I want / I can: Girls about budget replacements for your favorite means
No matter how much we would like to be skeptical of cosmetic marketing, in terms of care, expensive funds often benefit from the budget: you have to pay for a unique formula, convenient packaging, a guarantee of efficiency and much more. Nevertheless, today's market is rich enough - and if you work a little, you can find your favorite bank of the budget twin. Five girls shared with us sensible findings that helped them reduce their investment in self-care.
Roxana Kiseleva
beauty editor site L'Officiel
happiness will happen to me for the third time, and look for an alternative. My favorite now is REN Wake Wonderful. This night serum, which, like Good Genes, works by lactic acid. It is non-sticky, pleasant to apply and does not smell of mushrooms like most similar products. I can not say that I deceived my life and found the exact same bank, only three times cheaper, but if it is not possible to buy Sunday Riley, I will buy REN and I will not even worry.
Tanya Reshetnik
Editor-in-Chief of the “Beauty” section in the Bill of the Daily
so two months. Even despite the fact that I try to wash my hands before applying the cream, I did not want to think how many bacteria would accumulate in one jar after a week.
By trial and error, the closest analogue of Kiehl's cream was found in "Girlfriend". It costs about 400 rubles, sealed in an airtight tube, it still has no perfume, it absorbs well and does not irritate my sensitive skin. According to the consistency and sensations on the face, these two creams are twins - I don’t think that I would distinguish one from the other with blind testing. And given that the brand is Asian, low cost is easy to explain. I can not say that I am ready to purposefully spend time searching for cheap analogues of my favorite means. But also to forget that the expensive does not always mean the best, is also not worth it.
Adel Miftakhova
engineer, author of the telegram channel "Don't Touch My Face"
find something very similar, but three times cheaper. You can save on basic cosmetics: cleansing and moisturizing (for me, low-cost cosmetics are the ones that cost up to 500 rubles per can).
More and more inexpensive sunscreens are being made. But on special care - active serums - to save, in my opinion, is not worth it. Inexpensive active cosmetics is usually either too aggressive, or poorly formulated and simply does not work. That is, it often happens that she either does nothing, or does harm more than good.
Masha Vorslav
BEAUTY EDITOR THE BLUEPRINT, AUTHOR Telegram-CHANNEL BANKIHUYANKI, VIZAZHISTKA
so at first glance, the average price of 672 rubles has time to justify itself ten times. Unlike many other gels, it almost does not foam, does not clean to squeak, almost does not smell. It is suitable for any type and condition of the skin, it has a short composition without obvious allergens like essential oils (and in general beauticians use them before the procedures). I like the austere packaging, the convenient and unbreakable dispenser, and what he does is exactly what he promises: carefully, without overdrying and without tightening, cleanses the skin of grease and impurities. I wash off persistent makeup and sanskrin in front of him with oil, and in the morning I use only gel.
Olga Lukinskaya
Health editor in Wonderzine
a perfect replacement for the same Obagi product, but costs 25 pounds. The company has a very responsive support service: when for several days after the order I did not receive a message about sending it, I wrote a letter. The answer was received on the same day, and there it was said: "We apologize for the delay, but we want to wait for a new batch of bottles, which will literally come from the factory tomorrow. We want your vitamin C to be as fresh as possible!" For vitamin C, this is really very important: L-ascorbic acid is effective as long as the solution remains clear.
Obagi oxidized (turned yellow, and then turned orange) for a couple of months. I use the new tool for the third month, and it is just beginning to acquire a yellowish tint. I immediately poured half into the second bottle of dark glass, closed the lid, put it in the box and in the fridge - so vitamin C would remain fresh, which means that a 25-pound bottle would last for six months.
With other active means of budgetary replacement has not yet been found. I tried tretinoin from the pharmacy (we sell it without a prescription and cost a penny), and it turned out to be more comfortable than Obagi, but still it is a rather aggressive remedy. As a result, now I use very expensive retinol and Ultraceuticals acids; Considering that I have enough bottle for at least four months, the price suits me. But these funds are also inconvenient to buy, they are not in Europe - they have to be brought from Russia. So I hope to find them a good replacement.
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