It comes with a 1 fl oz/30 ml Checks and Balances Frothy Face Wash, 1 oz/30 ml GinZing Energy-boosting Moisturizer, 1 oz/30 ml High Potency Night-A-Mins Mineral-enriched Renewal Cream, and a .17 oz/5 ml GinZing Refreshing Eye Cream. They are all lovely. I thought that this was going to be a blog post to show some of the cool things that you can get with Sephora perks, but after using these products for around a week, I thought that they all deserved a little review because they were very very interesting.
Let's start with the GinZing Refreshing Eye Cream, I have had the full-size of this and it is an absolutely lovely eye cream. It is very gentle and moisturizing, but not in a greasy way. It sinks into the skin very quickly and leaves the skin around the eye very refreshed and soft. It does claim to instantly de-puff and reduce dark circles, but that is b.s. I have rather bad dark circles, and in using the sample, and the full size they were reduced in no way at all. The de-puffing, it helped with de-puffing, but I credit that more to the cool temperature than the formula. It isn't anything outrageously amazing and life changing, but it is a good eye cream, the full size is reasonable priced at $30.00 for .5 oz and I can see it working well on all skin types.
Next up is the GinZing Energy-Boosting Moisturizer, which has the most interesting texture of any moisturizer I have ever used. Backstory; I have incredibly dry skin, like barely any excess moisture at all, I usually use gel-moisturizers because they are more intensely moisturizing, but hey free samples, who doesn't love that? This is a light-weight moisturizer, I only use it in the morning, it sinks into the skin very quickly and smells like orange peels, but in the best way possible. You can't smell it once it's on your face, which is a big bonus to me. The texture is very weird, it's very viscous, and it was weird to work with at first, but it's really great. I think that it is suited more to normal to combination skin. For my very dry skin, I would like something a little more hydrating.
The High Potency Night-A-Mins Mineral-Enriched Renewal Cream is so awesome. It is a very thick night cream, and out of the creams, I find that this one really does what it says it will. The cream is supposed to slough away the dry, dead skin to renew and brighten the skin. I certainly notice that my skin has started looking a lot better since using this. I have been having less dry patches, less blackheads, my breakouts don't last as long, and the scaring from the acne isn't as prominent. It is very hydrating, but in no way greasy.
This is my new favorite face wash, I have gone out and purchased the full size, and I never want to live without it. The Checks and Balances Frothy Face Wash is very aptly named, when you rub it onto your face it don't lather or foam, it has this amazing silky, foam. It is very gentle and helps balance the skins oils and lack of oils. It helps to strip away the dry skin and excess oil leaving my skin a blank new canvas. It smells amazing, like mint and camomile, very gentle and very relaxing. I don't think that this would work well for people with oily skin, particularly if you don't use a moisturizer. It is a very intense clean, and if you don't rehydrate your skin after I can see where you would have problems with the overproduction of oils.
Overall I really liked this. It was a great way to try out a few products from the Origins line, and I can tell that a few of them are going to stick around for quite a while and I am going to be taking a look into more of the line very soon! Let me know if you have ever tried any of the products above, or anything from Origins and what you thought about it! Bye!
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