Review: Alpha-H

A few months ago I bought a starter kit of Alpha-H products from Adore Beauty purely on impulse, and then promptly shoved it in a drawer and forgot about it. However, in my current attempts to not buy anything I don't absolutely need, I've been working my way through my "samples and trials" drawer (pictured above), and a few weeks ago I hauled the kit out and started using it. The kit comes with the following products:

*Liquid Gold 50ml
*Triple Action Cleanser 50ml
*Liquid Gold Daily Poly-Oxidant Complex 30ml
*Rejuvenating Cream 50ml
*Liquid Gold Smoothing and Perfecting Mask 4ml
*Liquid Gold Power Peeling Pads x 3

So, what's it all like then?

Review: Alpha-H Age Delay Hand and Cuticle Cream

Years of working in public contact jobs has made me something of a germophobe, and though I'm not compulsive about it, I do wash my hands a lot more often than most people. More often than most people I know anyway, but maybe I just know a lot of grotty people. I also use that antiseptic hand gel stuff a lot, and though the upside of that is that I don't get very many colds, the downside is red, flaky, dry hands that are completely trashed.

Review: Alpha-H Liquid Gold

A couple of weeks before Christmas, I was flicking around Foxtel and happened across two very excited women waxing lyrical about the miracle properties of Alpha-H Liquid Gold. I was pretty saturated with skincare products at that time, and was about to flick past to see if I could find something involving diets or toddlers in makeup and hair extensions or Trinny and Susannah yelling at some middle-aged frump about her ill-fitting bra when suddenly the magic words were mentioned - anti-ageing. And that was enough to hook me in. After about ten minutes of effusive praise and over-the-top promises, I started checking out reviews online, and found that this is almost universally raved about. The informercial was flogging a two-for-one Christmas special, so I thought what the heck. There are many more frivolous things I've thrown away $50 on in my time.

Now, I actually gave this a bad rap on a review website a couple of weeks ago, because besides being a bit on the stinky side (kind of antiseptic-ish), it didn't seem to be me to be anything more than a bog-standard - and therefore fairly pointless - toner. However, I think I have to eat my words, because a week or so later when I was examining myself in the mirror (as one does), I actually did notice some improvements in my skin since I've been using it. The redness in my cheeks has definitely toned down, and the sun spots on my forehead (I have a MASSIVE forehead and short of walking around with a hat on all day and getting hat-hair, I have no way of avoiding it copping at least a bit of sun each day) have lightened.

It's not a miracle product, but let's face it - nothing really is. I paid $50 for two bottles of this, and I probably wouldn't pay the usual price of $50 for one. I don't think it's worth that price, but when those two-for-one specials come up, it's definitely worth shelling out for.