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Posted by: | on June 27, 2012

Review: Nivea Daily Essentials facial wash gel and moisturiser

A while ago a lovely PR rep sent me a whole bag of Nivea goodies to try out. I’ve been encorporating them into my daily life, and am finally ready to start reviewing them now! 

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oads/2012/06/nivea-wash.png”>image of nivea washFirst up, Daily Essentials Refreshing Facial Wash Gel. From the Nivea product  site:

NIVEA VISAGE DAILY ESSENTIALS REFRESHING FACIAL WASH GEL is a soap free, lightly gel which purifies and invigorates for a fresh skin feeling.

HOW IT WORKS
Whilst cleansing it is important to respect your skin’s natural moisture balance to keep your skin fresh and hydrated all day long.

NIVEA VISAGE DAILY ESSENTIALS REFRESHING FACIAL WASH GEL enriched with Vitamins & Natural Lotus Extract, gently yet effectively cleanses your skin:

  • By purifying your skin and removing dirt whilst respecting your skin’s own lipids, preventing skin dehydration.
  • The refreshing formula invigorates and hydrates your skin.
Your skin is deeply cleansed, looking and feeling refreshed all day long.

For normal and combination skin.

I have purchased this product in the past, and I will purchase it again, for one big reason: it’s about $10 in your supermarket. I like cheap products that work! It makes me feel clean but not unbeliveably dried out (unless you’re a teenager, stay away from Clean & Clear!), and it’s pretty decent at removing makeup at night. I can use it in the shower, and while it doesn’t smell delicious, it doesn’t smell of anything unpleasant either. It’s a good product to alternate with a scrub, and I don’t have a problem using it twice a day. It’s not luxurious, but it does its job, and that is probably all you really need in a facial cleanser, right?

Well, you will need to moisturise afterwards, at least if you’re a combination skinner like myself. So that’s where Daily Essentials Light Light Moisturising Day Cream comes in.

NIVEA VISAGE DAILY ESSENTIALS LIGHT MOISTURISING DAY CREAM with Vitamins & Natural Lotus Extract moisturises & protects for a fresh skin feeling.

HOW IT WORKS
Replenishing moisture and vitamins are essential for your skin to make it look beautiful and feel fresh all day long.

NIVEA VISAGE DAILY ESSENTIALS LIGHT MOISTURISING DAY CREAM enriched with Vitamins & Natural Lotus Extract, gives your skin the intensive moisture it needs to support its natural balance:

  • Provides your skin with intensive moisture for 24hrs  to leave a fresh skin feeling
  • With SPF 15 and extra UVA filters it helps to protect your skin from environmental influences and premature skin ageing

Your skin is intensively moisturised and protected, feeling refreshed and soft all day long.

For normal and combination skin.

This moisturiser does indeed feel light, which is good, and it has an SPF of 15, which is important. It does a good job of moisturising, and is around $13 in supermarkets.

So am I converted to it? No. It has a little bit more of a smell – not unpleasant, just noticeable for my super sensitive nose – than my usual moisturiser, Olay, and

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I feel like it’s not quite as soothing. Apart from just using facial moisturiser on my face, I also put it on my hundreds of tiny kitten scratches, and the Olay calms my skin better. If you haven’t found a facial moisturiser that you love though, perhaps you should give this one a try on your next supermarket trip.

Coming up soon – Nivea body moisturiser, I try toner for the first time, and a facial wipe face-off.

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Posted by: | on December 18, 2011

Nivea Visage Daily Essentials Extra Gentle Eye Makeup Remover

I first bought Nivea Visage Daily Essentials Extra Gentle Eye Makeup Remover (try saying that three times fast) a few months back after I’d finished a mini-sized bottle of Lancome Bi-Facils which came in a gift pack. Now Bi-Facils is a seriously good product but just too expensive for my budget, so I grabbed a bottle of this off the shelf of a local department store mostly because it said “Extra Gentle” on the bottle and it was well priced.

That impulse purchase turned out to be a good thing – I’m onto my second bottle and this is now my holy grail eye makeup remover. As far as I’m concerned it’s even better than Bi-Facils.

Here’s what Nivea say about their product:

“NIVEA VISAGE DAILY ESSENTIALS EXTRA GENTLE EYE MAKE-UP REMOVER is a light, oil free formulation that gently removes make-up around the delicate eye area, leaving no greasy residue.

HOW IT WORKS

NIVEA VISAGE DAILY ESSENTIALS EXTRA GENTLE EYE MAKE-UP REMOVER enriched with Pro-Vitamin B5 to soothe the skin:

  • Gently removes make-up and mascara with no greasy residue
  • Prevents stinging or irritation of the delicate skin around the eye
  • Dermatologically and opthamologically tested

Your sensitive eye area is gently cleansed and looking beautiful with cared for eye-lashes.”

I don’t know about the ‘cared for eyelashes’ bit, but I can tell you that it does a really good job of melting away even heavy eye makeup so that it can be wiped away without the need for rubbing; it doesn’t sting my eyes (this is important – my eye area is very sensitive) and it doesn’t leave any oily residue. One cotton pad well dampened with remover is enough for one eye, although I wear non-waterproof mascara so I can’t vouch for how well it would cope with the waterproof stuff.

The water-based formula dries quickly on the skin without needing to be wiped off afterwards and doesn’t leave any residue behind, oily or otherwise. I can apply eye makeup once it has dried without it affecting the application, and I often use this on a cotton bud to fix up over-zealous or just plain bad makeup application.

The product is very subtly and pleasantly scented with what seems to me to be a “beachy” scent – but then I’m crap at scent descriptions so I wouldn’t pay any attention to that!

At around $12.00 for a generous-sized 125ml bottle, Nivea Daily Essential Extra Gentle Eye Makeup Remover is widely available throughout New Zealand in department stores, pharmacies and supermarkets.

Ingredients: Aqua, Poloxamer 124, PEG-8, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Glycerin, Panthenol, Isosteareth-20,

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Steareth-20, Dipotassium Phosphate, Potassium Phosphate, Trisodium EDTA, Polyaminopropyl Biguanide, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Benzyl Alcohol, Geraniol, Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde, Limonene, Linalool, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Hydroxy-citronellal, Benzyl Salicylate, Parfum. (Note: I couldn’t find an ingredients list online so I typed this up from the back of the bottle. Apologies if there are any mistakes. Also, congratulations on your super reading skills if you did spot any mistakes!)

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