 Yeah, so it took me maybe three months to get through the entire clinic face soap. I thought it was really good. Oh, let's just take that from the top. Okay, so welcome back to my channel. My name is Nneka and this is High Black Girl, which is my channel, but a little rebranded. So essentially what we're focusing on now in 2020 and beyond is keeping it cute and securing the bag, which means I make blogs about beauty and about finance. And in today's video, as you could tell from the title, maybe if you clicked on it, we are going to be talking about this Clinique liquid face soap. My bottle is hella empty. I loved this soap and we're gonna go into a detailed review in this video. So essentially, I'm gonna be breaking down three things. First, we're gonna be going through a brand overview of Clinique, what products they make and, you know, how they even got to the status that they did as a global beauty, mobile company thing that makes a lot of money every year. And two, we're gonna be breaking down the ingredients because me personally, I've been really getting into clean beauty like what's actually in my skincare ingredients that I'm putting on my face every day. Half the time, we don't read the label. So, you know, I'm here to read the label for you. So we're gonna go over a couple of ingredients that's in this soap and then we're gonna wrap it all up. Cute little bow, just with my final thoughts on this product, if I will be repurchasing and, you know, where you can get it. So, without further ado, oh wait, wait, there is a doom. Did you, uh, subscribe me? Subscribe me? Subscribe me? Subscribe me? Just go ahead, go ahead, click that button. I'll I'll wait. It's free and it really helps me. So I feel like you should do that for me because I'm making this video for you. So subscribe. Oh, you did it? Okay, great. Now we can move on. Without further ado, let's jump right into this Clinique Facial Sense This Clinique Liquid Face Soap Review. So this face soap retails for about 1850. You can find it literally anywhere at Macy's, Sephora, Bloomingdale's, what have you. It's a prestige brand, meaning that it is sold at all major retailers that also sell expensive things. I said 1850, but I did not pay 1850. I found this bad boy at Marshall's for like $14, maybe $15. So that is why I decided to pick it up. It's honestly like when I first heard of Clinique, I thought it was like a brand for old ladies, but I was wrong. One time this girl, my roommate's friend who like would super annoyingly leave her stuff on my side of the sink. Do you hate when people do that? I'm like, you're not even my guess. Why are you leaving your stuff in my drawers? Like that's weird. Anyway, so she left her little travel bag and I saw the Clinique directly different moisturizing lotion and I was like, I'm gonna try a little bit of the lotion because you know you love your stuff and I'm just gonna use that. So I used some of the lotion and it was like amazing. So it piqued my interest in Clinique and I decided to pick up this facial soap when I saw it at Marshall's for $14. Did I mention I did not pay full price? Never pay retail ladies. We're keeping it cute and securing the bag. You don't need to pay full price for your beauty products. Not in 2020. That's not what we're doing here. So Clinique essentially is really known for their clinical formulas. That's essentially where their name Clinique comes from. And essentially they are very, very invested in making sure that all their formulations are clinically proven and targeted to heal or battle or help you with all your other skincare needs. So fittingly, this facial soap actually comes in three different formulations. One for normal skin, one for dry skin, and then, sorry, I'm just looking at my notes here. So don't mind me. I actually wrote all this up on my blog already. So if you don't want to watch this video and you would rather just read all the content that is in this video, you can just hop on over to my blog. Hiblackgirl.com. I'll link it down below as well. But essentially, as I was saying, this comes in three different formulations. One for very dry skin, one for normal skin, and then the third one for oily to combination skin. I picked up the dry combination skin, which now that I'm realizing that that is not my skin type. Let's move on. Something that really matters. The number one ingredient in this, the number one ingredient in this is water, which is essentially what you want to see in most of your soaps is water being the first ingredient. The ingredients are typically listed in order or they're not typically listed in. They're required by law to be listed in order of most concentrated to least concentrated. So the number one ingredient is going to have the most concentration of this ingredient in it, and then the number last ingredient will have the least concentration in the formulation. So always good to keep that in mind. Being the number water is number one. That means water is the largest ingredient in this soap, which is definitely what you want to look out for when you are buying any sort of cleanser cleansing product. It should definitely be, you know, mostly water unless it's something that you dilute, but usually you don't. So after water, we have a whole bunch of sulfactants. And so basically what sulfactants are chemicals that are formulated to remove dirt, oil, makeup, et cetera from the skin. So that's typically found in cleansers. So no surprise here, but one ingredient that should alarm you is the sodium morithic, sodium, sodium morithic sulfate. Say that three times fast. Some brands like honest beauty are like, we do not use this. We don't believe in it. We think it's