Petit Pai - Apple & Mallow Hair and Body Wash and Face & Body Cream

I don't have any babies, mine are 23, 21 and 20 respectively. I don't know any babies. But I do know Pai skincare having used their products on and off since their inception and my skin is being a bit fussy at the moment so I thought that I would try their new "petit" range.

So £8 got me an albeit small samples of the hair and body wash and the face and body cream plus a Konjac bath sponge.

And these really are very lovely. They are unscented, or at least any scent is of their constituent parts, so a slightly natural oils scent with the Face and Body Cream, and nothing with the Hair and Body Wash.

The Hair and Body Wash is thin textured and does lather, but not excessively so I would say. I did not try it on my hair, but I did try it on my face as an am wash and it was great, my skin felt clean and calm and a little bit moisturised.

The Face and Body Cream is thick without wishing it was pot housed rather than tube housed, it is really soothing and comforting and I am very tempted to purchase the full size. 

All in all this is a good little kit to try the range - Pai does not charge for p&p unless one wants next day delivery and their attention to detail over ingredients and product information is exemplary.

More information on Pai website.

Omorovicza Blue Diamond Eye Cream

Okay I make no bones about this being an expensive product. It is £165 for 15mls. I haven't purchased it, I don't have that amount of spare cash, but I have secured 4mls worth of samples decanted into a little pot, see below.

And my little pot has lasted me the best part of six weeks, am and pm use.

The eye cream is designed to tackle dark circles, puffiness, wrinkles and upper eyelid sagging.

Now I don't have dark circles particularly, I can get a bit puffy first thing, and any eye wrinkles I have are not particularly bothersome. What I have is eyelid sagging. I have said before that I have awnings for eyelids - you know the pencil test for boobs? Well I could fit a pencil case under my eyelids, I can fold them over several times, and it is as it is, I can't afford surgery, so I make the best of it, ie no eyeshadow ever.

But but but, my month's use of this eye product has made a smidge, an imperceptible (except to me) shift in the space time continuum - I can see a tightening in my upper eyelid.

Now of course I should have taken before and after photos, but I didn't. I have secured another couple of sample sachets via a couple of orders from Omorovicza and I will start again but you know what? I am saving up because this product has worked for me and that is phenomenal.

The ingredients are: Aqua (Hungarian Thermal Water), Glycerin, Aqua (Water), Ethylhexyldodecanol, Squalane, Methylsilanol Mannuronate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Stearyl Heptanoate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Phosphate, Arginine, Saccharomyces (Hungarian Thermal Water) Ferment Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Albizia Julibrissin Bark Extract, Pullulan, Carbomer, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Prunus Domestica Seed Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate, Methyl Glucoside Phosphate Proline Lysine Copper Complex, Tocopherol, Disodium EDTA, Tropaeolum Majus Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Parfum (Fragrance), Xanthan Gum, Copper Gluconate, Phospholipids, Sorbic Acid, Sodium Benzoate, Darutoside, Acetyl Pentapeptide, Diamond, Silica, Linalool, Limonene, Geraniol.

Aesop Parsley Seed Antioxidant Serum

Sometimes I just want to stop all the madness and step off the roundabout of new products and in particular potions which brighten and smooth and exfoliate and slough off, in short I want some rest and relaxation for my mind, my wallet, and my skin.

I have been using Aesop Parsley Seed Antioxidant Serum for about a month, with time off for using up a couple of trial vials of Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair, more of that at a later date, and it is like a refreshing shower of calmfulness for my thin old skin.

For suddenly my skin is feeling all of its fifty years, it is cranky and unpredictable, spots appear and do not go, and leave a red mark, blackheads continue relentlessly, open pores march unremittingly across my cheeks and the thread veins which I have resolutely been ignoring are breaking through even the most tenacious of concealers.

This really is a very calming and cooling serum, it feels instantly hydrating on my skin. The ingredients are somewhat benign for my skin as I have no reaction other than a relaxing sigh post application.

Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, PEG-60 Almond Glycerides Water (Aqua), Sorbitol, PEF-150 Distearate, Benzyl Alcohol, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate 20, Lavendula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Panthenol, Disodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Vilis Vinfera (Grape) Seed Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Dehydroacetic Acid, Ormenis Multicaulis Oil, Carum Petroselinum (Parsley) Seed Oil, Linalool, d-Limonene.

And for £45 I get a whopping 100mls. The downside is that that bottle is somewhat narrow-necked and the dropper is difficult to replace back inside without escape of product down the outside - irksome in the extreme.

I bought mine from SpaceNK.