It’s not Superdrug, it’s mine

For me, when something is put into hot water, it will wash better than placed in cold water. This is why I really like treating myself  to self heating face masks. I don't know if it actually gives a  deeper clean, but I love the warming sensation on my face and I feel  it gives me a deeper clean. I tend to wash my hair only twice a week  and hair washing days tend to be the time when I like to put a face  mask on. I don't need to neat or careful with the application of the  face mask and it gets into the hairline, it doesn't matter because my  whole mop of hair gets washed after. I've fallen off the face mask  routine big time. This week end, I thought I would start my routine again and I  decided to treat myself to a chocolate orange self heating mask from  Superdrug.




 


I cannot even begin to describe the delicious smell of this mask.  Application was a very multi sensorial experience and I don't think I  would have enjoyed it as much if it had been applied by someone else.  The texture is spot on: too thick, too runny and you could definitely  feel that it's infused with some orange oil.


  
   







The mask claims to deeply purify and hydrate your skin. To be honest,  I didn't feel it left my skin noticeably more moisturised afterwards.  I definitely felt it gave my skin a nice little pampering session,  that it gave my skin a good clean but for me it was more a pampering  session for my senses. I don't think I will be repurchasing this  mask. I want more from my weekly face masks, either deep exfoliation, or deep moisture or something which makes my face younger/firmer.  Having said that, I will have no problem using up the other half of  this packet (Superdrug masks tend to have enough for 2 sessions) and  the extra one I bought at the same time. In fact, writing about it  now and reminiscing on how lovely it felt makes me want to apply it  again, right now





What: Superdrug Chocolate Orange Self Heating Mask
How much: 99p
Where: Superdrug online and physical stores
Availability: I have had no problems to find this
Special Offer: Buy 4 for the price of 3
Free delivery from the Superdrug website until 24 October 2012

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White chocolate wonder

The pretty packaging, the fact it was called 'white chocolate mousse' and that it was written 'moisturising' led me to buy this and nothing else. Well, also because it was only 99p. I bought this in a hurry and at home I realised it had clay in it.





I like to stay away from clay masks. It doesn't irritate my skin or anything like that but I've got the habit to leave clay masks for too long and the removal becomes too painful and my skin becomes red after all. I left this mask for over 22 minutes (I told you I was bad with respecting times) and at no point it was flakey rock hard like a normal mud mask. Maybe I got confused, maybe it's mud masks that turn rock hard solid if you leave them too long and clay masks are ok? I don't know. I was delighted to find out that my white chocolate mousse mask was surprisingly easy to remove, despite leaving it for too long. It was a bit dusty as would be expected but still surprisingly soft at the touch when I removed it.






I was even more impressed by the scent. Don't be mislaid by the title and expect a sickly 'white chocolate mousse' scent. They should have never called it 'white chocolate mousse'.  This smells of cocoa and vanilla and it makes the whole weekly face mask routine such a pleasure.


Despite initial unpleasant hot sensation which lasted a few minutes on my skin, this mask felt absolutely divine on and I would totally recommend it if you wanted to give a skin a little pamper session and moisturising your skin. It left my skin soft, plumped and i can't wait to buy it again. if you want to slip this into my secret santa sock, I'd think you'd have very good taste

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