Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Own Brand: Boots

I decided to combine part of my haul with a new idea I had. When sat in the bath the other day I realised that I use quite a lot of 'own brand' products that, in my opinion, are just as good as ones made by specific cosmetic oriented companies. So, from now on, every time I find myself trying to choose between products, I will (try to) get an own brand product so I can test it out against my usual purchases.

To start with, I have Boots Expert Cuticle Conditioner and Boots Expert Nail Strengthener. 





This cuticle cream is great, to start with it smells soo good, it has a sort of sun tan smell and reminds me of summer, always a good thing! As far as I can tell so far it works well, my cuticles aren't particularly bad at the moment anyway but this seems to be keeping them healthy and doing all the things my previous cuticle cream did.

Next up is the Boots expert Nail Hardener. I'm not really too sure what to make of this, my previous nail hardener was one that you applied like a nail polish but then you rubbed it into your nails which would eventually absorb it. With this Boots version, you put it on and it sits on your nails like a clear nail polish, I'm not too sure I like this, I think it made me feel like it was doing my nails some good when they soaked it all up but I can't really imagine this is doing anything to them. I have to say though, after wearing it a few times my nails do feel much less brittle, whether they've repaired themself or it's the nail hardener I don't know though! :/ 
What I do like about this though is the bottle it comes in, it's really cute :D it's just a little short round thing and I don't seem to worry about putting it in my bag, I think the bottle is thicker.


Thanks for reading! xxx

3 comments:

  1. Neat post! And very interesting =)

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  2. I'm always looking for posts on new products to use and I haven't tried the Boots Expert cuticle and nail moisturiser. I'm going to Boots today and as it comes highly recommended, I'm going to buy it :-)

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  3. That might be very helpful for me, as i am obsessed with my nails!!! :)
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