Rodial Super Acids Collection | My Thoughts
I LOVE ACID. Of the skincare variety obviously.
Glycolic and Salicylic acid in particular, were they be human beans, they would be my best friends. Anti-aging, super smoothing, free radical blasting, spot busting, these two are just too god darn awesome.
The Rodial Super Acids collection, got me all kinds of excited. First of all, green, yes LIME GREEN, is my favourite colour. The packaging therefore had me at hello. The name itself, Super Acids, well this just makes me smile. In my head I have all kinds of Marvel inspired, skincare super hero action going down.
Each of the products in this range have been formulated with a powerful selection of resurfacing acids, enzymes and probiotic technology, to aid the exfoliation of dead skin cells whilst stimulating cell renewal.
I have been testing out two of the products from this collection, the Super Acids X-Treme After Party Scrub* & the Super Acid X-Treme Hangover Mask*.
Recently, well, for the past 6 months, perhaps maybe longer I have been very much anti-scrub. I haven’t used a scrub in that amount of time on my skin, only using hot flannels to cleanse, the odd mask and of course glycolic peels in my skincare routine. I have always been a bit nervous to use a scrub, be it too harsh on my skin, or cause me to breakout, or cause existing break outs to spread and get worse.
I think because this had two forms of acid in, the salicylic acid particularly, this encouraged me to test out this Super Acids X-Treme After Party Scrub*. Salicylic, I describe as PacMan, it goes around munching up all the nasty bacteria that causes spots. With this as one of the key ingredients I felt more at ease.
Purifying clay beads and micro-scrub beads roll over the skin, gently, refining and buffing away the dead skin cells revealing smoother, more radiant skin. I used this of an evening going to bed, and did not see immediate results. In the morning however, WOW.. JUST WOW. My skin felt, so, so, SO soft and had a beautiful glow. I hadn’t broken out and in fact spots have definitely been at bay since adding this into my routine. I loved using this, and it will be my once a week treat. A really great product and worth every penny of the retail price £45.
I expected tingling sensations, urges to itch and scratch. Nope, none of that and I think part of me, being quite the acid addict, was slightly disappointed. I wanted to FEEL something going on. I counted the minutes during wearing this mask, and towards the end of the 10 minutes, I felt a little bit of somethin’ somethin’ occuring, phew. Surprisingly though, I felt quite mellow wearing this mask, it was soothing on my skin, not at all uncomfortable, this is most likely down to the probiotic technology boosting the hydration levels. It felt rather nice it did.
So, if I could not feel any major work going on, how could I be sure the scaffolding was being rebuilt inside my skin? This triple action resurfacing business must have been working somehow. Did I see a good result? Yes. Yes I did. If you use this X-Treme Hangover Mask of an evening like me, you will see the results on waking. My forehead looked airbrushed, not that I have deep set wrinkles, but you could really see a difference. My skin just looked a hella lot better. This literally is the perfect mask for sorting your face out after a heavy night.
£45 is quite a price tag for a mask, but like the scrub, these products really are effective and with only needing to use them once a week they will last a good while, making them worth the money.
If I had to use one word to describe how I feel about these products, I would have to say quite super… you knew that was coming didn’t ya. Mrs Rodial, you’ve created something a little bit special here. Super Acids Collection, available now online & in SpaceNK.
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