Creme de la Merde!

Advantages: This 'designer' cream will turn your bathroom shelf into a shrine.
Disadvantages: Your bank manager will none too pleased.

...I have read nothing but rave reviews about Creme de la Mer, an A-list moisturiser with an A-list price tag attached. Magazines are forever gushing about this product, associating words such as 'miracle' and 'extraordinary' to it so naturally curiosity got the better of me. Now although I can be somewhat of a beauty product victim and quite impulsive, even I know that forking out around eighty-eight quid for an itsy tub (30ml!) of this wonder is just plain ridiculous. So I sought to foreign lands, the U S of A to be precise, with hope that I could purchase the product for a fraction of the price - this was roughly about a year ago folks, before recession, when the value of the pound was almost two dollars, and so I managed to get hold of it at just over a hundred dollars with postage and packaging which luckily worked out no more than...

Koena 21.04.2009 (20.04.2009) · Read review
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Not the Creme De La Creme

Advantages: It comes in a nice green box
Disadvantages: Didn't live up to the hype

...this would be the elusive cream that would melt away all my bad skin days and leave me waking up each morning with skin so beautiful and flawless I would look like Da Vinci had airbrushed me himself! I am so deluded, easily led and gullible, I know, but I fell for it hook, line and skincare... The packaging is definately not consistent with the price tag. Ok, the green bag and box it comes in are alright, and the actual pot is unusually heavy but the logo on the pot is so cheap looking, I told my husband it cost £4.99 from the chemist and he believed me! I should have spent £4.99 but on a pot of Nivea because Creme De La Mer is Nivea's more expensive snobby twin. The actual product itself sat on top of my skin for what felt like an eternity, I was too afraid to put it on just before getting into bed and wasting a fivers worth on my...

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Creme de la mer face cream

Advantages: You see results quickly
Disadvantages: Expensive

...I had heard about crème de la mer in the press & looked at the price & thought how ridiculously overpriced. Even though I was intrigued I thought there's no way I can justify spending that much. However things were about to change - fast forward to 3 years later & I have had the worst skin problems with spots & scarring - they seemed never ending & I was beginning to get fed up of always having horrible skin. Then one day complaining to a friend she recommended using crème de la mer. She has been using it for about 5 years & has the most amazing skin - so off I went to Selfridges & got the 30ml pot - I thought I don't want to splash out too much so I thought I'll use this size to try it out. I've been using the creme morning & night on recommendation of my friend to get maximum benefits - this has worked very well for me. It also...

shadia 25.02.2007 · Read review
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Crème de la Mer Face Cream

Advantages: Didnt cause me to break out in spots
Disadvantages: Cost

...the ingredients into a nutrient rich broth of creme de la mer.' Yeah another product that saw me coming! Rocket science? I dont think so!...

Carousel 12.06.2004 · Read review
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Creme de la Mer: thumbs down

Advantages: leaves skin moisturized for long
Disadvantages: overpriced, overrated,no SPF

...between fingertips before tapping it on the face,but my fingers absorbed most of the cream!Does it mean I will have wrinkle-free finger tips?? The Creme de la Mer, ladies and gentlemen, DOES NOT contain a SPF, which means that, although I spent a fortune for this cream, I have to spend even more for another cream with SPF (and would I apply it before or after the Creme de la Mer?).This is not acceptable, everyone knows about the risks of skin cancer and if I pay a fortune for a face cream then it has to be perfect. That was the bad news.The good news, however, is that excellent creams DO exist. Instead of wasting money on a product that is mainly famous because VIP use it ( sure...Victoria Beckham looks like that because she uses Creme de la Mer, not because she has Botox injections, and Restylane fillings...) you'd better off investing...

