As I have gotten older I noticed my feet have become drier and rougher. I therefore was keen to try a foot cream. I have never been a big fan of moisturisers in particular any moisturisers derived with any oil such as petroleum or paraffin. I therefore was keen to find a vegan moisturiser. The two I have tried are the Beautpie, Footopia and Caudlaie Vinotherapist Foot Beauty Cream.
Beauty Pie, Footopia
Before I go into the review of Footpia, first it’s good to go over what is Beauty Pie. Beauty Pie, is a brand founded based on cutting out the middlemen and retail markups in skincare, make-up and fragrance to provide high quality products. Therefore, you won’t be getting any fancy packaging. They offer subscription where subscribers get access to even lower price of products for sale. Products appears to be sourced from around the world.
Footopia’s key ingredients are listed as shea butter, cactus enzymes and microbime and syn-urea. The cactus enzymes are said will help with boosting the natural peeling process of skin, in essence this is helping skin turnover and therefore reduce the build of dry skin. The syn-urea is described as being able to assist with smoothing, exfoliating and will be a hard skin softner. It is advised to apply the cream in the evening and put socks on to allow treatment to work overnight. Footopia is stated to be vegan, clean beauty and cruelty free.
I used Footpia for a good three weeks in the evening and put socks as advised. It smells nice, it has a mint smell but it’s not overpowering. The cream comes in 75ml tube which I feel is a bit small for a foot cream. The cream feels moisturising and but its not so easily absorbed but after applying rigorously it gets absorbed. Other than making my feet feeling moisturised when I first apply it, I didn’t notice any significant difference in my feet. My hard skin was still present and didn’t feel any softer and I didn’t feel that my skin turnover was accelerated, it felt like a very basic moisturiser and nothing special. Overall I would give this a 5/10, it was nothing special just an ok moisturiser.
Vinotherapist Foot Beauty Cream
Caudalie is a French skincare brand founded in 1993 by the founder s Mathilde who met laboratory director of the Pharmacy University of Bordeaux who informed them the powerful antioxidants contained in grapes. Hence you can find a number of their products containing grapes. In 2006 they created cosm-ethic values which was them basically setting out principles they apply in formulating their products which includes not having: parabens, phenoxyethanol, phthalates, sodium laureth sulfate, mineral oils and ingredients of animal origin.
The Vinotherapist Foot Beauty Cream is geared for dry to very dry skin. The texture is described as a rich cream and its advised to apply every day morning ad night. The key ingredients are stated to be grape seed oil, organic shea butter and red vine extract. The foot cream is stated to have 95% natural origin ingredients and to be vegan. Caudlie’s official website stated that 95% of women found the skin of the feet nourished, this is based on clinical test of 21 volunteers for 28 days.
Initially when I used the Vinotherapist I found it moisturising but didn’t think much of it. The smell was quite nice nothing overpowering. The cream is very thick and not as easily absorbed so has to be rigorously applied. I did not think it was making any difference but after few weeks I realised that my skin was soft even the hard skin on my foot. The hard skin hadn’t disappeared but was so much softer and overall my skin felt super soft. Overall, I would give Vinotherapist an 8.5 out of 10, only cause my hard skin didn’t disappear but then again I don’t think any cream can do this so.