Just a short review today as this week I’m busy, busy, busy! If you’re a fan of either Kiehl’s centella salve or cleanser you’re going to love this! Minerelle make a centella gel for relieving skin redness and irritation which I’ve been using instead of the Kiehl’s salve and I’ve found it to be just as soothing and healing. It’s recommended for rosacea, but I think it would be great for all sorts of skin redness, eg. temporary redness from microabrasion (which you wouldn’t do with rosacea) to the more persistent type of redness characteristic of rosacea. It has an immediate cooling effect on the skin. Being a gel it absorbs instantly, but doesn’t provide enough moisturization if you have …

This is one of my favorite gentle cleansers. This could be used as a wipe-off cleanser for really sensitive skin however I use it with water. It does not foam up or lather and has the consistency of a thick gel. It is very soothing, it contains aloe vera and I imagine other ingredients that cool and calm inflamed skin. I have never had any discomfort using this, no irritation or anything. In terms of cleansing this doesn’t leave my skin feeling ‘squeaky clean’ but that feeling is usually a byproduct of stripping away the oils on the face so this is not a bad thing. It does leave the skin feeling soft and fairly clean however. If you …

My next two reviews are about skin calming serums/salves/balms what ever you would call them, one from Kiehl’s which I’ll review now and the other by L’Occitane which I’ll post about tomorrow. The two centella products from Kiehl’s: the balm and the cleanser are designed to calm irritated skin and they do do this. They are gloriously gentle and contain aloe vera and other ingredients to calm the skin. If I ever put something on my skin that gives me a bad reaction I wash it off and plop some of this on my skin and within 10 minutes I can feel the difference. It really is a lovely salve for those with delicate skins, I also think it is …