Home Bargains popular product 'left schoolgirl, 13, with painful blisters on her face'
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A popular Home Bargains product allegedly left a 13-year-old schoolgirl with "burning" blisters on her face - leaving the teenager "traumatised.". Leah Nelson, 36, said her daughter Brooke was "excited" to use the Bubble T Watermelon face cleanser for the first time but on the morning of December 18, the mum claims the young girl's face was "burning", red and swollen.
The alarming pictures show how the teenager developed "painful" blisters over the subsequent days and Leah claims Brooke was left unable to open her mouth to drink water. She took her child to the hospital after realising how painful the blisters were, where she was given steroid creams.
Leah says it felt like the "end of the world" as it occurred only one week before the teenager's birthday, and she also had to miss two days of school because classmates had kept asking what had happened. It reportedly took two weeks for her skin to heal, as it turned dry and 'flaky' whilst the wound healed. The mum-of-three said that Brooke was left 'traumatised' by the experience and is now very weary of skincare.
Leah, from Keswick, Cumbria, said: "She was so excited to buy that cleanser, she got it brand new. "She felt it the next day. She had taken her makeup off and washed her face with it, and when she woke up the next day this is what her face was like. "Her blisters were getting worse and she couldn't even open her mouth to take a drink because it was so painful, so we ended up going to hospital to give her some steroid cream. It all ended up peeling and flaking off like when you get a sunburn so she had to keep moisturising it until it returned to normal.
