Reviews
In this section you will find reviews of skin care products such as eye creams, face creams, face lotions, face moisturizers and wrinkle creams.
Olay Definity Deep Penetrating Foaming Moisturizer
Olay’s Definity Deep Penetrating Foaming Moisturizer is pressurized with isobutene and propane gas (yes, the same propane gas you might use to fuel a gas grill or a home furnace), which cause the product foam into a consistency resembling shaving cream. Read more »
Clinique Zero Gravity Repairwear Lift Firming Cream
Clinique’s Zero Gravity Repairwear Lift Firming Cream promises and delivers an instant firming sensation — but that is not the same thing as a visible result. No skin care product can compensate for the ongoing assault of gravity, although oral supplementation with the antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid, Read more »
Elizabeth Arden Prevage Eye Anti-Aging Moisturizing Treatment
Elizabeth Arden’s Prevage Eye Anti-Aging Moisturizing Treatment contains a healing mixture of water, silicones, and sea algae. Advertised as “anti-everything” that ages skin around our eyes, it contains antioxidants not found in many competing brands, such as hydroxydecyl ubiquinone, also known as idebenone. Read more »
Olay Regenerist Filling + Sealing Wrinkle Treatment
Regenerist Filling + Sealing Wrinkle Treatment is a sophisticated kind of “caulking” for fine lines and wrinkles that works by sealing in moisture. Its results are greatest for superficial lines, and any results from the product are at best temporary. Read more »
Philosophy On A Clear Day Retinol Clarifying Lotion
This Philosophy product claims to be useful for healing acne scars, unclogging pores, and clearing up acne outbreaks. The triglycerides and wax used to make the product, however, are the exact opposite of what someone with acne-prone skin needs to clear up an outbreak. Read more »
Garnier Nutritioniste Ultra-Lift Anti-Wrinkle Firming Eye Cream
Garnier Nutritioniste’s Ultra-Lift Anti-Wrinkle Firming Eye Cream is a silky, creamy formula that provides a lot of retinyl palmitate, a skin-friendly form of the antioxidant vitamin A. It also provides essential fatty acids and passion fruit oil, the latter associated with relief of skin tension caused by pain, stress, or insomnia. Read more »
DDF Dramatic Radiance TRF Cream
DDF Dramatic Radiance TRF Cream is a combination of commonly used, minimally expensive, and modestly effective skin care ingredients packaged together for sale at a relatively high price. It contains mostly water, and also emollients, silicones, shea butter, thickeners, preservatives, and glycerin. Read more »
Vivité Vibrance Therapy
Vibrance Therapy is the heavy artillery of home skin peel products for fine lines and wrinkles. Formulated with 15% glycolic acid at a pH of 3.8, this water-based product lifts dead skin cells from pores and around wrinkles, smoothing out the texture of the skin and making fine lines invisible and deeper wrinkles less visible. Read more »
Olay Pro-X Age Repair Lotion
Olay’s Pro-X Age Repair Lotion with SPF 30 is a moisturizer for slightly dry, normal, and slightly oil skin. Its primary ingredient is glycerin, which is found in hundreds, if not thousands, of competing products. Like most Olay products for daytime use, it offers avobenzone for protection from the skin-damaging UV-A rays of the sun. Read more »
Avon Mark For Goodness Face Antioxidant Skin Moisturizing Lotion
For Goodness Face Antioxidant Skin Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30 is a product that is useful for normal to oily skin, providing UV-A protection with avobenzone in a light, moisturizing base. The airtight jar packaging keeps its antioxidants viable for repeated use. Read more »