The reason I bought it: I opted for this product because I wanted to find an alternative to my cleansing oil, which I use to take off my makeup.
How did I know about this balm: Well, this brand is really popular now, plus many Insta bloggers advertise it here and there. And secondly, recently I saw this balm at my favorite online makeup store, where I usually shop.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
Where to buy: You can find it at Sephora.
Price: Usually $60 for a 100 ml jar.
Country of origin: Great Britain
About the product: I have a travel-size of the jar, which is 15ml. After purchasing, I didn’t start to use the product right off the bat, because I wanted to keep it for travelling, because the size is small and we all know that cleansing balms usually go a very long way. The jar is plastic with a screw-on top cap and a plastic membrane inside.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
The balm comes with a small cleansing cloth, which is actually no different from a dollar bath towel.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
The towel is about my palm size-wise.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
It’s turned out to be pretty useless for me, because I feel too lazy to wash it each time after use.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
The balm itself is something between a sugared honey and a thick butter. When I look at it, I understand that it looks exactly as ghee butter. The scent is pleasant for me, though some gals may not like it. The formula smells of essential oils, but I can’t make out which oils exactly. The only thing that I can say for sure is that it doesn’t smell of bergamot or orange oils, which are listed in the ingredients.
The consistency seems to be thick, but once I touch it with my hand, it quickly starts melting, because of my body’s temperature.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
The texture of the brand new product:
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
The texture of the almost used up product:
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
Ingredients:
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
Use:
I apply this balm over my dry skin and massage it in. I massage my face for a couple of minutes and then rinse the balm off with warm water. After that I use a cotton pad with a micellar water to remove the residue. Then I use my face cleanser and apply a toner after that.
Spending: This jar was enough for me to use 12 times. I usually wear a lot of makeup (face primer, foundation, powder, blush, mascara, highlighter. I often contour my face features as well and use a long-wearing eyeliner and a lipstick rather frequently.)
Results: It seemed weird to me how the product worked. It wasn’t pleasant to use it at all.
First of all, the texture doesn’t seem to be the most gliding in the world.
My cleansing oil feels way better, by the way. Even though this balm is melting, it still leaves some white rolls over my skin, which are like scrub bits. It was also pretty difficult to melt them down. Only a good massage could do that, you know.
Secondly, I always used to experience a rather strange feeling using this balm, as though I was smearing a sugared honey over my skin. Not so pleasant either. And again, my cleansing oil wins here.
Thirdly, the cleansing properties of the product. Well, the balm is absolutely mediocre. It barely removes my makeup and also leaves an oily film behind. To top it off, I can see my makeup left on a cotton pad soaked with micellar water, after my face wash.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
The balm doesn’t do anything about my mascara. I look like a panda then.
It doesn’t dissolve my foundation to the fullest (I say it because I could see a lot of yellow residue left on a cotton round with micellar water). As for a long-wearing lipstick, well, it partly removes it, but the pigment settles in my lip crevices and can be removed only with a micellar water afterwards.
It’s a disaster when it comes to cleansing my pores. Within a week, I noticed a lot of new acne appearing.
As for my sensations during use. The balm doesn’t irritate my skin and I’d even say that it makes it softer. Yet, each time I had to wipe that softness off with a micellar water or with my cleanser.
Overall: I don’t know what’s behind the hype of the Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm and why all the beauty bloggers rave about it so much. It’s just trash that costs a fortune. In fact it dissolves only about 70% of my makeup. It’s useless about my mascara, it leaves black splotches around my eyes, which I have to wipe off with cotton rounds and q-tips. Does it mean that I irritate and damage my skin even more? Surely it does!
The simplest and cheapest cleansing oil will do the job way better than this product! And of course a cleansing oil will never cost so much.
If I were to compare the Emma Hardie cleansing balm with a cleansing oil from The Face Shop, then I’d have to say that the first product is a loser in all the respects: price, cleansing properties and spending.
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift and Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm
My verdict: the product isn’t worth the money it costs. I can’t and won’t recommend it for purchasing.
