{"id":12393,"date":"2017-12-22T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T00:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/?p=12393"},"modified":"2017-12-22T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T01:13:35","slug":"used-french-skincare-two-months-heres-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/2017\/12\/22\/used-french-skincare-two-months-heres-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"I Used French Skincare For Two Months \u2014 & Here’s What Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After last year’s accidental discovery of French skincare<\/a> I decided to play around some more with French beauty products. I wondered what it would be like to use just french skincare for the next two months.<\/p>\n

\"The\"TheThe prices of products are not the same across pharmacies in France. Every pharmacy has its own individual price, but each one is packed with a very helpful pharmacist who speaks about skincare products as if it were a drug prescribed by your doctor \u2013 what it does, how it works, how often to use it, and without the commercial jazz of a sales representative at a regular beauty store. It is certain that to the French, skincare is as important as any vitamin you take to keep your hair and skin healthy \u2013 no one sees it as vain \u2013 the pharmacists take these products seriously.<\/p>\n

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At the most crowded, yet probably cheapest pharmacy* I found in Paris, I spent hours speaking to pharmacists about everything from care for my lips to how often I should exfoliate my skin. I listened to the pharmacist who shared the most minimalist ideas about skincare. All of them do really, as when it comes to French skincare, generally, less is more. The pharmacist I chatted with was less on strong unnecessary chemicals and big on using the right products patiently. I liked that she mentioned a lot of things that my dermatologists had previously told me and that she wasn\u2019t big on instant fixes, but rather on things that saved my skin in the long run.<\/p>\n

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Most of the French skincare products I\u2019ve used in the past were recommended to me again. The Nuxe lip balm<\/strong><\/span> and the popular Bioderma Micellar Water<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>for example. The newer products I tried included the Caudalie Instant Detox Mask<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, my holy grail; the Embryolisse Lait Cr\u00e8me Concentr\u00e9<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a> and the Caudalie Vinoperfect Cell Renewal Night Cream<\/strong><\/span><\/a> which I already need a new tube of.<\/p>\n

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Another product that was highly recommended on the internet was this sunscreen<\/a>, I noticed there wasn’t a buzz around it in the pharmacy, but I bought it all the same and found that I preferred my Body Shop Vitamin C Sunscreen<\/a> better. The La Roche sunscreen always left me with a white mask that I had to cover up with tons of makeup(is anyone having this problem too??).<\/p>\n

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Here are my favorites and the ones I cannot live without. Keep reading for my French skincare regimen:<\/p>\n

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