Recently I've done couple of orders, so I have loads of freebies to test out! Let's crack on with this Etude House's cream!
Product description: healthy skin by containing more than 50% of moisturising ingredients, offering powerful adhesion and skin protection film for dry & weak skin.
Main ingredients: Organic Shea Butter, Natural Claud Berry, Safe 5 Free: No Paraben, No Benzophene, No Mineral Oil, No Artifactial Colour.
Note: It should be kept in room temperature - as it gets colder it may get grainy due to characteristic of organic Shea butter.
The full size product is a 60ml jar, I was testing the little sample sachet.
I have an oily/combination and acne-prone skin, which tends to dry out and feel tense from time to time, especially around eyes, on the forehead and around temples. I use light-weight creams for the daytime and for the night I am looking for something more moisturising, I also do a mild scrub approx. twice a week, followed with some moisturising mask/sleeping pack. Because I suspected that this cream may be a bit heavy I used is after scrub, despite of the mask and left overnight. Here is how I found it.
The cream has lovely, fresh, a bit soap-like smell. Nice! The texture is rich and thick, bring Nivea's or Dove's classic creams to mind. It is also a bit greasy. My face was really shiny after application, but I didn't really mind since it was nighttime - it didn't left my face sticky, so it was fine. Because of it's thickness the sample wasn't very efficient and lasted only for one, but quite generous application on face and neck area.
When I got up in the morning, my skin was nice and soft and a bit greasy, which is normal with my complexion type. I would be quite happy, but unfortunately quite a few zits appeared in my nose and chin area, which means that this cream was too heavy for me.
Price of full size product: approx. £13 on e-Bay.
Pros:
+ nice smell
+ very nourishing indeed
+ leaves skin soft
Cons:
- not very efficient
- leaves skin shiny
- too heavy for my skin
This product doesn't really work for me, but I don't want to criticise it, as it's clearly not for my complexion. An oily/combination skin needs moisture but without oilness, when the dry skin needs both. I think that it may work out quite good for people with dry skin, especially for the nighttime. If I ever got the samples of this product again, I'm quite happy to give them away to some dry skin owner, to see how they find it :)
Ingredients: WATER, GLYCERIN, CYCLOPENTASILOXANE, CYCLOHEXASILOXANE, CETYL ETHYLHEXANOATE, SQUALANE, BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA) BUTTER EXTRACT, DICAPRYLYL CARBONATE, DISTREADIMONIUM HECTORITE, CETYL PEG/PPG-10/1 DIMETHICONE, BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA) BUTTER, HELIANTUS ANNUUS (SUNFLOWER) SEED WAX, LIMNANTHES ALBA (MEADOWFOAM) SEED OIL, PEG-10 DIMETHICONE, RUBUS CHAMAEMORUS SEED EXTRACT, SALVIA HISPANICA SEED EXTRACTLAURYL PEG-9 POLYDMETHYLSILOXYETHYL DIMETHICONE, SODIUM CHLORIDE, ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN, PENTHYLENE GLYCOL, POLYSILICONE-11, DISODIUM EDTA, PHENOXYETHANOL, FRAGNANCE
Ahh, shame you don't like it. I use the sleeping pack and though it leaves my skin shiny, it's amazing for getting glowy and plump skin the next morning. But I have quite dry skin, so that explains a lot...
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yes, I can imagine this would be a great product for dry skin :) coz I liked moistfull ones, they were lighter. I actually have one more sample of this product, need to give it to someone with dry skin and hear their opinion :)
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