Well Worth The Price!

This is a tricky one...First of all, I don't have dry skin and secondly, I don't have any wrinkles yet, but for some reason, I still decided to try the Samantharoma beCOMING OF AGE Wrinkle Repair Complex with antioxidants & CoQ10. I have to say this product smells great but after using it a few times, I realized this is a heavy duty moisturizer which is not something I need for my already oily skin and I decided I can't fairly judge a product I probably shouldn't have purchased in the first place. In the meantime I decided my friend Gayle would be the prefect candidate for this product. Gayle 38, used to be a heavy smoker and a sun worshipper. After over 10 years as a smoker, she quit when she got pregnant with her first child in late 1998, and thankfully around the same time, she got smart about the damage the sun can cause, however, the mistreatment from her younger years certainly took it's toll on her skin. Her skin is super dry, uneven and quite rough, (on her 26th birthday, my ex-husband even told her she looked older because of the leathery skin on her face). Thankfully, since she quit smoking and baking in the sun, her skin is no longer leathery and she really doesn't have much to speak of when it comes to wrinkles, but her skin is still dry and she still uses moisturizing cream and serum on her tired skin. So I asked Gayle to try this product on her face twice a day for three weeks and tell me what she thinks. She agreed and here is her review. "The first time I put on the serum, it felt greasy, then it seemed to sink into my skin after a while. I continued to use it (only at night) for the next few days and it did not bother me as much, probably because I knew what to expect, and I really enjoyed the fact that my dry skin did feel quite soft and hydrated. I continued to use the product for three weeks, at which point I ran out of the product, so after using it for only three weeks, my skin was soft, smooth, and hydrated and the overall texture of my skin really seemed to improve. I did not notice any improvement in the look of the fine lines I have around my eyes, although again, I only used it for three weeks so I really didn't expect to see much in the way of fine lines after such a short period of time. All in all, for the price of this item, I would buy it again in a heartbeat, especially when my skin is feeling very dry and tired".
*Samantharoma is a Compact for Safe Cosmetics signer, which means "The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics — of which EWG is a founding member — is a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, womens, environmental, and consumer groups working on the ground in communities, in the halls of lawmakers, and directly with cosmetic manufacturers to encourage reformulations and safer ingredients. Over 500 companies have voluntarily signed a pledge called the campaign's "Compact for Safe Cosmetics," a pledge to formulate products that do not use ingredients that are known or suspected to cause certain health harms within three years of signing.
*This product scored a 0 on the EWG scale.
*All 33 Samantharoma products which are in the EWG database, score either a 0 or a 1.
*The Samantharoma website is: http://samantharoma.com/home.htm.
*This product was $16.50 for a 1 oz bottle.

I do not have a photo of this product because I gave it to Gayle prior to adding photos to this site.