When it comes to Avant products there were things that I liked and things that didn’t blew my socks off, but overall each time I feel like they’re just not worth the high price tag. This face mask is no exception because while I do feel it’s a great pampering mask and it has a luxurious feel to it, I just wouldn’t pay that much for it.

Packaging:

The usual face mask comes in a pink jar, but this one comes in a plastic white tube, although the quantity is the same: 50 ml. I don’t know why they do that with products that they put in beauty boxes (or in advent calendars like it was the case of this face mask) but they just do. I don’t mind it, I just find it a little bit strange.

Texture:

The face mask looks just like a thick pink face cream and it has a rose scent, but a very nice rose scent, not like that overly sweet one, if you know what I mean. That’s why I said it feels luxurious. Personally, I wouldn’t mind to have a perfume with this scent.

Ingredients:

aqua (water), prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, persea gratissima (avocado) oil, cetyl alcohol, glycerin, stearyl alcohol, methyl glucose sesquistearate, betaine, ammonium acryloyldimethyltaurate/vp copolymer, peg-20 methyl glucose sesquistearate, phenoxyethanol, ethylhexylglycerin, parfum (fragrance), disodium edta, tocopheryl acetate, propylene glycol, lecithin, benzyl salicylate, benzyl benzoate, sodium hyaluronate, lactic acid, coumarin, hydrolyzed elastin, tocopherol, ascorbyl palmitate, pentylene glycol, linalool, hexyl cinnamal, soluble collagen, polyacrylamide, citric acid, ci 17200 (red 33), caprylyl glycol, c13-14 isoparaffin, 1,2-hexanediol, laureth-7, quartz, tropolone.

I hope you don’t think this face mask actually contains rose quartz. I don’t know why the name implies this because rose quartz wouldn’t have any useful purpose in the formula, so of course it doesn’t contain something like that. In my opinion, this is just a marketing gimmick designed to make this face mask sound more unique than it is.

The key ingredients listed on the Avant website are rose, hyaluronic acid, Vitamin E and sweet almond oil. There are no pore-clogging ingredients on the list, so that’s great.

The first ingredients on the list are water, sweet almond oil (an ingredient that I like very much in skin care because it makes the skin feel very soft and smooth), avocado oil, cetyl alcohol (fatty alcohol used as an emollient, emulsifier, thickener, and carrying agent for other ingredients,  it is not an irritant and is not related to SD alcohol, denatured alcohol, or ethyl alcohol) and glycerin.

Price and accessibility:

Avant products are not available in Romanian stores and I found them in only a couple of online shops. They are also quite expensive. This face mask for example retails for 85 euros on the Avant website, so that’s quite a hefty price tag if you ask me.

My overall opinion:

The main benefits of this face mask are to protect the skin against UV, to illuminate the skin, to reduce fine line and wrinkles, to soften and purify the skin and to buff away impurities. The last claim seems a little bit odd, because you don’t actually buff away anything because the mask is applies just like a face cream and after 15 minutes you are supposed to massage the remaining product into the skin. So it’s kind of like an overnight mask (I use it in the evening anyway, once a week, to make it last longer), so I don’t see how it would help get rid of impurities. The skin feels very soft in the morning, it looks radiant and the entire process of applying it feels like a pamper session because of how it feels and how it smells. So I do enjoy it and I think the ingredients are very nice, but is worth 85 euros? In my opinion, not. If I could spend hundreds of euros monthly just on skin care products, I really wouldn’t mind, but in my case it’s not worth it for this face mask.