Jul
29
Invariably, the drugstores in the United States tend to put out competing versions of the more popular brand beauty products. I’m a big fan of alpha hydroxy cleansers and toners since they tend to be great at brightening and clearing my skin tone. CVS offers a knockoff cleanser called “pore cleanser” and invites you to “Compare to Neutrogena Pore Refining Cleanser.” With a $3 price differential (CVS’ version is $5.99 and Neutrogena’s is $8.99 where I shop), I was sold into taking them up on their offer. Both packages offer identical descriptions with the exception of variations in capitalization (is that a legal thing?).
Unfortunately, the similarities that attracted me to Neutrogena’s product stopped there. Immediately I could tell the difference in quality. CVS’ product came out “gloopy”, the product didn’t seemed to be holding together very well. While both brands advertise that the cleanser has “microbeads”, the scrub part of CVS’ product was much coarser and harsher on my skin that Neutrogena’s product. On top of that, scrubbing with CVS’ pore cleanser irritated my skin. When I followed up afterwards with toner, I noticed that the microbeads didn’t wash off and were still on my skin. The CVS cleanser also didn’t seem to cleanse very well and residue from the day (including foundation) was still rubbing off with the toner (something that never happened when I washed my face with the Neutrogena product). After a few days of washing with CVS’ pore cleanser the last straw happened; my pore started clogging and the breakouts started. The CVS tube went straight into the trash and I ran over to CVS to purchase a new tube of Neutrogena’s Pore Refining Cleanser.
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