Thursday Plantation Tea Tree Face Cream

I would not use this product again. I have sensitive skin and prior to using this product I was worried about adverse reactions so I spot tested it with no issues. However, when I used it (following on from the Thursday Plantation Tea Tree Face Wash and Toner) I had a terrible reaction to it - my face was instantly stinging and went bright red.

I also found that the cream was quite thick and did not absorb into my skin very well either.

About Me

Let me start off by sharing a bit about my skin. I have very oily and acne prone skin. I've had acne for more than 10 years and have been on every drug, cream and face wash you can imagine. Things tend to work for me for around a month and then the acne returns. I believe my acne is hormonal and before using this product it was moderate in severity.

Results

Three weeks into the trial and I've seen no improvement in my acne using the Thursday Plantation acne range. This face cream is very heavy and leaves my skin feeling weighed down and like an oil slick! I've had to stop using it as my face would just be covered in oil as soon as I walked out the door.

Would I recommend it?

I would not recommend this face cream. It's far too thick to be able to apply morning and night and doesn't feel nice on the skin for this reason.

Nuts & Bolts

Consistency- This cleanser is very thick and I think off putting for those with acne prone skin. It's very hard to spread it all over the face without using a whole lot.

Coverage-I felt like I had to use a lot to get it spread over my entire face.

Longevity- Based on how much I've used so far I would estimate this product would last about 2 months.

Packaging- The packaging is good, it comes in a cute little pottle.

I have had acne for the last 20 or so years, and I'm now in my forties and still struggling with it. I was very excited to be chosen for the acne trial to see if this could be the product range for me. Sadly after using it for 2 weeks, my skin had broken out so badly, the worst it has been in years, that I stopped using the products.It irritated my skin so much that I am still breaking out. However I will review how I found the products.

This product comes in a pot, where you have to dip your fingers in to get the product, I don't particularly like this as I feel that you can easily introduce bacteria into the product before you have finished using it. It smells quite strong, and left my skin with quite a greasy finish, which made it hard to apply my makeup, as it tended to slide off. Using all three products together, irritated my skin terribly, but I saw on the ingredients list that these products do contain alcohol, lemon and other known acne irritants,so maybe that's why I reacted so badly. My skin felt really oily , as if it was overcompensating for the harshness of using the three products together.

I found a lot of the Thursday Plantation products were quite bad for my skin, this one pinning the nail in the coffin. I did give a good trial but it seemed to do more harm to my skin than good. it was quite drying and would make my skin feel quite irritated. Wouldnt be buying anymore of their products

This face cream was ok - to be honest it had a weird texture that I didn't like. It felt like face cream but it dried like a gel (that sounds weird, but it's the only way I can describe it). The smell was nice and fresh, and it definitely did keep the moisture in my skin. However it also made my face really shiny, it didn't clog my pores but it did make me look absolutely terrible. It was at the point where my foundation was just sliding off my face!

Even when I only used a tiny bit, it seemed to have really oily, slippery effects. Having said that, I didn't notice it actually cause any blemishes, just oiliness. For someone with oily skin, and it's supposed to help with problem skin, it didn't work at all. I wouldn't recommend this one at all, unless the person had normal to dry skin to begin with (sorry!)

Im on the fence about this product, while I did like the fact it hydrated my skin, often after I washed my skin it would end up very dry and left feeling tight. So giving it a little bit of moisture was nice, but really that is all I could say it did. It was just a moisturizer and a simple one at that, after about 10minutes my face was left feeling dry again and i'd have to apply my usual moisturizer to re-hydrate my skin. The product itself was pretty messy as well, you have to stick your fingers inside the tub in order to get the product which to me seems pretty unhygienic. My skin unfortunately hasnt improved, I still have bad acne over my chest and clusters on my face. So overall I would not recommend this product as you can get a far better moisturizer.

I was a little disappointed with this product and unfortunately i have almost the whole pottle left. I used it for the first week and just found that after using the cleanser and toner that it made my skin so greasy that if i put make up on over it then it just melted off after a couple of hours. If I didn't put make up on, I'd still have to wipe the shine & greasiness off during the day. So I stopped using the face cream but continued using all the other products and it was perfect after that. I did use varying amounts of the face cream to gauge it, but no matter if I just used a pea size or a 10c size, it still did the same thing :-(

Lightly fragranced and light to touch. I'm an Olay girl usually and in comparison this felt "thin" like blue top vs skim milk. I doubted it would be enough on my old skin but it was in combo with eye cream. I tried it under make up a few times and it was ok but because it doesn't have any sun screen I stopped using it during the day

I had high hopes for this as tea tree oil is great for many uses. I found it too strong on my face and too heavy. It didn't really help with dryness for me. No I wouldn't repurchase.