Pronounce 'ee-loom' this tricky to spell product is the latest wonder cream to hit the UK, and I'm afraid I have to tell you that it 100% works. The cream was created to give your skin more radiance and help prevent prenature aging, and it uses a range of impressive ingredients to do so. Formulated to work as part of a two step programme, the cream is designed to be used in conjunction with their specialist skin supplement, to heal the body inside and out.
Due to the fact that I'm not very good at taking pills, I've just been trialling the moisturiser for the last four weeks, and am happy to report that you can get great results without swallowing daily supplements (though I'm sure they help).
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Eye creams may not be necessary for those under thirty (when the skin is plumpest) but can be very important for those who are older than that as this is one of the first places that skin tends to thin, and you might want a more targeted product than your moisturiser. The iLa Rainforest Renew Eye Serum is a brand new product in the Rainforest Renew range from iLa, and promises to help boost your eyes with a cocktail of ingredients sourced from the Amazon forest. They've even created a special elixir with four powerful ingredients which they've put inside every product in the Rainforest Range, and the eye serum comes with a little guide that tells you, 'Amazonian Elixir 10%, Rainforest Ingredients 6%, Natural Ingredients 100%'.
So far so good. But does it have any effect on my eye bags?
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A key ingredient in this moisturiser is organic rose geranium oil, and depending on how scented you like your products this will either put you firmly in the fan or hater zone. The scent is light but distinctive as the notes waft up your nose the instance you open the pot. When applied to the skin it leaves a delicate fragrance that last the whole day, and I woke up in the morning to find my sheets softly imbued with rose essence.
The cream feels velvety to touch and sinks instantly into the skin, with no greasy residue. The face feels instantly softer and I like the way that it reduces the feelings of tightness in a vigorously exfoliated face. It works well for daily use, and I also like using it as a night cream, by applying a slightly thicker layer in the evening.
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You might well point out that there's not much need for sunscreen just now with spring still running fashionably late, but any anti-ageing moisturiser worth its salt will have built-in protection from the sun, which is, after all, the biggest culprit in drying out and discolouring our skin.
But that's all beside the point, which is that Olay's Total Effects Day Moisturiser is definitely one of the good guys if you're looking for a low to mid-range price that's easy to grab and replace on the high street. I've only been using it for two weeks, but what's struck me about this moisturiser so far is that it gives something I've not personally experienced beore: instant results. I'd heard a fair bit of hype about it, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the product lived up to it.
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It's been a while since any new moisturisers have turned my head, but I recently discovered a good one that's now going head-to-head with my trusty pot of Origins' A Perfect World in the bathroom cabinet.
I hadn't heard of La Clarée until recently, but this organic skincare range from France is a top quality range of products to nourish the skin while limiting impact on the environment (all bottles are recycled, recyclable and non-polluting; the paper used in its boxes all bear the eco label). But what about the products themselves?
Read on for my verdict
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Related: Origins' 'A Perfect World' moisturiser with green tea extract | Clinique 'Even Better' skin tone correcting moisturiser with SPF 20
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I have a box of unopened products in my room that I dip into sporadically. Some are disappointing and make me wonder why I bothered, whilst other make me wish I'd tried them sooner. The Purity moisturiser is such a product, which looks so innocuous in its pale tub that I'd never tried it till my current cream ran out. And now I've used it I couldn't live without it.
It has a really nice thick texture which feels cool to the touch, but sinks in surprisingly quickly, without giving a feeling of heaviness. It's great for those with sensitive skins as it's made from 75% organic and has EcoCert certification.
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I'd loved using Clinique's Even Better foundation, which one of a new line of products aimed at tackling the twin problems of uneven skin tone and hyperpigmentation. So I was interested to hear what Kiss & Makeup's army of product testers would make of the latest product from the Even Better range: a skin tone correcting moisturiser with SPF 20.
Read on for our tester's verdict
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