L'Oréal Paris Sugar Scrubs Purifying Face Scrub Review

This product claims to purify skin and clear blackheads so I was definitely the perfect candidate; I have quite clogged pores and a lot of blackheads. The product comes in a very luxurious transparent glass pottle with a gold lid. I felt like the packaging was really nice for a supermarket product but felt it was excessive that the pottle came also inside a box, I'm not a fan of unnecessary packaging. I liked the transparency of the pottle so you can see how product you're using but I found it unhygienic as you have to scoop the product out with your fingers. I found the scent of this to be really unpleasant, it's a strong kiwifruit scent but with a plasticy chemical- like smell to it. The scrub itself resembles kiwifruit; it's a green jelly-like scrub with black kiwi seeds through it, I thought this looked super cool. I found I needed to use quite a lot to cover my entire face and lips, and I've made quite a good dent in it using this throughout the trial so I don't think this is the most economical product given the RRP price. The scrub was easy to use and I found the self-warming component really cool, it felt very spa-like and pleasant to use this on my face. I didn't enjoy using this on my lips however, I found it weird that this can be used as a lip scrub yet you cannot ingest this. I felt uncomfortable putting this on my lips as it smelt unpleasant and I was scared of getting it in my mouth, it also left quite an unpleasant taste on my lips even after washing it off, so I'd only recommend using this on the face. This was quite a good consistency in that it was scrubby enough to exfoliate my face well but also quite gentle, I found it gentle enough to use every day. After every use my skin did feel way softer so it definitely fulfilled that promise. It left my face feeling softer, smoother and moisturised. I noticed a reduction in the number of blackheads I had but a massive increase in small whiteheads. I don't normally get small whiteheads but throughout the trial I started getting a lot of small whiteheads that I think were due to this product. This may have been just my skin adjusting to a new product and due to the length of the trial period I cannot be sure the scrub will always do this but I didn't feel the reduction in blackheads from this scrub was worth getting more whiteheads, especially when these are more noticeable. So essentially this scrub did do what it said it would but with the added side effect of whiteheads, which has left me a bit undecided if I would want to use this again or recommend this, as the breaking out in whiteheads may just be a temporary effect of this. Overall, I think there are cheaper scrubs out there that smell better and are more natural than this one, and didn't give me whiteheads so I'm not 100% sold on this, but it is not a terrible product. I'll keep using this and update my review if the whitehead issue still persists.