Did I just discover the secret of Clarisonicland?

My Clarisonic was irritating my skin. Even the sensitive brush seemed to irritate it. Tried different speed settings. No avail. Skin was still irriated.

So I went online and got an inexpensive luxe brush. I can say it appears, after several days of use, to be working really well. My skin is clean and not irritated. It seems to have improved a lot in just a few days.

Not only that, but there are a couple of cool things about the luxe brush: First, its hard to overuse it. With regular brushes I know you’re supposed to really limit the amount of time that the brush is on the skin, and the usual amount of time for each zone is somewhere around 20-30 seconds. Well, if you think about that, that’s not a lot of time really and its easy to go over or under, to vary that time because the target interval itself is so short.

With the luxe brush I can use it a lot longer without really worrying a lot about the exact time. Instead I can just focus on more thoroughly cleaning.

Second, with the luxe brush I can set the speed (on my Mia which has 3 speed settings) to high. Higher speed means more sonic vibrations per second and hence more intensive cleaning as well as other therapeutic benefits of sonic vibrations such as increased blood flow and removal of toxins from the skin.

Third – and this is really cool – I can actually use it on my eyes now. I use it very gently on the eyes but yes it does feel really cool to use a Clarisonic on the eyes.

Finally, I can now use the Clarisonic every day without worrying about overuse and needing to give my skin a rest. I think this will have the obvious benefit that my skin will be kept consistently clean.

Clarisonic luxe brush. Love it!