What is it?
Kiehl’s Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleanser
When did you discover it?
November 2010
Why do you love it?
It’s a soft squidgy clay cleanser that soaks up all the oil and grease from your face and leaves it super clean and refreshed.
What is it?
Lush Ocean Salt
When did you discover it?
Not sure but the earliest I remember using it was back in 2006
Why do you love it?
It’s a super salty creamy crunchy facial scrub that smells like a G&T and doubles up as a body scrub.
What is it?
Dead Sea Spa Magik Mild Exfoliant
When did you discover it?
January 2001
Why do you love it?
It’s a perfectly formed exfoliation paste that leaves your skin as smooth as a baby’s behind.
What are your Summer skincare loves girlies and boys?
This is available at Holland and Barrett!
Face soap has gotten a bad rap over the years. Somewhere in the 80′s cosmetics companies decided that our Clinique Facial Soap or that good old bar of Dove wasn’t good enough to clean our complexions. Of course using soap isn’t without it’s problems. If you don’t have a really good ridged soap dish that aerates the bottom of your bar of soap then it will melt and get mucky. Soap also doesn’t travel very well for the same reasons. However all is not lost!
This lovely little inexpensive bar of soap is perfect for my super oily summertime skin. I use mine in the evening and it takes the day off without stripping my skin. Afterwards my face feels nice and squeaky clean. This contains Pure Dead Sea Mud but isn’t artificially coloured so the lather is white as you can see here. (Those aren’t my hands by the way and I don’t think my sink will ever get that clean no matter how hard I scrub it!)
This super soap also has an allergen free fragrance. You’ve probably realised by now that even when cosmetics say they are ‘fragrance free’ they do actually use a neutral fragrance to cover up the ingredients as even natural ingredients don’t smell very nice. The scent to me is similar to a stone or as James put it a cinder block. So if you have problem or sensitive skin and don’t mind products that smell like aggregate then this is perfect facial bar for you. One of the other great features of this soap is that it doesn’t melt like most other’s do. I’ve been keeping mine on a piece of wrapper as I keep forgetting to buy a proper soap dish and it has stayed solid. Please check out my other reviews for Dead Sea Spa Magik Mud Mask and Dead Sea Spa Magik Mild Exfoliant. I love Dead Sea Spa Magik products because they are high quality, do what they say, and don’t cost the earth.
This is available at Holland & Barrett.
Having used Dead Sea Spa Magik Mild Exfoliant with fantastic results I thought I should give the mud mask a go. The tube looks exactly the same as the mild exfoliant so again it won’t win any style awards but I don’t think this is what this brand is about.
How to use
I used the mild exfoliant first to clean my face before application. The mask itself is quite thick so you don’t need much and it does properly cover your face with black mud. I left it on longer than the recommended 5 minutes. It does take some effort to get off. I had to splash my face with water and also use a wet face cloth to remove the residue around my hair line.
My skin felt quite smooth and clean after I dried it and the mask definitely mops up the oil. I think if you use it 2-3 times a week you will see the benefit. My skin was much clearer and less blotchy. If you have combination skin or just an oily T-zone it would be ideal just to put on those areas. The smell is sea salty so it makes it feel like a real spa treatment.
