Beauty Product Review/Chic 'n Cheap Living Contest: Cure Gel (Gentle Exfoliator)

How do you renew your skin?

I love Cate Blanchett and her skin is remarkable - {Source}

My skin regime has varied over the years and included everything from Neutrogena facial soup to the Clinique 3-step system (both great gentle cleansers).  But I always had a cleanser, some type of exfoliant, and a moisturizer (now I'm moving onto serums).  My husband loves his St. Ives peach apricot scrub because he says the rough scrubbing beads make him feel really clean (really I think he just likes the smell!)  But if you exfoliate too much you can actually damage your skin because the beads are too abrasive (hence why sugar scrubs aren't really recommended for the face).

So I was intrigued and happy to try Cure Natural Aqua Gel via Ppali Beauty (the first official distributor in the US); the company found me and offered a bottle of the gel after I first mentioned Cure in my winter beauty essentials post. Cure is s top-selling Japanese beauty product that my cousin first discovered in Singapore (ahh the things one discovers when she is waiting around in a drugstore!)  It is an exfoliating gel with no scrubbing beads and removes .01 mm of dead skin only leaving healthy skin intact.

I used Cure roughly twice a week for a few weeks.  I would apply a little on my freshly washed face at night.  It is a little bizarre to see my top layers of old skin clump up and come off after using the gel.  You need to quickly rinse your face after using the gel to remove all these bits which are still on the surface of the skin.  But I used this after applying makeup a few times and felt that it also worked to get my makeup off more cleanly; generally I did feel like it exfoliated my skin.  Cure also states that one of its main benefits is to allow a user's existing beauty products (moisturizer or serum) to work better.  I can't vouch for this aspect because I only used Cure for a few weeks.  But I did find the exfoliating to be very gentle and easy.  It would make sense that my products will absorb into my skin more easily after using Cure.

Likes
- It does what it says - gentle exfoliating
- Gel felt clean and left no chemical residue

Dislikes
- Dead skin clumping is not cool - rinse quickly!

Cost
- $36

Now for the giveaway - get your own bottle of Cure and 10 sample packets for travel or to share with friends.  This giveaway is open worldwide  and will be open for 11 days (woohoo!)

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