The 'Good Things' skincare range has been developed by beauty journalist Alice Hart-Davis and is made with a long list of superfruit ingredients like acai, blueberry, goji berry, licorice, papaya and wild cherry as well as being SLS free, which is the thing that initially attracted me to them. I like to aviod SLS where I can just because it's drying, though it's quite hard to aviod everything that contains it because it's the ingredient that makes things lather and foam. Just seems a bit counter productive to have drying ingredients in things you want to moisturise and look after your skin and hair.
There's a 'stay clear' and a 'gentle cleansing' range of face and body products, stay clear being the anti blemish range and gentle cleansing being more for normal skin. The whole range is aimed at "young/teen skin" and while it would make an excellent first cleansing range for a young girl, it shouldn't be dismissed as being just for teens, I would say the produts could easily be used by someone into their late twenties or older.
I picked up the stay clear purifying cleanser, five minute facial mask and miracle mattifier moisturiser. I've used these for 2 months now and I really like them. Here's a little round up on each one!
First of all, all three of the products smell lovely, really fruity, kind of a nice balance between natural and synthetic scent, not overpowering and not 'just dug up from the ground' like some things with natural ingredients.
Purifying cleanser: A clear gel consistency, leaves my face feeling fruitily clean with no dryness after. Personally my skin needs exfoliating when I cleanse so before I had a clarisonic I used a flannel with this, a facial brush would work well too. As it's SLS free it doesn't get very foamy but it spreads easily on a wet face.
Miracle mattifier moisturiser: I love this moisturiser, I have combination skin with an oily T-zone and I have to confess to not using a moisturiser every day and if I did it was Lancome Aqua Infusion which is really light and watery. I use this every day now, it moisturises the dry areas but dries in quite quickly. It doesn't feel like you're wearing a mask like some mattifiying primers/moisturisers and is a great base for make-up. I would reccomend this for anyone with combination or oily skin.
Five minute face mask: This mask dries quickly, has a slight frozen face feel but doesn't go completely hard because you only need a thin layer. It wipes off really easily with a damp flannel and leaves my face a tiny bit flushed which dissappears in seconds.
The overall result is fresh almost glowing skin. The products cost around the £4/£5 mark each which is on par with other brands and I would say worth the price, especially when you can get 3 for 2 occasionally and are available in Boots, Superdrug and Sainsburys.
A quick mention about the clarisonic, I had wanted one and kept nearly buying one then changing my mind yadayada..but I eventually got one with the 30% off ASOS code. This is the blue/turquoise Mia and I loooove her. I've only been using it a couple of weeks so not long enough to do a proper review but after 2 weeks my skin texture is much smoother and make-up looks more even.. happy days! I was a bit dubious about it coming with the sensitive brush head, I didn't think it would be exfoliating enough and was expecting to have to buy the normal or exfoliating brush seperately but I needent have worried, the sensitive head is definately exfoliating enough, in fact I can't imagine what the other two are like if this is classed as sensitive. I use the clarisonic cleanser and the Good Things cleanser depending on which one I fancy. Full review in the near future.
Jen x
