Neutrogena's Deep Clean Gentle Scrub was one of the first scrubs I purchased for myself and I can easily say it's a tried and true product. What initially attracted me to it was partly the Neutrogena brand, as I've had positive experiences with their skincare, and partly the promise of being gentle enough to use every day.
The squeeze-tube packaging allows you to moderate how much product you use, but I found a small dollop of this is all you need. The formula is thick and creamy, less like the traditional scrub but more like a cream facial wash. Once you massage it into your skin you can feel the tiny exfoliating particles gently buffing away at your skin.
This has a slight citrus scent to it that I find really refreshing and this helps make it the perfect scrub to start the day. My skin feels soft to touch without the redness harsher scrubs can give.
I have repurchased this several times and while it isn't my favourite scrub, I would happily use it again and recommend it either for those wanting daily exfolliation or just a gentle scrub to add to their skincare routine that's readily available and good value.
I was lucky enough to get a little tube of this, and then receive my sisters after she couldn't use it. So from their generous samples I got quite a lot of use. I love minis, and this was the perfect little replica of the full size. I can't comment on the ease of use of the large size, but if it is based on the same easy squeeze it will be great.
The formula is a sort of toothpaste texture with microbeads. Unfortunately I have read that they are polyethylene (plastic) beads. (Please correct me below if I am wrong, or the formula has changed.)
It has a punchy citrus scent, would be a good wake up scent in the morning. It lathers up slightly and is easy to massage onto my skin. The beads are a gentle exfoliater and my skin feels clean afterwards. I have quite oily skin most the time, but when I use this my skin feels like it has been sapped of all moisture. I definitely wouldn't recommend it for dry skin. I disagree also with their claim that it is gentle enough to use every day, for me if I was to do that my skin would end up so dry. It was been popped into the shower and I used it once every week or two if my skin was feeling quite congested.
Unfortunately because of the drying factor, and now reading that the beads are plastic - this is not something that I would repurchase.