It's great to see Irish companies popping up and Irish products doing well. Dream dots - an overnight spot treatment developed by Donna Ledwidge - is receiving rave reviews online.
I don't like to be negative in general without good reason and I especially don't want to be negative about an Irish product. So when I say that I can't give these cute little spot patches a good review, it isn't because they're bad. It's for another reason altogether.
My skincare routine is rigorous. I'm fussy about what I put on my face - just as fussy as I am about the food I eat. I don't know about you, but when I shop for groceries, I check the labels on everything I buy. Why? Because I'm not putting anything into my body unless I know what's in it.
I feel the same way about skincare. There is literally no chance at all that I would put something on my skin if I didn't know what was in it. It might contain good, bad, or no real ingredients at all; how can I - as a consumer - make an informed decision?
I've looked online on the Dream Dots website, on the box, at the leaflet that comes inside the box. I even took the box apart to check the inside, so certain was I that a product without ingredients listed just could not exist.
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I am astounded by the number of positive reviews for Dream Dots online. I wouldn't dream (no pun intended) of recommending a product that I know nothing about. Without an ingredients list, I know nothing about this product. It could be a placebo. I have literally no idea.
The packaging recommends placing one of these dots on your spot every night for about three nights, at which point you should see improvement. This is, for the average spot, its normal life cycle anyway. I don't doubt that the little patches would be hygienic on a particularly nasty and infected spot, but without knowing what is in them, I really can't even say that.
Honestly, I don't know what to say about these. I won't recommend that anyone buy a product without listed ingredients. If the ingredients can deliver what the product promises and are sufficiently high quality, why not list them? They should be plainly labelled on the product packaging.
What do you think about this? Am I being too harsh here? Would you buy food or skincare that didn't list its contents? Let us know in the comments!
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Dream Dots are a CE marked, FDA approved product which is approved by the BSI.
