I’ve been using the Dr Jart TikTok viral Cicapair colour correcting cream ever since I saw beauty buffs going wild for it on the video sharing app. I bought a 15ml tub last July and it’s still one of my favourite every-day skincare products.
But could shoppers save themselves a few quid by snapping up a Primark dupe? Earlier this year the high street fashion retailer launched a new line of skincare products, one of which is their tiger grass colour correcting treatment.
The 30ml product comes in at £5, and with 15ml of Dr Jart Cicapair Tiger Grass Colour Correcting Treatment priced at £13, shoppers would need to spend £26 for the same amount of product, with a potential saving of £21.
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The Dr Jart product is a multi-tasking green-to-beige cream that adapts to skin’s natural colour to neutralise redness and even out skin tone. It can help cover blemishes, correct redness, and create a smoother, more even skin tone.
The brand added: “It’s specially formulated with Tiger Grass and a skin-boosting blend of herbs, minerals, a moisturising humectant, and a probiotic ferment — to soothe, calm, and moisturise the look of skin.”
The opaque cream never fails to baffle me when it’s applied. I tend to add a small amount of product to clean fingertips before patting it into my skin, where the sage green product blends into my skin tone like a Chamaeleon. I was really surprised at the difference just a small amount of product made to my skin, blurring the dark circles and bumpiness under my eyes, and tackling redness around my nose and t-zone.
It works well on its own as a barrier to environmental pollution on no makeup days, but also doubles up as a primer to leave skin smooth and ready for foundation.
The Dr Jart product is one I’ll always be willing to splash out on… that is unless Primark’s dupe could save me some cash.
Sitting side by side, the Primark tub doesn’t seem much bigger than the Dr Jart version, but holds twice as much product. While Cicapair is packaged in a green glass jar, which is more environmentally friendly, Primark have opted for plastic, which makes their product more lightweight.
The second biggest difference is the price, with Primark’s £5 jar costing the equivalent of £26 for Dr Jart. Though those loyal to the big name brand can pick up a 50ml tub for £37, which works out cheaper than buying multiple 15ml tubs.
Looking at the creams, Primark’s is lighter in colour in comparison to the Dr Jart Cicapair. Both contain the same active ingredient of tiger grass, which is an age-old ailment used for its anti-inflammatory, moisturising, and wound healing properties.
Primark said: “Tiger Grass (also known as Centella asiatica or cica) is a botanical antioxidant known for its skin recovery benefits. Great at calming, rebalancing and reducing redness this wonder treatment soothes skin while evening out skin tone. Not only that, but it's vegan too!
“Our Tiger Grass Colour Correcting treatment cream works perfectly worn alone or as a primer under makeup. It soothes and helps to neutralise the look of redness, whilst also boosting skin’s moisture.”
I tested both creams on the back of my hands ahead of applying them to my face, and the Dr Jart Cicapair melted quickly into my skin, changing to a neutral skin shade, however, it took a little more effort to massage the Primark product into my skin.
I then used the Dr Jart product on one half of my face under makeup, and the Primark version on the other. I found you don’t need to use as much of the Primark product as you think you do, and when blended on the skin, it actually matched my pale complexion slightly better than the Dr Jart, which is a little bit warmer.
Both products effectively neutralised the redness on my skin and helped disguise my eye bags. Primark’s product takes longer to colour match and blend but looks pretty flawless when it’s fully applied, and is perfect for my pale skin. I didn’t expect it to perform as well as the Dr Jart product, being more than half the price, but it really wasn’t far off. I prefer Dr Jart over the Primark Tiger Grass cream, but strapped for cash, it’s a great cheap alternative to achieve similar results.
