Belif

I received a small jar of this as a gift in a set and was excited to try it. Oddly, it made my skin feel dry a while after using. I looked up the ingredients and found it is at least 90% water, glycerin, silicone, and alcohols. Stearyl Alcohol is the tenth ingredient! Alcohol (temporarily) smooths out the skin, but can be quite stripping/permanently damaging. It is maybe 10% good skin ingredients, and leaves my skin feeling tight and dry. It consists of less than 1% of the Napiers Original Formula, which is touted as the base treatment of their products. It's near $40 price is ridiculous for cream made of this, and comes in plastic, pharmaceutical-like packaging. Their website says "belief uses true herbs as its MAIN ingredients" and touts "the power of high quality natural ingredients." This all seems deceptive to me. At the very least, it is vastly overpriced. People with extremely oily skin might like it. In my own experience, it strips my skin and has a terrible lasting effect on its texture and hydration content.

Not sure what the hype behind Aqua Bomb line is. This includes several fragrant oils and fragrance ingredients that put skin at risk for irritation. I will not purchase.

I have tried other moisturizers for my skin to help with dryness, none of which helped banish the rough, flaky desert and I felt like they just sat on top or felt heavy but wasn’t moisturizing enough. Upon applying this brand, it immediately absorbs like water hydrating my cells. The difference is immense. My skin texture looks and feels smooth again and is no longer flaky! I am so joyful. This is really an amazing, intensive moisturizer! Just what I needed especially as winter rolls around. Con: This product contains fragrance (citronellol and limonene) which is the only thing setting it back. This is probably what was irritating my sensitive skin because my skin had red reactions in certain places which is really my pet peeve. Otherwise I would have given it 5 star.