So I finished every last drop of this pale turquoise gel/cream moisturiser. Well I left a little smidge to swatch in a vain attempt to show texture - fail.
I bought this with no thought other than it is by Sunday Riley, I like her stuff, I have money to burn - actually I didn't have money to burn but I bought it anyway, such is life.
I have listed the ingredients below - after Caroline Hirons's extremely helpful post on ingredients, I only ever look for phenoxyethanol which is reassuringly second to last.
This is a very "wet" feeling moisturiser and I was fearful that it would sit on my skin am and make application of foundation/concealer problematic, so I restricted use to pm only. But this was an unnecessary precaution, it has sat happily on my skin, am and pm, and indeed adds an extra burst of hydration if applied later pm before bed rather than applying a heavier, richer cream which tends to make me feel too oily.
It is £65 for 50mls and I bought mine from SpaceNK. I would buy it again, but maybe it is more a spring/summer weight of moisturiser rather than an autumn/winter one.
Another finished product, and really one that I did not need at all, but it was on offer in TKMaxx at £24.50 instead of £45 for 50mls. So I bought when I had many a moisturiser to use up, again in the run up to winter without any particular expectations other than wanting to explore the range with a bit more commitment rather than my usual dabbing blobs onto the back of my hand in Boots and enjoying the textures and the lasting moisturising effects.
I have so enjoyed using this product so much. The texture is one of those oxymoron thick but light, dense but insubstantial. It has a gel-like texture to my mind, no scent that I can tell because it is labelled as sensitive although in the ingredients list, frangrance is listed albeit towards the end.
On initial application, this felt a little too light for my skin because I do like a moisturiser which is a cream rather than a lotion, and one which affords some slip rather than sinking in without a trace, but this hung around, continually leaving my skin moist and comfortable through many a winter's evening with central heating on full blast. I remember reading something which Sali Hughes had written about wanting a moisturiser to still leave a bit of tack the morning after the night before's application and I can attest that this is probably the only moisturiser I have used which does this (I say probably because frankly at nearly 49 I can't bloody remember), and that in itself is a comfort for me.Here is a full list of the ingredients: Aqua (Water), Butylene Glycol, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Crambe Abyssinica Seed Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Coconut Alkanes, Glycerin, Cyclodextrin, Stearyl Alcohol, Laureth-4, Sorbitan Laurate, Theobroma Grandiflorum (Cupuacu) Seed Butter, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Peel Oil, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Oil, Cedrus Atlantica (Cedarwood) Wood Oil, Citrus Aurantium Amara (Petitgrain) Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Allantoin, Retinyl Palmitate, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Mica, Sodium Hyaluronate, Xanthan Gum, Dehydroacetic Acid, Polyglyceryl-4 Laurate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hydrolyzed Linseed Extract, Parfum (Fragrance), Dilauryl Citrate, Limonene, Benzyl Alcohol, Sodium Benzoate, Linalool, Sodium Hydroxide, Citral, Geraniol, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide).
So at £45 for 50mls this around what I would expect to pay, and I may find that I am paying it again sometime soon.
