Today I decided to test out the lovely samples that DermOrganic sent me. They were beautiful and they were huge! Larger than hotel sample bottles, basically about the size of a typical travel sized drug store bottle. They sent me TWO boxes full of them, one for hair and one for skin.
I was excited to try them! Surely a company that is willing to be so generous has definitely got GREAT must have products. MEEEEEERP! Wrong!
These were vile. Now, they cleaned me nicely, don't get me wrong. They are soap. And soap can only be but so awful. It was the SMELL that got me. Have you ever had a fist full of coins on a warm day and your hand got sweaty around them, then you went to scratch your nose later and realized that your hands smelled like coppery vomit? Yeah. I have... and that is the only way I can describe the smell. It was a terrible cross between chemicals and rotten fruit or vomit with a hint of spoiled milk. No. I can't do it. I don't know if I got a bad batch or something or if this is just how these are supposed to smell. But that is my deal breaker. The bottles say "fragrance and oil free" so I suppose that is WHY they smell so bad. It would not hurt this company to put a nice clean smell into the products, like lavender or chamomile.
But I digress. For those of you with less sensitive noses than myself, I will go through the good parts. The shampoo had great lather and a little of the hair masque went a very long way. The hair treatment was nice in small doses, but it was not something that I would ever really use-- too oily. These I would use again because no one is really sniffing my hair and since it's so short, I can't smell it. Maybe it will smell better once it dries. The soapless facial cleanser was creamy and actually FELT very nice, but that was when I really started hinting at the smell. Then came the facial moisturizer where I gagged and had to wash my face again to get the smell off of it. I did not open the body lotion.
I liked this company on paper because it is NO ANIMAL TESTING! I buy not tested on animal products when I can because cosmetic testing on rabbits and other animals is ENTIRELY unnecessary and it really is a dated and cruel practice. So that's one point in their corner.
DermOrganic is also vegan, paraben free with no artificial preservatives, sulfate and gluten free, they use no sodium chloride, salt, MEA, DEA, or dyes, and is pH balanced at 4.5-5.5.
Basically, it's one of the relatively few animal and vegan friendly companies on the cosmetics market, although they are coming faster and faster. That is a really cool part of them... but that smell. I personally cannot do it.
I don't believe in throwing away full bottles of stuff though... so I'll see if my mother likes them, and if she doesn't, I'll see if my boyfriend likes them. Because soap is soap, Little Bird... and he doesn't smell much anyway. BUT WHEN HE DOES, he will do cartwheels to get away from a smell he doesn't like. He also is obsessively clean, so for some reason, he doesn't like the smell of skin or hair because he seems to think that the natural smell means it's not clean. That's the scented generation for you! I do much prefer scented products, but these were gentle, and although I will not be buying from them again, I can't really say that their products did NOT do the job. The did what they were supposed to do... I just didn't like the smell.
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