Oiliness is next to Ugliness: A review on Phillip's Milk of Magnesia and Monistat Chafing Relief Powder Gel

I am pretty sure that I am not the only girl in the world who's experiencing this non-stop blotting within an 8-hour shift. How many times have you used oil-blotting paper? Guess how many times have I done it? About 5 times: 8 hours. Hate it! If there’s someone who blots every hour, then welcome to this blog. This is really meant for you! They said that having an oily face helps to avoid wrinkles. I guess this is right since I notice that most people in my family still look young amidst their age and I guess that same effect goes with me. =) Nonetheless, I still hate the fact that make-up cannot reside in my face for long. So I decided to start the quest to battle oiliness. 

I’ve been searching for the right combination to tame the oil in my face and have landed to multiple pages and youtube reviews about these 2 most coveted products in  Amazon, Ulta, Target, Ebay, and everywhere else in the US- Phillip’s Milk of Magnesia (MOM) and Monistat Chafing Relief Powder Gel.

In the reviews I’ve seen, they claimed that Phillip’s MOM can mattify your face for more than 8 hours and can really avoid being oily all throughout the day. They also said that Monistat Chafing Relief Powder Gel is the best primer comparable to Smashbox Photo-finish Primer. And hey, the reviews I read are countless and they are of all praises to these products. So I jumped at the bandwagon of these products and since both of these are not available in Singapore, I went ahead and ordered this via Singpost Vpost at Amazon.com for less than USD 15 each.. and Voila! After 1 week, I finally got the MOM first, followed by the Monistat. I was so excited to try it out since I also have a planned trip and I don’t want my make up sliding all over my face (just as what’s happening now). Unfortunately, because the Monistat came late and my flight came earlier than the package, I was left trying the Phillip’s MOM first all throughout my trip.

So I tried it.. After washing my face with Nik’s Product and putting on my Nik’s regimen as advised by my dermatologist, Dr. Eileen Lew of Maple Clinic at Block 925 Yishun Central 1 #01-221, I put on the Phillip’s MOM. At first, it really mattifies and I was like “Yes! This is really taking its positive magic” So I immediately put on my Sephora primer, my foundation, powder and continue the rest of my make-up. Just before I left the house, my face was already dewy. So I was like “That’s fine, dewy is positive. Oily is negative” I didn’t realize that the Dewy-look is a prelude to the Oily-look I was trying to avoid. So Phillip’s MOM failed me! I was so sad and found out that it doesn’t work for me.

When I came back to Singapore, I found my Monistat Chafing Relief Gel resting on my bed, so I had a high hope that this perhaps can change the way I deal with my oiliness everyday. So I tried it yesterday. After washing my face, I put on Nik’s regimen and after all those derma-stuffs I put on my face, I blot (just to make sure that the “primer” won’t sit in an oily face) then I put on the Monistat “primer”. There again..my fear started.. Just as I was preparing to leave the house, I already noticed the dewy-effect again so I ignored it again. When I reached the office (after an hour), I tried to blot (which is what I do everyday even before the Monistat era) and have seen less oil so my hope-mometer rises in the faith that this will work for me. Unfortunately, come lunch time, my face is pouring out oil. Unexpected amount of oil that really shocked me. It was like I put on an entire Vaseline Petroleum Jelly on my face! Worst is, a pimple started to come out (Thank God that it’s just a pimple and not pimples!). So although that was the first try, I decided not to take it again today. I was scared that this pimple might give birth to another.

MITCHIKO’S ADVICE: Though these products might work for many people of all races as shown in multiple social media sites, it doesn’t work for super oily skin like me.. or perhaps it just doesn’t work for me at all! For those of you out there who’d like to try it, please do so.. I ordered both for less than USD20 dollars I guess but I spent almost SGD40 for delivery so if you’d like to budget around SGD60-SGD80 to have both of these, please feel free to order these at Amazon or Vitacost. Or if you have friends in the US, just ask them to buy those for you or you can simply order it online and have those delivered to your friend’s house so they can carry it back in SG. I might try this again, perhaps after my next derma session and if still doesn’t work, then prepare yourselves ladies as I’d post it on sale, definitely! Hope this helps.