it is with great pleasure that I am able to inform you that I have, at last, found the Holy Grail in skin care.
Its name is SteamCream, and, for the Lush lovers among you, it is actually concocted by Lush CEO Andrew Gerrie.
Using only environmentally friendly and mostly vegan ingredients, it's a lot like Lush products, only cheaper, as far as I can tell.
The SteamCream.eu website sells it for 9.95 pounds a tin, but for the Belgian and Dutch people among us: Alice&Jo's havesentials webshop has all designs at 10 euros a tin for the next for weeks (so race over there!).
"Designs?" you say.
Designs, dear readers.
SteamCream comes in different adorable tins, designed by Japanese artist Takayuki Totsuka, who is based in Tokyo.
My copy is called "Kyoto Girl" and is just as adorable as it sounds:
On the website, you can admire all 12 current designs. A new design will be issued every month - I know I'm going to look out for that!
The cream itself is white, very light, and melts into your skin almost immediately.
I tried it on my face (for which I intend it, mostly) and, to see if it actually works like I read it did, on my notoriously rough elbows.
Like it?
LOVE IT.
I can't recall when my face has ever felt so soft. My elbows are definitely less rough now, so perhaps I'll order another tin just for my body. I'm kind of reluctant to use one tin for two wholly different areas.
The smell is subtle, quite nice, and, most importantly for facial cream, not imposing at all.
I don't want my perfume to counteract with a myriad of nauseating smells from my skin care products, so it's perfect from my point of view.
Have any experience with SteamCream? Like it, love it, hate it?
Let me know =]
