Empty Tube 19: Avene Cold Hand Cream ♚

As I have said I will be back with another empty post and here it is. Avene is a French brand of skin care. In the UAE market it is available in major pharmacies. But be reminded that this is very expensive here. Their selling point is they are using thermal spring water for their products which said to be good and healthy for the skin. I love Avene Emollient Balm and Avene Gentle Toner. And I think I still have at least 2 Avene products in the my stash. But as much as I love those products I feel the opposite regarding Avene Hand Cream. I detest it out of all the hand creams I used.

Avene Hand Cream
Price: 60AED
Promo: Buy 1, Take 1
Made in France

I don't like this Avene hand cream to the point of hating it as I used it just to avoid wasting the product even though it doesn't feel right in my skin. I purchased it after reading a few reviews from some forums when people said it to be their holy grail. And since I love almost all the Avene products I tried I thought it will be the same with this cold cream for the hands. I wish I have the right words in English to use to describe how it feels on the skin. But I'll try. It feels rough? And the smell. Ugh. Can't stand the smell and I don't understand why it has to smell that way.

For me to be able to finish it I had to mix it up with other creams. Well I don't mind using unscented cream. But in this case it has a scent but resembles to a burnt rubber. Or something as equally as bad as that. Needless to say I would never ever repurchase this even if this would become the cheapest in the market. It boggles me to think that the cold cream for the body does not give off the same kind of smell.

 

THIS IS NOT RELATED to Avene Cold Hand Cream but then an experience I want to share:
Are you a Philippine Passport Holder?
Are you working in UAE?
Is your passport at least 6 months valid?
Is your UAE visa at least 6 months valid?
Do you want to visit Turkey?
If all the answers are YES.

First thing that you need to know is gone are the days that the Turkish Embassy in Dubai is accepting walk ins for visa applications. The new rule will be you have to go online and get an appointment. No appointment ~ they will not entertain you. Gone are the days that you can apply for the tourist visa a week before your flight. Now you should prepare your documents at least one month before as you take your appointment you'll upload those documents in the website. As of the appointment I logged in around May 04, 2016 and the booking I got was May 18, 2016. And you need to wait up to one week to know the result. If your application has been approved or not. So it would not hurt to really prepare in advance the way I did.

Eau Thermale Avene Cold Cream Hand Cream

When I started this blog I don't have any idea that I will be writing about make up or beauty products. First of all I consider myself a make up minimalist. And I don't really have that much ideas/knowledge about those stuff. But then even so I find myself having at least a hundred items (okay I may be exaggerating as I am not so sure how many items exactly I have) in my closet. After all I am still a girl and I need to use them whether I like it or not.  So here I am writing about them on my blog that I thought would be some sort of online diary where I can write about my rants in life!

So today's product is Avene's Cold Cream Hand Cream as can be seen in the photo below. And I was speechless that my mobile was able to take a close up photo better than my Pentax Q7! I know I don't have a talent when it comes to photo composition after years of practicing so I am just usually after a clear photos. Like this one that unbelievably taken by the phone only.

Avene is one of the French brands of skin care products that I love and love to hate. I love to hate as they are very expensive here in the UAE. For example this hand cream would cost me AED60.00 in Aster Pharmacy. But then this one is purchased by a friend in Paris. Price was Euro 9.00 and convert that to AED it is around AED40.00. Plus she got this on buy 1 take 2. So this is what I am always saying that being a tax free country doesn't guarantee cheaper prices of products. And pharmacies very seldom goes on promo. But then that is the way businesses goes.

This next photo which is again another close up photo from the phone shows the ingredients for those who care to know. I care too but most of the time I am lost. Besides as for my hands I do not have high expectations. I just want them to be hydrated all the time. Dry and flaky hands are such a pain. You'll get paper cuts easily. Thankfully, they are quite readable:

My take about this product: as much as I love most of the Avene products that I am currently using, I am not a fan of this one. Hand creams are supposed to hydrate our dry hands and this product delivers. But then what is putting me off on being a fan is the smell. The smell that quite resembles a burning tyre or something like that. And this smell is so strong that I can't just ignore it. For this reason I will not repurchase.

Thanks for dropping by, till the next time!!