I first saw that Palmers had brought out a skincare range back in December, when I was flicking through the Superdrug Christmas catalogue. I was actually (sad, I know) excited by the prospect, because I absolutely adore Palmers Cocoa Butter! I love the smell of it, the way it makes my skin feel and it has spf sun protection which is a brilliant bonus if you don't wear sunscreen all year round like my lazy self. As it was Christmas time, I had neither money, nor memory to go looking for it, as I assumed it would cost around £30 for the lot. About two months ago in February, I remembered the advertisement and after having continuous issues with dry patches on my winter face I frog marched down to Superdrug in my lunch break to go and buy "the solution" to my cracked face problems.
Unfortunately, when I arrived there, all I could find was a billboard with pictures of the products, but no actual products. I went in two or three times over the following 2 weeks and after asking a member of staff, came to the conclusion that Superdrug just advertise products but don't sell them. I know!
Over the first weekend of march, I went online and managed to find a beauty website that takes orders and hallelujah they had Palmers range. I ordered what I could afford and £30 later, the following week, I was sat there with my cardboard box from the sorting office, sifting through my new range.
I bought the daily cleansing gel (fragrance free for sensitive skin), the daily calming facial lotion, which reduces redness and calms stressed skin, the night renewal cream and the line smoothing eye cream - we've gotta start young girls if you wanna look like Joan Collins when your 80!
I started using the range straight away and 'felt' as if it was doing the trick. My skin felt smooth and there were no rough areas where I would usually get them (to the right of my left eye and on my right cheek).
However, after using the range several times, I was at work one day and upon my routine toilet visit, I noticed in the mirror than all of the skin on my chin and forehead was dry and flakey looking. My foundation was literally flaking off my skin. This happened a couple of times and the only thing I could put it down to was the cleansing gel. It made my skin feel so clean and refreshed afterwards that I assumed the possibility that it was actually stripping my skin of all its natural oils and in fact drying it out. I stopped using the gel and resumed with my old cleanser and decided I would use the gel once a week instead of everyday.
Last night, I removed my make-up as usual and as I was about to get into bed, I noticed the three other skincare products sitting there looking misrable like a neglected child and I felt a pang of guilt for the £30 I had quite frankly, wasted the month before if I did not use them.
I put the night renewal cream on, followed my the eye cream and moved the facial lotion round my face (as it advises before anyone tells me I was using too much).
I woke up this morning. Fine. Face looked normal, no problems - definately the Gel!
After about an hour at work, I decided to pop to the loo. When I got there, I looked in the mirror and to my horror, I had been walking around all morning with a clown style large ring around the circumference of my moosh of dry, flaking, chapped skin. I'm not talking about a path of chapped lip. This wasn't even on my lip, it was like someone had drawn around my mouth. It looked disgusting and what's worse, nobody told me. Ugh! Aside from this I had another patch to the left of my eye and another flakey dry patch between my eyebrows.
I managed to disguise my mummy-like skin by wetting a peice of toilet tissue and getting the flakey bits off (sorry, I know it's revolting, but you need to know.) and returned to my desk ten minutes later.
Thus, I am not impressed by the range at all.
Now, everyone does have different skin and skin types, so if you have particularly oily skin or skin that suffers nowt, then this may be an alright range for you, but if you are susceptible to problem or dry skin like me then I would avoid. I realise this isn't Clarins we're talking about here, but £30 could be spent far more wisely on something else.
I will still use Palmers lovely Cocoa Butter though!!
I would love to hear if anyone has found this skincare range better than I have or even if you have come across the same issues as me. I hope this has been helpful and you do not waste as much time - or money over the range as I have.
