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Cyleina Rice Bran Soap January 20, 2009

Filed under: Skin Care, Soap — mygaia13 @ 11:46 am

I read that this soap is good for drying up pimples and for preventing them as well. I bought one at a Hortaleza store in Bicutan, it’s the closest branch to where I live that sells this soap. The scent of the soap is quite yummy well at least for me. The soap is a bit soft so it was easy to cut into cubes, I cut this into 6 pieces because it tends to melt or dillute fast when it gets contact with water. These helped me with my acne-problem, it seemed to have lessen it but it also dried up my skin. I think I finished 4 bars of this soap before I decided to switch to a non-drying facial wash. This soap would have been great if it did not dry my skin so bad. I found out that the drier my skin the more it becomes oily, I hope that made sense. So yes this works, if you don’t mind the dry skin I say try it out.


 

Cyleina Black Pearl Soap January 18, 2009

Filed under: Skin Care, Soap — mygaia13 @ 4:01 pm

I bought this because I read a lot of raves about this soap for skin lightening. I had some discoloration before, my forehead was just slightly darker than the rest of my face and also where the temples meet my cheek bones.

My first impression of the soap is it’s quite soft like the Rice Bran variant. No strong smell which is good. I cut this in 4 triangular pieces and was planning to use it one at a time. First time I used this it was okay, my skin felt soft and it didn’t dry my skin. After a couple of more uses I got this very small cyst like acne on my forehead and some on my chin. I was thinking maybe my skin was just adjusting to the soap, so I used it some more. After a few more days well it doesn’t seem to help at all and small cystic acne kept coming so I had to stop using it. I might have been allergic to it because when I was using the Rice Bran I did not have that kind of reaction. So I just used it as a hand soap. By the way my mom also tried this and she had the same rection to it and she’s already over 60 and she hasn’t had acne for years till she used this.

A lot of user’s of this soap swears by it, so maybe I’m just one of the few unlucky people that can’t seem to get along with this soap too bad for me.


 

Body Recipe Skin Whitening Calamansi Soap January 9, 2009

Filed under: Soap — mygaia13 @ 1:38 pm
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I bought this soap when I wanted to even out the color of my skin especially in my arms. The deciding factor that made me want to try this is the scent, it’s a nice fresh citrus smell that I like. Okay, I think I used this soap for more than 3 weeks straight. I didn’t see any effect that it did work to lighten my skin but I like the smell that I didn’t mind at all. I bought another bar after I finished one but since there’s still no effect I decided to try a different brand. This can be a bit drying (like most whitening/lightening soaps) so moisturizing after bathing is a must. I might repurchase maybe in the summer just because of the scent.