#purity made simple

Purity Made Simple, for Those of us who are just too Lazy.

Having a way to remove makeup and wash your face is incredibly important. Makeup on your skin can cause all kinds of icky stuff that none of us want. If you’re like me and you love wearing makeup and dread taking it off, here’s something that might help.

Philosophy is a brand that’s well known for their scented body washes but this is the only product I own from them. Purity Made Simple is a facial cleanser that works to wash your face as well as get off all your makeup. It’s a nice formula and it really helps to get off the ten pounds of product I put on every time I decide to go out.

For me, it’s worked wonderfully. The only thing it doesn’t get off is my mascara and sometimes liner, and that’s primarily because I have very sensitive eyes so I don’t put it there, duh. A few Q-tips and some Aquaphor easily remedy the situation.

There are downsides, of course. It won’t really help with acne unless your acne is caused by makeup remaining in your pores, it doesn’t have some benefits using a general face wash would have, and in the reviews I’ve read a lot of people reported it breaking them out. I also find it can dry your skin out if you forget moisturizer before bed too many times.

Not everyone’s skin is the same, so it’s important to consider that. Purity works great for me, but it may not work for you, but I do believe it’s worth a try! I just bought my second bottle about four months ago and this is how it looks now.

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Dry hair? Dry skin? Dry problems?

Stop and see if you can relate to any of these terms: Scarecrow hair? Staw hair? Dry itchy skin? Dry? DRy? DRY?!?! 

I feel you. Honestly. I get it!

Add everyday gym workouts and daily showers on-top-of-things, and voila! Miss Frizzle hair, and frazzled skin; a FREAKING catastrophe!

If you are reading this and thinking scarecrow what? Then you obviously are too familiar with the term oil, and I am COMPLETELY and UTTERLY jealous!

For those of you like myself who throw dance parties at the first glimpse of oily roots listen up! I am about to share some products I have been using in order to avoid becoming a human prune!

Disclaimer: These products I am about to list and partially explain are products that have been working for my hair and body thus far, and may not work for everyone!

This post was created to suggest products that may help you with dry hair and skin while still showering after everyday workouts, AND growing your biceps

Also, the suggestions following each section are not products that I have tried but are products that I read about online (by beauty vloggers) or they are products I am intending on purchasing in the near future! 

The most important step to hydrating your skin is obviously consuming water!

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Het laatste wat mijn lieve blogvriendinnetje Lidewij meenam tijdens de Beautygloss Party was Purity Made Simple, het welbekende product van Philosophy. Sinds ik nog nooit wat van Philosophy heb geprobeerd was ik erg blij om eindelijk eens een product in handen te hebben! Ik heb hem gelijk lekker getest en hierbij mijn eerste ervaring! (more…)

Product: Philosophy Purity Made Simple Cleanser Price: USD 10.00 @ Sephora for a 3 oz. sample size Review:

I purchased a small size of this cleanser just to try it out, since it is raved about so much online. The 3 oz. bottle comes with a twist cap instead of the one that you can press down to open – which made it a little bit inconvenient but that’s OK. A good amount of product came in the small bottle, which lasted about one month, which is actually a whole lot longer than I had anticipated it to last.

This cleanser is said to be able to remove make-up and cleanse your face. I can’t really vouch for the make-up removal part though, since I remove my make-up with a cleansing oil beforehand all the time. I never really trust cleansers to truly remove my make-up because I tend to use waterproof, sweat- and sebum-resistant sunscreens, bb creams, etc. that can be pretty difficult to remove. As you can see from the ingredients below, this cleanser is actually infused with a lot of different oils – which I can only assume helps in the make-up removal and hydrating process.

Ingredients: Water, Sodium Lauroamphoacetate, Sodium Trideceth Sulfate, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Coco-Glucoside, Coconut Alcohol, Peg-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate, Aniba Rosaeodora (Rosewood) Wood Oil, Geranium Maculatum Oil, Guaiac (Guaiacum Officinale) Extract, Cymbopogon Martini Oil, Rosa Damascena Extract, Amyris Balsamifera Bark Oil, Santalum Album (Sandalwood) Oil, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Oil, Cinnamomum Cassia Leaf Oil, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil, Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Seed Oil, Piper Nigrum (Pepper) Seed Extract, Polysorbate 20, Glycerin, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Imidazolidinyl Urea, Yellow 5 (Ci 19140).

The cleanser is formulated for sensitive skin and doesn’t contain the usual foaming ingredients such as sodium laureth sulfate, which can be pretty harsh on the skin (even though I personally have never felt or had a problem with it). Instead, it uses sodium lauroamphoacetate and sodium trideceth sulfate as foaming and cleansing agents. Both are supposedly supposed to be less harsh and irritating to the skin.

I use a quarter-sized amount of the cleanser and spread it all over my face. The directions do tell you to massage for 60 seconds before rinsing. The consistency of the cleanser is very milky and it actually doesn’t foam very well (if at all). It does foam a little bit but the foam is very thin and pretty much nonexistent. When I use this, it really reminds me of a cleansing milk and spreads very smoothly across the skin.

In terms of it’s cleansing power, I feel that this is actually a pretty good cleanser. My skin feels clean and refreshed after using it without feeling stripped of it’s natural oils. It doesn’t feel tight or dry afterwards, which is great. It doesn’t give my skin that squeaky clean affect that certain other cleansers have provided for me though.

This has a lemon scent to it though and it still contains parabens, so for those of you who are sensitive to fragrances or are 100% against parabens…this product isn’t as “natural” as it is advertised to be. The cleanser didn’t cause me to break out and does a pretty good job cleansing.

I don’t much like the lemon scent of the cleanser though. I also would prefer my cleansers to foam properly, so I wasn’t much a fan of the fact that it didn’t foam. I think that this cleanser would be great for those of you with dry skin though because it definitely makes my skin feel soft and hydrated after cleansing.