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Review: Balea Aqua Tuchmaske (hydrating sheet mask)

Hey Beauties!

I just have to make a separate blog post about this mask. Usually I never review such cheap one-use products, but this one is a complete star. I'll just admit that most of Balea stuff don't really get me excited, so I was very surprised how much I liked this.


Since I've been seeing those sheet masks all over the internet, I also wanted to give it a try. I saw that Balea had one for hydrating the skin and I gave it a go. It costs only 0.99€.

It's one sheet mask and it comes in this plastic bag. It's suppose to hydrate and pick up dull skin. It contains algal extract, almond oil and rose hip oil.



The ingredients list.


When you take the sheet out, you immediately notice that it's really wet. Some moisture even stays on the bottom of the bag. 


I find that it fits nicely on my face, but the eye opening could have been wider. It's so wet that it sticks on the face and doesn't move. It feels like a mixture of gel and water to me. It's really smooth and slippery, but not in any way like a cream. More like a hydrating gel. I leave it on for as long as I have time to and it does a good job of hydrating the skin. It's also pretty cool because of the water, so it's also a bit cooling.


When I take the mask off I'm left with a lot of product on my skin and it says to just massage the rest of it into the skin. It's all very cooling and hydrating and it feels lovely on the skin in those summer days. 

I feel like my skin did feel a lot more hydrated after I used this and the proof was another day when I woke up with nourished skin. I've mentioned in one of my previous posts that I recently had problems with very dry and irritated skin. As my last solution I used this mask (because I already used it once before and I really liked it). I swear my skin was perfect the next day. Yes, I did use some other products a few days before trying to combat the dryness, but this one did the last trick and it turned my skin back to normal.

Here you can see how the skin looked like before I put the mask on (with nothing on) and how it looked like after I took the mask off.


Think I'm done convincing you. It's 0.99€, just try it and do let me know how you like it. If you have problems with dry skin this is perfect and it's a great pamper product for when you're in that kind of mood. 

Review: Alverde Body Butter Berries Dream

Hey Beauties!

Winter is time for moisturizing the skin. I admit, I don't do it as often as I should, but in the winter I am a good girl. It's probably the only time of the year when I realize I need to buy some body creams, lotions, butters or whatever.


I was standing in the store trying to decide what to put on my body. Deciding between Alverde berries butter and cocoa butter and I went for the berries. It was closed so I couldn't smell it - don't you just hate that? The smell is supposed to smell like berries - blueberries, strawberries and raspberries, which are on the packaging. So, I went for it.


Let's start with the good things first. I love the consistency. It's completely white, has a texture of a heavier cream and once you start massaging it in, it has that buttery feel to it. The butter is white once you start massaging it in and when you really massage it in all the way, it becomes transparent or it vanishes. I like that it feels moisturizing and buttery but not greasy at all. I have been using natural butters and I know how greasy they are. This is a nice mixture of a body cream and body butter.



The bad thing? I am not crazy about the smell. It's just not right. Sort of sour and somewhat weird. I can't explain. It doesn't smells like berries to me at all. But I can handle the smell, since I find it to be great otherwise. Plus the smell is not overpowering like in some lotions, so that's also nice.

The packaging is plastic round pot with a screw on top. I admit I like tubes better. It contains 200 ml of product and costs 3.25 €.

What's your favorite product for the body?