LouiseIn celebration of our true beauty hero, I wanted to take the opportunity to share some of my favourite pieces of press coverage our coveted Cleanse & Polish has received over the last 15 years…
Vogue Millennium
My all time favourite piece of press coverage has to be when Cleanse & Polish was chosen for Vogue’s ‘Smash Hits’ where the beauty team selected 10 products to feature within their ‘Beauty Hall of Fame’ for the iconic Millennium gold issue. This was our first ever accolade for Cleanse & Polish which is why it is so special. It was also our first public endorsement that we had created a classic product which was really worthy of being listed alongside the global beauty giants - it set the phones in our Customer Centre ringing off the hook and we haven’t looked back since!
Sunday Times Style – August 2007
When I saw the front cover of this magazine, it listed an article called ‘Cult beauty – The 10 best products in the world’. I remember flicking to the page to see which products had been selected and being thrilled to see our Cleanse & Polish listed as one of them. When reading through the article now, it still rings true for our Cleanse & Polish today:
“If a product is genuinely revolutionary, a crop of imitations will soon hit the shelves, but nothing will knock the original off its perch. These formulations cannot be improved upon…Cult products are the ones you can rely on, the ones you turn to time and time again, which stand the passing of the years and the whims of fancy. If only everything in life were so dependable.”
Woman & Home – April 2010
We were delighted to see in Woman & Home magazine’s annual Best Beauty Buys that Cleanse & Polish won the readers choice award for the 5th year running. Awards voted for by readers are so special to us, and to have won this award 5 times over is true testament to the high performance results that Cleanse & Polish delivers. It’s amazing to think that 15 years on Cleanse & Polish is still winning awards and remains a firm favourite among magazine editors and readers alike having won 49 awards and accolades to date – the latest being Essentials magazine, hot off the press this month! We are all keeping our fingers crossed that we will reach our 50th award for Cleanse & Polish during its 15th birthday year.
The Beauty Oscars…
We were truly honoured to win 3 Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) awards at the 2010 ‘Beauty Oscars’. Cleanse & Polish scooped the award for ‘Best Classic Beauty Product – prestige.’ You may have read in my last blog that the annual CEW Awards are known as the ‘Beauty Industry Oscars’ because they are judged by CEW members; a panel of high calibre ‘beauty insiders’ including experts and professionals. The CEW Awards are recognised as the beauty industry’s highest honour, acknowledging that a product is the very best in its category.
First USA award – March 2010
We were all so excited to win our 1st ever USA award from leading beauty website Total Beauty.com. Totalbeauty.com is the largest unbiased product review directory in the US, and they picked our Cleanse & Polish as the winner of their annual awards for ‘Best Cleanser’. The Totalbeauty.com editors checked out the top 10% of skin and body care products as rated by the Totalbeauty.com readers, the editors then tested these products and chose Cleanse & Polish as their official winner for 'Best Cleanser'.
So, our Cleanse & Polish truly has been tried, tested, approved and loved over the last 15 years and remains our ‘can’t live without it’ best seller. I personally love Cleanse & Polish because I can depend on it for clear radiant skin day in, day out.
Now it’s your turn to tell us why you love Cleanse & Polish – Upload your video to YouTube or tell us why and you could win a prize!
Linda Lumley said...
Hi Andrea, thanks for your reply and for passing on my concerns to your Product Development team.I recently stocked up with the almond milk formulation Cleanse&Polish from your Ebay outlet and since using it I have noticed that my skin feels calm again so perhaps you could also pass this observation on to the team. I’d just like to add that I still love using all your other products and that your customer service is second-to-none.
July 3rd, 2010 at 10:50 am |
Andrea said...
Hi Linda, thanks for your post. We were absolutely delighted to receive this piece of coverage from Vogue magazine. As with all editorials, the publication write the article and therefore the words are not our own. As with all of our products, it is the combination of ingredients in our Cleanse & Polish which helps to soothe and soften the skin. When we removed almond milk from Cleanse & Polish, we carefully and rigorously tested this very small modification to the formulation to ensure it continued to meet our high quality standards and still provided exactly the same cleansing and sensory experience as it always has done. Liz and Kim still personally sign-off each formulation to ensure that this is the case and they are very happy with the formulation. We always welcome feedback, favourable or otherwise, so please be assured that your comments regarding Cleanse & Polish will be passed onto our Product Development team.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:10 am |
Sheri P. said...
My teenage daughter and I just started using Cleanse and Polish and we love it! She is well on her way to clear skin which is a huge confidence-booster for a teenage girl entering high school in the fall. It has also helped my sensitive/combination skin. I wish there was a way your US customers could enter the contest. Thanks for a great product!!
June 15th, 2010 at 8:18 pm |
Linda Lumley said...
The Vogue press coverage of Cleanse & Polish actually states that the almond milk soothes and softens and it’s this effect that is now missing in the new formulation. Many people have noticed the difference and have found that the almond milk-free version doesn’t work as well for them so please consider offering a choice of the two formulations to suit all your customers.
June 15th, 2010 at 7:39 pm |