Drugstore night creams: review of Olay Age Defying Intensive Nourishing Night Cream and Dove Sensitive Essentials Night Cream
I’ve cut back considerably on my beauty-product purchases, both in quantity and in price, but I will not (yet, at least) forgo moisturizer. There was a time in my life when I did, but my twenties were a while ago.
In efforts to economize, I’m trying to limit my shopping to discount stores. I’ve tried two brands of night cream recently, Dove Sensitive Essentials Night Cream and Olay Age Defying Intensive Nourishing Night Cream.
Of the two products, the Dove is less expensive–about $7 compared to about $10 for the Olay. The Dove night cream is fragrance free, which I appreciated. The cream itself, though, feels watery. The jar is heavy glass–hard to travel with, and had me worried that I’d drop and break it. Overall, the Dove felt like an inexpensive cream in a needlessly expensive-seeming jar.
I like the texture of the Olay cream better; it is thicker and feels more concentrated. But Olay has a strong fragrance that I do not like. It is in a simple, light, plastic container.
Both the Olay and the Dove do an equally adequate job of moisturizing. I do not notice a striking improvement in my skin with either product.
What I’d prefer is the Olay cream in the Olay container, with the Dove lack of fragrance. Instead, I’ll keep looking, and pining after the lovely sample of Darphin Arovita C cream that I once got in a Neiman Marcus beauty gift.