[unpaid/sample] Yes, of course it’s lovely! The cleanser is lovely, the mist is lovely – it’s exactly what we could have hoped for from Lisa who is definitely ramping up her status in beauty retail by opening a counter in Selfridges today. For now, there is the Skin Enhancing Treatment Cleanser, the Skin And Makeup Enhancing Mist and a pack of Cleansing & Exfoliating Cloths – nice ones, not sad, floppy old muslins.
So, let’s start with the cleansing. As you’d expect, it features a considered ingredient list – there is plenty of detail on Lisa’s website but perhaps the most interesting are the saponins extracted from the Soapwort tree – bark, roots and leaves. Actually, Soapwort was used as far back as Roman times but I expect not in an balm-to-gel-to-milk format ;-). Other ingredients include oat kernel oil (ceramide full), glycerin (standard), Passionfruit Seed Oil (antioxidant), meadowfoam seed oil (fatty acid fabulous – a favourite ingredient), Squalane (everyone’s favourite) and Prickly Pear oil (antioxidant and anti-inflammatory). Take your time to massage this cleanser through all its stages – cleanser isn’t on the face very long so if you want the benefits, go slow. There’s no fragrance.
The mist – well! I have used a lot of mists – I love the idea of a mist. It always feels like such a caring thing to do for yourself; when you’re all stressed and hot and busy that cloud of air and more-than-water is like a little cheek stroke. Ingredients in this are aloe vera, niacinamide, Multimoist CLR (TM) which I don’t know but binds water within the skin for better hydration, Filmexcel (R) – no idea about this either other than it’s a biopolymer nextwork that forms an invisible and traceless mesh on the skin for smoothing and tightening. In honesty, I don’t really see the difference with this but I wouldn’t be using it for those things, I’d be using it for a make-up refresh, a bare skin kiss or a hydrating cool down. I think maybe life is too short to look for lifting and tightening from a tiny spray of droplets. The last ingredient is perhaps the most important – the 8 Amino Acid complex to replicate your own natural moisturising factors. That works and that will do for me. It’s the least drying mist ever.
Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Cleanser Review
Being totally honest, the skin cleansing cloths are the same as Emma Hardie give or take so if you already have those, you won’t need these. But, they’re the best of the best and easily my favourite format of cloth for taking off make up or cleansing aside from my beloved Washi Cloths. Price-wise, the cloths are £10, the mist is £37 and the cleanser is £43. I’d have like to have seen them priced down a bit to make them more accessible – I know that a million miles of market research will have been done to set the prices and find where the range can sit comfortably with the market but I’d hoped they might be as approachable as Lisa. Still, we can hope for travel sizes to dip our toes into (not literally – or if you want, obviously :-)). Find everything HERE.
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Hey BBB. RE: The Lisa Eldridge Cloths: I do actually own these and they are, in my opinion, better than the Emma Hardie cloths. Similar principle but the LE ones are larger (so properly cover your face) and seem to have a heavier weight (so holding in the warmth). A treat I know, but they are my new faves (albeit alongside my Smiley Face ELF cleansing cloud!).
Ahh, thank you – I’m going upstairs to put them side by side – I’ve used the LE one and it just reminded me so much of a brand new EH cloth … Maybe I need to reassess :-))))
Haven’t seen the brand new EH cloth – I only have some older ones, so maybe EH have upsized ; ) The LE ones are lovely though – very comforting to hide under in the bath steaming!
I meant a brand new out of the packet :-))
So lovely that Lisa Eldridge steps now into skincare too! Although for me it’s joy through tears: these typical European cleansing balms that aren’t truly hydrophilic and do nothing without cloth for makeup removing simply not my cuppa – not just they can’t perform on their own, I need to rub my face with cloth, I need to buy this extra cloth AND I need also to wash the damn thing (and on most of them there are even demands to do it without fabric softener! Like I go to buy even separate washing licquid/powder for it – and then what, wash by hand? Ok, nobody around me who uses these cloths does it – they simply drop it all together with the rest of laundry – but the requirement itself…). I got a sample with my last purchase and it’s gentle thing, but for me it’s or morning wash (to get at least the goodness of the ingredients while giving it extra time with me in the shower) or… well, nothing. By itself it doesn’t even come close to remove anything (and I was only wearing simple not waterproof mascara by Huda Beauty!). Had to re-cleanse – and good-bye whatever was in that content list. And I consider it’s truly too much of the price – even for the premium price category…
It is a lot of money, I agree. What a shame it didn’t perform as you hoped. I really found no problem with it although that’s not my favourite cleansing format – a balm (or micellar for lazy days) is always my preference.
Well, I could assume it will happen, seeing that washing cloths are here to pair with this cleanser and anyway it was a free sample… so no actual damage, just disappointment. But I guess there will be enough people liking this format of cleansing… My favorite format of cleanser… I think it’s hydrophilic oil and foam or gel-to-foam for the second step. All-in-one – only for the laziest of days 🙂
It’s really a lovely cleanser – I used it yesterday again after putting on a full face of make up (rare event!) and it took everything off.
The cloth is a key 🙂 (For me the full face of makeup is rare occasion too – mostly done with mascara and lipstick – but the time and effort spent on finding a good foundation… …and then it’s just looking at me from aside most of the days *facepalm*)
I hear you!