Review | Superdrug Vitamin E Hot Cloth Cleanser

Hello Friends,

It looks like sun cream, smells like sun cream and feels like sun cream, so it must be sun cream. Right? Wrong, this is apparently a cleanser, and supposedly a dupe for Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish. Oh no, do not be fooled.

Firstly the sun cream thing is off-putting. I don't want to feel like I'm rubbing sun cream on my face to take my make-up off. And it leaves behind a residue which makes the water feel as though it's just sitting on top of the skin. 

Secondly, it doesn't actually cleanse the skin. My skin doesn't feel clean when I've used this, it actually feels more clogged and sticky.

Plus my skin reacted to the product, little bobbly spots appeared on my chin. Not good.

I wouldn't recommend this product as a dupe if you like typical hot cloth cleansers or balm cleansers, I would say spend a little extra and get a decent product like the Liz Earle. Back to my trusty Emma Hardie Cleansing Balm for me.

Sorry Superdrug: 3/10 for you and that's mainly because of the price!

Superdrug Vitamin E Hot Cloth Cleanser £4.99

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A Dupe for MAC Painterly?

Top: Maybelline Colour Tattoo in Creme de Rose 91
Bottom: MAC Paint Pot in Painterly

Hello Friends,

Now, I haven't heard of this dupe before and haven't even ever seen this colour of the Maybelline colour tattoo anywhere until I was in my little local Boots having a mooch around. Maybelline was on offer 2 for £10 so I picked up a liquid lipstick (another post to come on that) and had a look through the colour tattoo offerings they had.

To suprise they had a couple of colours I'd never seen before. This creamy rose (Creme De Rose 91) and a creamy yellowy-beige (Just Beige). I swatched both on my hand and decided the rose version was more skin toned and looked remarkably like a very well known paint pot I had picked up from MAC.

Top: MAC Painterly
Bottom: Maybelline Creme De Rose 91

When swatched the Maybelline offering comes off a little more pink toned than the MAC product, however when dry they are almost indistinguishable from each other.

On my oily lids the MAC paint pot lasts a little longer as it is a slghtly thicker consistency than the creamy colour tattoo, however if you know that the colour tattoos work for you as an eyeshadow base I would more than recommend this product.

It may be difficult to find, as I said I've never seen it before and only came across it through sheer luck. It's not listed on the Boots website or the Maybelline UK website either. I may have just been lucky but if you find one in your local Boots, comment below which one.

Good luck and Happy hunting :)

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