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I was thinking more of the twigs than the leaves as far as clogging my drain goes, and was probably using hyperbole. But there were thick woody twigs all in my sample, as well as leaves. Do tea leaves have thick woody twigs? I honestly don't know... Anyway, neither stuck to my face though, only the clay and some grit was able to apply, but the large chunks of 'stuff' were dropping off during application and what couldn't get on my face just remained in my hands and had be rinsed off.
But as I said, the results were nice and noticeable. I can see why the product would be popular for that reason at least.
I've never seen twigs in it. Obviously you know what you saw in your samples, of course... but I never saw anything like that in my sample or my actual little jars. The tea leaf plants have stems, and when dried out I'd assume they become twiggy, but that part of the plant shouldn't be in the product.
I had to think about my first sample... it came in a mini tube from Sephora, I think as a promo code, or 100 point perk..one of the two, lol. Did your samples with the twiggy stuff come in a packet or a squeeze tube? In my real jars it has always been pieces that are like chopped up tiny pieces of seaweed (but it is tea leaf).
There could have been some differences in batches between packaging etc, or a bad sample batch?? That's the only thing I can think of why what you and I have seen such drastic differences in the same product.

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