Patanjali Boro Safe Antiseptic Cream, Does It Stand Up to Its Competition? Product Review

In today’s post, I will be doing an in-depth review of the Patanjali Boro Safe Antiseptic Cream.

Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali brand is the one Indian company that has managed to climb somewhere at the top of the market in the highly competitive cosmetic industry, where people generally don’t tend to go for the local brands, but rather prefer the famous international companies.

At the moment, Patanjali has a beauty product in every department of the cosmetic world, be it moisturizers, shampoos, face washes, or hair oils, and they all have a good customer base that is ever growing. Anyone and everyone who has ever wanted to try herbal products, is trying out what Patanjali has to offer, and giving their opinions on whether they are a hit or a miss.

Price

The product is priced at INR 40 rupees for 50 grams. Patanjali products are always priced reasonably and this cream is no exception.

Packaging

It comes in a plastic tube with a twist cap, just like most antiseptic creams in the market do. Since it is only 50 grams it is lightweight and therefore travel friendly. However, since Patanjali is not a small scale household brand but rather a big corporation that earns high revenues, it needs to work on its product’s packaging because right now it looks like something made by a small scale industry whose products you’d buy at the Ajanta caves’ stalls.

Color and Consistency

The cream is white in color but its consistency is not as thick as the other antiseptic creams in the market, but regardless it holds its shape when you squeeze it out of the tube and doesn’t slip away.

Ingredients and What it Claims

The product claims to cure minor cuts, burns, wounds, and cracked feet, and its ingredient list includes a whole bunch of ayurvedic and herbal items, which seems a typical Baba Ramdev product composition.

How it performed

My first impression after using this item was that it is extremely greasy. Now I understand that products that claim to heal cracked heels need to be greasy because otherwise they won’t be able to sink into the thick skin of your feet, but if you plan on using this as a moisturizer or a hand cream, then I would think twice. Due to its greasy nature, you only require a little bit of product and it’ll go a long way for you. However, one thing I did notice was that the oiliness of the product fades after a few hours of application. So if you use it at night and go to sleep, you will most certainly wake up with a softer skin.

I mostly focused on using this product as a foot cream because I was noticing that there were a few cracks on my heals. I used it every night for a month, and at the end I was happy with the results. The cracks did not entirely go away, but they surely did reduce in number. I also used it on my elbows to see if it could reduce the dryness over there, but it did not really work well over there.

Since this product claims to be an antiseptic cream that can be used all round for cuts, burns, and dryness, I also tested it out on my lips. Now full disclosure, the skin in and around my lips is highly sensitive and they usually don’t react well to products, except a select few. And sadly, this one wasn’t one of them. After using it for two days I noticed that instead of making my lips moisturized, they were instead becoming dryer to the point that they started to flake. I had to immediately stop using this as a lip cream, so if you are someone with sensitive skin, you may steer clear from this product, or maybe just use it on your feet.

I also used it on a few cuts here and there on my skin, but the results weren’t satisfying enough. When you compare it to products like Boroline who show almost instant results when applied on cuts and wounds, by first stopping the burning sensation and then accelerating the scabbing process, Patanjali Boro Safe did neither of those things and pretty much took its own sweet time to heal anything. As for burns, I did not receive any during my time using this product so I won’t be able to comment of how it performed in that sector.

Pros and Cons

When I bought this product, I wanted to try and see if there was anything in the market that could compete with Boroline, in terms of an all round antiseptic cream, and I must say I wasn’t entirely dissatisfied with this product, because it did have a few pros.

Pros

• Travel friendly size
• Works well on cracked heels
• Reasonably priced
• Good for people with dry skin

But it did have its fair share of cons.

Cons

• Doesn’t work very well on cuts and wounds
• Too greasy for use on other body parts
• Has a bad reaction on sensitive skin

Rating

Taking the pros and cons into consideration and how Boro Safe performed overall, I’ll give it a 3.5 out of 5, mainly because it doesn’t stay true to what it claims and also because there are far better products in the market doing a much better job as an antiseptic cream.