S. has offered only a limited selection of beauty products in recent years, including occasional lip balm as well as day and night creams. They both come in very chic black and white packaging, they both contain 30ml of product, and both have Dimethicone and Dimethicone Vinyl in their top five ingredients. I find it amusing the way that Lacura products are so obviously modelled on more expensive products.

The grapeseed is listed as vitis vinifera (seed) extract and the green tea is listed as camellia sinensis leaf extract. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid). I then used the Aldi dupe on the other side of my face and found the formula to be stickier in texture, leaving a tackiness on the skin.

The primer did seem to be holding onto my foundation just fine, as I was worried about whether it would start to slip.

And it looks like the German grocer has another winner on its hands with a face primer that some beauty enthusiasts have said is "better" and "cheaper" than designer brand versions. The Smashbox side did appear slightly more even and my foundation hadn’t sunk into my creases as much. So with the primer my foundation definitely lasts longer and doesn’t crease in my smile lines which it usually does. It’s quite silicone-rich, so it absorbs fast and leaves a velvety finish that we found worked best on combination skin,” they explained. I was excited to use this Lacura Snapshot Ready Foundation Primer as I purchased it during winter, when my skin tends to dry out and get rough, flaky patches.

Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too.