too harsh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. While other brands like Paula's Choice view this ingredient as okay and totally necessary. So pick your poison. This brand Clinique obviously thinks it's an okay ingredient, but other, you know, vegan and more, you know, clean beauty brands don't agree with that. So I'm just telling you the information. I didn't make any of these rules. And there's a lot of chemicals in this. So the next one is Lorda, which is another chemical sulfactant. There was another one, cocoa, but hydroxylentane, another chemical sulfactant. The fifth ingredient is sodium chloride, which is salt. So that's a great natural ingredient. It's typically used in clean beauty and skincare products, generally just to thicken the formulation of cleansers, because I guess all these chemicals are very liquidy because they're sulfactant. So there is salt in this, which is a great natural ingredient. Who would have guessed? There's tea cocoa, tea cocoa, glutamate, which is another sulfactant, butynglycol, another, oh, actually, sorry, it's not a sulfactant. It's actually an alcohol that's safe to use on the skin, according to sources. Yeah, but the ingredient that I'm the most excited about is that there is aloe vera leaf juice in this. So maybe that's why it's green. Aloe vera leaf juice is really great for the skin. It helps with any inflammation. It helps reduce irritants on the skin, like rashes, things of that nature. So that's always a really great ingredient to look for in skincare. And then the last ingredient, number 10, because I only looked at the first 10 because no one has time to look at, you know, 23,000,000 ingredients. So yeah. So the 10th ingredient, which I really, really wish was up a little higher on this list, is sau pomelo fruit extract, which is very similar to aloe vera juice. It has the same kind of cleansing properties. This is also an ingredient that's used in a lot of herbal medicine for like internal stuff. So it has the amazing topical properties as well, such as reducing inflammation, similar to aloe vera juice. And, you know, a mouse would like to clean the skin. So good things here. Great. Yeah. So out of the first 10 ingredients that I looked at, there was number one, water, which was natural. Super great. Number five, salt, also natural, super great. Number nine, aloe vera juice, which is amazing, great for, you know, reducing information in the skin. And then number 10, sau pomelo fruit extract, which is also really great for reducing inflammation on the skin. So out of the first 10 ingredients that I looked at, there was water, salt, aloe vera juice, sau pomelo. That's four. I can count. That's four ingredients that are natural, naturally occurring, naturally derivative. And then six chemical ingredients that are not natural. The choice is yours, girl. The choice is yours. So let's just jump into how I felt after using this entire bottle of Clinique face soap. So it took me about three months to get through the entire bottle of the Clinique face soap. I really think it was really, I truly honestly think that was a really good product. There's not as many natural ingredients as I would like, but Clinique is not a brand that prides itself on being, you know, natural skin care or anything of that nature. They do not prescribe to like the whole clean beauty trend and movement. They're very much a brand that's rooted in clinically based ingredients like looking to find the most effective combination for your skin. And so that leads to some chemicals being in their products, which is completely, completely totally understandable. I had amazing, great, clean, clear skin while using the Clinique face soap. Honestly, this, this brand, this line isn't even for their acne solutions. They have an entire line entitled acne solutions that deals with acne, but while using the soap, I saw a dramatic reduction in my acne. This is also around the time where I started getting into my skincare routine and actually washing my face twice a day because I was not doing that for a while. But yeah, I definitely want to say like I went from having breakouts like every week to only having hormonal breakouts like during my week at during my period and maybe like, you know, a few days before and after my period. So that really is like super game changer for me. If I were not super concerned about all the chemicals that are in there, would I repurchase this? Probably. But now that I'm kind of leaning into clean beauty and really getting into, you know, chemical free stuff, I'm going to say no for now. I'll leave this in the back burner maybe in the future. I will pick it back up again. But even more towards like the financial side of this is an expensive product. But I thought it was worth it based on the results that I got. So if you're looking for a new face soap, definitely give this a try. Um, and yeah, girl, I got more reviews coming. So you might as well go ahead and subscribe if you made it all the way to the end of the video. My name is Neko. Once again, you can follow the Hi Black Girl community on Instagram at Hi Black Girl. And you can read all about, you know, my reviews and stuff on my blog. To be completely honest, I blog a lot more frequently than I make YouTube videos, but trying to, you know, get back on the horse and make more videos for you guys. So hopefully, yeah, I will be linking all the information and all the research that I did down below. And hopefully you guys subscribe and I'll see you next week with a new video. Also, I don't know if you guys can tell, but I'm back home and Ducky is back with us too. So screen over here. Stay cute and stay safe during Corona. Bye y'all.