I was excited to try the Essano Facial Scrub Rosehip Exfoliator as Essano appears to be a conscious supermarket brand with a lot of good points to their products and packaging. I've tried and loved other beautiful smelling rosehip products in their range.
My intention was to use it three times a week in the shower as a cleanser substitute, however as a facial exfoliator this is just too gentle. When it comes to removing dead skin and impurities you want plenty of grit and this just seemed creamy and better marketed as a cleanser.
I wouldn't consider this product as enough to be a scrub personally. It's so gentle that I felt like it wasn't doing much to exfoliate my skin properly when I used this as my only exfoliating product.
It's so creamy that it feels like putting a moisturiser on but with tiny rosehip granules. I thought it would be great for my dry skin because of this but my nose can be very dry and it was still flaking after using. There aren't enough granules throughout the scrub to do a proper job so you end up basically rubbing in a cream cleanser in some areas. I also didn't want to press the granules in too hard because they felt like they could scratch my skin.
Overall, I would not reccomend this as a main exfoliator (unless they were looking for a very light one), but maybe as a top up exfoliator on days when you weren't using your main one. I use exfoliating pads about twice a week and an light exfoliating toner on most days too.