Cleansers that can Kiss My Ass: Lancôme Blanc Expert NeuroWhite X3 Ultimate Whitening Purifying Foam

By alienman on January 3, 2010

I think one year is a long enough time for a cleanser-review hiatus, don’t you?

I don’t know about you guys but I’ve just about have had enough with these long ass names that promise us more than what the products have to offer. “Ultimate”? “NeuroWhite”? “Blanc Expert”? “X3″? Give me a break. It’s a foam cleanser, for crying out loud.
lancome blanc expert

This product retails for about $40 (give or take) and is available only in Asian markets. The only reason my pauper-ass had the chance to try this out was because it was part of a 2-piece gift set that my brother got me from the Duty Free in Japan. I’m sorry to say, I’m not even using the toner because of its alcohol content. The cleanser has alcohol, too, but I’ve been using it since it’s meant to be washed off and followed with moisturizer. The toner stays on the skin, though, and the alcohol would definitely irritate my super-sensitive skin.

Pros:

A little goes a long way. I think I’ve had this cleanser for about a year now. I haven’t been using it everyday, but it has still lasted me remarkably long time.
The foam is very thick. I’m not sure if that makes a cleanser any better but I like my foam cleansers to be very frothy.
A nickel-sized amount gets the makeup out really well. Best way to get your makeup off – dampen face first, then wash hands with soap to remove dirt and makeup, foam up the cleanser between hands, then massage into face for about a minute.
Hasn’t caused any irritation or dryness. Between this and the Shiseido foaming cleanser, I actually prefer this one because it doesn’t strip moisture as much. At the same time, it gets all the makeup out in one application, as with the Shiseido brand.

Cons:

Too expensive. Forty bucks for one bottle? Go eff yourself. At fifty bucks, the damn thing should be turning my skin into sheer and utter perfection. I should be waking up one day and seeing the most exquisitely perfect skin on my face and thinking, “well, that was worth the fifty bucks.” Babies should be jealous of how great my skin is. At the least, it should be whitening, which brings me to the next bullet point.
Doesn’t whiten as promised. It might be part of a line of whitening products but the cleanser doesn’t whiten. You could have saved some ink and space leaving out “whitening” from the name of the cleanser. Maybe you could have used that extra money to upgrade that flimsy lid.
Too expensive.
Cheap packaging. The cap broke soon after I started using it. Now, it never closes completely. Real pain in the ass.
Too expensive.

The price tag is off-putting, especially since it comes in cheap packaging and doesn’t whiten as promised. However, if you don’t care about cost and you want a foaming cleanser that removes stubborn makeup on in wash and doesn’t dry out your skin, then this might be for you.

I give this a B+.

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