It feels good, 15 Oct. 2015

This men's moisturiser really looks like a high-tech product, very useful if you are stranded on Mars. Good grief, it's orange! It comes in a double-skinned, high-quality dispenser like those used for expensive women's "serum" skin products. The pump action dispenses a squirt, and I found it was quickly and easily spread around my face, feeling cool and soothing. In a couple of minutes it was dry, and my face felt smooth and clean. As claimed, there was no residual stickiness.There is a slight, pleasant perfume which, together with the nice feeling, makes this a product I want to use every day. It would make an excellent present for a man of any age.There's a lot of jolly, blokish stuff on the box about curing your skin's hangover, turbo boosting and recharging but I took that as a bit of fun. The featured ingredient is taurine, often used for its hydrating effect in moisturisers.

This review is from: L'Oreal Men Expert Turbo Booster 50ml (Personal Care)

Better than expected!, 25 Oct. 2015

This L'Oreal Men Expert Hydra Energetic X is presented as a "Recharging Moisturiser" for those of us who look permanently hungover and whose skin is "Lackluster, Tired and Dehydrated". Sounds like it was made for me! I'm not a long way off 70 and having spent much of my early working years on deck in front of the mast my skin has had to get used to both high and low extreme temperatures coupled with gale force winds laced with sea salt spray, my face looks permanently hungover - without any alcoholic help! Bit leathery as the family politely say.

So, I was not expecting miracles from this product especially, as other reviewers have already pointed out, it contains alcohol which I thought had the opposite effect to moisterising, drying things up rather than softening and smoothing?. How wrong can I be? With all the other ingredients (you need a degree in Chemistry to decipher/understand half of them) this "Turbo Boosted" and not forgetting the New...

This review is from: L'Oreal Men Expert Turbo Booster 50ml (Personal Care)

The Irn Bru of moisturisers, 24 Oct. 2015

Putting the novelty of the orange colour side, this is a very decent, if fairly standard, alcohol-based moisturiser. It feels more like an aftershave balm than a moisturiser in some ways, with a strong cooling effect and a sensation that's clearly more alcohol-based than creamy. It rubs in well, and it's very soothing on newly-shaven skin.

The pump action device feels a bit cheaper than it looks (I expected it to be glass, but it's plastic), and it is a slightly cheeky design that gives you less actual product than appearances suggest, but one advantage of the packaging is that it dispenses small drops at a time, which is good as you only need a little- it's powerful stuff.

I don't mind the novelty orange colour, it's coupled with a slightly artificial-fruit smell that isn't particularly strong, and it neither boosts or worsens the overall result. The fact it looks more like a shower gel than a moisturiser is neither here nor there after a while. Clearly it's...

This review is from: L'Oreal Men Expert Turbo Booster 50ml (Personal Care)