Has anyone tried Vintner’s Daughter serum? Or any goop products?

[Carshmar]

I feel like I’m hovering on the edge of buying the vintners daughter and maybe a goop exfoliating mask. I’m trying to have an autumn of buying very, very little but buying well since I have a cupboard full of ordinary high street brands and for my very sensitive face they don’t work so well. Vintners daughter gets amazing reviews but is it just hype?

Does anyone else get the goop emails?

I've used Vintner's Daughter (deluxe sample, got a few week's worth out of it). Whilst it's nice it's not anything amazing and effectively it doesn't really do anything different than other oils. It has a great marketing spiel about how the oils are extracted, etc. but it's not some breakthrough in skincare and it's certain not 'active' or comparable to actual active skincare. Considering there are quite a few essential oils (highly irritating and potentially phototoxic) I'd avoid it with sensitive skin, even if you can tolerate it now, it's highly likely you will develop sensitivity to them in the long term .

Goop is a lot of non evident based marketing, I'd avoid taking anything for gospel from them.

Expensive skincare isn't necessarily better, sometimes it's worth paying more for formulation, and certain products last longer as you use less but we're talking cosmeceutical brands then. High end 'clean beauty' buys you better environmental creds (sometimes) and usually better labour conditions, but it's in no way superior skincare, and sometimes it's not great for the skin at all.