Vaseline Intensive care: Dry Skin Lotion (Vaseline Intensive Care Dry Skin Lotion)

Member Name: joannabelle88

Product:	Vaseline Intensive Care Dry Skin Lotion
Date:	07/07/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: a good moisturiser, long lasting

Disadvantages: too oily

Vaseline is a well known, and well respected brand, and can be found in almost every chemist, supermarket and pharmacy, meaning it is always fairly easy to get hold of a bottle. Despite this, however, it just doesn't do it for me, but that is for one specific reason.

Every year, when the sun begins to shine, I whip out the self tan, to take away that winter whiteness. Before tanning, it is important to moisturise well, and this is where Vaseline comes in, as this year it was my moisturiser of choice.

Now, as a base for tanning, I like to look for a respectable product, rather than a cheap one that doesn't do much. At the same time, over the summer season I go through a lot of moisturiser, and so the product chosen can't be too expensive, which is why, after a lot of thought I opted for Vaseline. Found at the market in Birmingham, I paid just £1.99 for 400ml of their dry skin lotion, which een though I wouldn't rate it as the greatest moisturiser in the world, still seems like a bargain.

Once home, I whipped it open, eager to try it out and get on with the tanning. The first thing I noticed when opening the bottle was the smell, for some reason it reminded me of hospitals. In reality, I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, as it smelled pretty much the same as their cream that they sell for burns and nappy rash, but for some reason I was expecting a moisturiser to be less medicinal, and more neutral smelling.

The colour of the product isn't bad, it's a kind of pale yellow, much like the colour used on the packaging, and while I generally prefer the clean and crispness of white creams, pale yellow isn't all that bad. The grease on the other hand was.

On the back of the bottle, the product reads that it has a "non-greasy formula", maybe, compared to some brands it could be considered non-greasy, but having used a good few varieties of moisturiser in my time, including Nivea and Olay, I found this product to be too oily and it kind of slipped all over my hands while putting it on. Even after washing, the oilyness remained, which I found rather unpleasant, and for me, this was enough to put me off of the product entirely.

Despite my personal hang-ups over the oilyness, the moisturiser itself was actually a pretty good base for the self tan, leaving my skin soft, and not at all dry. The product claims that it protects against dryness for up to 24hours, and I can quite happily believe this to be true after the results I saw in just a couple of hours.

The packaging is pretty basic, a rather rectangular shaped bottle, in pale yellow, with a bright blue lid, and blue writing, and you get the moisturiser out by squeezing it through a small hole in the top of the bottle. This design I like, where some products use bigger holes, the advantage of Vaseline's design is that you only get out a little amount in your hand at a time, minimising waste.

Price wise, this product varies. 200ml can be bought on Amazon for £2.58, but like I've mentioned, I bought mine at the market and got 400ml for £1.99, so it is definitely worth shopping around.

Overall, as a moisturiser, the product isn't bad, and does what it promises to do. However, having read that it was non-greasy, I found it far too oily on my skin, and for me, that's a fairly crucial part of a product. Next time I shall look for a less intensive moisturising product.

Summary: a good moisturiser if you aren't worried about the greasiness, or if your skin is very dry.