Beauty Swellness: Spectro Intense Rehydration Moisturizer

“Save my skin!”

Has this been your cry for help this season? This has been a rough winter, and it continues here in Toronto (Today’s temp? Feels like -5. Which is mighty chilly for what is now officially spring).

Mid-winter, I received samples of Spectro’s Intense Rehydration Moisturizer. Now I have dry skin, but it’s nothing compared to my sister’s. So itchy and dry it cracks and is red and scaly — I feel for her as it looks very painful. I gave her the Spectro Moisturizer to try out.

Within days of giving her the moisturizer, my sister emailed me about it — OK, she was sort of freaking out about it, in a good way. She said she can feel an immediate difference when applying it, that it immediately creates a a barrier on the skin against the cold. After using it for about a month, she ran into an acquaintance who exclaimed immediately that her skin was so much better.

When she quickly finished the tube of it (this horrible cold winter means she’s been using tons of it), she panicked as she could not find the same product in stores. It’s been rebranded, you see (formerly known as E-Care) — that said, my sis bought the E-Care when she couldn’t find the Intense Rehydration Moisturizer and found it was  not remotely the same.

(I have no explanation for this — checked with Spectro and have been told it’s only been rebranded, not reformulated.)

The product (100g, $14.99) is non-greasy, and non-medicated and irritant- colour- and fragrance- free. It’s got the seal of Acceptance from the Eczema Society of Canada, and, well, based on my sister’s experience, the swellness seal, too.

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