La Roche-Posay Serozinc

I'm definitely one to listen to to hype surrounding products, I mean it must be good if so many people rave about it, right? One product that has been on my radar for some time now is the La Roche-Posay Serozinc, which I managed to pick up while in Paris and one that I'm now wishing I'd picked up several cans of!

skincare | three of the best

A few months ago I started getting really awful breakouts on my chin and I couldn't for the life of me, figure out why. I hadn't changed anything in either my skincare or my eating habits so it was just a complete mystery that left me feeling rather down about myself. Now it was by no means what you'd imagine 'bad skin' to look like, but it was something I personally wasn't used to. I started investing in some new products to see if I could combat these breakouts and there's been a few standouts that have made a difference in one way or another.

Origins skincare was something I'd never tried but had always heard such great things about. I first picked up the Super Spot Remover which I had real high hopes for, especially considering the price for such a small bottle (it's absolutely tiny!), this product did not disappoint at all. It recommends to use up to three times a day as needed but I tend to stick to before I go to bed and once during the day if I'm staying inside as it is quite drying and I feel applying too much would completely dry out my skin and cause those horrible looking patchy areas. When I first applied this to any blemishes I had it stung quite a bit, but that subsides after a while and then it gets to work, I woke up the next morning and all the redness was gone and the blemishes were much smaller. This bottle is a miracle worker! Keeping with Origins, I also picked up (for a mere £5 at Boots!) the much raved about GinZing Moisturiser which on the face feels so luxurious and smells divine - if you don't like the smell of oranges don't buy this! It's quite a light-weight moisturiser that sinks into the skin quickly and for me, really helps combat the dryness caused by the spot remover. These two work in harmony so well together.

The third and final product I've been using is the La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo which is not a spot treatment as myself and many others often presume, it is in fact, a pore unclogging treatment. At first this caused more blemishes to appear on my face but that was just all the impurities being pulled out, afterwards I found the pores around my nose to look smaller and the tiny bumps on my forehead to be reduced. I'm not sure if this is something I'd repurchase but it definitely worked for me at the time.

What are you three best skincare products?

Emma xo

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skincare | la roche posay hype?

La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo - £13

The La Roche Posay has had an incredible amount of hype surrounding it this year and as much as I always try not to succumb to hype, I failed miserably with this one after holding out for so long. I was wandering round Boots when I saw it on offer for £8 instead of the usual £13 and before I knew it I was standing at the till paying for it...ooops. I don't have particularly bad skin or anything like that but I do get the odd blemish and I find I get a few under-the-skin bumps on my forehead, so I thought maybe this would work to combat that.

When I first started using this product my skin reacted quite badly. As this is a pore unclogging product, it brought out all of the nasties in my skin and left me with more blemishes than I was used to, that being said, after a few weeks I did notice a difference and I still do now. Not so much with blemish control but more so with the bumps on my forehead and the pores on and around my nose.

I'm not certain that I'd repurchase this product again. Although it did help to unclog pores, thats really the only difference I saw to my skin and for the £13 price tag, to me, it's just not worth it.

Have you tried the La Roche Posay before? Thoughts?

Emma xo

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