Garnier Pure Active Fruit Energy Daily Energising Gel Scrub Review

WHAT IS IT: Garnier Pure Active Fruit Energy Daily Energising Gel Scrub

THE PRODUCT(S):

Garnier Pure Active Fruit Energy Daily Energising Gel Scrub: Garnier Pure Active Fruit Energy Scrub helps to target imperfections and leaves skin looking radiant. The scrub formula, with salicylic acid and exfoliating particles, deeply cleanse impurities, tighten pores and help protect against the appearance of imperfections.

Enriched with extracts of grapefruit, pomegranate and a derivative of vitamin C, the invigorating fresh fragrance washes over your face with a fruity burst. It effectively cleanses whilst giving skin a boosting radiance. Intensely purified & exfoliated, your skin looks revitalised, more beautiful and your complexion radiant.

It comes in a gel-based facial scrub with little exfoliating beads, gentle enough to use on a daily basis.

Suds easy, and yet the suds doesn't make my skin dry out as I expected it to. Instead, the citrus scent acts as a perk-me-up in the morning when I'm still half dead to the world.

VERDICT: I love how the citrus scent explodes your smell and senses as soon as you squeezed out a decent amount to cleanse your face. I am generally a sucker for fruit scented facial products as I love how these fruit scent wake up my senses in the morning. And let's face it, it's either take a cold shower or use a fruit-based facial cleanser to do the waking up part, and I am definitely not the self-torture-by-cold-shower type of person. Hence, out with that cold shower and in with the this citrus scented facial cleanser instead.

And I particularly love the fact that despite it having micro exfoliating beads in it, it is actually gentle enough to use on a daily basis. I'm sure most of us are aware that over-exfoliating our skin doesn't help it, instead it might make our already thin and fragile skin look worse. But not with this Garnier Pure Active Fruit Energy Daily Energising Gel Scrub. I've been using it for a week or so, and so far, my new pimples are generally more well-behaved already and there are definitely signs of the pimple taking it's natural course of action.

And along the way, I also noticed my skin color looks slightly much more better than before. Previously, I used to have this unsightly yellowish tint to my skintone, almost as if I am ill or sick. But now, I love the fact that the yellowish-sallow looking skintone is gone, instead replaced by my skin's natural fiarness. And to top it off, there's a natural blush on my cheeks too. This ultimately means less powder blush to be applied on my skin, as compared to my previous skintone, where I have to slap on a decent layer of BB Cream, followed by more blush color so as not to spook any innocent humans at night.

My only grouse is that, it takes quite an effort to wash off the facial cleanser after I am done with the "oohing" and "aahing" at the scent and the exfoliating beads that exfoliates my skin gently. Let's just say, I can safely ignore this setback since this cleanser contains anti-inflammatory agents that helpfully reduce skin irritation and at the same time contains Salicylic Acid which my skin is urgently in need of to show newer skin underneath xD

VERDICT: ✓✓✓

WHAT I THINK: Fresh citrus fruity scent is a godsend on mornings when I am still a sleepwalking zombie.

WHERE TO REDEEM SAMPLE: None at the moment :(

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Samples Received/Redeemed: 28 Jan - 31 Jan 2013

A somewhat good week, if I really had to compare with the previous 2 weeks if samples, freebies and goodies are considered into the equation. And well, I'm always a curious kitty somehow, despite knowing that the samples for this current issue of Feeling magazine by Guardian isn't really in the Wow! category. But still, I am curious to know more about a particular sample which sells really expensive in terms of retail price.

Without further ado, here's my show and tell for this week's Sample + Haul, with inclusion of a NTUC haul on hair products mostly.

By now, we all are aware of the fact that Guardian's magazine, Feeling, costs only a mere S$1.00 every quarterly issue. And each time, there's always a few samples within and each time without fail, there will always be a travel-size toothpaste..

This quarter's issue comes with:

• Darlie Expert White Short Survey @ http://www.darlieexpertwhite.com/
• S$1 Coupon, usable with every purchase of Darlie Expert White toothpaste 120g
• Darlie Expert White toothpaste x 1 @ 40g

Alongside with:

• NUXE Huile Prodigieuse® Multi Usage Dry Oil x 1 @ 4ml
• Palmer's Skin Success Eventone Fade Cream Ultra x 1 @ 5g

WHERE TO REDEEM SAMPLE: Available at all Guardian outlets throughout Singapore for a mere cost of S$1.00 only. Next issue will only be out in April 2013 :)

It was rather surprising to receive something from Cetaphil Singapore a good 2 weeks before CNY. And I was practically hoping it's not another Cetaphil voucher, since Cetaphil products are expensive. It actually makes more sense to buy in bulk when there's a discount instead of buying them during a non-discount season. I think what's even worse is the fact that the value of the voucher is rather low too. Imagine I am buying a few hundred dollars worth of Cetaphil products and I can only get a discount of S$5.00? Urgh, no thanks, I'd rather not buy any Cetaphil products in that case.

So, imagine my surprise when I opened up the envelope carefully and see something pink with auspicious Mandarin words on it.

Ang Pao packets. Woohoo! Now that's actually more like it :) This is the front of the Ang Pao packet.

And this is the back of the Ang Pao packet.

WHERE TO REDEEM SAMPLE: None. You need to have to redeem Cetaphil sample(s) prior and have your mailing address on Cetaphil's system for them to send it to you. If not, oh well... :(

So, Ying Ying saw this first (or was this the other way round?) and it was a mass sharing event. Which culminated to me asking "How to get the sample ah?" Turns out, the poster had the details, in which we were supposed to SMS our details as requested for a sample. On the other hand, being shortsighted is good, as you can pinpoint the blurness and the occasional blur-related mistake(s) to "shortsightedness" xD

Anyhoo, when I saw this envelop less than a full week after SMS-ing my deets, I was rather surprised to see this in the mailbox so soon. And yep, although it's only just 1 (*inserts sad troll face*), better than none lah~ Ahahaha xD

WHERE TO REDEEM SAMPLE: Anyway, I'm not really sure if it's too late, but it is still worth a try and send in an SMS. It doesn't hurt not do you lose your flesh nor blood just from trying. I've been trying to get a sample from Guardian's Feeling magazine a few issues back, but to no avail. Until I saw this FB flyer, and like I always like to "preach", "Never Say Die Ah".

Go over to http://on.fb.me/TpbNXB and follow the SMS instructions you see on the online flyer. If there's sample stocks left, you should receive your sample in under a week.

From left to right:

• Essential Nuance Airy Conditioner x 1 @ 560ml
• Essential Nuance Airy Treatment x 1 @ 180g
• Rexona Women Powder Dry with Talc Essence x 1 @ 150ml
• Garnier PureActive Fruit Energy Daily Energizing Gel Scrub x 1 @ 150ml

WHERE TO REDEEM SAMPLE: Nope. No samples for this one, you have to buy them from NTUC supermarket(s). Even better if you have a NTUC card as you can accumulate points for your purchase(s).

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