I love trying out new facial cleansers. My guinea pig skin may not be able to take trialing of new moisturisers and serums well all the time, but it sure loves a good cleanse so I tend to keep a look out for new cleansers to try.

Here are some of the cleansers I’ve been using of late. The ones marked with * were kindly sent to me for consideration. Some were good, some not so much. Which one’s which?

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When I first saw the L’Oreal Nude Magique BB Cream in store, I was doubtful yet intrigued. This has got to be the strangest BB cream I’ve come acrossed and used. It’s unlike any BB creams I’ve seen. First of all, it comes out of the tube pearlescent white, and it’s grainy. In fact, it resembles more of a facial scrub than makeup!

If you think I was skeptical using this, well, you can say that again. Still, curiosity got the better of me, and I just had to try it out on my skin. Thankfully, I was given a tube of the BB cream in a goodie bag from a L’Oreal blogger event I attended in June. Time to get my guinea pig skin on!

And you know what? It’s surprisingly not bad.

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It was three years ago when I blogged about which big ol’ brand owns what. Figured it’s time to do an update with more brands. It was fun and certainly educational researching these brands. Some of the parent companies of brands I know and love came as quite a surprise.

For example, a lot of people know Bourjois to be the sister brand of Chanel. What I didn’t know was that Bourjois actually came into the picture first (1863), not Chanel. In 1924, Coco Chanel approached Pierre Wertheimer, who was then the owner of Bourjois, to help her develop her famous perfumes. These days, it’s Bourjois and the Wertheimer family who own the Chanel empire. So, contrary to popular belief, Chanel doesn’t own Bourjois, but the other way round. Interesting, eh? 😉

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