Every girls fantasy! (Superdrug Skin Rescue Mask)

Member Name: madmum71

Product:	Superdrug Skin Rescue Mask
Date:	24/07/07 (164 review reads)
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Advantages: A lovely smooth chocolate face mask

Disadvantages: makes you fancy chocolate

Ok for all those mums out there I am about to make you jealous! I got a whole weekend to myself! Yep you heard me a whole weekend from Friday night to Sunday night! My boys had a cub camping weekend and the other half decided to go and help out, obviously they asked me to tag along but they knew the answer before they asked, I am strictly a hotel girl and don’t get a kick out of sleeping on the floor with the bugs!

So what does a girl do when she suddenly finds herself home alone? Well the first thing is to have a good old-fashioned pampering before the girls night out and hangover!

I tend to usually use Lush facemasks but I couldn’t get to the shop in time for my weekend so I had a browse around my local Superdrug and decided on this one, purely for the novelty factor I mean the possibility of covering my face in chocolate and not putting on an ounce of weight!

So did it live up to my expectations?

COMPANY HISTORY

Superdrug was founded in 1966 when the two brothers, Ronald and Peter Goldstein, opened their first store in Putney High Street London.In 1964 Ronald and Peter Goldstein decided to set up the company after spending several years in a grocery retailing industry. They decided to use their trading skills and start a toiletry retailing business its first name was Leading Supermarkets Limited but changed their name later in the year. By 1981 they had grown to 100 stores, in 1987 they were bought out by Kingfisher PLC for a whopping 287 million not bad for a couple of grocers! The chain continued to grow and re-branded to give Boots a run for their money and are now on almost every high street today.

PACKAGING

This comes in one of those sachets with the little tear bit to open that I find very messy and end up getting more on the sachet than on my face. The sachet itself is silver in colour and states that it is from the Superdrug skin rescue range; it also has a picture of a womans face with a square of chocolate on her nose!

PRODUCT STATEMENT

Spoil yourself with this scrumptious self-heating chocolate fragranced facemask. Relax as the special ingredients and natural clay gently warm your skin and open pores to sweep away grime and impurities. Pure chocolate indulgence that smells good enough to eat!

USING

To be honest I wasn’t expecting much from this one and by the time it came around to using it I was starting to regret not getting to Lush, but seeing as this was the only one I had I decided to just put up with it.

The first thing I noticed after opening it was the smell, I expected it to smell like that dodgy chocolate that smells powdery but this actually smelt like chocolate, I mean real chocolate nice and milky. I was now starting to lose my doubts and couldn’t wait to get it on my face, applying was so easy it has a nice smooth consistency and spread over my face evenly and quickly. As soon as I put it on it started to warm up and then I got hot chocolate!! (Sorry!) Again this smelt lovely and comforting, there was enough in the sachet to cover my face and most of my neck.

So I had the mask on and started my relax in my lovely undisturbed bath…. Sorry this was a huge occasion I need to make the most of it!

The directions state to leave this on for 5 to 10 minutes and I assumed as this contained clay it would harden and I could do that crack the face with a smile thingy but it really didn’t harden that much and after 10 minutes the smell had started to fade which in a way was a good thing as I was starting to really fancy a bar of chocolate!

Rinsing was easy and messy and for once it was me that was turning the bath water a brown muddy colour! After patting my face dry it was time to inspect my face and I am happy to report there was no red blotchy bits or dry skin so I hadn’t reacted to this one and my skin looked nice and clean and healthy looking.

PRICE & RANGE

Exfoliating strawberry … 89p

Moisturising watermelon … 89p

Illuminating raspberry … 89p

Warming chocolate … 89p

All the sachets come in 10ml size

INGREDIENTS

Propylene glycol, zeolite, kaolin, glycerine, cetyl hydroxyethylcellulose, parfum, CI77891, CI77492, CI 77499, CI77491

This has also been dermatologically tested.

When applying if you get it in your eyes rinse immediately, as much as you may want to DO NOT eat it & don’t use on broken or sore skin.

So would I buy this again?

Yes I would and I would try some of the others in the range as well, lets be honest for 89p you can’t really go wrong! As for my weekend well lets just say from what I remember it was great and what I don’t remember can stay that way!

P.S I was going to write a review full of sexual innuendo regarding smothering myself in chocolate but I thought that would just be tacky! And personally I wouldn’t inflict those visual images on my worst enemy!

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Summary: A nice smooth and warm face mask