I’m supposed to be concentrating on getting my app launched (The Night Feed, it’s almost finished!) but I couldn’t let a quick review of this new SPF from Elizabeth Arden slip through the net. Because Great 8 Eight Hour Daily Defense Moisturiser SPF35 is absurdly nice. Incredibly light and fresh, quick to absorb, but surprisingly hydrating, I can’t think of anything not to like about it, unless the (very subtle) fragrance isn’t something you could tolerate.
Great 8 Eight Hour Daily Defense Moisturiser SPF35 – or “Great 8”, as it shall henceforth be known, so that I don’t get RSI from typing – is the latest sunscreen to join Elizabeth Arden’s little SPF family. They already have a couple of quite robust moisturisers with broad spectrum protection on the go – the Eight Hour Cream SPF50, for example, which has a rich and luxurious texture – but nothing as beautifully fresh and invisible as their new launch.
Funnily enough, one of my posts that has been sat in the drafts folder for a couple of weeks was a review of Elizabeth Arden’s Prevage City Smart SPF50, a sunscreen that’s so moisturising you can still feel the effects at the very end of the day, but the new Great 8 has impressed me so much that it’s jumped the queue.
The City Smart has a higher SPF (SPF50 in comparison to Great 8’s SPF35) and the sort of long-lasting moisturising effect that dry skins dream of, but...