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| The Exfolikate Introductory Kit - £33 |
I had heard lots about it, it's had cult status amongst the skincare powers that be for over a decade, but the £70+ price tag put me off trying it for myself. Whenever it comes to trying out new skincare I am the travel size/mini queen! It's my failsafe for my wallet, because the way my account is set up, I cannot be flinging hundreds of pounds at products that might not agree with me. This is an expensive hobby as it is! So I found a set of mini's, known as the Introductory kit on cult beauty's website for £33. It contained 2 other products; the ExfoliKate Cleanser and the ExfoliKate Glow Moisturiser, bargain!
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| ExfoliKate Glow Moisturiser |
Let's start with the moisturiser: It's got glycolic and lactic acids for resurfacing as well as fruit enzymes plus some fruit extracts to boot. It's got a nice light texture and mild pleasant smell. I have reached for it several times for the lightweight texture rather than feeling a massive difference, a nice to have, but 'meh' in my opinion.
The cleanser is where it starts getting good, I am in LOVE! Again featuring the same AHA's and the fruit enzymes (pineapple, papaya and pumpkin). A little goes a long way, and you get a generous 50ml sample. Its a gorgeous cleanser, the skin feels smoother after use, but with zero irritation and it doesn't feel stripping at all. You know the holy grail of using a cleanser that feels like you haven't cleansed afterwards, but rather moisturised? Not moisturised in the sense of there being any residue or film left on the skin, rather my skin was left feeling soft and like I had just rinsed off a cute hydrating mask. Knocked it out of the park! I have used this almost every single day for the last 3 weeks and the full size is already on my wishlist for repurchase, once this starts to run low.
Now the star of the show, the exfoliating treatment: it's a very small 15ml (same size as the Moisturiser) tube, the texture is thick, grey and has tiny grains of silica in it. I stopped using physical exfoliation a long time ago, but don't let that put you off, this stuff BANGSSS! The key here is that this is an intensive treatment, and they mean intensive. I used it in the morning, applied it to my wet face, massaged for 30 seconds and left it on for the full 2 minutes as per the instructions. I was very gentle with the massage as the product doesn't have much slip and I was weary of the silica grains.
When I rinsed the mask off, my face felt 'ok' clean, refreshed. So I finished off my routine with my toner, hydrating serum, a super hydrating moisturiser and followed with a generous helping of sunscreen. That evening when it was time to cleanse again, I was flabbergasted. As I was massaging in my cleansing balm, I kept thinking 'My face feels ridiculously smooth, what's going on? Maybe I used too much balm!' when I rinsed that sucker off and touched my naked face, I almost fell over, not even exaggerating. It was like touching a baby's bum! Smooth AF! This was after one use! A single, 2 minute use! Wow! In the days that followed my skin was glowing like God had adjusted the ring light in heaven to shine on my face! 🤣
Although the sample size is small, I'm very sure I could get 5+ uses out of it easily. Which would give me a month's use as I have been using it once a week since then. The directions say it can be used once or twice a week, AM or PM. I prefer AM and make sure my sunscreen is slathered on all day, but this is so powerful that I would worry that using it more than once a week would damage my skin barrier as I also use a retinol treatment on other days. One thing to note from my use is that I wouldn't use the cleanser and treatment together, the second time I used it, I washed my face with the cleanser and when I applied the treatment straight after my face was tingling a lot! It wasn't burning, but it did become pretty uncomfortable and so I rinsed it off my face after about 45 seconds. That's the only time I've experienced that reaction and so every other time I've used it, I have cleansed with my favourite 'do nothing' cleanser, Simple's refreshing facial wash.
Even if the price tag was £100+ I wouldn't hesitate to repurchase, because this works! Instant results and it's not often that I come across that!
Rose
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