To be honest, I like to shop for skincare and body products online. But I’m not great at remembering to reorder things that I’m close to running out of, so experience has taught me to buy more than one at a time. This has worked brilliantly for the most part because I often find great deals when buying in bulk, but I also find myself trying new products pretty often, which means that I sometimes end up with a small assortment of products that need to be used before they go bad. Plus, I don’t always enjoy the new products that I try but hate to throw anything out. So, last month, a friend and I decided to swap a few of these excess products with each other. And, truth be told, I’m thrilled with the outcome!
I won’t bore you with the products I gave to my friend because: 1) They didn’t work for me and; 2) The products I received from my friend are way more exciting. For now, I thought that I’d share a product or two at a time as I see their full results.
The first item I tried was a cuticle cream from Glytone. It’s a little pricey for a cuticle cream, I know, but my friend insisted that I take it because she doesn’t have any use for it. I, however, suffer from painfully dry cuticles, especially in the winter and while I’ve found a few oils that help—the treatment is usually only effective for a few hours at a time. Actually, once I wash my hands my cuticles are back to normal. However, the Glytone nail and cuticle cream contains glycolic acid, which is supposed to help create a barrier around the nail that slows moisture loss.
I used it once and it worked pretty well over the next few days. The results lasted much longer than the oils I’d tried but I was looking for something a little more powerful and told my friend so. She wasn’t impressed that I hadn’t gone online to read the instructions for use, so she emailed them to me and I am so glad that she did. I realized that I needed to apply it once a day over a period of time to see the best results. After a week, I completely forgot about my cuticles because they were no longer an unsightly mess of dried out annoyance. And just in time for the cold weather to approach! A+
I’ll write more about the rest of the products in our swap over the next few weeks—but, if you’ve ever organized a product swap or have tried Glytone’s Nail & Cuticle Cream, let me know your thoughts in the comments!
