Big heading If you can get past the smell...
Small heading The details
I needed to replace my high street brand of serum [No 7] and have used ROC products in the past - to good effect. I saw the Retin OX serum advertised and tried it.
The serum was light and had a good texture ... Read review
Advantages: Light, easily absorbed serum Disadvantages: You smell like a stale and, ever so slightly rancid, coffee machine after use.
== Big heading == If you can get past the smell...
== Small heading == The details
I needed to replace my high street brand of serum [No 7] and have used ROC products in the past - to good effect. I saw the Retin OX serum advertised and tried it.
The serum was light and had a good texture but, on first opening, it also had a very strange smell. I thought that might go away with wear - and so tried it. ... ...stale coffee. I tried it three times - and on the last two times - washed it off. Thus rather missing the point of using a serum...
So awful was the scent, that I sent back the product to the manufacturers in case something had happened in the manufacture. I wait to hear.
No matter how effective a product is, if you can't abide the smell - then it is useless. Sad because other [main] ROC products are generally good. ... more
Big heading
If you can get past the smell...
Small heading
The details
I needed to replace my high street brand of serum [No 7] and have used ROC products in the past - to good effect. I saw the Retin OX serum advertised and tried it.
The serum was light and had a good texture but, on first opening, it also had a very strange smell. I thought that might go away with wear - and so tried it. I'm afraid the smell stayed. The scent was of oddly stale coffee. I tried it three times - and on the last two times - washed it off. Thus rather missing the point of using a serum...
So awful was the scent, that I sent back the product to the manufacturers in case something had happened in the manufacture. I wait to hear.
No matter how effective a product is, if you can't abide the smell - then it is useless. Sad because other [main] ROC products are generally good. This was my first trial of the Retin OX range - and the experience was poor.
Formulations for all skin types (cream, gel and lotion), smoother skin that feels toned after a couple of applications, matching serum top-up for extra dry skin, one jar lasts for ages and smells fresh, clean and gorgeous.
Prohibitively expensive for a straight-up, non anti-ageing facial moisturiser. Lightly perfumed and non-hypoallergenic - unsuitable for sensitive skin. (*)