PALEIKA 16.08.2005 · Read review
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Tesco creme de la creme

Advantages: well priced, well packaged & well yummy
Disadvantages: bad for you :-(

...I don't normally buy deserts but when I noticed these I just couldn't resist. I was browsing the yoghurt and trifle fridges in Tesco when I cam across these Tesco Crème Brulee's priced at £1.83 for two I thought I would give them a try and see if they were as yummy as they looked. They come in 2 separate 100g pots so perfect for you and a partner to round off a meal. For anyone who isn't familiar with Crème Brulee it is the very simple meaning of custard sprinkled with sugar, such a simple idea but very delicious. PACKAGING Each Crème Brulee comes in a miniature glass dish with a soil foil wrapper on top, which you remove before cooking. These are then packaged in a neutral coloured cardboard sleeve with a very tempting slogan "Rich and Creamy, Velvety French Crème Brulee" how can you resist. The glass dishes are hard wearing...

gemax2 17.03.2008 · Read review
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Casting Creme Gloss

Advantages: Lovely hair colour, shimmery, smooth. Conditioning.
Disadvantages: Application is a little annoying, price.

...-permanent line of L'Oreal casting crème as I only ever dye my hair semi-permanently as I am too scared of something going wrong and me hating my hair forever. As my hair is so long (it would take probably 5 years to grow the colour out! Eeek!) since Ciao doesn't have a separate product for semi and permanent this is why my review is in this category. Please don't mistake it for permanent, in fact, I'm not even sure you can get excellence crème in permanent; you'll have to do some snooping! I bought this product at boots and it's normally £6.98, which I think is a little pricey for a semi-permanent hair colour but it was a pound of so I got it for £5.98. To be honest, I think it's still worth the money and I will go into why in a while. -What does it promise to deliver? / Does it meet these promises? - L'Oreal casting crème promises to its...

francesca.sd 07.02.2009 · Read review
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Story of Creme de la Creme!!

Advantages: Inexpensive and effective
Disadvantages: no sunscreen

...Today i am going to tell you my story of Nivea Creme. This is one of the first moisturisers i purchased as i was growing up!! Seems so long ago i tell you!! Nivea creme is still a favourite with me and i always have a tub. This is the first thing that Nivea "invented" for want of a better word!! They have now branched out into a whole range of exciting things from tinted moisturisers to mens products but i will stop right now about their other stuff - you dont want me to get side tracked cos i could be here for a while if that happens!!! ******So why have i chosen this old chestnut as my next op i hear you cry?? There are a number of reasons really but the two main factors are my dry sensitive skin and the good old trustworthy Scottish weather!! In the last couple of weeks the temperatures have plummeted here in Scotland...

Linzee 06.10.2003 · Read review
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Casting Creme Gloss

Advantages: Easy to use, covers grey and dodgy highlights, lasting effect
Disadvantages: Sensitive scalps take care

...At nearly six pounds, this isn't the cheapest hair dye out there but it's incredibly easy to use and virtually mess-free. Also, it works. After a disasterous highlighting adventure, i used Casting Creme Gloss in Mahogany to cover up the damage. I have used this product (same colour) in the past, and it covers greys perfectly. I was impressed with the way it also covered up my unwanted highlights. They still show through a little bit, but more as tasteful lowlights as opposed to the brassy orange streaks i had before. Casting Creme Gloss is easy to use. You basically mix two bottles together and shake. The manufacturers have even made a handy slit in the box so that you can wedge your bottle of mixture in it and it will stand upright. Now, that's really thoughtful! The mahogany shade came out on my medium-dark brown...

squashy66 04.09.2007 · Read review
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creme de la creme

Advantages: Chocolate
Disadvantages: none

...Cadbury's Creme Egg is an interesting little number because when you try it you will be surprised by how sweet it is, and you will be shocked at the white gooey mixture which resides inside this little egg! It is very similar to an egg (in appearance) and it is also a very messy egg to eat. Once you have broken through the thin exterior chocolate, you will see the most hideous mixture! This has got a little bit of yellow (the egg yolk) on top of the white stuff and this is just as sweet as the rest as the mixture. Do not worry my friends - this is not a real egg! It is just colouring (which is obviously not very healthy for you) and nor is all the sugar! So what exactly is this stuff? Well as you can figure out by what the choc is called, and its constituent parts, it is a chocolate egg which is a good replica of an egg. These taste...

siso 11.10.2003 · Read review
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