This is the beautiful Clarisonic facial brush head that oscillates at 10 degrees in either direction, working at 300 movements per second. It goes so fast it looks like a blur. Getting this is my equivalent of getting a diamond ring. I can’t wait to get acquainted with my new friend and tell you all about it. I told you I was good girl this year.
Four months ago I did a post on Soap & Glory Exfoliating Gloves vs. Body Shop Bath Gloves. In the next battle Body Shop is going up against Menscience who make various different types of men’s grooming products. I’m quite picky about my ‘scrubby’ gloves and I bought these because of the glowing customer reviews on the Mankind website. I was quite disappointed when they arrived to find that they didn’t look much different to the Body Shop ones. So I decided to compare them. The Body Shop gloves are on the left, Menscience ones on the right.
Because the Menscience gloves are black it may be difficult to tell from the this picture how alike they really are. Below is a close-up of the texture of the Menscience body gloves which are made of nylon.
Below are the Body Shop body gloves which are also made of nylon.
Below are the elasticated wrist of the Menscience gloves.
Below are the elasticated wrist of the Body Shop gloves. Note the little nylon loops which makes it easy to hang your gloves up to dry.
Now that you can see that I am comparing like with like I will give you my thoughts. I use body gloves every day and I’ve been doing so for 18+ years so I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert in this field. To test these gloves I used the Body Shop on my left hand and the Menscience on my right hand. I used Molton Brown Blissful Templetree Shower Gel on both gloves.
Both gloves helped to lather the shower gel and both gloves did the exact same job of exfoliating my bod. I would say that the Menscience gloves are about 20% rougher than the Body Shop ones and this is probably due to a tighter nylon weave. This 20% percent extra roughness however does not explain why the Menscience gloves are 288% more expensive. The Body Shop gloves retail at £4, the Menscience gloves at £11.50! For this price I was expecting gloves made of sandpaper. I’ve gone back to read the reviews on Mankind and I’m going to assume that the men who gave their opinions have never stepped into a Body Shop or else they would have known the Menscience gloves were way overpriced. Several of them mention the Menscience gloves are better than the £1 sponges/gloves you get in shops and they would be, but that still doesn’t justify the price.
The fact that the Menscience body gloves are black is a total marketing ploy. The Body Shop gloves usually come in a myriad of lovely colours but if a man is going to use these does he really care what colour they are? His mates will still see them in the bathroom!
My conclusion is the Menscience gloves are a complete rip off so if you have male friends, colleagues, lovers, boyfriends, husbands etc. that are interested in body gloves just tell them to buy a pair of green/blue/red Body Shop ones and with the extra money they saved they can buy you a drink!
I think around the age of 10 or 11 is when most of us start washing our faces with some kind of soap and looking in the mirror a lot more. We then discover these little black plugs of sebum and whiteheads and feel compelled to pick at them mercilessly until our faces are red. For all the beauty advice we’re given – not picking our faces seems to fall on deaf ears. Even with the threats of scarring, make it worse etc. don’t seem to stop us. Zeno is great for getting those hard, bumpy spots but it will do nothing for blackheads and already formed whiteheads.
The Tweezerman Professional Skin Care Tool looks like some kind of knitting needle, has a flat side for blackheads, and hooked side for whiteheads. It’s made from stainless steel and you obviously need to make sure you clean it after every use. I used it to get to grips with a few pesky blackheads that have taken up residence around the corners of my nose. I really didn’t understand how this was going to work let alone on the corners of my face but after much pressing said blackheads dislodged. Don’t worry, I will spare you the gore of my results – I’m sure you can use your imagination. You do need to press down fairly hard but it doesn’t hurt. I (fortunately) have not had any whiteheads to test this out on so I wouldn’t be able to tell you how well it works for those. I’m quite happy with this method of blackhead removal and knowing that I’ve not used my fingers. Not touching my face will also help to prevent spreading even more bacteria around my face. This tool is a good go-between leaving spots alone (as if) and seeing a dermatologist to sort them out.
This is available at Lookfantastic and Mankind!
