Makeup Monday: LUSH Cosmetics, Full of Grace Serum

Overall, I like the products that LUSH Cosmetics supplies.  Every so-often, there's a product that I can't wait to try, and it totally disappoints.  One of those happened the Full of Grace face moisturizer/serum solid. It's small (fits in the palm of my hand & I have to wear youth gloves, so it's VERY small!) and pricey, both of which I could have cared less about had it worked. Reading the positive reviews, it sounded promising. 

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You heat the product up in your hands to soften the bar, then apply it to your face after washing.  The ingredients include chamomile, portobello mushroom, and murumuru butter, among others (I'll have the complete ingredient list at the end).  The bar is moisturizing (though many say it is greasy) and lightweight; pluses!  Full of Grace also contains calamine powder, and I use calamine all the time.  It is especially effective on clearing my skin of any pimples; also a plus.  The downside...I broke out!  I used just the serum before I went to bed, and when I woke up, my face looked like it was going through puberty.  I've never had a real breakout issue prior.  I thought at first it was just a coincidence, so I tried it one more night.  When my face got even worse, I decided to trade it in for something I knew my body would not hate, which is the Jumping Juniper shampoo bar.  I'll have a review of the shampoo bars I've tried in a later post.  After reading some of the more recent comments, I wasn't the only one to experience breakouts with this product.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is no SPF.  In fact, none of the products sold in the States has an SPF, so you'll need to layer. 

As promised, here is the ingredient list ($14.95/0.7oz):

Murumuru Butter (Astrocaryum murumuru) , Calamine Powder , Cupuacu Butter (Theobroma Grandiflorum) , Fresh Rose Petal Infusion (Rosa damascena) , Organic Almond Oil (Prunus dulcis) , Fragrance , Fresh Portobello Mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) , Chamomile Blue Oil (Matricaria Chamomilla) , Rose Oil (Rosa damascena) , Tagetes Oil (Tagetes minuta) , *Eugenol , *Geraniol , *Benzyl Benzoate , *Benzyl Cinnamate , *Citronellol , *Farnesol , *Limonene , *Linalool

Have you used Full of Grace?  Hopefully your experience is not the same as mine.