Biotherm Eye Makeup Remover

I tried the sample of this Biotherm eye makeup remover other day and it has gotten my thumbs up:

I didn’t notice the price of it at the counter though, but I’ll consider it as good, together with my favourite Kanebo and Kate eye makeup removers (reviews here).

While the Kate remover is not available in Singapore, they’re readily available in just about any Watsons store in Taiwan for less than $20, which is cheap. The bottle looks like this:

Give them a try and you’ll be converted, particularly if you use layers of stubborn – and hence water and oil-proof – mascara like Majolica Majorca.

1 good eye makeup remover and 2 to avoid

I recently blogged here about some good eye makeup removers from Kate and Kanebo, and a bad eye makeup remover from Clinique. I am happy to announce that Kanebo’s makeup remover is available in Singapore from their makeup counters!

At only $20, it’s marginally more expensive than some other brands out there, but is well worth the money as results are guaranteed. Just drip some on a cotton pad, wipe and it’s gone.

However, do not ever buy the Bodyshop Camomile Waterproof Eye Makeup Remover, or the Majolica Majorca Eye Reset Gel.

The Bodyshop one is simply useless – it hardly got rid of any of my mascara. Only when I completely soaked a cotton pad with the remover did its effectiveness improve marginally, but it was still not good enough and stung my eyes slightly.

My issue with the Majolica Majorca Eye Reset Gel is somewhat different. The gel is fairly effective in removing the mascara, but it left my vision extremely blurred – it was quite unpleasant actually. One would have thought that a brand with the best and most waterproof mascara would have an equally good eye makeup remover to accompany it, but unfortunately this is not the case.

eye makeup remover review

a very unimaginatively titled post, but i mainly wanted to say that Clinique’s rinse-off eye makeup solvent is a LOUSY eye makeup remover.

i use fairly heavy-duty mascara – Majorlica Majorca most times – and Clinique’s remover could hardly remove half of what I had on. I tried all the tricks: holding the cotton pad against my eye for 10 seconds, applying a little bit more pressure (which you’re not meant to do), etc, but they didn’t work. I’d even lost two eyelashes in the process!

Actually, today I had applied a few coats of Majorlica Majorca first and then Clinique’s lash power volumising mascara – so it seems like Clinique’s eye makeup remover can’t even remove its own brand of eye makeup.

MEGA FAIL.

For good eye makeup removers, I’d recommend these two instead: Kate eye makeup remover and Kanebo’s eye makeup remover. Actually both are under the same brand, although I don’t think the Kanebo one is available in Singapore.

                      That’s a pity, as I think the Kanebo one is best. All I ever had to do was just wipe the cotton pad across my eyelids and voila – the mascara would come off really easily. For Kate, depending on how much mascara I have on (I usually have several coats), I might actually have to hold the cotton pad against my eyelid for a few seconds – but it’s still a very effective, easy to use eye makeup remover.

Those 2 are fabulous – I value ease of use very much in eye makeup removers and those two fit the bill perfectly. Try them if you get bored easily like I do from just counting to ten while waiting for lousier eye makeup removers to take effect.