REVIEW: Vicco Turmeric Cream with Foam Base

Okay, so first things first. The pretty girl in the banner above is Mishti Chakraborty who featured in the 2015 advertisement for Vicco Turmeric Cream with Foam Base.

Although the product has been around for at least the past few years, it has garnered a lot of interest and customers post this ad. Prior to this, it was merely available at most stores without any ad campaign. Such is the power of media in today's world! Earlier, the product was available in a packaging like the one below. Yep! Now the packaging design is simple and to the point. The gentleman sits on the packaging for Vicco Turmeric Cream with Foam in Shaving Cream Base instead. Apparently, he is gonna be around.

Image source: bikrionline.com

Claims:

Vicco Turmeric Cream with Foam Base is a one-step solution to every girl's skin care problem. It is an Ayurvedic medicine with microbicidal properties of turmeric for the prevention and cure of pimples, blackheads and oily skin with every wash. It also helps in preventing and curing skin infections, rashes and allergies. It helps to stop the bleeding of minor wounds and heals them, treats minor cuts and small injuries as well. The rich lather clears pores and blackheads. It also accelerates the process of skin renewal. It is also vegan! (Sigh. What a relief. Can you name another product which is vegan!?) Only for external use.

Ingredients:

Turmeric extract 16% w/w (so, a 70 g tube contains 11.2 g of turmeric extract)

Exipients in Foam base q.s

Turmeric extract has powerful anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It is the number 1 and age old secret of Ayurveda for flawless skin of Indian women, where Turmeric is used in everyday regimen. It's most widely used for skin brightening, reducing acne and oily skin, and anti-aging. Other less commonly known benefits include slowing down the growth of facial hair, removing dead skin cells, and as an anti-dandruff treatment that also cures other scalp infections and hair loss by boosting the blood circulation.

The exipients used in this products are not mentioned. Exipients basically are "fillers" that fill up the bulk of the product. Also the foam base or the surfactant used is not known to us. We can cross our fingers and hope all is well! That's all, folks!

Review:

Vicco Turmeric Cream is a legend in itself. It needs no introduction - it's been around for ages, helping our grandmums, mums and us look our radiant best. So when Vicco launches it as a face wash, who would not be excited? Although, I reckon Vicco Turmeric Face Wash would be an apt name! But uh oh, there must be a reason behind choosing such an offbeat name - VTC in a Foam Base! Huh. What could it be?

Oh, I know! It can be used anywhere on the body that needs some turmeric attention - cuts, rashes, wounds, allergies! So it's not just a face wash - it's a medicinal wash with skin care benefits too.

But is it really a cream in a foam base? I don't know how that would be? This product definitely did not seem like a cream, foam, or whatever! It's a gel. 

So unlike the Vicco Turmeric Cream that comes in a yellow-orange packaging, this one is a simple white tube with blue accents (signifying the cooling foam base, perhaps?) and an image of two turmeric sticks, with foam/ bubbles all over the background. The tube is rather tubby - a 70 g tube is about 6 inches long and 1.5 inches diameter. The cap is flip open kind which is easy on the nails unlike some which can literally break the nails in an attempt to flip it open.

The gel (or the cream in foam base) is pale yellow in color (ta-daaaaaa!) and neither too thick nor too runny. I found the consistency perfect. With just a very little product, like the size of a green pea, you can make enough lather to cleanse the face and neck. The lather is very rich and the fragrance is unlike the Vicco Turmeric Cream. Nothing like herbs and spices, at all. It is like a perfume! So refreshing. Similar to a very popular anti-bacterial solution/ soap brand in India, in the "cool" range. It is not at all overpowering, it just faintly lingers on after the wash. Yes, the lather is also very cooling on the skin. Perfect for Indian weather. 

It rinses off easily too in just a couple of splashes of water, and does not leave any filmy residue or stickiness. So, it is ideal for oily skin types. However, my skin type is combination, and I did not feel any kind of dryness or tautness in the skin at anytime after using it. I loved it!

So, after rinsing it off, there is a subtle glow in the skin! The squeaky fresh feeling too. There is a refreshing cooling sensation, nothing like a tingle, just a relaxing, refreshing coolness which is so, so needed right now! I wonder how it would feel in the chilly winters, though! o_O The cool feeling lasted well after the wash, and all throughout my morning walk actually. 

My skin tans easily even in the early morning sun, but after using this one, there was no more tanning. My skin had just been protected by the wondrous, marvelous Turmeric.

With the blackheads, there was no immediate difference. Although over the week, I noticed that they gently dissolved or disappeared. The stubborn ones too had become softer that a steam facial could easily unclog them. 

To be honest, sometimes I used it in my shower too, as a deodorizing wash in special areas. Works. Loved it! 

I used it on a developing eczema patch near my elbow, and before it could manifest as something nasty, its roots were destroyed by yours truly! Amazing, isn't it.

I'm sure it would be a gentle wash for minor cuts or wounds with no stinging or burning sensation.

So many benefits in one! It's gotto be a Vicco Turmeric - now in a foam base! So, thankful for this product. It's just so easy to incorporate it into daily routine now. 

I use it twice a day - just after getting up, and just before going to bed. More so for the refreshed feeling it gives me and secondly for erasing all the blackheads on my skin, and keeping it fresh and cool for hours!

This has quickly become one of those products that I cannot live without! My sincere thanks to Vicco Labs.

The product is supposedly easily available in the Indian market. I could not find it in my area (in Bangalore) so I bought it online. My 70 g tube has been with me since the past month, and as you can see I've come halfway through. So it would run another month or so. A very good and economic buy for the price (Rs 80 for 70 g tube).