I shared that I received a restock of my favourite vitamin C – Boscia’s Vitamin C Serum with Caviar Lime Booster. This is my favourite vitamin C for a few reasons: – the texture is watery. This means no pilling and quick absorption. – ethyl-ascorbic acid, stays stable for a longer time- packaging is not a dropper bottle which is prone to contamination and seems to let air in more quickly. – 10% concentration of vitamin C. Enough to make a difference in pigmentation over a long period of time, but not too much to feel stingy on my skin.
But this isn’t the only Boscia product in my rotation. I’m also using the Makeup-BreakUp Cool Cleansing Oil as my first cleanse, and the Thermal Black Charcoal Cleanser as my second step at night time. It’s foaming and washes everything off.
The Papaya and Pomegranate Enzyme Exfoliating Body Scrub and the Peptide Youth-Restore Firming Body Serum. No, the serum hasn’t made my body more firm but it absorbs quickly and leaves my skin super soft. It actually has niacinamide and peptides in it so that you can apply some of the same ingredients you apply on your face, to the skin on your body.
Also, the Cica Soothing Universal Cream is what goes in my gym bag, because you can use it anywhere, at any time, and it’s a soothing multi-purpose moisturizer.
They’re all available at Shoppers Drug Mart or on Amazon.
Alterna’s new Renewing Scalp Care collection has a scalp scrub and a moisturizing leave-on treatment. The Leave-On Treatment immediately wins points for having the best applicator I’ve seen of any scalp treatment. You can part your hair and use the nozzle to put a few drops of the serum in. Unlike other scalp serums, this one is moisturizing and slightly thicker. You massage it in with your fingers and then go about your day. It doesn’t seem to mess up my blow-dry and it’s not oily or greasy either, but it’s a step more moisturizing than the ordinary scalp treatment. It also smells like coconut, which I kind of enjoy.
Muse has a yummy coconut note and I’m not mad about that (I would layer it with Datura Noir), and Voyeur is fruity, maybe for turning up that pineapple note in Aventus. But the original is my favourite. I’ve been wearing it to bed every night and now even my pillow smells like it and I love that.
The Charlotte Tilbury HappiKiss lipgloss is the one from my selfie yesterday and I started using it in the summer. This was my car lipgloss for a while.