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I've used
Cutex nail polish removers before, but I don't remember much about those bottles,
other than 'nothing spectacular', which is basically how I feel about this
remover as well.
I don't use a
base coat normally, because none of my nail polishes stain my nails, so I usually
wear two coats of colour nail polish and one of top coat. I need to soak the
cotton pad with this remover and wait a bit to get it most of it off in one go,
but with 3 layers of polish I reckon that's fairly reasonable. What's kind of
annoying for me though, is the remover seems to evaporate while I'm using it,
so that even though I should've had enough for one hand, by the time I've
gotten to the ring finger, it's not very wet anymore. Granted that’s
physics/chemistry, so there’s nothing I can do about the fact that acetone has
low cohesion. It’s really just me complaining about my laziness being thwarted. ;P
This nail polish remover contains acetone (so it stinks), and though it says strengthening, I really don't think it did anything. And frankly I don’t know how it would go about achieving that anyway. Short of laying down a new layer of keratin, I can’t think of a way to strengthen the nail itself. It’s possible to increase keratin production perhaps, but the nail you can see has already been produced and hardened (not including the little white half–moons anyway).
Considering every time I
take off my nail polish I feel like my nails were always thinner and weaker for
a couple of weeks after, regardless of the remover I use, and this remover was
no different. It's possible that this remover would've made my nails even
thinner if they hadn't added the 'strengthening' ingredients but then that's
not strengthening, it's just maintaining.
It also has a little whitening claim, but I personally saw no
difference, and that seems like the kind of thing you would have to use
regularly to get a result, and that’s not happening with nail-polish remover.
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| ingredients list of strengthening nail polish remover |
When actually looking at the
ingredients list, not only is acetone the first ingredient, (followed by water),
but citric acid is the 5th ingredient, followed by alcohol denat. I
can only think the citric acid is for whitening, but I don’t see how this
combination of ingredients could possibly work with any ‘strengthening’
ingredients that may or may not be in the remover.
Which may be the hydrolysed silk, because I can’t see any other reason
it would be included.
In short, not a bad nail polish remover but I wouldn’t buy it for it’s
“strengthening” qualities.
Ingredients/formulation: 5/10
Effectiveness: 7/10
Feel: well nail polish remover never feels good on skin so 0/10?
Packaging: 7/10
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