An entire bucket of this only costs £18
Probably the best purchase I have made in the last month – not including all the other shit that I also love – has been a large bottle of Glow Tonic.
I am so, so so, weary when it comes to “miracle” skin products. I feel like some sort of old hack leaning against a bar in Havana smoking a fag, three rums down, saying to someone fresh of the seaplane “Just file your copy and hit the bar… don’t try to be a hero.” Or something.
Because they basically almost never work. Except Creme de la Mer, that works – but one has to sell one’s house and car and children to afford 50ml, which is inconvenient. But nothing else really works. Not really.
Except this. It’s mild glycolic acid (5%) which you apply it to your face with cotton wool as often as you want and just sort of tidies it up. Your face will look like your kitchen in the five minutes after the cleaner’s been.
It will not make you look like Alicia Vikander any more than your cleaner will give you a Poggenpohl kitchen, but it will – if you have remotely congested or “dull” skin, really improve matters.
Yep, this is the business. Use twice a day and you get that Jennifer Lawrence-esque dewy glowy thing happening on your cheekbones. I flipping love it and it lasts for ages.
Ooo thanks Esther, sounds intriguing and not bank-breaking – Wonder what’s in it? Btw I highly recommend Jenny Harding and her products – she’s kind of like a best kept secret (though clearly now I’m sharing…) anyone else here a Jenny convert?!
I didn’t know whether it was better to get this version or the pads that have 20% – I usually go for the more is more approach but it sounds like 5% does the job just as well….
I very much like to slosh things about willy nilly so I so a less strong-all-the-time thing. If I have a patch of zits I put it on about 4 times a day
http://www.asos.com/the-ordinary/the-ordinary-hyaluronic-acid-2-b5-30ml/prd/7554565
this stuff is also excellent and super cheap, not sure what it does exactly but makes my face look a bit better.
Here’s a daft question though, how much do you use?? Because the bottle I have just squirts it out randomly and as such I go through a bottle at a rate of knots…?!
really? I put about 3 short squirts on a cotton wool pad.
I love this but you have to be really boring and apply spf50 every day or you will be like a raisin in old age (/general skin damage)
I do love this stuff. At the risk of sounding like a Lidl ad, I do also love this stuff http://theordinary.com/product/rdn-glycolic-acid-7pct-toning-solution-240ml, which is £12 cheaper. So then I can buy sunscreen as well, or this stuff http://theordinary.com/product/rdn-magnesium-ascorbyl-phosphate-10pct-30ml, which combined with the Glycolic and daily applications of heavy duty Korean sunscreen has finally given me, if not dewy Jennifer Lawrence 20 something skin, at least glowy as it can be at 43 skin.
Does what it claims to do, which is refreshing. And I find giving a spot an extra good rub makes it disappear much faster.