SEPHORA – Cleansing Wipes Watermelon Hydrating – 25 WIPES

I bought these wipes before I left for a two week backpacking trip. I have tried drugstore cleansing wipes before and didn’t like them, but figured I would try some from Sephora. I had low expectations but these were great! The cloth is soft but strong and had enough cleanser on them that I was able to thoroughly cleanse twice a day. I have oily skin and these removed all the dirt and oil very easily, no greasy residue leftover. I don’t use wipes regularly but would buy these again for a trip.

This rating is based less on the product itself and more so on the change in price and size of the product. This is an observation I’ve made and I thought that it would be beneficial for anyone thinking of buying or repurchasing this product. For approximately the last year, I have been exclusively using Sephora’s watermelon wipes. I like them; they make my skin feel clean without feeling overly dry or too greasy, they typically remove nearly the entirety of my eye makeup, and they smell quite nice. But it looks like Sephora is changing things up in order to save a penny. The last two times I purchased these wipes were on February 22, 2019 and April 26, 2019 (both times purchased online), and the wipes have significantly decreased in size in that one month period. I have also noticed that they have slightly increased the price as well, which I normally wouldn’t have minded as much so long as the product itself remained the same. The February wipes (Lot 81560 in the attached picture, on the right) cost $7.50 and measured in at 18 cm by 19 cm. The April wipes (Lot 8257E, on the left) now cost $8.00 and measure in at 19.5 cm by 13.5 cm. The second I took the first April wipe out of the package (I couldn’t find the Feb package I had already opened), I instantly thought that the wipe seemed quite a bit smaller than usual and the shape was off. But it wasn’t until today (May 9) that I was able to find the Feb package to directly compare the two. You can see in the attached picture that the newer wipes (on the left) are much smaller than the older ones (on the right). While it is certainly possible that this particular April lot is oddly shaped because of the release of the new mini size, I personally don’t think that is the case. Based on the dimensions of the wipes and after a bit of quick math, we’re essentially losing 5.75 wipes in each package. So really, we’re paying 50 cents more for only ~19 wipes now. TL;DR We are paying more for nearly 6 fewer wipes now.