of cleansing balm I favour. So, when I broke open by Pixi Nourishing Cleansing Balm that I’d been saving for a while, and found myself reaching once again for my face flannel, I knew I’d love this one!

The Innisfree My Makeup Cleanser – Melting Balm helps you take the day off affordably

December 17, 2018 Paris B 3 Comments

I love it when friends introduce me to their favourite products that I might never think of trying. Better still when said friend is a skincare junkie who knows her stuff, and who shares my preferences for textures. So, when I found the Innisfree My Makeup Cleanser – Melting Balm in my birthday gift pack, I was very intrigued.

Innisfree My Makeup Cleanser - Melting Balm

Innisfree, as most of you are aware, is an affordable range of skincare from Korea under the very big Amore-Pacific umbrella, that also houses popular brands like Laneige and Sulwhasoo.

The primary reason I was gifted this, and why I was so intrigued that I immediately included it into my evening skincare routine is this – it’s a cleansing balm. And boy do I love cleansing balms! 😀

Waxing lyrical and falling head over heels in love with the Elemis Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm

April 27, 2018 Paris B 22 Comments

It’s no secret that I love using cleansing balm. I have a whole repository of the cleansing balms I’ve tried LOL! I used to come across one however, that received a lot of love online. It was the Elemis Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm. Naturally, I had to see what the fuss was about!

Elemis is a spa brand that has popped in and out of Malaysian shores for a while. I remember when it was available at Parkson department stores, when I first tried samples of the brand. Then it disappeared into a spa. I don’t even know if it’s still available here anymore, and if I’m to be honest, I’m not surprised if it no longer is.

Spa brand cosmetics do tend to be notoriously more pricey than most department store brands, and Elemis was no exception. But unlike many spa brands I’ve tried before, I found the Elemis products quite good. They were effective and my skin really loved their products. I haven’t tried many of their products since, as they disappeared from view, and you know what they say – out of sight, out of mind!

But because I kept coming across the Elemis Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm, and how good it was, I gave it a go. I bought it online of course, as I do almost everything these days 😛

The Estee Lauder Advanced Night Micro Cleansing Balm is good stuff but something about it bugged me

May 8, 2017 Paris B 24 Comments

The Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair serum is iconic. It is also a favourite of mine, partly for sentimental reasons (I know that’s a weird reason to like a product, but it worked for me for many years when I was younger) and because I still find it effective at giving my skin the glowy boost it needs when my skin is tired. It works for me that way.

The Advanced Night Repair serum stood out on its own, in its little brown bottle in the Estee Lauder stable. But it’s now the core of a brand new range, with the introduction of the Ampoules, a Mask in Oil and also, strangely enough, a cleansing balm!

The Estee Lauder Advanced Night Micro Cleansing Balm comes in a jar with a shiny golden cover, bearing the iconic stripes along the edge, that brings it within the Advanced Night range of products.

There was a lot of rave about this, and I had quite a few people telling me I had to give it a go, because everyone knows I love cleansing balms and this was a good one to add to my repository. I’d had it with me for a while, and I’m going to tell you that it’s good. I will not deny it.

Yet, something bothered me about it. There was a niggling feeling at the back of my mind that I could not quite ignore, and just a few days ago, the penny dropped. Now, I’m ready to tell you what I think! 😀

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