Personal Care

I don’t normally use cleanser, or makeup remover, or anything like that. My skin is super sensitive and liable to break out into either acne, or a giant rash, at the hint of anything that isn’t water, or super gentle.

So I had a few trepidations when I agreed to review a bottle of Dove’s makeup remover, but, I trust Dove’s products and I’ve never had a reaction to them before. It’s good that I had the reputation of Dove to fall back on, because I rather liked the makeup remover and (WIN!) it didn’t make my skin break out.

Unlike other cleansers, Dove’s is gentle enough to use to remove eye makeup and while I don’t normally wear eye makeup, I did get some of it close to my eyes and there were no tears or burning.

It comes in a handy dandy bottle, with a little clip that I can clip on to stop my children using it willy nilly. This is probably not what the clip is for, but I’m not going to argue.

And I will also say that used “off label” it makes for a brilliant irritant free nappy change cleanser. But shhhhh, I didn’t tell you that. (Isaac has bowel issues, we change 10+ nappies a day – I need all the nappy changing help I can get.)

So yes, rather happy. Yet again, Dove lives up to its name and creates a product that does exactly what it says it will and doesn’t kill my skin.
Brilliant.

And now, because Dove love you guys, I have a $25 Coles gift card to give away to one lucky person who comments here.

To enter, tell me what your favourite Dove product is. Or, what you plan to buy with the $25 gift card.

The winner will be drawn on the 18th of July. Open to Australian residents only.

Imperial Leather Foamburst Shower Gel is available at Supermarkets and Pharmacies for $5.99 a bottle. Keep it away from your kids, unless you’re using it for science and showing them how it changes from a gel to a foam. It’s pretty cool stuff.

My kids used a whole bottle of the stuff I was sent to review.

They did smell pretty afterwards though.

I got sent an Endota Walkabout pack to review. I love their products. I do not love the autoplay music on their website, so this is a heads up for you. Mute your volume.

You can buy the pack that I reviewed here.

Weeks ago, I received a Dettol No Touch Hand Washy System in the mail, along with some fingerpaints and a canvas.

Now firstly, I’d like to say that first impressions count. The time taken by the PR company to tie pretty ribbon around the box, a hand written note and nicely packaged products immediately made me more favourable.

Amy has sensory issues, so I thought the fingerpainting and then gel handwash would be a bit much for her.

I was wrong. She fingerpainted for 5 minutes and then spent the next week trying to make the automatic dispenser fill her hands with soap.

In fact, she loved it so much that she filled up all her cars, a tea cup, her hands, her hair, the egg cartons, a spoon, a facewasher and a bowl. All with soap. At least it wasn’t strong smelling as I had to wash it off her, time after time.

One problem with a no touch system is that it doesn’t take much to activate the sensor.

I was cracking eggs into the dogs bowl (digression: I had 30 duck eggs that I had to check for freshness, after one of my ducks was hit by a car. She’d been sitting on the eggs for a few days, so I needed to know if an embryo had started to form yet, or whether they’d be fine for eating. I cracked a few into the dogs bowl to check, so that she could eat them afterwards) when I accidentally activated the sensor with the bowl.

BZZZZZZT. And I’d just added soap to the eggs.

Of course, I scooped out as much soap as I could and then fed it to the dog anyway. Because I refuse to waste eggs.

It didn’t make the dog sick, so while I wouldn’t recommend eating the soap, I don’t think it would kill you if you did. You might burp bubbles though.

I liked the whole idea of just waving my hands under a sensor to get soap. My wrists are really bad, so I find the pump action dispensers hard to work and Amy constantly steals and hides the bar soaps.

The only issue is now, a few months later, Amy has used all the soap and I haven’t bought a refill yet! I’m terrible like that.

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Disclaimer: I received everything for free and I was not compensated for this post.