As many of our trusty newsletter subscriber’s know, along with our newly designed website we are introducing skin care in the near future. To prepare for our skin care expansion, we have been testing all sorts of products (mostly, if not all, natural products).
O.P.P. (other’s people’s products – HA!): We hate bashing O.P.P. Yet, as we were asked by so many of you to start carrying Philosophy products, we started sniffing and testing the line. Our latest skin care “victim” is Hope in a Jar.
While I love the line, I, along with MOST of us here, do not understand the hype. Yes, it has a nice fluffy marshmallow like consistency that feels light and absorbs quickly into your skin. However, so do a lot of the other brands we’ve tried including, Hauschka, Pangea, Weleda (oops we are divulging too much on the top-secret items we will be introducing soon).Â
Back to the O.P.P. issue at hand: Hope in a Jar! In short, the product was good, not great. And for those of you out there in cyber-space who love skin care products that smell good, stay away from Hope in a Jar. Yes, I repeat, Hope in a Jar smells like straight Funk in a Jar. At first some of us thought it was just the batch we had, but after a few full size jars and various sample sized tubes we concluded that it smells funky fresh (gross!).Â
Had the chemical smell not been so pungent and awful, I would have felt more comfortable applying the cream on my face. And like they say, work is work and you have to pay the bills! Thus, I begrudgingly tested out this product and was satisfied that its smell had nothing to do with the positive moisturizing effects it did on my skin.Â
Pros:Â
-SPF: who doesn’t love SPF in their moisturizer. anything with SPF prevents sun damage that leads to wrinkles, sun spots and you can never have too much!
-fluffy light consistency goes well with make-up, other creams & serums as it absorbs quickly
-weight is great for summer as it has no oily feel/residue and do s not feel heavy on skin
Cons:Â
-chemical smell that lingers on your skin for a good 30 minutes, unless you apply another light light serum on top of it to mask the awful smell. two of the others who tested the product admits she spritzed perfume on her skin and he splashed an extra dose of after spray to subside the smell.
-volume: i forgot to mention earlier, that this stuff is so light and fluffy that this is not the type of cream/moisturizer where a little goes a long way. if i had to use this daily, i don’t think it would last me as long as the others we’ve tested because of the sheer volume you get in a jar.Â
