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  • New Nivea Skincare From £1.49 in Home Bargains!

    When you walk into a discount store, you’re never too sure what you will see. Yes, like any store, there will be items on the shelves you see week in week out. But there’s also plenty of products new in, that might be on a shelf for a day, a week or a few weeks, and then never to be seen again. New skincare products I spotted recently in Home Bargains was from the brand Nivea. 3 different moisturisers and a serum, starting from £1.49. So, what did I find?

    Nivea moisturisers (and a serum!) in Home Bargains!
    Nivea’s Tinted Day Cream

    Slighted tinted in a light skin tone colouring, this moisturiser helps to even out skin tone, moisturises for up to 24hrs (is that really possibly?) and contains spf15. £1.49 for 50ml.

    Nivea’s Tinted Day Cream
    Nivea’s Soothing Day Cream

    Aimed at sensitive skin, this moisturiser is fragrance free (fragrance can be irritating for some people). Helps to reduce redness, tightness and dryness, so this formulation should be soothing and comforting on the skin. Also contains spf15. £1.49 for 50ml.

    Nivea’s Soothing Day Cream
    Nivea’s Mattifying Day Cream

    This moisturiser is to help those with an oily skin type. It’s designed to be light weight so not heavy or greasy on the skin, but still moisturises. Helps skin to appear and feel less oily and make the skin more balanced. £1.49 for 50ml.

    Nivea’s Mattifying Day Cream
    Nivea’s Post-Acne Marks Serum

    This serum is aimed at specific skin concerns, which is dealing with acne skin and marks left by acne. This product aims to improve the look and feel of acne prone skin by smoothing it out and reducing the look of marks left after acne. Suitable for acne prone skin. This is a serum, so a moisturiser still needs to be applied after this product. £4.49 for 50ml.

    Nivea’s Post-Acne Marks Serum

    If Nivea is a brand you use in your skincare routine, have a look in Home Bargains. Affordable branded skincare at its best!

  • Nivea’s Beeswax Hand Cream

    Everyone’s hands have been through a lot over the last 5 months. To fight this awful virus that’s been thrown upon us, washing hands thoroughly has been highlighted as being important, and if not possible to sanitize them. And goodness wash and sanitize I have! So much so at one stage I thought my hands would break off. And that’s when a decent hand cream is needed. Nivea’s Beeswax hand cream was given to me as a gift, which I’ve been using for the past few weeks

    Nivea Beeswax Hand cream
    What is this hand cream supposed to do?

    Like all hand cream’s this is designed to stop your hands from drying out. By not only protecting them but adding moisture. This formulation is supposed to provide this result all day, in fact 24hrs, as the packaging states.

    Packaging

    75ml of hand cream is stored within a white plastic tube. Screw top lid, with the well known navy coloured Nivea logo visible on it, an illustration of beeswax indicating the scent/version it is and relevant information on back e.g ingredients. Simple, clear and very much is part of the packaging appearance and style of the brand overall.

    Fragrance

    I would describe this as being quite sweet in fragrance, with a honey aspect to it but not identical. It has a delicate powdery background to it, making it more clean than syrupy scented. Very pleasant.

    Consistency & Appearance

    White in colour, with a texture which is very similar to a body lotion and is smooth in consistency.

    Nivea Beeswax Hand cream consistency
    In use

    My hands have improved greatly over the last few months, so the dryness has settled down. I apply this when my hands feel tight, and more so at home as its more convenient to grab it than to use at work, which isn’t practical most of the time. I use about half of the size of a 5p per application.

    After Application

    There definitely was a look and feel of my hands being moisturised once it had been applied. My hands didn’t look greasy. In fact they almost looked matt. But the colour of my hands looked less dull and ashy. Not only did they not look greasy but they didn’t feel it either. There was definitely some form of protective barrier on them as I could feel it, but it didn’t stop me using my hands freely e.g driving.

    After initially applying the hand cream and getting on with my day, my hands were no worse over time but did feel as if they needed more of it to be applied to give my hands the luster they received when I first used it. One thing that I think stayed the same was the light scent left on my hands.

    Recommended?

    If the condition of your hands is normal, or you just want a hand cream to use if and when needed and you have no real issues, this would do the job. This is a decent and standard size for a hand cream so will last a while. Can be bought cheaply and the scent is nice. For me I would prefer a richer texture which really cocooned my hands for longer. So not my favourite hand cream but is a decent one.

    Can be purchased from a variety of places online and instore, such as Wilko, Home Bargains and Amazon. Prices range from £1.00 to £2.50.