Ultrabland Cleanser: The Ultimate Product

I don't believe in magic, my own personal acne battle has been filled with medicines and creams prescribed by doctors that have done little to help me. In November 2015 I ventured into Lush to search for something to clear the excess oil off my face and help clear up the acne once and for all. Two months later and I've stopped taking my prescribed treatment and have moved onto almost all of Lush's acne products. While I discovered Ultrabland after receiving it as a Christmas present it has now become the most important of all my skincare products and is as closest to magic as I think I'll ever get. Below is a YouTube video I found that sums up the feelings of myself and many others who use Lush.

As the packaging says, if your skin is particularly bad, toy should use Ultrabland to bring it back into balance. This product combined with the previously reviewed Grease Lightning and Vanishing Cream helps clear up your acne and fade the redness.

Since making this product a major part of my skincare routine my face has become much less oily and much less spotty. Usually in a review I would go over the positives and negatives of a product, but I really believe this product has no drawbacks. It has worked perfectly for me bringing my skin the closest it has ever been to clear. If this your fighting in the acne battle think of ultrabland as the atomic bomb that will destroy your spots leaving clear, clean skin in its place.

After speaking to staff at Lush they all recommend this for acne it's definitely one of Lush's lesser known gems.

You can buy Ultrabland from Lush HERE for £7.50

Product Review: Lush Grease Lightning

Lush offers a number of masks, cleansers, scrubs and toners to help purge your face (and body) of acne and their product Grease Lightning is the central focus of this range. It is a small tea tree and witch hazel gel which Lush claim will strike spots with 'lightning precision'.

So, does it work? Well the short answer is yes, the long answer is sometimes. Not all spots are created equal some are painful, some big, some small. Of course you'll know this, but my point is that Grease Lightning only seems to work well on small spots. For example, I had a small spot under my nostril and one beginning to form under my lip. I applied Grease Lightning to both and within a day the small nostril spot was gone, and the lip one had formed into a massive yellow planet on the side of my lip. Really this product is best used continuously and alongside other products I intend to review later.

Similarly Grease Lightning has failed to clear the spots on the side of my head, it does reduce them down from yellow lumps to smaller red ones, but clear skin is the aim and this isn't really working in the way that I had hoped.

This brings me onto my major problem with this product, specifically with its packaging. As this is a gel Lush have put it in a small bottle with a horrendous cap. The cap is sort of like a soap dispenser but it's so stiff when you push it tons of the gel comes out. This can be a bit annoying when you just want a little. Also when the gel dries it cracks and tends to flake off (or get caught in eyebrows) not a good look.

Pros:
+ Smells Good
+ Soothing on painful spots
+ Can be very effective at times

Cons:
- Dispenser often releases too much
- Only works around 50% of the time
- Best used with other products

The current price is £6.50 (a 45g bottle lasts months) and you can buy from Lush HERE

Please Note: This blog is not funded by Lush or any other company. All views are my own. Pictures sourced from Instagram