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Ebelin Nagellackentferner Pads Aceton Frei [Grüner-Tee & Apfel Duft] Review

By Maychiri's Thoughts - April 12, 2023

A nail remover, this is the Ebelin Nagellackentferner Pads Aceton Frei, variant Grüner-Tee & Apfel Duft. Or, in English, Nail Polish Remover Pads, Green Tea & Apple Scent.

I bought this product on a whim, because I wanted to see if it could be as good as old-fashioned nail polish remover. It would be great if I could just take one pad and remove nail polish easily. It was cheap enough, so why not try it, even if it ends up being bad?
 
 

Packaging: just a lightweight plastic pot. The lid closes securely and is easy to open, no fiddling with it. It’s a nice enough packaging that keeps the pads hygienic. 
 
 

Source: dm.hr

Ingredients: vitamin E for at least a bit of nourishment. This is an acetone-free remover. However, interestingly, it doesn’t use ethyl acetate, either, which is the most common acetone substitute. Instead of ethyl acetate, dimethyl glutarate, dimethyl adipate, and dimethyl succinate function as pigment solvents. Novel approach, but it remains to be seen just how effective it is at removing nail polish. The scent is very intense, and, since it does not contain acetone or ethyl acetate, it does not have that strong chemical scent. It smells somewhat fresh, but much more tart, just like green apples. It’s much too intense, honestly! And it lingers on the skin and nails, leaving a more fragrant, slightly tart scent that still smells like apples. It smells much better after it has evaporated. This scent could be one of those either you hate it or you love it types of scents. The expiration date is only 6 months after opening.
 
 

There’s 30 polish remover pads inside this packaging. They are paper-thin, and relatively small compared to a standard cotton pad. They are so thin that they tend to stick to one another, making it difficult to just take one pad. The material isn’t the softest, it feels more like rough cellulose. It’s a much rougher material than cotton pads, that’s for sure!

These pads have a moderate amount of remover inside them; they feel slightly moist, not soaking wet. This leads me to think that there isn’t enough remover on one pad to remove nail polish from the nail. But let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. The remover feels slightly greasy but it is still totally watery.
 
 
 
So, now about its purpose: removing nail polish. Or rather, how lacking they are in this regard. They cannot remove nail polish at all! No matter how much I am rubbing my nails with this pad, no matter how many pads I use, nothing gets through even the top layer of polish, let alone remove it completely. It just barely strips a bit of pigment, only making the nail feel tacky. So I try to remove my polish with this, but I am quickly forced to switch to a ‘normal’ remover as this isn’t any good. No matter the colour, whether it’s a bright, vibrant red nail polish or a barely-visible nude, this remover struggles just the same.
 
 
At least my nails seem to be less dried out than when I am using ethyl acetate. But how much does that matter when it’s almost impossible to actually remove nail polish? Speaking of drying out, you really mustn’t leave these pads open, or the remover will evaporate quickly.
 
 
All in all, completely useless at what they are supposed to do, and that’s remove nail polish. The scent can be sickeningly intense at times, although it isn’t really unpleasant; I actually like how it smells like green apples, it’s a synthetic green apple scent, but it’s still not too bad nonetheless. It’s the intensity of the scent that bothers me. You know what else bothers me? That these pads couldn’t even begin to remove nail polish even if, figuratively speaking, their lives depended on it. I rub and I rub and nail polish looks barely any different, yet all this rubbing of course leads to nail damage. No matter the colour or intensity of the polish, these pads don’t do a bloody thing! Almost like switching from the proven efficient ethyl acetate to various dimethyl compounds was a bad idea, even though they are used as paint strippers industrially. But at the barely there concentration found in these pads (remember, they only feel moist, not dripping wet), there’s simply not enough to actually function as pigment solvent, at least not efficiently. So, in layman’s terms, these pads are rubbish! I wanted to try and go easy on them, but they are utterly useless at the only thing they are supposed to do! At least they were cheap, so i didn’t end up wasting a lot of money on a useless product. Don’t waste your money or time with them! No recommendation.
 
 
 
 
Rating: 1/10
 
 
Would buy again? NO

 

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