A few months back, a few of the Melbourne beauty bloggers and I did a little beauty swap. It’s basically an exchange of beauty stuff you have and don’t want, which becomes stuff other people wants, and their unwanted items become mine. I love beauty swapsies; great way to declutter and reclutter 😛

Someone put the NP Set Purifying Facial Cleanser into the pile of beauty products to swap. Can’t really remember who though. Nevertheless, no one picked it up, so I did. A week later, I realised why she didn’t want it.

Description:
NP Set Purifying Facial Cleanser contains a blend of fruit, floral, and plant extracts to wash away make-up and impurities without drying out the skin. Mandarin, orange, carrot, tomato, and spinach extracts work to detoxify skin and fight free radicals.

This has got to be the oddest cleanser I’ve ever used. I expected it to be a gel cleanser, since it’s called a “Purifying cleanser”, and I almost always expect purifying cleansers to be in gel-form and are meant for oily skin. This one’s  clear liquid. In fact, it’s just like water, except that it’s really sweet-smelling, cloyingly fruity-sweet. The only times I’ve dealt with clear liquid like that are with oil cleansers. However, this purifying cleanser isn’t meant to be used as part of a double-cleansing routine. It’s just a regular cleanser.

In short, I didn’t like it. I really didn’t like it. It did not cleanse the skin well at all. It was supposed to lather up with water, but all it did was bubble a little, and then it was  just like washing your face with sweet water. In fact, after using this for three days, it broke me out. Cleansers very rarely break me out, but this one did.

For now, I’m using this to clean my makeup brushes. Waste not, want not, right?

NP Set Purifying Facial Cleanser retails at AU$32 for 200ml and is available at Target and Napoleon Perdis counters and stores. At $32, I think it’s overpriced for a cleanser.

What I like about it: Nothing

What I do not like about it: Strong sweet fragrance, expensive, doesn’t cleanse the skin well, not impressed by the “water”, broke me out.

Have you used this before? How did you find it?