BeneFit Dr Feelgood

I shelled out for BeneFit Dr Feelgood on the advice of a benefit-mad friend i had a few years ago, and have had no choice but to carry on shelling out! Its expensive but worth it. I have never found a product which keeps my oily skin at bay without clogged pores and spots until this one. I don't go a day without it.

BeneFit Dr Feelgood has gorgeous packaging, as with most other BeneFit products (many would call it retro). Once you have got over how great it is and screw open, you get the nice scent of tea-tree, lemon and rosemary (I'm not quite sure which or all) is so nice! However do be very careful on application as if you swipe onto skin with the sponge provided, you are more than likely to get a 'flaky' appearance. The way that I find works for me is to get some product on the sponge on one area and press onto the skin. It mattifies the skin instantly without disposing color and lasts for hours. The downside is though, that I can feel the product 'build-up' so I'm guessing it clogs the pores. The fact it cost a small fortune and it does as much as (or much less than) oil blot tissues does, I don't think I will be re-purchasing although I always buy things for the packaging! May I also add that oil-blotting tissues/films work by removing excess oil, not by clogging the pores.

£19, I have been using Dr.Feelgood everyday since 1998 and still using it everyday, first got it from a dermatologist friend from America, his brother & sister in law have been using it for years. It was not available in UK at that time. used it and fell in love with it instantly. Since then Dr. Feel good becomes unseparable with me, it is a must every morning. I won't go out without it on my nose. I have enlarged nose pores since a young age & nothing help until I met Dr. feel good, it is the best beauty product I have ever used. It is that kind of product you use & think you must have it for the rest of your life, and still think the same after years. It creates a super smooth silky matt finish on all sort of skin, there is no need for any foundation, just fresh face youthful skin. Oily skin needs to reapply at noon & late afternoon if having a night out. Since I only use it on nose, a tin can last forever, for all these years, I am still on my second tin, still have a good half of it, so it is super value for money in that sense.

I wouldn't really call Benefit Dr. Feelgood a powder, as it is too beautiful! I only categorised it as powder because it does exactly what a powder does, i.e. makes skin silky and matte to the touch, but it also minimizes pores, and smells divine! It can be used under make-up, or just on top of your normal moisturiser, and with a bit of concealer, your all set!

It is so easy to use, and it comes with a sponge!

I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to look perfect!

Last weekend I lost the plot entirely and arranged to do far too much in too short a time. On Friday night I started off with a lovely long red wine fuelled natter with a close girl mate - it ended at half past one in the morning with nearly three empty wine bottles. The following day I was due to go to the hairdresser, get together with a girl from school that I hadn't seen in over twenty years, meet my mum, meet my son and then go on to another friend's for dinner

As you can imagine by the time I left the hairdressers at half past nine on Saturday I was doing a wonderful impression of a zombie - staring eyes, hideously pale waxy complexion and a mouth like a desert. Luckily my hair looked pretty spiffing. I had an hour or so to kill before I met my old friend and so I wandered into Debenhams fully prepared to treat myself to anything that caught my eye. Almost as soon as I stepped through the door I was accosted by a very pretty, pleasant young lady from the benefit counter who asked if I would like a free makeover. Would I? Do hippychicks eat chocolate? Any woman who is meeting up with someone she hasn't seen in a couple of decades will succumb to vanity and want to look good - it's just human nature!

The first thing that was smoothed onto my poor raddled face was Dr Feelgood balm. Cleverly the girl only did one half of my face and then let me look in the mirror. I plucked up courage to look (well, I knew I wasn't a pretty sight that morning despite a good helping of glowing-complexion-tinted-moisturiser) and I gasped - my left half of my face had no hangover! The right still looked as zombie-fied as when I had crawled from my bed. Fortunately benefit are kind people and I was quickly put to rights with my right side of my face also smoothed and pampered out of its hangover. The price was nineteen pounds, but I just had to have this little tin of miracle balm. I even liked the style of the packaging; a glamourpuss 1950's feel with a nice squidgy sponge to apply it with. The scent is fresh but not overpowering (easy to use with the worst of hangovers) and it contains assorted vitamins to soothe and smooth fine lines and blemishes. Judging by the amount I use I reckon it will probably last me the best part of a year, which works out ok by me

I was finished off with a superb under eye brightener/concealer and, an assortment of glowing face powder things and the final touch of a good squirt of benefit perfume. Off I trotted to meet my old friend and was complimented on my youthful appearance. The effect obviously lasted as my mother noticed how healthy I was looking; funnily enough I didn't confess about the two and half bottles of wine the night before or the two bottles that lunchtime (all shared I have to say; not drunk purely by me!) although I did mention in passing I had new make up on. I turned up for my last jolly of the day at seven o clock without having been home or touched up my face at all and was greeted yet again with pronouncements of my hale and hearty countenance. Not a bad day all in all! And definitely the most compliments I have received in a long time. The only person not to notice a difference was my eighteen year old son - but really, just what do I expect for nineteen quid!

When I finally recovered from my excesses (I didn't get to bed until half past two on Saturday) I rose like Lazarus and made it as far as the bath and discovered that my skin still felt incredibly smooth when I washed it and it looked a lot better than I deserved. Since then I have used the balm each morning after moisturising and all day long my skin looks smooth, less lined, less imperfections and generally in good nick and I swear I look about five years younger. Plus I don't find I need any foundation now - just a quick sweep of light bronzer across my cheeks and off I stride to face the world looking for all the world like a healthy hippychick no matter how debauched my nights have been

Since passing the big four-oh (only a couple of years ago admittedly, but I am definitely not in the first flush of youth anymore) I have noticed that my skin just doesn't look as fine and clear as it used to. So the search for anything that will help in the never battle against maturity has been incessant and expensive. This is the first time I have seen my skin not only look fabulous from a product but also this has to be the only range that has counteracted the visible effects of a hangover