Ponds Cold Cream Cleanser

I love it! So inexpensive but is by far the best cleanser that I have tried, and I have tried a few! I guess it would be fair to say I have combination skin, can get oily and prone to spots (especially around my chin) but I also get extremely dry irritated skin on my cheeks and forhead (mild eczema I have had since childhood). This seems to be the only cleanser that can cope with both, and makes my skin feel really soft. Every now and again I go off and try other cleansers, but within weeks (sometimes even days) my skin is irritaded, dry and looks not very nice. As soon as I start using the cold cream cleanser again I see an immediate improvement. The smell is a ...

I have a friend with lovely skin. Her mum is 58 and looks about 40 - no word of a lie. What is their secret? Not the Clinique 3-step routine or the latest home dermobrasion kit but a flannel and cold cream cleanser. The final straw for me was watching the latest James Bond offering (bear with me here...), Quantum of Solace. What was M taking her make-up off with? Cold cream. I had to have some. I am an unashamed geek - if M uses it then so do I. The cream comes in a glass pot and is reasonably priced (about £3.00), I assume because it is a favourite of Nanas around the globe who don't part with their pension easily. This means, ladies, that it's ...

Are you at war with your skin? Well, be prepared to declare a ceasefire (and not the usual type found in world politics these days) because Ponds Cold Cream is like the United Nations of skin cleansers. It lollops into your skin and says ‘You spent how much on that last face wash?’ and does its thing leaving you with skin as soft as a baby’s butt. Really, I take this sort of thing seriously I would never lie about something that actually did what it says on the tin. Now, you may actually have seen Cold Cream before, usually in old films where actresses ran around with great globs of it on to take off their makeup. It does do a brilliant job of ...