Ingredients:
Aqua (Water), Stearic Acid, Sapindus Mukurossi Fruit Extract, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Arginine, Polysorbate 60, Acacia Concinna Fruit Extract, Balanites Aegyptiaca (Desert Date) Fruit Extract, Gypsophila Paniculata Root Extract, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Melanin, Sorbic Acid, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Caprylyl Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
I try to mark the sunscreen ingredients in red and other possible irritants in lilac. Ingredients thought to be good and useful for skin I mark green. Learning as I go, google is my friend etc...
Thoughts:
- Should be used within 6 months after opening
- Strangely doesn't feel like it cleanses the skin, I don't know how to explain? I know it's not a make up remover, that's why I use it in the morning
- I think Sanskrit Saponins causes me to break out or purge - tiny whiteheads on my cheeks, forehead, that are gone the next morning (usually I don't have breakouts on my cheeks)
- Doesn't leave skin as soft as my normal cleanser, Garnier's Micellar Gel
- The smell is quite peculiar, like flour and yeast and something earthy? I wouldn't say it's bad, but it's not especially nice either
- The tube design is from hell! The cap is small, difficult to open, you have to keep the tube upwards so that the cream doesn't leak everywhere when you open the cap!
- The price
+ After using Sanskrit Saponins for the first time in the morning, I couldn't help but take a double look on my face everytime I saw myself in mirror during that day - my skin was so naturally glowy/healthy! (I wasn't wearing any makeup.)
+ My pores do look quite small afterwards... or like smoothed a bit. A bit mysterious. I'm in a wrong time of month for my pores to look this good. (I try to follow how hormonal changes affect my skin.)
+ I like the creamy, soft but not soft, thick and thin at the same time consistency of SS
+ SS can be used as a cleanser and also as a mask (haven't tried yet)
+ No irritation, don't feel that it makes my skin any more dry than other cleansers (Deciem warns that it might at first for some seconds)
+ The NIOD sticker on the package is the coolest sticker I've seen for a while. I do love when companies make creative/beautiful packages. (But why is the actual tube so bad to use then? Did design get in the way of practicality?)
- Strangely doesn't feel like it cleanses the skin, I don't know how to explain? I know it's not a make up remover, that's why I use it in the morning
- I think Sanskrit Saponins causes me to break out or purge - tiny whiteheads on my cheeks, forehead, that are gone the next morning (usually I don't have breakouts on my cheeks)
- Doesn't leave skin as soft as my normal cleanser, Garnier's Micellar Gel
- The smell is quite peculiar, like flour and yeast and something earthy? I wouldn't say it's bad, but it's not especially nice either
- The tube design is from hell! The cap is small, difficult to open, you have to keep the tube upwards so that the cream doesn't leak everywhere when you open the cap!
- The price
+ After using Sanskrit Saponins for the first time in the morning, I couldn't help but take a double look on my face everytime I saw myself in mirror during that day - my skin was so naturally glowy/healthy! (I wasn't wearing any makeup.)
+ My pores do look quite small afterwards... or like smoothed a bit. A bit mysterious. I'm in a wrong time of month for my pores to look this good. (I try to follow how hormonal changes affect my skin.)
+ I like the creamy, soft but not soft, thick and thin at the same time consistency of SS
+ SS can be used as a cleanser and also as a mask (haven't tried yet)
+ No irritation, don't feel that it makes my skin any more dry than other cleansers (Deciem warns that it might at first for some seconds)
+ The NIOD sticker on the package is the coolest sticker I've seen for a while. I do love when companies make creative/beautiful packages. (But why is the actual tube so bad to use then? Did design get in the way of practicality?)
* Got this tube a long ago on Deciem's Back Friday sale that was crazy (2017?). 2018 they had nothing I wanted for prices I wanted. Just now I had the time to actually take a closer look at it. Life is also crazy and time flies. I just hope my Sanskrit Saponins hasn't gone bad while being in storage this long.
* I will have to come back and talk about SS more when the tube is ending, some weeks is not enough time to tell if this could be the secret weapon for my skin!
Price:
41,00 € / 180 ml
27,00 € / 90 ml
I paid 5 € if I remember right
Bought from:
The Ordinary webstore, during Black Friday sale
Buy again?
Probably not. Unless the glow gets even better (!) and I stop having those whiteheads.
Worth the money?
So tempted to say no, especially if you are trying to save (I want to buy a cheap trip abroad rather than a couple 41 € cleansers a year) and have other very good inexpensive cleanser already. But on the other hand, Sanskrit Saponins is almost more like a treatment than a cleanser in my eyes (I like my cleansers to take off makeup too). And it is pretty impressive to see results on my pores/glowiness after all this time I've also been using The Ordinary's Lactic Acid 10% and Salicylic Acid 2% and who knows what. But it's not like I suddenly look like a goddess because of some cleanser.
So tempted to say no, especially if you are trying to save (I want to buy a cheap trip abroad rather than a couple 41 € cleansers a year) and have other very good inexpensive cleanser already. But on the other hand, Sanskrit Saponins is almost more like a treatment than a cleanser in my eyes (I like my cleansers to take off makeup too). And it is pretty impressive to see results on my pores/glowiness after all this time I've also been using The Ordinary's Lactic Acid 10% and Salicylic Acid 2% and who knows what. But it's not like I suddenly look like a goddess because of some cleanser.
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| This sticker was the most exciting thing in this packaging. Maybe I'm easily amused. So you get 3 pointless pictures of NIOD sticker! |
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| Ahead is not further than behind. Rest in peace, Brandon. |
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