🧂Eight Saints Salt🧂: The Blue

You’ve been warned. Those with heart problems, please be advised that this is a high salt content post. I joined Cherie just to spill tea about this brand in particular so enjoy my miniseries on the pitfalls of paying for pretty and overformulated products. See my first post for a general brand spotlight, but here’s the essential tea for this brand: 🍵exorbitant prices are unreasonable 🍵overlapping actives making you buy more for no reason 🍵horrible sticky sweet smells to every product 🍵formulas that combine actives generally advised to be applied separately 🍵they didn’t improve my skin in two weeks nearly enough to buy anything more from them EIGHT SAINTS - Zen Out Of Ten

Guys, I’m super proud to present my first 1 star product review. I try to be fair and honest and keep my criticism and recommendations limited to what I can verify like the feeling, the effects, and the ingredients. But this product broke me. It smells straight up like rotten straw and that’s a very specific smell. It’s the only product of theirs that isn’t scented like a Willy Wonka fart but actually smells bad. The particles for physical exfoliating are big and sharp and leave a lot of redness behind. The ten mile long list of products following it in the 8S routine sink in and sting because of the micro tears in my skin. I’m not even completely against physical exfoliation, but this stuff is awful in every way. It was the first of their products I stopped using and emptied out because it bothered me in scent and effect so much. Now the container is being used for travel products so that’s the only use you’ll get out of this scrub. EIGHT SAINTS - Day Dreamer

I want you to really reflect on what I mean by a Willy Wonka fart: tangy, sticky, fruity, sugary sweet but with a sour undertone. This cream is that and a handful of sprinkles. I’m not impressed at all by an expensive product having hydration and antioxidants and Vitamin E in it. My cheap moisturizer has all of that and costs a fraction. This product is also one of the several times in your daily 8S routines morning and night that you get a dose of hyaluronic acid and Vitamin E, so buckle in kids because you’re gonna see the same kid fall in the chocolate river ten times because this brand keeps throwing the same things at you again and again. My face hurt every time I did the routine, even when I pared it down to three or less products because my skin was sick of engorging itself on the same candy smelling mixtures again and again.