Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream review

I brought this a while ago on sale and I still have half a tube left. Everyone said how amazing this was but Im really not too impressed with this. The consistency is very thick and it's very tacky, with a very unpleasant smell. There's so many better products out there than this, I would not repurchase.

I really wanted to like this product! It's such a fashionable product to use, since high school it seems every beauty conscious woman around me has a tube in her bag, particularly for lip balm. I don't like it though. The smell is too clinical and strong, and the formula feels thin as a lip balm. On me, it even gets gritty and tastes gross. As a healing balm, it's no better than any other. I prefer to use Paw Paw cream and think it does a better job more cost effectively. 8hr cream must work for many, I just don't buy into the hype after giving it a thorough test!

This is such a popular product but for me, it just didn’t live up to the hype. I found the consistency very sticky - it was as lip balm, but I couldn’t use it for anything else. It has a very distinctive smell which I’m not a massive fan of.

I'd heard rave reviews about this product, but I was totally disappointed. It was goopy, and difficult to apply. Far too sticky to use on my face. There are much better products out there for much less money

I bought this duty free as everyone said it's the magic cure all. I honestly didn't like it. Consistency is think and tacky and I found the fragrance to strong. I really didn't like it at all.

But I am not a huge fan. I found it to be quite smelly and chemical tasting when I used it on my lips. I would rather use a natural balm like trilogy everything balm for dry skin. On the flip side, I was given the 8 hour lip balm free with a purchase recently and I am super impressed. It is the best lip balm I have used, hands down. My lips are lovely and smooth and it's great to apply before lipstick. Recommended!

After all the amazing things I have heard recently and over the years about this iconic product, I am sorry to say I wasn't impressed. I really did give it a good go, testing it out for many of the claims and even waited till the last day to write my review.

It promises to soothe and protect skin but I'm not convinced. I first used it as a lip balm over night. Unlike other brands, I woke up with dry, tight feeling, cracked lips that peeled a little that day. Needless to say I didn't want to give that another shot and also found the smell so repulsive that I couldn't bear to put it anywhere near my face anyway. Harsh? Well, at least that's the worst bit over.

I enjoyed using it on my cracked heels but once again had to mask the smell by wearing it to bed with socks on. This was quite effective and my heels felt much smoother after a few days. Applied to tiny scratches and bites, it appears to help but I suspect that may be more because it acts like a barrier cream as opposed to any healing properties. I also tried it on my brows and found that a little kept them in place. As a moisturiser, I found it just left my skin with too much greasy residue.

I really liked the packaging, the tube is sleek and classy. It is quite a generous size, especially since you don't need a lot to get enough coverage. This gel cream is smooth and easy to apply but can be quite sticky. It leaves skin feeling greasy and can easily be wiped off.

There are so many great things written about Eight hour cream and many of my friends swear by it. I think it's just a matter of preference as I have tried similar products that I absolutely love and find more suited to my skin, especially for my lips.

So unfortunately will not be personally recommending it and at $35 a tube, I won't be investing in it either

While this is a great product, I found that if I used it on dry/cracked lips it would do the job overnight basically. But I started to just put it on every night before bed and when I did this it started to dry out my lips really badly, and they were so cracked and painful.

I have used it off and on for a few years, but I have never really loved it. Maybe part of the reason for its popularity is based on the Elizabeth Arden name, which was why I initially got it. But I tend to use other similar products instead. I am not that fussed on the smell, and the texture is really greasy. I don't think I would buy it again, and I would not recommend it to a friend.