I know, I know… I’m a beauty blog… I’m all about glamour and fabulousness… why am I reviewing an ‘oral spray’? Thing is, it arrived with the Celebrity Slim press kit courtesy of Cisca at Draftfcb and she’s totally kiff and I dig her so I’ll merrily review anything she wants. (Still, this doesn’t mean my views are biased. If don’t like something I’m going to tell you. And if I absolutely totally despiiiise it, I like to let the PR company know and give them the option to scrap my review altogether; ‘cos I’m a darling like that…)

Anyway, lets first take a moment to laugh at this products dreadful name. RetarDEX. Ree-tarrrd-ex. Jissus. It must’ve been one helluva creative rationale to let that baby fly…  Sjoe. 
Now that that’s out of the way, let me give you the low down on how it rolls: RetarDEX oral spray is new and exclusive to Clicks. (They also stock the brand’s oral rinse and toothpaste). The spray contains a unique patented active ingredient that is clinically proven to destroy the compounds that cause bad breath while blitzing plaque-causing bacteria. Unlike a mouth wash, it doesn’t just mask nasty breath, it zaps it at the source. 

Using the spray took me back to my childhood when I’d occasionally nick a spritz of my dad’s Gold Spot breath spray. (He was a sneaky li’l smoker…)  However, unlike Gold Spot, RetarDEX isn’t sharp or harsh or overwhelmingly tongue-burningly minty. It’s a much milder blast of menthol that leaves your mouth feeling clean and fresh, like you’ve just used a capful of Listerine.

I put it to the ultimate test the other day, by having an evil smook on my balcony while Mike, my boyfriend, was in the shower. He’s a seriyas health freak and if he so much as smells a whiff o’ cig on me, I’m forced to take a shower or can consider myself banished to the spare room for the night. For realzy. And then I’ve got the judgy eyes of judgyness to deal with the next day. So ja, I was LOVIN’ the fact that I was able to indulge in bad behaviour in the name of science…

Just before he got out, I washed my wicked little mitts in the kitchen sink using an antibacterial hand wash and blitzed a bit of RetarDEX into my mouth. One kiss later (I know, how brave am I?!) and he wasn’t any the wiser. In fact, he must’ve assumed my minty freshness was the result of having just brushed my teeth.

So, if you’re a sneaky smoker, hooked on Atkins or just like to have seriously fresh-smelling breath (don’t we all?), you can consider RetarDEX your new pocket pal. Just be prepared to have your friends take the piss out of you when they spot its silly name…

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