Just in time for the holiday season, Rodial is releasing a few luxury skincare gift sets this month! I’ve been trying out their Bee Venom Collection because it sounded the most intriguing. I’ve never ever had something like bee venom in my skincare before!
The Rodial Bee Venom Collection was created to “rejuvenate the skin for a youthful looking complexion. Bee venom works in synergy with a unique complex of plant stem cells to help visibly improve skin tone and elasticity and plump out appearance of lines and wrinkles.” The “melittin peptide bee venom plumps and firms wrinkle appearance stem cells help improve skin elasticity biomimetic growth factors smooth skin surface appearance marine collagen helps reduce look of lines and wrinkles marimoist® provides immediate and sustained hydration”.
It comes with a Bee Venom Moisturiser (50 ml), Bee Venom Super Serum (30 ml), and Bee Venom Eye (25 ml). The whole kit comes in one large box with all three products inside. The two moisturizers are boxed individually within the larger box. The entire line cautions that if you are allergic to bee stings you should avoid using this line of skincare. All three products can be used daily.
The Bee Venom Moisturiser is an “extreme performance cream for mature skin with melittin peptide, stem cells, biomimetic growth factors and vitamin c”. It’s a medium thickness cream that smooths onto my skin really easily. It’s hydrating, but not overly thick which is an enormous blessing since I’m really over moisturizers that just won’t sink into my skin!
The Bee Venom Eye cream seems to be a thicker formulation of the moisturizer, although it does contain bee venom further down on the ingredient list. Although I don’t personally feel like I need a separate eye cream (I’m not especially dry in that area), I do like the ritual of applying a thick cream to that area and gently rubbing it in.
The item I’ve enjoyed the most out of this set was the Super Serum and sadly it’s the smallest product! Ack! I’ve been applying this before my moisturizer and it seems to work well under ANY brand as far as I can tell. It’s not too thick, not too thin and sinks in within a few minutes of application.
I was trying to pin point the scent of these products, and I realized it was kind of hard to do since two of the products smell the same, but the serum definitely doesn’t! The serum smells more like a floral perfume to me, whereas the moisturizers smell faintly alcoholic to me. Weird thing to say, but I can’t really pinpoint any other scent!
The Rodial Bee Venom Collection can be purchased at Murale and Shoppers Drug Mart for $180 CAD.
The products featured in this post were sent to me for review.