Botanics Hot Cloth Cleansing Balm - £8.99 available here
Hello beauties! Today I have a review for you of a product which I've now been using for around three weeks. I said in a recent post that Pixiwoo's video with Caroline Hirons inspired me to shake up my skin care. Although in that post I was talking about a cleanser completely different to the kind Caroline recommended, I finally found a budget cleansing balm (I'd like to thank missbudgetbeauty for bringing this to my attention).
Now, I say 'budget' and I feel I should point out, I am not opposed to spending as much money as necessary on skincare because I feel like it's something worth investing in. However, I didn't want to pay £34 for the Emma Hardie one to find out that I detested cleansing balms. So, I figured I'd try a cheaper one first to see if I liked the concept.
And good news, I absolutely love it!
The balm (as you can see) is green and has a natural herby smell to it which I absolutely love. When I first got it it was incredibly hard and I wondered how I was going to be able to get any out but it does start to soften with the heat from your hands quickly and seeing as it's been so blooming hot in the UK at the moment, I've found it pretty soft when I've gone to use it.
I have normal/dry skin and so this feels like absolute heaven to me. It's incredibly moisturising and nourishing but it still gets the job done. It removes eye makeup quickly and gently because you're just using your hands, and I find it really satisfying seeing all my makeup come of on a cloth (one comes with this balm but I'd recommend buying a few spares so you always have a clean one).
My skin definitely feels softer and smoother since I've been using this balm and although I've still been getting the odd blemish, they've been disappearing lightning fast (I'm not sure if it's because of this balm or my new toner though). I did go through a breakout stage about a week ago and I'm not sure if it was due to this really cleansing and unclogging all the crap in my pores or if it was because of a face mask I used but either way, my skin seems to have purged.
I use this both morning at night which, initially, scared me. I've been using a cheaper version of the Clarisonic for almost a year and it was to that that I owed my skin clearing up dramatically. So, I was a bit scared to stop using it. But, I decided that this would still be deep cleansing because of the muslin cloth and I've started using an 'exfoliating' (in inverted commas because I'm not 100% it's as exfoliating as say, Clarins Exfoliating Toner) toner (review soon) so, maybe I could live without the cleansing brush. Four weeks later and I think I can say that yes, I can live without it.
So far, I'm really enjoying this cleansing balm and although I'd really like to try the Emma Hardie one, I'm not sure that I'll be rushing to buy it because this one seems to be doing pretty well at the moment.
I think I'll give this a 4/5 just because it can be a bit of a hassle when you just want to flop and go to bed, but that's just my pure laziness.
Have a fabulous day,
Nikki x
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